Mission Leadership Council, Exchanges, and more

Note from Mom: 

Not much new to report! Gabe and Elder Taylor got over their sickness, but they apparently gave it to their greenie, Elder Plewe! So that was nice of them. I had sent Gabe a bunch of cough drops and cough medicine and stuff, and Gabe said it arrived at the mission office like, the day he started feeling better, so he said he gave it to Elder Plewe and he was very grateful for it all! ;)  

Here are Gabe's notes:

Tuesday, November 4 - Monday, November 10, 2025

1. Mission Leadership Council 

2. Amigos

3. Exchanges 

4. Eddy!

We had MLC (Mission leadership conference) this week, which was fun. We had to wake up at 5 in the morning to take the train and go up to Madrid and we were there from sunrise till sunset. We got to go to the temple and the conference was super good. It was a lot about working hard through the Christmas season because missionary work in the whole world goes down during Christmas.

Right now we are teaching some amazing people. On Thursday we meet Pricila(mom), Cage(Daughter), and Kimberly(daughter) in the street. We met with them on Saturday and on Sunday they traveled all the way from Valdemoro for church. They are from Brazil and super nice. Then we also had a lesson with Cecilia (recent lady we baptized who is in her late 40s) and Ariana (her 19 year old daughter) and got the temple recommend for Cecilia and talked about the soon to be baptism of Ariana. It was a super good week and we have some hype people to teach. 

We also got to go on exchanges with Alcazar this week and I was with Elder Chivers. It was super fun to have them over even though it rained the entire exchange.

Eddy (a guy that Elder Adams and I had found during street contacting in Alcazar) also got baptised by the Alcazar Elders! He was an amazing guy we found one day while I was serving there.

Day-by-Day Notes:

Monday, November 3: We basically did nothing all day. We did go to Mercadona though. But I've still been sick the last couple of weeks so I took the whole day to rest.

Tuesday, November 4: We woke up this morning at 5 in the morning and traveled up to Madrid for the Mission leadership councel. It was really good but really long. We went to the temple in the middle of MLC which was great. We finished the whole thing at like 6 in the evening and we traveled back to Aranjuez. Pretty good day.

Wednesday, November 5: We had a very busy day today. This morning we met with a man named Miguel who is from Chili and very inactive. He was great and wants to come to church. Then we met with a women we meet street contacting names Magaly who was super nice and liked the Book of Mormon. Then we went to Valdemoro and has a lesson with Miriam who speaks perfect English because she was an exchange student in Idaho🥔 and we had Gabriela help us with the lesson. It was also pouring rain. Then we taught Carmen about temples with Dora's help. Then we went from Dora's house to Cinthia's and taught her whole family with Dora and Carmen helping us. Today was super busy but really good.

Thursday, November 6: Today was super cooked because Elder Plewe was super sick (I got him sick) and all of our lessons canceled but one. She complained about the cold the whole time😭. We also came home early so Elder Plewe could rest. We were working on all the stuff for the blitz that was supposed to be on Saturday but we had to cancel it because of problems with the train tickets. We will postpone that and do it in a week or two.

Friday, November 7: It was raining all day but it was a good day. Me and Elder Chivers were with each other because of exchanges, and we had a good lesson with Cecilia and Ariana. Then had a visit with the Daguimar family, which was awesome like always. 

Saturday, November 8: We started the day with a super good lesson with a street contact we meet the other day. She's from Brazil and named Pricila. She doesn't really speak spanish but she understands spanish. Then we street contacted for a while and found a BUNCH of people! Then we had a good lesson with jaime(different street contact) and Ademir helped us.

Sunday, November 9: Super chill day. We had church like always and had Pricila and her 2 daughters pull up!!! Ariana and Henry also came! So church was awesome and after that, we did our studies and went to Valdemoro for some street contacting.

Monday, November 10: Nothing this pday again. But we played frisbee and footbal in a park which was cool. After that we ate with a Melice and Julio!