Letter dated 25Feb2013

[Dear family and friends, I have attached the letter that we received from Weston this morning! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! We are excited - Daniel's mission call should be coming any day now! If you have a message for Weston (or for Daniel!), simply respond to this note - and I will forward it to the right missionary! Thank you for your support and prayers! Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, Hey, what´s going on? It´s nice to be here again and write to you all this week. I hope that you enjoy this week´s series of stories that I have. It sounds like you are all doing great, which is always the best of news! Keep up the good times and the good days! Do you want to know something awesome?! It snowed!!! We had every intention to wake up and go running on Saturday morning but we looked out the window and saw a great big old white covering over all the cars and the streets! It was quite the Christmas miracle if I say so myself ^_^ Once we left our apartment it was just natural to start throwing snowballs at each other and at street signs on our way down to the train station and it reminded me so much of what home looks and feels like. What a great day that was! Also on Saturday we went to Manresa and had some visits (and some people who canceled on us) but the very next day we had another blessings and Ángel, one of our investigators, came with his mother, who had previously not given permission to her son to leave her alone to come to Terrassa on Saturdays (keep in mind, Ángel is about 60 years old and his mother is... well... older...) BUT THEY CAME, so that was tight (exciting!) and I´m looking forward to visiting them later this week. He progresses a bit differently, but he´s told us that he has never felt better than when he´s around us and he´s the one who said that The Testaments was the best movie he´s ever seen (if I mentioned that last week). (Let me know if you would like a copy of The Testaments!) Later that night on Saturday, we made our way over to Rubí and had a visit, but the cool thing happened while we were heading back home for the night. We were sitting on the bench, waiting for our train, when my companion turned to me and said ´´Contact that lady´´. I looked at her and she was standing next to the bench just 10 feet away and I looked back at my companion, who was still staring at me and waiting for me to talk to her. I paused, thought about what I could say, but didn't think of anything special that I could say to her, and I knew that my companion just felt a bit shy to talk to her... so I just started talking to her. I caught her attention and I told her that we were missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I asked her if she knew anything about us. She said no, so I asked if she wanted to know more. Yes. She said yes, she would like to know more. We got on the train and for the ride back from Rubí we gave each other our information and she said her name is Veronica and that she has lived in Terrassa her whole life, but that she would love to learn more about families, because she is not married and has no children. We invited her to church and asked her if she knew anyone else who would be interested in learning about the church and she said that we could start teaching her mother and her sister who live with her. That whole experience was a short, yet to us, a powerful message from our Heavenly Father that when we open our mouths, it will be filled and we will see blessings come out like not other force that is on this earth. Now let me back track really quick- we had our two day Training conference in Lleida and it was AMAZING! That was part of the reason why I mentioned that contact, because right after training I felt pumped up to go out into the world and talk to more and more people than I have been, so that is why I saw that experience as such a huge blessing. Also, we learned some very good things about the importance of locking our hearts and I know that Heavenly Father will bless me if I do lock the heart and mail the key back home! The mission is not the time to do anything of the sort, but rather time for helping others come to know for themselves of this wonderful Gospel that we have so readily available in our lives! ¡Love from the deepest cavern of my heart! ¡Amor de la más profunda caverna de mi corazón! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate...