I hope your first week of the new year has been just marvellous. Here it's been pretty good too. Even though it's a little colder than I'm used to in Southern California, I'm adjusting. This week, Spain celebrated a big holiday called Día de los Reyes, which celebrates the three wise men, or los reyes magos, that visited Jesus Christ. It's on January 6th, and it marks the end of Christmas. For Spaniards, it's bigger than Christmas, and kids usually get most of their presents on that day. Me and my companion celebrated by buying a roscón, a typical Spanish dessert for that holiday. We bought two smaller ones, and in mine I found a small ceramic king in the cream! Apparently if you're the one to find a king, you're supposed to have luck for the rest of the year, and you're supposed to buy the dessert next year. I thought it was pretty cool. I have pictures of the roscones and the king. That same night, we were trying to walk to someone's house on the other side of town, but there was a huge parade that we couldn't get on the other side of. It wasn't as good as American parades, but it was cool. The main part that we saw was three people dressed up as the wise men, throwing candy into the crowd. Besides that, we saw a man riding a giant seahorse, some jellyfish, and a giant floating balloon in the shape of a fish.
At the beginning of the week, we had a lesson with a Colombian man named Gustavo. It was his second lesson with the missionaries, but my first time meeting with him. It started off with him explaining all of his doubts about Joseph Smith, but throughout the lesson Elder Calder and I were able to resolve all of his doubts. It was an awesome lesson because the whole time I could feel the Spirit helping me know what to say and there was even a time I don't really remember everything I was saying but I know that it was the Holy Ghost guiding me. By the end of the lesson, Gustavo asked Elder Calder and me how he could buy the Book of Mormon, because he really wanted to start reading it. We gave him a copy obviously, but he's going out of town for a few weeks so we won't be able to talk to him for a while. It's disappointing, but it was a great experience for Elder Calder and me.
Besides Gustavo, we're working with David, a 28 year old Ecuatorian whose parents are members, but one of them is inactive, and the other was baptized in Ecuador a couple months ago. He's interested in the gospel, and we're working with him. He's a little quiet and awkward, but he's super nice. He comes to church and he's reading the Book of Mormon, we just need to work on getting him to consider baptism more seriously. We've invited him, and he's accepted, but he's not doing much to progress towards it. We had a lesson with him last Friday that I think helped give him a push that he needed.
I hope you all have an awesome week! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Dobbs
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