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Hey y'all,

My week has been really good and I have done lots of cool things! The best part was when we had a parade come down one of the central parts of Vigo right by the church, it was kind of weird, the people in it were just different, it was for 3 Kings Day, I'll send some photos and quizas un video! We have a birthday that we are going to today and it should be a good time! Hicimos ínter cambios and I had a ton of fun! Me and Elder Hale. Comimos Jamón and it was Pretty bomb¡ I love reading the scriptures every day for and hour I definitely want to guardar eso en mi vida! My favorite couple of scriptures for this week have been in 2 Nephi 25: 12-14, 19

12 But, behold, they shall have wars, and rumors of wars; and when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the Father, yea, even the Father of heaven and of earth, shall manifest himself unto them in the flesh, behold, they will reject him, because of their iniquities, and the hardness of their hearts, and the stiffness of their necks.

13 Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings; and all those who shall believe on his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name.

14 And behold it shall come to pass that after the Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself unto his people, unto as many as will believe on his name, behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church.

19 For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

I loved that Nephi knew the name of the Son of God almost 600 years before his birth.

The Power of revelation is real and if we pray and have enough faith and it is right in the sight of God then we can be like Enos and we can know the meanings of all things!

I really love it here and I want to try harder an be better every day! It's really hard to be here away from everything but I can tell that God is with me and he loves me and that he makes me feel clean every week. I love you guys and I am so happy that I was able to come down to this earth  to learn and grow with y'all. With love Tú Hijo Amado, Moroni

Brett collects unique copies of the Book of Mormon
Moroni took his dad's English edition to Spain
and found a Spanish version of the same print.

It is still there to me!~Moroni

For those of you who live out of town
and may not be aware, the beautiful,
historic mill burnt down
Christmas morning.

Elder Beal,

I am sorry for the hard time Evie is going through, Satan is so sneaky and likes to trip us up.  She will remain in my prayers for awhile.  I love the prayer of Alma when he is distressed during his missionary work among the Zoramites.  It is found in Alma 31.  His prayer is specifically verses 26-35 but his astonishment and anguish are prelude those verses.  What I love the most is the two verses after his prayer, he is given a priesthood blessing and the Lord strengthens him and his companions and their sorrow is lost in the joy of Christ. Sometimes, I feel that I can relate as a parent to his situation as a missionary.  I am sure there are times that you can relate very closely with Alma in this situation.  When times are difficult, it is great to get lost in the joy of Christ. From Him comes the greatest peace available.

Nauvoo was able to tend a couple of Sister Marshall's grandsons yesterday and she saw this sign and added her name to it.  This brought a huge smile to her face.  I thought I would share it with you.  

Were you able to get Karly's package out of being held hostage at customs? I still haven't really made head or tails of the new shipping requirement.  Would it be better to simply send small envelopes like letters?  Do those go to the mission address or the one you write at the end of your emails?  When I look up your address from the last email on Google Earth, I see a lot of graffiti. I did not expect that because I am always so impressed with how clean Spain is in all the pictures you send.  You must be selective, I guess in what you want me to see.  Plus the mini cars are a cool kind of funky.  I know you are my pyro child, and everybody here loves to see those videos, but please don't get sent home for torching the place. :)  I m pretty sure our church is not the hell fire preaching kind of church ;) Nor do I think that is what is meant in the phrase baptism by fire.  Was is a holiday penguin? Poor creature, who am I to say that~ I drug a cat home all the way from Foothills, it took your dad 15 minutes the next morning to dig it out of my front bumper, glad it wasn't a skunk!

We love and miss you, time flies by fast, you are already past three months! Your cousin Soren comes home from his mission in Australia this month.

Love, 

Mom

Then he sent pictures of his Pisa (apartment)~

Which were way nicer than what I found on Google Earth :) but the car was plainer :) Mine had better graffiti too!