Ah the emails this week were awesome!! Thank you so much for them. I liked the live updates for the sacrament thing with Heman-thanks for that haha. Helaman is awesome, i´ll write him and see how he´s doing. hopefully that is the right email or else some random Helaman will get a email haha.
So...first order of business. Maine?! It´s Blue! MY HAIR IS BLUE! hahaha Thats so cool!! I can´t believe dad was down for a last minute trip, or maybe you´ve been planning it for awhile?? How many days did you stay there? I miss that place. Sounds like you had a great time!
So, The coolest thing happened yesterday! They made the first stake here for the Canary Islands!! There was a conference over on the Island Gran Canaria so we got to ride a ferry over early in the morning and watch the sunrise :) they rented a big auditorium thing to fit everybody and had some speakers, testimonies and musical numbers. Elder Texiera (the area president over Spain) spoke at it too. After that, we went to a senior couples home a little ways away and ate a delicious lunch, then played a game or two. Oh and before that all started, President Jackson took out someones ingrown toenail! haha It was so funny, lots of missionaries were taking pictures and freaking out. He ended up ripping the entire nail off, I´ve got pictures! haha, it was crazy.
The last couple of weeks, or idk how long (1 or 2 weeks) have been super hard and humbling. First of all, learning a language is humbling! Wow I rely so much on the Lord. But it's just been super hard, we had 2 investigators but Sandra found a job in a different town and is moving (still has her baptismal date for the 26 of October but we´re not sure if she´ll pull through, she has no phone or car so it makes it more difficult). I think I said this before but the area me and my comp are in was basically like opening up a new area. The chapel is here but we only have about 6ish people who live in our area who are active members. The rest live a little bit lower in La Cuesta. So we walk all day and don´t have many lessons. But its okay! Lately, we talked about how to better the work here and how to preach the gospel in the Lord's way (that is something they are stressing a lot on here) and we came up with working more with the members. Almost every member here has siblings, kids or just family that is inactive or nonmembers! So we´ve been going to members houses and asking for their names and we pray for all of them (we have a huge list haha) and we ask the member to pray for them as well. I know it's hard to talk to friends or someone you´re close with about the gospel, I was always scared to in high school. Not that I was ashamed of it, i just didn´t feel comfortable with it and I didn´t have the faith. But the Lord will help up with things like that. After we started with that, I felt so much better about the work. My comp and I both talked about how we felt that this is how the Lord wants us to do it here.
The Spanish is different here, they have a distinctive accent where they talk super fast and drop the s´s and z´s from the end of the words. Mas o menos (more or less) here is ma o meno. Kinda hard to understand haha. One time some elders in the MTC were talking about how much Spanish sucked and it was hard, and I just thought of dad having to learn Japanese and Jess having to learn Russian. I can´t even imagine... My respect for you both has grown a bunch! haha
What do you know, another blog. canaryislandsysa.blogspot.com haha. This is from a senior couple here and she posts a lot of pics of the islands so that could be nice.
Lets see...so many people exercise here (funny that they all smoke too) but I see so many bikers, runners, and lots of gyms. There is one gym on our way to the church that is all outside. It kinda just looks like a park but it has all this stuff in it to workout with. Its pretty cool. Each morning I just do ab stuff and push ups, I want to go on some runs in the morning but we´ll see if my comp is down for that haha.
PS I asked the president about it so I have to wait for his approval first but I was thinking about asking for a workout dvd like P90X Ab Ripper or something like that to do in the morning. If we don't have that dvd then don't worry about it--I´ll survive. I just need to hear what he says first.
We have a jump drive that we play music on the dvd player and it has tons of songs on it. Theres a folder for piano and one of them is the Cat and the Mouse!! I was so stoked, I love hearing you play that song, Kayla.
There is a small town above us, on the other side of the little mountain called Tegueste i think. It is such a cool place! Lots of colorful houses, green mountains on both sides, and then a great view of the ocean! It was so awesome, I loved it there. It isn´t super green here in this island, but good enough for me haha.
Dad, we have a member here--woman, 40 i think--who we found out has lupus. I felt so bad, she just gets tired really fast and is sick easy I think. But she said the medicine she has helps. What do you know about lupus? I remember learning about it in medical terminology. There isn't a cure is there?
Could I get Andy Nielsen´s email address? I want to see how he´s doing.
The piso we live in is kinda gross, but I now know exactly what Leah and Kayla were talking about in college haha. I have sympathy for them now. I have my own dishes because the other elders will just put the plates or whatever in the sink and leave them. I do not want to eat on one of those.
My comp told me that during the night I sat up and said a prayer in Spanish haha.
I love you all, thanks for the emails. Mom you really are the greatest, I love you. Thanks for the stories, I like this idea for the one big email. Works out great and you all can hear more of what's going on!
I love you!!!
Love
Elder Franson
Elder Franson
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