Hello family!
Oh, I see. The date is not to remind me how close I am to
going home, just to remind me that I´ve been out so long that you´re run out of
ideas. ;) But don´t misunderstand, of course I´m excited to see you all again,
it´ll just be hard to leave behind my other family that I have here.
You went to a Peruvian restaurant? What did you have? Do you
remember the names of the dishes? Peruvian is by far the best South American
food I´ve had here. :) Yum. . .
Speaking of food. . . today´s P-day adventure was a visit to
the oldest restaurant in the world! Not just in Spain, in the world. It has a Guinness World record certificate and everything. It´s called El Botín, if you´d
like to look it up. It was AMAZING. It was totally worth the 40 euros for lunch
:P. I had (Mom will like this) artichoke hearts with jamón serrano (incredible!)
and the house specialty, roast suckling pig. So good! It was really cool, too.
It´s been in function for almost 300 years, since 1725. Can you imagine? It was
way cool. It was also something that Kinghorn and I had decided to do way back
when we together. So he came and finally got to do it. Galeano was there too,
so it was way fun to get together with some old friends again.
Things have been looking up work-wise as well. We have found
some new people and we are trying to work with the members a lot more and get
more excitement going on. We have our activity planned for the 21st. We are
going to re-enact Lehi´s dream of the tree of life. We are going to create an
iron rod of string and have people try to follow it to the tree of life while
others try to lead them away. We also talked about a kind of block party in the
neighborhood of one member. It was her idea and as we talked she got all
excited about it, and it sounds like it would be a great way to get to know
people and to have fun, so I´m hoping we can pull it off.
One quick story and then I have to go. We met a new couple
who had been taught once before and had a really great lesson. they committed to
come to church on Sunday but didn't come, but the wife especially was really
touched. She described feeling the spirit very strong. She said that before we
came and shared she had felt some sort of anger or frustration, but all of that
was taken away. Their names are Paula and Iván. Please pray for them. And keep
praying for Edgar. He said he wants to get married and get baptized so we are
really excited for him.
All in all things are going really well and I feel better. I
feel like I´m focusing on the important things again too. The other day I
washed a member´s dishes after they fed us and it felt really good to just
serve someone and show love out of no interest of my own. I think the ward needs
more of that.
Thanks for keeping me updated. (you made me laugh with the
comment about your class. Are some of them not so smart?) I for one can´t wait
to come back and hike with you! As for taping the Spain games the answer is
YES! Please do, it´s killing me that I won´t be able to watch it. (an hermana
who lives here in Spain said that she almost didn´t come on the mission because
she would miss the world cup). Also, Spain will win. Have faith. Remember the
champion´s league. . .
I love you guys so much! Be safe! Until next week
Love,
Quinn
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