End of Transfer 2 [Letter 21 - Nerja]

HOLA FROM SPAIN!!

Well this would be the end of transfer two. I am not being transfered. I will be here for another 6 weeks! So excited. Summer is hitting so it is getting hot and the tourists are invading but the work is going forward. We continue to teach. We continue to contact. Contacting has to be one of the most adventurous things I have ever done. Think about stopping someone on the street randomly. Introducing yourself and then bearing your testimony. Then asking if you could visit them and explain a little more about your church. That is basically is what goes into a street contact if you can get someone to stop. It is quite adventurous because you never know what a person is like. It is exactly the same way when you knock doors. You are never really sure what will be on the other side. Some people are nice and will listen to you and then tell you no. Some people like to listen to you and then tell you that they believe there is only one Bible (2 Nephi 29). Some try to argue with you. Some look at you with hope and give you there address and phone number and ask you to stop by later. I would like to share with you one of my most interesting contacts yet. This last week we were contacting in Torrox Costa. We stopped a man and began talking with him. He asked what our mother language was. We said English. He popped right into English and had an American Accent which doesn't happen here very often. He said that he would love to listen to us and he had time right now to talk. We found a bench and started talking about the Book of Mormon. It was going really really good until we started talking about America. He had been in the Army in the language department and such. Apparently he had very high security clearance and all this. He says that there are things going on there and would just make our heads explode if we knew what was really going on. He went on to tell us a story about why he left and will never return to the US. Apparently he was being followed by the CIA because of the things he knows and they want him to stop spreading it. So he is in Spain like hiding out or something. Anyway, the way he was talking it reminded me of the BOURNE IDENTITY movies. So utterly strange. He took a Book of Mormon though and said he would read it.

Hermana Gibson and I have had some really good companionship studies and I am learning so much from her. The Scriptures truly can answer any question. Also if you have time I invite everyone to watch the Bible clips on the LDS.org website. Also WATCH (if this was Spanish I would use command form) the new Mormon Messages "Dare to Stand Alone" and "Love My Mother." Truly Inspiring.

Love you all,

Hermana Petru

PS Hermana Gibson is being transfered to Murcia. She leaves Wednesday.