Hola from Spain!

This is looking out of his bedroom window!

Well hello everyone! I don´t even know where to start to tell you the truth. I guess I´ll explain why I didn´t email on Thursday this week (my usual P Day). Today, Friday, is labor day in spain so we didn´t have teachers and they switched our P day to Friday this week. Sorry for the confusion. Now I´ll talk about my travels over here. Talk about some jet lag! I woke up in Provo at 4 in the morning and travled for a good 18 hours, then I had to stay up for about another 7 hours at the MTC when I got here! I was so tired. They let us go to bed early though. The MTC is beautiful here! Its right on Temple grounds. The MTC is the top 3 floors in a 7 story building. The other floors are for people to stay in that come to the temple from all over spain and portugal and places like that. I´m going to try and send some pictures so you can all see it. I have a picture I took from my window that will show how close the temple is. The Madrid Temple is so beautiful! I loved going through it for the first time. I actually got to the day after I arrived. The Celestial room is so awesome. It is lit by natural light which makes it even more beautiful. Its definitely my second favorite temple (St. George is first of course :) ) On Saturdays here, everybody from the MTC goes to the huge park in Madrid. Its like central park would be in New York. We go around talking to people about our message and just try to work on our spanish skills. I thought it would be scary but I had fun with it. Half the time I didn´t know what they were saying or how to respond, but I would just smile and keep going! Its like real missionary work already! I also actually experienced for the first time, feeling bad for someone I was teaching. Me and Elder Nielson were set up as companions for the park and we decided to talk to a policeman in the park. At first he went along with us just listening to what we had to say, but when we started talking about The Book of Mormon and how it testified of Christ, he simply said "No creo en Dios" which means, I don´t believe in God. We asked him why he felt that way and he told us because he is a cop, he sees horrible things happen all the time so he doensn´t believe there is a God. We both tried to bear our testimony to him but he just put his hand on my companions shoulder and said, "No creo en Dios." I felt horrible after. I wanted him to realize all the happiness he was missing out on and the feeling of love we can always have. It was very frustrating being limited by the language and that I couldn´t express all of my feelings and testimony to him. I guess its going to happen though. The weather is pretty nice. It feels like St. George in March I´d say. Maybe late March. The teachers here are really nice. Most of them don´t speak a lot of English so that helps a lot. Its a lot more laid back here too compared to Provo. For P Days, they let us go explore the city, pretty much wherever we want to go. During our physical activity each day, we either go to a small little stadium and play soccer with the natives or play basketball in the stake center. Its a ton of fun! Thank you so much everyone for sending me emails! I had 20 in my inbox when I got on here! I´m sorry but my letters to you are probably going to come a lot less frequently. It is pretty expensive to send letters from here and it takes about 7 days. But I love all of your letters and emails! They make me so happy! Oh I just remembered something else! I eat like a Pig here! Im gaining quite the reputation. Today at lunch I heard someone say they didn´t want something on their plate. Someone else said, "Give it to Elder Langston". Hahahahaha. I love it. I´m gaining weight too. I´ll let you know in two weeks how much I weigh. That way it will seem like more. :) Well I hope all is going well back home. Continue to write because I love it. My testimony is growing miles each day and I´m so thankful for this opportunity I have to share the gospel. I KNOW IT IS TRUE. I love you all. Talk to you next week.