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Hello!! I love all the emails! Love them. If I don´t answer all of them don´t fret! I will do my best.
Ok, so where to start???
c/ Silvestre Martinez de Haro Nº21, 2ªB
04600 Huércal-Overa (Almería)
España
That's
the new mailing address. Huércal-Overa is tiny.
We can walk from one side to the other in like... 30 mins.. haha and
width wise in like 8. We have a branch here of like 20ish I think. They
are awesome. Yesterday was obviously Sunday and it was great. We´ve had
two member citas or visits in the 3 days we´ve been here and the food
is waaay good. Thus far.. :) I´m getting a lot more used to sea food. No
prob. :) Anyhooo if you did the math, I´ve been here for 3 days but we
left Madrid Wednesday right. STORY TIME.
So here's the deal. All the missionaries serving in Russia, Ukraine, and Italy left Monday or Tuesday, and then all the
missionaries serving in Barcelona and Madrid left Tuesday but the Málaga
missionaries stayed till midday Wednesday before we shipped out and it
was honestly the longest like day and a half.. haha esta bien.. but
anyways, we took a 4ish hour train ride from Madrid to Málaga where President and Hra. Clegg picked us up.. and that is where the picture of
the four Malaga missionaries with them is from (the one on the mission
blog)... and then we went to the mission home and had a little
orientation, interviews with president, and got our comps. Elder Jones
is the MAN btw. :) He´s great and we get along really well. We then had
this awesome meal and then went out on the streets down in the city and
contacted for about 2 and a half hours. Pretty good stuff. Then we went
back and slept at the mission home that night. The next morning, we all
went to the major train station in Malaga and shipped out to our
areas... everyone.... but me and E. Jones.. haha :) He is just over a year
into his mish and he had to go present his passport at some government
building in Ciudad Real.. So we got on a 3 hour train ride to Ciudad Real to take care of that. We got there just to find out that
everything.... EVERYTHING... was closed. It was some local holiday
there i guess. A holiday for Don Quijote De La Mancha.. :L hahah so
anyways, we called the elders in the city close by (cuz the missionaries
in Ciudad real are hermanas) to see if we could sleep at their place
for the night and just go to Ciudad real the next day.. we then found
out that they were actually coming to Ciudad real for the ward/branch
get together thing with the misioneras in Ciudad real. So we went to
that and we was dunked head first into basically 100% Spanish. Awesome.
HARD. Awesome. :) After, we traveled back to the train station, went to
Puertollano with those two elders and dropped our stuff off at their
place and then contacted for the last.... 3 hours of the night. (btw,
the schedule for our mission is 7:30 to 11:30.. so we get back every
night around 10:15 or 10:30... so then we just zonked out for the night.
The next morning, we got up bright and early and traveled again, to Ciudad real and walked for.. like 30 minutes to the government
building for E. Jones to present his passport.. and then we ended up
just missing the earlier train that we were going to take to Malaga so
we contacted for.. like 2 hours in Ciudad real till the other train
came. We hopped on that one to head back to Malaga to pick up my 2 big
bags that we stored in a locker thing there (btw, everywhere we´ve been
traveling and walking and stuff I was just wheeling that little suitcase
around with me....... Bahaha.. worst thing ever. :) So we traveled that
3 hours back to Malaga to get those, (we grabbed some quick
McDonalds... :)) and then we got right on a 5ish hour bus right tooooooo
Almería where we met the missionaries there at like.. 10:20 and we went
back to their place to sleep that night. Totally Zonked out dead again.
:) Sooo awesome. Anyways, so the next morning, we got up at the crack
of dawn, packed up and moved out again (Saturday morning... we´ve been
traveling since midday Wednesday when I left the mtc... :D) and we got
on a 2 hour bus ride out to our cute little nowhere land
HUÉRCAL-OVERA!!! HONESTLY, felt so good just to get here and BE IN MY
AREA... There had been so much anticipation building up from the second
we left the CCM in madrid till that moment on the bus pulling into Huércal Overa.. I was way pumped. so anyways.. by this time, its like..
10ish and we get in our piso.. or apartmento.. they call em pisos here..
and we´re totally dead.. but we get up head over to this eating cita
with this member family that had been set up and it was awesome. Soo so
great to get a nice welcome to what is now my HOME BABY! So we do that
and leave a little message, and started heading back to the piso and
then whoo drives by??? THE TRAVELING AP´S BABY. Haha we are like one of
the only missions that have 4 APs at one time. We have two that are at
the mission home and office, and then two that have a car a then
honestly, drive all over the mission and stay with companionship after
companionship for 3 to 5 days each and help train and teach and then
their on their way. So honestly, I had not had like 6 hours in the field
when they drive by us walking home and whatnot. So anyways, the rest of
that night, we did these exchanges with these APs and went all over HUÉRCAL-OVER and we rocked it. AND
E PEDERSEN IS A BOSS. He is actually.... haha.. don´t hate on him.. he's
soo cool... he was actually the starting quarter back at lone peak and
graduated the year before me. He is.... como se explica.. he is 100
percent lone peak. 100 percent quarterback.. in every sense of the
word... AND.. best part.. 100 percent missionary. The most likable,
personable, tactful, intuitive, clever, awesome guy ever. Honestly, he
can walk up to someone, and within 15 seconds, he will be writing down
their number, and address. NOT EXAGGERATING (sp?) We got 17 futures
(future investigators) in 2 hours. He´s a boss. I felt pretty useless
cuz I can´t yet spit the words out fast enough.. haha people on the
street tienen mucha brisa.. Hah but esta bien. ´useless´ in a... I want
to be able to do that and get better at it... kind of sense of the word.
Not like... useless like I have zero confidence. Anyways! You
understand. So that was Saturday night. Yesterday, Sunday, we had church
and whatnot and then E Pedersen and I went out again and contacted and
had a couples lessons and stuff. We pounded it out again. I´m learning
soo much its sweet. Today is P DAY btw. Mondays are pday. Today and
tomorrow, I will be with the other AP for contacting and stuff. His name
is Elder White and he's hilarious. They are both soo good at Spanish.
Anyways.. I was a little worried to have the APs with us my first couple
days cuz I hazzz zero idea whats going on and how to do anything!
BUUUT. I am actually soo glad it happened this way cuz I have already
learned soo soo much from them I´m pumped.
Anyways, my times like up so I
gotta head but know that all is well! I like the food! Our piso is
actually nice. We each have our own beds, a nice kitchen, fridge, a
washer for our clothes, everything here we just line dry but A washer is
good enough for me!! Hah and.. yeah. Everything's great! My next letter
i´ll send my SD card home. I have a bunch of awesome picks. Love you
guys!! Keep me updated on everything that you have been. I LOVE hearing
it! Bye!
-Elder Norton
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