Letter dated 8Apr2013

[Dear family and friends, here is Weston's letter that we received this morning! We had a nice trip out West where we saw Daniel (who had surgery on his wrist after a mountain bike accident) and Joseph. We also saw family members which was very nice! I hope that Spring is finding you wherever you are. It's having a hard time sticking around in Michigan! If you have any messages for Weston, send them as a reply to this note and I will send them to him. Best regards, Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, ¡¿¡Cómo estáis!?! What a wonderful conference we had this past weekend! I hope that you all enjoyed yourselves and that you were all also able to learn tons of great things from the prophet and the apostles! Sadly, I haven´t had the chance to watch all of Conference because of the time difference here in Spain, but I now have all the conference talks downloaded and will be listening to them all over the course of this next week. I´m also excited to watch the talks in English, for while I did get a lot out of the talks in Spanish, I´m sure it´ll have some more meaning and impact in English for me (regardless, I downloaded the talks in both English and Spanish, so that I can get some language study when I feel like it!) I really enjoyed what the prophet shared Sunday morning about obedience and that we are able to receive his blessings when we are faithful and obedient. Another talk I really liked was the talk given by Ballard and (of course) President Uchtdorf. On an interesting note, did you know that Richard Scott served his mission in Argentina and when he gives talks, he pre-records his own translations in Spanish for conference? It was a very special experience to hear his voice and his own words. ^_^ Now try and guess who has a big announcement! ME?!? Yup! So do you remember what I said about Joaquin and Olga last week? Well here´s the follow update about them- they´re getting baptized on the 20th of April! It was actually a really incredible lesson the other day and it was a once in a ´´mission´´ time experience! Before we even started the lesson of the Restoration of the Church, they told us that they had been searching for the true church and also studying about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for just as long of a time and they told us that they wanted to join themselves with the church! Try to imagine my face when they said that!!! It was a really special lesson and by the time we finished inviting them to be baptized, the answers were along the lines of ´´¡Claro que sí!´´ and ´´¡Por su puesto!´´ (or in Swedish and Czech, ´´For sure!´´ and ´´Of course!´´) We are looking forward to the 20th and it´s crazy just how prepared they really are! Thanks for your constant prayers, family, and keep them coming! They help out a great deal! I feel like I´ve skipped out on talking about my companion very much the past few weeks. Well, as I know I´ve said, Elder Glenn is a very smart and capable missionary! He is a wonderful example for me and while he might only have a little over 5 months in the field, he speaks like a wizard! When we go to members' houses, we've had a few people ask us to sing hymns because they heard him in the Sacrament Meeting singing and it´s basically the equivalent of a guy singing the way mom sings, if you can picture that in your minds! He has three brothers and a sister and hails from Pleasant Grove, Utah. On a more serious note, since he has gotten to the mission he now weighs about 83 kg (a little bit more than I weigh, which is about 78 kg) but the problem is that he has gained over 15 kg since he started his mission! It´s so funny, because he was so skinny and now that he has a normal amount of fat on him he complains how he´s the biggest Elder in existence! He doesn't take my word when I saw that I've already served with some of the biggest Elders in existence, but oh well, we´re doing really good at doing our ab exercises in the mornings, so we´ll see what changes by the end of our time together! ¡Os quiero y os echo de menos! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate...