Hannah in España: # 21

Today I turned 5 months old! Haha I'm still such a baby. But here is a little about my week

Monday- we spent our pday with Julio and Cristina. We made Gazpacho (GAZPACHO IS SO GOOD I LOVE IT) and JULIO made us a Spanish tortilla and these sandwiches called Cerranitos and it was just a food time with our friends. We also had a lesson with our investigator Melsia and her sister. Melisa has had the charlas about 3 times and it's just a little difficult deciding what to do with her but we felt very deeply we needed to go over the atonement with her. So we read Alma 7 which is a fabulous chapter. Everyone should read it. She expressed that she has had some questions about the atonement and that she has never really understood what the atonement was. So we just sat down a and had a really good talk about it. Hermana Garcia shared some fabulous things and it was just a really great lesson with them. We walked away knowing more what we need to do with Melisa. Which is an answer to prayers.

Tuesday- Tuesday we had district meeting , but little did we know the fit was festivo here in Spain so the busses weren't running normally and we were about an hour late hahaha. But it was a good day and that's all I have to say about that

Wednesday- so Wednesday morning we went to our part of Sevilla to find some menos activos and we walked down an alley way and there was this bright purple and blue house that looked like a princess lived there, so naturally we toqued the door. A woman named Melody came to the window and talked to us for a bit. She excepted our tarjetas and then invited us in to eat breakfast.... so we went in. We told her that we just wanted some water but she took us in and showed us her house, and her kids, and all of her dance trophies haha. She was very proud of them. And then she gave us a melon. A huge fresh green melon to take with us. It was random but we took it. There we were, miles away from our home with a very heavy melon in the hot streets of Sevilla. So we went to a menos activos house who told us that he wanted nothing to do with the church but nonetheless we gifted him the melon. I think he liked it. And that's about the extent of my story there.

Next story. We were supposed to have a noche de Hogar with Melisas family on Wednesday also. So we walked up and down fiestas for thirty minutes to get to her house just to find that the timbre wasn't working. There was no way to get into her building. So we called her, and her mother. Like three times. No answer. But we weren't going to give up. Hermana Garcia there were many windows opened to the building, so she started shouting! Nobody came. Then we started shouting together, and nobody came. And then fpagyer about 10 minutes I saw a woman walk passed a window! So I shouted and she came and answered the door! She is a lovely woman from the Ukraine and now a future investigator. We got into our cita, it was about 9:45 by the time we got into their house so we only had about 15 minutes with them but we went we testified and we got out of there and it was a success!

Thursday: we had an awesome correlation. We have big things coming for Alcala! And had an awesome planning session that ran a little to long just because we were so enveloped in the needs of our friends here. And we had a cita with a new investigator named Antonio and then we had a noche de hogar with the young women AND OH MY GOODNESS. I JUST LOVE THE YOUNG WOMEN. They are seriously my best friends. I am so proud of them. A lot of them come from less active families, and over all the youth programs aren't very strong here, but these girls are so strong. They are completely awesome and I just want to take them and guide them through life for the rest of their lives but I can't do that literally so I'm just here to be an example because they are just awesome. I feel so blessed that I grew up where I did, that we had tons of young men and young women AND activities every week and a place for jovens to grow up strong in the church. Anyway, yes #blessed.

Friday- we had intercambios with the SHE'S in Sevilla. They're good women and it was a good time.

Saturday- Saturday I think hermana Garcia and I were just sleep walking through town. We were so doggone exhausted. I think we both suffered some sprt of sun stroke or something because it was bad. Hahaha we were just wiped out. So we decided to use our pday to take a nap.

I'm just a little hermana tanning in the SUN and speaking Spanish and reading Alma 17-26 as my textbook for being a missionary... learning from the best!