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