ON TO THE CANARIES

 Another Saturday at Retiro Park for the Missionaries

 President  of the Madrid MTC, Elder Sitterud and his wife,  They are Awesome and it turns out Jay Sitterud and I attended CEU at the same time.  He was a basketball player for the school team but we didn't know each other.

 View of Madrid from Retiro Park

 The Elders making a contact and Elder Sitterud

We finally received our residency on Monday and flew to the Canaries on Tuesday evening.  The Santa Cruz Elders gave us their car for a couple of weeks and then we are getting a new one.  The Sr. Missionaries in Santa Cruz, the Altmans, let us stay with them on Tuesday night and we had a nice visit with them on Wednesday, had lunch with the Elders and the Altmans and then drove to the Hotel we had scheduled, while we look for an apartment in South Teneriffe.  This hotel ended up to be a bust with terrible internet and a cramped smelly room.  We moved down the street to a better place with internet that is allowing me to post this.

 A view from Altman's terrace in Santa Cruz (ocean in the distance)

They are about an hour from us and it is the biggest city on the Island.

 Los Altmans on their P-day - Awesome Missionaries serving with the young adults.

Someone from the branch had arranged for us to see an apartment.  It was very nice except the kitchen was so small two people would be cramped in it.  I just couldn't take it.  Mike has spent hours on the internet looking for a larger kitchen, which it rare here.  Finding these places was going to be a trial.  We left messages on the internet so we could make arrangements to see some pisos.  This morning one of the agents called us and we went to see an apartment in the one place we knew how to find.  It turned out to be awesome.  We are very excited.  It is in a new complex with a very nice kitchen, a dishwasher (rare) A washer with a dryer (rare)  The place is almost new and an amazingly good price.  It has a view of the ocean, a swimming pool but we won't find out until Monday for sure but we don't see any hangups.  I will post pictures when I can.  We are feeling more comfortable tonight.