3/28/12

There´s usually a similar set of problems with most missionary pisos. 1. The missionaries are lazy and haven´t done basic cleaning or maintence. 2. The missionaries who found the piso are lazy or utterly inexperienced in real estate, and settle for the first one that fit the price and number of bedroom requirements. And 3. Spanish construction.

All three of those items combined add up to form a bad problem.

That´s how it was in the Palma piso. The classic bad Spanish tile (which looks dirty no matter what you do). Old windows that leak. An old bathroom (which had mold all over the ceiling (partially for lack of any type of vent fan). A bad electrical system which can´t run more than anything one item at once. Etc. But it´s much better. Most of it can be solved by common sense. For example, if you leave the bathroom window open, and leave the door ajar with the other window open, all the steam goes out and you won´t have problems in the future. And it´s mainly just a matter of buying the right cleaning supplies, and then actually doing the cleaning.

I´ve probably said it before, but I do thank my parents for having taught me some good common sense.

So Jose Luis was baptised this weekend. Attached are the pictures of him, Maria Luisa, his member friend that presented him the church, and the member who baptised him (who really is that pale. He looks somewhat like Mr. Edward is what most missionaries say).

The other pictures are just some shots of Palma I took from the bus.

So it was a busy week last week. We were traveling everywhere. On Tuesday we had meetings in Inca with the Mallorca missionaries, where we finally met with the McArthurs. They´re a nice couple. Then I was out in Manacor on exchanges for Wednesday evening and Thursday. We´ve still got some things to work out there.

The weekend was mostly calm. Monday, we flew into Barcelona again. No problems on the flight. Flew back on Tuesday. A lot of meetings, lots of talking. We´re going to avoid any excessive travel this week as we prepare for Conference. It should be a calm week. Then I´m sure we´ll be back at the race the week following conference. Tomorrow in particular will be interesting, however. It´s another general strike, which is where all the ´hard workers´ get together to protest how ´hard´ they work. But they do it organizedly because they know it´s not effective. So there´s usually a lot of advertising in advance. Like President said, the worst it´s come to was a few mattresses in the Ronda de Dalt in 2010 in Barcelona that stopped traffic for a bit.

Hopefully you all have a good week. It sounds like you´re all busy, but I´m sure you´ll be fine.

Love,

Bradley.