8/30/10

Well, they said the mail is pretty secure here. No telling, though. Spainards set the standard for mooching and being lazy...more on that later.

 

I´ve gotten the envelope with the talks, but no box yet. Maybe today.

 

Noo! No quads with the button! Too tiny! Blind!

 

Hehe, naah. I don´t like the quads. They´ll hold out for now.

 

The baptism did happen, thankfully. No support from his family, though. Parents are separated, dad´s a muslim (I don´t even think he knows), mom´s a non practicing (like all) Catholic. None of his family came to the service, but thankfully a good amount of the ward turned out. He still goes out with us everyday, though I think we wear him out sometimes. ;)

 

 

Right now we´ve got tentative dates for a baptism on the 11th and the 18th. Though, I think we might try to get the little 12 year old´s sister to agree to be baptised and combine all the services on the 18th.

 

I´m going to develop some pictures today and get them in the mail tomorrow. And, if all goes well, (which it should) we´ll have the typewriter fixed so I can make some legible letters to send out. Yes, it´s electric. We just need a cartridge, which shouldn´t be too hard to find today.

 

We´re pretty restricted on what we´re allowed to have as far as books go, sadly. They´ve cut it down more in recent years too. So on that front, I´ll have to say no.

 

So, more on the lazy spainards. ;), They just don´t do a whole lot. If someone in the US tried to run their business by opening at 10:30, closing at 2, opening back up at 5, and closing at 8, they´d be broke in a month. But that´s how they work here. A lot of times they only work from 10-2 and then close for the rest of the day. Then, August is ¨vacations¨ month, which means it´s entirely acceptable to close for the whole month. Hope you didn´t need anything! The immigrants are the ones who do all the work.

 

Then we get to hear how evil the US is because we don´t have free healthcare. Someone was saying yesterday ¨In America if you can´t afford to pay and get hurt, the doctors will just sit and laugh as you die on their floor.¨...yeah, I´m very serious. He honestly believes that. Then he said how much better free healthcare is, and how their doctors are better(Which is bunk. I´ve seen their hospital waiting room. Talk about nightmare.)...but Obama is great because ¨he really cares for people.¨ So we just have to smile and try to push on. There´s actually a large amount of Obama lovers here. But I keep my mouth shut. It´s still hard sometimes...If they demand an answer I just say ¨I don´t really like him very much¨and move on. 

 

The oddest thing is when they bash us for building houses out of wood. That one I can´t figure out. Yeah, it´s wood, but it´s more than triple the size of your average little apartment here, so what´s it matter?

 

Well, I did say the ceiling looked odd. Not quite that odd, but still.

 

We travel a lot. The weekly trips into Valencia aren´t too bad, but this week I head to Alcoy for Tuesday/Wednesday, then next week I´ll have to head up to Barcelona to the Mission Office, then from Barcelona to Madrid to pick up my ¨This is a non citizen¨ card, then back to Barcelona, and back here again. That´ll probably take a few days, but it´s still a lot. Then today I have to go deal with registering with the government where I live, because they like to keep track of where everyone is at all times. If Obama ever suggests something similar, fight it with all you have.
 

So, we just found out that Bishop Richard C. Edgley is coming to Barcelona to speak to the stake there, but only the Barcelona and Hospitalet zones are invited. But I guess it´d cost a little too much to send all the missionaries up there. 

 

Hannah´s always been a poopoo head, right? She´ll calm down eventually. Maybe.

 

Hope everything else is well. 

 

Bradley.


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I don´t know if anyone has ever definitively said what type of war it was. There was a story going around about someone who had a large birthmark on their back. Allegedly, their patriarchal blessing said ¨it was a spear wound from the war in heaven¨, but I´ve never heard a confirmation one way or the other.

 

Don´t forget that the accounts in Moses and Abraham are more detailed and less obscured than the accounts in the Bible.