August 25th

Dearest darlingest family of mine,

This week went flying by, I cannot believe its already monday again. We did so much this week and saw really great miracles!

To start out, here is the update on S.. and A... They are perfect. Period. Haha we saw them almost everyday this week and they are progressing SO WELL! They fed us on Wednesday, came to English class Thursday, we had an FHE with them at our ward mission leader´s house Friday, Saturday came to a baptism and Sunday church. A.. is golden. She has read through all of the pamphlets and is marking them up like crazy, writing her baptismal date everywhere and even downloading the LDS app without anybody telling her about it! She has such a hunger for more knowledge about the Church, its so great. AND its really helping S.. because she asks him all sorts of questions and makes him pray with her and they are going through the Book Of Mormon together discussing it and learning together. The best thing ever was at the FHE on Friday, there was another investigator there too and she had questions about the Plan of Salvation, and A.. explained to her PERFECTLY the 3 kingdoms of glory and answered so many questions. She´s incredible. We keep joking with S.. that she´ll be the next YW president in our ward! She is so prepared and I know that the Lord has some really special things prepared for this family. They are preparing for marriage and S.. is preparing to be worthy of the priesthood he holds. I really can´t rave enough about them! I am so grateful for this opportunity to teach them. I feel like everything that went wrong in Dos Hermanas is going right here and we are seeing incredible things happening!

Haha as you can probably tell from the subject line, I´m sick. I woke up yesterday feeling awful but we were teaching the class for RS with Hermana Deere and I couldn´t let her down and we had 5 different investigators coming to church, so I said a prayer and told Heavenly Father I was going to church sí o sí, put on my skirt, threw my hair up and walked cautiously to church. Our RS is the first hour here and so right before, I asked the Elders and President to give me a blessing and I felt fine during the whole lesson, still hurting a little but manageable to teach. Then, right as Gospel Principles was starting, I started to feel really bad again and actually ran out during the middle cause I felt like I was going to vomit. Hermana Deere ran after me and took me and my companion home. I had been telling myself all morning not to vomit and I didn´t, but as we were walking into our piso, I suddenly realized I was free to be sick. And boy was I sick. I spent all day yesterday vomitting and sleeping, but now I´m feeling almost all better. We´re gonna take it slow today but not vomit so far! Haha the nice thing about being in Fuen is that all day I had people calling to check up on me and see how I was doing! It was an interesting Sunday to say the least...

 

RANDOM THINGS

We talked to S.. Monday and we had the most sacred experience with them, all four of us crying and really it felt like the celestial room in their little apartment as we talked about the ways he can bless his family with the priesthood and they made the goal to not just be baptized and reactivated, but to go to the temple and be sealed. IT was the right push that they needed that started the BIG progression! Really great miracle.

 

Before, here in Spain, only the Catholic and Evangelist churches had the authority to marry people, but about 3 weeks ago, a law was passed giving the authority to baptize to the LDS and Jehovah´s witness churches! We are just waiting for it to be finalized and then bishops can marry people! We are praying and fasting that this law be finalized quickly so that bishop could marry S.. and A.., but if not, the only thing in their way is the money as well. But they are working on getting everythign in order and the ward loves them and will help to figure things out!

 My week was good, busy and great! I am studying a lot of everything. Uhmm right now I am drawing a complete blank as to specific things but yesterday was the day of the Restoration. I read a Liahona about pioneer heritage and then we watched the long version of the Restoration and then Legacy (since all I could do was lay in bed and run to the bathroom) and it really impacted me all that our ancestors and the first members went through so that I can be here, in Spain, preaching the gospel. Seeing all the sacrifices they went through for the Gospel makes you realize just how important this message is. Its interesting to see that even though they were establishing Zion, it didn´t mean that they were free from adversity. In our lives, at the times when we are trying most hard to do what is right is when Satan tries the hardest as well to knock us off of our faith.

I had a panic the other day. Most of my companions go home this transfer. 3 down and 2 more to go. It's weird.

The closest thing we get to chick flicks here is the romance between Emma and Joseph Smith or in the Testaments, that little kiss...

 

Alma 5:27 and 28. I like that this asks if we are sufficiently humble and then asks if our garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ. A sign of our humility is if we have repented and been made clean because if we aren´t humble, we aren´t repentant! I love you bug and hope you feel better and have a great week!!

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Have a greaet week!

Hermana Folsom

August 18th

 

After fanny saved the day!!

 

 Searching for a referral... spent an hour climbing a mountain and the address didn´t exist. but we got this great view!



TWO OF MY FAVORITE MEMBERS FROM MALAGA 3!! Williams and Rafael, they helped me so much my first few months. They came to Fuen for an open market and we just ran into them on the street. TENDER MERCY.

S.., V.., A.., me and Hermana Hurtado. LOVE THEM

 

This week was GREAT. I love my hija. I love this ward. I love this work. We are seeing so many miracles together its so great, and we get along way too well, we spend ALL DAY laughing our faces off and working our feet off. Its so great.

First of all the miracles are LOS PERFECTOS. A.. and S.., that young couple from last Sunday that we met! We refer to them as LOS PERFECTOS because that is what they are- perfect. Everything we teach, they just get it and love it! S.. is getting to testify to his girlfriend all about the truth and how he knows this is true. When we taught them the Plan of Salvation, he told us about this activity they did when he was young in Argentina where they are given a stamp card and go around doing activities and for each activity they get a stamp. At the end of the night, they all were taken into the chapel where the chairs were set up in the 3 kingdoms and depending on what was stamped on their cards, they were "judged" and separated into the 3 kingdoms. In the end, of all his family, only his mom was sitting in the celestial kingdom and the rest fo the family was dispersed between teh terrestrial and telestial and he said that sight is somethign that has always stuck with him. It really got both of them and they both were like, "We want ALL of us to be there in the celestial kingdom together." Then they asked what the have to do to accomplish that. We talked about marriage and baptism and the gospel of Jesus Christ and A.. accepted a baptismal date for the 13th of September and they are saving up to go the townhall and get married!! Please pray for this little family! They came to church yesterday and the ward is obsessed with them! Our ward mission leader invited them over right then and there for FHE at his house later this week. They are our miracles. I really see S.. coming back and baptizing A.. himself VERY VERY SOON!

On Friday, as we were walking up the hill to our ward mission leader´s house for correlacion meeting, my sandal broke and I had to walk with only one shoe the rest of the way. After the meeting, since we had planned and set appointments for the rest of hte night, we didn´t have time to run back to our piso and change shoes, so we stopped by a dollar store and bought super glue and cheapo flip flops which I wore for the rest of the night. On our way from one cita to the other, my flip flops broke! We were going to meet a member to go to a lesson together and she was so worried about me! haha she even offered me the shoes off of her own feet! I refused, claro, and just walked very carefully with my broken flip flops. When the investigator we were visiting wasn´t home, and none of our backup plans were either, Fanny (the member who mind you is 72 and HILARIOUS) asked if we had anything set for the rest of the night. We had plans but they weren´t really firm so we went over to her house for dinner and she gave me a pair of slippers to wear. It was like a little refuge after the nuts day and my shoe drama, going into her little apartment and eating a tortilla de patata and talking about her conversion. This sister is probably my favorite member here!

RANDOM THINGS

Things are going really great, as you can probably tell from what I said above! S.. IS a priesthood holder, he´s actually a seminary graduate and was ACTIVE until he turned 18 and he is perfect for A.. because he is always answerign her questions and sharing experiences he had growing up in the Church. I can tell he honestly wants to raise his family in the Church, but he had forgotten that until we came along cause now he talks like a mormon again! I like that, talking about how his priesthood can bless his family, I think we will talk about that with him! He can totally bless his daughter!! We had 4 different eating appointments this week which is a LOT! and it's true, eating with members helps you get to know them and earn their trust easier.

