Elder Boden

Halfway There Hola hola hola!! How are you all doing?¿ It's been another great week over here in Barcelona!! Like it was a really good week! For some exciting/scary news, Saturday was my halfway mark in the mission!! I'll hit my year mark in a week, but it is so crazy to me to know that I have less time left than I have been here!! Gosh, that makes me sad, I LOVE MY MISSION!! SPAIN IS INCREDIBLE!!! GOD IS SO FULL OF LOVE!!! I don't have time to write much tonight, but just wanted you all to know that God loves you! I feel so happy right now! I love where I am and feel so good about what I am doing! It is insanely hard and stressful, and I definitely need a lot of prayers, as well as literally all of us right now, but wow, I really just feel God completely lifting me up each and every day! I honestly don't even know how I have been able to do everything required of me! God is so good! Please just find some way to show God you love Him this week. I promise promise promise...

Christ Is The Way   Heyyyyy!!! Sorry for not writing an email last week! We were hiking all day long!! It was actually an insanely beautiful hike! We drove over to Monsterrat, the most impressive cathedral/Monestary that I have ever seen, and then from there, hiked to the peak of the mountain. It was a cool hike, basically 1.5 hours of cement steps on the mountain, I never want to see stairs again. (Sadly we live on the 13th floor of our apartment...) This week was another great one!! We were really busy, which has become the new normal, and pretty stressed as well ahah! I am in charge of taking care of all of the residency for the missionaries here, and boy it isn't easy with COVID. We have been struggling so hard to get any appointments at all, very soon, we will have a lot of illegal missionaries. I have been working with our area travel lady and our area lawyer in Germany, and we have come up with a new plan to try out this week and hopefully see some good results. We...

 Busy Busy Holaaaa!!! It's been a really good, long week!!! This week I have gained a completely new respect for any missionary who has served in the office before me ahahah! Transfer day was insane, we were driving people from the bus station to the office, to the airport back and forth the entire day, literally from 6am until 11 at night with a total of 30 minutes being able to relax! But I definitely enjoyed seeing so many missionaries! I got to see every companion I've had in the field other than the one who's already finished his mission!!  The days that followed Transfers, weren't any exception to being busy either! This is definitely a new type of missionary work, for example, we still have not taught a single lesson in my time here, I am only ever in my apartment to sleep, I always always have something to do, and our sleep schedule is all messed up!!! Buttttttttt..... I am really really enjoying it! It's definitely hard, with a whole new level of stress, bu...