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February 20, 2023

Hola todos (Hello everyone)!!

I am getting a little bit more used to this whole big city thing. I am missing the mountains a lot and just being able to be out in nature but I am getting more adapted to here. Not a ton of activity has happened this week as far as teaching. The most exciting thing is we tought someone that is from Romania but has been living in Italy for 20 years and not much time in Spain so doesn't speak much Spanish but lucky for him my comp. is from Italy so we were able to teach him.

The food has continued to be incedible here. The only time the food was a little interesting is when i was eating and my comp told me I was eating Higado (liver) not normal meat, on another note we did eat completos (complete) at a members house and basically they are more inteanse hotdogs.

Another crazy thing this week was that it was Carnival weekend and we didn't get to really go see it but the City was pretty crazy. We were trying to get back to our apartment and we were kinda in a hurry and we stumbeld across a parade and it was basically completely blocking the path to get to our apartment but were were able to cross it with another crowd of people. 

-cool map of landmarks near Huesca

-The park in Huesca has a house off of Snow White

-the Parade we found

-The completo (complete)

(Just a quick disclaimer from mom. I am more aware of grammar than Garrett is. It kills me not to edit his emails but for authenticities sake I keep it just how he wrote it.)

Garrett has always been a picky eater so I was worried about him liking the food in Spain but the food seems to be his favorite thing there and what he talks about the most. The completo that he loved so much is basically a hot dog in a hoagie bun and then topped with tomatoes, guacamole, onions, sauerkraut, and maybe some other things. Garrett has never liked sauerkraut so he passed on that but he loved everything else. When he was home he never ate tomatoes or guacamole and only hot dogs if he was starving. He says the hot dogs, guacamole, and tomatoes there are different and just taste better. I told him maybe it was a blessing from being on a mission but I'm starting to wonder if I'm just a bad cook.

Garrett also told us that there was somebody in their sacrament meeting that didn't speak Spanish so they asked him to translate for this person. He said he thinks he got most of the main points so hopefully his Spanish is improving. 

One last thing I feel like I should document is that Garrett is in an apartment with 2 companionships so they have 4 cute missionaries living there. Every P-day when he calls they are getting ready to play Magic which is kind of like Dungeons and Dragons, so a total nerd game (there is nothing wrong with being a nerd.) He also plays futbol(soccer) every P-day but there are no parks or grass so they usually play at the church or on a field that is basically made of concrete with something over the top of it.

(I don't know if Garrett keeps a journal so I am just hoping that if he doesn't, this blog will be good for his posterity and a reminder to him of what he did on his mission.)