Bilbao

On a hike near Bilbao

Beauty and Beast cutout for youth activity

Zone Leader Council in Barcelona

Excerpt from Nick's email from Sept 20:

We met a woman on the street named Elizabeth. We had a visit with her on the bench on the street, invited her to read and come to church; she ended up reading and she was ready to go to church with us on Sunday!... Yesterday we had a visit with two retired catholic priests... It was fairly interesting.  We started teaching the first lesson and they had no complaints and were actually very anxious for us to move on to the things they didn't know and as soon as we start talking about the apostacy, Fernando  (the one that invited us) starts to flip out.  He just says "no that's not possible. That didn't happen. You don't know that." and refused to listen to us. But the other one had more interest and actually asked where the church was and asked for a Book of Mormon so we will see if I can get a Catholic priest baptized.   In the ward we now have a new mission leader named Presidente de Malino.  He is the second counselor in the stake and is INCREDIBLE. We already have seen a change in a lot of people and have received more help with the visits.  He is very excited to make this ward a missionary ward and I can see that he will be able to do it.

Defender of The Faith

 Nick's trainer, Elder Webb, made this video before his mission. So funny

Elder Webb's video

Nick and his clever companion

Executioner of the Barcelona Mission

The first week in August Nick attended a leaders' conference in Barcelona.  "It was pretty intense, almost like the MTC all over again... We didn't learn many new principles but just relearned what they taught in the mtc and Preach My Gospel. I am very excited. I have already seen improvement in the lessons. The spirit is much stronger and I feel like they understand better.

I'll be honest. It was weird to be with Jose on the mission. I felt like I was in school again, learning all sorts of stuff sitting by my friends. But it was good to see him again.

These past 2 weeks have been insane but I have gotten to know our secretary very well because he has been calling us about every day to organize everything. We finally organized our areas with the sisters here so we had to give them a pretty portion of our investigators that were on the point of getting baptized. But it's ok. We have plenty more to start progressing."



Executioner Nick has had 3 companions who are on their last weeks or months of their mission.  He currently serves with Elder Chavez. "He is incredible. He's 25 and from Ecuador but has lived in Madrid for 10 years. He wanted to go on the mission before but didn't have the option so he is excited every day."