Changes

Over the past month, Nick has gone from Santander, to San Sebastian, to Bilbao;  3 companions and becoming Zone Leader. That includes a new mission assignment (Barcelona) and president (Hinckley, yes President Gordon B Hinckley's son, Clark).



When asked what a Zone Leader does, he replied "I am in control of 3 separate cities and several companionships. I have to go to Council in Barcelona every transfer and I do exchanges with the District Leaders in my zone. I also have to lead the Zone Conferences with President in some sort of way to improve the work."

Last week he wrote:  "This week I had the chance to go back to Santander to do an interview with an old investigator! It was so cool to see him ready to get baptized.  Also this past Saturday we headed over to Las Arenas to do three other interviews for the elders there. They are great.  So the work is going well here."


Here's a photo of the former Bilbao missionaries, being silly. Nick's on the back row, with tongue sticking out.


About Spain winning the World Cup, he wrote "No one here really likes Spain because they are all immigrants and Basque so they didn't do anything to celebrate the victory of Spain. There are still so many parties and festivals; it's almost impossible to do contacts because the streets are empty."

Everything's Spanish

Click on the links to see highlights from Spain!









World Cup Champions!





"A Spanish July," wrote El Mundo newspaper as Contador and Formula One driver Fernando Alonso's victory at the German Grand Prix on Sunday "closed the greatest month ever in Spanish sport."
It does not end there. Spain's national basketball team — already the European champion and Olympic silver medalist — was preparing to defend its world championship title in Turkey in September. And Nadal also helped Spain to its third Davis Cup victory in five years in 2009.