Hey Momma!!
So ya I definitely got to hear like 3 or 4 times that my city was on fire this week and that California and San Diego were burning and on fire, but the lame thing is that I wasn´t able to like go see for a minute if my family was alive and stuff.... No I was sure you guys were fine but I was curious all weekend if the fires got anywhere near Poway!! Sounds like everything was fine, but that´s a LOT of fires burning!! Dang San Diego Wild Fires!!! haha But I bet you guys all enjoyed the extra time without school to relax and suff. Did you still have work??
Justin told me all about his free time but Kara forgot to write me :P oh well! That´s cool that Justin was taking care of the missionaries! It was nice in Barrio 2 if we were really thirsty or had to use the bathroom or something we could stop by the Hurtados or the Bonifaz or just anyone really, but here we only have like a few families and nobody lives near us, so if we need to go we just go to the chapel really fast and ya! Gatorade sounds really good! hahah I remember I bought one gatorade in Madrid and it was amazing!! Anyways that was random. Sounds like the missionaries in our area are well taken care of! How many misisonaries are there in the spanish branch right now? I remember when I left there were like 4 or but now that I know more about this stuff that seems like a ton for a spanish branch in Poway!! anyways...
I´ll answer your questions and then tell you a little about my week!! Sound good? Yaaaa...
1. Ya that last supper pic was super cool huh!?! And there were some other ones of the simpsons and stuff but they weren´t as cool... I´m not sure the diffeence between permanent and non pemanent sand sculptures but I think somebody just made that there, so I would guess non permanent??? Who knows!! But ya I hope I can go down there again one of these days!! Or up to the north actually is next on my list of where I want to go!!!
2. They are size 18 neck with a regular fit I think. And they they are pretty darn big, so ya I guess a couple smaller would be nice, but send them to Madrid!! maybe like 17 1/2 with a slim fit or something like that, but I´m not sure... I think I'll try and look around here too!! We´ll see how it goes... I bought a new long sleeve last week that is smaller, but I forgot to look for short sleeves as well....
3. Oh well I guess I already patially answered this... But ya anfi is supe beautiful! My favorite that we visited last week as far as coolest looking. From pictures, I think the island that I want to visit most would have to be La Palma or Lanzaote!! Those both are super beautiful, and here in Gran Canaria, I think I want to visit the north where the mountains are. Someone showed me a picture of the view from the mountain and the water looks amazing and you can see Tenerife and everything, speaking of which I am super excited to go and visit Tenerife in a week... I ´ll be sure and take plenty of pics for you guys!!
4. Fun... Hmmm good question... Not gonna lie to you guys, I had way more fun with our four elder piso in barrio 2 and the nerf guns and just always having a ton of people around... But here I guess sometimes we go up and sit on the roof and enjoy the view, we have a soccer ball in the house for when we are bored, and I have a french book of mormon and I have actually learned a decent amount in the past week! Knowing spanish and english, french becomes a lot more easy :) hhaha But ya not sure what else we do for fun...
5. Bwah that is a rough one to answer... I used to get really frustrated and feel like a terrible missionary and a terrible person because sometimes we have those weeks here where nothing happens... But it helps that overall I am pretty positive. But you just kind of get used to it I guess, especially in some missions and some areas. I´m not much of an expert, but I bet that is one of the things I have learned the most recently: Just like no matter how lame the situation is sometimes, just keep on going and enjoy the little things. So ya that.. .Or I just explode wih frustration to switch it up and keep things interesting haha...
That´s so crazy tha Kara is heading off for college in a few weeks!!! Blah I feel like everyone else is getting older and moving and doing stuff and I´m missing it all haha, but that´s really fun!! I hope she is excited! That is going to be a bummer though for Justin to be an only child for a little while... Hey what apartments do the Bairds own in provo?? I was just really curious about that and the names weren´t coming to my mind. I know they are all guys pisos and stuff, but when Kendal asked me about byu housing in her email it made me think of that and I was curious! How weird Kendal has to plan her housing at BYU pretty soon too!! Seems like time is flying bye sometimes hahaha
Hmm what else... Well ok it has been a pretty decent week!! And I do have one awesome story that I have wanted to share!! I don´t know if you already read Kendal´s email, but my story is like a twin to hers kinda haha So we were out on Tuesday night and our lesson failed on us and we didn´t have a ton else planned that we could do, so it came to my mind to go and ring the timbre of these old investigators that we only met with once, and then they like disappeared... Anyways I think I told you about his family already once, they moved here from Tenrife and he is from Russia and she is from Venzuela and they have two little funny kids... Well ya we walked bye and rang the buzzer outside the complex and Denis peaks his head out the window and says something that prety much translates to "woah there you are!" and he buzzes us in... Well Daniela comes out and tells us the coolest story ever! She had just had a super rough day, because she wants to ge married with Denis and have a real family, but I guess the catholic preacher dude said some pretty harsh stuff to her and that they were better off just living together unmarried, and so she was talking to her sister and she said, "hey weren´t you visiting with he mormons??" And so she is like yaaa I need to call them!! So she was on lds.or looking for our phone number, and couldn´t find it and right then when she was gonna give up we rang he door bell! Pretty good timing huh??? Well ya so we ended up talking to them for a while and she asked if we could have a mariage through the church, and said she wants to get baptized and Denis too and the kids but we explained they have to be a little older and she is totally cool with that!! So ya I think we have a wedding planned for the 13th of july and if all goes well not sure when but maybe a same day baptism or possibly the week after we still have to see how everything works out but ya!!! That was my exciting story for the week!!
The rest was kind of the same walking aound trying to find peope to teach and not having all the success we would like, but it´s ok! We also had this super good ward activity on Friday! Well branch activity... We got everyone together and split off in pairs of two and went out to search for all the less actives in our area. We went on splits and I was with Hermano Manuel(husband of the lady who sewed some of my pants) And Elder Lopez was with a super cool dominican guy that techniclaly is in the las palmas ward but wanted to come help us because he is our high consel rep and is super awesome! Anyways the night ended up being really successful, as we passed by the houses of over 50 families, and didn´t talk with that many but still were able to meet with quite a few, and looks like we might have a busy week visiting wih some less actives here in the branch, which should be fun!!! So ya that was pretty much my week! Hope you enjoyed the stories and stuff... Not too much else happened that was interesting... But ya!!
Tenerife next week and I´m still not sure how we are traveling there, but my guess is on a boat! I´ll tell you guys all about it next week!! Love you mom!!! Thanks for the update on the week! Sounds lke you survived another round of fires, and everything is going good!! Good luck with work and everything!!! I bet it´s not easy with two jobs until you are done at Maredy, but you are always busy it seems, so I´m sure its fine :) Well i gotta go... Maybe I´ll pass by later since we don't have money to go anywhere this week, so if you have a question I didnt answer, send it to me and I´ll respond!!! Love you!!
Nathan
