Sorry I couldn´t find my cord so no pictures. I´ll try and buy one today. We got into Malaga Thursday morning and some people got their companions and were sent to the closer missions. 12 of us stayed the night at the mission home. That night we went out to a peublo way up over the city of Malaga and it was so clear and early in the evening that you could see Africa in the distance! I have pictures I´ll try and upload them next week. Wednesday we went out on splits with the missionaries who were ending their missions and going home the next day. The Elder I was with was from Madrid and we went to a lesson at a recent convert families house. I didn´t say much except that I like that families can be forever...then we met up with other missionaries at the train station and we ate Taco Bell (sooo good here) and then we just sat down and watched soccer for like 2 hours. It was weird. All of us new elders were really confused and were wondering if this was what missionary work was...but I think it was just their last days together so they wanted to sit and talk. Understandable. Then all the new missionaries went to the Castillo´s piso and sat around for 5 hours until our trainers arrived from the north. At about 10:30 at night we started the meeting and got out new companions. I like Elder Vosters a lot we get along well. Dad seemed to have everything about him right. He´s a good missionary and works hard.
He´s been super positive but I get the vibe from him that he really doesn´t like Crevillente. It is really hard here, but he has found a lot of people. The pueblo is small and pretty run down. It´s not very pretty or cool at all. Our apartment is nice we each have our own bathroom and shower. My first full day was ridiculous. We had I think 9 lessons planned with investigators and no one let us in. We tried talking to people on the street for like 3 hours and everyone rejected us. I couldn´t believe it and I thought to myself that this was gonna be a long mission. But then the next day we planned for the next week and we actually have several investigators with baptismal dates, just not in the town of crevillente. There are other Pueblos like 10 minutes away that are doing well and they are cooler to be in too.
Sunday we had ward council and I didn´t understand much. The Branch President is a really cool guy. He´s young like 35ish and is an RM and from Ecuador. The chapel is small and we had about 61 people at sacrament. We had two investigators who are both teenage girls. I´m not sure how close they are to baptism I haven´t taught with them yet. I introduced myself at sacrament and bore a quick testimony. I was pretty nervous but it went well. After church we always have lunch at the Branch President´s piso. We ate soup with meatballs and vegetables it was really really good. After that we took the bus to Redovan to meet with other investigators. One of them is Carmen. She´s an older woman who has been taking the lessons a lot and knows she needs to be baptized but she can´t stop smoking. She seems really poor and life has been hard on her. She has no faith that she can quit so I think she just gives up on being baptized, but she has a good relationship with the missionaries so we always come and teach her. It´s tough. Elder Vosters had to call our district to get the weekly numbers so I spoke with Carmen alone for a while. She could somehow understand me but I shared with her Alma 34:32 I think?? The one about how this life is the time for us to prepare to meet God. And I said that we are like rocks and our trials slowly chip away and we are perfect. And we should work hard so that when we come back to God we can show him how much we´ve grown with the time he gave us. And then I tried to tell her that although life is hard, when we look at what we will recieve in the next life, our problems on earth will seem like nothing. Like it was only a stubbed toe or something...I´m not sure if she understood that.
Then we talked with a less active woman for a while and again I spoke with her alone for a while. I´m getting really good at pretending like I understand things.
Then we went to a member´s house and she told us she had been teaching her friends and coworkers by herself for a while (which made us mad because she didn´t trust us) but now she says they are ready for the missionaries so we can get like 5 new families from her which we are really excited about.
Malaga is really cool I hope I can serve there at some point. It´s big and colorful and pretty much just like the pictures.
Yeah I got the package and it was really lucky because we left for crevillente and i still didnt have it, but we coudlnt fit all our bags on the bus so the AP´s had to bring it up the next day. and the package arrived before they left so they brought it up to me from Malaga along with a letter from grandpa wiley. also, send packages to the mission home, its easier to get through customs that way. letters you can send to my piso. and im not actually sure what the address is you can prob call the mission office.
they just put 140 euros in my account each month automatically. (This was an answer to his mom’s question about how he gets his money every month)
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