December 2, 2013
Well, this week was a adventure!!!
As you know, this past week I got a new companion, Elder Coombs, who I
currently don't have any pictures of, but he is great. He is from Pleasant Grove, and cool thing, he
is studying at Utah State, mechanical engineering with an emphasis in the
aeronautical field. Same as Zane!! and me, but not at Utah State... oh well.
So, for some reason all of our
investigators have problems smoking....I don't get why, but they do and its
really lame. Oh well, it makes for good memories...especially cause the
best way to help them stop is with the nicotine gum, and when people see three missionaries
buying it we get really weird looks and we have to explain why we are getting
it.
Also this week I got to go to IKEA,
in a mall called Puerto Venecia, which is easily the biggest and nicest mall I
have ever been to, and from what I have heard from other missionaries it is the
second biggest in the world or something. For sure the biggest in Spain. It even has an ice skating ring we are going
to next week :) Also here in Zaragoza is a really cool tradition where they set
up a life-sized model of the town of Bethlehem, and the nativity. Hopefully
next week I will have pictures of that, cause they have been building it in the
Plaza de Pilar for about 2 weeks now, so it should be done. Oh ya, and if you haven't
yet, you should Google the Pilar in Zaragoza, because it is just about the
prettiest thing in the world.
Ok, so my dad had a bunch of
questions for me, and I figured I could just answer them here, so.... The best
kind of food here are the pastries, and the best is a Napolitana. They are like
a croissant thing with chocolate filling and all flaky and messy and powdery sugary
and absolutely amazing:) also, I really like the Palmera pastries too, which
are a hard, flaky bread covered in chocolate. YUM:)
My companions are both 20 years old,
both from Utah, both are amazing teachers and they came to the mission the same
time, and actually were roommates in the MTC. Our piso is really crowded with 5 people in it
now, in fact, Elder Wiscombe is on the air mattress, and we had to get a new
chair for the study room which is squishy with only two people in there,
so....ya. It is a ton of fun though....and they are both really good cooks to,
so that's a plus.
To get around we use the buses, but
they are on strike a ton, so usually we just take Bus 11.....one leg after the
other....in other words, we walk EVERYWHERE!!!! It's ok though, usually, unless we are late,
because then we have to run, in church shoes and a suit. It's all good though:)
Anyway, also this week we had Thanksgiving
at a members house with our district, and it was very interesting. They are
from Brazil, and so when they offered to host us, they also said they would
make the rice and beans and some other stuff, because they thought that was
part of what we usually eat.... we did make most of the food, such as the
turkey and rolls and mashed potatoes, which they absolutely loved, but they
also had some interesting traditions. Oh ya, and we made pumpkin Pie too:)
yum:) it was pretty good.
On the subject of food, we went to
another members house from Ecuador, and something really interesting is the
fact that I got to try Tripe.....fortunately I didn't know that's what it
was til after I ate it....it was really weird, but if I had to I could eat it
again, I guess.
Anyway, that really was my week in a
nut shell. We have 4 fetchas right now for the month of December, the next one
is for the 14th, and I am super excited, because it is a nice lady. She told us once that she understood we were
in a different country without our moms, and so she said she would be a
substitute for a while. She even offered to iron our shirts if we needed her to.
She is absolutely amazing, and I really
hope she gets baptized.
I love you all, and hope you all had
a amazing week too!!!
Love, Elder Dixon
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