So actually my p-days will be on mondays...for future reference. But we are emailing today because on monday I go back down to Málaga for a Hermanas Conference. We are all getting together for a few days and I'm so excited! It is going to be fun. I barely made it in time to get to go to it. Yay! I bet there will be pictures on the mission blog from it next week.
So pretty sure Hermana Clegg emailed you...but I am in Ciudad Real with Hermana Millán. I forgot my basketball shorts in Madrid though. lame. Oh yeah, haha even crazier than that...so remember how I lose and forget stuff a lot? oh and break stuff but I haven't broken anything lately. Anyway, on the train from Málaga to Ciudad Real (I got to Málaga and was there for like 2 hours before they put me back on a train going back 2 hours the way I just came haha) I accidentally left the packet president gave me that had the credit card i'm supposed to use for my whole mission and...my passport. awesome. I'm the best. It was so terrible. But luckily, as always, Heavenly Father takes care of me. Milagros all my life...the second hermana millan hung up the phone with the train people some random elder called asking for me. He was in Madrid getting on the train and I guess they had to go to the service desk for some reason and the lady was like, oh I have a passport and some papers here for an Hermana ross. Don't you belong to the same church? And the elder was like...well, yeah. And so she let them have it! It doesn't really make sense. But the elders are sending it to my piso. (by the way, if I had lost that visa for forever...I would have to go back to the states) Also, speaking of mail. Letters can be sent to the mission home no big deal...but if ever you are going to send a package, don't send it to the mission home because they often get stolen I guess. So always send it straight to where I am living. Right now my address is
Calle La Mata no 1, 5b
Ciudad Real 13001
España
letters can be sent here too...so i get them faster :)
Anyway, so spanish is a struggle...because I'm in the real world now. Everyone has a different accent. So one person I might be able to understand mas o menos but someone else I can't understand annnnything. But my main goal is just to not get discouraged at this point. It's so hard to have all of these investigators and hardly be able to communicate with them! Oh and hermana millan is from Barcelona, knows quite a bit of english, is going to dance flamenco and is really awesome. We are in a little rama (branch) of about 15 people. I love them already. We have two baptismal dates right now...that will be coming up pretty soon. It is way exciting! Hopefully all goes well. The work moves faster in spain than most people think...i think :) Our piso is super great! We are in the central-ish of ciudad real. 2 minutes from la capilla and like 5 minutes from an H&M (not that I have time or money to go there) but we are around all of these really cool shops and just a few minutes from the Plaza Mayor too (every city has a Plaza Mayor...just a square where they party pretty much all the time) But our piso has a little balcony and it's acutally kinda big for just the two of us. But I like it. Let's see....what else. Oh, also, we have a senior couple here, the cleggs :) except the older version. It is President Clegg's cousin. Hermana Clegg used to be in the primary general presidency. They are awesome. I'm running out of time...I'll have to tell you about the people and our investigators next week. What kind of stuff do people want to know?
I love you so much!! I hope all is well in home land.
Con muchisimo amor,
Hermana Ross
Also...I have to say, that I really feel like this is where I am supposed to be. It is funny because in provo they say, your mission has already began! and then i got to spain and i was like yes i'm here! But now....I really am here. I could feel it when I got to Málaga on tuesday. It was really cool. So, I've been a real deal official full-on proselying missionary in MY mission for 4 days :) ish LOVE IT
that's all. bye bye!
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