It's been raining most days this week, which just makes life more entertaining. We've had a good week. We've been trying to change up our ways of finding people by going to different places, and knocking on doors more. Usually it's better to try and talk to people directly on the street, but it's always good to try a bit of everything.
Missionary work is way better when done with the members. So, we're working with our ward mission leader and a couple other members to create a plan to help all the member families invite 5 families to the open house of the new chapel here in a couple months. More details to come as we undertake this challenge in the next few weeks. One member, Monica, the bishop's wife, is helping us a ton. She gets what the ward has to do to help us and she gives us advice and is helping us out a ton.
On one day, we were out at night, after a long afternoon of working hard to talk to people. We had had some good conversations with people, but nobody was interested in learning more from us. Near the end of the night, we were at the corner of the sidewalk at an intersection near our piso, and decided to say a prayer to know where to go to talk to people. We chose a street, and started walking down it. Still, nobody was talking to us, but before going into our piso, we decided to talk to one more person. She was a woman from Venezuela who told us that she's having a hard time here in Spain, because she's away from her sons, who are in Barcelona and Venezuela, and the only comfort she has is in God. She was excited to meet us and had a lot of interest in seeing our church and learning about it.
Yesterday after church, we went with some members, Bruno and Carmen (a 50-something-year-old couple in the ward), to a pueblito called Robledo de Chavela. There's a recent convert who lives there who moved there after she got baptized near in a ward closer to Madrid, and for her to get to church is very difficult, because of the joy that is public transportation. She wanted a blessing, so we set up a time to visit her. It's a beautiful place, just hard to get there because you have to go through the mountains. Bruno drove us and his wife there, and the member there was really grateful. She has two young sons, who were very excited to show us all of their toys. It was a lot of fun. It was good to help her too, because you could tell that she feels alone, so far away from the church as a single mother. We ended up giving all three of them a blessing, and Bruno shared a scripture before we left.
I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!
-Elder Dobbs
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