First things first last week I forgot to send my address of my piso for mail!  You can send me mail at:

Elder Stephens

c/ Historiador Manuel Salcines #2 ¨1º2¨

C.P. 14004

Córdoba, Córdoba

España

This week has been really good!!  We have found a few new investigators which is really great!! A lot of people here in Spain work A TON and they say they don´t have any time for us to visit..  I hate it when people say they have absolutely 0 time for us to visit because I know even if you are working really hard they probably have at least 15 minutes at some point in the week for us to come by.  People here really do work a ton but literally 0 time for us to visit?? It´s hard but you know we just have to deal with it. 

But quick funny story here in Spain it´s custom to give a kiss on one cheek and then the other when you greet someone or are leaving them.  Obviously it´s against the rules for missionaries to do it so we have to keep our guard up. So no one has ever tried to do it to me until this week.  We were giving a lesson to these girls from Cuba who are studying here and it went really well.  When we go to leave I wasn't really paying attention and when I shook her hand next thing I know her face is on my face.  I pretty much just scream and jump back and say ``ahh soy misionero no puedo!!!`` And she just looked at me and gave me the weirdest look ever.  And it was super awkward and now I learned the lesson to always keep my guard up for the salutation kisses so I don´t have another awkward situation like that again.. 

But the work is going pretty good!! It´s just hard because people work so much and are hardly ever home.  But we have a few investigators and we're going to try to get them a baptism date this week! Hopefully it´ll work out it will make me so happy!

We have one investigator who really had a hard week.  His name is Herman and he´s from Africa and this week he got kicked out of the apartment he was staying at and his mom died..... So he´s really struggling and we're really trying to help him out.  He doesn't have anything to eat and nowhere to sleep and he can´t find a job because he doesn't have papers.  So he´s really struggling. Me and my companion have really tried to help him out. Our investigator Nancy gave us some bread and some other food and we went ahead and took it to Herman so he would have some food! I´m sure he really appreciated it and hopefully his life will get better.  

I love it here though and I'm having a great time!