 Fuen is great! Last week we played mini golf with the elders and this week we are hitting up the mall (don´t worry, I´m just window shopping, but my comp wants to hit up the rebajas) and then we are going to eat KFC!! 

 

I actually DID get to play the piano cause we were waiting for people to show up for english class and so while we waited the 15 minutes we felt obliged to wait until leaving, I played the piano and it was GLORIOUS. We had a lot of investigators at church yesterday, A.. came and M.. (the 12 year old from paraguay) and D.. (an eternagator who recently decided to take us seriously as missionaries, she´s come to church every week for 14 years but can´t be baptized cuase she lives with her fiance).

I had the biggest craving for them yesterday during sacrament meeting. I wrote in my notes yesterday I WANT MEATBALLS. When I am really trunky, I write lists of the foods I´m going to eat when I get home. At the top of it is EL TOREADOR always.

 

My scripture for you this week is alma 26:12. Its a classice but so true. WE are NOTHING in comparison to God and alone we can´t do anything. But wiht God, nothing is impossible. He can make miracles happen, he can make it rain and send fish in the middle of hte Sahara desert. He can change the heart of an inactive Argentinian to remind him of his covenants. He can make a 20 year old punk kid into a servant of Him. I know that this is His work and with Him at our sides, we can do anything.

LOVE YOU ALL!! doN´T miss me too bad:) LOVE YOU!

becca (hermana folsom)

August 11th

 

My new companion

 

With the elders... from left to right, Elders Oliver, Scheible and Vera. with us! .

 

So another week has gone by and another transfer has begun. I dropped off one companion at the train station Tuesday afternoon and then went to the mission home for the grand matching ceremony. I feel like we are at Hogwarts with the sorting hat. All the trainers sit on one side of the room and the trainees on the other side and you sit there all anxious, staring at each other wondering which one you will get until President calls the name of a trainee and then their trainer and where they will be going and you take the picture. Its really a lot like Hogwarts. BUT my hija is awesome. Her name is Hermana Hurtado and she is from Chimbote, Peru, but has lived in Spain for the past 4 years. She´s super sassy and we get along WAY too well. Also she´s really awesome, she already knows like everything. We just got right to work and haven´t stopped since! Also she is teaching me to cook REALLY GOOD peruvian food so expect some of that when I come home!

INCREDIBLE miracle last night. A few nights ago, the elders had contacted a young couple with a brand new baby (17 days old) on the street and turns out that the father is an inactive member! They live in our area, so they gave us their info and we went over last night. S.. is 32 and from Argentina and his family joined the Church when he was 6, but 14 years ago, he went inactive and his family has been fighting and praying for him to come back all this time. A.. is 20 and from northern Spain and is not a member, but is super sweet and their baby, V.. is SO SMALL and beautiful. They let us in right away and were so welcoming and we got to know them and invited to start doing family prayers and they held hands and were so excited to get started. Missionaries had visited them before a few years ago, but they weren´t ready then. Now, with the birth of their daughter, they are both in the place ready to hear the gospel cause they are seeing the importance of it for their little family. It was such an incredible lesson and S.. testified to us that he knows that this is the true Church, he just fell away because he didn´t like the hypocracy of members, but he feels dumb now for going inactive because of that. Really, it was A MIRACLE!! Pray for them and their little family that he can come back and baptize his little wife!!

Funny story: Our ward mission leader gave a talk yesterday in church and talked about how a way that the ward can help with misisonary work is by inviting us over to eat (us missionaries hardly ever eat with members in this ward) and at the end of sacrament meeting, EVERYBODY swarmed us inviting us over to eat! Haha we have an eating cita almost everyday this week!!

RANDOM THINGS

In our mission, we don´t use a lot of the same missionary terms as other missions since so many missionaries don´t speak English. We call them hijos and hijas (cause they are our children in the mission!) We are teaching a lot of people still, but since we have been finding a lot of new investigators lately, right now we are going through and figuring out if they are really going to progress or not, so we are dropping a lot right now as well, making room for miracles to happen and putting our faith in the Lord.

