Hola! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their nice warm showers. Ours is still broken. Which means we've been without hot water and heating for about three weeks now. Crazy I know. The repairman finally came this past Thursday. We thought it was only going to take about two days to fix. But when the guy came and looked at it, he said that it would take more like five. So we've been stuck in our piso every morning and afternoon while he works away at it all. He's put a few holes in our walls and had to take out some things so our piso looks all ghetto. One of the holes is from inside to the outside. So there's just this big, gaping hole letting lots of cold air in. At night we stuff a blanket in there to keep as much cold air out. But it's still so cold. It's around 11ºC in our piso at any given time. So we sit in one of the bedrooms and close the doors and keep the heater on all the time. And taking a bath is the worst because you have to get out and then walk through the freezing cold piso. But it's ok. I'm still alive and I don't have frost bite or anything.
Tomorrow I'll be able to have my first hot shower in three weeks! We have Zone Conference tomorrow in Bilbao and we're staying the night at another piso of the Elders so we can get there on time. I cannot wait for that hot shower. I've never looked forward to one more in my life. But we'll be all set soon enough in ours.
This past week has been the coldest I've felt here. It's been around 0ºC which isn't terribly cold. But its been way windy every single day. So the cold just bites through you and when you walk around in it, it's not too fun. I gotta say that I absolutely love my scarf right now. Never used one before my mission but it has become my best friend.
On Thursday, my companion and I were standing outside of the chapel talking about something when a man came up and said something in English! Usually that's pretty sweet but this was far from it. It was way creepy and just plain scary. But also funny now that I look back on it. Here in Spain it's typical for girls to give each other a kiss on each cheek when they greet each other and for guys to do it to girls. But guys never do it to other guys. But this guy came up to us and said something that I couldn't even understand and then he went in to kiss us!!!! Not just on the cheeks, but on the lips!! He went for my companion first but he just stuck his hand out and shook his hand instead. I thought the guy got the point and would just shake my hand. But then he went for me!!! I had to put my hand on his chest and actually push him away. It was soooo weird and creepy. We just said, umm we gotta go now. And then the guy went as far as to ask, yet again to me, for just one beso (kiss). And I just said no goodbye haha. It was soooo weird. But it definitely made for a really good journal entry. But that's the end of that crazy story. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.
The mission is still as amazing as ever. It's amazing at how many little things just make the mission memorable like running to catch buses, buying chuches (candy) at the stores, walking for 25 minutes trying to find a piso that doesn't exist haha. The mission is great. I've been trying to get better at taking pictures so that you can all see, hopefully, what it's like here in Spain. I absolutely love it here. I wish that I could take you all here and just show you around. But for now, pictures will have to do.
Thanks for the letters and support. I miss you all and I'll see you before you know it. Keep me updated on life back home!
