29 August 2012

Hello,

So this week has been the second to last week of vacations, so then the streets will one again be filled with the people of Madrid and then the work here and the baptisms will start to pick up a little bit more.

So I bought a camera this morning, so this next week i´ll start to send some more pictures. The camera seems pretty good, its a Nikon, it cost 99 euros, so in dollars it´s about 130-ish. However, the salesman said that the camera actually costs about 130 euros, which would be about 160-ish dollars. So it´s not too bad. it seems like a pretty good camera. It takes some rather good pictures, when it wants. But i´ll get better with it in a few weeks or so.

So we don´t have labor day, but what we do have is every single catholic celebration or day as a holiday, as well as a few more that Madrid wants to have. To be honest i don´t know why they have most of them, but they do have a lot, i don´t know when they all are, but they are somewhat frequent too.

So if i said that there were going to be changes in three weeks, i am afraid that i don´t remember what they would be, the next transfers will be in 5 weeks though. But i have forgotten if there will be any before then.

So, i don´t think that we have much else to say about this week. Were adjusting little by little to how the other teaches and how we can work better together. However, unfortunately there haven´t been a whole lot of things that were out of the normal or especially exciting this past week. This is probably the last transfer that i have here in Barrio 3, because the new president doesn´t like to have missionaries in an area for more than 6 months and i will have been here for 7 and a half. Soo, i can assume that this is my last 6 weeks in this area. But we´ll see what happens.

So in this next week and a half we should be setting up some baptismal dates. We have some good investigators that have been a little bit busy lately, but soon their schedules should be opening up.

So i am also teaching my companion a little bit of English because he would like to know it better. He also knows Catalan, which is a dialect of Spanish only spoken in the Barcelona area. And from what i have heard, he is pretty talented with the guitar. And the songs he knows on the piano are pretty good too. He also likes to draw and he is pretty funny too. Hopefully with his help, and the help of Elder Rodriguez (who lives with us) I will be able to get rid of this American accent that i have. It´s rather annoying to have too because i have to worry about if the people understood me after every single phrase that i say.

Well, i think that´s about all that i have to say right now, until next week, sorry, unfortunately i don't have as many stories to tell, so it´s a letter a little bit shorter, hopefully next week.

love,

Elder Johnson