Hannah in España: #24

Happpyyy October 🍂😍

I need a dream interpreter. I've had some crazy dreams this week and surely they mean something.

This week has been sooo long!

Some things I did this week

• intercambios in Alacant! Alicente is so pretty and spending time with the SHE'S is always a fab time

• taught Rafael! ( man, Spaniard, very intelligent.) He was a referral from the other Hermana's in Elche and they called us Wednesday afternoon saying that they set up a cita for that night for us! So we went. We taught him lesson one in a way that we have seldom done before. I felt we were so guided by the spirit. Because Rafael is so smart and loves to learn, we thought it was going to be a bit hard to teach him, just because some people like that only want to learn about the history of the church and what not. But for his lesson we focused SO HARD on the priesthood and on the feeling. The feeling is something Elder Holland talked about a couple weeks ago with us, it's the feeling of the spirit that will convert people so we need to make sure that they feel something. So we focused SO MUCH on the feeling and on the spirit. You could tell he slowly accepted it more and more and that he liked what he felt. So we invited him to baptism. He said yes.

• we ate much with the bishops family! Jolín. It was awesome. They live in the campo so they actually have A HOUSE AND A YARD and A POOL. That doesn't happen.. like 2ever. But It felt so... American.. to be there haha. They made us paella stuffed full with the entire Atlantic Ocean. It had clams, scallops, huge shrimps, little shrimps, muscles, squid, crab, and I'm sure other little creatures. It was amazing. The shrimps still had their heads and little beady eyes so we just went to town de-shelling everything🦐. It was awesome. And then we ate some little Ecuadorian fruits that they grew in their garden which they insisted could only be found in their garden in all of the South of Spain. It was so fun! We were able to talk to bishop about some of our investigators and he's just a nice guy.

• *update on the man and daughter from English class who were gonna bring me chocolate*: they came in clutch and brought me not one, but two bars of chocolate. #win.

After English class this woman named Amparo came to participate in the English class. We told her that we just finished and she looked so so sad. So we decided we could stay a little longer and help her with some English. So glad we did because this woman was COOL. She has 15 siblings all from the same mother which is just crazy. And then she went on to tell us that her mother is a maquina (machine). She's right. We just laughed so hard with her she was so funny. And she wants to learn more about Joseph Smith!

•We went by one of our other friends from Africa to try to teach him but we just did not think he was gonna show up, but soon enough he came down and we taught him the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the middle of the sidewalk at 10 pm. Not sketch, just super spiritual. Chemoko for the win.

• GENERAL CONFERENCE. 💃💃💃 we finally got to watch the women's conference and good grief general woman's conference is my jam. It was so lovely. I loved the trending subject or love of God, self love, and showing love towards others. So much love. I loved Elder Christoffersons talk, I'm excited to make the sacrament more unique to me. I loved President Nelson's talk and ELDER ZWICKS! AND President Eyring. I just loved it all! Can't wait to read em.

• one of our ward missionaries, Rosario, told us that she really wants to help out the work so she is trying to make some friends so that she can share the Gospel with friends haha. Bless her soul.

Everyone be like Rosario and go and make some friend's if that's what it takes to share the Gospel.