Family!
Sorry this is going to be short again, seeing as there are 5
of us here in the office and only 4 computers.
I´m glad you were not worried, I was afraid you
would be. So yes, I am now serving in the mission office. My official title is
the Mission Historian and basically I do everything else that the other 3 don´t
do. My main jobs are entering baptismal records into imos, sending
out references and ordering and delivering supplies and chappas to the
missionaries. I also do the weekly bulletin that goes out to all the
missionaries. As Elder Levorsen says I´m getting plenty
of preparation for my future calling as ward clerk. I don´t know
if my Spanish is that good, but being in the office definitely
involves doing some translation. I´m totally scared to drive, but I haven´t
started yet, so I´m just not thinking about it until it´s time. We still do
some proselyting work (when it´s not transfers week). We leave the office
between 5 and 7 everyday and go out to work and we normally don´t come in on weekends,
so it gives us a decent amount of time to do missionary work. Alcobendas (my
area) is actually one of the highest baptizing areas in the mission. We
have more progressing investigators here than we did in B6. So far I
really like the area. Our ward has about 100-120 active members and they are
very involved and excited about missionary work. About half the ward is recent
converts. My address is just the mission office address.
Elder Winkelkotter was raised in Texas but lives in South
Jordan. His name is from Germany and it means something akin to ¨farmer.¨ The
people actually have an easier time pronouncing his name than mine.
The ¨ou¨ is impossible for Spanish speakers.
I got to meet some of our investigators this week. Marcelo
is our main guy. He has a date for the 13th of April and is super prepared! I
haven´t met anyone so far in the mission who is so excited about the gospel. We
taught him about the Book of Mormon and how to recognize the spirit and he was
describing the spirit before we even taught anything. There is good work to be
done here.
We are not very far outside Madrid, but this town is a lot
prettier than the area I was in before. There are cool monuments in every
roundabout and several really cool tile murals I´ve seen. I like it here.
So this week is ¨Semana Santa¨ or Holy Week. They take the
entire week off leading up to Easter. I´m not sure what kind of partying they
do, but I guess I´ll see.
That´s awesome that Bekah presented her thesis at Utah
State! Did she fall in love with the campus and decide to go there? Just
talking about it trunks me out. I love Logan. So it´s between west coast or
east coast eh? Whatever happened to DC? I was sure she was going to go
there.
Congrats to Erin on her track meet! That sounds awesome!
Apart from the bleachers.
The Tardis is wonderful. Sorry it´s not bigger on the inside
though. At least you´re safe inside it.
Gotta run. Thanks for everything, sorry I can´t write more.
We´ll see if I have more time next week.
I love you guys!
Elder Cousins
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