I am glad to tell you all that today, February 3, is the Day of the Tortilla here in Spain. Happy free tortillas to all the spaniards and happy no mail to the missionaries.
Only Spain would have a day for the tortilla. When we found out that today is a festivo we were just like... seriously?? I am tellin you Spain will do anything to have a holiday! There is like at least 10 every month i swear! and every time there is a festivo everything shuts down ands its a really fun time. Haha here is my challenge to you all for the day:
1. turn on some spanish music (spaniard acordians.. spanish guitars..ect.)
2. go onto youtube
3. learn how to make a true spanish tortilla
4. hagalo
5. eat it in celebration
My hija and I will be doing likewise this night. I love the spanish tortilla! The best part it the flip. Good luck it can be tough! Que distruten!
So this week... TIME. FLIES. Wow time literally is flying! Its true like they all say. Days are weeks and weeks are days! I can´t believe that I have already been here in Torrejón for about a month. It blows my mind! Can I just tell you how much I love the fact that Hermana Phillips served here exactly a year ago? I find my self thinking so much sometimes about what she was like here a year ago! It really is a great motivator. Everybody here just ADORES her. And I feel so proud to be able to say that she was my trainer! She really is the great and most incredible example of love and humility. Wow I LOVE the things that you can learn from companions here. Companions really can change your life! Sometimes I don´t quite realize that until after we get split up. But I truly have learned so much from every single companion I have had and for that I am so grateful! Hermana Phillips has just about finished her mission. She goes home in a few weeks! Next P day she is coming to torrejón and the ward here is throwing a goodbye party for her! I can´t wait.
Speaking of the ward.. I love the ward. The other night I was flipping through this folder that I have from little things from tenerife.. when a random ticket from a torrejón concert popped out from where I randomly put it earlier. As i picked up this little ticket and looked at it I had the sweetest feeling in my heart! I felt like i was at home. that has happened a few different times since i have been here.. and they are truly just little confirmations from heavenly father of how LUCKY i am. how lucky i am to be in spain as a sister missionary for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in 2014 as a 19 year old girl! I love spain, my family, my friends, and this gospel more than anything. I think that we have trials in our life to open our eyes a little. We have tender mercies to let us know that we never have to do this alone! Is is so worth it to come unto Christ, it always is! When we do is when heaven is with us.
Something that they do here in spain is kiss everyone twice on the check to say hi or to say bye! I love it. We aren´t allowed to to boys though and its the funiest thing because these people literally get offended if you don´t. But I think that it is the cutest thing when all of the little kids kiss their moms! But it is normal life here. We probably kiss 20 people a day I am not even kidding. But i love it! It really showes how warm this culture is! Maybe you already knew that from the latinos in new jersey:) Anyways we call it ´besoing´ in the missionary lingo ha. (the verb to kiss is besar) I was telling this girl the other day how we don´t besar eachother in america... how normally we either wave, hand shake, or hug. And she was BLOWN away. She hated it! Haha it is so funny how different things are here! I have been having this weird feelings lately about how much I am going to miss Spain when my time is up. But funny story! The other night I was saying goodbye to a whole line of girls. Anyways so you just besar them and move on from girl to girl haha. Little did I know a member named Roberto was in this line of girls. Long story short I accidentally besoed roberto and the whole ward saw hahaha. awk. and now the whole ward won´t stop bugging me about it haha! I am like OKAY great! Now I am the new sister missionary who comes in and besos the high priest president guy. woops! Really though its pretttty embarassing haha. So thats my awkward story of the week from the life of a sister missionary.
We are finding SO much! I love it. I love trying to say knew things! Trying to learn how the spirit works and what I can say to get better. Its cool. I love seeing the reactions from the people on the street. We get many rejections not going to lie. But time from time we find people who truly have the desire to come unto Christ. Whether they know it or not! They are chosing Christ and its great. I love teaching people about how we have a perfect gospel for imperfect people and how we have a savior who makes up for the rest when we fall. Its a challenge learning about how to teach it! But something that I have learned is that the Lord used imperfect people to teach his message. And that it really is him teaching the message! We are really just intruments and its cool. The more I learn about how every person a child of god, the more i want them to know it for themselves. I challenge you all to think of someone that you know this week that may not know that they are a child of a heavenly father and to think of someone way that you could share your testimony with them! Let them know that you know who your are! about how knowing your identity helps you in your life! There is such a need in the world today for this. And if you do this i PROMISE you that you will have this spirit with you and that you will be able to rely on that!
My companion and I and sister king were able to so a musical number for a baptism on saturday. they sang and I played the piano to a version that we put together of How great thou art. The spirit was so strong! It was so thick! Many people where crying and it was such a beautiful experience! I am so grateful to be able to be apart of this!
Sorry I feel like this email was kinda all over the place! My email next week will be better with more details. I just have a bad memory:)
I love you all! Have a good week okay??
Hermana Nydegger
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