Pues como los otros cartas qiuero empezar en Español. Este semana como el pasado nada significa paso. La investigadora Mirian está progresando como antes y ella es buena!
Sorry I can´t think of much else to write in Spanish. My mind is really blank today! Well like I said Mirian is progressing and she is freaking awesome. The members we are friendshipping her with wanted to go to the temple Saturday so we asked the ZL´s if we could and they said why not! So we took her to the temple and gave her a tour, told her a little about what we do in there and that she will be able to go through one year from December 7th. We taught her tithing and fasting and she accepted it like usual! So now we only have the Law of Chastity left and we'll see how that goes!
Ok update on this week then I'll answer your questions Mama. We had a baptism this Friday. Two teenager girls that the Hermanas met at the begining of the transfer met were baptized and they absolutely love everything about the church. We had a little bit of drama with the ward this week. That night the ward mission leader told us that we don't have to hustle all of our investagators to get baptized and that made all of us as missionaries a little mad because the work is progressing and the ward is just having a hard time finding places for all of the new members. In the past two weeks there are 5 new members with 4 investagators with a solid fecha for the next few weeks. I'm crossing my fingers that they'll start the build the capilla they said they would in the near future.
Ok and I had the opportunity to have intercambios with Elder Smith, our District Leader, this Wednesday. He's a super good missionary. He goes home in April, knows the language better than most Spaniards, and he's Canadian! He's from Vancouver and was happy to hear that my brother almost wishes he was Canadian instead of American. Anyways he's a super kid and we were able to meet with a lot more people than we thought when we were working together.
Well I have officially been in the field for a full transfer. The time out in the field moves ten times faster than in the CCM and I am super grateful for that. However with the end of the transfer we're losing some elders and a hermana. Hermana Blodgett is heading home to San Fransico tomorrow and Elder Good and Elder Nielsen are switching areas. Elder Good is going further into Madrid and Elder Nielsen is headed to Las Palmas in the Gran Canaries so he's lucky enough to miss winter! That's everything that's happened this week and with the other Elders leaving we'll probably pick up a few of their investagators... Hopefully!
Here ya go Mama. So as for Holidays in Spain. I'm not sure because people are always talking about festivals which I'm pretty sure are holidays and as far as I know I think that it's only Christmas. However our Ward Mission Leader is taking us out to "Brunch" this Saturday for "Thanksgiving" so I'm super excited to try some churros and chocolate.
So my five favorite things about Spain. This is very teenager of me but the first thing is KEBAB. It's absolutely fattening and delicious. The next would be the ARCHITECTURE (if that isn't spelled right I'd love some help). Some of the old buildings in Sol are way cool and challenge my Art History memory! Third thing is the TRAIN, a.k.a. Renfe. The Renfe just makes me feel like I'm really in Europe and every time we ride one is kind of a treat for me. The fourth is FÚTBOL. I love how absolutely everybody here has a team and is absolutely crazy about them! Oh and by the way, I´m allowed to go to a game so Dad you should look up when Madrid either plays Manchester United or Barcelona or any game you feel would be as awesome, for the coming year. I need to go before Pres. Jackson leaves because who knows if the next President will allow that. Haha and last but defitnitely not least are the LATINOS here. The reason the church is growing in Europe is because of immigrants.
Next week I´ll do my District and Zone because I´m running out of time! I love all of you and I´m not going to say do things better because we´re all members, and the only "advice" I'm going to give is have a blast in Panama! I'm jealous of Andrew that he's coming home but at the same time I don't want to leave this place either!
Love,
Elder Hawks
P.s. The season of giving is almost here! All letters and packages boost missionary moral and make the recieving of Spanish Gifts more plausible!
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