Letter dated 22Apr2013

[Dear friends and family, you are receiving this note from several thousand feet above Georgia. I spent a nice weekend in Orlando where we blessed Kevin and Summer's new son - Enoch! I was thrilled to receive this letter from Weston this morning. What a fabulous experience he is having! If anyone wants to send him a reply, you can simply reply to this note and I will forward your note to him. I hope everyone is enjoying a pleasant and happy Spring! Love, Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, ¡JOLÍN! So I had one fantastic weekend everyone! We were blessed to see both Joaquím and Olga baptized this past Saturday! I´ll go into detail in a little bit, but I want to thank you all so much for your wonderful prayers for me and I want you to all know how much I love you and care for you. I´m having such a wonderful time here in Spain and couldn´t ask for a better mission! We had everything go great on Saturday and we had to get to the Sabadell capilla early to start filling up the font. We had a good turnout from the ward and all the other missionaries from the district also attended and everything started off great. We were also blessed to have President and Hermana [Sister] Pace come to the baptism! It was so amazing to have him and her there and I just love how dedicated they are to helping all of us personally and how much they care for us and for what we do! After the service ended, President Pace shared an experience with us and Joaquím and Olga about a mission experience he had in his mission where two elders, dressed in white, sang a hymn during the service right before both of them went into the water. Ever since then, President Pace had been waiting to see that again and was touched when he saw Elder Glenn and I get up and sang Divina Luz in our white clothes. We had no idea about President´s experience and it was a very special moment when he told us that. (I also had, surprisingly, a number of people come up and say that I sang really well. I know they were lying, but that could be because Elder Glenn is just so much better than I am.. HAHA!!) Later, my companion and I were also blessed to do the confirmations on Sunday and it was such a rich experience. Our bishop shared with us late just how nice our blessings were and how he felt the spirit during the confirmations. We gave each of them new triples with personal notes from us and it was a great church service! Earlier in the week, we had our interviews with President. That was how we invited him to the baptism in the first place, but he shared some incredible insight with me about the near future for the mission with me. He hinted at, but didn't give me a straight answer of yes or no, but I will probably be going to a new area. He also let me know that we are expecting tons of new missionaries coming in this May, June, and September, so there will be a lot of new and exciting opportunities for me in the upcoming months with changes and new companions! We had a great talk and he wanted me to send his regards to Grandpa Wilson about how much he loves him, so I would greatly appreciate it if you sent his and my love to him this week! Thank you! [Grandpa Wilson was President Pace's surgeon many years ago!] Well, that was a blast of a week! This might be my last week in Terrassa so I hope to see everyone that I can before I find out if it will happen. I do kind of feel that I will though.. I've been here since November! But it´s been wonderful! I couldn't ask for a better area to be in than here! ¡Os quiero con todo de me corazón! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate... P.P.S. It´s that time of the year again, when I ask you to NOT send mail to my area address. The office address is this one again, just so you don´t have to go searching for it: Élder Alexander Weston Schindler La Mision de Barcelona C/ Calatrava 10-12, bajos 08017 Barcelona España