 My companion knows everybody and their dog here in Fuen! Haha its so funny having companions from within Spain because since the Church is so small here still, they all have connections (even worse within the young adults too!)
We want to start workign with the yw more and get them excited about missionary work since right now all of us in our ward are teaching ym and yw aged investigators and they aren´t really receptive to new people and its weird seeing the 14 year olds and all of a sudden I´m like, woah. When did I grow up?? Not that long ago but at the same time it is!
Thank you for that scripture. I needed it. I´ve been getting kinda frustrated lately. I feel like since I left Puerto that I have been doing everything I can and working hard and being the most effective I can be, but that I´m still not seeing the results. I miss hearing somebody turn to me and say, "I prayed and I know its true. I want to follow this." I just feel like I´m running in circles going nowhere right now. BUT I know that new missionaries bring MIRACLES and I have a great feeling about this time I´m going to have with Hermana Hurtado.

 Bahaha all of you guys assumed that I would get an american! Nope, I´m NOT the one with all the language skills. Its the other way around actually. But my Spanish has skyrocketed in just these past 5 days! I´ve had a few companions that struggled with Spanish, but what we lack in language the Lord makes up in Spirit. I love missions.
 

 My favorite part about the mission is how my testimony has grown and being able to use it to help others´ grow as well. If I could change anything, I would go back to the beginning and be more teachable and pay more attention to my trainer. Haha I still really wanna go to the Alhambra. ITs my dream.

One thing taht I have learned each time I´ve trained is that in the end, they won´t remember much of what you taught them, but they will remember how you made them feel. So just love them and love them and love them. It's the same with investigators. The things we teach them are completely new and weird, but what catches their attention is the Spirit and how they feel.

Well we were talking to a less active man about ways he can keep busy to quit smoking so he can go to the temple in October (thats his goal) and so we talked about doing family history and then also missionary work. As we were teaching him, a promise from Neil L Andersen came to my head. "As you pray to know with whom to share the gospel, names and faces will come to your mind of people who you know who are prepared to hear the gospel." I don´t want to get to the day of judgement and have somebody who has accepted the gospel in the spirit kingdom who I knew in this life come up to me and say, "but you had it and you didn´t share it with me! I could have enjoyed these blessings earlier!" As members of the Church, as we pray about who to share the gospel with, we have the right to receive revelation to be guided to those that we know who are ready to hear the gospel. Every member has this right!  Pray about with whom you can share the gospel and then SHARE IT! Have a great week!

I love you all so much and I hope you have excellent weeks. Os quiero!

Hermana Becca Folsom

August 4th

Aka the week of madness.

Hey fam! This week was nuts. We have had 5 normal weeks and all at once this week, EVERYTHING happened! First of all, the news. So I´m training (you already knew that. I won´t know who the heck my hija is until tomorrow.. AHH!!) and then Hermana Lionetti is going to Elche 1! Its sad we only got a transfer together, but we are both excited for our future opportunities and she goes to byu, so this isn´t the end! Haha

So Monday I had my first intercambio for the first time in 6 weeks (it was a nice, long break! haha) and it was PERFECT. But really, perfect. We saw everybody we had planned to see and taught awesome lessons and got to spend time with each other and she saw recent converts, less actives, progressing investigators and news. I have never had a perfect day like that before in my mission. SUCCESS.

Tuesday I went to the mission home and we had trainers training. I´ve been so not even thinking about the fact that I´m actually training so it was odd being there and all of the other trainers were sharing their concerns and thoughts upon finding out they were training. I felt kinda dumb cause i was just like, well I´m excited to be here! I guess also cause I was the only one there who had trained before, so they didn´t know what to expect. On that note, apparently I´m old now! Everybody keeps asking me how soon I go home! ITs dumb. I´m NOT going home. And thats that.

