3/7/11

Spring, huh? It´s been spring for me since January, I think. Though it´s a little cooler here.

 

The high councilman is older-like 50´s. Kids are already grown up.

 

I have no plans to move to Spain. The fact that you cannot buy a simple thing like yeast in the store is a key reason to not move. (or cookie dough ice cream). Not to mention the inflation. I did some figures the other day and realized that a gallon of milk here would cost roughly $4.50...might as well move to Alaska and mine for some gold.

 

Elder Keller is fine. Yeah, he´s from Utah, but he doesn´t act like it, for once.

 

So I got the packages this morning. Nice on depackaging the Maple Nut Goodies-don´t worry, they were fine.

 

Good to hear the youth are receiving abuse. I saw too many little turd heads in my last area. The youth here in Granollers seem a little more straight.

 

Those Smith sunglasses? I gave them to him since they don´t fit me anyway-and they´re not prescription.

 

As far as I know, no law had been passed saying that kids with permits couldn´t drive on the freeway. Granted, I´ve been gone for a bit, but it doesn´t seem like a very logical law. Just be glad he´s not here in spain. It´s about 1000 to get a drivers license. And it´s like a month of ´practices´

 

Larry´s home in September. And if you told him he was going home in August he might have a stroke. :) Missionaries get like that when they get close to going home.

 

So, the week went pretty good. Had another baptism on Saturday. I´m trying to send pictures, but the card slots on this pile of junk aren´t in working order... . Either way, his name´s Patrick, and he´s from Ghana. He´ll be out in the Vic branch. I did the dunking this time around. Poor guy-he doesn´t understand a ton of English, and while the other Ghanans told him to plug his nose, he didn´t. And while I kept his legs from coming up, he just went board stiff under the water. Then he started squirming, so I had to haul him up out of the water and put him on his feet. At least he didn´t drown too badly.

 

Talked with the Stake President yesterday, who said that within four weeks max they´ll have a spot for the new branch. Won´t be permanent, but I think at the end of this transfer (which happens to be in four weeks) President will reassign us to that area. That means we´ll have to find a new apartment. Thankfully, the members in that area said they´re super easy to find, and fairly cheap. Shirley (yes, I´m serious) said she looked at one that was a two story three bedroom loft for 500 a month....which we could swing by the office without too much of a hassle.

 

We´ll have to blackmail the AP´s into bringing down an office van to help us move...because we´ll be taking the clothes dryer to Vic. Oh yes, we have a dryer here...kinda. The missionaries in the past found it in the street, without the plastic panel on the door. So, like natural people, they brought it home, created a new window of aluminum foil, and we´ve been using it ever since. I´d forgotten what socks felt like when they´ve been properly dried.

 

That means we´ll have from the town Centelles up to, well, Puigcerda in theory but in actuality the French border. I guess President already said we weren´t allowed to dart across the border for any reason. . Catalan provinces Ripollet, Osona, and the one above it.

 

We keep hearing little tidbits about Crofts, since he´s talking with a lot of the members here. Jason Afton Crofts.

 

The stake center was mainly so expensive because of the location-in between two high-rises-and because it´s designed so that it could be converted into a temple with little difficulty. They usually have fairly interesting buildings here-the one in Hospitalet is four stories high. The top floor is an indoor soccer court...the heresy.

 

It was finished in September, but the Church barely got the occupancy permit in the beginning of January. Spain´s not too friendly with the church in that area-the Area Presidency keeps having to come down to talk with some of the local officials. Malaga´s been waiting a few months for one on a new building there too.

 

Well, today doesn´t have any crazy plans. I think I´ll mainly be relaxing and staying calm. Next week I´ll grab a better computer and send those pictures along. Have a good week.

 

Bradley.