June 2, 2014 - Letter to Dad - Week 39

Hey dad!!

It has been a pretty awesome week!!  As you can probably imagine the highlight was definitely going over to Tenerife!  Hmm where to begin...  So the boat we took over was super nice!  The company is called Armas, just in case you wanna try and find a picture or something, but it looks like a small cuise ship converted to a  fairy... I´ll send you guys a couple pics, cuz we were out so early we got a nice sunrise when we casted off... It was so big, so it didn´t rock to much, but it was still super nice to sleep on!  Then we got to the other island and all the missionaries met in a city called Santa Cruz.  We all changed and headed out to play Soccer and Basketball for a long time!  Super fun.  At one point my basketball team consisted of Me, another friend I just made who is from Eastlake in san diego, a sister missionary who was in my ward at byu, and then President Jackson haha and we won a TON!!  I guess being a missionary has made me really good at shooting 3´s for some reason.  Whatever I´ll accept the random blessing.  Then we ended up staying in a hotel that night!  Bwah nicest shower, nicest bed, and nicest breakfast I have had in 2014!!  There was Bacon!!!!  And all sorts of other good stuff.  Then we had our meetings which were all super great, and a pizza party before our boat left back to gran canaria at 7.  Me and elder Lopez didn´t end up geting home until 1am, so the next day getting up at 7:30 and working like normal was rough, but gotta do it!   

It was a decent week of work.  We found some cool people, and someone actually came up to us yesterday asking for help and wanting to meet with us, so we´ll see how that goes tonight at 8!!  I´m excited because it´s a tiny pueblo(like little town) that I have never visited before!  Lots of rain this week and the weather has cooled down a lot, but I think it´s supposed to be hot this week now.  hmm what else.. oh ya I ad a terrible ingrown nail in my big toe so president numbed me up and ripped it out with like pliars or something!  I couldn´t watch, cuz i´m not a fan of seeing people dig into my skin, but Elder Lopez said it was gross!!  President is a surgeon, so he knew what he was doing and everything.  After hundreds of knee surguries, a toe nail isnt a big deal for him haha But ya that was pretty much my week! 

I think im gonna start sending you guys pics, cuz I´m sure you´ll enjoy this more than anything!  Love you dad!  Hope work is going well and high adventure and everything!  have a great week!

nate