CALLED TO SERVE HIM

We are thrilled for the opportunity to serve with you in this wonderful mission - Spain Barcelona!  Thank you for your decision to serve Heavenly Father with all your heart, mind and strength for the next 18-24 months.  We are so thankful for you and welcome you with open arms!

Arrival of the new missionaries at the Barcelona Airport

It is a tradition in the Barcelona mission for the mission president and his wife to take the new missionaries to Montjuic.  Montjuic is a prominent hill overlooking the Barcelona Harbor.  For ages it has played a strategic part in the defense of the city.

I´LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!

It was so sad to let the the missionaries go who were heading home for Christmas at the end of their mission.  We love them so much!  They have been such a strength and gift to the mission!  We will miss all of their bright and smiling faces.  We thank them so much for their sacrifices and hard work.  The missionaries that have already gone home, or who are leaving in December, are Hermanas Bangerter, Barrientos, Barton, Brantley, Cornwell, Curtis, Fausett, Forsyth, Glover, Jardine, Lenzinger, Lighten, Lindley, Orr, Peterson, Warburton and Call.  The Elders who are leaving are Elders Bunnell, Burt, Farmer, Jones, Moore, Parker, Ricks, Squires, Tuttle and Jorquera.

A final Christmas dinner in the Mission Home

Hermanas Warburton and Cornwell

Hermanas Brantley, Bashaw, Lenzinger, and Barrientos

El Faro Nuevo

Hello, friends and family of the Barcelona, Spain Mission!  Our mission blog is live. Thanks for your interest in sharing our experiences.

We have felt the exhilaration of missionary work here since replacing our wonderful predecessors, President Merrill and Hermana Debbie Dayton, who departed at the end of June. Our focus is to move this work forward in unity, and the Lord is our strength.

Elders Doman, Trowell and Dixon in the early days

In the succeeding seven weeks, we received about sixty missionaries from the Madrid and former Malaga missions into ours, and half again as much land, creating the new Spain, Barcelona Mission, or El Faro Nuevo.  Our current mission theme is El Faro Nuevo: Unidos en Cristo! 



You should be very proud of our 250 plus missionaries who have been here during this period. They have proven faithful and adaptable amidst these changes. We eagerly await the arrival of 20 new missionaries this coming Tuesday, and have already begun our good-byes to 27 now dear missionary friends.  This is the tender cycle of missionary life.

Members of the Elche and Cartagena Zones are spoiled by this beautiful paella