Malaga-week 3

Heyo familia mia! Holy guac is time moving like crazy here!! I cannot believe I am already halfway done with my first transfer!! Its so exciting but so scary how fast its moving! This week was definitely a hard one, but not for lack of work but for the circumstances right now! I´ll explain later... Here are the highlights of each of my days this week:

Monday: We had our first lesson with Ann  and her "marido" Unna  and their beautiful baby girl, Sarah. Oh my goodness if there ever were golden investigators these would be it!! Unna was SO excited to read the Book of Mormon and he has a million questions. He says that every night before he goes to bed, he reads the scriptures, sings hymns and prays. When we brought Ann a Polish Book of Mormon on Thursday, the look on her face was priceless and she was so excited!! She is so great, having a hard time leaving the traditions of her childhood but is eager to follow Christ. When we committed them to baptism, Unna said "for real."

Tuesday: We visited Juli in the hospital. She has so much faith and we talked about Christ and His role as our Savior and Redeemer and she bore the most beautiful testimony about trusting in Him. Those Romanians are such good people! It was hard seeing her deteriorating (they think this is the last stretch before she passes away) but she has so much faith and really trusts in the Savior.

Wednesday: SOOO this is the cause of this week being so hard. With the ward changes, our area was split in half and all of our investigators are in Barrio 4, but we are being moved to Barrio 3. So we´ve been redrawing boundaries and exchanging investigators and pretty much opening new areas. Wednesday was district meeting and we spent a lot of time going through our Area Book and getting everything organized for sometime this week when we hopefully move into our new apartment and start working in our new area. Its such a weird transfer and its my first one!! Its hard leaving our investigators and starting anew after all the success we´ve been having lately.

Thursday: We had a special training for the Malaga districts and it was fun getting toknow the other missionaries in our area and meeting some other sisters finally! Oh and we are teaching a Nigerian (scratch that... WERE teaching) woman and her daughter and her daughter´s friend. The girls are 7 but both want to be baptized when they turn 8 and Hope, the friend, really wants us to introduce her mom to the church. She´s so cute, we taught her how to introduce the BoM with the pictures in the front and she practices it and is SO excited to show her mom!! We´ve got our little missionaries helping us :)

Friday:  We went for our final lesson with the Romanian kids.

Saturday: We started working in a newish area and we thought it was going to be such a hard day, but we had such random accidental successes all day! So great and we accidentally found an old investigator! The Lord rocks. Really.

Sunday: I had to translate Sacrament meeting for one of the recent converts and it was so hard! I was basically just giving him summaries because they speak so fast and slur their words here! But it was kinda fun at the same time.

So this week was a really great, really difficult week and a really strange transfer! I am excited to just get in our area and start workign their and stop this weird in between state!!

 

So my day goes as follows: We get up at 730, exercise, get ready, eat and start personal study at 9, then at 930 we start companion study and at 1030 we do training for an hour. Then we leave the piso at 1130 to start working! At 2 we come back to the piso for mediodia. We have an hour and a half to make and eat lunch and get things done that need to be done (SO NICE, I write in my journal but other missionaries siesta during this time), then we finish personal study at 330 and update the area book at 4. from 430 to 530 we do language study, then head out to work! if we are not in a lesson, we have to be back in the piso at 1015, but if we aren´t we are back by 1045. Then we plan for 30 minutes and are in bed by 1130. That's the summer schedule for training, but in the winter everything is just earlier by 30 minutes and without training you just leave the piso 30 minutes earlier in the morning and after mediodia. MEDIODIA IS BOMB! And if we eat with members, even better!

 THEY HAVE DORITOS HERE OH HAPPY DAY!! Haha or maybe not so happy day... I´m gonna get fat. And nutella here is cheaper than pb. definitely gonna get fat. !!We cook together so we share food and the cheese here is so much better. I actually have started drinking coke too cause its the beverage of choice here and when you are thirsty, even that brown poison tastes good!!

 BE GOOD DO GOOD AND BE AN EXAMPLE ALWAYS!!!

love you all and miss you!! be good do good!!

hermana folsom :)

Rincon de la Victoria. So beautiful. (part of her area)