Thursday is my new favorite day! I'm excited today to go down town and see the city. We were told there will be churros con chocolate where we are going, so super pumped for that! To answer a few questions; we get to do the street contacting in the park every Saturday, and it is a whole new experience every time. I don´t really know how to describe the food here because there is a wide variety, but I do enjoy it a lot.
So I´d like to talk a little bit about all of my friends in my room. There are two elders coming to Barcelona with me. Their names are Elder Kimbal and Elder Keen. Elder Keen is from London, and yes, he has the coolest accent. He says stuff like trousers, corridor, and zebra crossing. It makes me happy. Elder Kimbal is possibly the funniest person ever! He is so good and making the whole room laugh harder than we ever have before. The others are Elder Bean, Elder Smurthwaite, and my companion, Elder Reading. We are all such good friends now and have a great time every night.
I just started noticing that I am no longer jet lagged. The days seem to be getting much shorter now, and that makes it a lot easier. We work all the time though. We are in a class room for about 8 hours every day learning grammar, doctrine, how to teach, and other language stuff. We teach fake investigators Monday through Wednesday, and its all in Spanish. Pretty hard. It´s hard to believe I have already been out for almost 3 weeks, and we are pretty much considered veterans in the CCM now.
My language skills have improved so much since I arrived. I can now pray and testify in Spanish, and I am getting to the point where it is getting easier to teach lessons in Spanish. I can understand most, if not all of what people are saying, and most of the time I can respond and communicate what I am trying to communicate in Spanish. Funny story, Elder Smurthwaite was teaching a lesson on how Christ suffered for our sins. The word for sins is pecados, which is really close to the word for fish which is pescados. So needless to say, he ended up telling his investigator that Christ suffered and died for our fishes.
We get to go to the temple every Thursday morning, and that is the coolest thing. I look forward to our temple trips because they are always such spiritual experiences for me!
So me and my companion had two investigators, and turns out we got both of them to commit to baptism in 2 weeks. Pretty proud of that even though they aren't real investigators. Although having to teach every day is really hard, it is really helpful in teaching me both Spanish and doctrine. There is something about teaching that teaches the teacher more than the student.
My last experience at the park was interesting. The elder I was paired with and I hardly ran into anyone. It was funny because we would be walking down a pathway, and we would see others walking toward us. When they saw us they would almost always turn down another pathway or try to avoid us some how. One lady we tried talking to was sitting on a bench asked us a question that i thought i understood, so a answered with a yes. I later came to realize that she may have asked us if we were Jehovah's Witnesses. Oooops. But my companion and I planted a BOM in a public read and return book shelf with our testimonies written in it. Hopefully that will touch someones life. aside from that however, we didn't have much success. Several attempts, but we were shut down every time. Next time though, I´m going to try to be more persistent.
That's all I really have time for today, so I hope it was enough. I only get 30 to read and write each Thursday, so I am doing my best. I love you guys and love to hear from you. I am still so happy, and can´t believe I am already on a mission. I look forward to hearing about how things are going next week.
Love you tons!!
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