Days in Tenerife
Nancy Andrews | October 20, 2010
I’ll just share a few photos for now. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. right?
August Days
Nancy Andrews | August 17, 2010
We think often of the gardens growing back home. Every time we go to the fruteria to buy our fruits and vegetables, I think of how blessed we always were to have all of those things at home to use every day without paying a lot of money! Of course they weren’t free though, [...]
July 2010 can’t be gone already!
Nancy Andrews | July 28, 2010
Now that we are part of the Madrid Spain Mission President Watkins is our new Mission President. This is President Watkins and his wife Sister Brown ( Watkins) who served a mission here in the Canary Islands 20 years ago. They both speak Spanish. Their daughter Emma is here with them this was taken [...]
Magnolia’s baptism- It’s never too late!
Nancy Andrews | July 8, 2010
June 25th was the baptism of Quintina Magnolia Gil Rodriguez, 84 years old. This sweet little lady has been investigating the church for over 26 years. Her daughter is a member and lives in Madrid, and is very active, and one of her grandaughters is married to a bishop and lives in the [...]
A super week ends with a super Sabado!
Nancy Andrews | May 30, 2010
This week was very busy with lots of time spent helping in one way or another with missionary work! Sunday evening we had another baptism, Antonio,(can’t remember his last name at the moment). He’s a great young man about 19 years old, earrings in both ears, and spiked hair. He is from Bolivia- very [...]
Aprilth 2010
Nancy Andrews | April 20, 2010
The mission is flying by so fast, it is scarry! There is so much that we need to do, and accomplish, and not nearly enough time to do it in! It’s hard to believe that we left home nearly eight months ago! Of course we have actually only been here on the island of Tenerife [...]
Life in Tenerife
Nancy Andrews | April 1, 2010
This month has flown by! It is hard to imagine that I have not posted for so long! We have been very busy with many activities. First of all, early in March we decided that we should look for a different place to live. We loved our appartment,and had many opportunities to meet lots [...]
March 2010-in like a lion!
Nancy Andrews | March 7, 2010
We have had some powerful wind storms this past week or so that rattled all of our windows till it sounded like they might pop! I was beginning to try to figure out where the safest place would be if the whole building collasped like they did in Haiti- but with 7 more [...]
Freddy, a new life!
Nancy Andrews | February 17, 2010
Our wonderful young friend Freddy lives for futebol, or Soccer! He plays every day with friends, and on Saturdays he plays with the missionaries, and as many other members or neighbors and friends can come and join us. He also takes piano lessons from me, and he has been studying the gospel with the [...]
When It Rains, It pours!
Nancy Andrews | February 10, 2010
It’s hard to believe that is has been so long since I posted on the blog! But life has been interesting to say the least! Feb 1st on Preparation day, we got our laundry done etc. it was rather cloudy and blustery, so we decided we wouldn’t go site seeing that day. In fact [...]