2/21/11

Okay, so I´s getting transferred out of the big Tarragona.

I`m headed more up north. (I was right again!) Granollers, a pueblo of Barcelona. It´s supposed to be slightly smaller than my first area, I believe. I´ll be leaving tomorrow around noon, and I should be there within a few hours of leaving. I´ll be in the secondary companionship, which means I also end up working for a few days a week in Vic, a nearby city with a lone branch out there. Travel there in the morning, travel back at night type thing. After two transfers of hardly riding the train...back to trains. Though I doubt I´ll be riding the bus as much as we do here in Tarragona.

It´s supposed to be colder up there, though. But at least this time I should be able to stay in the area for four transfers, so I´ll be there for the summer. Not so hot.

Packing´s going...I still hate doing it. But I´m doing some tweaks, and I´m also shedding some more stuff here from the MTC that I don´t need/use anymore. So that should make up for the stuff I´ve added.

So, things went through, and we had a baptism yesterday. Her name is Susana, and she´s the one who was baptised 20 years ago but never confirmed. Thankfully she came to church on Sunday this time.

It was a busy week. Traveled into Barcelona on Friday for interviews, then came back at 5 for the baptism at 6:30. We´d had to ask a member to fill the font up earlier since it usually takes about two and a half hours. However, not thinking, the member filled it around 1...so the water was nice and frozen by the time we had the baptism. That had been the one thing she´d made clear-that she didn´t like cold water. Thankfully, she was a good sport about it and got in.

I´m planning on writing more tomorrow, primarily with the address to the new apartment. Hopefully things ride nice and smoothly tomorrow, as transfers can be messy. Thankfully, Elder Keller is meeting me in Barn-Sants to help get the luggage to Granollers. 3 bags+1person=no happy. But that means I´ll be alone for about an hour on the train in...probably be a little weird to do that.

I think I´m going to go look for some bungie cords or straps today, since I might need to roll the luggage together. All those stupid buckles snapped a long time ago.

Gas is expensive because of all the riots and strikes in the upper part of Africa, I believe. It´s messing up the price of crude pretty badly, from what I´ve heard. Of course, all those areas might be opened up to the church pretty soon, so that might be a good side effect.

Okay, rest tomorrow.

Bradley.