HI fam!
This week has been a monumental week in my mission!!!
I CAN ROLL MY Rs. I don´t know how it happened! Hahaha but I am happy and proud to say that after 9 months of living in Spain I randomly woke up one day and could roll my Rs. #tendermercy. I about tried everything in the world and was on the verge of giving up. But I didn´t cave in. I pressed forward and now I can do it. Sorry for being dramatic about it... but seriously this week has been monumental.
The Church is true, and his work presses forward.
Well we now have an investigator named America... from Africa... add that one to the list of great names.
Speaking of America... we had an AWESOME cultural activity on Friday..and I decided to go all out. As missionaries we don´t necessarily represent our country.. but this night I did, and went all out. I wore red, white, and blue... pulled out my American flag and made chocolate chip cookies. Ha fun night. Seeing that the Spanish culture is so fun.. they made everyone also do a dance from their country.. Sister Carroll and Sister Floyd legit clogged. Seeing that I don´t have that kind of talent, I turned on the music and introduced the dance. The people loved it though. I love Spain and I loooove the Spanish culture. It is just so fun. More than anything I just LOVE the mission.
I thought how it is just so crazy how hard a mission is. Yet you just love it with all that you have. You just love the Lord with all that you have. And THAT is what pushes you forward and moves you to work harder and harder every day, every minute. I may never be able to express how happy and grateful I am to be on a mission. My testimony is strengthened everyday through Christ. I heard something awhile back saying how a mission is like FALLING UP. It is true. It can´t be said better than that. You serve people, and LOVE people, and love the Lord, and you cry, and it hurts, and you feel like you are falling... but you are not. You are not falling! You are indeed being carried up. Falling up. As I learn more and more about Christ and what it means to represent Him... what He would do... who He is.. I feel more and more humbled. What my purpose is here. What I am doing. Who I am putting aside and who I am representing. I am not just learning Spanish because it’s cool but I am learning it so that I can IMMITATE Christ in a way that people can understand. I love the Lord. I love what He did for us. I love the atonement. I love the restoration. The church is perfect. The Savior is perfect. It’s just such an overwhelming feeling of gratefulness and thankfulness. How lucky are we.
On Saturday night cute M. got baptized. I can´t tell you how special this night was for him. And for me. For everyone! He is a powerful good man. He has changed so much. He is the most converted guy I know. He doesn´t just have a testimony, but he is converted and happy. And it has been the coolest thing in the world finding him and helping him know and RELY on Christ. As he got up after his baptism to bear his testimony, I couldn´t help but cry. He cried and gave the most humble testimony of the Savior that I have ever heard. President and Sister Jackson came. His family came... they will get baptized. I know they will. They now have such a strong head of the house... he will help them get to where he is now. That night I had this incredible vision of M. as a leader one day. Actually, it wasn´t the first time I had a vision of him as a leader.
Weeks ago, I remember we went over to his house to teach he darling wife A. the Plan of Salvation at about 5 in the afternoon. They live on the 5th floor of their apartment. This day there was a beautiful sunset right outside of their piso through the window. As we sat there and taught her... M. would bear the most powerful testimony. I just remember sitting there lost in my thoughts as I heard him teach and LOVE this doctrine as he poured out his heart to his wife. I was just taken back by feelings of gratefulness and how true this gospel is. I sat there and just felt the most warm feeling this precious afternoon and felt a confirmation that I am doing my job here in Spain. It was a beautiful spiritual confirmation that this is my life! This is what I do every day. And watching M. bear his soul to A. was the most rewarding thing. He does it in such a loving way and I couldn´t help but picture him as a leader.
And now he is baptized. He is baptized! It really still doesn´t feel real. It has been a journey with him. It is a weird but such a celestial feeling when your investigator gets baptized and you let them leave your care and into the care of the ward. I know with all of my heart that this night was a celestial glimpse into heaven.
As you have probably heard by now... I am staying in Torrejón with my baby for our third transfer now. I am happy about that. Me encanta este barrio. How lucky am I.
I love you all! I am so excited for conference. How did these past 6 months just come and go? Take advantage of this conference session! How lucky are we to get to hear from loving prophets who speak for God?
Watch this
http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1839005837001
QUE DIOS OS BENDIGA!
Hermana Nydegger
Line of the week:
Us: Valentino, do you believe that God can call another prophet to guide us?
Valentino: Yes..... HE CALLED ME
Us: ... (awkward)
Valentino: BROMA.. si claro que si. (JUST KIDDING.. yes, of course.)
Us: ...good. (awkward laugh)
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