Letter dated 15Apr2013

[Dear friends and family, here is Weston's letter that we received this week. We are thrilled that he is having wonderful teaching experiences! If you have any messages for Weston, please send them as a reply and I will forward them to him. I hope you are enjoying Spring! Best wishes!! Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, Well I don´t want to be the only one who didn´t eat a ton on Sunday! We were invited by the bishop to come over for dinner (which is actually lunch, but it´s how we roll in Spain) after church and we ate with him and the Stake President and their wives. Just to let you all know, both the bishop and the stake president are some of the funniest people I´ve met in Spain yet, especially of all the church leaders and together, since they are such good friends, are hilarious! The food was really good and I felt so full afterwards, which was normal for a fast breaking meal. We are currently planning with the Bishop and the Young Single Adult representatives a weekly Family Home Evening that we will probably be doing every Saturday night with investigators, recent converts, less actives, and the rest of the YSA. It should be really fun and we´ll probably start them next week. We are currently working on getting all the preparations ready for Olga and Joaquin´s baptism this Saturday and everything looks A-OK! Our biggest fear was whether or not they would be able to be baptized, you know, just in case they weren't married... the question was actually asked while I was in Sabadell on an intercombio, [where Weston works with another missionary in another area] and yes, they've been married for 2 years and that just relieved so much stress for us! That was actually the bishop´s first question when we told him that the baptism would be this Saturday. He was very pleased to hear that they were married as well as the other members. YAY! Allright, and this Sunday we had a great day and saw 7 investigators come to church! That was great! During our testimony meeting we also had a very interesting one in which one of the sisters, who just gave birth, bore her testimony. She talked about how a few months ago, she asked the missionaries to give her a blessing because she was in a very bad state and need some additional help and during her testimony she thanked the Elder who gave her the blessing. The only problem was that she couldn´t remember how to say the Elder´s name (by the way, I was the Elder ^_^) and she asked me how to say it and then half of the congregation said Schindler in their own different ways, you know, ranging from Es-chindler, Chandler, Chicle, and then resulted in her finalizing my name with ´´Oh, el Elder Shimde´´! Oh gosh... XD Sadly, we had to say goodbye to Victoria this week as she left to "go back to the island!" or in normal English, she left to go to Mallorca. It was sad to say goodbye to her but at the same time I´m happy that she has an opportunity to go work there for the summer and I hope that I can stay in contact with her and hopefully one day see her be baptized! That´d be incredible! So Joey and Danny, I don´t know how fresh your Austrailian is, but have you ever heard of the phrase ´´Turn it up´´? Elder Biddle in my district is from Sydney and he´s been teaching us some phrases and I wondered if you had heard of this phrase when you were with your Australian roomie. Now I have a severe problem. I hope that you can help me cope with it dad, since I´m having a very hard time comprehending this whole ´´Lickey Lickey´´ concept, but hopefully we can make it out alright after this mind wrecking experience! [This is a joke that I have had with the twins - after I found that there is a new Pokemon named -- Lickey Lickey! Weston shares my sense of humor when it comes to Pokemon with funny names!] Pues, creo qué estoy bien con todo de esto. ¡Os amo! ¿Qué mas puedo deciros? Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate...