Monologue

Demember 15, 2013

HI!!!

First off Mom you mentioned something about a monologue and I am so sad to say that I don´t even REMEMBER what that even is! Ha! I am literally forgetting everything including certain things in English aka spelling/grammar. Just be happy that I am learning how to do it correctly in Spanish over here! I promise you that I will come back from my mission with the education of a 3 year old I am not even kidding.

Second off in case any of any of you are wondering, SISTER CHRISTIAN and I are alive! We survived the tormenta. Seriously you would not have believed the weather just this past week. It has been as loco as Utah weather! Tuesday morning during comp study we get a call from our bishop telling us that the entire island is on red alert or something. HAHA can you believe it?! Anyways, three islands were on alert for about 3 days. Needless to say were stuck in our piso for a long time. It was so weird. Really just the weirdest thing! It was hard not being able to work. My companion probably would have rather died than be locked up in our piso. But we had no choice! And the times that we were able to escape were spent cleaning up the flooded chapel. It was crazy! But a super cool experience on the mission. We were able to see some awesome miracles through the whole thing. Where we live, the tormenta actually did some damage! The roads were like mud rivers for a day… it was crazy. It ruined the roads too! There is quite a bit of clean up now.. but it’s cool. Still glad to be on the Canaries at this time. People here though are such babies about the weather! It’s hilarious. If you think that it is cold here, take a nice trip over to Utah and then tell me what is cold! Haha hope you all are surviving out there.

Third off... I HIT MY 6 MONTH MARK! Crazy how time is on the mission! I totally forgot that it was my cumplemez until weekly planning that day. Let me just tell you that it was the weirdest thought ever! I still feel like a baby on the mission. It feels so good though! The thought that I will be home this time next year blows my mind. I also can´t believe that it is Christmas in like a week! It is weird spending Christmas not only in the mission but on an Island. it still feels like July here! It does not feel like one bit of Christmas here. Occasionally I will hear Christmas music and that is a weird thought but other than that, I can´t believe it is Christmas. And that I will be skyping all of your lovely faces! It just seems so surreal to me. But I am so so excited! You all are the greatest and I just love you all so much.

I want to tell you about N! N. is the cutest girl that Sister Phillips and I actually found through the English dan joning last transfer. She is the cutest! She is from the canary islands. She is 32 years old but looks like she is barely in her 20s! She is really just the nicest. We have finally been able to teach her! I love her so much. She is so open and just such a respectful person. Not so sure how much she understands but she is so great and I know that she will be baptized soon, hopefully. She really is so open and receptive! She invited us over to her house yesterday after church and made us the cutest Canarian dinner. It was good! I still am amazed at the food that I am able to eat without any problems here on the mission.  Ha, but this stuff, I really did like. Anyways she is great! I made the mistake of telling her my first name and now that is all that she calls me.. but I love it! She says it in the cutest accent. But yeah we are planning on teaching her the Plan of Salvation tomorrow night and I hope that it all goes well. She is a miracle and I have high hopes for her!

T. is doing great. We are learning that she really has zero knowledge about religion. Plus she is from Cuba and is over 80 years old so, I am not really sure how much she understands! We asked her who God was and she told us "hijo de jesucriso?" Son of god?? You should have seen the look on our faces.. we had no idea how little she knew! Especially because she has always been there with us, with R. the whole way through.. But we have been trying our best to help her grasp a sense on God and who He is as her Heavenly Father. We finally got her to pray last night to ask if God loves her. She did it. I sure felt the spirit come in and felt how much Heavenly Father loves her. I hope that she felt it too! I know she did.  She had too! I love her so much also and just want her to be happy like her cute daughter R.

M... we are still waiting on him! His mom has kind of shut off with us again which is super sad. But we finally got her to meet with us next Sunday! I am just praying that her heart will open up again and that we can finally get Mateo into the baptismal waters.

We are finding many new people which is great! I am excited. Lots of new investigators with potential.

I LOVE YOU ALL!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I will see all of your beautiful faces in just a few days and I look so forward to it. I miss you all so much.

Remember the true meaning of Christmas as you serve others. I have been reading the Living Christ every day and I love it so much. So powerful.

Hermana N