A lot has happened since the last time I wrote an email, and
it is all kind of a blur. Last week so much was going on with transfers that we
didn't have pday. On Dec. 18 we took a group of missionaries to the airport at
3 in the morning including Elder Johns, so they could be home for Christmas
even though transfers weren't really until the week after Christmas. Elder
Gomez who is from Madrid also went home but on Christmas day. He didn't tell
his family he was coming home a few days early and was going to surprise them.
I would have liked to have seen that happy reunion. We were able to eat a
lot of great food with our district for Christmas that Hermana Warnock
prepared. Also on Christmas eve we were able to visit with President and Sister
Galli in their house and we ate different traditional foods from
Spain.
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| Happy New Year Barcelona |
Last week was probably one of the craziest on my mission. I
started buying travel for missionaries because we were having transfers and the
card we use stopped working. Too much to explain here other than it created a
lot of craziness, but we made it through and everyone got where they needed to
go. We also had a missionary who was planning on leaving at 6am on Tuesday
morning. On Monday we found an email in our spam mail saying that he had to get
a PCR(covid) test. So he ended up going home a day later instead.
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| with Elder Boden and Gloria |
In the middle of all this we had the baptism of our amiga
Gloria. She was so happy and ready to be baptized. She loves the Gospel and all
the joy it brings to her life. She loves to study everything we teach and
always gives us her notes from during the week. Her baptism was also the day
she turned 88 years old.
We had one of the mission cars get broken into luckily
nothing was stolen. Also my companion was sick this week but didn't have covid.
We were also able to meet with a few new people this past week including a guy
around our age named Patricio and an abuela que se llama Luz.
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| 12 grapes |
I hope everyone has a happy new year. In Spain they eat
twelve grapes at midnight to start the new year. It is supposed to bring good
luck. They even sell the grapes in packages of twelve. Or if you missed out on
eating your twelve grapes you can follow this advice in the
scriptures: "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath
commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of
men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing
which he commandeth them." 1 Nefi 3:7
¡Tenga una buena semana!
Elder Neuberger
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| Christmas lights |
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| yummy pastry |
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| with the sisters and Hermana Warnock |
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| the gang |
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| car that was broken into |
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| view of Barcelona |
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| lazer tag for pday |
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| with the Galli's on Christmas Eve |
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