Time literally flies by.  I feel like I got to Almería yesterday.  I love it here there is so much potential!  My comp Chacón and I are doing really good.  He really struggled with his last comp, but with me he´s been really awesome!  He really wants to work and has a great testimony so it´s been fun!  Every night we come home super tired, when I go to bed I feel like the moment my head touches my pillow I fall asleep haha.

So this last week one of the members invited his friend named Juan Pablo over so we could teach him! He was so awesome!  He wanted to be baptized and follow Christ, he has had a really tough life and lost custodity of his son.  But wants to turn his life around and feels like he can do it through Jesus Christ!  He had been to church twice and we placed a fetcha with him for this friday but he´s not going to be able to because of the word of wisdom.  He usually smokes at least 3 cigarettes a day and he went 3 or 4 days without smoking and he has problems with taking drugs when he feels nervous.  On Saturday night he relapsed and took a bunch of pills and was asleep for church on Sunday.   He has a big desire so we´ll be working really hard with him so he can follow the word of wisdom and be baptized! 

Also we found this lady named Isabel.  She is really nice and really believes in God.  Thing is she is super evangelist. She´s had the priviledge of seeing Jesus Christ and everything! We tried talking to her about Joseph Smith and prophets but she could not understand because she thought that she was a prophet and prophecies all the time and all that good stuff.  We presented the book of mormon and she is pretty interested and said she´s going to read it so we´ll see how that goes!

Friday we had zone meeting in Granada and we had to be at the bus station at 7 and it was a 45 minute walk so that was a tough morning.  Also the office bought the wrong tickets so instead of going straight to Granada the bus stopped in motril which added two hours to our journey.  At first I was kind of frustrated but it was fun because we drove right along the costline of the Mediterranean Sea for 3 hours so I wasn´t complaining! 

Saturday we had the best ward activity ever!  It was a sport activity and basically everyone showed up! It was a huge success because we had a bunch of investigators, recent converts, and less actives come.  It was so fun and it lasted all morning and afternoon.   We played soccer, volleyball, and basketball so it was awesome!  We ended with making a huge paella! (Paella is a real famous Spanish rice dish).  There was so many people though that there wasn´t enough to feed everyone so they had to quickly make another pot.  And also they started passing out all the plates of paella and then someone realized that there wasn´t any forks or spoons..... How do you forget silverwear?? hahah I think they just wanted us to practice patience as we had our food sitting in front of us waiting for someone to come back with plastic spoons... Why wait though when you can use bread to scoop it up?

Anyway I love it hear in Almería and we should have a lot of success here.  If we see success this summer the ward here will be divided into 2 wards! So we need to work hard and get some more baptisms/reactivations so it will happen.

And I haven´t heard anything about Ipads so hopefully they will actually get here soon!

Love you all, 

Elder Stephens