December 16, 2013 - Letter to Dad - Week 16

Hey!!

Sounds like your training is going well!! I´m still super jealous of all the swimming and stuff!  So I found out this week that the first guy we baptized(Mario) is SUPER rich!!  Well for Spain.  We already knew he had a nice piso and stuff but he was telling us and showing us pictures of his other house in Parla that has a pool and we were just amazed!  Nobody and I mean NOBODY owns a pool, or let alone a house here in Madrid.  So that´s pretty amazing!   

Our baptism went great on Friday!! I´llwrite about it more in the other email to mom and I´ll tell you about eddi!  That guy was the miracle of this week! We found an old registro with his name and address on it. We didn´t have our maps but we kind of found his house by luck.  We were invited in and the mom and Eddi visited with us for over an hour.  He has always loved our church, but last time missionaries came, his girlfriends wouldn't let them meet, and he was going through some other stuff.  Since then he has had 4 heart attacks and he is really humbled and ready to change.  He came to the baptism, came to church, we taught him twice and if all goes perfectly he will be baptized in less than two weeks!!  So I´m hoping everything works out! 

Oh ya Angi told me that she sent pictures of us to our parents!  That was a really fun night!!  We were invited over, shared a last minute family home evening on Navidad and decorated their christmas tree!  They also made arroz con leche, which is one of the best desserts I've had here!! So good!  I think it's just rice pudding in America but lots of American things are made way better in other countries.  Some not so much but ya.  We had amazing dominican food this week too.  And I finally made the dominican drink ive been telling Justin about.  I made it when I was on splits with the zone leader in exchange for him sewing a rip in my pants haha good exchange! 

I´m excited to skype too!  I think I need to make a new account but I´ll try and find you guys!!  Well gotta go!  Hope you have an amazing week!  I get to go through the temple this Wednesday!!! I´m so excited!!  And also the singing thing is tonight, so don´t worry it will be recorded since it should be really big!! Alright next time we talk should be on skype.  My p day is christmas and not next Monday!  Love You!

Nathan