October

Dear Everyone,

Sorry this is a couple of days late. The first week of the month I don't have a preparation day because I have leadership council in Barcelona but better late than never right?

This week once again had its ups and downs. We have been teaching Manuel and Rosemary a lot but it's kind of a tricky situation right now. She is really wanting to be baptized and she is progressing really well but we are having a little bit of trouble with her less active husband. He is super sweet but he doesn't really understand the importance of the commitments we extend to both of them. So we kind of have our work cut out for us long story short, but we are thinking she might be baptized next week if we can figure a couple of things out. Prayers.

On Tuesday I went up to Barcelona for an intercambio with the sisters up there. On the train ride up I got to talking (I know, SO unlike me) with this guy sitting across from me. He was a middle-aged architect with 3 kids and we talked for like an hour and a half about religion and about all of the buildings he has designed around Spain and France. It was super cool. When we got off I gave him a Book of Mormon with a little note and some scripture references in it and our card. He had already begun to hand me his card and when he say the book he said "well this doesn't seem like a fair trade for you." He is atheist but he said he would read a little of the book of mormon so we'll see how that goes.

All day Wednesday was my intercambio which was a blast! The girls I was companions with were so great and the area is BEAUTIFUL! They just opened the area so they don't have a lot of investigators so we street contacted and knocked a ton of doors. We had some great appointments too and gave out a lot of Book of Mormons. It was a great day. We ended up getting like 12 numbers and several return appointments.

On Saturday we ate with the Wardells again and it was so great! We had breakfast food for lunch! We ate pancakes with REAL AMERICAN MAPLE SYRUP! (Maple syrup doesn't exist here so it was amazing) We also had fruit and bacon and this egg, potato, and mushroom casserole it was all amazing.

So you probably don't remember but several months ago Hermana Shaffer and I had an absolutely golden investigator named Alejandro but his dad thought we were rushing him too much so we had to stop teaching him. Well since then he has come to church a lot and I continue to greet him and check up on him just to see how everything is going. Anyway, great news! He wants to serve a mission! He wants to get baptized now as soon as possible. Unfortunately he just moved out into his Grandma's house so he is no longer in our area (which kind of broke my heart a little bit) but I could not be more excited for him!

Monday as I said before I had leadership council and it was amazing. We said a kneeling prayer in the middle because we weren't sure what our mission goal for this month should be and it was so powerful! President Pace offered it and several people were crying. I love concilio, the spirit in that room is always incredible.

Well I think that is all the key points from this last week. It was a lot of traveling but it was still really good and I think this week is going to be great. We are just trying to find more investigators because our pool is dwindling right now and the people we are teaching aren't really progressing anymore besides Rosemary.

Oh and by the way, transfers come up on the 15th so it might be smart to start sending letters to the mission home now just incase I get transferred.

c/ calatrava 10, 12 bajos

Barcelona, España 08017

Love you all thanks for all of your support,

Hermana Tuttle

1) Trying to do a hand stand on the right side

2) Trying to run

...most of the rest of my pictures I'm falling, we were awful at it!