Hello!
So this week has started to get pretty crazy, and we don´t even have a ton
of missionaries in yet. So one of the pisos outside of Madrid has an
infestation of cockroaches, and it´s pretty old anyway. So we have been trying
to get a good piso for them. We found one that was really good, but it turns out
that the lady works for a company that is overly tight about everything, so in
the end, they won´t accept our money. Anyway, we finally found another piso that
would work, and we were going to be trying to sign the contract today, but it
turns out that the bank is being rather ridiculous, so we´ll see about how
things will play out. So we´ve been running around all morning today to try to
get that worked out.
We were supposed to go to the temple today with the rest of the
missionaries in Madrid, but that didn´t work out either.
So we also have to find a new piso for some Hermanas that are going to be
coming in (we have 6 sisters and 2 elders coming in this next week. (transfers
got changed to next Monday, Surprise!!) So we´ve also been trying to find a good
place for them to live. Hopefully we´ll find a place before too long, because it
wouldn´t really be good if they had to live in the street.
So this Friday is my Birthday (that´s weird). In Spain they don´t do
anything special that I know of, I know that in Colombia that they do the same
thing as they do in Honduras though. I haven´t gotten the package yet, but it
should be coming any day now.
I am plenty warm, I am actually a little too warm at night usually, and the
jacket that we bought before the mission is really good, so with the jacket I
almost don´t even feel the cold.
Well, the mission isn´t really decided
yet about what we´re going to do with all the new missionaries. For right now
the incoming missionary rate is about normal, and it´ll stay that way until the
May transfer, and then we´ll receive about 30 (about triple the normal) so with
all the greenies from before, we're basically just planning on having a ton of
people training. Actually, with this transfer, we´ll have about half of the
Hermanas training! We also have about 15 people waiting for their visas, so we
could expect them any day, and we actually probably won´t know about them until
the day before or so. But as for right now they are waiting for their visas in
other missions in the States.
So this morning I was also looking up the mission year history that I´m
going to have to do, and I saw that nothing has been inserted in there since I
came in (what fun!) So these next few weeks are going to be pretty crazy, since
I also need to send out about 40 packets and letters. (yay for the
office!!)
As of right now we have about 80 or 90 missionaries, and with all those
coming in we might have around 200!
We have about 16 Sisters and 65 Elders right now. (roughly
estimated).
The most common thing that I eat now is probably sandwiches in the
office. And outside of that it would have to be hot dogs. (pretty boring)
There are four of us Elders in the office (the financial secretary, the
secretary, and the executive secretary, and then the Historian) and the AP´s are
also in here on Mondays.
We see President Mondays, and then maybe once or twice more during the
week.
I feel like the testimony that I have most received would have to be in the
recognizing that there is a blessing that we can receive for obeying every one
of the commandments, rules, guidelines, etc.
I think that I miss not being able to enjoy all the gag gifts that everyone
gives to each other (giving presents to each other).
Well, time to go back to the bank, so until next week.
(and Christmas day has been made our p.day, so I´ll skype you sometime when
you´ll be awake.
Elder Talon Johnson
* (Sent in a second quick email) - Something that I forgot to mention: Last
Saturday we went to visit an investigator that we have. His only problem is that
he is still a bit Catholic and that he is hesitant to seperate himself from his
girfriend. But, last Saturday we went to his apartment, and he said that he wants
to get baptized this Saturday! We can´t make it work out for this Saturday, but
him and his girfriend are going ot get baptized on the 22nd!!
Miracles are posible, even in Spain.
Hasta Luego,
Elder Johnson
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