First week is DONE!!!

ALOHAAAAAAAAA!!!

 So this week has been one of the greatest most spiritual weeks of my life. But its also been one of the hardest weeks of my life. I never thought i could get 8 hours of sleep every night for a week and still be tired. But i guess the Spirit is exhausting!!

Ive loved hearing from everyone! its so comforting to know that I have such great support at home!  My testimony has grown sooo much since I got here and my spanish has improved a ton. We speak only spanish everyday from 8 to 12. and it has helped so much. Whenever we teach practice lessons i can usually understand what is being said to me if they talk slower and i can answer their questions pretty ok.

I absolutely love it here! Its so amazing to be surrounded by the spirit and people who are so amazing. I must admit i worried about getting here and being the only cool kid here but its not a problem. Everyone here is so great.

So when i landed in Madrid there were like 4 other missionaries that i met and it took us like a half hour to find where our bags were and it was super stressful because none of us spoke any spanish. And then once we found our bags, the people that were there to pick us up didnt speak any english either. The first american i talked to was after we got to the MTC and were greated by tons of Spaniards in a language i could not understand. But we sat down to email real quick and i heard someone in an american accent say "Elder Burt from Boston how are you??" and i turned and saw a 6 foot tall american. I was so happy to see him. His name is President Packer. Hes so amazing. Hes as close to a dad as i have in this country. 

But after we emailed we went and played soccer. I cant even tell you how relieved i was to play soccer and not have to stress about anything. But we play soccer every day here except for sundays and its definitely a highlight that we all look forward to everyday. Except for monday when we went to play and we got to the cage where we play a lot and tons of people came flooding in yelling all kinds of words i didnt understand. But of course once they found out we all speak english, they all had to yell everey english swear word they know. 

But everyother time has been great. I especially love playing with the Brazilliian elders that are here because they are so good and so fast with their feet.

Every saturday we go to a park in one of the most popular parts of Madrid and Proselyte. I was so nervous because everyone there speaks so fast and i didnt know hardly any spanish but it was so great!! i loved it a lot! I was paired with a brazilian companion so we could only communicate with what i knew in spanish.

But we gave out tons of Books of Mormon!!

Im about out of time. But thank you all so much for the support and for all the emails!!

Love you all!!

Elder Burt