Well..., i was never a BK fan either, until i got to Spain. (January 20, 2014)

Torremolinos Beach in Winter (File Pic)

The time in the mission home was good. We had a couple meetings and hung out with everyone. Elder Vosters isn´t a district leader anymore so I didn´t get to see him. His area belongs to the same stake as mine so he might be at our stake conference in a couple weeks, but I´m not sure. But I saw Elder Buckway and he told me that this guy that we found and taught right before I left had a dream that he was in heaven and talked with Joseph Smith a few days after we taught him, so that was pretty cool to hear. 

This week was pretty tiring, but we ended it with our hopes high. We spent a lot of time out on the street. We´d go down a main street knocking all the doors and talking to anyone that passed us walking. We got a bunch of people that told us we could come back another time, but we went by them again and they didn´t want anything from us. So basically it was all in vain. Then late one night after walking all day we went to try an inactive member that we didn´t know. She let us in and her grand-daughter was there. Her grand-daughter just turned 8 and has been to church quite a bit with her active cousins. She told us she wanted to get baptized, so we just said ok, February 8th. Her mom is young and told us she didn´t care if her daughter wanted to get baptized, but we´re gonna try and focus on the mom and get her interested.

Torremolinos in Summer (File Pics of sites C would never photograph!)

Then the other night we had nothing to do so we went by this philipino we talked to on the street. They let us in and it turned out she was having a big party with food and other philipinos. they insisted that we sit down and eat with them. it was pretty awkward for a while, but then randomly this inactive member (whos also philipino) came in and we started talking to him a lot. He and his wife left the church like 20 years ago, but he told us he wants to come back, and he has two kids that are 11 and 17 that he wants us to start teaching. He also is the President of the Philipino association of Torremolinos, and he said there are like 120 members, so we´re hoping that we can baptize all of them and start a philipino stake here in Torremolinos.

O yeah, Elder England wants some of Jake and Riley´s socks if you have another pair.

Hmm, what else. Last night we went and ate at a members house. They have a daughter serving in Santa Rosa, California, which I guess is the first mission in the world to get all the tech updates. EVERY missionary has an iPad mini. EVERY companionship has an iPhone. They can use facebook to find and teach investigators. They ALL have cars...I´m so jealous.

Town Center in Torremolinos (File Pic)

I don´t really know much touristy things. A lot of them have to do with water so we can´t do them. Today a bunch of missionaries are going to a castle in malaga but we are out of money right now so we´re just gonna stay in torremolinos. we might go look at some clothing stores around here. Ronda is only about an hour away in car, so I might ask the Elders serving in Fuengirola (they have a car) to take us one day when the weather gets better. A lot of missionaries have said that its the best part of the mission, and its in my zone right now.

We´re starting a weekly noche de hogar with all the families in torremolinos this week. and then we´re gonna have a weekly noche de hogar in another pueblo where all the strong members of our ward live (Churriana) another night of the week. Hopefully we can get some new people to teach that way. 

That´s it for this week I think. We´re excited for this coming week. 

Love ya all

Calvin

[Snippet from a separate note to Dad] Well dad, i was never a BK fan either, until i got to spain. its waaay more expensive, but waaaaaay better. like the best fast food i´ve ever had. way better and more popular than mcdonalds here. Mcdonalds is better here too though. And there are actually at least 5 burger kings in torremolinos.