Hallelujah!

I am so happy that I have more time this week finally send you a nice and juicy email of my life. The past few weeks.. actually the last transfer has been CRAZY on p-days! So glad to have more time. So hopefully this email will do justice in giving you my update. I wish that you could see what every second of every day is like out here in the mission but it’s impossible! I ESPECIALLY wish I could give you every detail about every investigator but that is even more impossible! Mainly because things are changing so much all of the time.

First off.. TRANSFER CALLS. 

Transfer calls were this week! It’s true... they really are like the Reaping from Hunger Games plus opening up a mission call all over again. Needless to say they are AWESOME. But also insane. I am talking sweating bullets insane! Your district leader calls you Saturday night and gives you the news.. They don´t tell you until Saturday night that way you don´t blow your last week with goodbye visits and such.. but at the same time it still is distracting because it is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to not think about it. Anways... so yeah all of Saturday was super long. Sister Phillips and I felt like we wanted to throw up just thinking about it. Ha seriously.. biggest butterflies you get in your stomach. Similar to opening up your mission call. Especially when you are on the islands not knowing when they are going to boot you off.. So if you are all wondering..

I AM STILL HERE! All of the worrying was for nothing. Haha I felt so weird and stupid after! We got the call.. I felt like I was going to puke.. and then we found out that we would both be staying together. All that nonsense and waste of worrying for nothing! But I am so happy to still be here. Just like opening up a mission call, you get the great confirmation after that you are or will be exactly where the Lord wants you. Everything is so inspired! I love it.  It is so cool.

Speaking of inspired things..

DID YOU ALL JUST LOVE CONFERENCE?? Wow it was so great! It made me so homesick though! Conference weekend is the best. It was so good as a missionary though too! I luckily got to watch half of the sessions in English up in Santa Cruz! It was so funnnnn. We got to watch the Sunday night session up with all of the other missionaries so it was a party let me tell you. And the amazing Sister Anderson made us all food. It is so fun being on the Islands! The coolest missionaries are here and I just love each one so much. But conference was so cool. I loved how almost every talk was about missionary work. I am excited for the Ensign to come out so that I can really study each talk. Especially the ones that I had to watch in Spanish haha. BUT I was so surprised though at how much I was able to understand in Spanish though! Really though!!! I understood so much. My Spanish is progressing and it FEELS. SO. GOOD. Remember how last time I told you about how I can speak more than I can understand haha? Well now I think I can understand more than I can speak! Either way.. I am progressing. The gift of tongues AMAZES me. It is so real. Missionaries are so blessed.

So as far as investigators... I will tell you about my two favorites! (not that I have favorites or anything haha) But these are two amazing ladies. And out of our investigators they are progressing the most!

First, Rita. Remember Rita?? She is the darling lady from Cuba that we found through English class advertisements. She is my miracle! She is so so so great. And so receptive. Every lesson that we have with her is so spiritual! Haha and she cries at practically everything that we tell her. And everytime at church. I love it! She really feels the spirit so strong and it is so cool to be able to watch her just soak it all in. And she is a saint. She is in her 60s! She has lots of problems with her body.. and she lives really far away. But she is a saint and never fails to miss anything we invite her to. She takes the bus everywhere and walks a long way also.. but she never fails to come. She is a huge example to me. Yesterday we went out to visit her! And guess what.. she is going to be baptized on the 2nd of November. I can´t wait! She is such a Christ-like person and I know that she is prepared. She has been waiting to find the church her whole life! And now she has finally found it. Miracle.

Second, Gloria! Let me just tell you I LOVE Gloria. She is also so great. And she is hilarious. I don´t even know how to explain her! She comes to English class. She also is so incredibly receptive. We just started teaching her a few weeks ago! She is from the Evangelical church which is kind of scary.. but it’s okay because she loves what we have been teaching her. Especially the Plan of Salvation. Anyways.. I LOVE HER! And she is committed to be baptized also on the 2nd of November. So I am really excited!

We are teaching a bunch of other people.. our teaching pool has gotten so big!! It is so cool. And it’s cool because we white washed the area. Every person that we are teaching are people that we have found through our own efforts. Mainly off the streets! So it so cool! And it’s another reason why I am SO happy to be staying here for the next 6 weeks! In missionary work there are always 3 steps. Planting seeds, cultivating, and HARVESTING! It’s cool to be able to stay in an area long enough to see and participate in all 3 parts. I am loving being a missionary here in the Canary Islands. Life is so great!

I LOVE YOU ALL!

Line of the week:

Gloria: Wow, que linda su nariz! (Wow, how cute your nose!)

Me: MY NOSE? Hahahaha best compliment ever.

A visit to Teide National Park with all the Tenerife Hermana's and the Anderson's.  Teide is the highest peak in Spain and 3rd largest volcano in the world. .