¡Viva España!: Feliz año nuevo!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Hopefully, you took a moment to remember why we celebrate this special time of year.

This week was my second week in Sabadell. There are two wards here in Sabadell, and our ward/area consists of the bottom part of the city and some smaller towns around it. The hermanas (sister missionaries) have more of the actually city part. Also our church building is around 30-40 minutes away on bus from where we live. Which is much different from my last area where I lived about a 5 minute walk from the church building.

with Caga Tio

We are not currently teaching many people right now so we have been doing a lot of contacting. We taught English class to a new amigo this week. Teaching English has become one of my favorite things on the mission. Since I have been here in Sabadell we have had a lot of meal appointments with members which has been nice. That didn't happen too much in Vitoria. I asked one of the families we were eating with if the dish was Spanish and they replied no its Catalán (haha). Catalonia is province here in Spain which is trying to succeed and like the Basque country they have their own language called Catalán. It is similar to Spanish and everyone who is from here can speak it. One cool thing is that we can wear missionary tags in Catalán.

Another funny thing that happened is everyone always asks what part of the United States Elder Bucio is from because his accent has changed to gringo. (In case you forgot he is from Mexico). One tradition they have here during Christmas time is called 'Caga Tio' which literally translates to pooping log. Little kids smack the log and it poops toys/candy. If you don't believe me go ahead and google it. I don't think I would have believed it either if I wasn't living here to see it myself.

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

Elder Neuberger

lots of pictures below: