Sister Madrid....Hermana Nydegger....Called To Serve: Tory John

Monday...June 2, 2014

I LITERALLY FEEL LIKE I WAS EMAILING 2 SECONDS AGO.

This week has absolutely flew.. well they all do! but this week there was not one single slowish day. It was a good week too! I felt so good last night just laying there thinking about it. I can´t believe my time may be finishing up here in the good old tory john. (as my companion and I call it) I love torrejón!

Also, seriously this area has just been ON FIRE the last few transfers. Wow I love it. I feel so exhausted but man it is so worth it! I love love love love being a missionary.. its hard but it sure is great.

Cute E. got baptized on Saturday night! There were actually 5 baptisms and we had SUCH a great turn out. It really was great! So many people came and it was just so great warming to feel of all of the love and support from this incredible people here. E. was so cute.. I asked her when she plans on going back to Guatemala and she was like..

"As soon as you leave... I´m out of here too!" haha I LOVE her. Can we make a round world trip after my mission so that I can visit all of my dear life friends?

This week was so busy! I seriously felt like a was a chicken running around with its head cut off! So many things to do... so little time haha. But anyways so last p day i like broke my finger kind of and our ward mission leader was like trying to fix it or unjam it because it was literally BLACK and as thick as my thumb...

Word of the wise... never let a latino try to fix your broken finger

I was resisting as much as I could! I told him that I would pull it really hard later tonight by myself. And then we was like.. "When investigators don´t pray with you in a lesson and say that they will later when they are alone, do they end up praying?" I was like... "true" hahaha. Then I sadly got pressured into letting him try to fix my finger.. which only made it worse!

Luckily we got to go to the temple on Wednesday (which by the way was amazing) and I could show my finger to President Jackson and he could take a nice american look at it. Thank goodness for the doctors and stuff from America!

This week we have got some AMAZING stuff going on. We are having this HUGE missionary work activity on Saturday that I CAN´T wait for... it is really going to be so cool! Oh and its a stake activity too so hopefully tons of people come! But we are going to do is meet together at the church that morning and some awesome pep talks and teach people how to do a contact and what not! (we are doing skits too of what a good one is and what a bad one is so that should be funny) And then we are going to do some major split action and have all of the missionaries go out on splits with as many members as we can get. Ah as we were planning it earlier this week I really felt the spirit SO strongly and got the biggest chills just thinking about it. We are hoping to have over 100 people come and go out with us. So yeah we are going to go out and get some serious work done! We are dividing torrejon into a bunch of different zones and each missionary is going to be a leader of that zone and basically we are going to contact every living soul in the zone. I can´t wait. Torrejon is FULL of a bajillion people just so prepared and we the missionaries and members and going to be taking them on HARD!! ha i can´t wait. And I am exicted to see who will be my mini missionary! Then we are coming back and eating and then having a sweet testimony meeting. So cool.

Why don´t we ever do stuff like that in america? Oh thats right... we live in Utah! But still.. we can still do awesome stuff like that!

Also random thought.. I realized this week that before my mission I never not even once went out with the missionaries. After my mission... that will be my life! Literally any spare minute ha. If there was anything that I wish I would have done before it would be GO OUT WITH THE MISSIONARIES! Seriously one of the better ways to prepare yourself for a mission other than getting a testimony.

This week sadly one of our elders had to go home for health reasons and it was so weird for me! Ah and I had another weird dream about coming home which made me feel so weird and sad. I´m trying to live in the now and be as consecrated as a missionary that I can be.

I love missions. One of the things that you can really learn is obedience. I heard that it can be the greatest blessing of your mission or the greatest trial. Well, its true! But as we know.. the Lord is OBLIGATED to bless us when we do what he wants. So why wouldn´t we? I love the mission! I am trying to be perfectly even in the tinest things even though its hard for me. LAtely I have just been feeling a desire to really perfect the smallest things! Its hard but the Lord Jesus Christ can and will and already has helped us if we but put our trust in him.

Those on missions right now... ENJOY this time in your life to be so perfectly obedient! It is really one of the only times in our lives that we have to be so obedient! To follow the rules so exactly with a purpose so grand. I know that there are blessings that come from exact obedience. It is something that I have learned soo much and it is something that I never thought I would say that either.. but there ARE. And one of the biggest ones is the spirit and protection and guidance we get from Heavenly Father that we absolutely cannot live without.

Our purpose in life is to follow Christ! To simply just follow him and love him and in return be like him!

I love you all... FELIZ CUMPLE TO DAD AND CARI AND NIK! I took a moment with my companion to sing to all of you great people on Saturday before going to bed when I realized what day it was.

LOVE YOU ALL! Make good choices!

Hermana Nydegger

E. baptism...Love her!