Something Good Can Work

Greetings from Spain! We're out here working hard as always and we've had a decent amount of success this week along with some interesting experiences. I've realized that it's always best to view our investigators as what they can become and work on helping them progress to that potential. That's a word that can mean a lot or a little depending on how much work we put in: potential. As the song by Two Door Cinema Club says, it's important to always see that something good can work. We had transfers the other day, but everyone in my district is staying so that means for sure another great 6 weeks.

We managed to meet with Luisa, the woman I mentioned that didn't know where the chapel was last week. She's a super nice Dominican lady that lives with her daughter, Sasha. Her daughter isn't a member and told us she was really religious either, but every time she left the room  during our visit, Luisa whispered to us that we had to meet with her to teach her hahaha. Luisa told us she would cook us some Dominican food next time we visit which sounded amazing the way she described it. Real excited for that.

A few days ago, we were contacting on the street and something a bit strange, but definitely cool happened. We tried to talk to this one lady who gave us the usual "I'm in a hurry" excuse and kept walking. Right after however, some guy we had never seen before said to us "yo les escucho" (I'll listen to you) before we could even try to talk to him. He told us he had met some missionaries about a year ago and he wanted to learn more, but they never called him (smh). We have a visit set up with him tonight and I can't wait to see how it goes.

We also had a lesson with one of our investigators, Kenis, this week. She's basically golden, but has just one problem. She works a lot, so we can't, meet with her often, and she can't go to church on Sunday's. We taught her about temples showed her a Mormon Message about a family who saved for a long time to be able to go to the temple. When it finished, she said that she really liked the part where it said "no sacrifice is too much" and expressed to us her desire to go to the temple someday. Unfortunately, she's leaving to visit the Dominican Republic at the end of the month and will be gone almost all of April. We'll have time to meet with her 1 or 2 more times before she leaves, but she says she's going to try and go to church while she's there and will be able to come to the one here when she gets back! I've got high hopes for her for sure.

THE SMELLS OF SPAIN

After being in the country for nearly 3 months now, I believe I have picked out the four most distinct smells in Spain. Easily the most frequent smell is cigarette smoke - no contest. The second noteworthy stench is diesel fuel. Most cars run on it opposed to unleaded here - quick side note, almost all European made cars that you don't see in the US are super ugly. Third is a certain cologne that I swear at least 80% of Spanish men wear. Not sure why it's so common, but I seem to smell it everywhere. The fourth thing is quite the opposite. The other 20% of men here just smell like straight BO, so it's always an unpleasant surprise when we get a whiff while walking around. I hope you got a little bit of an idea of what the air in Spain smells like from reading this. The more you know 💡

I love you all and hope you all have a top class week. You'll hear from me this time next week. 

-Elder Penner

Only have one picture this week. Sorry I'm lame and I gotta take more.

1. We went over to my man Edward's house and he made us this drink that's literally just orange juice, sugar, and milk. Very good imo.