Well, the first big news is that I'm being transferred today! After almost 6 months in Salamanca, I'm going to a suburb of Madrid called San Sebastian de los Reyes. This is also the transfer that my homeboy Elder Allan enters the field, but unfortunately, no one in my new zone will be training. So I'll see him in the field eventually.
Other exciting events this week:
Last Tuesday we went to Madrid for a small conference with a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, Elder Robert C. Gay. It was super good. He served in Spain as a missionary like 50 years ago, back when all of Spain was one mission and back when the only church in Madrid met in a basement. Now there are a few stakes, with various meetinghouses, and a temple and an MTC. He was a bomb speaker, and really helped us all out.
After the conference in the morning, we had a couple hours before we had to catch our train, so we stopped by Sol in Madrid, and found the legendary Five Guys restaurant that was rumored to have opened recently. It was the best fast food burger I've had in almost a year. Unfortunately, it was also the most expensive, so I might have to wait another year to eat something like it again.
We had exchanges this week, and I spent another day with my good buddy Elder Liptrott, from Manchester. His companion, Elder Trantham, is going home tomorrow, so the four of us had a good last day together as a district when they came down from Zamora. Elder Santiago and Elder Liptrott will stay to carry on the work in Salamanca and Zamora, which is going well. Zamora had two baptisms last Saturday, of two kids whose parents will get baptized soon, and on Sunday they had the first sacrament meeting there in 15 years.
These past couple days, we made a lot of goodbye visits, with some last words of advice to recent converts and words of gratitude to the other members. I'll be sad to leave them all; Salamanca is such a good branch, and it's great to help them out. But, it's time for me to move on, and for someone else to have the opportunity to work here. My companion and I had both been assigned talks to give yesterday, so I had an opportunity to leave plenty of parting words with them, about missionary work. By my own rating, it was one of my 2 best talks on my mission, so I'm happy with the result.
I know that the Lord has a plan for all of us, and that He loves us. This work is His, and nothing will stop it. All we have to do is choose to serve Him and be tools in His hands to serve others. I love you all, and I love the people of Spain.
-Elder Dobbs
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