IT'S Life!

Monday…November 3rd, 2014

Hi family!

THANKS FOR THE PACKAGE. I loved it! You are all just the greatest!

How was Halloween?? It is so weird in Spain! just a whole different level of Halloween. We actually didn´t do anything and like forgot until later in the day! Ha

J. is doing AMAZING and seriously just glows more and more and more and MORE everyday! It has been the coolest thing to watch. We visit her like everyday almost right after medio dia at 4 30. She has been so funny because out of no where she just has this strongest desire to learn English! She doesn´t have any teeth except for one in the back, and she is 53 with pretty much an entire life of smoking, so I am not sure how much English she really retains haha. She does remember random words though and it is the cutest thing because her pronunciation is just so cute. Something that she ALWAYS says, "ITS life." So we taught that to her in English and now she always says,

"ITS life...." as she tilts her head with the cutest toothless smile you have every seen in your life.  She has the sweetest spirit!

Hahaha now when anything falls through or doesn´t go the way it was planned to be, Hermana Bennett and I just say ITS life in her heart melting accent. I love that woman so much!. 

This week has been great! Its been full of a TON of walking. Everyday is seriously a hike! But it is going great. I love my new comp! I am sad that I will only have 1 transfer with her! She reminds me so so much of Hermana Christian. She is from Utah and DAD her dad served a mission in south africa and maybe you know him?? I think it must have been around the same time!  You will have to let me know! It is so fun because we seriously talk about Tenerife and the people there alllll of the time. It gives me the craziest flashbacks to being on that island. We definitely get Los Cristianos trunky.. but hey, its better than home trunky!

We started teaching this girl from Nigeria and we seriously had the weirdest time trying to teach her the restoration because she was FORCE feeding her 4 month baby the whole time. Haha typical Africans. It was so sad! She would pinch his sweet little cheeks so that he would cry and then try to get milk down his little throat! It was a little disturbing and didn´t help with having an atmosphere in which she could feel the spirit.

I called I. this cute 24 year old Bolivian that we were teaching a while back with Hermana Braithwaite when she out of know where fell off of the face of the earth. So I called her the other day and she finally answered and told me that she has been in the hospital for the last few weeks.. So I was like, oh my, what happened!! and she was like... 

"Me asustó un serpiente y me puse muy mal..." or a SNAKE scared me and I got really sick and worse and worse each day!"

HAHA! I died laughing it was so hard to not burst out laughing. I've never had an excuse like that in my whole mission.  Gotta love it when an investigator tells you that they can´t meet with you because a snake scared them. 

Sorry such random things! It was a good week. We FINALLY get to meet with G. again tomorrow for the second time. She was one of those miracles that I was telling you about ages ago! PRAY for her. She is so golden.

I love you all so much! I love the mission. I try not to think about it coming to an end.  It does not feel real at all! But then I just pray everyday and thank my Heavenly Father for this amazing JOURNEY of joy that I have experienced these past 17 months.  It has been incredible!

Hermana Nydegger

ps…Random pics! I brought my wrong cam card so enjoy some old pics from the glorious torry john :) MISS THESE PEEPS. This was my last night there!