1/9/12

I´ve only three transfers left, and that´s about one areas´ worth, so I´ll be there the rest of the time. But that´s not until the 24th of January. And I don´t know where I´ll be going.

President Hinckley sent him here so I could work him out of it, and it seems like he´s finally coming out of it. It´ll take more time to be sure, but I´m optimistic at the moment.

We´ll have stake conference at a Spain-wide level in February (satellite broadcast from Salt Lake), so that´ll be exciting.

As Brandon expressed, I don´t know most of these relatives. I´m not sure that´s fixable. I´ll just start calling everyone uncle and aunt.

If I end up going back down to EA I´d like to go to the temple weekly. Especially with it being that close. Maybe a couple of sessions (not to mention I´ll take advantage of the Spanish session)

Hannah being a lazy old dog sounds about right. I´m sure she´ll probably thin up a little in the summer, but she´s probably entering the golden years of retirement and lounging on the couch all day.

The church´s media push this last year and with the increase they´ve got planned for this year will help Romney out a bit. President Monson´s been focusing a lot on visibility and openness, and that´s why we´ve been getting a lot of media attention.

I´d suggest watching the types of music that the munchkins listen to. I´m not going all 80´s anti MTV style, but look up the lyrics on the songs and make sure there´s not anything inappropriate in them.

So the conference was good. We were concerned that the general missionary would get scared off by placing the yearly goal we wanted (there was a large push for 1000 or more), so we set the quarterly goal of 150 plus for the moment, from here until the end of March. But things in Europe are changing a lot. In the highest baptising missions in the church ( the Utah missions) they only have 3000 a year, and Portugal´s on track for 1200 or more. Basically, things are different, and one of the things that will help is that the people start getting the news. Talk about that with the ward the next time you get a chance-European missionaries baptise regularly. We´ve pretty well managed to stop the new missionaries from getting that corruption by having them stay connected to the mission blog, but not every mission has a President Hinckley. The widespread goal is to baptise every week, not just every month. And we´ll be doing it.

Time went by fast today. I´m fine, my house is clean, and everythings okay. Quick summary.

Love,

Bradley.