February 22, 2010

~ So the lady who we´re going to baptize wants to be certain this is the true church which is good, but we might not have the baptism before elder Lauener leaves, but she´ll get baptised soon I think. We think that I´ll most likely stay here in Jerez because of her and another family we´ve been teaching in our area. We think that the companion of elder Solari and I will stay here together because he knows their area and I know ours. We realized that this week we complete our six month mark, elder Solari (Brian's MTC companion) and I have been together six months.
Elder Lauener an I gave talks yesterday, and afterwards, everyone said that my accent has gotten better and better. They said they could understand me and everthing, I really love the accent here, it´s hilarious, it´s still hard to understand them sometimes, but I´m getting better at understanding it and speaking it. When we talk to someone from Madrid, or South America it´s so easy to understand them compared to here. i´m going to start using the theta now so i can sound more like them. They speak like we do in america, we put all the words together, and cut the ends of some of them, here they don´t pronounce the s at the end of words like instead of mas o menos they say ma o meno and when I say I´m from las vegas I say la vega, it´s funny. My companion is always asking me to pronounce stuff in American English, and I´m realizing that we really do have an accent. We put the words together a lot, and always use contractions, like gunna gotta wanna, and I found a double word contraction we use, I wouldn´t´ve. haha.
It has made rain here for the past 4 weeks like crazy! It´s a good thing I thought to buy an umbrella (haha just kidding dad. You´re all awesome wrestle buddy for me!
elder ross

February 16, 2010

~ We just played soccer almost all day today for p-day, of course I scored the most goals haha, I think next week we´re at least going to the driving range to hit golf balls if not to actually go play!!! I can´t wait, my comp has never been, so we´re going to start him off right. He only has two more p-days! It´s crazy thinking of it, I can´t believe he´s not going to be around. It´s going to be interesting to see what changes happen here in Jerez, eventually it´s going to be reduced down to two missionaries, so it may be at the end of this transfer. So I forgot to tell you but I bought some futbol sala (soccer played on small cement courts) shoes. Futbol sala is super fun. So yeah everything is great, I bore my testimony in church two days ago and the whole ward was laughing by the end of it, they´re such good people, it´s seriously going to be sad when I leave. We set our first baptism date last week! It is this lady from Romania that we´ve been teaching for a few months she is ready to be baptised, she´s been coming to church faithfully, and elder Lauener is going to baptise her on the very last sunday of his mission, he wanted to have a baptism so bad with me, and I wanted him to have one sooo bad too before he left. it´s pretty solid, she still needs to be interviewed, but I think everything will be good, so yeah the church is so true! We gotta use our precious sacred time God has given us wisely!!