Spain MTC letter #2

BABYYYYYYBABYBABY!!! I'm so excited!!!!!!

The elders think I'm on crack. They're just mad cause their sisters aren't having babies like mine are :)

Have they been able to hold the baby yet? That must be sooo hard to have your baby but still not be able to love it :( I hope the baby is doing well. Will you send me a picture perhaps? Is she a cute newborn? Also...no one has told me her name. Did they decide? How big was she? I'm interested in the size of the kelley babies. hahaha It sounds like that was a pretty crazy time for nat and adam...but luckily it is over and there's a new little baby kelley! yay!!! :) I can't wait to meet her.

It seems like I just had P-day because I did! We have p-day today instead of thursday because it is a fiesta in spain so no one works. It is fun to have p-day but it means we won't have another one until next thursday. Except we do still go to the temple on thursday even though it isn't p-day. Mom asked if I get to go sight seeing much...I haven't yet. But, today we are going to a place called Sol. I guess it is a really big shopping and cool stuff kinda place. I really have no idea.

I have good news too! I'm probably more like a 75% on the understanding what my companions are saying scale. Sometimes I get all of it...and sometimes much less. It is hard because everyone has a different accent. The guys from the south (my mission...) all speak way fast and slur everthing. I understand nada. My comp from Argentina, hna farías, was sooo hard to understand at first...but that is getting better. hna pulgar is from valencia and speaks pretty clearly. But I'm so happy when I know what they are saying :) Now I just have to learn to say what I wish I could say. I bore my testimony in sacrament meeting yesterday and it was quite different from the first time I bore my testimony in spanish. But it was one of the most spiritual testimony meetings I have ever been to. It was cool because some of us only know english, some only know spanish, and some know both but the spirit feels the same. My companions said they couldn't understand anything the american elders were saying but they could feel it and were crying the whole time. It was pretty great :) One of the spanish elders (who doesn´t know english) bore his testimony and said that he thinks all of us who are learning a language are so valiant and good examples and then Elder gibson (an american...doesn't know spanish yet) got up and thanked all of the spanish missionaries for being patient with our bad spanish (because they really are sooo patient and nice) and neither of them understood each other! haha

I lovvvvve my companions!! They are so nice. An example of just how nice: Hna Pulgar told me that my handwriting is really beautiful. hahahhahahaha that was a first :) they are so sweet. And good missionaries too. This past satuday in the park went a whole lot better than last time with my french companions. haha LOTS better. We are all eager to spread the good news. We spoke with this crazy old spaniard guy who talked our ears off about the process of calling a new pope and how he thinks unless you have a real in person experience with god you can never be sure. He kept saying that it is all very complicated. I gave him Moroni 10:3-5 (classic) and we bore our testimonies. I bore my testimony in my very simple spanish with as much feeling as I could muster...and he gave us his phone number and address! :) and we left un libro de mormón with him. We were so excited to have a successful contacting experience.

9am your time and 6 pm my time is perfect! I signed up for that time. I am really excited too! Happy Mother's day week mom!! :) yesterday was mother's day in spain so the spaniards called then. It made all of us americanos excited. I am so grateful for such a wonderful mom!! You are the best. Whenever anyone asks who I look up to the most, I say my mom. One of my companion's moms is inactive...and her whole family is. It makes me think of how blessed I am to be in the family I am. I'm completely spoiled.

That is the best caden quote I've ever heard. Thanks dad.

I love you all!!! Kiss all the babies. Talk to you for realsies in a week!

Olé.

Love,

Hermana Ross