3/6/12

I don´t think you need to feel bad about the package. We´ve been busy, and I haven´t felt as though I´ve been doing without. One thing I would appreciate would be a can of foot powder. Just one-I don´t think there´s enough time left to justify two of them.

So yeah, the dentist...we got there, went it (it was a fairly nice office), the dentist came in, we talked, she got out some tools, then she pulled down a mask with laughing gas...and then I woke up without a spleen.

Just kidding.

Hehehe...I´m sure this one will go over well. No, she looked at it and said that it´s not a cavity or a pinhole, but that it´s just a stain that´s there on the molar. It´s right where those two parts of molar form together (the little ridge) and she said it´s just a little bit stained, but that it´s nothing to worry about. I´ve been keeping an eye on it for a while and it hadn´t changed. The visit was just basically an appraisal, so it was free. She did manage to compliment me on my teeth about four times in the three minutes I was in the chair. ¨Very good teeth. Very nice¨.

It´s been a wild week. We´ve been running everywhere trying to keep things in the air. Then we got calls on Thursday night (they tried to send us a fax but none of the zone leaders got them) with transfer information. My companion was sent off to Bilbao, and I´m here with Elder Araujo, from Brazil. Although he speaks English at a native level-used to go to BYU.

So that always makes things weird between companions. We managed to make it until the end. I sent him off at the airport this morning just after my new companion arrived.

I didn´t have to fly in for this one, but I`ll be flying in on Saturday to retrieve my new residency card from Barcelona. Same day flights...that´s going to be a little busy.

We had some interesting testimonies this week as well.

Bob´s doing well. He didn´t come to church this Sunday, so when we met with him on Wednesday we asked what happened. He said that his wife had taken him out on Saturday, then pushed him into drinking, then they´d gone back and fought, and he almost decided to go back to Bolivia. But at some point during the fight he told her how he wanted to get baptised (that´s been his big issue-he´s been afraid of the reaction) and it kind of created a quiet moment. But she accepted his decision. He doesn´t have a set date at the moment because he´s not sure he wants to move too fast (but he needs to), but he´ll be baptised soon. So it wasn´t the best situation, but good things came out of it, so that works.

So I had an epiphany this week. I haven´t been putting too much thought into it, but I was reading in some paperwork trying to decide what I was going to do in life (after all, when people ask what you´re going to study you have to have something to say) and I decided that something fun and appropriate to do would be to work in investment banking, and do some work with the stock market. I think I´d have fun with that.

I´m glad to hear that things are going on normally, for the most part. I hope that they stay that way.

We´ve been cleaning up the apartment a lot this week. It´s one of those never ending projects. I´m not sure why we have so many dust bunnies in the place. Well, I do, but I just say I don´t. Drafty place...lots of little leaks. The church isn´t in the newest part of town, so the apartment complexes are all older. At least it´s a lot cleaner than it was when I got here, and my new companion´s been able to come in to a relatively clean piso. It´s still not my Gandia mansion, but you can´t win them all.

We´ll be out and about this week, making the smooth transfer over. Actually it´s likely to be anything but smooth, but we´ll see. When ever you have to take things over it´s usually crazy. We´ll hope for the best.

Read Alma chapter 50 this week.

Love,


Bradley.