Speaking of chill, the weather has been
very nice around here. It´s usually cloudy and breezy. It rained a bit
and the temperature is lowering. I also remembered that I was entering
the field in this time, although back then I was much more confused and
gringo. It´s weird repeating dates that happened last year.
Ya,
I have Plaza del Sol in my area. The boundary on the west is Casa del Campo, this
big field, forest. The north boundary should be a street called Reina
Cristina. Also it is the intersection/metro stop called Cuatro Caminos.
The eastern boundary is Paseo de la Castellana. And the southern
boundary is Plaza de Legazpi and west and east of that. That´s more or
less our area.
I bought two things from the
transport system machines with bills and they only return money in
change so I´ve been paying for things for the past week in all coins
which has been literally very fun. Very medieval. ´Specially since I
also use the coin pouch from Wesley´s Renaissance fair a while back.
We
had a big activity in the church called "El Dia de Naciones" or "The
Day of Nations" and we basically had a cultural potluck. We have quite a
diverse ward from Phillippinos to Argentinians to Americans to Fins (My
companion.) There are three young families from America who are all
really nice. Being around them made me weirdly nostalgic. The kids were
screaming and running around like mad while the moms set up a cute
little table of tons of food (chili and Fritos--haven´t had those in
over a year--cornbread and other stuff.)
We also have quite a few
Paraguayans (of course I meet them all after Wesley leaves. By the way,
What were all his areas? I can only ever remember Asunción and Ca´acupé.
And other Guaraní phrases? All I can say is mbaeshapa and they respond
with something like "Por alla"). Our one Cuban member brought nothing
and just said "All that we have in Cuba is hunger so that´s what I
brought," which is a pretty dark joke but he´s a nice man. The chapel is
pretty big even though it´s the first floor of a big building. It´s
kind of also the second floor since it´s big. The ward is nice and I´m
excited to meet people. I met a few on pass-bys and eating appointments.
And the girlfriend of my ward mission leader in Torrejón is in this
ward and I see my ward mission leader quite a bit too. Now I know where
he was when we couldn´t find him. And our church meetings are in the
opposite order as normal for the first time I can remember.
So
as a part of being back in Madrid is having the evil temptation of
posters of movies I want to see. Currently all around the city there are
posters for "El Corredor del Laberinto" or, much shorter in English,
"Maze Runner." Curse you Madrid advertising. Also being in Madrid again I
did some research about the weird bear eating off of a tree. It´s
translated as "strawberry tree" but I found the Spanish word which is
"Madroño." You can look it up if you want.
So
as I was walking through the African, Indian, Arab, (Everything?),
ghetto on my way home last night we passed by a large 20´s dance
happening in a random plaza with very jazzy music and dancing from the
style of those days. It was very odd but it also made me very happy.
Random note.
I felt like a quite nerdy person
before this area. Now I don´t. First off, we, the Elders in this
building, are all white, blonde, nerds with black glasses. But I am very
normal now. I´ll explain later.
OH! I saw ads
for a TEDx conference (It´s a series of talks on science and design and
architecture and music and just everything. I love them.) going on here
in Madrid and I was excited to go. But then we saw the price and it was
54€ so we didn´t go. But I can watch it at home online.
I
hope that this is sufficiently long. I don´t have much time but it´s
been a while since a long email. Hopefully my wish of a chill p-day will
be granted. I love you all!
Os quiero,
Elder Morgan the Younger
*Resident of Madrid once again
*Resident of Madrid once again
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