Wednesday was the day of adversity. We had to testify various times of the truth of the gospel to people who were flat out telling us that the Church is a lie and that what we do as missionaries is despicable "leading people away into darkness" but the interesting thing was that during one of those times, I had the distinct thought, "Even if I were the ONLY person in the entire world who knew of the truthfulness of the gospel, I would still know with the same certainty that it is true and I would live it and share it just as I do now." It was a cool experience having the Spirit testify to me that I DO know that this is true and it really strengthened my testimony. Funny how what those people were telling us had a backwards effect on me than what they intended! THIS CHURCH IS TRUE!!

We met this family from Senegal a few weeks ago and we have been teaching them with this older member from our ward, F.., who speaks French (one of the languages spoken in Senegal, so she can help a lot). And they are super cool. They are 3 brothers: A.., L.. and B... A.. is evangelist and married, L.. is divorced and was muslim (he speaks better english than I do, he married a british woman who now lives there with their 10 year old son) and B.. is young and doesn´t speak very much spanish nor english nor french (he speaks wolof). But the first time we went over, A.. was super argumentative and wanted to bible bash, but we stayed calm and then when we went over Friday, he was a completely different person. He had had a complete change of heart and asked if we could give him a Book of Mormon and he said he wants to try the promise.

 

RANDOM THINGS

O.. got dropped after he refused to read the book of mormon but only antimormon literature he found online (i got sassy and told him to call us when he decides to listen to the truth... oops.), but R.. is doing really well! We keep finding so many people through him! I think the majority of our new investigators lately have been found through him!
 

As we have been doing family history as a mission, i keep thinking about how blessed I am as well to come from families where the gospel really is the center of our lives. On my mission I have met so many people, companions, investigators, members, less actives, etc.who don´t have the same blessing I do to come from a family that loves me and even more, loves the Lord. I read "True to the Faith" teh talk Elder Walker gave at conference this week and I loved what he said about this: "The more connected we feel to our righteous forefathers, the more likely we are to make wise and righteous choices." I love you momma! I hope you have a great week! And tell Uncle David congrats from me! LOVE YOU!!

They are really making a focus in our mission about learning about our family history and as I´m doing mine, I´m like, "I KNOW NOTHIGN ABOUT THESE PEOPLE!!" but we are really blessed to have excellent grandparents like grandpa who go and put a lot onto family search. I´ve learned a lot from what he´s written on there! I really like our elders, we all have at least a year in the mission right now so we all know what its like to work together and it's good!

 My scripture is Ezekiel 34:6,8 the Lord entrusts us with His sheep. They are His. So how are we going to take care fo them? We need to adapt an attitude of service and charity and take care of ALL his sheep!!

i love you all so much! have a graet week! LOVE YOU!!!!

Hermana Folsom

 

July 28th

 

Funny story this week, we are walking home for the night, its 10pm and we are pretty close to our piso and President calls. I talked to him and then he asked to talk to my companion and right as I hand the phone to her, these two kids, a girl around 14 years old and a boy around 12 come up to us and just start SCREAMING in our faces and yelling crude things to us in Spanish and I hear Hermana Lionetti start laughing and tell President, "No, no, we´re fine. There are just two kids shouting at us. I don´t understand what they are saying, but I think my comp does. She´s laughing. No, really, President, we are okay. We are almost home." Haha of course, the one time we are shouted at and people say rude things like that to us, we were on the phone with PRESIDENT. Really i was just cracking up because of the ridiculousness of the situation which i think made them angrier and the kids eventually stormed off. It was odd.

WELL but now you are probably wondering why we were talking to President. I´m training! I´m going to pick up the new hermana next week... Weird but I´m excited to train like for real this time. And I´m excited to help a new missionary learn and grow. It will be fun! I´m bummed about only getting a transfer with Hermana Lionetti (especially cause this transfer FLEW by) but I´m excited for this new experience.

