Hi FAMILY!
Just got back from Portugal.. I live quite the life here in Vigo! Everything is going great here in Vigo! It is so beautiful here, I love it! Also, my companion is amazing and we are seeing so many amazing miracles together! I'm just so thankful to be here and so thankful that I still have 10 more weeks to just give it everything I have left to give. I keep having moments where I just get so sad that soon I won't be a missionary anymore. But I know and trust SO much in the plan that Heavenly Father has for me! Time is just FLYING! It is so weird. But then at the same time I feel like I don't fully understand that I am actually going home.. I mean of course I don't I still have a while! But honestly sometimes your mission feels like it will never come to end! But I guess that is the beauty of it!
I CANT believe that Katie is off! I am telling you that it is the weirdest feeling thinking about her in the very beginning and then me on the whole other end. I am so excited for her! Ah I think about her non stop and I am just so happy and grateful that she and I can serve together at the same time.
In the very beginning of my mission there was a quote that comforted me a lot! But I remember in the beginning just thinking.. well I hope that this will be true for me also one day!
"The language in which you are called to preach, is the language that you can testify most powerfully in!"
And just thinking back to Katie and everything and reflecting back on my mission.. it IS true! I realize it the other day when we had to teach a nigerian in english and I felt like the biggest fool! Just fumbling over my words. I know that WHAT we speak is just as inspired as WHERE we serve. It doesn't come easy though! It requires a lot of work and patience and faith and prayer. But anyone will and can come to love their mission language. I have and I am so grateful for it!
Strangely enough people AGAIN this week told me I look like a Spaniard. Some elder who is a Spaniard told me.. It is the white of your eyes! Ha I don't even know if that is a good thing or bad thing.. people here are just so funny! It kills me everyday! I don't think that I have laughed harder than I have here in Spain!
J. is doing AWESOME! It honestly has been the most humbling experience ever. She is the most amazing pure person on the planet. She is now down to 3 cigarettes a day and she is doing so well. It has been such a humbling experience and so powerful the spirit that we feel with her. It has been so interesting! We feel the spirit so strong with her. Despite the most crazy life she has has she is so pure and sensitive to the spirit and has unbreakable faith. It has been awesome seeing the change that the gospel is making on her life due to the pure faith that she has. It just makes me think about the world would be if they had the child like faith that Julita has. SO humble and pure and believing and charitable. I love her so much! The gospel is just so real and she is humble enough to realize it. She literally has NOTHING yet she feels so privileged.
ALSO for all who hasn't seen this yet.. THIS IS MY TRAINER! Hermana Amanda Philips.. the BEST person alive! I love her so much!
Have a great week!
Hermana Nydegger
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