Hello once again! I honestly don't really know what to write, ha-ha. It's not that nothing has happened. I guess it's the fact that so much has been happening that I just can't really think of how to put it into words...The work is going so well and there is never a dull moment. Never. The people we meet on the streets, the families we teach, the ups and downs in the progression of investigators. Everything just contributes to amazing weeks out here.
This past week we had a little block of time and so we decided to go to a part of Badalona that we hadn't really been to before and to work around there. Well, it was a very Catalan area, ha-ha. Everyone had their Cataluña flags hanging out their windows and balconies, everyone was speaking Catalan, and it was funny when we talked with them because you could totally hear their accent when they spoke Spanish, ha-ha. It was a good experience because we got to work out there and find some new people to teach which will be exciting. At one point we started talking to a man who was sitting on a bench and we found out that he was a professor at a university and that he had even been out to BYU-Hawaii! Pretty crazy huh? In the end he wasn't interested but the best thing about that contact was that we spoke to him in Spanish and he only spoke to us in Catalan. And the biggest miracle was that we understood everything he told us! We've never studied the language or even spoken it! But we understood the whole 15 minute conversation. Now, Catalan is somewhat similar to Spanish in some words but also has its differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. And considering the fact that we don't even speak Spanish as our native language, I know that there's no way we could have understood that man without a little help from on high. It was a really neat experience to see the miracles the Lord performs in His work.
The work out here is progressing and we have some new families whom we're really excited to teach this coming week. Some of the other investigators that we had have stopped progressing as much so we're moving on to other ones and letting the previous ones take a break. Their time will come in the future though. We've been doing really well, working hard, loving the people and the members of the ward. This ward is truly such a great ward. I love the members here and the people in this area. I don't want to leave it. But that's why you just have to take advantage of what you have and make the most of it. The members have been treating us incredibly well too. Almost too well I think, ha-ha. They all want to feed us and we've been having an eating visit every day. I try to eat less at breakfast and dinner now since they feed us a ton during lunch, ha-ha. But at least I don't have to cook as much now and we get to eat wayyyyy nice :). Anyways ha-ha.
I love you all lots and hope that everything is great back home, at school and work, etc. I miss you all but before you know it I'll see you all again...too soon if you ask me...
