So 2017 is officially over. I spent the whole year in Spain. And I can honestly say that it's been fantastic. I've learned a lot and met a lot of great friends. With roughly 6 months left, I hope that the rest of my mission goes just as well.
People in Spain love to party. Last night for New Years Eve I didn't fall asleep until after midnight because of how many people were lighting off firecrackers. For dinner last night we went to the house of some members from Barcelona, the Benito family, and they made a huge fancy dinner. It was delicious. We got to help them prepare the tapas, or Spanish appetizers. They even got us Christmas crackers, with confetti and paper crowns inside.
Cool miracle: There's a member in our ward named Luffy (I don't know where his parents got that name from), from Honduras. His mom (who's not a member) is visiting for a month and a half, and we taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the Book of Mormon a couple weeks ago. We went back again this last week, and in the space of 10 days she had read 125 pages in the Book of Mormon and her son Luffy had shown her four different church movies #centralamerica. The question now is whether she'll get baptized here with her son or back home where she'll be living. We also teach another lady in that same house, Ana, who's a friend of the family. She's really sincere and is learning a lot too. Even though she doesn't have time to read the Book of Mormon for an hour or two each day, she's reading poco a poco, and wants to get baptized too.
Our Romanian investigator Claudia is doing really well too. She has a lot of questions about why certain things happen in life, and why people have to suffer so much, but she's slowly accepting the answers. Hopefully she'll get baptized in the next few months.
Other highlights of the week: the Assistants came to our district meeting on Wednesday. It's a good thing that I know them both well and they're friends of mine (one of them was one of my MTC companions, Elder Simmonds!), otherwise I would've been really nervous. It turned out well.
I'll also send pictures from Christmas eve, with the family we ate with. They're a nice Bolivian family, the Guarachi family.
I love you all! Have a swell week!
-Elder Dobbs
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