When it rains, it pours [Letter 47]

LOVED ONES!!!!

It has been a wonderful week. And I have come to realize that the adage "when it rains it pours" is oh so true whether it is the weather or missionary work. It has been raining off and on here in Almería. It is very strange. It never rains here. Almería is suppose to be the best place to winter in all of Europe because of the weather. But it just continues to rain. On Sunday records were broken as the rain fell in buckets. The streets were rivers literally. if you are wondering what effect that has on missionary work my answer is nothing. We are still in the streets, talking, teaching, testifying. We are just a bit wetter when we get home. It has been fun.

This past week we have been working as hard as ever. and we have seen some great miracles. My companion and I have had the opportunity to set 5 different baptismal dates. These people are amazing and their faith is astounding as they take difficult steps to follow our Savior. we are working hard with them as they work for these goals. I love this work and the Lord that directs it.

Okay now for some mission news. A third of our mission will be leaving in December. BUT my district leader told us that before the announcement of the age change in the average week the Church received about 500 applications for missions. But after the Announcement it has spiked to almost 7000. The work of the Lord is going forward!!! Also I had the great opportunity to talk with my mission president. He said that there has been movement with visas here in Spain and that we will be seeing new missionaries soon and a lot of them. He said that we need to be ready because we will be training soon and with the amount of Hermanas we will be receiving we could be training more then one at a time in a joking yet kind of serious manner. STRESS!!! But nothing official has happened.

What a time to be in the field. I love this place. I just look around and stand in awe as miracles happen every day. May the Lord be with you for where He is miracles really do happen.

I love you all!!!!

Love,
Hermana Petru