#25

Helloooooo!!

This morning I dropped my toothbrush in the toilet. But no worries, I thought, because today is p day and I can just go to Merca D and buy a new one.  It then I realized I am in Spain where there are about 600 holidays and all the stores are closed and today just happens to be a Valencian holiday. No toothbrush for me. But then Hermana Lake came in clutch and gave me one she bought from a chino. Everything is right in the world again. 

Okay now that that's off my chest we can get started. 

This week was.... Oh what a week. I will just say this. We planned some SUPREME lessons this week. We were pumped we were gonna get things done. So then we set about 17 citas,.. and all but 3 failed us. Hahahaha. Tragic. It happens. So we walked and walked and sang as we walked and contacted as we walked... and it was... rough. But still feeling good! This weekend just got turned around for us. 

Bako came to the rescue again. We invited him to 5 citas this week because he is a ward missionary, loves to help and he can translate for the other Africans who speak Bambara. ( I know 4 words now 😎) he came to every single one! And all of them failed! But he still came. And so finally at the end of the week, him and Sega invited us to come eat some African food that they made for us. At the end they were talking to us and Bako basically said like hey I know you guys have had kinda a rough week, but I appreciate that you guys are still working so hard and that you keep going. He is a recent convert and he just thanked us for the hard work that We do that changed his life. He was a JW before and his conversion story is FANTASTIC. Earlier in the week we were telling him that we needed more copies of The Book of Mormon because we were handing them all out and then he brought that up, he was like when you guys told me that it made me so happy! It was just so nice; he was giving us so much encouragement and it was just awesome and made us feel good! And then! Him and Sega presented us with AFRICAN DRESSES. made in Africa coming straight from Africa. They said they'd like to help us more but they work all day long and they feel bad so they arranged for their friend back home to make us African dresses, it was the sweetest thing. You could tell they were straight from Africa because they smelled so... African. Pictures to come. 

Also this week we went into this old woman's house and she proceeded to close the door AND LOCK IT. And took the keys. And then we walked into the living room, and she told us she lived alone, and there was a tea party set up with coordinating colored hats on colored stuffed animals.. and I know what you're thinking, you probably think that's cute. NO. It was creepy. And then my eyes turned to the corner of the room where there was a chair with Winnie the pooh TIED. STRAPPED TO THE CHAIR. WITH A CYNICAL GRIN ON HIS FACE. WEARING A TEA PARTY HAT.  IT WAS HORRIFYING. This woman was Looney. We got out of their fast, I kid you not I was scared for my safety. 

But thus, here I am. Alive to write this letter. We are all well. And hopefully old woman Rosario is too. 

Yesterday was a beautiful Sunday! It was fast and testimony meeting and the members had all just come back from a trip to the temple, so they were all on a spiritual high and shared it with all of us. There were some beautiful testimonies. We got to go to the Primary and help them with some of the songs they don't know and it was crazy but it was super fun! And then a member invited us to go visit their niece who is in the hospital and it was nice to be able to share a message and just do some service. This poor girl our age had kidney stones and she was in so much pain. She was also suffering from depression and other things as well. We shared Alma 7: 11-12 with her. It was so powerful to testify to her That Christ knows exactly how she feels. That nobody else knows exactly how she feels except Him. We testified that Christ loves her and has suffered to take this pain away and that she can feel peace from this. While I testified to her of this, I realized that I was also kind of reminding myself of this wonderful truth we have. That Christ suffered to know how to succor His people. A lot of the time on my mission, I don't even know how I feel! Sometimes I feel completely happy, sometimes sad, sometimes just numb, it's kinda hard to not know what I feel, but I realized that Christ knows me perfectly and knows exactly what I feel. I feel so much hope and comfort from that. It was a loving experience.

1. The face we make when people fail us

2. Squad

3. Intercambios a while ago. 

4.  Good