1 Week to go . . .

This is the last P-day in the CCM, but I do have monday to write before i leave if you want to write sometime sunday! I will definitely make sure I show my appreciation to Presidente and Hermana Hill. And don´t worry, it won´t be the first time I have thanked them.

So who was it that talked? Do I know her? Do you remember where she served? We have 13 in the CCM right now... just got the 13th yesterday. Unfortunately for her, 12 of us will be leaving on tuesday! I do think, however, that they will be getting other missionaries on Wednesday! So she won´t be alone for too long! It was sad hearing that a couple years ago there was a single Elder here over the Christmas Season! :( I can´t imagine how boring that would be!

Anyway... The funniest thing that happened this week... Well, you would have had to have been there but at lunch one day we had a good laughing session. We started talking about Bobcats and how the church should have one in Siberia and it should be the mode of transportation for the Elders up there! We just kept making jokes about it and every time we mentioned the word bobcat Elder Gerber would have a laughing attack. Not really funny to you but it was great! The funny thing though is that the whole time we were thinking the construction vehicle bobcat while Elder gerber was thinking the animal bobcat! Made it really interesting when we found that out cuz we had been making jokes about crashing the bobcat into the only tree in siberia and about bobcat insurance and totalling the bobcat... stuff like that! If you read that stuff thinking the animal... well it was good stuff.

The best thing that happened to me... Well I talked to President about some things. I was just having trouble staying motivated and... I´ll write some stuff that i wrote in my journal. He helped me realize that I need to focus on serving others. This is harder since I don´t have investigators to look to but he reminded me that I can serve the teachers, my commpanion, and other missionaries here! I also received a blessing from him. That was the most spiritual thing I felt all week. I realized that the feelings I recognize as the Holy Ghost are the same as the direct presence of the Father. It was amazing to me to remember that Heavenly Father is so close to us... If We Allow Him! It is the greatest Thing I have felt in a long time! He also blessed me to find the inner drive that will keep me motivated to serve and to work! I needed to take the small spiritual experiences and hold on to them. I explained to him that it´s like I have a spiritual bucket but it´s got holes in it. While I was talking with him I was thinking and realized that most of my spiritual experiences are when something happens to me but I need to have my own spiritual experiences.

sorry but i got to go!

Love you!

Elder Heywood

Last Temple Trip

Good ole monsoon season rollin´ in!!! So Sarah bought a scooter huh? Was it green? I´ll put $20 on it!... Oh wait, I´m on a mission... No betting aloud. I think she´ll do ok on it! It is kind of a scary thought though! Tell her I want her to be alive when I get home! And if she´s not... I´ll kill her!... .... .... uh... haha

You never knew that the Nobles have two faster children? I´m sorry! Yeah they´ve had them since last summer i think. They are cool little kids! And they have a younger brother that is with the Dentons in our stake! Man I haven´t heard from any of my friends yet. Maybe it´s better that I don´t. idk That´s so wierd that Rachel is getting married! Who is she marrying? Crazy!!!

Half way done with summer school! That´s insane... well i guess it´s only 3 weeks long huh? I think it´s crazy how easy some teachers make it! It doesn´t do anybody any good.

Who was making the no bake cookies? Got a little carried away with the liquid huh? That reminds me... What about rice krispie treats. I kinda want that recipe... but they probably won´t have non-dairy margerine here huh? Oh well!

Thanks for getting this sent a little earlier this week. Today was the last temple visit for us. It is being closed for cleaning on our last week. :( So we stayed today and did extra stuff. We had missionaries in every part of the temple at the same time today. That was cool to think about.

Con Amor,
Elder Heywood

1st Preparation Day in Spain

Well today was a Holiday in Spain so they moved Preparation day to friday instead of thursday. So from now on we will have P day on thursday. I love how relaxed it is here! It actually feels like we´re on the mission. We are just one big zone and all have the same P day. So we took the metro to the King´s Palace and walked around in Sól all morning.

I only have one thing to correct you on for the address...

CCM
Calle del Templo 2, 4ª Planta
28030 Madrid
SPAIN

It would probably still get here but that will just make it easier for the people sorting mail. It´s just saying that it needs to go to the 4th floor.

We go to the park tomorrow so I´ll let you all know how that goes next week! But since we did go to the city all morning... on the Metro ride over to the city all four of us new missionaries got on at the same part of the train and everybody that knows how to speak spanish were in other spots. there a a few girls that got on at the next stop and they just stood there laughing at us the whole time. I wish I was more confident in my spanish cuz it would have been so easy to talk to them. And then on the way back my companion stopped and talked to somebody with some other elders so I lost my companion. :S But everybody arrived back t o the CCM safe and sound... and almost on time! But it was lunch so it´s all good.

Hey My two companions from the MTC are getting here on wednesday. apparently they got their visas. I honestly thought it would be a lot longer than that.

Well when we get to the park tomorrow I hope I will be able to talk to a lot of people. Haha I am going to slaughter any spanish I know! :P No, we had "simulación" last night where we teach other elders or sisters in spanish and since we are new we had to go first... it went a lot better than i thought and it was really motivating! I was so ready to go talk to people... until we went to Sól today! :P haha that was bad! I felt like i didn´t know anything anymore! well I´m going to see if I can send a few pictures over the email so I´ll leave it at that for now!

Con Amor,
Elder Heywood