I for-SURE have jet lag.
At the moment I am a walking zombie; same with the other 30 or so people
that got here. We are SO tired, and we
are being forced to stay awake. We must
make it to 7:00 PM before going to sleep.
It was SO hard to say goodbye to all the people I have grown
to love the past almost 3 months that I have been serving in Rose Park.
Monday we threw a super fun surprise birthday party for
Hermana Harris. She was totally shocked and had no idea about it before hand.
The sweet and amazing Perez family volunteered their house and Hermana Vicencio
made some amazing taquitos!!!!! SO GREAT.
We got some good pictures.
Hermana Corona (The Relief Society President) even got a piñata which we
hung out outside and hit open. It was so fun!! Hermana Harris loved it so much.
Tuesday was a great day!!!!
All four of us went to teach Nestor.
He´s great and is going to get baptized in a couple of weeks. Then we
all went out to eat with our district at Taco Bell. It was so much fun. We got some good pictures and Hermana Harris
got a huge cookie for her birthday (delivered to the mission office by her
cousins) so she cut it into pieces so we could all have some! Then after that the four of us went to Sister
Mayberry´s house. We had a testimony
meeting. The Spirit was so strong and
tears were streaming down a lot of faces; especially Sis. Mayberry´s. She kept saying how we were angels to
her. It was sooo neat. We sang "Be Still My Soul" to start
out (which immediately brought the Spirit and some tears) and then we ended our
visit by singing "God be With You Till We Meet Again." It was so great and of course her prayer at
the end was AMAZING. I want to be like
her someday. Her testimony is so strong.
She says that we are her adopted granddaughters. :) I love her.
After that, Hermana Marshall and I got permission to be on
our own for the rest of the day!! We
made a list of whose houses we wanted to visit to say goodbye and we took great
pictures and everything. It even stopped
snowing for us right when we started riding our bikes. It was so great to visit all those
people. There were more we wanted to
visit but we just didn´t have time; especially traveling on bikes where it´s
not as fast as the car. (Hermanas Magdaleno and Harris were teaching). We had the best last dinner ever that we
could have ever asked for from the best cook --- I know-Julia!! She and her sister made us homemade
pupusas. BEST THING EVER! We got some good pictures and we love that
family so much!! Gooood memories.
We got home a little late that night and I really began
feeling the head cold coming on. Luckily
I had packed most of my things that morning before personal study, but I still
had a little left to do. I definitely
couldn´t sleep at all that night. I
couldn´t breathe out of my nose and there was no more Nyquil left in the
house. :( So I started to finish up
packing instead. We made it to the
airport around 8-ish. We said bye to the
amazing Hermanas Magdaleno and Harris. I
love them SO MUCH. Then we bought calling cards and called our families! :)
On the flight to Atlanta I sat next to a guy named
Brenden. It was incredible the way the
conversation turned. We talked about so
many things about the gospel. I taught
him the first lesson, recited the First Vision, taught him the Word of Wisdom,
and the Law of Chastity and part of the Plan of Salvation. It was soooo great!!!! :D He
was expressing his frustrations at people who act like hypocrites; go to church
on Sunday and then do other stuff during the week. I agree that it´s super sad. But I told him that honestly, it´s between
them and God and we shouldn´t be the ones to judge. He then brought up that his dad thinks his
little 3-year old boy is going to hell because Brenden refused to get him
baptized into the Catholic Church. He
expressed his concerns and opinions about it and then I said, "I want to show you something that I
think you will like" I opened my
Book of Mormon up to Moroni 8. He loved
it. :D It was such a great conversation.
At the end I was super sad because I didn´t
have a book to give to him, so I gave him a pass along card instead.
I told the other sisters about him and how great that 3-hour
flight was. My good friend Hermana
Jorgenson says she has a Book of Mormon!!! We randomly saw him at Chick Fil A and we gave
it to him and I marked Moroni 8 for him. It was so great!!!! :D Best plane trip
ever.
We finally got on the flight to Madrid. I was sooo long and I wasn´t able to sleep
much because I am sick. My ears are
still plugged too :( I sat next to a
Swedish guy. He lives on the island
Majorca, off of Spain in the winters and lives in Sweden in the summers and
always visits his son in Florida. He was
super nice and friendly but said he wasn´t interested to hear my message. Oh well.
We got here this morning at 9:00 AM. It´s already March 1st!!! What?! We
like skipped a day or something. GORGEOUS
warm weather today. I am not even
wearing tights! Love it!!! So pretty. Will be here until March 16th. The new MTC Mission President is super nice. It’s
great to be here just a super weird transition from being in the field working
all day with people and now back to the MTC schedule. We get to go to the
temple next Thursday. GORGEOUS and SO
CLOSE. I will send pictures next time.
Love you,
Laura
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