Hey family! How are all of you
doing?? Thank you all so much for the letters. They are the best and they
always keep me in the loop :) Well Spain is doing good. We are
lighting it up like always! The past couple days though have been very
hard. People just don't want to listen, but that just means we have to
work extra hard to get to them.
This week has just been a funny one
also. One fashion that I have noticed is mullets. Yes business in
the front, party in the back. I was in the metro, waiting for the
metro. A family walks by... the 5 year old kid has this nice long mullet!
hahahahah yes i did laugh a little bit to myself. Another time, we are at
this place, I forget what the name was, but this guy walks in.. no lie, he has
on these red pants, some rock band shirt and yes, a nice mullet. :)
This week we did get a lot done, but
as I said, we had some really hard days. Yesterday actually was a great
day We contacted all day, buy it wasn´t supposed to be like that.
We had about 3 lessons planned for the afternoon. In the morning we had
District meeting so we were going to go from there, eat some lunch, study, then
go to our lessons for the day. Well everyone didn´t want to hear from us
so they just weren´t at home or just said they didn´t want to hear from
us. It was really sad and it hurt, but I hope we get to them.
Yesterday was just a bad day, it was long, rainy, and no one wanted to talk to
us. There are a couple of good things that came from it. We taught
this part member family that haven´t had the lessons for about a month now. We
stopped by at around 8:30ish to see if they were home. They were and we
talked to them and they are doing just great and still want us to come over
more often and teach the husband. The wife is the member and I believe
the kid is around 6 or 7. First good thing. Second is my Spanish is
getting better. I can understand my trainer a lot better compared to the
first day, and I can understand the members better too :) I found that
out yesterday when I was talking to the wife of our investigator. She
just started talking and I just was responding without a pause. The other
thing is funny i guess. So here in Spain, people are always in a rush and
just don´t want to talk. Well when you do stop someone you have to wait
for an odd reply because that´s what you are going to get. So i usually
start out by saying hi, we are elders blah blah blah. Then I say, we
believe in God and Jesus Christ, Do you believe in them? The most given
reply is... I´m Catholic. Yes, it is odd but, it is really stupid. So I
say... soooo yes? And then we go on from there. I have also noticed
that a lot of people do not believe in God or anything. They just say
they are this and that. It is so sad, but I get the chance to talk to
them and see why and how this became, so it is really neat to see other
people's views.
So the other day, Spain had a
holiday. It´s called Huelga day (or riot day), where everyone strikes and
makes a mess. Yes, I did get a poster and I will be sending it out soon after I
get a couple things from here. It was really strange, but the Metros were
very slow and the buses were too. We waited for about 15min. for a bus when it
should be about 3min. It was fine we had a couple of lessons spaced out
because of that day and we contacted a lot but it was just strange. It
was a really forward and a lot of people were waving flags and saying "huelga!!!!!!!"
over and over again... so I took some videos from our piso :) hahaha
As you can see, I am doing well,
everything is so good here and I love the work, the people, and the Lord.
It is so amazing how He works. I was having a rough week, it was long and
painful, but today was great. We went to the temple, the best place
ever. I got to rest and think about these past couple of weeks and see
how much I have grown. The Lord is preparing me for a lot. I am so
blessed to be in Madrid in this time. The people are hard, but with a lot
of prayers, and talking, we are getting people who really have been wanting to
learn more. It is awesome to see who the Lord puts in our way to talk
to. We have been setting a goal to talk to everyone this week and for now
on. We play a game called pistol and we have to stop a person for a
couple of seconds till it is the next ones turn. Yes it was my turn for
about 10min, but I talked with everyone, literally, I stopped everyone I
saw. It was amazing on how many people didn´t stop, but also how many
people, wanted to listen. We didn´t get a lot of numbers and lessons, but
we did teach a lot about us and the Church. It was a really good day and
week in that. Yes some days are hard and you just want to stop and rest,
but I am telling you what, my planner does a lot of wonders. I have
written on it "light it up!" and whenver I am down, I look at it and
I feel so much better :) I love it! Everyone does. A lot of
the missionaries use it now because I said it and they saw my planner :)
They love it and also the natives :) In Spanish it is called
enciéndelo!! hahah so many people use it :) I love you all so much and I
miss you all, I hope this letter was good. :) I hope and pray that
everyone has a good week, always know that i am looking at the stars at night
:)
Love,
Elder Alex Laubaugh
In
another email, Alex shared: Conference was so goooodddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was
amazing that all of the talks answered my questions :) the Lord loves me and he
loves his missionaries :) I love Pres. Eyring's talk about challenges and
yes, I did pray for one... and yes it was an answer that I already have :)
aka... Spanish :P
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