I´m going to be in with an Elder from my group. (Please email me - his mom - for his new address. He'd love to hear from you!) His name is Elder Pitts. I will be in the coldest part of the mission. It will be a long day! I leave the airport here at 10:30am, I have a 4 hour lay over in Madrid and then I arrive in Malaga at 6:40pm. Then I hop a bus to Jaén and that takes about 2-2:30 hours. I´m not really looking forward to this travel... unless I´m able to go tour Madrid. haha JOKE!!! Elder Bytheway is getting Elder Namelka. They´re from the same group and will be going home in April. I have called both my transfers so far... well this one I changed my guess once I realized that I only got the amount of money you receive when you are in the peninsula. Before I had guessed somewhere in the islands.
We do not have a fecha with L yet. :( But she did come to church and enjoyed it a lot. She is way awesome. We will be meeting with her this tuesday so I hope to set the date then. I gave my testimony in church as a leaving missionary. Before church I told my land lady that I was leaving and she didn´t believe me. Then I got up and gave my testimony and she started crying. After sacrament meeting I was talking to her and she was just crying her little heart out. Do missionaries give their testimonies when they arrive and leave a ward there? I can´t remember.
So mom, you did not miss anything by not being at the computer, because I completely forgot about that. I had it written down and everything but we got a little occupied. I feel so bad about that, because I told you I would be out there and I wasn´t.
So now we´ve got a green truck again? I feel like I´m going to come home to a completely different family... well, as far as what we own. New cars, new house, new nephew, new brother. All I ask that you keep is my sailboat. I´ve been so trunky for that lately... walking passed the ocean every day and seeing sailboats out on the water. Oh well, I am leaving that distraction as well.
H and P are doing well and they are looking forward to the temple visit in a year to be sealed. :) We also found a new investigator this week... well, she used to live here and she was receiving the lessons and had a fecha but moved back to Africa about a year and a half ago. Then this week we found her on the bus with her mom who got baptised back then and she came to church. She wants us to basically pass by whenever we can and wants to get baptised. she speaks pretty good portañol (portugués and español). :) Elder Bytheway is excited because he loves portugués.
You had a good lesson in RS. I received the same one this week, but mine was learned the hard way. :/ I´ve been doing so well in temperance for so long...years... and I randomly blew up over something so small. The other lesson that I´m glad I had learned back a while ago was quick to repentance. It makes such a difference. Waiting and not repenting out of shame just is not worth it. Thanks for helping me learn these things!
It wasn´t a very fun filled week. I did realize, however, how judging the members are of the missionaries here. I´m kind of curious what they think of me. But after what I got told by some of them on sunday I know that I should not listen to their opinions. They have a distorted view on what a missionary is supposed to be and if you don´t conform to their ideas then you are a horrible missionary.
Well I don´t have much more time or things to say so... I´ll catch you all on Monday... unless you want me to go out to the webcam again... and this time I´ll go! I will be out there at 4:40-4:50 on tuesday afternoon. I know that´s probably going to be tough for some of you but someone can get on and save the picture off the internet. Sorry once again!!!
I love you all,
Elder Heywood
I saved the pictures - Click on them a picture to make it bigger - then you can see the handsome elders. . . at least a little. . .
Do you really think they knew when the update would happen, or were they being crazy the whole 10 minutes???
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