Everywhere

I've been in so many other people's areas this week...


Let's jump in!


In Monday we drove down to Madrid for zone conference with the Madrid East zone. Conference was awesome and I got to see tons of missionaries I haven't seen for a while. I even got to see Elder Madsen! He's developed so much, especially with Spanish, since I trained him. I had an awesome interview with President Eastland and got to give my departing testimony at the end of conference. I love zone conference, so it's really sad that I won't ever get to do another one... I love this mission.


We learned a lot that I'm pumped to put into practice, like some ways to help people understand baptism better and progress more effectively towards it! It's going to be pretty helpful for our friends out here in Santander.


After zone conference I had one of the strangest experiences of my mission.  We have the opportunity in this mission to go to one cultural event, and a couple weeks ago my boy Elder Nelson hit me up anf told me about a group of missionaries going to a Real Madrid soccer game this week in connection with zone conference. So right after the meeting I took a train with some other missionaries down to the stadium and got to watch the royal soccer club absolutely flatten another team from some other corner of thr country. It was epic, Europeans really take their "football" seriously.


The next day, still in Madrid, I got the opportunity to go to the temple in the city with some other soon-to-depart missionaries. It's always really refreshing to visit the House of the Lord. It's a place to be in touch with our true, eternal identity and the power of God. I can add that promise to everything said in the last general conference by the prophet and apostles of the Lord.


Back in Santander, we did what we could to put that energy to work! Elder Allen and I met with a Brazilian recent convert lady and her twin adult sons, Anderson and Wanderson. They all like the missionaries a lot and gave us some awesome lasagna. We tired to invite them to take more steps to deepen their connection to the Holy Ghost. That sounds awesome when you say it like that but people usually lose a bit of that enthusiasm when you mention that it means coming to church. It's rough how many people "have their own path". My response to anyone who may think that way? Hold up the Book of Mormon and ask if Joseph Smith lied. It's clear to most people who open their hearts to us that he didn't, and that means that the Book of Mormon shows that the Church that Joseph "founded" is of God. That's the path, and that's why you go to church even if it's early, or you're afraid of commitment, or you don't have friends there. God has restored His Church.


And they all came Sunday 


-Elder Curtis 


Slice of life in Pics
-Saturday activity: Bingo de Basura, the long awaited Junk Bingo! I've got a pretty good announcer voice by now. So many people pulled up and brought stuff for prizes!
-First, La casa del Señor (temple)
-Second, El templo de Sabor (kebab)
(It's a perfect combo)
-Real Madrid with the crew
-4th canceled lesson of the day 
-Quad
-My sons at ZC (plus photobomber)










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