Elder Boden

Eclipse Hey everyone!! It has been a really good week here in Barcelona!! In some good news, Barcelona and Madrid finally caught up with the rest of Spain today and entered phase 1. Phase 0 meant we could leave our apartments at 8pm to walk around a little bit, and I am still not totally sure what phase 1 allows us to do, but it's showing that prayers are being answered and we seem to be improving! We taught quite a few people this week, it was really good! It really amazes me at how powerful The Spirit can be even through videocall! We had some really powerful experiences! We had our second Zone Conference through Zoom this week, and it was good, we basically just discussed how to better use Facebook to find more people, we learned some really interesting things! We also finally got a graphic design app approved on our phones, so now we can start making some cool inspirational messages! On Facebook, I came across an interesting post that made me think about something pretty intere...

Two Monthsss! Hey hey hey!! This week we hit the two-month mark for how long we have been in quarantine! That's kind of crazy, I am so so blessed to still be here in Spain!!  Not a ton happened and I'm running out of time to write this email, so it'll be a short one!! One of the Hermanas' dad is an institute teacher at UVU, so we had a zoom call fireside with the whole mission last night! It was really amazing!! We talked a lot about the reason that God restored His gospel in 1820 through Joseph Smith! It really is interesting just how much preparation really went into that!! I want to invite you all to listen to the incredible talk this devotional reminded me of, "Why 1820" by Hyrum Smith. It's a little old, but it is really really good!!! Yesterday I pulled out my fancy camera, and had some fun, it's kind of impressive how much the default Samsung Gallery app can do!!  I love you all and I know without a doubt in my mind that God did restore His chur...

I'm A Farmer This was a really good week!!(: On Tuesday, I got a new companion! His name is Elder Gregory,  he's from Roseville California, and he's pretty awesome! We've been teaching a lot of people and just having a fun time! We have taught a lot of people this week it really has been awesome!! We were teaching this guy who has been a member for a year, but is a little less active. The spirit totally took over our lesson and we had a super powerful discussion! He kept just sitting there, quietly thinking,  and then would say something super profound, it was awesome! Let me tell ya,  being able to go outside has been AMAZING!!!!!  I went and got a much needed haircut, and we even bought some Kebab, BLESSINGS!!! It's been a really good week and I'm happy, I hope you all have had a great week!!(: I just want to close with a little spiritual thought! In "Come Follow Me" for this week, we studied the story of Abinidi. I really liked pondering about the s...

EXCITING NEWS!! Hey everyone!!! It's been a pretty good week here in Barcelona,  with some exciting news!!! Wednesday night,  our Mission President told us that starting this Saturday, Spain is starting to open up a little bit!! There will be 4 2-week stages, with each stage opening up the quarantine a little bit more!!! This first stage allows us to leave our apartments certain hours of the day to go on walks! I can't tell you how happy I was when he told us that!!!  Saturday was an incredible day!! The sun was super bright all day! We went on a walk in the morning, and I have never loved being outside more!! It was amazing to see the sun and actually walk hahah!!! That was definitely the highlight of the week for sure! Another cool thing was seeing some stats about Corona Virus in Spain, I found it interesting,  the two worldwide fasts that our prophet called for, are pretty much the peaks of the graph!! GOD IS HERE!!! In other crazy news, ...