Elder Talon Johnson: 9 January 2013

Hello again!

So this week has started out to be pretty eventful, last Sunday we called a bunch of the people in our area book and ended up almost filling our entire week! That was pretty exciting!

So outside of that today we went and visited an old castle in Segovia, we took a tour of it, which ended up being pretty sweet. I´ll send pictures of that to you all. It was really sweet, I really enjoyed it. Also, There was an old cathedral there, as well as a Roman Aqueduct, and a early artillery school. I thoroughly enjoyed it all, though as a result I don´t have as much time to write. (Segovia is about 1 hour away in car and about 2 in public transportation). I´m sending a few right now, but I want to see if i can find a way to send all of them...

So we still don´t know when all the missionaries are going to get their visas. Personally, I am hoping that they all come in this week. I don´t know why, but I really want them to all come in. Of course Elder Winkelkotter doesn´t really want that to happen, because he has to find the housing for all of those missionaries. (good luck to him). That´s going to be a torturous week in the office!

So we set a baptismal date with a fifteen year old girl the other day, we have been teaching her mother lately, who comes to English classes every week. But her mom works Sunday mornings usually, so she can´t come to church that often, so we started focusing on her daughter, who now comes to church every week, and she almost always brings some of her friends with her too. We are going to have to try hard to help her to be able to reach her date, because it is in two weeks, and she takes baptism as something completely serious (which should be the case with more people) so she won´t get baptized if she feels nervous or doesn´t completely agree with the idea. Which is absolutely great to be honest!

So Lexi met Elder Forsythe at EFY, and I guess that they have still been somewhat in contact. So when she heard that I was coming to Spain she told him to look out for me, And it turns out that we got to be companions!

So I haven´t used the party stuff yet, maybe for the next birthday of someone in our piso or something like that.

So for Reyes, they ended up having a parade, and the little kids got presents from the Reyes (It´s kind of like Christmas for them, during the night the 3 Reyes Magos come and give gifts). We ate Roscón, which is kind of like a fruitcake I´ve heard, it was delicious, and each cake has a surprise inside( a small toy)

So to be perfectly honest, I don´t really know what else to say right now. I hope that you´re all enjoying the snow right now because we aren´t seeing any of it.

I hope everyone is still enjoying school. (as always)

Good luck with everything, and until next week!

Elder Johnson