First off, I just read in
the noticias that the mission sends to us every week, and President and Hermana
Pace just went to a conference this past week, about missionary work and
digital technology. Next week we are
going to have a conference about how to use this in practice with what we are
to do. They say that they are going to
have 15 missions in Europe try it out and all 3 spain missions got approved! So we´ll wait and see what happens. Other than that I don´t know yet because
we´ll find out in the conference with President and Hermana Pace.
Questions:
dad:
How long has your
companion been in Pamplona?: 2 transfers plus this one, 3. (transfers =6 weeks,so t+t =2t, 2(6weeks) =12
weeks. I may be on a mission, but my
math is still kicking. For example the
other day I was using algebra to find how much of my daily vitamin c I was
getting in each cough drop, which is 7.5% by the way.)
How many people are
getting ready to be baptized?: We have a
few people who could if they wanted to but are held back because of
something. I came here and we had no
investigators with baptismal fechas, but we have a few investigators who are
progressing nicely. We have Lizeth and
Kismary.
What is your mailing
address?: Calle or C/Benjamin de Tudela 11,3A
Pamplona 31008
Have you been in one of
the bullfight rings yet?: nope
Are there any of the
members in the ward that have tried to be or are bullfighters?: I don´t know but I would think no, but I´m
not sure.
How far do you live from
the Citadel ?: I don´t know what that
is, and no I don´t know how far that is, but there is a big castle that surrounds
that city and we live like 15 by bus. We
live 30 minutes by bus from our area. We
live in the other elders’ area. i don´t
like it that much, but we are close to the church, like 5 minutes walking.
Are all 4 of you Elders in
Pamplona live in the same piso?: yes, one elder named Elder Defendis who is
like me, a half mexican. But I´m not
sure because his mom was born in the states but her parents are mexican. So I´m not alone.
How often will you get the
mail that is sent to your mission office?:
Once a month when the Zone leaders go down to Barcelona and have consilio
with the mission president, once a month at the beginning of the month, like
today. They go down and have an all-day
meeting and come back because we have a zone infoque this week on wednesday and
so we are going north to victoria. It´s
an hour and a half bus ride.
mom:
This week's "official
questions" I was reading that
April 22-24 is a Spanish holiday of Moros y Christianos where reenactments of
the battle are performed. Anything in
your city? Also, how about Semana
Santa? What are your observations of
that holy week?: Well this past week
there was San Jorge, some holiday that I don´t really understand, with fair
rides and candy and people dressed up as middle age people with really big
paper mashe (I think that’s how you spell it) heads. They were everywhere, but I don´t know what
holiday you’re talking about. Semana
Santa is the week of easter by the way.
So cool thing happened this week. we came out of an eating visit and were waiting at a crosswalk and guess what? The google car went by, so now I´m on the internet. I got my photo taken at 1:18pm 22 de abril 2015 at C/ capuchinos, line 7 of the bus line here in pamplona. so if they post the pictures up I´m online.
On the bus this past week
I talked to a lady who was from Penn.
She came here to spain for a study abroad in college and found someone, has
been living here for 15 years. It was
nice to talk to someone in english and not british english or african English.
I have been thinking this
past week, and Pamplona is a great city and very beautiful especially the green
parks and trees. But one thing that hit
me this past week is that fact that there are a lot of dandelion weeds
here. They are very bright and yellow
and may look pretty, but like all weeds they steel nutrition from other plants. Just like the gospel, sin may look enticing
or fun, but still sin is sin and takes us farther away from our loving Heavenly
Father. Many people are drowning in sin,
are spiritually dying and refuse to grab on to the flotation device of the gospel
of Jesus Christ. "Wickedness never
was happiness" and that phrase still rings in 2015. Sometimes I fell really sorry for the members
that live in Europe because they live in a world where the great and spacious
building is ever present and they hold fast to the iron rod I think more than
we do in the Utah bubble. I can´t tell
how many times I walk down the street and see so much pornographic images of
women with little or nothing on and the people here just think that it is
normal or beautiful. It makes me sick
sometimes because of the commandment to keep clean and safe and there are too
many people "spiritually drowning" because of these photos. Keep the commandments family. They are loving protection from our Heavenly
Father. I know that to be true. On Sunday a lady gave her testimony in
Sacrament meeting and she said that the gospel is like a pair of spiritual sunglasses
that allows us to discern good from evil.
I love you all family and
pray for health and strength for all of you.
Have a great week and feed your soul with scripture reading and prayers
every day.
con amor,
Élder Gonzalez
ps. a lady at church asked
me to reach up on the highest shelf in the cleaning closet to get some toilet
paper. It´s good to be tall :)!!!
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