September 12

This week started out well, then got a little sad but then got better again. We started out the week really strong, lots of lessons and a baptism scheduled. But on thursday she texted us and said that she was going to a job interview and that if she got the job, she would be working on the weekends. She said she would call us the next day to let us know. We prayed and fasted but the next day she called and said she had decided to take the job and that she would not be getting baptized. We were devastated because she is an amazing woman and we had had some powerful spiritual experiences with her. Then all of our other investigators just kind of dropped off, said they couldn't meet or wouldn´t be coming to church. Then somehow all my pictures got deleted from my camera...so all my pictures from Benidorm and my first few weeks here, gone except the ones I had sent you. Everything just seemed to be going awful.

But we just kind of gathered our courage, and have been trying to be a positive as possible. Things don't always go exactly like you plan. But we had some miracles happen. A woman came to our English class on Saturday, then stayed for the Relief Society activity, and was at church yesterday! All without us doing a thing. Then I contacted a woman on the metro Saturday night, we invited her to church and she came! Heavenly Father is always looking out for us. He knows exactly what we need. I have been taking a lot of comfort from the hymn Scatter Sunshine! Read it! It is beautiful. I want to be a Sunshine Scatterer!!

And also a birthday shout out to my kindred spirit, my bestie who shares my name, Miss Melissa Wilding. I love you - thanks for being hilarious and a great example! Dance and eat lots of cake!

I love you a million sings of Scatter Sunshine- scatter smiles and sunshine

Love, Melissa the Beautiful

September 5

Well we are just working hard! We have another baptism for this weekend. Her name is Julia and she is from Peru. She has been kind of unsure about if she wanted to be baptized but we had an amazing experience with her on Saturday and she is fully committed to being baptized this weekend! Barcelona truly is a place of miracles!

This week was amazing because....this young woman in our ward, Milicenta, called us on tuesday and asked us if we could come to the church because one of her friends wanted to learn more about the church! So we met Victor. He is amazing. He is 14 and in 2 days he reading the Book of Mormon through Jacob. He said he did not sleep because he just wanted to read. He also gave up soccer so that he could come to church on sundays- all this after our first lesson. It is amazing when the youth are involved in missionary work. The YW´s president told us that Milicenta was talking with Victor one day and just felt prompted to invite him to church. He accepted the invitation and now we are teaching him. Miracles happen when members share the gospel!

I am loving all my experiences. It is something to be a representative of Jesus Christ- to have people view us as that is amazing. I was reading the talk from the YW´s Session by Sister Dalton about being guardians of Virtue. She talked about how we need to look to the temple and cleave to our covenants. I love my temple covenants. It is something that we want each investigator to do- look to the temple, to make more covenants with God, that will lead us to his presence! God loves us!

I love you all! I hope you have a fabulous week!!!

I love you a million youth who love to read in the Book of Mormon

Love, Melissa the Beautiful