Winter Winds

Just when I though winter was gone and we started to get nice, sunny, 70 degree weather last week, it decided to return this week seemingly colder than before. It snowed a couple times this week for the first time since I've been in Spain. Thus, I thought the song Winter Winds by Mumford and sons seemed fitting for my subject line this week.

This week has been solid. We've mostly been focusing on finding new people to teach. We also met with Pablo (the guy I mentioned in my update last week that found us on the street and said he wanted to meet) last Monday. He had so many questions that we barely even got through half of the first lesson. We haven't been able to meet with him since. He works as an elementary teacher, so he doesn't have a lot of time to meet. We seemed to have trouble setting up lessons this week and when we did get them set up, they fell through. That's just the way it goes sometimes. People have far less free time here, especially on weekdays. Students need to study a lot more because the school system is so competitive with the economical crisis going on, and people with jobs work long hours. We did meet this guy named Jesus yesterday. He's from Colombia and we ran into him again today. When I asked him if he liked soccer, he proceeded to show me pictures of Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez of the Colombia national team holding his daughter when she was smaller. We've got a lesson set up with him soon. I've got a good feeling about him.

We also went up to León and went on intercambios (exchanges, which is basically when we switch companions for a day) with the leaders of our zone. I got to spend the day with Elder Kiser and he's a top class lad for sure. It was interesting to see what another area was like. In their branch, they only have about 20 active members compared to our 60 in Valladolid. We had a lesson with this guy who we thought was an investigator, but when we started teaching him, we found out that he had actually been a member for 30 years hahahaha. Anyway it was a good experience in general.

Sorry if my update seemed a little lame this week, haven't had a ton of time for writing today. I'll be back next week better than ever  I promise. I love you all and hope each and every one of you have a great week :)

-Elder Penner

Just one picture this week (I really need to get better with that)

1. A member here with a snapchat air dropped this to me (ft. Elder Jones)