Camp Nou!

Hey Everybody!

So yeah, I did hear a little bit about Boston, but not too much. Just that there was an attack and not much more... Thank you for informing me a little more about the events. I am glad that everythign seemed to work out and they caught the guys who did it. And of course, that Justin is safe! :)

Nick, Looking good in your prom pics! She is a cutie! I am with dad on this one that you need to ASK HER OUT on a date again! Girls like it man! And they are super fun! If your friends dont want to go on double and triple dates you need to find some that are willing to go! Some of my funnest memories I have from high school and my freshman year at college were on dates. Thats what you do! haha Hope you had fun! I would love to hear about it from you!

Mom, How did your talk go? Im sure you killed it! :)

So anyway, Highlights of this last week... How can I not start out with Camp Nou! Honestly, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! haha We walked in and I just sat on one of the chairs and looked at the field for like 15 minutes thinking of all the amazing things that have happened in that stadium. The incredible soccer players that have played there and the records made and broken! It was amazing! After we walked through the whole stadium and looked at just about everything! We went to the suites, locker rooms, press rooms, the tunnel, walked on the field (or Close By), the media booths, and then the trophey museum! Wow, I am speechless just remembering it... haha I got to Messi´s four Ballones de Oro, the Eurocup, Countless La Liga tropheys and awards! It was so great! Then of course soccer highlights everywhere I looked! They made me a little trunky, I wont lie! haha Anyway... Dad... Remember when I said that the only way you and Mom could come pick me up was if we went to a Barcelona game... Well... I hope that is still in your mind... cough... cough... Love You :) I attached some photos, I hope you enjoy them!

So other than that, it was a pretty normal week... We are still working with Roberto and Ayde, Mirko, and Magdalena. For some reason this week they all didnt progress too well. In fact they all didnt come to church... it was a bummer. We will have to reset some fetchas this next week and get them all to church next week! We did have a couple of miracles though! At church we had 5 investigators show up! 2 were old investigators that werent progressing too well and 3 were people we hadnt ever met! We were super excited and we know it was a blessing from the Lord! We are putting in our efforts to find new people to teach, and the Lord is blessings us with people to teach! It is the testimony I have gained here in the mission. The Lord will always do his part if we do ours! So we will set some visits with them and get to teach soem news this week, and then hopefully set some more fetchas with these children of God!

Other than that... Not much more to say. Tranfers are coming up this next week! Nothing to worry about, I will for sure be staying here, but I am hoping Elder Sutton and I can stay together for another transfer but I honestly dont see it haoppening... He is a great missionary and I think he will go open and new are and train! This transfer the mission is recieving 20 new missionaries and President needs every one to train! It is absolutely incredible what is happening right now in the mission field! The Lord really is hastening his work! He is sending more missionaries and the missionis finding new investigators like crazy! It is a great time to be a missionary! To Justin, Nick, Ryan, Mathew, and ALL other of my cousins who are future missionaries. Start preparing now! There is not a lot of time to lose and the mission goes by WAY TOO FAST!

I love you guys ton, and I hope you all have an amazing week! I will talk to you all next week!

Loves!

Elder Carrigan

1065 Messi´s 4 Ballones de Oro!

1071 Number 5! For some reason my jersey said Puyol... :)

1075 Benvinguts a l´Camp Nou

Same old Same old

Whats up!

 

So I guess my letter was super short last week because everyone said something about it! haha Sorry! Sometimes I just feel like my letters are super repetitive and I have nothing new to write! haha I will try to do a little better!

 

So this past week was a great week! We saw a lot of miracles and a lot of success! It all started last P day! Unfortunately we didnt go to Camp Nou because last minute we went with the other missionaries to this park. We will be headed to Camp Nou today! This park we went to last week was called Park Guell. It is filled with a bunch of arcitecture from a guy names Guadi. Not exactly sure who he is, but from what I have heard, he was an incredible man who designed a bunch of famous buildings here in Barcelona. He was the one who designed the main part of the Sagrada Familia. (Still on the list of things to see, but it is super exspensive to go inside!) But anyway... The thing I do know, is that he was hit by a bus and that is how he died... Just an interesting fact! haha So anyway, It was a really cool park and I will send some pictures next week as well as some pictures from Camp! I forgot my card reader...

 

After P day we got to some hard work! Our area is still laking people to teach and we are trying hard to find the elect here in Badalona. So we had a ton of visits with new potential investigators. We had two really great visits with two small families. They both are from Bolivia, and we were able to set baptisal fetchas with both of them for the 4th of May! we are really excited! One couple named, Roberto and Ayde are really prepared! I am really excited about them and they are pretty solid! They just need to start readding the Book of Mormon! The others are, Santos and Epinefia. They are great and have a little girl! They will be a little more work and we are hoping to land another visit with them this next week. We also have a baptismal date with a Spanish lady named Magdalena for this next weekend. She is super prepared to be baptized! She says she doesnt feel like she has recieved her answer, but then she always describes that when she prays, reads, and comes to church it makes a huge difference in her life and how she feels something good inside her that keeps telling her to come and to learn. We have been working with her to recognize her answer. She says she wants to be baptized, just when she knows. Im not worried, I am hoping this week, but if not this week. Im am pretty sure the 4th will be her day. We still have somethings to teach her as well. Oh yeah, we also found a great man named Mikro from Peru. He is great and more than ever, he is looking for change in his life. He came to us and told us of some problems he is experiencing right now and how he wants to be closer to his family! Well perfect!!! This is exactly why we have to gospel!!! He has friends, sisters, cousins, and all kind of family that are members and he said he wants to find, what they all have! It was an amazign miracle! He also has a fetcha for the 4th! The 4th could be an amazing day! :)

 

Other than that, it was the same old same old.. We had a couple more lessons with some people that tried to bible bash us... We knocked a lot of doors, all the old catalan men slammed them in our face like normal haha, and this week we also had someone shoot a noise tasser gun at us through the door! haha It was like those things the Japanesse fishermen us on Whale Wars!!! haha Elder Sutton and I just looked at eachother and started laughing way hard!!! A simple, no im not too interested would have worked just as well! haha!

 

Anyway, Sounds like everything at home is going well. Congrats to everyone on there big wins this week! Sounds awesome! Wish I could be there to see everyone play! Ryan looks HUGE in those photos! Dont worry, I will still take him! haha Keep up the good work everyone! Well I hope this letter was long enough... haha

 

Love you all tons!

 

Love

Elder Carrigan

 

P.S. I love the story about Ryan "having a talk" with that kid! Did Ryan make him pee his pants a little bit? Ryan looks so big, I think he could make me pee my pants! haha Honestly, it reminded me of out family scripture, "Tight Like a Dish" NOBODY, messes with the Carrigans. You want to mess with one of us, you get ALL of us! haha Love you guys!

 

Semana Santa

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!

 

So I dont have much time this week, because today we had a meeting with President about everything that is going on in the mission! So my P day today is about an hour long...

 

So Easter was pretty good, but really really different! The Easter Bunny doesnt come here to Spain. In the States, Easter is really happy and joyfull with colorful, but here it is actually kind of a sad time! Easter here is a full week long and it is celebrated during Semana Santa or Holy Week. They focus a lot on the death and suffering of Christ here rather than the resurrection. In some places in Spain they act out the whole story of Christ suffering and I have heard from other missionaries that in some places they even crucify people... Obviously they dont let them die on the cross, but they nail them to the cross!!! Crazy!

 

But other than that, it was a great week! Right now we are working with 5 baptismal fetchas. They are all so great! Wish I had time to right about them! Sorry! Most of the fetchas are for the 20th and we are super excited because we know conference will help them all a ton! I am super stoked for conference and I cant wait to watch them! Conference is the best thing in the world! I am super stoked!

 

Well, I got to go! Wish I could write more, but I love you tons! Next week will be a good letter! Next P day we are headed to Camp Nou! The stadium where Barcelona plays! I am stoked!

 

Much Love

 

Elder Carrigan

Badalona!!

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a an amazing week! Thank you for all of the emails I got this past week from everyone, and for all the support! It really helps! Although the guy in Phils ward said that Badalona was the armpit of the mission, I am really liking it here! Yes, it isnt the most beautiful place of Spain, but the members and people here are great!

This week was a great week! Elder Sutton, my new companion, is the man! We are having a blast together! We are workign a ton but also having a ton of fun! We have a lot in common and it seems like this transfer is going to awesome! Right now, we are searching for new investigators! It is always the need! Right before transfers they baptized 6 here so we are working hard with them to recieve references and hopefully begin teaching some news... And then of course, we are knocking doors like crazy! haha This past week, I think I have knocked more doors than I have in my entire mission! And of course, we started with the biggest building here in Badalona, but here is the thing, we just had fun doing it! haha I cant even explain it... Elder Sutton is just hilarious. We get to this door and then all of a sudden he gets in this "Power Stance" I dont even know... haha He says watch... This person will want to talk to us, and there you go... They talked to us! I was trying so hard not to laugh!

We are also teaching like crazy! I would tell you about some of our investigators, but to be honest, I still dont even know half their names! I am still doing my best to learn everything... Kinda stressfull, but I will get over it! haha. But the miracle this week has got to be that we had 9 people come to church this past Sunday! It was awesome! We have planned to visit with all of them, and hopefully we can land some fechas pretty quick! I am pumped!

Other than that... Ther isnt much more going on. Just the normal missionary week! I loved hearing that Nick, Ryan, and Annie are all killing it right now it their respective sports! Not being home this spring to watch I think is going to kill me! Please keep me updated and LOTS OF PHOTOS :) Keep doing work Carrigan Family! I love you all so much, and I will talk to you guys next week! Im off to Barcelona for the day! :)

Love you all tons!

Elder Carrigan