April 6, 2011

~ ¡que bueno! what type of dog is it?? I hope it doesn´t get too big before I get home. So I´m in the Madrid 6 ward which is the area of the temple. I´m still a zone leader, and my comp has only 7 months in the mission and has been zone leader for one transfer already, and he´s awesome! I don´t know why I´ve only had good comps my whole mission. I hope I get to stay here with him for these last three transfers cause he´s great. His name is Elder Tyndale- Biscoe, and he´s lived the last 9 years in Málaga, but his dad is from Zimbabwe and his mom´s from Scotland. He´s english, but he speaks perfect spanish with a really strong southern Spain accent, it´s soo good to be with someone who has an Andaluz accent as well. When we talk with the people they say we sound like we´re from the south or the Canary Islands. He´s an awesome kid, who plays the piano like no other, and who loves futbol so we´re gunna have fun playing futbol. This ward we´re in is amazing. The members come with us to a lot of the lessons we have, and they´re a lot of activities in the stake center next to the temple, and in the MTC building. It´s soooo good to see some of the teachers that I had when I was here a year and a half ago. It really is such an amazing place. I´m definitely gunna have to come back sometime soon. I wouldn´t ever have to pay to stay or eat, I would just have to pay for the trip. It´s sad I´m not in the Canary Islands anymore. It was so much fun being a missionary there. The people are great in every part of spain. I´m in an apartment with two other misionaries, one is from California who is from the mission of Bilbao who has been to the north part of Spain, and his comp. is elder Mateer who started in the island of Lanzarote the same time that the kid I trained started in Fuerteventura. he´s from england too, and he´s awesome, and I was sooo happy when I heard we were going to live in the same piso. Our zone is awesome, the kid I trained came up with me from the Islands, he was in Tenerife and I was in Gran Canaria, and we both came up from the islands the same day, and he´s in my zone, as a district leader. There´s a kid who I met in Jerez when I started the mission who was preparing to go on a mission, and he got called to the Madrid mission, and with these changes he got put in our zone too! I talked to him on the phone, and it was awesome to here the jerez accent and to hear how he was doing. There´s another elder who was in the Islands a while ago who´s now in our zone too, so everything awesome. This zone baptizes a ton, and we have quite a few real good investigators who we hope get baptized. I´m sorry for using the credit card so much. We had to rush to the airport cause I was saying good bye to people up till the very end, and when we got there the lady said the flight was closed and we had to beg her to let us through, but then she made me put my hand bag together with my other suitcase cause she said that my backpack already counted as my hand bag, and for the excess weight she charged me 120 € and I had no choice but to pay it cause the flight was leaving, but we made it... we were the last ones to get on the plane but we made it. And today for p-day we went to look for white shirts, but we didn´t find any, but I found a blue national spain jersey for 40 euros, and it was a real good price so I bought it. Sorry for wasting so much money. I got my other suitcase, and there were a couple of short sleeve shirts, but all the other shirts we´re long sleeve, and it´s too hot already to use long sleeve shirts so I could use like three more white short sleeve shirts if it´s possible size 14 1/2. Really don´t buy me anything else for my birthday, everything is just perfect. I do have one more favor to ask of you, I wanted to get the girl that just got baptized a scripture marking pen, and I figured that I could find one here in the distribucion center next to the temple, but it´s so small that they only have red colored pencil, so I was wondering if you guys could buy her a pink scripture marking pen/pencil and then send it to my old address in the islands, and the elders there will get it to her.
My new address here in madrid is: calle Luis de Hoyos Sainz 168, 9d
28030 Moratalaz, Madrid
España

March 30, 2011

~ That´s awesome that Jimmer Ferdett did so well, we´re in Tenerife right now, and it´s been a good couple of days. It´s weird being a little bit older in the mission. The other misionaries look to us a lot, and it´s kinda funny cause I don´t feel any different. I´ve met so many great people here. The members in the Canary Islands are great. I´ve laughed so hard with everyone of them.
I didn´t get the pants yet but thank you so much for sending me pants. It´s what I needed. Yesterday I bought a super sweet blue european suit for 30 euros and i´m so stoked! I got the last jacket and it fits so nice. I really don´t need anything for my birthday, you might as well just wait until later. Maybe another white shirt but that´s it really. Everything going great, it´s all so true, and we can all change if we trust in the Lord. Thanks for raising me right!
elder ross

March 23, 2011

~ ¡que fotos mas buenas! I can´t believe the cactuses have grown so big so fast, they´ve almost grown as much as Chloe. mi goodness I can´t believe how much she´s grown. I tell everyone about the story when I did a cartwheel a broke the wall and she told me that if I told dad earlier he wouldn´t hit me so hard, haha what a funny story. Thanks for the pictures and for making that place for the cactuses I can´t wait till they have fruit!
elder ross

~Familia mía, les quiero mucho les echo un monton de menos. I´m sorry for not being able to write very often. I didn´t see that last email until today. everything´s going great. María goings to get baptized if not this weekend the next. I don´t know if I told you about her, her family had the lessons when she was younger, and her mom and brother and sister got baptized but then they went in active. Her dad died 5 months ago, and she remembered the discussions of the missonaries. We were in the chapel one morning which very rarely happens and she knocked on the door and asked us if this was the mormon temple. We´ve been teaching her for two months and she wants to get baptized. She´s awesome. She lives way far away, and she traveled to las palmas in the GuaGua (a.k.a. bus) to find the missionaries, and that day we happened to be in the chapel, when she passed by. Miracles everywhere. When we go to Lanzarote we fly, but to Tenerife we go in the boat and it takes about 3 hours. We are going to Tenerife next week so that´ll be fun. I hope I stay another transfer. My companion still doesn´t know the area very well and he doesn´t drive so it wouldn´t surprise me if I stayed another 6 weeks. Everythings going great we´re teaching a lot of great people. I´m so stoked for BYU, I hope they do good. I can´t wait to get back and watch sports again. Keep praying and reading the scriptures and going to church. I believe my church attendance is what kept me in the church. The good influence of the good people and friends there kept me on the right path and led me back to it I guess. Thanks for everything have a great week.
elder ross
and don´t water the cactus too much.

March 9, 2011

~ We went to Lanzarote this week and set a baptism date with a guy that Elder Sanchez taught in Lanzarote and that I started to teach in Fuerteventura, so it´s great to see the changes he´s made to get where´s he´s at now. I don ´t have much time we have been pretty busy but I wouldn´t have it anyother way. Thanks for the article I liked it a lot, let me know what happens with basketball. It is an amazing school. Thanks for everything stay happy!
elder ross