Entre Dos Aguas


Hello everyone, this week can really just be described as a lot of unexpected situations. Transfers were supposed to happen tuesday, but the crash shut down a lot of the rail network. 

Soooo, I'm still with my original companion in Madrid, but now we have an extra. Since no trainers can arrive, all of the greenies are stuck with us, the companionships around Madrid. Mini-training has been a little fun, but I'm glad to have actual transfers start since we had 7 people staying here all week. 

It was pretty cold this week with wind, but its getting a lot better and we found a lot of people. Lots of member meetings and connections, too, with family home evenings and some pretty good lunches.

On Sunday I didn't fall asleep all of sacrament meeting and could finally hear all of the talks, including my own. It wasn't the best, and no one laughed at my joke, but we got through and our friend said he understood it.

For a spiritual thought: 

I have been studying all of Elder Holland's talks since his passing and they are all incredible! I just recently listened to his talk "An High Priest of Good Things to Come," where he talks about his experience walking miles to get water for his car, twice. It's a talk about perseverance and adversity, and I love when he says:

"Don’t give up, boy. Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead—a lot of it. You keep your chin up. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.”

I'm already almost a quarter through my mission, and this theme of trusting God and believing in His miracles has seemed to follow me the whole time. There have been times or days when I've wanted to give up, to not go out, to sit and study at my desk all day, staying away from all of the strangers and foreign city. All pretty normal things, but not what I'm here to do. 

We're here to bring the good news of the gospel, that we have a Savior and a Father who sent Him because He loves us. When I'm doing that, I see more of His miracles and have the pleasure of being an instrument in His hands. 

So, for everyone in the mission and without: Keep going. As some of you may know I gave my farewell all about enduring to the end, and it is still my favorite. Although I would probably have to say all of the principles of the gospel are equally important, I love thinking and teaching about enduring to the end the most. Without it, none of the first mean anything in a way. 

Remember that "Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come."

Id con Dios, 

- Elder Puzey

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Still super lucky to have this in my area


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