4/9/12

I try to behave myself, I suppose. That probably helps. I´m a low-stress missionary.

I´m neither excited nor fearful. I´m simply moving along. My companion reminds me at least once a day how close that day is, but it´s okay.

I haven´t locked in the study plans just yet. I know I have to start thinking about that, but it doesn´t help that I don´t know what the exact major would even be yet. There´s time for that yet.

Yes, I finally sent out a blind e-mail to what I thought was Larry´s e-mail address last week and it was. He´s up at BYU Idaho. Says that I need to get home quick. :)

No, they don´t have Boy Scouts here in Spain. That´s pretty well only a US and England thing. They´ve been trying to get the Center for Young Adults open and working (that´s for the 18 to 30 year olds). There´s not much to do here in Europe that´s not corrupt (this is a pretty wicked land), so it´s a good way to keep them with their heads focused in the gospel. .

I know I was thinking that if I was working with the stock market, I´d have to be closer to New York to balance out the time difference a little more, so I might be moving to Minnesota. That´s not too far away, and there´s plenty of snow for the winter. And relatively low taxes, I believe. That´s important.

Sounds like you had a sick puppy there. Hopefully he stays better. It´s probably for the best if we don´t get any more dogs. You know, the neighbors might start to think that we´re running an animal shelter.

No, Bob´s not moving forward as he should. One of his biggest problems is that he´s not doing what he needs to for the Lord to work miracles in his life. If you´re not truly repenting, then getting baptised won´t serve for anything. He´s realized that there´s nothing more we can teach him-now it´s up to him to make a decision.

Well, life moves along. Everything´s closed today, so we weren´t able to do much (or even buy food). Another holiday...Spain´s been closed since Wednesday. The postal service hasn´t been open since Tuesday. Nor have any government offices. I´m not sure how anything gets done. I´m sure tomorrow will bring a nice wave of mess when things grind back to a start.

We´ll be looking for a new apartment this week. If all goes perfectly, we´ll be able to move out of the one were in by the end of this month. We´re all tired of living there. You clean and it´s still dirty looking. Plus the mold problems in the bathroom...yeah, we´re moving fast.

I hope you all have a good, smooth week.