Monday, June 15, 2009

2nd week in Barcelona with Elder Young




Whew! I need to write fast! I only get 45 minutes to read and write all the emails. I´ll try to give a good report. Me and Elder Young are working our tails off to liven up our area and ward. I found out that I have arrived into kind of a dead area and we are trying to change that. We have been working a lot with the area book and members trying to find anyone that could be possible interested. It is working so far. We found a former investigator named Douglas from Brazil (go figure) and he seems really interested. Earlier this week we met with him in a plaza and taught him about the Book of Mormon on a bench. He asked perfect questions like how he can know it is true and what he will feel when he receives an answer. It seems like he is ready for the gospel. I think I told everyone about Luis last week. He is the one that approached other missionaries and wants to be baptized. We are having a hard time getting ahold of him because he works out of town a lot. I´m not sure what he does. He was in Valencia almost all of last week. We have a set up meeting with him tomorrow though so I´m excited. I´m just praying it doesn´t fall through! The mission goal is to contact 15 different people a day just on the streets or at doors and me and Elder Young are trying to get 50 a day! We need all the leads we can get right now haha. We visit the members a lot because we need their help. For some reason, it seems like every family has a kid about 5 years old that loves to torture me. Yesterday, it was actually at an investigators house, we were saying the prayer. During the prayer, their little kid was poking me in the eye. The whole time! When his dad finished saying the prayer, he just sat there like nothing happened. He didn´t even look at me and smile! What a little turd haha. Its ok though. I thought the work would be hard here because everybody is catholic. But what I´ve come to find is that actually nobody believes in God or a specific religion. Thats really hard to work with. I know its possible to find people here though. I just have to keep searching! Oh I forgot to tell you what we do for service here. Every Saturday we give english classes and then share a spiritual thought after. It is a ton of fun. Its hilarious to hear them speak english. I wonder how funny I sound to them. Everybody made fun of me before I left about the lisp thing. Now I think it sounds a lot better than normal Spanish! You have to hear it from a native to really appreciate it. Also, everyone here speaks Catalan. Its a mix of french and Spanish. All of the signs on the streets are in this language so its not really helping me learn spanish haha. Its only like that In Barcelona though. Well I better go. I know this church is true. There is no doubt in my mind that it is the one true church. I am so thankful that I was born into it. I have been blessed tremendously. I love you all family and I hope you are all doing great. Love Elder Langston

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