Letter dated 18Feb2013

[Dear family and friends, here is the letter that we received from Weston today. I will try to share some pictures that I can find of Manresa so we can see where Weston has been working! I hope everyone is staying warm and safe. I hope you keep a lookout for stray meteorites! Respond to this note and I will forward it to Weston. Have a great week! Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, Hey, what´s going on?! It´s so good to hear from you and know that you´re all safe. I´m glad that no meteorites came and wrecked Michigan while I was gone! We heard from some members of what had happened in Russia and it was so crazy to think that things like that can really just happen randomly and at any moment. Strange, huh :/ Sad news first... Joan is back in the hospital... He was doing so well but then we were let known that he still just can´t handle his bi-polar disorder. I know that one day he will be able to get better and get baptized, but until then, he´ll mean a ton to me because he´s just a great kid! On some good news, we had an intercombio (Elder splits or whatever they´re called in English) and while we were at a members house I saw some Captain Maní peanut butter in their pantry and I made a comment about how there´s just not very cheap peanut butter anywhere in Spain. They then said that I could have that jar and it is sooooo goood!! Never forget to appreciate the little things in life- like a good jar of peanut butter! ^_^ We also had the chance to visit more of Manresa today, which is a city north of Terrassa, and is an old Catalán city. We had some great lessons, one of which we watched the Testaments and it was a great day. This upcoming Saturday we should be going back to visit there, and just in time, because they´ll be having a Medieval Festival there! Don´t worry, my companion and I will be taking plenty of photos (with his camera) and I hope to share tons with you next week. We are also looking forward to going to Lleida this Thursday and Saturday for a Specialized Training, where I think that they´ll be teaching us about locking our hearts. (Mom, I thought you´d appreciate that ;D!) [Meaning -- keeping your focus on the work!] It should be good, but it´ll take us out of our area for quite a bit of time, so I hope that we learn tons of great things that we need to know for us to do as a mission. I love you all just more and more every single day! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate...