How are you all? It is seriously SO great to hear from all of you every week. I can tell that you are all being stellar member missionaries! What cool examples. SO this week has kinda been a drag because guess what... BOTH ME AND MY COMP ARE SICK! Kinda haha. We all knew this would happen at some point. Press forward saints... life goes on. This week is going to be such a good one.. I CAN FEEL IT. We already have some great things planned PLUS... guess what next weekend is...
THE CANARY ISLANDS ARE BECOMING A STAKE
How coooooool is that? We may be few, but we are STRONG! And we are growing. I am so excited. We finally have enough priesthood holders to become a stake. All of the missionaries are headed to GRAN CANARIA early Sunday Morning.. I CAN´T WAIT! It is going to be so fun! Such exciting times here in enspaña!! AH I CAN´T WAIT! We are going to take the gua gua up to Santa Cruz on Saturday night.. sleep over at the Andersons and then catch a FOUR hour boat ride over to gran canaria Sunday morning! Elder Reina the area 70 will be there. We will have Stake Conference. We will eat. And then we will go back to Santa Cruz. Me and my comp will stay over AGAIN at the Andersons and then get to spend Pday with them and the other Hermanas in La Laguna. SO. EXCITED. Oh and I will finally get to meet the other hermanas and elders on the other islands!
So this week I ate probably the NASTIEST thing ever! AND I ate probably my most favorite thing ever. Good week yeah? Haha okay so to start with the nasty. Blended up sardines breaded and fried. Haha OH MY I NEVER WILL EAT ONE AGAIN. On Friday we went wayyy far out to the middle of nowhere on a windy and sketchy gua gua for a food appointment we had. So we FINALLY get there and then as soon as we walk in I smell sea food. And not the good kind. The bad RAW kind. I was like NOOOO in my head. It was badddd. So she puts on our plates these weird fried things. I cut it open. The insides are just gray. We asked what they were. "Oh they are just sardines blended up! I breaded them and fried them. I hope you like them because I made a lot!" You should have seen the smile on my face. But guess what. I downed like 9 of them. She just kept piling them on our plates. I am becoming mentally strong with things like that. Yay for gift of tongue.
AREPAS!
This week our friend Leonor taught us how to make arepas. AH so fun. First off let me tell you about Leonor. She is incredible. She is a less active that we found. Probably the nicest old lady. We have been meeting with her and I just LOVE HER. The first time I met her she made me sit down and put my legs on a chair. She just started massaging them and saying some interesting little chant. I was dying. She is so great! So loving. And she has been coming to church so it is great!! So arepas are these really popular things from Colombia and Venezuela. SO good. You will have to look them up. They are so simple and easy to make! It’s amazing because they are so good. And it was so fun learning how to make them. I wish so badly that I had my camera that day. But it was fun. We then put this super good meat stuff inside. Haha then we had this big Colombian feast! Also... Leonor has a grandson named David that lives with her in their tiny piso. David is this REBELIOUS little 19 year boy who smokes all of the time and has tons of tattoos. He isn´t a member. He is so mean to Leonor and it is so sad:( but we are trying to get him to change and have a better life!) We FINALLY got him to open up that night! He prayed outloud for the first time with us and was really interested. So we will see with him! We are slowly opening him up little by little. Either way I now know how to make arepas. So get ready in 15 months I will make you all some! they are cool. You can practically put whatever you want in them. Also I just love the word "arrrrepas."
COOL story that happened this morning! So we get this random call this morning. We answered and it turns out that it was a lady and a grandson who want to learn English! (she saw our advertisement or something for the class.) Anyways so she told us that she was in Los Cristianos at the moment and we were - SO ARE WE! So we ventured out to go find this lady and show her where the chapel is so that she can know where to come for English class tomorrow. So we finally find her! This cute old lady with a cane. So we met her and walked with her to the chapel! I can´t remember her name.. but this nice lady is from Cuba. Anyways so finally we are like 7 steps from the door to the chapel. And guess what. As soon as she sees the little chapa (I forget what it’s called in English.. it’s like a nametag thing). As soon as she sees the name of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints she just stops in her steps and starts CRYING. She just starts crying. And she begins to tell us how much she just loves Christ. It was such a cool experience. She then started to say, "Cristo vive! Alelujah!" It was SO cool! She looked at my chapa on my shirt and just hugs me. We then decided to give her a church tour! She was very teary throughout the whole thing! I don´t quite know how all of this happened so fast. but I KNOW that it was inspired. It was the coolest thing hearing her talk about how she felt. She then told us how before when she was waiting for the bus one day, that she saw our flyer and that it just GLOWED to her. She described it as something from the heavens. She told us that she knew she had to call that number.
The Lord works in mysterious ways!
My comp and I have great hopes for this cute little lady from Cuba
More than anything lately my testimony has been growing of following the spirit. I know that if you are living your life, in a way that Christ would live his life, and if you are doing ALL that you can do... Your paths will be directed. We are here in the Lords hands! If we are worthy He will 100% use us as his instruments. Often times not in the way that we would expect. Some of the coolest moments that I have had on the mission are when plans fall through and we randomly decide to pass by someone’s house. When we are doing all that we can and when we decide to ACT.. that is when The Lord directs our paths.
Until next week! LOVE you all un monton.
con mucho amor,
Hermana Nydegger
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