Monday, January 4, 2010

Hello from Crevillente




Where do I even start. Yes I know that last sentence was a question but I can´t make the question mark key work haha. I guess I´ll start with hello! and how is everybody doing. Everything is good here in Crevillente. Its been a huge change but I´m getting used to it. Its like going from Salt Lake City to Hurricane! Crevillente is just a little town of about 30,000 people. Its kind of a desert area. If I could describe it I would say it looks like...Mesquite mixed with Desert Palms California. Paint a picture for you. question mark. Haha. The branch is amazing though. There are about 40-50 active members. Hey I found the question mark key! Its mixed up with the dash key. Anyway the branch is mostly Spaniards and they are all really nice. They want to see a ward here in Crevillente so they are ready to work hard. They have big expectations for this year and I´m excited to get started. We also have some other little towns in our area that we take the train to. That reminds me. The trip down here was gorgeous! The train goes all down the coast and while it was light outside I could see the Mediterranean sea the whole time. I loved it. My companions name is Elder Forsgren and the only way I can describe him is the nicest guy in the whole world. He is only 6 foot 6 by the way and a red belt in Tae Kwan Doe. Way less scary. He is from a small branch of about 18 members in Idaho and his family of 9 makes up a big chunk of it. He is a really good guy. We don´t have very many investigators at the moment but we are trying to find some. We do have one named Domingo and I have to learn a new language to teach him. He is deaf so we teach him in spanish sign language. He doesn´t know how to read either so that makes it a little tough. He has been coming to church for about a year though and his girlfriend is a member. He is waiting for some papers to finalize a divorce with a previous marriage so they can get married. Then he can be baptized! There are also two members in the branch that are deaf so learning sign language is going to be essential. I´m excited though and I can kind of pray already. Well thats about all I have for the week. Thank you all so much for what you do for me and the support. I know you are making sacrifices and i really appreciate it. I love you all. Talk to you next week! Love, Elder Langston

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