Elder Boden

So like the mission is pretty cool Hey hey hey everyone!! Just wanna start out with a little reminder I think every person in the world could benefit from hearing! You are a child of God who loves you, you have divine potential, and God's with you every step of the way, if you are struggling to know how to overcome trials in your life right now, just ask Christ how He did it, I know He'll answer and He'll give you better advice than anyone. He's been through your trials and overcame them, He knows a thing or two! We had a pretty fun week this week! We went to Vic, the other area we are covering now, and bought a bunch of treats and dropped them off at member's house to introduce ourselves and say hi! It was pretty cool! The only problem was that there was this insane flash flood, the craziest rain storm I have ever been in! I literally thought we were going to float away in our car   We are also the Facebook leaders in our zone, which I didn't know what that ent...

GIRONA Hey everyone!! It's been a good week!!! My prayers were finally answered... my new apartment does in fact have Air Conditioning  In other exciting news, our car is brand new and super nice (it literally is self driving), this city is absolutely beautiful,  annnddddd most importantly,  my area is the only one in the zone of Barcelona that didn't enter quarantine again this week!!! Buttt that probably means I will soon... so we have definitely been taking advantage of being able to go outside!! We went to a really cool beach town yesterday to visit an amiga. I have officially found where I will be living after the mission, Cadequés, España!!!🤩 My companion is from Brazil, and speaks Portuguese,  he's been teaching me a little bit. With my knowledge of Spanish, I can understand about 35% of Portuguese,  super cool language!! This has definitely been a week of miracles!! We set 3 baptism dates this week!! (I have previously set 3 in my whole mission) But it ...

Transferssssssss Hey hey hey!! This week seriously went by so dang fast!! (Yeah yeah, I know I say that every week...) But it was a good one!! We got transfer calls at like 10:30 at night on Saturday, after anxiously waiting all day long to find out If we were staying or not, and I am leaving Cornellá! I've been here since the Quarantine officially started March 14th, and actually tomorrow marks the day meaning I have spent 50% of my time in Spain in this apartment in quarantine basically, fun times!  The truth is though,  I have honestly seen SOO many blessings and I have seen more fruits of my labor here than I have in the rest of my mission altogether!!! God isn't just using His backup plan to make this work as well, He is bringing blessings because of all that's happening!! But I am only going about 1.5 hours away to a city called Girona! It's still a bigger city, but in the mountains, so I am excited! We also apparently have a brand new, crazy nice car, are some of...

A Really Good Week! Hey hey hey everyone!! It was a really good week here! I again am running out of time, we're really taking advantage of the opportunity we finally have to tour Barcelona! But I'll just share a cool story! Yesterday we had a really cool videocall with a lady named Esperanza! We've had like 4 calls now, every Sunday. Two weeks ago, we talked about the difference between faith and hope, which is action! Faith requires action, we can't only proclaim we love God, we have to show Him! And so we invited her to do that more this week. The following Sunday, she was glowing as she explained the many blessings she'd seen during her week as a result of acting! It was amazing! But sadly, she still wasn't set on being baptized, cuz she's been to tons of churches in her life and just believes all churches are good, but she promised to pray about it and see if it's God's will! Well yesterday we had another call, and she just was crying and crying...