It's an oven in here

Monday, April 14th 2014

I mean ZERO time to write this week. I don´t even know how to sum it up.

I am reading the 4th missionary.. it is AWESOME. I love it I love it I want more of it! Any missionaries or future missionaries read it and it will change your life and mission. 

We went to the temple today! Yet again I am so so grateful for it and the blessings and peace and strength and just about everything we could even need or want from it. It was so great. Also it was great because guess who I saw?! Hermana Money. It was great seeing her... She is really like one of my best friends! I love the people I have met in my life. Seeing that she was just made sister trainer leader guess what she told me... that we will be going on our 4TH intercambio together. #HOLLER. Can´t wait.

WE have an awesome investigator named J. and he looks like Kino from Brother Bear... more to come next week about this stud of a guy

It has been HOT lately. And from what I have heard it only gets about 100 times hotter. I have yet to experience a Madrid summer... which is a dry one. I have heard from other missionaries that you wake up every day and just SWEATING and say to yourself, "I will die today." And then you go to bed and say "I am dying." SHOOT I successfully avoided it the first time and went to the glorious islands.. not sure if I will be able to avoid it this time. Unless I get sent to the North of Spain.. we will see. But I kinda want to have the Madrid summer. There are so many red brick buildings here so close to one another that the heat gets trapped in and you more or less feel like you are in an oven. As terrified as I am, I am also so excited. Bring it.

A. came to church. for the first time. Thats the miracle of the week I would say. I love this lady she is so great. M. will be getting the priesthood on Sunday. I have never been so happy. 

I love this work and this life. It is an oh so crazy one but it is oh so worth it.

I can´t WAIT for Katie to get her call. I can´t stop thinking about it! Venga already! I am dying. I am so grateful for missions. I am learning so much about myself and I just hope to come back a better person. I am striving to become that 4th missionary. 

I love you all so dang much. Can you believe that we will be skyping in a month? I can´t. Thanks for beeing the best. As much as I miss you all, I absolutely LOVE Torrrrejon. They are like my second family. I think I may even be closer to them than my last ward. I love them though. They are so fun and it can be so tempting to just want to hang out with them.. but then I remember that DUH I am a missionary and I am here to WORK!  It's not my time or my wants rather than the Lords. I love it.

HIGH PRAISE.. Hallelujah

Monday, April 7th, 2014

Helllooooo family!

I am so sorry we are really short on time this p-day unfortunately.

So here are my few words from the week.

I ate octopus and I liked it! (See picture) This is a typical Spanish plate. Yum. I think I am finally growing up! I´ll eat just about anything now out of my free own will.. minus a tomato. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

M. an African Investigator that we have is a religious, and practicing, Redeem church attender. He sings and he praises and he loves it. We invited him to come to church. He invited us to go to his. We couldn´t NOT accept the offer seeing that it is missionary work and cultural:) 

So... early Sunday morning we made the trek out to this nice old warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Yes, warehouse. Thank goodness for our tour guides we found off the street. We saw some colorfully dressed African ladies.. and assuming that they were going to HIGH PRAISE we did what we do best and followed them. We guessed correctly and as we walked to this warehouse African drums began to sound... well LOUD music to say the least. We walk in and the room is just full of Africans singing and praising and swaying back and forth dancing their souls out. It was louder than the high school monster mash dance. Ha I swear, I have never met people with more soul in them. Gotta love them. No wonder why they complain about our church being boring. We stayed for a short 10 minutes and then headed back to our church to real conference.

How grateful I am for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ? I love conference so much. I loved watching it in Spanish for the second time. I love how legit our church is. Well of course it is, it’s the LORD´S church. It is the most correct church on the world and it’s perfect. 

Sometimes when conference rolls around it can be easy for missionaries to feel trunky. Thinking of your family watching it at home. Or seeing the thousands and thousands of MEMBERS and real life people in Utah a place you know so well! But. I am telling you.. I have never loved conference as much as I have out here on the Lord´s time. I remember growing up thinking I love conference and I know they are called of God but this is a bit long and boring.. ha, now I am just think GIVE ME MORE!!!! I love conference. How can we not be the true church of God?

I mean here we are every day out in the streets begging (literally) people to take a few minutes to listen to our testimony of LIVING prophets who love us and who guide us and who speak for our Heavenly Father. 

Then, when we have conference I am just filled with LOVE for our church and its truthfulness. It is so true. We got quite a few people to come to listen and I just was SO HAPPY! Because I KNEW that they would have to feel the spirit testify to them that our church is different.. how it indeed is the exact church of Christ which was on the earth a long time ago.

REPRESENT! Be disciples of Christ. That was the theme I got! Manifest your faith. Do it day-by-day. It’s the little things! We are here to be disciples of Christ. To help each other along the way. How lucky are we to have living prophets and apostles and leaders who love us. Watching all of them testify of Christ is sweet. It’s my favorite. There is no way that they are not called of God. I know with all of me that they love us and they want the best for us because our Father in Heaven wants it!

So.

I don´t believe I have told y’all about E. yet??

Well... E. is my very first GUATEMALAN investigator! Shout out to Morg down there in Guatemala.. you have got some good people there.

But E. A GREAT woman. We found here a few weeks ago on the street and have met with her and I already love her so so much. She is just this little Guatemalan lady who warms my heart. I love her. She is here living a hard life but working and sending practically every cent she earns to her daughter in Guatemala who has cancer. She cries in every lesson and it makes me sad. She is a gem of lady. She practically already is a member! She has a baptismal date for this weekend but I think we need to change that seeing that she is very sick.

On Friday we went over to her piso to have a lesson when her nephew (who she lives with) told us she is in the hospital. E. has pretty bad asthma and caught something bad while walking to church in the pouring rain last Sunday. (She is a trooper) 

My hija and I immediately grabbed our bags and ran to the hospital. It started pouring but we just kept running. I love this lady! We finally found her hospital room and saw cute E. just sitting there crying with tubes all around her. It made me tear up! You just love people so much and it’s hard when you see them suffer when they are trying so hard to do good. It makes me think of Heavenly Father when he has to see us suffer when we try our best to do good. But we ran to her and just hugged her. We went last night after conference with the elders to give her a blessing. She was unbelievably grateful. My testimony of the priesthood has grown so much. I was so teary seeing her get a blessing just feeling love for her and love for the priesthood we have in our church and thinking of my great dad and brother who live worthily to have this great power to bless our lives. 

QUE MAS?? Oh ran into some more Africans like always and guess what their names are??

Favor and Frankincense

Love it.

Life is going great. The work is great. It’s the best thing in the world. I can´t tell you all how excited I am that my sister Katie´s papers go in this week. I am expecting a video.. no one tell me! I want to find out when I watch the video. Ah I get chills thinking about it. I think that she is going to the Philippines. Let that be my guess. His work really hastens on! Congrats to Jonny. You´ll be great in Germany and they´ll be lucky to have you! I can´t believe that Liv comes home in 3 weeks! Where does the time go?!  I have a feeling that we will be saying that towards the end of our lives. Where does the time go. Make your life count.

Hermana Nydegger

Line of the week:

(talking to Marino about missions)

Me: My grandparents actually served a mission in the Philippines and lived there for 3 years. My mom thought that I would go there on my mission!

Marino: Yeah you even look like you could be from the Philippines!!!

Me: ...Marino..please. 

Torrrrrejon!

Monday...March 31st, 2014

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)

I Am Weak!

Monday March 24th, 2014

Last week Emily went to Segovia and had time to only send a few lines... this week she started a decent letter and the computer stopped working so she was only able to send half of it. She was able to send pictures.

________________________________________________________________

This week has been crazzzzy. I swear though I really just blink and then its p-day again and I am here e-mailing. (by the way we went to a different locutorio today and the key board is pretty weird and slow so sorry if the e-mail isn´t long....patience.) Time is flyin’!  I can´t believe that conference is in just a few weeks and more than anything I can´t believe that Sister Carroll’s 12 weeks of training are almost up. Transfers are next week so it will be interesting!  I have not a clue of what is going to happen. We could easily stay together for another, seeing that we opened this area.  Time will tell!

This week I went on an intercambio with Hermana Mather’s companion – Hermana Sanchez who is this really cool Spaniard! and I LOVED it. Holy cow you all have no idea how bad I would love to have a native companion. I would love it so that I can really just seal the deal with my Spanish.  We will see.  The only thing I would not want to do EVER would be train a native.  That’s got to be weird!

Today we went to a gym that we got free pass to and all I need to say is that I am weak!  I am the typical missionary - WEAK.  We did this cycling class and I about died.  It was pretty embarrassing as I looked around the room and was weakest one.  ha.... yeah.

Randomly, I got a call from President Jackson this week...  For some reason every time he calls it stresses me out.  I am always just like.. I DIDN´T DO ANYTHING! I am obedient! haha...  Anyway, so I picked up and he asked what we had planned that night. (phew) I told him what we had and was just so grateful that we actually had some good stuff planned.... So yeah, he then said that Sister Jackson and I are coming to Torrejon tonight and we would love to come with you to your lessons!  SCARY. So intimidating so have them there watching my companion and me teach!  But it ended up being a sweet lesson with cute M. (who will be baptized on Saturday by the way!) We taught him the word of wisdom and I just have to say that I LOVE HIM. He is just the greatest little investigator there ever was. We felt the Spirit really strongly and it was good lesson. I was grateful to have the president and his wife with us! They are the greatest and M.  sure loved meeting them.

The work is going great. I wish I had more time to tell you every detail!  But I. is trying to quit drinking. Fun fact: he is actually Muslim.  How cool would it be to baptize him?  IT’S GONNA happen. He has a baptismal date and if he can get off alcohol and if we can get permission, he will be baptized. It really is the craziest experience I have had on my mission.. but it’s cool and I love it. Pray for him! He is from Ghana and has been in the military for almost his whole life.  I can´t even begin to imagine how different my life has been from his. But he is son of God and is ready to change his life. His story really makes me sad though.  

ELI AND GIFTY...Little shout how to you both.. I am learning some things to say in the language Twee. Ha, I love having cousins from Ghana! There are SO many Africans here. It’s great...Eli and Gifty are Emily's cousin's who are adopted from Ghana.

Last p-day we went to Segovia and it felt like a dream! I actually felt like I was in Spain that day. 

..............

Can I live in Segovia?

Monday, March 17th 2014

Sorry I really don´t have time to write a good email this week...we have a noche de hogar (family night) that we´ve got to prepare for and have to cut our email time to like 20 minutes. Lo siento muchooooo!

I have to say that this week has been one of the oddest weeks of my mission not going to lie.

I hit my 9 months... LIFE IS WEIRD

I think I may have an ear infection..

I accidentally drank tea without knowing... again and i like couldn´t fall asleep that night.. I am so grateful for obedience and how it really protects us in our life.

Met a guy on the street...he is a complete drunk who wants to change his life. He showed up to a lesson completely wasted and was just YELLING to us to help him change his life. He gave the most heart wrenching prayer I have ever heard in my life. I just started bawling in it as my heart hurt for him.

Went to SEGOVIA. I love Spain so much. It is so BEAUTIFUL! Pictures to come next time.

What else happened??

All of the missionaries danced the Cotton Eye Joe in our talent show with our investigators...HAHA I don´t think I have ever laughed so hard in my life.

OH the weather here has been amazing, finally warming up! I haven´t had to wear a coat this whole week. Plus the people are way more open to listening to us. Can't complain!

I LOVE YOU ALL. Have a good one! Sorry for the lame email...Hope all is well in the states!

Hermana Nydegger

OS QUIERO

Monday, March 10th, 2014

Querida familia... 

OS QUIERO!!!!

I love Spanish and more than anything - vosotros. Sadly missionaries are discouraged from speaking in vosotros, but I do a little bit with little kids and I LOVE it. I decided I am going to marry someone who speaks Spanish so that we can have little Spanish kids and vosotros…

You will never believe who I saw this week.. A.! She came to Madrid to go to them temple for the first time. She got baptized in June. I told you about her right?? She is the coolest most loving Canarian girl. I love her with all of my heart! I got permission to go over to Pavones and see her! It actually ended up being a very stressful day trying to get over there to see her and back in time for our lesson at 4pm. My baby and I ended up sprinting a combined hour and a half.. ha all WORTH it though. I got to see and chat with A. for about 30 minutes during medio-dia and I loved every minute of it. I miss those Canarians. and I miss there sloppy Spanish! I loved hearing it and talking to her.  I also ran into our cute  branch President. It was fun to see them and have a little Tenerife reunion.

Time is flyyyyying faster than ever! I remember someone telling me that where I am at in my mission age is probably about the fastest time. I sure believe it. I am really liking it here in Torrejon. I feel like I may stay here for a while too.. which that it totally fine by me! I love it and the people and the food. (even though I am legit gaining weight here... nothing wrong with that right?) But really I love it here! We had a SWEET relief society party on Saturday night. It was so fun. SO spiritual and so cultural and just fun. How I love the culture here! Anyways the party was seriously well done. HA! I was BLOWN away at just how cute it was! Our amazing relief society president P. put sooo much effort into making this night a memorable one and let me tell you all.. it was probably one of the most fun days I have ever had on my mission. Let me give you a run-down of the day.

-    studies... normal

-    CRAZY lesson with J... haha that awkward moment when members fight in a lesson to spit out any information they possibly know about the restoration of the gospel

-    English class

-    filling up the font 

-    eating free Burgerking "satisfries" haha (so burger king is nasty in America right? its good here...)

-    dragging a piano across the entire church (one with no wheels haha)

-    running across Torrejon to some stop-bys and potential lessons

-    BAPTISM

-    Relief Society Anniversary!

-    10 minutes lesson with Friday and J. (who is NOW ON DATE! I love them! they are so willing)

-    Sprinting home to make it on time

NOW. That is a day. It was the longest day of my life but also the funnest day. The relief society thing was so good and so powerful. There are really the coolest bunch of ladies here. They are so strong. I just felt so grateful for the program. It really is so inspired. We watched this beautiful slide show of pictures.. and I can´t tell you HOW much unity and love that could be felt with these incredible women that night. This ward here in Torrejon is incredible. I really just lay there at night and try to take in HOW lucky I have been on my mission to serve with such awesome companions and serve in such awesome areas. More than anything to get to know people on a level that you just wouldn´t if you weren´t a missionary. There are suuuuch incredible people here who are STRONG. I am continually amazed at how giving and loving they are. Most of them have so little yet they just give and give and give. They just GET IT! They get it and they know what’s important in life. We have finally been able to get more members to come with us in lessons and I am just amazed every time they share their such strong and heart-felt testimonies. I learn so much from the people here. I learn so much! Sometimes I really wonder what my testimony was before coming here ha… because I truly feel like I have grown immensely in my love for the gospel. I say this in probably every email but deciding to come on a mission was the best decision I have ever made in my life. It is the biggest blessing in my life and I don´t even know how I can come to thank my Heavenly Father for giving me this opportunity to be here in SPAIN as just a 19 year old girl! I guess all I can do is just work my absolute hardest day-by-day and give back what I have been given.

Last night we had SUCH a good lesson with cute M. and with his WIFE! Finally we have been able to meet with her. It was really a defining point on my mission for me. I saw this change in M. I remember the very first lesson with him... and the very first time we contacted him in the street! But seeing him last night was something different. Something so heart-warming. He LOVES the gospel.. he is so humble about it and just wants to share it with his family. He really is probably the nicest man that I have ever met in my life. He was SO cute and so happy as we shared it with his wife who he just cherishes. He has such a pure heart and is so excited for his baptismal date. He is ready. I love it he comes to church and loves it.. He makes the greatest comments in gospel principles class and I just die laughing every time because he has changed so much! The greatest blessing of being a representative of Jesus Christ is not only getting to see these changes in people but to be able to help them get there. The gospel of Jesus Christ can change people.  When we live it we are blessed. We are happier people in return. We have the light of Christ. It has been a miracle watching the light of Christ working on M. We taught the restoration to his wife and it was probably one of the most spiritual lessons I have had on my mission. 

How I love this gospel. And how I love the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost! It’s real and is powerful- 

I love you all so much. Keep working hard and keep smiling! Sorry to hear about the fire at Oly Jr. Not so great of a day to be a bulldog, huh?? ha

OS QUIERO! Que tengan una buena semana, vale??

Hermana Nydegger

A. and me...Madrid Temple Square 

Find joy!

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

FAMILY WHAT UP! do you all realize that in about a week I will be hitting my nine month mark?? What is this life?! seriously what is this life!

This week so much as happened.

We had an AWESOME mission tour with Elder Teixera and his wife! WOW it was the most amazing thing ever. All of the missionaries from the area around me went to Pavones (the area by the temple) and we had a tour. We listened to them speak and worked with them! I love Elder Teixera! He is so cool and taught us great things on how to be better missionaries.  It was so great. It was SO fun being around so many missionaries. It really made me feel like I was in the CCM again! Good times! We all got there early to practice “We are the Army of Helaman” in Spanish. They added a new verse too and it was powerful. I have to say that some of my most favorite memories in my entire life are singing “We are now the Army of Helaman” in Spanish in huge groups of missionaries. I swear, I never have felt the spirit stronger than in these awesome precious moments. When Elder Teixera came in with his wife, they and the Jacksons stood in front of us as we sang the song to them. It was BEAUTIFUL. Not that we are good singers or anything of that sort, ha but it was the most incredible feeling. I really felt like I was a soldier in the Army of Helaman. Getting to sing that song with 100s of missionaries is such a privilege. I just had tears streaming down my cheeks as we sang it. I felt the love of my Heavenly Father sooo strongly! And then I felt very strongly the love of my family back at home. I honestly felt like a warm blanket of comfort and love wrap over me. And it like came out of nowhere! I just began to cry feeling so so so grateful for this awesome moment in my life. Wow I just LOVE being a missionary. I am so excited when I hear about all of these girls who are turning their papers in.. who are basically just signing themselves up for the experience of a lifetime. I know that I will miss it so much when my time is up. We talked a lot about the POWER and authority of a missionary. How we are really here to invite people to be baptized. Something that my companion and I have been diligent in doing lately is inviting others to be baptized in the very first lesson... it’s why we are here! to extend that blessing. He gave us SO much advice and I really feel like I walked away fully charged again and ready to give my all.

so.... C. Well I had been fasting and praying to find some direction of what to do when she ran into church late during the last hour yesterday and whispered into my ear that she has found a place to work in Toledo. She leaves tonight actually.. and she will be working in this house and living there with 5 other girls. She won´t get paid but they will allow her to live there. She doesn´t have any free days or phone until after about 15 days so we will see! She still breaks my heart. (HA I swear you heart gets so torn in so many ways on a mission.. but then again you come to love people in ways you never have before) But I am taking this as my answer! I will pass her number to the elders there (there aren´t any sisters there) and I will hope for the best and keep praying for her. Maybe this just isn´t her time. But I am beyond happy that she has finally found work and a place to live. I gave her a CTR ring and she gave me a clementine in return. How poetic haha??  Followed then by soaking me in her 5 quick sprays of her homemade body perfume... and then she ran off.. hahaha. I hope that’s not the end with her.

M. ... not sure if I have told you about him but he is just the nicest cutest old man in the entire world! He is so cool and is Dominican. He is tall too and I love it! You just don´t run into too many tall people here in Spain.. but you guys. I LOVE M. and guess what. We finally got him to accept a Baptismal date! He will be baptized on March 22. We taught him the plan of salvation and he loved it. It was like the final spark for him! He finally understands why he needs to get baptized and he is excited for March 22nd. And he just wants so bad for his family to bet baptized too. So we are trying to get his family dressed in white too. Ah he is so cute!

The work here is going greeeaaat! REALLY. It is going so great! It has been awesome to see the improvement from the first transfer of opening an area which is finding on finding on finding. Now we are teaching more and I love it. We are still finding a ton too! Speaking of finding.. we are finding so many people from Africa! They speak English. They are believing and they know it! I love it.  I am thinking of asking President Jackson how many priesthood holders we need to start am African branch here in Torrejón... haha I have faith it’s going to happen.. seriously every set of missionaries have countless African investigators.

I realized yesterday that African English is harder for me to understand on the phone than someone speaking Spanish!

Well we have met with just about all of the strange ones with interesting names of Torrejón. Here are a few: Friday (yes, his name Friday), Strong, Good works (HA my favorite), and Nana

OH and the other sisters have a man investigator named Love. Yes, LOVE. Haha, I die everytime I hear them call him and literally have to say, Hello Love!

Life is great and CRAZY. I seriously love this life! I have been a little sick this past week which has been a bummer but all is well. I think this upcoming week we have intercambios so that should be fun.

We are planning a talent show which I am SO excited for! Ah I can´t wait! I love those things. My companion and I were going to do the cotton-eye Joe with C., but now she is out of the picture... sad! Haha, that would have been the sight to see.

I TALKED TO R. ON THE PHONE! She called me! I just about cried. I miss that Cuban lady so much. More than I can even describe! AH I can´t wait to introduce you all to her one day. She is the most precious thing on the planet! I loved talking to her so much. Tender mercy!

I love you all! Have a good week okay??

Line of the week

M... so who goes to the Telestial Kindgom... HILTER??

Me.. God is the judge!

M. Yeah, He will send Hilter there.

  

HAHA. The concerns of some people here.

FIND JOY IN THE JOURNEY!

Hermana Nydegger

foto... blast from the past. R.