MLC in Madrid and Exchanges with Aguadulce

Note from Mom: This post will only cover one week! Yay! I'm so on the ball this week! This was officially the first week of Gabe's second "transfer" in Granada. Here are Gabe's notes for the past two weeks!

March 3 - March 9 summary email:

MLC

Aguadulce exchanges

We had MLC this week, which was super good. We traveled up Thursday night but then the meeting went long on Friday so we missed our train and had to leave Saturday morning at 7am🪦😭. But we got to stay in the Dorms with Elder Taylor and Elder Kreipl, who were also up there for the conference. So it was fun.

We also had some super good exchanges with Elder Leonard and Elder Zayas. We got to meet with Amine and he's so ready for his baptism next week. He still wants to confess his sins weekly to the bishop though. Which isn't a bad thing, it's just kinda funny when he goes up to the bishop at church to confess he got mad during the week. He's super elect.

Day-by-Day Notes for March 3 - March 9, 2026

Tuesday, 3 of March: We had hype exchanges today. I was with Elder Leonard who's a goat. He's in his last transfer because he extended. After Pstudy, we went street contacting and we met with Amine which was super nice. He's awesome. (He is getting baptized soon.) Then we ate at Dominos with Elder Cabrera and Elder Zayas. Then we visited Selvin and his girl plus a random Spanish girl. We gave blessings to them and after that, we met with a slightly crazy lady named Magdalena. Then we had a gas lesson with Cristina and Ivanna and Bishop Nefi came with us. To end the day, we met with Jose which was awesome. We just gotta get my boy to church.

Wednesday, 4 of March: We had some hype street contacting this morning with Brigham after our lesson with Miguel. Miguel is super nice and could definitely get baptised eventually. After, we went to Karina and Jean Mark's house and talked to him about coming to church, which went well. After with Neji, he took us to his house and introduced us to his 9-year-old sister named Sophia who wants to be baptised next week🤯. (Vaughn drama). Then we went to the Banks' house to visit them which was super fun. They're a couple from the United states that comes here to Spain every year for a couple of months.

Thursday, 5 of March: The morning was just street contacted until we had a super good lesson with a girl named Breena. She is from North Carolina and is studying here in Spain. She came to church all by herself last Sunday because she had been going in the United States and in a middle eastern country. It was a good lesson, and after, we headed to the train station to go up to Madrid for MLC tomorrow.

Friday, 6 of March: We had a good MLC today and we also got to start the day off with a temple trip. So that was super nice. We ended up staying here in Madrid another night because MLC went long. So we will go back to Granada early tomorrow morning.

Saturday, 7 of March: We had a nice little sleepover with Elder Taylor and Kraple and we all woke up a 5 in the morning to get our trains. When we got to Granada, we went to Laleshka's house with Selvin and had some gas food. Then we journeyed and hiked into the mountains next the the Alhambra. It took like 30 minutes just to find the house of Jose and his kids. (When we found it, it was basically a cave. It was crazy. It was kinda sad. The craziest house I've seen in my mission (delete and ask me about it). Then we went to the church and taught the English class and also had a lesson with Amine. He's super ready for his baptism. Then we went to Neji's house and taught Sophia (the 9-year-old girl). She's super smart and also ready for her baptism. 

Sunday, 8 of March: We started church off strong with 10 people at church which was awesome. I also gave a talk which went super good. I had my Grandma Sue share her conversion story with me via email earlier this week, and I talked a little bit about it in my talk and how it took her seven years to get baptized! Then we ate with the Villamizar family and Sophia and Amine got their baptismal interviews done. Then we called all the DLs. The Hermanas also had the baptism of Samuel today! That was also super nice. Then had a priesthood meeting and the bishop gave 2 of the recent converts the Melchizedek Priesthood, which was fire. Then we had the Consejo de Zona with the Stake patriarch, which was also great!