Elder Penner Spain Madrid Mission: Greek Tragedy

I'm honestly too lazy to be creative today and think of a song that works with this week, so I just went with one of my favorite songs: Greek Tragedy, by The Wombats. This week has been great, though. With Elder Lowder's arrival, we've decided to try and change the way we do things around here a little bit.

Our mission president has said that by the time he finishes his mission in August, he wants a member to be leading the group here. We've been praying to be able to find someone that can fulfill that. It looks most likely that we'll have to find someone to teach and baptize that can be the group leader. With that in mind, we're trying to delegate more of our leadership responsibilities to the members so we can have more time to do actual missionary work and find the people we need to. As I mentioned a couple weeks back, we've been passing by all the members on the records here that are inactive in the church and seeing if there's any potential there. We hope to have some luck in the weeks that come.

ISLAND LIFE:

It's officially December and I'm still wearing short-sleeved shirts every day. More fun facts about the little island I'm on coming up. A member who was living in Madrid before moved back here this last week, and has promised to take us to all of the places we should see on our P-days. You guys can expect many more pictures in the weeks to come. The Canary Islands are huge for banana exports, and from what I've heard, La Palma is number one for banana production. We went on a hike today over by a national park here called La Caldera (the cauldron). It's a valley/canyon sort of area and was formed many many years ago after a huge earthquake caused a massive chunk of the mountain to slide into the sea. As opposed to most of the last couple of months I've been here, the air has been super clear this past week, so we've been able to see neighboring islands, El Hierro, La Gomera, and Tenerife, nearly every day.

That's all for this week. Hope you all have a better idea of what's going down here now. I fell like I haven't done the greatest job at explaining it. Have a brilliant week everyone!

Hasta luego,

Elder Penner

FOTOS:

1. From Tenerife last week (others are on the phone - I'll send them in a seperate email)