26 Sept 2012

Dear familia,

 

So this week has been roughly the same as the last week, though now we know where we live and we know where the church is, and we also have key to both and the key to the office. But, basically we´ve just been contacting for the entire week, and we had a few appointments. But we did get to know some members at church, and there was also a talent show too. I´ll send a picture of it, but one of the other Elders ended up brushing Elder Forsythe´s teeth and got toothpaste all over his mouth. It was pretty funny.

 

So there are currently four other Elders in Alcobendas/San Sebastian de los Reyes, so we´re not alone here which is good. Also, the office is in our area, so it´s only a half an hour walk to the church and to our house. So it´s not too bad right now. We´re going to get a car when the missionary couple leaves, so that will also be pretty nice.

 

So we came to do internet right after playing basketball, so I forgot my card reader again, sorry.

 

So the anchovies weren´t too bad, but for some reason they put on a mountain of salt, so that was basically the bad part about those. And, no, they did not make me feel any better at all. So I got kidnapped because I thought that the member was taking me to the church, but he took me to the emergency room, even though we already knew that it was a lack of sugar that I had. So I didn´t really want to go, but he took me anyway. My mission president wasn´t too worried once they found out what it was that I had. We only talked with his wife, but she seemed pretty calm with everything.

 

So Elder Forsythe is from Texas, he knows a lot of the same people as president does for some reason, he really likes football, he entered the field at about 6.3 and 300 lbs, but now he is down to about 260. He does p90x almost every morning. He speaks Spanish pretty well, though he would like an accent from Andalusia ( they basically cut out all the "s"´s and replace them with a small "th"). He went to Snow College in Utah for a year before the mission, he wants to now go to BYU i think. He has a younger brother who is bigger than him. He is the oldest of 3 if I am not mistaken. He is half Hawaiian, for is father. And he is surprised that I am from Oklahoma and I don´t know how to drive a stick shift. ( almost all the cars in Europe are stick shifts, so I am going to have to learn if I plan on driving our car). But that is basically a brief overview about my companion. No I did not know him before, though I had heard a lot about him from the members in B3 and B9 because he was there for a long time in the start of his mission.

 

I´ll get those pictures for you and hopefully i´ll send them next week.

 

So I am the mission historian, with some mission secretary duties. So I am in charge of the references, the cars, sending letters to the families, the weekly newsletter of the mission, certificates for people leaving and new packets for people coming in, ordering supplies and plaques, and writing a report about everything that happened during the year, at the end of the year.

 

So, also, the president has been thinking about keeping Elders in the office and putting the new older couple out in the field or something, so, I could be here for the next six months or so.

 

Well, I think that´s about all that´s happened lately, my old companion misses me of course, and I feel like I don´t really know my new companion yet. We´re getting to know the area, and my English is getting worse, when i talk now, I have left out all the consonants at some points. So, we´ll see how that is when i get back.

 

Well, I think that´s about it for this week,

 

Until next week, and hopefully Rhett gets (his mission call) somewhere almost as good as Spain.

 

Elder Johnson