June 29, 2011

~ The mission is one giant adventure. So I was sure that I would end my mission in Madrid, but friday the a.p´s called us and said that the transfers would be in our email by the end of the day, but I was so anxious I went right after the call to see if the changes were already in my email, to see who was going where. When I looked the changes weren´t there yet, but there was a train ticket to Leon with my name on it. so I couldn´t believe it, and later when we saw all the changes it was true, and i´m writing you guys from a locutorio in a city called Ponferrada. Which is to the west of Leon, which is to the north. so yeah... it was funny cause I was doing splits with elder Mateer who had been in the Canary Islands with me earlier, and we were talking about what might happen with the changes and everything, and in his mission he´s went from Malaga to the Canaries then to Leon and then to Madrid, and I said that´s crazy you got to know all the places, and then I said it would have been cool to serve in the north, but it didn´t even cross my mind at all that I would actually be sent up here.
It was so sad saying good by to everyone. Our district in Madrid is the best, and out of everyone I was the newest one, so before the changes I was trying to scare everyone else saying that for sure they would be transfered, and al final I was the only one that got transfered.
They were already talking about how bad they were going to get me in our last district meeting, but the president saved me from them all.
It´s weird cause two of the sisters both end at the end of this transfer too, and they are together, so we figured one of them would be transfered, but they both gunna end together. I made sure when I left that the district would still give them a hard time.
The ward I left is so awesome. I was there for only three months, but it was so sad to leave them. The night before all the single adults got together and we brought the lady that just got baptised, and one of her friends, and they gave me a going away party and it was awesome. They called one of the young men from Fuertevenura on a phone that had video, and I was able to see him and talk to him. It was a big surprise. I was going to see him cause he enters into the mtc this next month, and I was so excited but then I got transfered, so they called him and I talked to him and it was awesome. I´ve been surrounded by the best people all my life. My new comp is awesome just like every other comp I´ve had. We have to move pisos so we are moving everything over tomorrow. I was so sad to leave but i´m excited to work here. The mission is the best.
I´ll buy you olive oil, I was just wondering how much it costs you to buy olive oil in the store in the united states cause everyone says it´s expensive but I don´t think it will be too bad. I´m just thinking about cooking up at school wondering if it will be expensive to cook with olive oil, just cause I will wan´t to use if for everything now.
thanks for the recipes! we have vanilla extract in the piso, and I can find brown sugar in the latino stores. Right before I left madrid a bolivian family taught me how to make some cheese bread rolls that are amazing. I´ll have to see if I can find the stuff in the states. It calls for yucca flour. Anyways todo esta bien, estoy mas feliz i animado que nunca, a ver si podemos bautizar a uno mas porahi.
gracias por todo.
elder ross