Semana Santa

   Hey Mama Bear

This week was really good but really busy. We had zone conference en an Island called La Gran Canaria and we were there for two days but after that we went to a different island for two days and did exchanges with the Elders there! that was rough but we had a montón of fun. Also we got to fly everywhere so that was awesome! I have now visited the 4 of the 7 Islands that are here, there are only 4 that have missionaries on them.  It was weird yesterday thinking of where ya'll were and what you were doing! I love Easter but it’s different here. We have a Semana Santa (Holy Week), it’s really just a time for Catholics to have days off of work but it’s alright. To me I don’t like Semaña Santa, because holidays here means that there is no one out and that missionary work is slow! But it is good we were gone half the week busy with other things. I miss y'all so much and I was excited to hear about Grandma Perez coming up! I love you all and I look forward to seeing every one in two Easters from now. 

Love Moroni

https://www.mormon.org/spa/pascua/aleluya

We share this video with everyone here in Fuerte Ventura. Also we have cards that we give to the people so that they can look up this video.

Zone Conference

Cookin Hamburguesas 
 Pisa
Elder Beal,
This week was spring break yay! My uncle Joe and aunt Dina brought Grandma up to visit, it was so nice to have her here and it was great for the girls to spend some time with Trina. They were able to stay for a few days my uncle Joe just had his knee replaced a couple weeks ago so we just stayed home mostly and relaxed. One day, I took grandma to see Zack and Sarah and Sarah's about to deliver a new baby boy so Augie will be a big brother probably this week. Because it was Easter week we would spend each evening reading different parts of the last week of the life of Christ from the New Testament. It was really wonderful to do that with my grandmother and the rest of the family. I included with my readings some of the wonderful videos the church has created about the Savior and Easter I love them! They're so much better than the old videos from the 70s. While grandma was here I asked her where Grandpa's family is from. The name of the city or area or region -I don't know what you call it, is called Seville, it's in southern Spain and it looks like it is not in your mission. I will keep researching and find if there is anybody in your mission from our family.
Camilla got her first job she's working at Subway in Walmart she started on Thursday and worked Thursday and Friday she has every Sunday off.
Sariah almost got a job at the South Walmart they're going to wait till she graduates if she doesn't have a job before then.
Nauvoo joined the golf team and apparently is pretty good at it. I'm not so sure that she loves that yet though.
Malachi has been practicing his magic tricks again. Today he won a dollar from grandpa doing a magic trick. But really it was Grandma that lost a dollar because Grandpa had to borrow it from grandma :-)
Thursday morning Jodi and I went to the temple and it was packed with Missionaries. We had no idea, as it is usually pretty slow on a Thursday morning. But it was cool for us to be in the temple with a bunch of Missionaries while our missionaries are out serving.
I think the girls sent you a video or two and maybe a photo from last year of us coloring Easter eggs.  My new friend Juanita was able to join us for Easter dinner, and taught us each a few more words in sign language. Sadly Grandma and Grandpa Brumble were not able to join us. Grandma hit her hand and it bruised up pretty bad. She had to have it lanced and drained. Today it felt like it might have an infection in there so she is taking it easy on Dr.'s orders. We also have the sister missionaries join us. It is fun to get to know them. One of them goes home in May, but she said she'd like to stay out longer. I suppose most missionaries would feel that way.
What was the name of the place you hiked in the pictures you sent last week?
Did you choose not to get a new iPad or are they still struggling with the finances that were sent a couple months ago?
I am grateful Elder Boyd forwards pictures to us from you. We love you so much and are so happy to have you out serving the Lord. Building up his kingdom and the most beautiful place I've ever seen in pictures. Keep up the good work! My heart and prayers are with you and your companion always and also with those missionaries who suffered the attacks in Brussels, that is so hard wrenching. Yet their testimonies that they share on national and international news are powerful and amazing. Keep up the good work!
I love you,
Mom

Here's a picture of dad with Jeff Barber in the middle and Erik Larsen by the yellow bike. They camped in the rain this weekend.

Pilot Rock of the Canary Islands

 Hola madre,
I'm doing really good and I'm really enjoying Fuerteventura everyone
in the zone is awesome and in the branch too! I don't have that much
time today to email because we had a zone activity. We went to a a
place like pilot rock it was awesome! Tomorrow we have zone
conferences I'm happy for that! I sent you some pictures it was
beautiful! I love you mom and I am so thankful for everything you do.
Moroni


Elder Beal,
Happy Palm Sunday! I would love to know how the people celebrate Easter week where you are. In most prominent Catholic countries, Easter week is filled with rich traditions and a culture of celebrating the final week of the life of Christ.  Our church has always focused more on his life and teachings and resurrection than on his death like other faiths do.
My uncle Joe brought Dina and Trina and Grandmother up to visit for a couple of days. They arrived this afternoon. Us ladies all hiked Table Rock after dinner. They all asked about you and are glad to hear you are well. They said the food there is amazing especially seafood dishes.
I took Malachi to a magic show yesterday, it was really great. All of his music was Christian Rock and at the end he bore testimony of God. How if we just believe in Him we can do all things. It was cool to see a magician bear testimony through his work. His four kids are all involved in the show and his wife was before she lost her battle to cancer a couple of years ago. He also had two beautiful tigers that he has raised for 25 years. One white the twin sister Orange. Super fun.
I am so blessed to know of the Saviors atonement and how I can tap into that great reservoir of hope and strengthening power to make us whole. I am looking forward to studying the gospels specifically about this week in his life. I love you and am so glad you are sharing this message with others.
Love,

Mom

Water and a Prayer

Hey y'all,
This last week was really good here in Fuerte Ventura. The Members are
awesome and so are the people. The climate here is a lot different
then La Laguna, its super seca here, no green whatsoever. My companion
Elder Boyd is an amazing missionary. He is always complementing me and
helps me with whatever I need. We have some really good goals for this
companionship and I am exited to work hard with unity and being fully
concentrated. I love my mission and I am so thankful to God for the
life that he put before me, and the trials that I have, so that I can
be stronger. This area is a lot different than others, but the field
is white and ready to harvest, and I am glad to be apart of it. We had
a baptism here last Saturday and it was really spiritual. I could
really feel the necessity of baptism right when he came out of the
water. I felt the love of God in my soul, and that even though it's
just water and a prayer, there is no other way that we can enter into
the kingdom of God with out it. 
Les quiero un montón para todo, 
 Elder Beal
Elder Beal,
Today, well when you read this, is March 14th, Pi day! Life is short so we must celebrate all the opportunities that we can. At work we are having a pie contest. I made a Samoa cookie pie. We'll see how it tastes tomorrow as I have never made one before.
President Wright and his sweetheart spoke today in our ward for Sacrament. I always love to hear them speak. Such powerful testimonies of the Savior, his atonement and how we can draw strength from it. It was so wonderful to hear a few of their experiences while serving as the mission president in Chile.  Some day dad and I will serve a mission together. Just have to get these kiddos through school!
I was surprised how quickly you transferred on. I am not even sure what your last companions name was. What is your new companions name? Do you two have much in common? Tell me all about the people you are serving. I understand you are down to one bag there. Were you able to bring your camera? Did you choose to replace your iPad or no?  I looked online and the entire island looks like a beautiful resort.  Is the more than one ward there? What is your home like?
This thought keeps echoing through my mind the last several weeks, I seem to see it everywhere. "There is no sin greater than the atonement of Jesus Christ"  This applies to sins we commit, sins that are committed against us, and sins that others commit. Through the repentance process his atonement can heal us. Completely. Perfectly. Entirely. Permanently.  I know he loves us, I know he lives. I know on that third day the tomb was empty. I know that we each can receive personal witness of these truths through earnestly seeking and searching.  I am so grateful that you are  sharing these great truths and your personal testimony with others. I love you, dad loves you. We are so lucky to be your parents. Keep up the good work.
 When we were in Utah last week, Jodi and I went through the church history museum and the was a display of artwork in various mediums that had entered a competition titled "Tell me the stories of Jesus."  I especially love this one in particular where the artist portrays the young savior holding his mothers hand as they walk through a crowded street. His eyes are filled with compassion as his head is turned back looking at a distraught older man sitting on the edge of the street.  You see this pictures displays nicely that the savior was aware. Aware of the need of others and had compassion for them. This is an attribute of Christ that you possess and must always use so you don't lose it. To see others through the saviors eyes is the best perspective to see clearly.
I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Mom

The next day I found and sent this Canary Island history...

I found this excerpt from a Deseret News article. Love you!

CANARY ISLANDS
Jan. 1, 2009: Est. population, 1,844,000; Members, 3,500; Districts, 3; Branches, 18;percent LDS, .19, or one in 527; Europe Area; Spain Las Palmas Mission.
The Canary Islands, two provinces of Spain in the South Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa, are rugged volcanic mountainous islands with rich soil and long beaches where sand from the western Sahara Desert has drifted. Thirteen islands make up the provinces, seven of which are inhabited: Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma, Gomera, and Hierro.
The first converts baptized in the Canary Islands were Juana Vega Garcia, Francisco Dominguez Pena, his wife, Francisca, and their son, Javier, on 13 June 1979. They were introduced to the Church by Jesus Ramon Gomez Vega, a native of Gran Canaria, who had accepted the gospel while residing in Spain where he was baptized in 1973. He served in the Spain Madrid Mission before returning home to share the gospel with his mother, Juana, and friends, the Pena family.
For the first several months, meetings of the small Church group were held in the Pena home. The first missionaries to the Canary Islands were Elders David L. Gill and Scott C. Jensen of the Spain Seville Mission who arrived 30 September 1979. 
The first branch was organized in Las Palmas on 29 January 1980. The first district, Las Palmas Gran Canarias, was organized 2 October 1984, with eight branches. The second district, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canaria, was organized 8 August 1989, with six branches. 
The Spain Las Palmas Mission, headquartered on Gran Canaria Island, was created on 1 July 1988 from portions of the Spain Seville and Portugal Porto missions. Marion K. Hamblin was called as president. In the first year of operation, the mission baptized 1,000 converts, and by 1990 was averaging 80 baptisms per month.
President Gordon B. Hinckley stopped in Las Palmas on 13 February 1998 on his way to Nigeria and spoke to 775 members.
The mission experienced a great loss on 18 January 1999 when full-time missionaries Jaarl M. Papenfuss and Joshua M. Prymak were drowned off the coast of Tenerife. A large wave swept the two missionaries off a cliff and into the ocean. One made it to shore but the other, Elder Prymak, was unable to swim to safety. Elder Papenfuss, who witnessed the scene from a safe position on the shore, attempted to save him, but both perished.Three tall sailing ships of Sea Trek 2001, re-enacting the Mormon emigration, spent three days in Las Palmas on 6-8 September before embarking across the Atlantic.

Transferred to a new Island

Elder Beal,
I just got home from taking the kids to the Provo City Temple open house. I hope I'm not too late to write you an email for your P~day. It was so great to spend some time with Karly. She met us at the open house that is where I took that picture of her and Malachi together. It was great to spend the weekend with her. The kids and I had fun hiking Bridalveil Falls it was amazing to be outside in a T-shirt and have snow on the ground, kind of wild. The kids went to UVU game the trampoline park while Jodi and I enjoyed the museum of church history. On our way home today we stopped in Bountiful where uncle Alden lived and his Temple is. We attended church, because it was Fast Sunday it was so wonderful to listen to everybody's testimonies. Nauvoo and Sariah were the last two to bear their testimonies and they were so beautiful the tears rolled down my face. A lot of people focused on their personal testimony of Joseph Smith, it was wonderful to hear that sure and certain knowledge that individuals have by the power of the Holy Ghost of Joseph Smith. One guy bore a fantastic testimony of his missionary experience from several years ago when the Nauvoo Temple was just beginning to be rebuilt. Another guy bore testimony from an experience on his mission he served in Siberia, and they had a cake called crazy cake. It was made without eggs they were supposed to be home by 9 o'clock and it was 8:45. It was freezing cold and they thought maybe they should just go home and eat some of their crazy cake that was in the fridge. But then they decided to pray and track an apartment building that they know had already been tracked by several hundred missionaries before them. The door opened and a man in a wife beater T-shirt tank top covered in tattoos opened the door. Immediately they thought he's going to slam the door in our face because of his appearance. They were wrong, he kindly and warmly welcomed them in where they saw his wife and two small children sitting on the couch so quietly waiting for them. The man said~ you've brought us a message and we are ready to listen. So they taught them to plan a salvation and 45 minutes later went home.  Two months later the whole family was baptized. It was at this point that they had learned that this family had just knelt in prayer to find new direction for their lives as they did not like the way it was headed -five minutes later is when the missionaries knocked on the door. This is a sure testimony that people are preparing and the Lord is helping them be prepared for when an opportunity to hear the gospel will come to their door. Of course as soon as missionaries got home that night they did eat their crazy cake :-) There may be times that you're ready to turn in early, let the spirit be your guide pray for direction even if there's only 15 minutes left in your day. I love you with all my heart, and continually have you in my prayers.
J'taime toujours,
Mom

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Bridal Veil Falls , Utah

I couldn't wait ;)  Provo City Center Temple

Hey Mom I'm getting transferred! From the Island Tenerife to Fuerte Ventura, another Island! I am super exited to go but sad to leave La Laguna. I will be in a different place but in the same zone. I was really surprised that I was leaving but it's all good. I got to talk to my dad of the mission, Elder Howard! and that was good, and some of my old companions from the CCM. I'm doing really good and I am really ready to go hard in a new area! I miss you a ton and I'm super glad that have an Awesome family like you guys because a lot of Elders don't have that in their lives. I hope that the chicas are not skipping school and that they are still going to seminary y tal and that Malachi is having tons of fun!. I love you mom and I want to thank you for everything that you do and give me. I cant wait to tell y'all all about my next place, the beach, the investigators, and everything! Gracias para total y les doy mi amor!

Tú hijo Moroni

Photos next week tambien