Letter dated 19Mar2013

[Dear family and friends, here is Weston's letter for this week that we received today. Thank you for your continued prayers in support of Weston. We are always so happy to hear from him and hear that he is doing well! We hope that Spring is finding you wherever you may be. I think that Michigan is not convinced that tomorrow is the first day of Spring -- but I am sure that warmer days will come . . . Send any notes that you may have as a reply to this note and I will forward them to Weston. Much love! Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, I love you all so much, you´re just the best! I´m glad you are all having such a time and I´m so glad to get to write you all right now. Once again I've had a big change happen recently, which is super exciting! Unlike last week, in which we had a Zone Conference and that´s why I wrote on Tuesday, we had transfers this week and guess what happened- I got a new companion! I am going to miss Elder Wiggins so much and he is heading down south to the Valencia area and I hope all the best for him. He´s been a fantastic friend and companion and an even better missionary! After serving with him for over 4 months I have learned so much from him and we got super close over that time. He´s going to have a great time in his mission coming up and I can´t wait to see what he ends up doing! During the weekend we had a fun time together as he said bye to all of the wonderful people here and we took tons of photos (which I´ll send soon!) We had some great meals prepared for us and one of which, form Peru, was so incredible it knocked my socks off! I think that they are called Juanes, or something that sounds like that. It´s super good! But Elder Wiggins is going to be missed by so many people, it´s nuts, and I know that he was sad to go, yet we knew it was time for him to go and see a new place. It was hard to say bye, but at the same time, it was exciting to say hello to my new companion, Elder Glenn. He´s also from Utah and he´s very, VERY different from Elder Wiggins. I've already been impressed by the amount of Spanish he knows for how long he´s been out in the mission (7 months) and it makes me want to work harder to talk better! Ha ha! He seems a lot more relaxed and he´s also a terrifically obedient elder, as what I've heard from others in the mission. Oh, and guess what, he´s very musical and he wants to conduct orchestra in the future! He plays the piano and sings opera which I´m sure I´ll be totally down with for the future and, maybe, we´ll join the choir after church and sing. The only reason we might not, is because I enjoy having my time to get home after church and eating and resting a bit before going out, so we´ll see where we go with singing ;) So I also was blessed to see Elder Swenson today as he goes home! I've been blessed with so many great companions but he was so special and he helped me with so many things, it´s a joke! Anyways, it was so great to see him and from what 3-4 month of missing someone did, I can only imagine what it´ll be like to see other people I love *AHEM* I´m definitely excited for the new e-mail rule, but trust me, I´ll be writing you all just the same and won´t be getting distracted by friends and converts. It´s just a great blessing that we don´t have to sever our connections completely and that it makes it more convenient and cheaper to do it! ¿Qué mas? Alright, I´m excited for this new companionship and I can´t wait to tell you how it´ll be in the coming weeks! I also hope you continue to pray for me! You´re the greatest, did you know that? Con Amor, Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate...