Oh yea, Christian is leaving soon. That is pretty cool. I hope he goes Spanish speaking! And yeah, 4 months in advance is way better. It makes planning your life around your mission, like we need to do, a little bit easier.
I really think Schnauzers have the most interesting personalities ever. I ALWAYS talk to people who have them here, and then I show them pictures of ours. It makes for a pretty good contact.
Anyway, this is week one of another transfer. President always keeps the trainers with there trainees for at least two transfers. So, I have another 6 weeks here in "Romania." I am getting pretty ready to go. Romanians are great, just as a people, they don't seem to be ready to accept that there is anything but the Bible. I can't even tell you how many times people have said God is the Bible. It makes me want to cry a little inside, then karate chop them. No, but it does make me a little sad.
I did not buy a jersey yet, because they aren't going to arrive for another month. But, I did buy a two pant suit, and two other pairs of pants. All for 70 euros. I just like the European style way too much.
And about school, I am about settled on U of U, though if I keep hearing about BYU I may have to transfer. I doubt I will go back to Utah State. So yeah, go crazy with all the counselors you need to in order to get me all transferred and junk.
Other than that, cool story is that the Red Cross boss guy invited us over Sunday night. So we went over and he gave us a tour of his house, and we talked a little bit, then he fed us. It's way cool, because he is a 55 year old super intelligent guy who lives with his dad and just reads and travels in his spare time. If I never have a family, I am just going to do what he does. He invited us to eat with him again Saturday. We are in charge of bringing the brownies, alright.
Apart from that, a large group of friends just left this last transfer, and so now I am having to make younger friends in the mission. Ha, ha. It's just like high school. And then the other day, I got some weird bug bite, that made my eye just swell up like a plum. I really think it looked like a plum. It is still big right now, but it is a lot better. Having to sleep with windows open all the time can be problematic. Anyway, I will try and attach pictures at the end of internet. Stay pretty. (No pictures came.)
FYI, President asked me to take out a drivers license. So I will be sending you stuff soon with the information, OK?
Elder Dunn
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Heat is ON!
Alright, well I am glad to hear that Pepper and Penny haven't changed at all. I am also glad to hear that the remodeling is going well especially when I am not there. I told Michael, Elder Karren, to treat you guys like investigators. They really aren't that busy, they just forget. So call them, set the appointment, then the day before call and remind them of the appointment. I hope you can meet with him. He is pretty legit. Anyway, on to my week.
I think I will just go with my happy thoughts again. Last Wednesday, in Sol, downtown Madrid, I bought some nice pants. Aka, super tight skinny pants. Alright Europe style. I will have to send you a picture. I never used to like skinny pants, but that is practically all they have here. And I bought the pair for 10 euros, pretty decent. I am going to wait to buy the Spain jersey until the 28th. The ones that carry the star that is only put if you win a world cup, arrive the 26th, so then on P-day, I will be blowing 70 euros. Sorry, but it's so worth it.
Then we were teaching our baptismal date in the park the other day, and she saw two friends, and told them to come here because they needed to hear the word of God. Then like 10 minutes later someone else came, so what started as a nice little lesson, turned out to be us preaching a sermon to like 4 other people. It was pretty cool. She is way sweet about sharing the gospel with everyone she knows. We also visited this little pueblo, and the pueblo started out as just a church on a hill, then they built a town around it and junk. It was probably the coolest little pueblo. We didn't have our cameras but I will try and take some pictures next time.
After zone conference last week, I set a goal to not drink soda, to run every morning, and to not eat at night. And I was going strong for 7 days, but then yesterday, an investigator just brought us out soda, so I had to drink it. But, it's okay. I didn't even like it. It's amazing the things we do for investigators.
Well other than that, not a whole lot has happened. I am about 99% sure I am going to stay here another transfer or more, so yeah. Oh, and I never want to here about it being hot there again. Last night, it only got down to about 85 degrees. We have one fan and windows for our air conditioning. During the night, I got up, turned on the showered, got wet, including my garments, then got back in bed. It was so hot. I have never been so miserable while sleeping before. Anyway, be grateful for AC. And stay pretty.
P.S. Remember Scott has a new address. It can be found on earlier July posts.
I think I will just go with my happy thoughts again. Last Wednesday, in Sol, downtown Madrid, I bought some nice pants. Aka, super tight skinny pants. Alright Europe style. I will have to send you a picture. I never used to like skinny pants, but that is practically all they have here. And I bought the pair for 10 euros, pretty decent. I am going to wait to buy the Spain jersey until the 28th. The ones that carry the star that is only put if you win a world cup, arrive the 26th, so then on P-day, I will be blowing 70 euros. Sorry, but it's so worth it.
Then we were teaching our baptismal date in the park the other day, and she saw two friends, and told them to come here because they needed to hear the word of God. Then like 10 minutes later someone else came, so what started as a nice little lesson, turned out to be us preaching a sermon to like 4 other people. It was pretty cool. She is way sweet about sharing the gospel with everyone she knows. We also visited this little pueblo, and the pueblo started out as just a church on a hill, then they built a town around it and junk. It was probably the coolest little pueblo. We didn't have our cameras but I will try and take some pictures next time.
After zone conference last week, I set a goal to not drink soda, to run every morning, and to not eat at night. And I was going strong for 7 days, but then yesterday, an investigator just brought us out soda, so I had to drink it. But, it's okay. I didn't even like it. It's amazing the things we do for investigators.
Well other than that, not a whole lot has happened. I am about 99% sure I am going to stay here another transfer or more, so yeah. Oh, and I never want to here about it being hot there again. Last night, it only got down to about 85 degrees. We have one fan and windows for our air conditioning. During the night, I got up, turned on the showered, got wet, including my garments, then got back in bed. It was so hot. I have never been so miserable while sleeping before. Anyway, be grateful for AC. And stay pretty.
P.S. Remember Scott has a new address. It can be found on earlier July posts.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Inventions in Time of Need
Calle Fuerteventura 4 2, Oficina 8-B
28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes
Madrid, Spain
I think that is what it is. If it isn't, I can't tell you what it would be. Alright well, good week this last week. I will start with Thursday. I forgot my camera again, so this story won't have a picture, but just imagine. So our power went out at like 12:30. We didn't know why so we called the landlord and junk. Anyway, long story short someone was going to come like 8 hours later to fix whatever the problem was. So for lunch, we didn't have electricity, but we are privileged to have a BBQ in our back patio thing. So, since we didn't want to open the fridge for fear the food would go bad, we just bought like 10 pieces of meat to BBQ. Well, the best part about it was that in the middle of our BBQ, it started to pour rain. So we assembled a device out of a old ironing board, a place where you dry clothes, and the other half of the BBQ so that the rain wouldn't put out the coals. It was the most I have ever had to work to be able to eat.
Saturday night, we were sitting on a bench talking to an investigator, and this old drunk guy came up to us. In order to show our support for Spain and to get youth to talk to us, we were carrying around little Spain flags. He came up and tried to steal it from us but missed the flag because he was so drunk. Then he tried to convince us for 5 minutes to give him our flags because we aren't from Spain and because we are rich and because we don't speak Spanish well. It was quite the experience. The best part about it was about 3 minutes before we had been talking with our investigator how a lot of people in the world are just not good people. Then this happened. Ha, ha.
World Cup. Yeah. Pretty sweet huh? I may be buying a 70 euro jersey today. Sorry mom. It's worth it. Worst proselyting day of my life Sunday, but one of the better days of my life. Ha, ha. It's funny because I have friends in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and other places where they were thinking had a possibility of winning. But nope. Go Spain.
We finally got a baptismal date with this Romanian woman that we have been teaching since my 2nd day in this area. We had dropped her twice, but then finally, by some freak chain of events, she is going to get baptized. It's super good too because she speaks Romanian and Spanish almost perfectly, and English pretty well. So we are just going to get her called as a ward missionary after and just take her teaching with us every night. The hardest part of this area is the language barrier, so I can't wait to see the success that is lying ahead.
Anyway, good riddance to Carlos Boozer. And Lebron going to Miami. Wow. They might have a good team now. I am pretty excited to go home to a new home. I don't understand why you just don't move. You are practically redoing the whole house. (We are painting and carpeting) And yeah, I think every two weeks or so I hear about someone else getting engaged. I think it's great. My 2nd companion just wrote me today about the struggles of dating and inviting a girl to a church activity, her saying no, then her showing up 5 minutes after him with another guy. If I don't know any girls after, I won't have to put up with that. Ha, ha. Anyway, stay pretty. Watch my bank account after today.
Elder Dunn
28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes
Madrid, Spain
I think that is what it is. If it isn't, I can't tell you what it would be. Alright well, good week this last week. I will start with Thursday. I forgot my camera again, so this story won't have a picture, but just imagine. So our power went out at like 12:30. We didn't know why so we called the landlord and junk. Anyway, long story short someone was going to come like 8 hours later to fix whatever the problem was. So for lunch, we didn't have electricity, but we are privileged to have a BBQ in our back patio thing. So, since we didn't want to open the fridge for fear the food would go bad, we just bought like 10 pieces of meat to BBQ. Well, the best part about it was that in the middle of our BBQ, it started to pour rain. So we assembled a device out of a old ironing board, a place where you dry clothes, and the other half of the BBQ so that the rain wouldn't put out the coals. It was the most I have ever had to work to be able to eat.
Saturday night, we were sitting on a bench talking to an investigator, and this old drunk guy came up to us. In order to show our support for Spain and to get youth to talk to us, we were carrying around little Spain flags. He came up and tried to steal it from us but missed the flag because he was so drunk. Then he tried to convince us for 5 minutes to give him our flags because we aren't from Spain and because we are rich and because we don't speak Spanish well. It was quite the experience. The best part about it was about 3 minutes before we had been talking with our investigator how a lot of people in the world are just not good people. Then this happened. Ha, ha.
World Cup. Yeah. Pretty sweet huh? I may be buying a 70 euro jersey today. Sorry mom. It's worth it. Worst proselyting day of my life Sunday, but one of the better days of my life. Ha, ha. It's funny because I have friends in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and other places where they were thinking had a possibility of winning. But nope. Go Spain.
We finally got a baptismal date with this Romanian woman that we have been teaching since my 2nd day in this area. We had dropped her twice, but then finally, by some freak chain of events, she is going to get baptized. It's super good too because she speaks Romanian and Spanish almost perfectly, and English pretty well. So we are just going to get her called as a ward missionary after and just take her teaching with us every night. The hardest part of this area is the language barrier, so I can't wait to see the success that is lying ahead.
Anyway, good riddance to Carlos Boozer. And Lebron going to Miami. Wow. They might have a good team now. I am pretty excited to go home to a new home. I don't understand why you just don't move. You are practically redoing the whole house. (We are painting and carpeting) And yeah, I think every two weeks or so I hear about someone else getting engaged. I think it's great. My 2nd companion just wrote me today about the struggles of dating and inviting a girl to a church activity, her saying no, then her showing up 5 minutes after him with another guy. If I don't know any girls after, I won't have to put up with that. Ha, ha. Anyway, stay pretty. Watch my bank account after today.
Elder Dunn
Thursday, July 8, 2010
New Address
Elder Dunn
Calle Fuerteventura 4 2, Oficina 8-B
28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes
Madrid Spain
Please post on my blog! Send all mail to this new address. If not, it will get returned!
Well, the world cup is pretty legit. All the Latinos here are super sad. Spain could very well lose tonight, and this whole country could just be like it was in the Great Depression. Well if Spain lost most of the Latinos would be pretty happy. So who knows. But yeah, if Spain goes to the finals, we are going to buy jerseys and face makeup and a Spain flag. Ha, ha.
News on the metro strike, it is still at 50%. So there are trains, just if you miss it, you have to wait a long time. But at least the people are a little happier.
The greatest story about Romanians. We have this golden investigator, who lives in a little pueblo far away, and there are only like 1000 people there. So, when she ended up falling through, we were just knocking doors in the little pueblo and some guy answers the door and says, I don't understand Spanish, in Spanish, but with a Romanian accent. So, I just was all like, prefect! How are you doing? Everything going good? My name is Elder Dunn. What's yours? He said a swear word in Spanish and then slammed the door. Ha, ha. So I can have a very basic conversation in Romanian. It's a super hard language. It isn't pronounced like it is spelled, so it's hard to learn.
Some good stories of this week. We are about to go in our house for the night, but there were these two old people on a bench outside, so we decided to contact them. It was super funny because as soon as we started talking to them, I swear out of nowhere appeared 5 of their friends. And they just had a million questions for us. Two of them said they want to take a tour of the temple and we were able to teach like the entire plan of salvation. Anyway, we got home late but it was a super sweet contact.
One more story and I am going to play Frisbee, first time in more than a year, wahoo! Anyway, one day we were walking down the street and this like 17-18 year old Spanish girl walks by us super fast then does a double take and starts giggling. You also have to understand my companion is 6 foot 5 and just calls attention a lot. So, we started talking to her as we walked down the street, and she ended up being super interested. It's definitely weird who you would think has interest and who ends up having interest. But we are going to try and starting teaching her too. But yeah, the work is progressing. Mission is great. The first kid in my grade arrived home sometime ago. That is a little weird to think about. Jon will be home in like 4 months. Weird stuff. Anyway, stay pretty
Calle Fuerteventura 4 2, Oficina 8-B
28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes
Madrid Spain
Please post on my blog! Send all mail to this new address. If not, it will get returned!
Well, the world cup is pretty legit. All the Latinos here are super sad. Spain could very well lose tonight, and this whole country could just be like it was in the Great Depression. Well if Spain lost most of the Latinos would be pretty happy. So who knows. But yeah, if Spain goes to the finals, we are going to buy jerseys and face makeup and a Spain flag. Ha, ha.
News on the metro strike, it is still at 50%. So there are trains, just if you miss it, you have to wait a long time. But at least the people are a little happier.
The greatest story about Romanians. We have this golden investigator, who lives in a little pueblo far away, and there are only like 1000 people there. So, when she ended up falling through, we were just knocking doors in the little pueblo and some guy answers the door and says, I don't understand Spanish, in Spanish, but with a Romanian accent. So, I just was all like, prefect! How are you doing? Everything going good? My name is Elder Dunn. What's yours? He said a swear word in Spanish and then slammed the door. Ha, ha. So I can have a very basic conversation in Romanian. It's a super hard language. It isn't pronounced like it is spelled, so it's hard to learn.
Some good stories of this week. We are about to go in our house for the night, but there were these two old people on a bench outside, so we decided to contact them. It was super funny because as soon as we started talking to them, I swear out of nowhere appeared 5 of their friends. And they just had a million questions for us. Two of them said they want to take a tour of the temple and we were able to teach like the entire plan of salvation. Anyway, we got home late but it was a super sweet contact.
One more story and I am going to play Frisbee, first time in more than a year, wahoo! Anyway, one day we were walking down the street and this like 17-18 year old Spanish girl walks by us super fast then does a double take and starts giggling. You also have to understand my companion is 6 foot 5 and just calls attention a lot. So, we started talking to her as we walked down the street, and she ended up being super interested. It's definitely weird who you would think has interest and who ends up having interest. But we are going to try and starting teaching her too. But yeah, the work is progressing. Mission is great. The first kid in my grade arrived home sometime ago. That is a little weird to think about. Jon will be home in like 4 months. Weird stuff. Anyway, stay pretty
Thursday, July 1, 2010
A Different Mission Now
Alright, so I don't forget, I will answer your questions first.
I hope you gave me enough info about the package, if not I gave the office your email address so they can talk to you if needed. The new companion is sweet. Six feet five inches. We have fun playing basketball here. He also plays ping pong and tennis and can play all sports, so we get along.
Well, ever since we pretty much stopped going by members, now we just mostly eat at home or with 2 or 3 other families. All I eat is Argentine food and Spanish food, and it is amazing. Empenadas are great, and I love paella. I will have to cook for you guys when I get back a little.
New rules? No, president has been busy with the mission switch. Now, I am in a different mission than when I started. Legit huh? Actually there are no noticeable differences except now I can go to either Galicia, super pretty, or the Canary Islands, super awesome. So, the future is bright.
I am not allowed to miss my family. It's pretty much the biggest missionary sin there is. Haha. One of the Elders here decided to not go home a transfer early to study but to stay and do the full 2 years, and his mom was sad. Ha, ha. Then he was thinking about extending, but he said his mom would kill him. I was thinking about that. I would have a transfer more where I could extend. I dunno what I will do. Depends on the job situation I guess. Anyway, there is that. Now what is important, my thoughts on life.
Metro strike. Yeah. When the government slashes wages 5%, the whole metro went on strike Monday, 50%, then Tuesday and Wednesday 100%, then today 50%. Tomorrow is still not decided. Aka, millions of angry people in Madrid pushing and shoving on and off buses. It's pretty legit and makes for millions of awkward situations as missionaries. The best is that we went to the mission home yesterday for a zone activity, and the bus was so packed, that one of our zone leaders looked like he was spooning with some girl. Well, it was pretty common actually, but the difference was that he was with like a 20 year old super cute girl. It's pretty funny. And also, 100 degrees and no breathing room makes for a sweaty miserable bus ride. Oh man, it's been super hot here. Good times. I have about a million funny stories, but I cannot even explain them all. In short, the mission is just awesome in a million different ways.
Apart from that, the work continues. Lots of contacting, lots of rejection, lots of Romanians, lots of heat. I can now have a basic conversation in Romanian. Pretty sweet. Anyway, stay pretty.
I hope you gave me enough info about the package, if not I gave the office your email address so they can talk to you if needed. The new companion is sweet. Six feet five inches. We have fun playing basketball here. He also plays ping pong and tennis and can play all sports, so we get along.
Well, ever since we pretty much stopped going by members, now we just mostly eat at home or with 2 or 3 other families. All I eat is Argentine food and Spanish food, and it is amazing. Empenadas are great, and I love paella. I will have to cook for you guys when I get back a little.
New rules? No, president has been busy with the mission switch. Now, I am in a different mission than when I started. Legit huh? Actually there are no noticeable differences except now I can go to either Galicia, super pretty, or the Canary Islands, super awesome. So, the future is bright.
I am not allowed to miss my family. It's pretty much the biggest missionary sin there is. Haha. One of the Elders here decided to not go home a transfer early to study but to stay and do the full 2 years, and his mom was sad. Ha, ha. Then he was thinking about extending, but he said his mom would kill him. I was thinking about that. I would have a transfer more where I could extend. I dunno what I will do. Depends on the job situation I guess. Anyway, there is that. Now what is important, my thoughts on life.
Metro strike. Yeah. When the government slashes wages 5%, the whole metro went on strike Monday, 50%, then Tuesday and Wednesday 100%, then today 50%. Tomorrow is still not decided. Aka, millions of angry people in Madrid pushing and shoving on and off buses. It's pretty legit and makes for millions of awkward situations as missionaries. The best is that we went to the mission home yesterday for a zone activity, and the bus was so packed, that one of our zone leaders looked like he was spooning with some girl. Well, it was pretty common actually, but the difference was that he was with like a 20 year old super cute girl. It's pretty funny. And also, 100 degrees and no breathing room makes for a sweaty miserable bus ride. Oh man, it's been super hot here. Good times. I have about a million funny stories, but I cannot even explain them all. In short, the mission is just awesome in a million different ways.
Apart from that, the work continues. Lots of contacting, lots of rejection, lots of Romanians, lots of heat. I can now have a basic conversation in Romanian. Pretty sweet. Anyway, stay pretty.
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