Last week we met this man, O... He lives in our apartment complex in the next building over and he´s from Morrocco and he´s muslim, but not practicing and doesn´t even believe in his religion. We went over on Tuesday morning to give him a Book of Mormon in Arabic and we could not get ANY women to come with us. BUT there is a little park in the middle of all the buildings in our complex so we were thinking we could go down and teach him on a bench. We get to his door and he would NOT have it to meet us downstairs. He was offended we rejected his hospitality. He kept saying, "Venga, chicas!" His apartment is really open and you can see right into it from the park, so he thought it was ridiculous having to leave but we were firm and after FIFTEEN MINUTES of trying to persuade him, he finally came down to the park with us. BUT he´s awesome. HE told us he´s not very creyente, but that he wants to have faith like ours. He wants to read the BoM and know if its true. SO COOL! WE just gotta find women to come with us now!

Update on R.., our awesome 61 year old investigator:  He´s incredible. He bought us little lawn chairs so we don´t have to perch on the flower bed anymore and he´s so sincere. And we are meeting so many people through him. We just started teaching his son this week- THAT man is so repentant too. After 4 years in prison, he´s ready to change and take control of his life. They are such humble men and really love our visits. SO GREAT! They won´t accept baptismal dates yet cause they don´t feel ready, but they both want to come to church! WOO!!!

RANDOM THINGS

Hey cool news from our mission, we are getting electronic devices! IPADS! We are going to start using them in October or November... right in time for me to leave.

Things are pickign up a LOT here- we are finding like crazy and we have to the goal to reach the mission standards of excellence this week... WE CAN DO IT!

The work goes really well! We are meeting a bunch of incredible people right now that I can really see progressing and the members are getting excited about the work, suddenly they are remembering us missionaries are still here!

Cool story: we met this man, P.., on the street on Thursday and he´s like not all there. Really slow of speech but he´s really nice and I asked if he´d ever seen the capilla here in fuen and he said yes. Then i said, "Pues, acércate este domingo a las 10" (So come on by on Sunday at 10) and he was like, well maybe. So we are sitting in gospel principles class and i see a man walk by the window and i was like, "uhh hermana... is that paco??" we ran out of that class right quick and grabbed him! Haha he came on his own on his way to the beach! But after all teh meetings I asked how he liked it and he said it "changed him" and that he needed to go home and think about soem things. We have an appointment with him today... cool but random, right?

 There are cockroaches in my piso, i´ll send some pics. ITs gross. but did you know that if you just flip them over, they can´t get back over, so evenutally they just die lying on their backs? So all over you just see cockroaches flipped over. Then you sweep them up adn throw them away. its a tragic death but a much cleaner solution than squishing them.

 My scripture for you this week is 2 ne 22:2, I am obsessed with this scripture. I love the language in it and i love that when we trust in Christ and have faith in Him, we really have NO reason to fear, He is watching out for us and in the end, everything will be alright.

I love you all so much, I hope you have an excellent week and are staying cool!

LOVE YOU!

HERMANA FOLSOM

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Harris got baptized!!!!!

 

CHECK IT OUT!!!!

 I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EVER. HARRIS GOT BAPTIZED!!!!

(Becca taught him in Dos Hermanas.)

 

The following is the note Zack sent to the Hermanas:

Hey thought I would send a good group message with a picture and let you all know that this past Wedensday, Harris got baptized, it was great! and they asked me to do it which couldn't have been cooler, it was crazy, and it's just the start of things and he'll be getting confirmed today. Amazing, aaamazing.
 

July 21st

                                    

At the zoo

Walking with lemurs

View of our area in Fuengirola

Outside the castle in Fuengirola

This was an interesting week, it was one of those typical missionary weeks, full of HUGE ups and LOW downs. But in the end, I think the week went well

First of all, one HUGE blessing of being here in Fuengirola is having Hermana Deere so close cause Wednesday night right as we were coming in for the night, she called and asked if she could come pick us up. My first thought was, "Crap. What did we do?!" Then suddenly as we were walking outside our piso, I realized it was probably news about Grammie. It was good to hear it in person from somebody and have some time to let it sink it. Its hard not being able to be there with everybody during this time, but I am so grateful for being here as a missionary, having the Spirit SO close and being so focused on the plan of salvation that there was NO question about where Grammie is right now and that she is finally reunited with Grampy. I felt such comfort Wednesday night knowing that she is finally back with him and happy. I´ve been praying for everybody all week.

