Week 45

ok...SUPER sorry about last weeks email. Definitely wrote it...but forgot again about the picture deal. So I just resent it to mom. Hopefully it worked this time.

So I had a couple fun food things happen to me this week! yay! I feel like everyone always wants to know about food...but the food here isn't all that crazy. or at least I don't think so. BUT this week I ate owl meat. Yep, it's true. It was owl meat in this like meat pastry thing. They like those here...it sounds sick...but it was super good! Turns out owls taste delicious. Also, Domingo, one of the recent converts in our ward taught us on tuesday how to make Paella! It was fun...and now when I go home I can make everyone THE classic spanish food. I eat paella at least once a week. But it's yummy so that's a good thing. maybe you can look it up on google or something.

Dima and Rosi are still going strong! :) The ward is doing wonderfully!! It makes me so happy! Dima already has visiting teachers and it's just been good. We hardly even have to worry about them on sundays because all of the ward members are talking to them. Talk about ideal! I love this ward. And Dima and Rosi. Even if I don't have another baptism for the rest of my mission...I will go home a happy camper. Everything would be worth it just for those two. life is good :) also, on saturday when we were teaching them, Dima told me, "Rosi, (that's my name) if I only live 10 more years or one more day, I will live with these principles for my life." She had just barely learned the word principles in spanish...haha but a sentence like that is music to a missionary's ears. They are the BEST!!!! The mission is full of LOTS of ups and downs...but right now is definitely a time of up. I love seeing how the Lord blesses us in the ups and downs. They are some of the hardest downs of all time...but the blessings and the ups outweigh it all. More than I could have imagined.

Remember that time when we had a couple weeks where new investigators just showed up to church? Well we have been having experiences like that again. It never ceases to amaze me how much the Heavenly Father loves us and answers our prayers. At church yesterday, one of the hermanos in our ward brought a whole family to church! I walked out of the relief society room and they were all standing there and Juan said, hermana, here are some investigators. So I said, ummm...OK! haha yes. :) totally ok with that. We have had lots of little miracles like that this week.

On wednesday morning we will be going to MÁLAGA!!! I'm so excited!!! We are having another hermanas conference and it's going to be so guayyyyyyyyy! It means, I will get to see all of my old companions and President clegg! Life doesn't get much better. We will be there from wednesday to friday. Essentially allll of the elders are jealous. but they get to do lots of other things that we don't. So I don't feel all that bad for them. Also this week we are going to find out about transfers. I'm praying that I can stay with Hna capener one more transfer (her last one) I don't want to leave murcia yet...but I also don't want to spend 8 months here. We'll see what the Lord decides :)

I have been reading through the conference Liahona issue (we get it late) and I have been loving it! We didn't get to watch the sunday afternoon session...and there was so much about missionary work so it has been fun to read. It is so cool that we have a living prophet and apostles of Jesus Christ.

Well I love you family! I hope you are doing well and that you have a good week! You are always in my prayers!

ole.

Hermana Ross