Mama,
Well week one was definitely a success! So like I said last Monday we met our new companions on Tuesday. But first we went to the President´s house and he gave us some general rules and fed us and fun stuff like that. I´m really excited because they are an awesome couple and they care more about doing the work and about why we are out here. They want us to be able to work as hard as we possibly can for the next 23 months! Fun fact, Pres. Jackson, he plays the acordian. Haha pretty awesome. OH and he earned even more points from me. He suggested to us that we should all try to go to a REAL MADRID game. He said it´s a once in a life time experience and that as long as we don´t use mission funds or go on a Sunday he says it´s fine to go to one... So I´m pretty excited.
Ok so my companion´s name is Elder Fausett. Short bio, he´s from St. George, went to Snow Canyon, we played them during preseason sophmore year, he´s only been out six months and the other elder in our district who´s also a trainer has only been out 12 weeks. So... I could very well be a trainer after these next two transfers. Ok and Villalba is a pretty little european town. Exactly as you´d imagine. Our area´s really big so we´ve had to take the bus and train to a lot of our appointments. Villalba´s a little dirty but Spain in general literally smells bad.
We don´t have many investigators so this week we spent a lot of time tracting and looking for new investigators. We´ve found a few that we´re really excited about. Funnily enough all of the receptive people here are from South America and when we tract we hardly talk to Spaniards because all they do is wave their finger at us and say stuff like I´m in a hurry or I´m not interested or... f word you. That one´s my least favorite.
The ward here is freaking awesome. They are all pretty active and all of them are really willing and excited to come to lessons with us. They all have super strong testimonies and best of all. A lot of them can speak English almost fluently.
I thought I knew Spanish decently well when I left the CCM. However Elder Fausett has shown me that I definitely do not know Spanish. Luckily I can understand a lot of what people are saying and he said that I´m further than he was when he got here and so hopefully by around December I´ll be able to share what I want and understand what people are saying to me. So everyday I try a little bit harder and I learn a little bit more. I know that there would be no way I´d be able to learn Spanish without the help of the Lord. Because I´m dreadful at it but every now and then I aquire the gift of tounges and can clearly express myself. Unfortunately that doesn´t happen as often as I´d like it to.
Thank you for everything everybody and thank you for supporting me out here. Two years seems like a long time but everyone that I´ve talked to that´s going home has said how jeaoulous of me they are soooo I´m excited! I love letters by the way. And I have my address for letters aka my piso.
Calle Batalla de Bailén
#5, 3º7 28400
Collado-Villalba, Spain
Love,
Elder Stephen Hawks
(I feel like I´m forgetting my first name...)
Ps. There is stuff I´d like but I don´t need anything besides perhaps letters from Michael, Cline, the fam in general and anyone else that you think should write me! Letters really help brighten up the day!
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