Tuesday, December 21, 2010

December 15, 2010

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~ It´s all good, we all went to the island of Tenerife this morning to have a christmas party with President Watkins and Sister Watkins. We came over on the ferry, and they picked us up and we had a christmas devotional in the chapel here in Santa Cruz and then we ate a lot, and then we exchanged white elephant gifts, and then we ate some more, and it was great. It´s always good to see everyone, and to be together as a zone. Everything is going good. A lady in our ward taught me how to make yogurt. I remember you told me you used to make it in France, but I forgot how. My last comp. elder Slack and I tried to make it one day in Fuerteventura cause he hear that you just put yogurt with milk, and so we tried it but it didn´t work, but then we were eating with a family and she brought out a bowl of yogurt and taught us the trick which is that you have to heat the milk before and then leave it out wrapped in a blanket. And I did it and it worked way good, and now I make it all the time. It´s way cheap, and it's good, I swear my stomach feels better when I eat yogurt in the morning. We went fishing last week too with an investigator, we went to the port and fished with him for a little bit and then we taught him and it was fun. I caught a tiny fish and my comp caught a big one. It was fun. Our investigator loves fishing. His nephew is going to get baptized the first week of January, and it´s making him want to get baptised too I think. There´s so many awesome people here.
Anyways everything is going good, we´re going to do splits today with Elder De Haro and Elder Slack who are in the south of this island. Thanks for everything, Tell the perry´s and the Truman´s thanks for sending me those letters! ´have a good week!
elder ross

December 8, 2010

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~ Gracias por todo. Hicimos intercambios esta semana y han salido muy bien.... sorry umm thanks for everything we did splits this week and they came out good, the next week we´re going to the island of Tenerife to have a christmas celebracion with the president and his wife and we´re way excited, we have a small zone but everyone works hard and gets along, and because we´re so seperated every chance we get to see one another we cherish. We used the camaras to have a council with president and the other leaders de zona and then the day after we had a district meeting with all the islands and we had the meeting and then my comp and mi taught them what we had learned in the council with president. everything is going great. thanks for everything two of my favorite scriptures are alma 26:11-12 y Helaman 3: 35. they are good ones. Wish him good luck for me! i can´t believe i´m not going to see matt for more than three years!! dang. that´s life, and it´s for the best. thanks for everything
elder ross

Monday, December 6, 2010

December 1, 2010

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~ Zone conference was awesome, we Elder Caussé let me conduct in spanish so it went good. We learned a lot, and he talked a lot about the importance of revelacion. It´s amazing the the seventy are called and then they just leave everything and serve the lord for 25 years. He speaks english really well, I told him you served in the south of France where he´s from. I got the package, and the shirts are perfect. I´m staying for this transfer too, so i´ll be here for christmas. We went to the old mission home for thanksgiving and it was so good, we ate with the family that moved from fuerteventura to this island the same time that I came over. It was really good, we ate a ton. This last week was district conference and all the islands connected by camara. An area seventy came down to talk to us, Elder Wright from England, and it was really good. Presidente Watkins and Sister Watkins came down as well, and we had a good meeting, for the first half hour the camaras weren´t working, and when we have had problems before we shut the power off to the chapel and then turn it back on and it works after that for some reason, so the counselor in the district presidency was trying to figure out how to get everything working, and so I went into the hall to tell him that maybe if we turned the power off it would work. At first he wasn´t sure, because we had a chapel full of people, but it still wasn´t working, so we shut the power off, and turned it back on and then it all worked fine after that.
Elder Kap and I one night decided to go and visit a less active family that we had never met, and when we rang the doorbell they let us in and after talking for a little bit they told us how crazy it was that we rang the doorbell when we did, because right before the wife asked the husband why he didn´t go to the church, and the husband asked her the same thing, and the second after we rang the doorbell. They´re like 28-30, he´s from Argentina and served a mission and she´s from here and they live with her mom and little brother who haven´t gone to church for a long time either. And they have two little kids. So after that we have been visiting them about every week and we have had family home evening and lessons, and they all have super strong testimonies, and we invited them to come to church, but they still didn´t have the desire to come. And so the area 70 and president Watkins and the president of the district, saturday night before the conference picked two inactive families to visit, and it was them and the family, of the brother, of the husband who also served a mission in Argentina, and is inactive. So they visited them and had a super spiritual night with them and then the next day they all came to church, and it was so good to see them there. They are such good people. We are also helping two other less active family, and one of the families has a daughter who married a return missionary, and who lives in Las Vegas, and when we were visiting them the mother was talking on the phone to the daughter in las vegas, and she wanted to talk to me, and I talked to her and she asked for our house number and she wanted to call you guys. Everything is going good, I´m glad I get to stay here at least one more transfer. It´s a great place. I´m going to come home with a bunch of canary islands food recipies. thanks for everything have a good week!

November 24, 2010

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~ Thanks for everything, sorry I couldn´t write more but we had an amazing thanksgiving yesterday in the house of the mision with the elder missionaries. I don´t think I´ll be leaving so send whatever here, there´s no spicy food here so if you can find the jalapeño and peppered beef jerky send it. Haha thanks for everything we have two baptismal dates set and we could have 4 more before the end of the next week. thanks!
elder ross