June, 15, 2011

~ The baptism was amazing. The whole week we were kinda stressed getting it all ready, and there was quite a bit of opposicion, and the day of the baptism we were running around like crazy getting everything set up and the food taken care of, but when the time came everything fell into place, just perfectly. The spirit was strong, and Koritza was so happy. Right after our baptism the elders that live with us had a baptism too, and we had a bunch of food left over so we used it for their baptism and it was great. The two ladies that got baptised are awesome. They were confirmed on sunday and they were both so happy.
You gotta ask the Johnsons what´s the name of the professor because if it´s professor Lopez I know his brothers and his dad who's an area seventy here in spain. I know one of them teaches spanish at byu and they´re from spain so he´ld speak Spain Spanish. I hope I can pass that test then cause that would be awesome. I love spanish and I´ve always tried to do my best to speak it. I really don´t want to go home and speak english. I don´t know why but english feels so different now. Everyone here tells me they want to learn english and I always tell them that spanish is better and they tell me I´m crazy. Everything is going good. We are just now starting to teach quite a few people. We´ve found some less actives in the street and some other investigators and we´re teaching some friends from members so I hope we can set some more baptism dates before I go or at least prepare some more people.
I can´t wait to see this new little dog, and the garden and the fruit trees and the cactuses.
I gotta warn you guys I´m out of money this month so I may have to use my other card a few times. I have all the food I need for the month, and I spent a lot on the food for the baptism and now I don´t have anything, I hope I don´t have to use it at all and I´ll try not too. sorry for wasting your money all the time, I hope I can pay you guys back some day.
Thanks for everything, your time, your strength and your examples. we´ll see you later.
elder ross

June 8, 2011

~ I was wondering how many stakes there are in Las Vegas, I know there´s a lot but I don´t know how many. I feel crazy saying there´s 15 cause here there´s two in all of Madrid. Anyways the family from Ecuador is doing good, ´we taught them this last monday and we were able to explain to the dad about the Book of Mormon really well cause he wasn´t sure if it was a bad thing to read it or what but we had a member with us who shared a really good example. He said that as a parent you give the same general council to all your children fitted around their own personal needs right? And he said yes and then the member explain that the Book of Mormon is God´s council to his other children. We´re excited for them. On Saturday Koritza from Venezuela is going to get baptized, and the last two weeks have been amazing. She has been prepared to receive the gospel for so long. she is awesome. We bought here a triple and a bible and the magazine with the conference talks and she wrote us a letter. She´s a journalist and a teacher so she´s crazy smart and way good at expressing herself. She told us that this saturday she would be saying yes to God´s love. She´s awesome. yesterday we went through the temple and it was fun, we learned a lot like always. But yeah everything´s going great, i´ll let you know how the baptism goes.
elder ross