Hannah in España: #17

Just to start out with some bullet points because I enjoy bullet points.

• Hermana Spencer se va. that woman has done wonders here IN Alcala and I'm sad to see her go but I appreciated my time with her so much.

• I get Hermana Garcia who I've just heard WONDERFUL things about. I am PROPERLY ANIMATED (!!!)

• i get to stay here in lovely Alcalá for another 6 weeks at least and I am sincerely pumped about that

• Loe came to church yesterday and she is just one dynamite gal (bonus points to whoever can name the movie) seriously she has come consecutively for a month and she is praying and reading and repenting and she is deepening her faith in Christ and we love to see it and we are so so proud of her.

• I read Jacob 5 yesterday. And i understood it. And i enjoyed it. And this in itself is a major accomplishment

• Nuria (our best friend) invited her boyfriend over to revive the charlas and He is keeping commitments and has accepted to be baptized SAY WHAT? This is huge news. We had an absolutely lovely lesson with them and the spirit was thick and it felt good. We have so much hope for her to return to church and for him to find truth.

• WE FINALLY TAUGHT JUAN JOHN. AND IT WAS FABULOUS. He also accepted to be baptized... sometime in the future 😉 Juan John is the coolest. Poor guy thought that by him getting baptized he would have to become a missionary for life. El pobre. We definitely cleared that up

• our area is absolutely huge. It's just huge. Seriously I think it's the size of Maine or something like that. We have a huge chunk of Sevilla in our area so on Wednesday we went out and ventured into the unknown. We went by some menos activos to rekindle a light within them and one was a man who wasn't home but his mother was there and his girlfriend was as well. We have never met any of these fine women but we were preaching like we do and all the sudden we were wanting to invite ourselves back to enter into their lovely home and we were trying to set an hour and we were explaining that we had to catch the bus at certain times and JUST OUT OF NOWHERE the GIRLFRIEND was like I'm going that way right now get in the car. And you know what we did? We got in the car. It was just all such a blur and I can barely even remember what her name was because we didn't even know her. But we are alive. And she was a very nice woman. I don't know it just kinda makes me laugh. But al final, no we never got a return cita with them, thanks for asking.

• this week I taught myself how to play Where Can I Turn for Peace on the piano. Cool.

• i continue to just do the most embarrassing things here in Spain and I am past the point of caring, Spain should be able to see the real Hermana Rust, and I think it has. I think they still accept me...

• I just really am so proud of Loe.

• We finally had a cita with Paula and Lili. We taught them at the beginning of my missionaryship and we finally had another lesson. We taught a decent Plan of Slavation 45 minute lesson with some good commitments and we were really pumped about that. We actually have another appointment with them tonight.

• Loe wants to invite us over to meet her husband ( when he is actually home) This is huge.

• Loe comes to sacrament ever week and sits next to me and she sings the hymns so loud and cheerfully and she takes notes of every talk and then she goes home and tells her friends and husband about it and SHE JUST MAKES ME HAPPY. I feel so proud like an overenthusiastic soccer mom. No shame.

• I don't know if there is anything else.

• my hair still just falls out all the time but no pasa nada

• Spaniards are so sweet (so honest) but so sweet

Some bullet points about some of my studies that I thoroughly enjoyed this week.

•Jacob is awesome. I love Jacobs words, he describes the "pleasing word of God" as "the word that healeth a wounded soul". I agree with this 100 percent. I have the biggest love for the Book of Mormon because it just makes me feel good! It's so true. And it inspires me to repent and come closer to Christ. I just love the Book of Mormon! It helps our investigators feel good and helps heal their sorrows and i love the peace it can bring. The Book of Mormon is the biggest helper in missionary work. I love when the people I love here express their love of the Book of Mormon and their testimony of it. Reading it brings innumerable blessings.

• Jacob also says "Why not speak of the atonement of Christ and attain to a perfect knowledge of Him?" Word, Jacob. WORD. just like when Christ came to the Nephites and invited them all to come touch his hands and really come to know that He is the son of God, He does the same things for us now! He invites us to come to Him and to receive a personal testimony of Him, that He is the living Savior of the world. So why not speak of Him and His atonement? Why not come to really know our Savior? We have at our disposal the opportunity to COME TO A PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF HIM in the near future! This is huge news. There isn't one other person that I would love to know more. I love Jesus Christ with everything that I am because everything that I am is because of Him.

• also my good friend Zenos says in his grand allegory 10 simple words that really just put me over the top with joy, " and the Lord of the Vineyard labored also with them"

Some context; we are talking about the allegory of the olive tree. In verse 71 the Lord of the Vineyard called His servants to go labor in the Vineyard. Hint: I'm a servant in the vineyard of Spain and the Lord has called me! But he hasn't called me to do anything solo, He labors in the vineyard with me. He walks down the streets of Alcalá with me and He knows our investigators and He is nourishing them and helping them in their efforts to change their hearts.

I don't know if this means anything to all of you, but I really enjoy it.