Cantan Santos Angeles

Dear family,
So once again, in a little Muslim computer shop, where the keyboards
Don’t quite function right. The weeks just fly by! This past week,
Elder Bodily and I had an absolute blast. He is my new companion from
Ogden, Utah. He plays the piano super well, he knows the scriptures,
and he´s a runner. We have way too much fun together. I´m going to
send a picture of us that we took right before we went out to go
proselyting.
So on Tuesday, I met Elder Bodily, and then we did all the stuff that
we needed to do, and then that night we went to Plaza Catalunya in the
heart of Barcelona and did contacts and sang to the missionaries that
were going home. It´s so weird seeing missionaries go home! We had a
good time singing, even though it was freezing! All the missionaries
that will go home in the summer have it so much better because the
nights are way more beautiful. It gets cold here in Spain. Not as
cold as Russia or the Baltics like the Froelich Elders, but pretty
cold.
So on Wednesday, we had a cita with a Dominican lady named Margarita.
She is really, really nice, and we´ve been meeting with her for a long
time. She wants to get baptized, and she knows that it´s something
she has to do, the only problem is that she works on Sunday and says
that she can´t give that up. We´re still working with her. We want
to get her baptized this year, but maybe that´s not the will of the
Lord. She’s really nice, she loves the elders, and she loves all the
members that we´ve introduced her to. Then we had our district
meeting, and one of the Hermanas in our district is from Spain, so we
did the whole meeting in Spanish! That still blows me away, that by
being immersed in Spanish, you just kind of learn it. So then this
night, we met a new investigator named Eddy, who is a sad soul. He´s
from Ecuador, he doesn´t work, he sits at home all day, and he told us
that he doesn´t really have purpose to his life. We hope that we can
help him out a lot, and help him realize his divine potential and his
purpose in the plan of salvation. He live with a member named Angel,
who is this man with one leg and he walks funny and I just love him to
death. He is so humble and sweet and I just give him a big hug
every time I see him. The members here are wonderful. Another cita we
had was with a man and a woman named Mariuxi and Nixon. They are from
Ecuador, she´s really sweet and patient and loves the missionaries and
what we teach, and he´s pretty good, but has anger problems. She´s
really patient with him. Of course, they´re not married, but they are
pretty interested. If we can get them married, the gospel would be
so so so good for them. Then for dinner we went to Los Luque, and we
ate so much. I´m starving right now because we ran out of food from
last week!
On Thursday, we got stood up a lot, but we did a lot of good work. We
talked to a lot of people and set up a lot of good citas for this
week. We had dinner with the Dominican lady named Marienela, and it
just makes me want to baptize lots of people! She takes care of us
like we´re her children. The gospel brings people together like
nothing else. On Friday, I got to go on intercambios with a Spaniard
named Elder Ramirez, and he was SO INTENSE. I was so worn out from
being with him because he had so much energy, talked so much! He is
the best missionary, and my brain was fried from thinking straight in
Spanish. Having a native companion would be so fun but so difficult!
I hope that I get it one day. Today we contacted a lot of people and
had a lot of good visits. One visit was with a man named Pepe, and his
wife is LDS and he isn´t. He thinks he´s too learned to be a member
of the church. We had a good cita with him, and my intercambio
companion told him that he would get baptized one day. The guy said
one day, I will. It was a good cita. The spirit can change hearts.
On Saturday, we had a lot of good things going on. We met with a lot
of good people. We contacted 50 people today, and talked to them
about the gospel. It was so fun. We talked to all different kinds of
people. People who believe, don´t believe, want to believe, don´t
want to believe. Nice people, mean people, swearing people. It was
fun. It was late and we preached to a bunch of people drinking in a
park. We just bore testimony about the happiness that God wants for
us. We had a really good time. Missionary work is the most fun when
you´re working the hardest. That´s absolutely the truth. I love it!
We had a good visit with a girl named Katy who is working to get
baptized in an Evangelical church. We taught the Restoration
beautifully, and we told her to read and pray about the Book of
Mormon. We felt the spirit, she felt the spirit, and she knew that
what we were teaching was true. Her husband came out in the middle of
the lesson and got mad at her for listening to us. We were trying to
be nice and he got mad, and then she got mad at him and told him to go
into his room. He left in a huff. This girl Katy has been prepared.
She´s going to read a part of the Book of Mormon and pray and we´re
meeting with her again this week. The good thing that we know is that
the Book is true, and that God WILL answer her if she prays sincerely.
I just sent my president letter to you, and that has basically everything in it.
Basically, we´re having a blast here in L’Hospitalet. I love my peanut
butter sandwiches. On one worldy note, that´s awesome that Lebron
had 38 points. He´s the man.
So, we´re so excited for Christmas here. It´s a wonderful time. It´s
going to be a white Christmas for us here, because we´re going to help
someone receive the saving ordinance of baptism before the end of the
year. I have faith, and Elder Bodily and I are going to work hard and
do it with the help of the Lord.
I love you fam, keep being great!
Love,
Elder Pericle
P.s. In every cita, Elder Bodily and I sing Christmas songs in
Spanish, and it´s wonderful. The people here love hearing two
American boys sing.