First week in Barcelona

¿Cómo estáis?! So if you haven't heard guess where I'm serving(insert
drum roll).................................…….............Barcelona
3rd Ward!!!! My area is right in the center of Barcelona and it's
sooooo beautiful! My ward building is the Barcelona Stake center and
it's the biggest church building in all of Europe! My trainer is Elder
Byington and he is from Santa Cruz, CA. He is such a funny and nice
guy, he has been out for 9 months and is amazing! He is very obedient,
actually this WHOLE mission is obedient, everyone is very on board
with the rules and strives to be obedient and faithful. My Spanish(or
"Castellano" as they call it here in Spain) seems to be pretty well,
my trainer says he thinks I'll be fluent in two months. His Spanish
isn't the best but it's okay, we are learning together! I push him and
we only speak English in the apartment, or if we need to review
something or if we're doing something in the chapel by ourselves. I
took a fluency test and it said I'm 58% fluent, I feel like I can
communicate pretty well and I just can't understand people who mumble
or talk really fast, but other than that it's really not too bad.
Missionary life is Pretty dang hard to be completely honest, actually
a lot harder than I thought it would be. I've had a couple rough days
but I know why I'm here and who I'm serving! (Prayers would greatly be
appreciated to help me adjust to mission life) Funny story, we email
from 17:00-19:00 and we had a lesson planned with a new investigator
at 19:00 but he showed up 30 minutes into our email time at the chapel
and so we taught him right then! He was super receptive and actually
seemed very excited about reading the Book of Mormon, it was a
MIRACLE! Missionary life can be kinda hard here in Europe, I can
probably count on two hands all the people that have stopped to talk
to us in the week of proselyting we have done BUT the ones who talked
to us were great! The worth of souls in great in the sight of God!
Even though it's hard here it's not impossible, we have three
investigators with baptismal dates and about 3 more progressing
investigators on the way and a couple new ones we found last week.
So today for Preparation Day(We aren't allowed to say P-day in this
mission) we went to a little amusement park thingy on a mountain
looking over Barcelona and it was amazing! There was a big Cathedral
up there too and it was sooooo beautiful! I'll attach some pictures. I
can't even put words into it, but the pictures will explain better
than I ever could! Love you all and I hope to hear from you guys soon!


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