#16

Hey hey hey!!! So this week has been great, and we got transfer calls, and everything´s changing up and oh man...lot´s going on!

So yeah, we got transfer calls and...thankfully I´m staying in Almería!!! #BestCityOnEarth

But Hermana Crockett is leaving to go to Murcia, ironically with one of Hermana Andrew´s old companions!  But yeah, Hermana Andrew and I are staying here, with just the two of us!  It´ll be weird and probably a little awkward going back to just two but it´ll be good.  The only downfall is that with three you can go into anyone´s house, but with two you can´t be with just one man, but it´s all good, the weather is warming up so maybe we can just do lessons outside at parks or something!

What more...oh yes! We went to Málaga this week for Zone Conference! It was so good, kinda weird cuz everyone is so excited to go see all their other missionary friends, but I don´t really know many other missionaries, but I got to meet some there so that was fun! And we got to hear Presidente Deere talk and oh my he is absolutely incredible!  He is so wonderful, he makes you want to be and do better but at the same time he does it with love and you still know he´s proud of you.  He´s great! And Hermana Deere also gave an incredible talk!  And hers was in English, which was nice, because even though I can usually understand a lot of the spanish (if it´s an American speaking spanish not a native spanish speaker) it´s nice to hear a talk where you know you understand every word and you know you´re not missing anything! Ah it was so good.  She talked about faith, and wow...at one part she was writing down all these things in life that we trust but they could let us down or disappoint us.  Literally pretty much everything and everyone can let you down.  People are human, even our parents and family members.  But then she wrote down, ´´Heavenly Father forgiving us if we sincerely repent´´ and you can´t touch that.  Heavenly Father has promised us that He will forgive us, and He cannot lie, so that is something we can have all of our faith and trust in, that will never disappoint.  Pretty much it was just awesome, it was such a good reminder that God´s love is always there for us, and He will never abandon us.  And the ride to Málaga was so long, like 4  1/2 hours, we left Wednesday at five (conference was Thurs. morning) we went through every pueblo on the way there I swear! Ha, no not really but it felt long and I got a little car sick...okay quite a bit.  It was a tender mercy that nothing happened haha.  But yeah the other Elders went down earlier that day, so it was just me and my compañeras and Elders Morán and Lopez, and we played Uno on the way there and it was super fun!  I didn´t play a ton because I felt super sick, but yeah, good times anyway...

When we got to Málaga, we went and stayed in Hermana Andrew´s old piso with her old companion!  Hermana Andrew served in Málaga for the first six months of her mission, then came here right after so that was cool to go see where she used to live!  We had a fun little sleepover, and the next morning was conference! Then right after, at like 5 30 we got back on a bus to Almería!  On the way home we had to stop for twenty mintues in a little place called Motril, and they had this little candy store with huge panini like pizza things for 1 Euro! It was pretty sweet.  And that was a pretty pointless detail but anyway...but yeah the bus ride home was a blast! Our district is so much fun! Oh my...I try talking to the natives and i usually just make a fool of myself but we have a good time, and they´re patient!  Oh my, I´m so so sad Elder Vosters and Cortés are going home..it´s definitely not going to be the same without them, they´re so so funny!

On Saturday the young women invited us to play volleyball with them! Oh man, the ball was so hard, I got a sweet bruise on my hand/wrist, but oh my it was so worth it! I love love love playing volleyball and it just brought back some super good memories of the fourth of July and highschool P.E. and the CCM and yeah. It was fun.  We probably played for longer than we responsibly should have, a couple hours eh he, but it was a super good time!

And yesterday marked the first day of Summer Schedule!  Before we would wake up at 7 and go to bed at 11, but now we wake up at 7 30 and go to bed at 11 30! Which is ten times better because usually at 11 I am not ready to go to bed and at 7 I don´t wanna wake up yet! So it works out well. Our hours and things we do are still the same though, so it´s basically the same thing, just adjusted to fit the late schedules of the Spainards during Summer!  If we´re teaching someone we can stay out until 10:45! 

Okay, so this was part of my last week...I had tons more other unimportant details but they didn´t send or save so yeah, I´ll just send this and forget the rest- other than that Elders Cortés and Vosters went home, which is super sad and man...it´s just not the same without them.  But I guess that´s just la vida de la mision.  And we got two new Elders, Durfey and Reynolds!  Reynolds is a ginger, so that´s super guay! #AlmeríaNeededMoreGingers

But yeah anyway. Cool.  Ha.