August 7, 2017 ~ Transfer 9 Week 2

Hi all!

So this week was a busy week where a lot of cool things happened. We were able to work with a lot of less active members and lots of miracles running into them after delays in transportation or in our schedules. We also got to play basketball with a less active member and it was a lot of fun. I felt like a little kid playing with a bunch of huge basketball players haha A funny story comes out of that that I will explain later. 

We also had piso (apartment) checks this week. President and Sister Pack came and checked how clean our piso is (and just so that my mom knows, it's super clean =)  ). 

The coolest thing this week was that we got to meet with our investagator Isidoro. He lives on a farm and he lives 2 hours away walking. So we had to get a member to drive us there. So we showed up at his home and he's working on his small field with a weed whacker. We helped him gather some potatoes and then we taught him in his courtyard of his farm that was built in the 1800s. Super cool. But the coolest part is that he told us he has been praying for the past two days that we would come. And we did. We set up a baptism date with him for the end of this month so we will see what happens.

Today we went to A Coruña because we have a zone conference tomorrow. We saw the Tower of Hercules which wasn't worth the wait but still fairly cool. Cool pictures of the waves and rocks haha. Also for some reason my Google Drive won't let me upload any pictures.


Funny moments:
So what I mentioned about basketball - there is this "fence" of bushes lining the court and the ball went over. These bushes are easily 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide. And they said you had to jump over it to get the ball. Unfortunately I didn't ask what they meant and I just jumped and landed in the middle. NOT SOFT. Haha it hurt, I got small cuts on my legs. Then I got the ball and the worst thing is I had to do it again it get back over haha. Thankfully someone helped me out but it was definately a little embarrassing. I soon learned that they meant you were supposed to roll over it on your side...

Food moments:
We had a hamburger that was basically on an English muffin, really good.

Pizza
Crepes - strawberry syrup and chocolate sauce
Banana bread with cream cheese frosting
Arepas with cheese and chorizo (a food from Venezuela)
Herserys chocolate cake
Throwing away all the cherries and plums - they all went bad and we don't want to eat any cherries or plums for a while...it was way too many...


Have a great week!

Elder Openshaw

Spain Madrid Mission
Calle Fuerteventura 4, 2, Oficina 8B
28703 San Sebastián de los Reyes
Madrid, España

1) A random government building within the middle of the wall (sorry I still have no good photos of Lugo).

2) The burger we had for Hermana Larsen' s bday

3) A little market where people come and sell clothes and jewelry and food and stuff, every Tuesday and Friday, we happened upon it by chance