Changes in the Mission

Good morning! How are you all doing? I´m doing real good. Well this morning we got a big announcement. The Spain Bilbao mission will be dissolved on the first of July of this year and will be part of the Spain Barcelona Mission. The Spain Bilbao mission is pretty much all of northern Spain...the pretty part! So now a lot more options of where I could go after this area have opened up. Where I am at right now won´t be part of our mission in July. A big chunk of the southern part of our mission will be part of the Spain Málaga mission. Its crazy how it is all working. Its going to be announced in church news this month I believe. The First Presidency made the annoucement recently and President Hinckley shared the news with us before it was released publicly. We are seeing growth in Spain with less and less missionaries. At one point there were 5 missions and 600 missionaries in Spain. That will be reduced to 3 missions and 300 missionaries. The church is growing! Missionary work is now becoming a focus among the members. I´ve heard one day there won´t even be a need for full time missionaries! Anyway I´ll tell you about my week now. Unfortunately we lost our baptismal date with Amanda for the 13th. She didn´t like church because it wasn´t like her old one. She had some crazy doubts. She didn´t believe that woman should speak in church, cut their hair, wear pants, and that the bread used in sacrament should be unleavened. She told us she believed in the Bible word for word. We tried to help her resolve her doubts but it didn´t work. She didn´t understand that a lot of her beliefs were Jewish customs and misinterpretations of the Bible. She told us not to come by anymore. But that just means someone else is ready to hear the gospel and the search needs to continue. We actually did find a new investigator! Her name is Adriana. She is a 15 or 16 year old girl that is a friend of some members. We actually found her by accident haha. We were teaching the family and all of a sudden their daughter showed up with her friend just as we were beginning. So they both sat down to listen and she told us she was really interested and had some questions for us. It was a blessing from Heaven that fell right in our laps! I don´t think I have much more news for the week. My birthday was really good. Elder Forsgren and I just chilled and he bought me lunch. I have a good companion. Well thats about it. I love you all and thanks for all you do. Keep on keepin on. Lifes a garden, dig it. Haha just some Joe Dirt for ya.
Love, Elder Langston