Transfer 7 Week 6
Transfer Day to Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
New Comp Hermana Maza

ALOHA!

Fun fact: Did you know that alpha means hello and goodbye? Well I think that fitting as I am currently on a plane flying over the ocean to a small island right next to Morocco, Africa. It is called Gran Canaria. I have said goodbye to the hustle and bustle of Madrid life, and now am welcoming in the island life. The thing about the canary islands is that he's they are technically a part of Spain, but they are islands that should belong to Africa. You know where the Sahara desert is? Yeah like Algeria, and morroco, and Mauritania. Right beside that. So it is hot there but like 80 degrees all the time, and just never gets cold. There is also a mother set of islands that are close but that are kind of part of Africa. It is called cape Verde. 

So some things that happened to me this week... I broke the screen protector on my tablet, so that's lame. I did all of my laundry,  because the washer finally started working. We had transfers, and basically the whole mission is getting switched around, because next transfer a bunch of people are going home, like 40, and then the transfer after that like 30 more... Crazy. Then I packed all of my bags and weighed them and the scales said that I was underweight so I was happy. So the thing with the islands is that you can only check one big bag, and bring on carry on, and one personal item. So the big bag can weigh 42 lbs, and the little bag like 15lbs. So the thing is that I have lots of stuff. Like clothes and shoes. Well not lots, but enough,  and then my pillow an like deodorant so my bags were a little bit, "heavy".  So we hauled my bags up to the San Sebastian hermana's Pico because we had to stay the night there. They live on the top of this big hill, and then inside a maze of narrow Spanish streets that all start with called fernenedez ___. So we got lost, and then ended up asking like 5 people where the street was that we were looking for and none of them had heard of it. Then we finally found it. So just for some perspective we left legends at 8:30p.m. and didn't get to the other Pico until 11: 15... Also, hermana hermana was in charge of my big black bag. So as we were leaving legends, and gettingnon the train, she was pushing my bag up. So I was putting my other 2 bags up into the train when I look over and see hHermana Jarman on the ground. Her foot had fallen into the crack in between the sidewalk, and the train. The bag like fell on her and so she got up, and all of the local on the trains are just dying. I peed my pants because I was laughing so hard. Now her poor shin is all bruised up. But she is so great still, shin or not. Okay so back to the bag sitch. So we get to the airport this morning and weigh my bags. So my big one weighed like 52lbs, and the little was was like 21lbs. So not only was I over weight on the big one, but the little one too. So the lady didn't say anything, and let my big bag pass thru, and offered to send my carry on for free as well. MIRACLES. #Godanswersprayers. 

Now I am current my sitting in some mall, on the most beautiful island that you have ever seen. The beach is amazing, the weather is perfect, and the People are so kind and open. I feel so blessed to be here. Not to mention to be with my companion Hermana Maza. She goes home next transfer. So I will enjoy my time with her and try to learn all that I can. 

Well I don't really have a whole lot of battery life left so I want to share a quote with y'all that I found. It's super cool:

"I am called of God. My authority is above that of the kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my Master, and He has chosen me to represent Him. To stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my words are His words and my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done. To say what He wants said. To be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of His great and marvelous latter-day work. How great is my calling!"

Junto con la autoridad, usted también tiene la responsabilidad de vivir digno de su llamamiento. Como representante del Señor, usted debe ser “ejemplo de los creyentes” (1 Timoteo 4:12). Esfuércese por vivir de acuerdo con los mandamientos de Dios y por guardar los convenios que hizo en el templo; conozca las Escrituras; sea cortés, puntual y digno de confianza; siga las normas misionales de conducta, de vestimenta y de aseo personal; ame a las personas con las que sirve y trabaja. Honre con sus hechos el nombre de Cristo.

Have a great week and I love you so much...