Roca de Eternidad

Email 11/9/17

Hello everybody,

Transfer weeks are always a crazy blur of saying goodbye to the familiar places and faces and being thrown into the midst of a brand new world. As stressful as it can be, more than anything, it’s exciting to be able to be somewhere new and to have new experiences. 

This week, I left Jaén and am now here in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in the Cádiz province in the southwest corner of Spain, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s part of the San Fernando Zone in the mission (I realize I may have said San Francisco Zone in my last email, but that’s wrong haha). It’s good to be back in a pueblo. This is a super Spanish place, like everything just has a super Spanish feel to it. Everything here is also super flat, and I am not missing the hills in Jaén. This part of Spain is also known for having the súper think Andalucian accent of death where they basically cut the last half off of every word, but I’ve been managing pretty well so far. The branch here also seems super good, with about 25-30 active members, which is much nicer than the last branch I was in (Motril) that had like six active members haha. I’ve been able to meet a lot of the members, investigators, and other people that we’re going to be working with here, and all in all, it seems like a great area. My companion is Elder Kassing from Gilbert, Arizona, and he just finished up his training, so I’m greenie-breaking him. (On a side note, my greenie-breaker, Elder Catmull, who is also from Gilbert, finished his mission this week, so it was nice being able to talk to him for a bit before he left.) So, it seems like it should be a good transfer.

Well, there’s not much to say than that. Sorry that this email isn’t too specific, I’m typing this on a bus to El Puerto de Santa Maria to have our preparation day with our district, and I’m getting kind of dizzy. I’ll just say that this week has been significantly less stressful than the past few, so I can’t really complain. Also, it seems like the promise found in Helaman 5:12 is true:

“And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.”

Love,

Élder Stark ??

Photos

1: Goodbye, Pablo and Pablo

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2: Goodbye, snake 

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3: Goodbye, familia Castro

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4: Goodbye, Barrio de Jaén

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5: Goodbye, Carlos

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6: Goodbye, familia Saborido

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7: Goodbye, Elder Trowell and Elder Liza

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8: Hello, Sanlúcar

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9: Hello, lawn

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10: Hello, sun

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11: Hello, castle

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12: Hello, Antonio and Elder Kassing

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13: Until next time

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