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Corrida de toros!!

I am now an official witness of a real live bull run. And I'm still here don't fret. And it wasn't too crazy. A bunch of teenage boys running from some angry bulls to prove their strength or something idk sometimes Spain is a little crazy haha. This whole week has been festivo in Villalba and yeah Spain definitely likes to party. Every day for the last 7 days about every couple hours there was a parade (which is basically a band playing some fun music and a bunch of people who may or may not be a little drunk walking through the streets) and every day for the last 7 days about every 30 seconds, a bomb went off in celebration. I think I may be a little hard of hearing now and the next time I talk to my dad I might have to ask him to speak up because he's mumbling (probably only my family will get that joke). No but it was really fun to see the people here so emerged in their culture and I learned a lot more about Spain in the process. 

We have someone (kind of) on fecha!! Errrr I think that's called they have a baptismal date in English. We invited our friend Fran to be baptized on the 17th of August! And he said he would pray about it! We are really excited because he is so prepared! I can't remember if I've already talked about him, but one day we were sitting in a park waiting for an amigo and he contacted us! He said he wanted Christ back in his life and he had seen our church before because he had a friend in his country who served a mission. And his little son just turned 8 last month!! During our first cita with him we taught him about the restoration and prophets and he asked if he could follow the prophet on Facebook. Claro que si! And now we're just helping him follow him in real life too :)
On Saturday we had a día de encontrar and it was a little bit of a rough start because the bull run was going on so people were a little occupied, but later in the night we were on a roll and we met a lot of people who have met missionaries before in their home countries but lost contact and moved to spain so we'll see how things go with them! We also visited Sadith this week (the OG grandma that I talked about a while ago) and when we showed up, this 90 year old woman was working on organizing all of her clothes, bending over on hands and knees; and I mean she doesn't have that far to go because she comes up to like my bellybutton, but we showed up just in time to help her organize all of her sweaters and fuzzy pajama pants :) 

On Sunday we went to visit a menos activo and oh boy that was an adventure. She let us in and was so nice, asked about the previous companions that had been here and we talked about her family for a few minutes. As we were getting to know her, my companion asked her how long ago she got baptized. She looked confused for a second, and then started telling us about her baptism into the church of the ministry of christ or something. So don't really know where we went wrong, but as far as we can tell, nobody in this family is a member. And we're also starting to think that we have some competing missionaries here in Villalba because this is the second time that something like this has happened haha. 

Also yesterday we ate lunch with 3 sisters from the ward and afterwards we shared a message about the book of Mormon. We asked them what blessings they had seen in their lives from this special treasure that we have and it strengthened my testimony so much to hear theirs. The book of Mormon helps us feel Gods love so much stronger in our lives every single day. It helps us control our temper, it helps us see those around us as God sees them, it brings us knowledge about the great and amazing plan of happiness that our Heavenly Father has for us. I also am in the middle of "our search for happiness" and ive learned so much. Something I treasure so much is the time I have every day to study the book of Mormon and the words of the prophets. I have come to know my savior so much more. He is real. He is there. He is waiting for us to call to him to walk with us. This is his church. He lives and guides us today. I love sharing that message. 

I love you all so much! If you haven't read our search for happiness I highly recommend it. And if you don't have the habit of reading the book of Mormon every day, I invite you to start. And if you want another little challenge to spice up your study or help you get started, we have a fun little 21 day challenge we give people so let me know :) 

Love you all so much! 

Hermana Pendleton 





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