June 13 letter

Dad...even though I can't talk to you and the family in person to laugh at when you mess up a word...it still makes me laugh when you accidentally type something wrong. Like how you took the bed up to curtis and natalie...instead of whitney. i don't know why that's funny. but it is. I hope I make lots of typos that make people smile :)

thinking of the boys staring at mom makes me laugh so hard. Pretty sure i used to do that in the middle of the night. haha

ouch. your ankle does not sound good.

it sure is good to hear from you guys every week. I like it.

So as for me...this week has been kind of weirdly laid back because Hna Millán has been sick. We discovered that she now has a very bad milk allergy. So I had quite a bit more study time than usual this week...but the work has been moving despite sickness.

Just on saturday we got Paulina to move her baptismal date up to June 25th so it would be before we have transfers. So we were VERY excited about that! Paulina is so great. But...the problem is that yesterday we found out that she actually isn't technically married to the man she calls her husband....suckerpunch. So after an emotional lesson about the law of chastity and a blessing from President Sanz, she has plans to get married within the next two weeks so she can get baptized. It's crazy. So before transfers we will have a baptism and a boda :) all because Paulina has more faith than anyone I have ever met before. good times.

OH also, on saturday when we were with paulina we were planning the program for her baptism...and so we told her there are the prayers and a musical number and someone speaks and all that good stuff. So when hna millán was asking who she wanted to do everything...she did the prayers first (i was thinking yes, I will give a prayer, that will be good) and Paulina says hermana millan and someone else for the prayers and then ME for the talk. I don't think she really understood what she was choosing me for....and it definitely should have been hna millan speaking instead...but it's me. I don't even know spanish. It's going to be interesting. I'm going to be praying even more than usual, and I already pray quite a bit to be honest. But, this week I have been studing faith. And everyday the scriptures teach me that I have to put forth my faith before the Lord can help me (Alma 32 yo) so basically, tengo la fe! haha No really though. I've been loving my scriptures. I feel like for my whole life I never really understood them that well...and suddenly it's like I just get it. And I love it! In fact I'm almost done with Alma and I'm sad because i loved reading alma soooo much. And I used to dread alma when I was younger because it was so long and I didn't get all the war stuff...but now I don't want to put it down. I'm learning so much!

I'm not sure who all reads my emails but this is mainly for my byu-i roomies from the fall...This week something kind of funny happened...we were going through the area book and cleaning it out fixing it up and such. And I was going through the old informes (uhh...I don't know what they are called in english...progress report?) and found a familiar name. Elder Inama! So family you don't know who that is but, there is a guy during the fall who used to be in the ward that served in madrid. So I talked to him about spain and he showed me pictures and told me that ciudad real used to be in the madrid mission but now is in mine and he served there. But I had totally forgotten about allll of that until I saw Matt Inama's name in our area book. Super weird. It made me laugh. He was here back when our Branch President was still getting recent convert lessons. (pretty sure it's even the same piso they had. so weird.)

Anyway...I never have enough time to write everything I want to. But I love you all so much! The church is true. That's all you need to know.

LOVES,

Hermana Ross