April 26

~ The week was good, the investigators we have are progressing slowly, but they are such good people, but I know there´s people here who are prepared already. We played the young mens quorum again in fútbol, and it was a heated match, and they beat us, but my comp and I both score over 4 or 5 goals we played the first to 15, it was sweet, my comp sent you some of the pictures.
We´re going to zone conference to the Island of Tenerife the 7th of May, so I guess that´s where we´ll talk on the phone too, I´m going to take a bunch of pictures, and then I´ll send home another SD card. So I bought a kilo of young bull liver this week, and it tastes pretty strange, but with enough salt it´s not that bad, to get my iron I´m just going to eat a piece of that every week cause I know it´s loaded with it. I´m trying to learn how to make bread like they make it here in the bread shops, I made two rolls this morning that are rising in the apartment right now, I had no idea that the bread here is basically just water flour salt and yeast, it just tastes so good! I want to learn to make it. So everything is going great my companion and I are trying to make our contacts in the street more personable. We´re tying to be friendly, but with excitement, we want to get their attention, it´s been working pretty good, but still we need to practice more. It is crazy that Rachel is learning to drive, you are brave for getting into a car with her. Don´t you think it would be better if she just practiced for a couple years with the car games for the playstation? and plus she already has a motorcycle she can drive. haha everyone is just growing up so fast, well everything is great. One thing I thought was interesting was that Moses held up the snake on the stick and told the people to look and be saved, and there were people who died just because of the simpleness of the way. The things we do everyday as members of the church and followers of Christ are so simple, but they are what keep us in the straight and narrow path that leads to salvation.

April 19

~ wow... i heard about the volcano and the earthquake in China yesterday, but I thought the volcano was in Ireland cause the names sound so much a like in spanish. I swear more and more people are going to start realizing that things are changing, and that there really is nothing sure in this world except for God. I swear more people are going to realize too that the world/society is getting worse and worse morally, and more and more people will hear about the Church of Jesus Christ and the good that comes from it and it´s members, and I think people are going to want to be apart of the good. I know I´m a kid, but kids these days, they don´t want to learn they don´t want to work they just want without effort. and the distractions are so strong, and there´s so many of them. I wish they would think haha they don´t even realize how much they can become. I know I´m preaching to the choir, but it´s the truth. It´s a miracle that I´m out here on the mision, like in the Book of Mormon I can honestly say that the Lord has snatched my soul from bitter despair and utter destruction. I´m excited cause we´re going to the Island of Tenerife for zone conference like the first week in may, and that´s supposed to be one of the prettiest islands so yea everything is good. So we eat at these two families houses every single week, one on Wednesday and the other Sunday. At the one on wednesday we made sandwiches with this really good meat, it was so soft and tender and tasted so good, and then when we were done they told us it was cow tongue, haha they didn´t think we would´ve eaten it if we would have known, but it´s amazing, really I´m going to buy some cause it´s super cheap too. Also we had this sausage called morsilla, it´s a blood sausage that I had had earlier in Madrid and in Jerez, but the canary morsilla is different, it´s weird cause it´s sweet. It tasted like brownies, but there´s no chocolate in it. You could seriously put frosting on them and call them brownies and the whole world would love them. It´s really good. those two families live out in the country, and have chickens and everything, and they remind me so much of grandma and grandpa and the layed back Idaho lifestyle. they have a bunch of baby chicks, and an incubater and everything. I gave a talk yesterday in Sacrament, it´s gotten way easy to give talks. So yeah thanks for everything, thanks for helping me so much and letting me learn on my own too.
elder ross

April 5 and April 12

~ April 5th The youth here are such good kids, but still they´re teenagers, but I really think that we could get them excited and interested in the scriptures. When their parents are around they won´t listen, but when it´s just them and us when we´re playing futbol or ping pong I´m going to start talking to them about stories in the scriptures and life and I´m going to ask them about what they think, they could help a ton of people.
General conference was awesome, we didn´t get to watch the second sessions of either day but we saw priesthood yesterday morning, I really liked what Uchtdorf said about patience, and that´s a quality that I want, and I´m really going to try to learn patience. The mission is great, President and Sister Mellor told us about that experience with the mission president´s wife in chile, and I was amazed. That´s so cool.
We are all prepared for at least two weeks if we had to stay inside here, I´ve had a 100 euro bill ever since the Madrid MTC, but I need to take it and change it for smaller bills like you said that´s way smart. Thanks for everything, the church is true, and the life is good
~ April 12 Everything is going great, we are both staying here in fuerteventura, and I´m really happy. Elder Anderson is coming down here to the islands and Elder Solari is going to granada, so Elder Anderson and I will be in madrid together most likely but I think elder solari will stay in malaga, but we´ll be in spain together.
Everything is going great, we are both staying here in fuerteventura, and i´m really happy, elder solari and elder anderson that are in my group are both going zone leaders now. elder anderson is coming down here to the islands and elder solari is going to granada, so elder anderson and i will be in madrid together most likely but i think elder solari will stay in malaga, but we´ll be in spain together.
So yea, everything is going good, we ate cow tonge last week and it was amazing! haha we are going to eat blood sausage this week, and I´ve already had blood sausage in spain (it´s called Morsilla) but the people here say that the Morsilla from the canary islands is way way better, so I´m excited, all the members are awesome, we make them laugh a lot haha. So the teenagers here are all good at futbol, and they challenged the elder´s quorum to a match this last saturday and we crushed them, so they want a rematch, and it´s funny. The people here play with a lot of finés, but I just run like crazy, and shot a lot, and they say that americans always run more than them, it´s funny, but I´m going to learn their tricks and then they´ll have nothing on me haha. I do that rainbow kick while we play and they are impressed, but I could get better at my dribbling haha, I feel like my spanish accent is getting better and better, it´s kinda tough here cause there are a lot of people from other countries that are learning spanish too, but it´s all good, everything is good.