Hola!
Once again, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Love you soooo much, mom!! It was so great to talk to most of the fam yesterday even though the skype didn't work. Sorry about that :/ I'll make sure to actually go to a computer place for top speed internet. But really, I loved talking to you guys. Shortest hour ever but so worth it!
Well we had a funny thing happen last night after calling you guys. We were out contacting because our lessons failed on us...as usual...so we hit the streets and contacted for the last half hour of the night. We were just walking and trying to find any soul on the street. I have no idea why everyone was gone. Usually sunday nights are hoppin. SO, we saw this guy that was kinda roamin the streets like us and we would go down a different road than him and then ten minutes later we would pass by him again and again and it was getting weird.
It then got to a point where we were walking like right behind him and my hija was like, "hola! Que tal?" ...he kinda just looked behind and smiled and didnt say much. We were like...does he even speak spanish?? haha he then just turned around and started saying some broken spanish and was saying how guapa we were...the usual, and I was like...great, another guy that doesnt really want to listen to what we have to say.
So I just made small talk as we walked with him a little bit and he's from Morocco (like everyone here in Almería) and doesnt speak spanish super well (also pretty typical). He only speaks Arabic and is muslim (kinda difficult cuz we aren't allowed to teach muslims.) I started to freak out a little after he told us he was Muslim because I have no idea how to teach Muslims without actually teaching them....yeah makes sense right?
So I began to explain very simply our purpose as missionaries and why were are here in Spain and the message that we share....yata yata and I was like, "soooo....I know you're Muslim n' all, but ummm would you like to learn more about Jesus Christ and the message that we share?" He jumped at the invitation which kinda made me nervous cuz I don't think he understood our purpose. So I explained like a third time why we wanted to meet with him and clearly stated what we would talk about the next time we visited haha. It was super funny. We are gonna meet with him in a plaza and see if he truly is interested.
There's a funny story for ya. It was the most interesting thing thats happened to us this week haha and our first "futuro" of the week. How sad is that. Mannnnnn got lots of work to do.
Well, I just want to let you all know that I still have a such a strong testimony of this Gospel even when the work is just tough and not very fun. It's the work of the Lord and we are only here to be His instruments. We know it'll be rough for a little while before it gets better but we're excited. I love my comp, Hna Grant, so much! We have a lot of fire and are just searching for those prepared people like nobody's business.
I love you guys!! Thank you for everything. Enjoy the sun...I hope it's warm there. We're suffering the 100degree weather already! Jolín!!! Spain is ridiculously hot. No wonder everyone sleeps for 4 hrs during the hottest part of the day haha. Have a great weeek!
love,
Hna Daly
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