~ We got to speak with Brian on Christmas. He sounds wonderful. He kept throwing in Spanish words, and bore his testimony in Spanish. It sounded good to me. He is loving it and enjoys the work and people. He said that their schedule is different than most missions. They get up at 7:00, they exercise and have personal study. They leave the apartment at 10:00 and return at siesta time around 2:00. They then go back out at 3:30 and stay out until 10:00 at night. The Spanish people are up late into the evening. He just kept saying how much he loves it. He said that he is sending the disk from his camera. So hopefully I will have pictures to add soon.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
December 14
~ The people always have bread in on hand, and they use it to eat, it´s funny. So the people park their cars on the side walk all the time. We went to the mission home this past week to do residency. We stayed in the home over night and ate hamburgers and brownies, it was great, we got to see my old comp. Elder Anderson, he´s doing great, they have 4 baptism dates coming up. Elder solari has one coming up too! I love you all sooooo much! Everything is great, life is such a good thing.
December 7
~ So we got our picture in the newspaper, and a big article, two full pages, and it was all positive too, which was awesome, and it was the most read article online for the week, some people have been really interested it´s awesome. So we went to the guys house where we got the snails from again two days ago, and he had his mom make snails for us, the real way, and they were honestly soooooo good, I couldn´t believe it haha. His mom made shark for us and it was the best fish I´ve ever had haha. so here´s a list of things I wanted to tell you. The Spaniards honestly love futbol, they´re seriously crazy with it. The world cup over here is going to be so awesome. There´s castles arabic and huge cathedrals it´s awesome. They write their 1´s like 7´s and their A´s like triangles. The red peppers here are sweet like fruit, I love them. We have a medio dia every day from 2-4:30. The churros with chocolate are sooooo good. The people are sooooooooo animated, they use their hands to talk and so many facial expressions, I wanna learn to talk the same. I love you all!!!!
November 30
~ This Thanksgiving was rejuvinating, I need to always be extremely thankful, I´m really trying to have an attitude of gratitude. So I´ve bought a lot of frozen corn and peas and brussle sprouts, they have skim milk too! (I was worried about that) they have this turkey that´s cheap and really good, great protein. They have these two different cereals I buy that are really fiberfull and good, I buy bannanas and organges and whatever other fruit and veggies look good, their beans and lentils are really cheap, I love beans! I mix them with every thing. The ham was awesome, it was a more expensive one, but now we´re gunna try the ones that are a lot cheaper to see the difference. The ladies have cooked us fillets of pork, really good potato salad, different garbanzo bean, and other bean soups, they´re really nice. We are all hooked on the bread! haha we pour out the olive oil and then mix in salt and pepper and garlic powder and oregano and then some really good jerezano balsamic vinegar... we all sit around and dip the bread it, it´s really good haha.
So I cut my own hair for the first time with clippers that my comp has, and surprisingly it´s not terrible, I cut the sides and back top short and the middle top longer and the front top longest, it´s the shortest it´s ever been, but I really like it, it´s easier to deal with. the I had my fist interview with the president, he´s so relaxed, I always thought the mission president would be uptight for some reason but he´s really nice. Driving here would be nuts, there´s so many one way streets, the streets are all really narrow, there´s no where to park, and there´s motos (miniature motorcycles everywhere). These motos are so dangerous, they wear helmets but almost never buckle the strap, and then there´s usually two people on one moto and the roads are so bumpy, I really don´t want to see someone crazy on one of those but I really think i´m going to at some point. The people when they parallel park have no problem bumping into the other cars, I´ve seen it happen over and over again.
The sides of the major streets have these orange trees that make oranges that you can´t eat, I´ve tried them haha and they are really sour. So here in Andalucia our schedule is a little different than other missions cause we don´t wake up till 7 but we are on the street until 10pm. In the morning when we walk through the city center there´s this spot where all these farmers bring there stuff to sell, and there´s big bags of olives and clams and snails and herbs and other random roots, and I´ve always wanted to try the snails... so we were helping this investigator at his house helping him clear out his back yard that was full of junk, and there were soooo many snails everywhere, and I asked the guy if they were edible and he said they were and so we took some home and this one lady we talked to said you had to let them fast for 24 hours to get all the crap out of them, but I didn´t want to wait so we rinsed them off a bunch, and then boiled them and I but salt and garlic on one and I bit the one part and pulled it out of it´s shell, and it was gross and all crunchy cause we didn´t let them fast, but now I think that when I have them actually done right it´ll be enjoyable instead of scary. haha!
So we think that our picture was put in the newspaper yesterday (sunday) so we´re going to try and find a copy, maybe you could see it online, the newspaper company is Diario de Jerez, maybe it´s on there, but we´re going to try and find a copy. The lady interviewed the bishop, and it went really well, i think people will be able to see that we really are normal ...
The link to the article is:diariodejerez.es/article/jerez/575562/soy/mormon.html
So I cut my own hair for the first time with clippers that my comp has, and surprisingly it´s not terrible, I cut the sides and back top short and the middle top longer and the front top longest, it´s the shortest it´s ever been, but I really like it, it´s easier to deal with. the I had my fist interview with the president, he´s so relaxed, I always thought the mission president would be uptight for some reason but he´s really nice. Driving here would be nuts, there´s so many one way streets, the streets are all really narrow, there´s no where to park, and there´s motos (miniature motorcycles everywhere). These motos are so dangerous, they wear helmets but almost never buckle the strap, and then there´s usually two people on one moto and the roads are so bumpy, I really don´t want to see someone crazy on one of those but I really think i´m going to at some point. The people when they parallel park have no problem bumping into the other cars, I´ve seen it happen over and over again.
The sides of the major streets have these orange trees that make oranges that you can´t eat, I´ve tried them haha and they are really sour. So here in Andalucia our schedule is a little different than other missions cause we don´t wake up till 7 but we are on the street until 10pm. In the morning when we walk through the city center there´s this spot where all these farmers bring there stuff to sell, and there´s big bags of olives and clams and snails and herbs and other random roots, and I´ve always wanted to try the snails... so we were helping this investigator at his house helping him clear out his back yard that was full of junk, and there were soooo many snails everywhere, and I asked the guy if they were edible and he said they were and so we took some home and this one lady we talked to said you had to let them fast for 24 hours to get all the crap out of them, but I didn´t want to wait so we rinsed them off a bunch, and then boiled them and I but salt and garlic on one and I bit the one part and pulled it out of it´s shell, and it was gross and all crunchy cause we didn´t let them fast, but now I think that when I have them actually done right it´ll be enjoyable instead of scary. haha!
So we think that our picture was put in the newspaper yesterday (sunday) so we´re going to try and find a copy, maybe you could see it online, the newspaper company is Diario de Jerez, maybe it´s on there, but we´re going to try and find a copy. The lady interviewed the bishop, and it went really well, i think people will be able to see that we really are normal ...
The link to the article is:diariodejerez.es/article/jerez/575562/soy/mormon.html
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