8/29/11

No, I haven´t been sick on the mission. The occasion sore throat or slight head cold, but it´s usually gone pretty quick.

 

I´m sure the pants will be fine. The one pair has been holding up fine, but I´ll probably throw this third pair into the rotation to help them all last longer with less wear.

 

No, it usually takes 10 days for packages. The mail service here is the type that if they had too much mail for one truck, they´d just leave the rest of the mail for the next day´s truck. Still, it´ll probably get here before the new phones the office has been promising. That´s about all I can say about the office...

 

Yes, it´s a lot of administrative work. I¨m in charge of the missionaries in Alcoy, Benidorm, and the area for the Valencia 2nd ward. Só that involves calls at least twice a week, getting their numbers for the week on Sunday, doing companion exchanges with the Elders in Alcoy, teaching a 90min district meeting on Tuesday, doing baptismal interviews, etc.

 

So, Tuesday we had district meeting, then Elder Martherus and I went together for an exchange. We had to travel to Benidorm so I could interview the baptism they had there. I suppose for the first time it had to be special-it was in a public park. Then, as I´m talking and listening, I see the sisters walk off, then come back and bring this random guy to Elder Martherus, then I see him giving the guy a blessing in the park...I was like...hookay...I guess if they need me they can come get me. Said he was just someone that was having a rough time.

 

Then we headed back to the bus station. Got there at 7.00. Waited until 9.30 for the next bus to Gandia. It was supposed to get us there around 10:45. But then, as we´re getting close, the driver realized he´d forgotten to make a stop, flips around, and we backtrack for 35 mins. Got home around 11:20. That was a long day..

 

The whole exchange was just full of crazy things. Thursday we changed back, and charged straight into the weekend.

 

Friday we had a good activity. They cleaned out the church, then had a movie and a barbecue. They always start late, though, so we had time to eat and then run home.

 

No, we never bought a can opener. Too lazy. That´d require effort. We just don´t buy canned goods.

 

I did make some spaghetti the other day. Came out okay. I pulled out the ´Official Spain Barcelona Mission Cook Book¨... and it didn´t even have a simple recipe for spaghetti sauce. I tossed it aside in disgust and made my own sauce. It´s not a very useful cookbook.

 

Things are still calm here in Gandia. This next week we´ll be buying some better cleaning supplies for the piso. The mop heads are shot, and a standard broom really doesn´t work on a wood floor, so we´ll be getting a dust mop.

 

The floor isn´t layed down right, either. They just layed it, then pushed it to the center, put down the baseboards, then tried to caulk the floor to the baseboards rather than put the spacers in between the wood and the wall. The caulking probably worked for five minutes before it broke, so now the pieces just slide back and forth in the hall as you walk. Silly Spain.

 

I hope you all have a good week.

 

Bradley.