a visit to sword city

Hey Everyone!

We´re a little short on time today to write because we spent the whole morning in a city named Toledo, which is one of the oldest cities here in Spain, and it's also known as Sword City. There are professional sword maker that make some wicked sweet swords! They made the swords for Lord of the Rings, Eragon (I think), and a bunch of other armor for Lord of the Rings as well. Almost every street has a little shop that sells some. And actually, there is one store, a  really nice one, that has a good relationship with us, so they give the missionaries a 15% discount! Haha what awesome people. They used to make the sword of Laban, and they continue to make a Captain Moroni sword, a mini statue of Moroni on the temple, and a little statue of 2 missionaries haha. So...yes I´ll admit that I bought a sword haha. I just had to. But its not a huge decked out sword that cost over 100 euros--mine was only 30 and it's smaller, so I can fit it in my suitcase. Lots of missionaries buy ones that they have to spend 80 more euros just to send them home.

Ok, I just wanted to mention one of our new investigators named Fausto. He is a super cool guy, reminds me of Leo Dicaprio first of all, but second he just is really nice and loves talking with us. He was a Jehova's Witness but now wants to know more about our religion and the Book of Mormon. He knows the bible like none other and it intimidates me haha. It was a big miracle that we found him. They hard thing is the fact that he just loves to talk and get deep in discussion with us that it is so hard for us to leave haha. I´m working on being more in control in the lessons, that way we can have the spirit with us and he can feel it. 

Well that's about it, sorry for the short email. I had a great week and am so grateful for all of the things this mission has taught me so far. I have grown a ton. I am so happy to hear everyone is doing March Madness, that's awesome! Keep it up. The Book of Mormon really does carry a power with it, and we can get that power any time we open up its pages.

I love you all so much!

Elder Franson