Letter dated 26Nov2013

[Dear family and friends, Merry Thanksgiving! We hope this note finds you healthy, safe and well. Here is Weston's letter that we received today. I hope you like it! I will forward any replies you send along to Weston! Love, Weston's editor - BWS] Dear Family, Seasons greetings, one and all, to el día de acción de gracias here in Spain, where you won´t find too many turkeys in the ovens, nor many people celebrating their Native American and Pilgram heritage. What you will find is me, hoping the best for everyone in the United States to enjoy their mashed and sweet potatoes, stuffing, turkey, cranberry juice and american football. ^_^ This week was transfer week and all the elders will be staying together but Hermana Hagland is now leaving to Logroño, to celebrate a white Christmas, while we´ll be stuck in the land of Cataluña with our slightly less chilly weather. This week actually got pretty cold, though when I say cold, it´s only around 46 degrees, but after being here for so long it feels very cold to me. I hope I can get used to it in the next few weeks, because you know, I never know when they´ll send me to a snowy area in my mission ;) GREAT NEWS THOUGH, we passed by Joaquin and Juan Antonio again and they are doing a lot better. From what we learned the last time around, we are going to make sure they get the support they need from the ward and that they can continue learning from us and on their own. So yeah, that´s awesome! We were also in Sant Boi (our awesome city where we actually spend most of our time) and had plans to visit a recent convert, Romi, but she invited us to go visit her friend who lived pretty close by. Her name is Alexandra and is from Romania (what´s up with me and teaching Romanians?!?) and she has lots of studies for pharmacy but we are looking forward to seeing her next time. She has lots of faith, but lacks that certain drive to attend church and sadly canceled on Romi this Sunday to go with her, but hey, this sort of thing happens.. all.. the.. time... ^_^ We also help our first Family Home Evening with a family from the Dominican Republic and we ate some great macaroni-s with beef but they kept telling us to eat more. They problem is that we also had a lunch visit that we filled up on so I just started shoveling the food down and Elder Gomez looked at his plate and then asked to use the rest room. He didn't come back for a few minutes and out waited them when we started up Finding Faith in Christ and shared our message. Don´t worry, I´ll teach him how to eat more ¡^__^! With much love and enough besos to smutha ya, -- Élder Xander Weston Schindler PS We have to go back, Kate...