Hola from España!
Hello my family. I am in Spain right now. CRAZY! You all are probably just getting ready for bed and stuff, but it´s like 12 here. Weird right? So you want to hear something weird? Everything here is in Spanish! Crazy right? I´m loving it we have had some amazing miracles already and things are going well. So to answer the question that is on all your minds, I really haven´t had that much legit Spanish food yet. I have had jamón. Jamón is basically ham that is not cooked, but cured. So they soak it in salt water for like a month and then they eat it. It´s super delicious. It has the texture of undercooked bacon but tastes great. Other than that I havne´t really eaten anything that cool and Spanish. To be honest we have no money so I haven´t really eaten much at all :) We´re surviving off of cereal and rice for the time being. For some reason no money is on my card right now and my comp is out because he had to pay for a lot of travel this month. And none of the banks will exchange my US money for Euros. But such is life. We will survive until we get more money next month. So other than jamón I´ve had various Spanish dulces (cookies and stuff) and some interesting Spanish milk (you don´t have to refrigerate it. It can sit out for weeks and weeks). So I don´t think I´m in Kansas anymore. There is no carpet here. Anywhere. I was not expecting that. The people are great though. The Spaniards are an interesting set of people. They are very introverted. They don´t usually say hello in the streets and kinda give you a startled, strange look when you do (I say hello to everyone I pass). But the craziest thing is how diverse the people are. I´m in a city called Valdepeñas (aka the city of wine. Woohoo!) and there are tons and tons of people from all over Europe and South America here. We are teaching some Colombians (pretty sweet, right dad?) and some Romanians, and there are people from Argentina in our rama and we just contacted a man from Africa (we think he´s muslim, but I´ll tell you more about him later). The Spanish people are great, but a lot are not super receptive. Some are, and we try to talk to everyone we can, but usually we have had more success with those from outside España. But it´s good stuff. My companion is awesome. His name is E Butler and he is from Idaho. He´s been out since about June, so he´s still pretty green. So we are having a party trying to teach in Spanish and understand it together. He´s better than E Barney was so that´s good. It´s been a lot of fun. We walk everywhere. EVERYWHERE. It´s a little bit exhausting to say that least, and I may or may not have fallen asleep on the toilet once (or twice) but I wouldn´t be doing anything else right now. I´m excited to keep going. So a little bit more about our investigators. We have a handful. We have some twins from Romania; Dennis and Daniel, and their friend from Holland, Martinus. They´re all teenagers and Daniel actually just got baptized. They are awesome, and we´re hoping that they will continue to progress. We have some investigators from Colombia, Patricia and MIlton. They are practically already members. They would be members, but they aren´t married. And they would be married if the Spanish government would let them. For some reason a person from outside Spain can´t get married inside Spain without some kind of crazy permission. So they would have to go to either Italy or Colombia to get married. So they are trying to save up to do that and they have a goal to get married and baptized this year. But really they are as involved in the rama as is anyone. We also have a few more Spanish investigators and last night we have my favorite miracle of the week. We had about 15 minutes until 9:45 when we go home (our schedule is pushed back half an hour) and we decided to contact people in the streets for the last little while. I was pretty tired but decided that I wouldn´t complain and follow my awesome companion. As we walked I prayed that we would be able to find someone to teach. I prayed that the Lord would guide us to someone. So as we walked we saw a woman walking towards us and E Butler said Tu toca or you´re turn. So I thought, maybe this is the moment. So I went up to talk to her and...she didn´t even stop. So I was kinda bummed. But we kept on going. We turned a corner and there was no one there. So we turned another corner and we on our trail back home when we saw one more guy. He looked young and the younger generation aren´t usually that receptive, but we thought we would try. We stopped him and talked to him and...he was interested. Like quite interested. His name is Achmed and he´s from some country in Africa that I don´t remember. South of Morocco though. And we think he is Muslim. He looks like he could be Arabian, but he was receptive, which is different because usually Muslims don´t listen to us. So that was my favorite miracle story of the week. We found a new investigator who is Muslim in the last few minutes of our day. SUPER AWESOME! Well I hope everything is going awesome for you all. It was nice getting to talk to all you in the airport and stuff and hopefully I´ll get to again during mother´s day. They actually are able to skype here so we will be able to do that. It will be great. I´m going to send you some pictures of jamón and stuff. My camera was almost dead so I haven´t taken a ton of pictures yet, but I will take more I promise. And you can always look on the blog. Well love you lots, and miss you all.
Con amor,
Elder Flint


P.P.S This is my address here in Valdepeñas:

Elder Charles Dale Flint
C. Seis de Junio 44, 3ºB
13300 Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real)
ESPAÑA
Love you!