Letter dated 4May2012

[Dear family and friends, here is the letter we received from Weston today! We are excited because we'll have the opportunity to talk to him on Mother's Day! If you have a note you'd like to send, simply reply to this note and I'll forward it to Weston. Thank you for your support and prayers! Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, Hello from afar to afar! I pray you are all doing well on this wonderful last day of April. I have so much to tell you and share with you but first I want to let you know that for me this month has just flown by. I can´t believe it´s going to be May already but I am stoked for this Friday, you know, being May 4th and all. May the fourth be with you! So the picture I shared last week [see it on my Facebook page!] was of Nahomy and she is nine years old and her family is from Honduras. Her immediate family is less active but a couple of weeks ago her mother called us and asked us if we could baptize her, since she knows the importance of the church in the lives of her family. So we began teaching her and she was very shy and timid, but as we got to know her she is one of the sweetest little girls you could ever meet! She loves playing futbol, hates wearing dresses, and her favorite team is Real Madrid. She´ll probably repent of that and like Barça when she gets older. But something really special for me was that she asked me to baptize her and so I had that opportunity to see an investigator from the start to the finish. (And mom, no, I am not getting too big for my pants, thank you, but those are my companion´s pair because I don´t have any white pants. But thank you for watching out for me, mommy!) Oh and guess what?! It rains a lot here in Gerona! ¡Me encanta eso! It reminds me so much of Michigan and I love walking out in the city when it´s raining because it does a good job of drowning out the sounds from the city. [Weston has always LOVED the rain!] But this past week has been interesting. My companion ate a bad kebab and got food poisoning from it and so we had to stay in our piso for a day and go slowly for the rest of the second day. It was hard on lessons and to top that off I had to go to Madrid this past Friday to get my ID, which was great, but we had very little time to teach with all of those set backs. But in Madrid I was able to see some friends from the MTC and see how we´ve changed with only 40 days of our missions and it´s incredible how much I´ve even been able to see myself progress. My Spanish (far from great) is so much better than it was when I got of the plane and it gets better each week. I´m grateful to have the opportunity to learn this language and realize just how much I understand already when I´m talking to people in this new idioma! In a few months, I will probably try to have a total English fast, but I´ll wait till after Mother´s Day to do that. And just a warning, bear with the spelling of things in my letter(s) during that time because it´s one thing to say things compared to sitting down and write them! Les quiero, Elder Weston Schindler P.S. Send me recipes, family stories, and photos! I have a whole thing to talk about family history, so I hope I don´t forget! And Nicholas, I LOVE YOUR LETTERS!!! THEY´RE THE BEST!!!