11/1/10

You´ll have to send me detailed election results next week. Who won, where, the new balance of the Senate and the House, etc. I´m sure Glenn will have a nice chit chat about it the day after. Oh, and the Bama´s reaction.

So, I remembered some more stuff for the christmas/birthday list. One, the Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restauration movie. Second may prove to be pretty difficult. I need a copy of the Joseph Smith Translation. The Reorganized Church sells them (now they´re called the ¨Community of Christ¨ or some other name like that.) But, if it´s not too expensive,  the Church released an annotated full version in the 80´s (President said he doubted I´d be able to find it), done by someone named Miller (I think Robert Miller). But either way, just a copy of the standard will be fine, unless it´s crazy expensive. Probably getting it used will be easier.

So, I finally pushed him to taking the apartment on the Rambla, but the contracts have been taking forever. In theory, the address should be

Elder Bradley Seth Mattice
Rambla Nova 125, 3, 3
Tarragona 43001, Spain

but I´m not sure on that. Things are moving slower because it´s one of the Catholic´s ridiculous holidays today, and nearly everything´s closed. I was hoping we´d get the keys on Saturday, but no dice.

Tarragona is a little larger than Gandia. It´s not this smelly little crowded blob like Gandia was. It helps we´re in Catalunya, which means people have money (Jags and BMW´s everywhere). Overall, people are more friendly too.

They sort of celebrate Halloween, but they don´t really get it. If it doesn´t mean they get a day off, no one really puts any effort into it.

It hasn´t been very cold. I´m in short sleeves still, so it´s been fairly nice.

3035, well, happy fun time, eh?

We´ve got Zone Conference scheduled this week for Thursday. Elder Texiera is doing a mission tour, so he´ll be there for a visit.

You´ll have to tell Dad that we´ve got a reference for a guy named Carlos Beltran. He ought to get a laugh out of that.

Haven´t seen much history. Spainards, in attempting to ´preserve´ history, usually wipe it out. Haven´t been in Old Tarragona yet either, but it´s probably not too impressive.

Poor BooBoo. So abused...

Finally heard from Larry again. Says he´s loving being in Canadia...not. :) He´s doing fine, though.

Interview with President was pretty weird. All we did was talk for a few minutes about random stuff (buildings, if you can believe it) and it was done. I guess that means he´s not worried about me or anything.

Four more weeks until transfers...please come fast. I´m living with the modern day version of a Pharisee. So concerned with the letter of the law that he´s completely missed the point. Really thinks he deserves to be a Zone Leader somewhere, or AP. Hehe...not!

Well, there´s not much else to talk about. Have a good week.

Bradley.