Elder Boden

CAMPING  Hola Hola Hola!!!  We are kinda out of time ahah, Spain has been crazy with Covid lately, and as of today, there is a government-enforced curfew now! If we are outside from 10pm to 6am, we can get a 300-6000$ ticket!! We are just praying that we don't get put back into full quarantine! The other day was President Galli's birthday!! We had a virtual birthday party, and we watched The Chosen! I would highly recommend it!! It is a very very unique, super interesting, and entertaining show about how it would have been for the apostles of Christ! IT IS AMAZING!!!  We decided to have a little fun this week and go camping!!! Welllllllll just about the most adventurous camping you can get as a missionary... Put everyone's mattresses on the balcony and sleep there! It was actually a ton of fun!!  Our apartment is pretty old and gross, but we live on the 13th floor, and have a 360º of all of Barcelona, so it's pretty incredible! I LOVE IT!! -Elder Boden...

My Mistakes<God's miracles Hola hola hola!!! This week passed super fast, one of these days, I'll wake up and it'll hit me that I've been here in Spain for a year and I literally live in Barcelona!! Being on a mission messes with your sense of time ahaha So like the subject line says,  this week consisted of me making some rather big mistakes, and then God coming through with some truly incredible miracles!  As missionaries in a world-wide pandemic,  we are using technology a TON now, almost all teaching is through videocall, and finding, through Facebook (or Instagram, if you're lucky enough to test that out). So of course, it's important that your technology works, right? It'd be important to have access to the internet, right?? Hmm.. who knew...?? Well right now, every companionship has a sim card with unlimited data so that they can work without problems. Now go back a few months, when the Area Presidency sent home 50 missionaries overnight,  I'm ...

  Transfers make things CRAZY!! This has been a CRAZY week!!!! Sorry for not sending an email last week or the week before! I'd had one typed for two weeks ago, but forgot to send it, so I'll do that right now! And last week was transfers, and being the ones in charge of that, we didn't really get a Preperation Day  My whole mission I have heard that transfer week is the craziest week ever for the office elders, I had no idea ahahah!!  Here's a couple fun stories! We dropped off a group of 10 at the airport at 3am, we get a call around 10am saying, "hey we all made it to Amsterdam, and they let 8 through,  but 2 of us they stopped us and asked for our residency cards, saw they are expired, (like every single missionary) and aren't letting us through and our flight to the states leaves in 20 minutes." Wow, that was definitely a crazy problem to fix, but God came through with a miracle and everyone got home safely! Another fun story, the other night some her...

  00000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 0 Hola hola hola!!! It was a good week!! A few days ago, I had a videocall with Elena, someone we'd baptized from my second area, Benidorm! It had been a while since I'd talked to her! Because we have so few missionaries, so many areas are closed, including Benidorm, which means other areas close to them are in charge of doing the work for that area. So I'd been assuming that she'd been talking with the Elche missionaries for a while, turns out she hasn't at all!!! I was super worried she'd have fallen in her testimony or something along those lines, being a brand new member in the quarantine and not talking to anyone.  But it turns out that she is still studying everyday and has been making really good relationships with members over videocall!!! I was so happy to hear that!!! God answers our prayers We have a guitar in our apartment, and I've been actually been learning to play a little bit! It's a lot of fun...