Marratxí – Week 8 … It’s been a very special week! 💖

Hey everyone, how are we all doing here? 

As it says in the title, it has been a very special week this week. There were a lot of things happening that really makes the life better. But, we will get to that in a moment. So, let's talk about the biggest moment this week which came yesterday (Monday), which was Zone Conference. Well what's so special about this conference than the rest? Good question. Well it's because our new Mission President and his wife arrived at our Zone Conference. They are wonderful people and I feel completely and totally comfortable working with them and guiding me in the mission. They have my complete confidence am trust and I already love them so much. 

The miracle this week was when I followed a spiritual prompting to go visit an investigator of ours who was two streets away from where we were walking. We did so, and we visited him and taught him. His mother was there and Alex doesn't progress as much when his mom is there just because she talks a lot and distracts the concentration of the lesson. Anyway, she left after 10 minutes from starting (with a prayer of course). And from there it was just great.  I felt the spirit working strongly within my heart. And I testified according to what I felt. We then invited him to be baptized and he accepted. He also accepted to coming to church, which he did!!!! I love Alex so much. He is such a good and sweet person. He is from Cuba as well and is huge! But he is smaller than me, lol. 

On Sunday, we did a Noche de Hogar (FHE) and it was really great. Lucia who is the house owner, had her brother there and we gave him a blessing of health. I did the blessing and it was great. Lucia was crying, and Luis was happy. He is not a member either. For dinner we had Root Beer Floats and Hamburgers. 

We went to a town about 30 minutes away and made some salad sandwiches which were actually really good! 

Answers to questions.... 

Did you get any mail this week?

I got a lot of mail, and it felt so good. I didn't get the package, but the Zone Leaders are going to bring it when they come back from coordination. Thank you for all the letters!!! 

How is the energy in Spain now that they are out of the World Cup?

I haven't heard any more shouts or nothing since that. And the people took all of their little decorations down after, haha!

Happy 4^th of July!  Can you take a picture of you jumping in the air? 

I will take a picture 

What are your first impressions of your new Mission President?

I love The new Mission President 

Have you found an electric razor yet?  They are too expensive to mail to you.

I have not found one

Any changes for emailing on P-day now with a new Mission President?

We now get to right the whole time of preparation day!!! 

Well that's about it, I have to do an Intercambios so I gotta leave to catch the train.  The life of a District Monkey. Haha! 

I love you all!!!! 

Love Elder Maybury 

Me and Nefi - He is leaving 😢

Some Yummy Food - Colombian!!!

(yes, that is a chicken foot)

A Salad Sandwich - Yummo! 

A beautiful tree

Letters from my family!  THANK YOU for the letters!  I love you all! 

I am so glad to have heard from my boy this week.  I love seeing his happy face!  Even more so, I love hearing his happy voice.  And even more than that, I love knowing this heart is growing and his testimony is strong.

He also did something very special for his father this week as a belated "Happy Father's Day" gift.  He wrote him a song for Father's Day and sang it.  He used the melody to "We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet" and changed the words to "I Thank Thee O God For My Father".  It was quite moving to hear his words.  It made both James and I emotional to hear his maturity and his fully flowing heart poured out in song.  I wish I could share it with you, but for now, it's private for his father.  

Of course, he did something special for us, his family, this week, as well.  He recorded a video of himself opening our letters.  So, we got to watch him open them and read them out loud.  It was WONDERFUL to see his face light up as he read our words and laugh at parts that we had included in the notes.  You can see in his face that he is SO HAPPY.  I literally burst into tears when I think of this because my heart just overflows with gratitude and love for him and his dedicated service to the Lord.  He is so handsome and is still as goofy as ever!  

True to form, he was eating ice cream during part of the video.  He absolutely loves ice cream.  

I thought I would share a short clip from this portion of his video with you all.  Please note that he KNOWS I don't like it when the kids would lick their plate, so he is taking advantage of being 5,200 miles away from me.  Hahaha!  At least he used a napkin, right? 

A quick video of Elder Maybury

(edited from a 15 minute video)

He sure does make us laugh and it was nice to hear his voice singing just a little bit.  

As always, thank you for your love and support of our son while he is serving.  He loves to hear from you and he thanks you for your prayers.  

If you would like to write to him, you may do so at the following address:

Elder Alexander J. Maybury

Spain Barcelona Mission

C/ Calatrava 10-12, bajos

08017 Barcelona

Spain

All letters will require one international stamp = $1.15 / up to one ounce

Emailed: July 3rd