Jamón

Dear family and friends!

It's not every day in the mission field you find yourself hauling
around a 20lbs hind leg of a pig. To explain a little bit, we work
once a week in a food kitchen giving food to less fortunate people. We
have come to be good friends with some of the people there and so they
invited us to eat lunch with all of the volunteers completely free. So
we were just having a good time eating at a Spanish restaurant taking
about what we do as missionaries and all of they sudden the head chef
guy pulls out this huge Jamón (hind led of pig that has been put in
salt for a long time). So they started selling tickets for the raffle
and everyone but us bought tickets. Unfortunately for every body else
the chef guy gave us each of us one ticket. Yep... We won a huge pig
leg. It was pretty funny! I'm glad no one got upset.

Also I don't know if it is big in the states but here everyone is
running around catching Pokemon with this new app that came out. It's
pretty funny!

We ate this week with a pretty cool family! The husband is from Spain
and the wife is from Austria, and they have 4 girls! But the thing is,
is that they all speak 3 languages perfectly.
It's pretty amazing to me how cool this family is! They are only in
Spain for the summer and are in the Germany Alpine mission in Austria
the rest of the year! Shout out to Kami Cullimore!

We are also getting a mini missionary today so next week I'll tell you
all about him!

So the 20th of August we will be having a baptism for the mother of
Veronica and we are super excited! They are so awesome, and will
forever be some of the most amazing people I have met here in Spain! I
am thankful the lord has blessed us so much here in Torrevieja! There
are some truly amazing people here!

All around I am so thankful for my mission! It definitely has been one
of my greatest decisions! It has helped me set the direction I want my
life to go! I would never trade the experiences I have gained here. I
know as we strive to serve our savior and do what the Prophet asks us
to do we will see his hands in our lives molding us to become who he
wants up to be. We as children of a God have so much potential! I know
there are some of you out there with the decision to serve a mission.
With all of my heart and sole, I testify that serving the lord by
helping his children be saved will be the greatest thing you can do.
He loves us so much. It's our duty and our privilege to serve the
lord. He died so that I may live and I am eternally grateful. I know
the lord blesses us for our sacrifices to serve him. I know now more
than ever that anything is possible with the lord on your side. Be not
afraid, only believe.