Letter dated 5Aug2013

[Dear family and friends, I am attaching Weston's letter from this week. He loves to hear from all of you! Please send your messages to me as a reply to this email -- and I'll forward it to Weston! Best wishes! Weston's editor (BWS)! Dear Family, Oh boy, how can I begin to describe how our week went when it was just the best! It was just such an incredible experience to help our friend Joseph come into the waters of baptism and it was an incredibly sweet experience. I don´t know if I even told you what happened a few weeks ago, but I was asked to come up during our training meeting for a baptizing demonstration and.. President Pace was asked to be the investigator! Anyways, funny story short, they took the time to show all the new missionaries just what should be happening in our baptism services and this Saturday I took this as my opportunity to complete all the steps we went over to help our investigator feel ready and feel relaxed and honestly, it just helped everything out so much. It was probably the smoothest baptism I've ever done, but also one of the most spiritual services I've ever seen held during my mission. We had incredible attendance from the wards here in Valencia and all the missionaries brought many investigators, it was a great thing to see. I remember just feeling the spirit so much during that service and I just felt so much peace as we were sitting there and then finally when the ordinance was performed. I felt a little bit jealous of my companion that he had this opportunity to have just a great baptism right at the beginning of his mission, but now we´re just going to have to continue having these great experiences as we find more new people! In other news, Joseph is from Cameroon and he doesn't speak a lot of Spanish. He was a gun runner back in his days in Africa, but now he´s changed so much and he´s the best! During this week we weren't able to find the new investigators that we've been wanting to find, but we taught many lessons and also had the baptism, so now our main focus is to focus on finding these new people. It was also a bit disappointing that at church only one investigator came, since we've been having quite a few people come during the entire month in July, but that´s just what happens sometimes. With new people to teach we can expand our horizons to more people that will be more ready to progress and follow up on their commitments that we extend to them. Elder Benton is definitely the best. I know I say that about a lot of people but I´m not lying when I say that! He´s been learning more and more each and every day that I´m with him and he even sets me an example at times that I find very special. He´s a great elder with a powerful testimony. As he learns more Spanish he´s going to do things here in Spain that will change the lives of sooo many people! His British accent is also so awesome, I´m going to have to start learning more English from him! He is from the town Harlow in Essex and he was excited to hear that Uncle Lowell served a good time in that area! I have to say, strangely enough, Elder Benton reminds me so much of both Uncle Phillip (probably because of the strawberry blond hair) and in personality he´s almost like a British Andrew. Seriously. I´ll try to send a video of his accent next week, because that would be tight! Oh man, I´m out of things to say, so I´ll end with much love and hugs, Love, Weston