Week 46

well, this week we had Hermana's conference!! It was the
BEST!!!! this picture is of me and all of the comps I've had in the field
(except for my trainer, Hermana Millán) Hermana sturgess, then me, Hermana
Woodward, Hermana Capener and Hermana Gibson. This picture makes me SO happy!!!
I love those girls. It was super good to see all of them. I about died when I
saw Hermana Sturgess...I've missed her! I've missed all of them. It was just
super fun. We reminissed on Ciudad Real. They caught me up to date on what has
happened there, and I let all of the hermanas who have served in murcia in on
the latest news. So many stories to tell :)
It was a 5 hour bus ride to get down to Málaga...but totally
worth it!! We left on wednesday morning and came back friday night. So, we
spent two nights of bliss in the mission home. LOVED IT!!!! loved the food, the
laughs, the jokes, talks, tears...you know :)

The last hermana's conference we had, I was with Hna Millán
and had only been in the field for 5 days! Basically, it was nice this time
that I could be with the native speaking hermanas too...it is so nice to be
able to communicate! We had so much fun. And learned a lot too :) on thursday,
each companionship had a topic to teach...so we all taught each other and did
lots of practice teaching and things. And we got to hear from hermana and
president clegg of course. Have I ever told you how much I love my mission
president? Everytime he speaks it changes my life just a little bit more. OH,
also, it was transfers. So on friday right before we all left, President just
announced it right there with all of us. haha

I'm staying in Murcia!!! yay! :) Hermana Capener is too.
Which means I will get to "kill" hermana capener in terms of the
mission. This will be her last transfer. It makes me grateful that it won't be
mine! But also, it means that I'll probably be in Murcia for a lot more time.
We'll see. The last three transfers have gone by so fast.

Speaking of not leaving Murcia, I am glad that I will still
have more time with Dima and Rosi :) but poor guys, they just got baptized and
now the trials are just being piled on them. Rosi's mom died yesterday...so he
is going back to bulgaria this week for the funeral. But, on saturday we
watched the Restoration video with them in the house of some members...we
watched it in Russian with spanish subtitles :) really interesting. haha It
made me think of Adam and Zach...and made me really grateful to be speaking
spanish! That language is buck wild crazy.

Other awesome thing from this week is today! Today we went
with the elders to Monteagudo! You don't know what that is...but I have wanted
to go ever since I got to Murcia so today we finally went! (I will send those
pictures to mom) It is a giant Christ statue that is on the outside of mucia in
one of the mountains. it was AMAZING!!! We had to get a bus to get there...and
then hiked up a huge mountain, then rock climbed a bit, then climbed un montón
de stairs...and finally got to jesus! We even got to touch His feet :) loved
it. It was so exciting to be there. We could see everything from up there.
maybe the coolest thing I've seen since I got to spain. So beautiful. I could
have stayed up there all day.

But then we RAN all the way down the mountain to catch the
bus again because we had plans to go to a mexican/american buffet. It was no
Aliante :) haha but it was nice to have some americanish food! It was the first
time I've had salsa in 9 months! Pretty exciting...not gunna lie. It was a
little bit of a district party because two of our elders are leaving this
transfer...elder melgarejo (our spaniard elder who is visa waiting) got his
visa and is going to puerto rico this week! So he went out with a bang by
eating a hamburger. hahaha

Well family...that's all for this week. I hope you are all
doing well! You are always in my prayers. I am loving life, loving the mission
and spain. I'm also loving the scriptures and the things that I have learned. I
know it is by faithfulness to the covenants that we have made that we can be
truly happy. And I'm grateful for Jesus in my life :)

Love you!!!

hermana ross