A Crazy Week 7-19-10

Hi everybody! I don't even know where to begin with this e-mail. There is so much to update you guys on. Well on Tuesday morning me and Elder Anderson got a call saying that he was going to be transferred to Cartagena and I was going to Malaga to pick up my "son" the very next day. Thats what you call the elder you train haha. It was kind of a shock because I had only been here in Cordoba for about 6 days at that time. I had just barely met the membersand wasn't too familiar with Cordoba. But anyway, I went down to Malaga and met up with the zone leaders down there. I knew one of them because he came from the Barcelona mission with me. His name is Elder Romney and we're really good friends. From Malaga, I took a train to Fuengirola, where the mission home is. It is beautiful there! I think you can see pictures on the mission blog. If I'm not mistaken its spainmalagamission.blogspot.com I'm not positive about that but it's worth a try. So I met President and Sister Clegg for the first time and we had dinner in the mission home. Afterwards we had a meeting and found out which Elder we were going to be training. I got Elder Masterson! He's from Orange County and he likes to sleep a lot haha. I think the poor kid is having a hard time getting used to the mission life because he is always exhausted. He'll get the hang of it though. We have been running around all week getting lost and just working like crazy. Sometimes I need to remind myself that he doesn't really know how things are in the mission because I always find myself just assuming that he knows whats going on. Poor kid. He didn't get blessed with a very good trainer in that aspect. We are really working hard though. The truth is the last Elders kind of left this place dead. We have about 2 or 3 serious investigators. and even they are hard to get in contact with. But there is a TON of potential here. I feel spoiled because there is so much to do. The area book is full of former investigators we can pass by and the city is just huge so we always have someone to talk to or a different door to knock. We are starting to organize the area book because the truth is it is a huge mess. A lot of the records haven't been updated for a long timeand its all out of order. I guess what I am trying to say is that we have a ton of work to do and this area is going to be rolling here soon. We have and appointment with a 20 year old girl named Tania tomorrow and her Uncle is a member that lives in Utah. She has actually studied at BYU. The only problem we have with her is time. She is going back to Utah in a month and I'm not sure if it's to stay. We'll find out tomorrow. We also have a new investigator named Archie. He is from Ghana Africa and his wife was baptized here about 7 months ago. He just barely got here from Africa a week ago and he came to church yesterday. I translated the meeting for him and actually taught the gospel principles class in english. It was so weird! It was good practice though. We'll get him baptized in no time. I think we are going to have a ton of investigators soon. There is just a lot of potential here and nobody has done much with it. I'm going to be praying a lot so I know where we should start and how we should do things. I need your prayers too! Haha. Oh yeah and something crazy happened last night. We got off the bus by our appartment and we had about 30 minutes left until we had to be inside so we decided to contact people in the street. As we were walking around, I looked across the street and saw a man laying face down in the dirt with a crutch about ten feet away from him. We ran over and asked him if he needed help and he told me he fell down. He was completely drunk and when I lifted him up his pants fell down around his ankles. I hurried and pulled them up and asked if he was okay and he said yeah and started to walk. But then he started to fall again and I half caught him before he hit the ground. I picked him up again and told my companion to hold on to him while I called the ambulance. Next thing I know I hear a huge thud and he fell again but this time hard! He hit his head pretty good too. I guess my companion was grossed out and didn't want to hold on to him to good haha. So we waited for the ambulance for about 20 minutes and when it finally got there they just asked the man if he wanted to go to the doctor. He said no, so they took him to his house and that was the end of it. I just thought "are you kidding me?" The man definately needed help and they didn't do anything for him. I was kind of shocked about it all but that was the end of it. My companion just said "Well thats something I never thought I'de see on my mission." haha. I told him he had a lot of things in store for him. Well thats all I have for the week. I love you all and I miss you. I am keeping you all in my prayers and especially right now. I know God lives and that He has a plan for all of us. I know that if we live the gospel, we will live with our Heavelny Father and our families forever. I also know that God answers prayers. Sometimes he answers them when we aren't expecting them and often times through ways we aren't expecting. But He always answers. I love you all and hope you have a great week. Love you tons.
Love Elder Langston