Some really cool miracles have been going down here too this week. We had met this man, R.., once when we met his friend, S.. (another investigator) at his little food stand and we decided this week to stop by and teach R... Oh my gosh this man is incredible. After only meeting with him twice I am convinced he is going to make an incredible member. I already have his baptism planned... Haha we sit in the back of his kiosco (food stand) on folding chairs and talk about the gospel. He is 61 and is such a humble, sincere man. His wife left him about 2 years ago and since then he´s battled (and conquered) cancer, had heart surgery, and his son has fallen into drugs. Despite all of this, the man believes and has such a personal relationship with Heavenly Father. His prayers are so beautiful and the spirit is SO STRONG when we teach him. He is a miracle.

RANDOM THINGS

Church yesterday was good, we have the goal as a district to have 20 investigators in church in total and so we were all working hard towards that last week (we had 8... kinda 20 right?? hahaha) but this week we are going to get it! Some cool successes we are seeing is that since I got here, we have been focusing on talking to everybody in the street in between appointments and ALWAYS asking referrals from EVERYBODY and for so long, all we have gotten is rejection but THIS WAS THE WEEK. We met some incredible people on our way to appointments that are going to become investigators this week and the Lord is really putting people in our path. Also yesterday in RS, I was sitting by a member and she leans over and asks me how was the week and if I taught any lessons. I told her yes, but we are always looking for more people to teach. She stops for a second and then gave me FOUR NAMES she wants us to look up! We are finally seeing the benefits of our hard work trying to find. I am loving working here in Fuen. Such a cool spirit about the work here.

It really is such a different experience having the gospel in your life. I have met many people on my mission who have lost loved ones and it completely devastates them, but all week I have had such a peaceful feeling knowing exactly where Grammie is and that she is back with Grampy. I am so grateful for the perspective that the gospel brings!

My favorite part of this week was our lesson with R.. yesterday. He was waiting for us all day and had bought us little juices cause he knew we were coming. He´s so great.

I´ve been in a few thunder storms but they were all in Dos (winters here are rainy) and yeah Europe KNOWS their hot chocolate. ITs good here too! They drink it all the time.

I had the oddest craving this week to watch Even Stevens or Lizzie McGuire. Sometimes I miss tv. But then I watch the Restoration video. Or the District. #missionaryprobs. Funny story, we brought J.. to a lesson with A.., our investigator from Pakistan, and she speaks Spanglish (neither her spanish nor her english are very good, she speaks Urdu) and we wanted to share with her Amos 3:7 and talk about prophets and it took us TEN STRAIGHT MINUTES to find Amos in her bible. It was all characters and we would say things in Spanish and repeat them in English. WHY MUST I KEEP FINDING PEOPLE TO TEACH WITH WHOM I DON´T SHARE A COMMON LANGUAGE. I´ve gotten really good at teaching simply though!  I wish you could see those lessons; "Dios te ama. God loves you. God. loves. you. Ama. Dios. Love. You understand?" "God ama mundo. God es bueno." Okay yup, good enough. Good news is we ahve the Spirit.

 I was reading the talks from the Women´s broadcast in april and i really liked this and thought of you and all the sissies "To be sisters implies that there is an unbreakable bond between us. Sisters take care of each other, watch out for each other, comfort each other and are there for each other through thick and thin." -Bonnie L. Oscarson.

Matthew 10:39 "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." I was pretty bummed Wednesday night that I was way out here in Spain in a new area where I don´t have a whole lot of connections still and I was just wishing I could be there with you guys but then every Thursday we do service in a soup kitchen for the homeless and by the time our 2 hours there were over, I forgot any sadness I was feeling before. I really forgot myself helping these people and talking to them. It was a testimony to me of the power of selfless service and this scripture!

Hermana Folsom