Dear Everyone,
I got transferred! Well after being 3 transfers (about 4.5 months) in sunny
Catalunya in the heat of the summer, they moved me to the cold part of Spain for
the winter. I´m now in Bilbao, the capital of Basque Country (a region of
Spain). Here they don´t have Catalán, they have Basque. But it´s such a
difficult language that I´ve heard that very very few speak it fluently and many
don´t speak it at all. It´s super chilly where I am. It actually reminds me a
lot of Seattle, the weather (it rains a lot here), the city, and just everything
about it. I like it so far, but I haven´t met anyone yet. It was hard to leave
all the people I had come to leave. Let me tell you a story. When I first got to
Tarragona, like my first or second day, we had the ward night that we do every
week where we invite everyone to come and share a message and play games, but
not a lot of people come. There´s a Russian recent convert mother and her 2
recently baptized children who always come. Well that first night we played
charades and I was supposed to act out a butterfly. But after flapping my arms a
fair amount, and still nobody getting it, I got a little more and more
exaggerated with my arm flapping until someone finally guessed it, but everyone
was dying laughing at me. This Russian family brought it up again and again on
many occasions, they thought it was so funny. Also, during a family home evening
with them in my first week, I mention I had tried borsch soup before and I loved
it. Well, fast forward 4 months and I´m leaving. We have a family home evening
in their home because we´ve gotten really close to them. They bring me a little
box with a bow. I open it and there´s a little butterfly magnet. And they made
borsch for me too. It´s just touching to think about how much small things like
that can mean to someone. I hope to have many more spiritual experiences and
meet lots of amazing people here in Bilbao. I hope you´re all doing well.
Élder Coleman
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