Hola familia!
There is so much a wont to tell you, hopefully I have time to at least tell you half of it. Its been one week and seriously feels like I have been gone a month. It is so crazy how the days seem like weeks here! It is so good thought because I feel like I am able to accomplish so much in just one day. Proselyting on saturday was SO AWESMOE! Seriously I could not have had a better experience. I learned that there really is no real language barrier. The Holy Ghost spoke through my companion and I in our broken Spanish and we gave away a Libro de Mormon and got 2 contact infos to pass to the missionaries in the field. I pray for there two guys, Juan and Javier that they will accept the gospel. They seemed so interested and so willing to learn more!
Haha ok before I go on I have to tell you this terrible, hilarious story about my first lesson teaching an investigator. So on Friday we were assigned fake investigators to teach. We were given their whole background and we have to now come up with lessons to teach them etc, just as if we were to meet someone, get to know them and then teach them the first lesson or something else inspired by the holy ghost. Well, Hermana MAther and I were going to teach our investigator Sara about faith and a few other things, (I barely remember anything from this lesson because it went so horribly) so we get there (a classroom upstairs) and she invites us and we start teaching her and then she started talking and telling us that she is catholic and all of this stuff which we already knew. It was all fine until we realized that we could totally understand her, we knew exactly all of the questions she was asking and everything but we had NO clue how to respond in spanish so we sat there awkwardly and just started busting up laughing. IT WAS SO TERRIBLE! It turned into a full on laugh attack and we could not stop. Finally through our laughing we taught her about prayer and asked if she could pray. Something happened right before she was about to say the prayer that got us laughing hysterically again and our teacher (investigator) started busting up too. We all laughed for a few minutes and then were able to compose ourself for the prayer. But, then during the prayer Hermana Mather bursted out laughing. Yeah. Terrible right! And you know me, when I start laughing I cannot stop! Nor can Hermana Mather! The whole time we just kept saying lo siento lo siento lo siento. our whole district laughs about it now but right after Hma Mather and I literally wanted to cry we were so embarrassed! I am probably telling this story so poorly but by now the whole MTC knows about it and always makes fun of! It was so bad. But, I learned a lot prayer always now that that will never happen again.
Food; SO GOOD! Fish at least once a day, chicken, fresh fruit, yummy veggies! I love the food here. I have tried squid (I didnt know that it was squid when I was eating it), clams, and tons of other fish and have yet to have a meal that I dont like!
Language; not much to say except learning a language it really hard for me.
Spiriutal experience for the week: During one of our Presidents devotionals, he called up an elder to recite the first vision by memory. At that very instance the spirit bore such a strong witness to me that it was ALL true! Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph and restored the gospel back tot eh earth. It was incredibly powerful! I can never deny this gospel and the truthfulness of Joseph Smith as the first prophet of these latter days.
My CCM (mtc) president, President Sitterud looks EXACTLY EXACTLY like President Monson. He talks, acts, and looks just like him. Hma Mather nad I asked him if he was related but he said no but he gets that wherever he goes! He is so tender and loving and funny and sincere over the pulpit, just like President Monson. I love it.
Well, I am happy to report that finally, our 3rd lesson with Sara went SO WELL! It is just so powerful to teach the gospel to people, to be able to bare testimony of what you know is true. Hma Mather and I left the lesson full of the spirit and both were on a spiritual high the rest of the day. And to think, this is what I get to do for the next 18 months! I can not think of a place I would rather be than here in Spain serving the Lord!
There are moths everywhere here! Every morning our room is just full of them. and they are big! But thankfully I have not had any other bug problems.
Oh and real fast.... my teachers, Hermano Pickup, Hermana Martinez, and Hermana Gutierrez and seriously 3 of my most favorite people on earth. I am so blessed to be here and have them as my teachers to learn from. Most of us here (I think there are 47 of us) are from the states... there from England and one from Ukraine. This elder, elder Boboshko, only speaks Russian, he is going to Ukraine to serve and leaves next week but he has touched my life and every single other persons life here. I will never forget Elder Boboshko. He walks around all day everyday with the biggest smile on his face and love and the spirit just radiates from him. He is surrounded by everyone who only know English but he doesn't let that get in the way. He loves the gospel and is not afraid to show that. He truly radiates Christ love for all of us.I hope one day I can be like Elder Boboshko.
Well my time is up, sorry for all of the typos, I am trying to type as fast as I can so that others can have their turn.
I love you all so much and prayer for each one of you every single day!
Love, Hermana Heims!
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