It´s cold here this week! It snowed all around San Sebastián, crazy weather. Ok, miracle story time!

We have two miracles stories this week that are tied together! A sister in the ward told us a few weeks ago that she had a friend in the hospital. He is 21 years old and found out he has leukemia last August. He was in so much pain and then in a coma a few months ago and his family had to decide whether to keep him on life support or let him go. His sister´s boyfriend was in a similar situation a few years ago and wouldn´t let her do it. He said that Eduardo was strong and he could pull through. When we visited him the first week of January, he was doing better, but still did not look very good. They had to surgically remove most of his upper lip from an infection and his vision is slowly deteriorating. When we went back to visit him again this week, he was STANDING outside of his room, watching everyone walking by! The doctors told him that according to his tests, he is cancer free! And TODAY he gets to go home!!! He looked so much better and we were able to teach him and he prayed at the end of the lesson. He has lots of questions and wants to listen and meet with us this week. What a miracle. The other miracle happened on the bus ride home from the hospital and Hna Fuente will tell you about that...

Don´t worry, I won´t leave you hanging. It was rainy on the way back from the hospital and we asked an african man next to us to close the window some crazy person had opened. We started talking and he was REALLY excited to come to church when we invited him! He came to our english class, too, and we taught him afterward. He said that he has been living here for 15 years and hasn´t found a church or seen any kind of missionaries and it wasn´t just chance that he met us on the bus. When we were explaining about the Book of Mormon using the laminas...pictures...in the beginning, when we told him about the picture where they are baptizing in the Americas, he said, "Well, I need to be baptized like Jesus Christ, too!" So we are working toward a baptismal date in February! He was going to come to church, but his friend in the hospital got worse and he was there all Saturday night and Sunday with her. We are really excited to teach him! And if we hadn´t been on the bus and gone to visit Eduardo, we wouldn´t have met him! Or if some silly person hadn´t opened the window on a rainy day!haha...  Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways, doesn´t He?

We had the WONDERFUL opportunity to teach for the third hour in Church yesterday with our ward mission leader about la obra misional and it went really well. We shared with them a short lesson about fe (faith) and our mission goal of 450 last year--they were shocked!--and we invited them all to think of just ONE name and then act on their faith and share something with them...then involve the missionaries!haha Then our mission leader taught about "what" to teach and "how" to teach. We put them in groups, gave them a principle from PME and then they had to teach each other in 5 min. It went so well! I wish we had done something like that in mutual or our ward! The members need to know PMG and how to teach! Mutual activity!haha It went very well.

We also fasted for this lesson...and I have discovered that my body just can´t handle a 24 hour fast very well.  Here we start after mediodia--the 2-4pm meal--until mediodia the next day. It makes me very sick and very iron-deficient. I´m basically useless Sunday night and Monday morning after. So I dunno, I guess I´ll have to adjust.  I know I have or had a big bottle of iron pills, but I can´t find it suddenly. I have some left and have been taking them regularly, but I lost my refill bottle apparently. Very annoying, I´ll keep looking.

We had a dinner and visit yesterday with a young part member couple in a pueblo. She made us...are you ready?...homemade cordon bleu, steamed broccoli, corn/peas, mashed potatoes and baked cheesecake. I was in heaven! And she made us take the WHOLE cheesecake home!!!! haha I´ve actually been doing a lot of cooking myself, including 2 cheesecakes for investigators this week(not baked) and brownies. Oh, and I made homemade chicken noodle soup the other day! It was almost like yours, Mom! haha, but not.

I forgot to say last week--HOLY COW! Amber and Garrett engaged! Wow, so exciting! Good for them! And way to go Mom on the Spirit of Elijah! That is so neat! Keep going with the indexing. They made a new verb to talk about that here...indexiar... ahahaha... makes me laugh when someone says it.

Chloe! Basketball! Sounds great! Who´s coaching? Do you like it? And volleyball! wowzers. full-time, no?haha I want to see some pictures of you in action!

Tell everyone hi and I´ll have to write the Bishop and Stake Pres soon. Well, gotta run! Keep praying and smiling!

Les quiero,

Hna Dalton

Pictures...hehehe I stole Hna Preston´s treasured lego Harry Potter when I was in Zaragoza and we have been giving him a taste of missionary work and being a missionary...the best 2 spells for missionary work...alohamora (might be spelled wrong, the unlocking doors spell) and imperio.hehehehehehehehehehe!