July 1, 2013 From Maddie in Murcia Hello dear family of mine who I love so much! Wow! I don´t even know where to start with this week; it was absolutely INCREDIBLE! Let´s start on Monday. So after p-day we had a cita with a family we met at the activity we had to get new investigators. How appropriate. Well little side story, we were finding their house out in nowhere-Narnia when we were passing by this building. We were lost, looking at our map, trying to figure out where the house was in this tiny neighborhood and I guess talking loud enough that this man poked his head out of this building. He asked who we were and long story short he invited us into his Museum. Looking at this building I never would´ve guessed that it was a museum! EVER. So we went in for a few minutes, we instantly got a bad feeling. The guy offered us to LEAVE OUR MISSIONS so we could live with him and he´d give us everything he had. We were like, HECK NO! so we boogied out of there pretty quick. Blech. Come to find out the house we were looking for was right behind his museum so we go by that creepy building every time! I always run past it kind of stealthy like. It makes me feel pretty cool....ANYWAY so we went to the cita and the family is ¨de oro!¨ (golden) There´s 4 kids and the parents are separated. Three of the kids come to our lesson every time and the other kid is 19 and...well lets be honest...to a 19 year old teenage boy why would God be important? We invite him to English class and church and he´s a really nice kid so maybe one day he´ll come around. We have seen so many miracles with this family! They came to church yesterday and they were confused by a few things so we got to explain things to them, it was sweet. Last night we had a lesson with them when Doris, the mother, told us that when they go to the Catholic church they don´t feel anything but when they were in our church, even though there were kids crying and people getting up and down during the meeting, they could feel peace! She also said Eli, her 16 year old daughter, has a difficult time making friends but she gets along with us and really loves when we see her so they feel love from us and the spirit at church! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! We were all crying like a bunch of sister missionaries! :) It was a sweet moment! So da-da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaa (like Uncle Si) we set a baptismal date with them! :D July 31 which is after the transfer is over and I don´t know if I´ll still be in Murcia. BUT I´m so pumped! 4 weeks is a REALLY long time. We were hoping for three weeks but we´ll keep teaching them and praying for them and hopefully they move their fecha up a week! that´d be perfect! :) Tuesday through Wednesday I was in Málaga doing residency. It was really fun being with the missionaries I came out with again! It´s about a 7 hour bus ride from Murcia to Málaga so we told mission stories the whole time; it was SO fun! We got to Málaga and went to the Mission Home in Fuengirola and ate dinner with the Deere´s. We had tacos! I was so excited to taste actual food! The food here is SOOOOOO bland. Good. But a Texas girl needs some spice. Then we had a Q&A with the President about our areas and anything like that then chilled for the night by having brownies and ice cream, chatting with the AP´s and then the President kicked everyone’s trash in ping pong. haha!!! Wednesday we woke up, got our European residency cards, ate Subway, and got back on a bus at 3:00 for Murcia. It was just me and three other Elders. I felt SOOOO weird being alone!!! I felt like I was breaking rules! Luckily all three Elders I´m pretty tight with so I didn´t have a problem asking them to wait outside the bathroom hahahaha! :) I got back to Murcia at 10:00 that night and Hermanas Jarvis and Castrillo had TONS of success while I was gone! They found like 3 or 4 new investigators that were interested! We had lessons with them this week and they´re ABSOLUTLEY wonderful too! There´s always feast and famine. For now...the famine is over! Hallelujah! We had really good citas with investigators this week and things are just great! One HUGE highlight of the week was Saturday night. Or maybe it was Friday...I don´t remember. Anyway! We were at a member´s house and shared a message with them and their neighbors, who aren´t interested but always come when we are there. But after the lesson we had...are you ready? BARBECUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can´t even put enough exclamation points. It seriously made my whole week! MMMMM! Flavored meat! Oh heavens above, it was delicious! We had grilled ribs, chicken, and something else. Heck for all I know it could´ve been a cat. But man, it was delicious!!! The Elders in our Ward also had a baptism on Saturday! Two actually. The two people they baptized are not married to each other or even knew each other before but they got baptized on the same day. I´ll send a picture that we took with them. It was a very sweet baptism! The first person baptized was Veronica, she received the lessons after hearing about the church on facebook (ads, mormon.org….make a profile!!!). She received the message from missionaries in the states VIA SKYPE and then came to church one day and was like, ¨I´m ready to be baptized!¨ She´s in the Elders area so they got to work with her. The other person baptized is a solid new member of the church, his name is Jose Miguel and he´s an AWESOME guy! They´re both solid miracles!!! My comps and I got to sing also. ¨Baptism¨ the primary song. We sang it in Spanish then the first verse in English then the chorus in Spanish. It was HORRIBLE" Hahaha we only practiced a time or two all the way through and yeah....I was slightly embarrassed when I sat down. Oh well. I´m sure you´re dying to hear how my lesson was yesterday, right? Good. I thought so. :) As I was preparing it, I knew it was either going to be really bad or really good. haha and luckily....it was really good! My Spanish was almost perfect until I started using past tense then everyone felt the need to correct me....other than that, it was great! I felt pretty good after wards. It was moments like that that I looked back and asked myself, ¨How in the world did I just do that!?!?!?!¨ There´s one answer....and it´s what our lesson was over. The gift of tongues! I could feel the spirit working inside me like never before; it was almost empowering to feel it like that. I was terrified....but I still could feel the spirit! I also met my ¨abuela¨ yesterday! My trainers trainer! She came down from Madrid to see Hermana Castrillo. Hna Castrillo leaves Murcia tomorrow morning! How strange! So tonight when yall go to bed you can think about me and how I¨m just waking up to take my trainer to the bus station :) But yep, it´s gonna be weird not having her around. I´m terrified to take over the area...but I know it´s in these next three weeks with just Hermana Jarvis and I that I´ll grow a TON! We saw so many miracles this week. I felt the love of our Savior for our investigators this week; I know the hand of the Lord was in our work this week and He is working in the lives of our investigators. I am SO humbled to be a part of His work here on the earth right now. I saw the missionary broadcast this past week at the mission home and it was awesome! Family: ALWAYS be that family that has names for the missionaries. Be that family that will go out and be a member present at lessons. I can´t tell you how important it is to have members at lessons. Be a tool in the missionary’s hands there in Longview. Go on splits, have names for them of people to visit; having to tract to find people to teach is so much less effective than the members having names. Those are the people we want! Pray to know who is ready and Heavenly Father will help you. Have the courage to talk to people about the gospel. It´s so precious and we don´t need to keep it to ourselves! I love the gospel of Jesus Christ with all of my heart. Im grateful for the work that I have here. I love being a missionary and I can´t wait to see what´s in store for the rest of my mission! I love you all so very very much. You mean the world to me! I´m PUMPED to hear about Mikey! What a stud!!!! I´m sad I´ll probably miss him graduating (and getting married if he´s lucky ;) ) hehe but I loved the emails this week. Love ya´ll PS. I had my first dream in Spanish last night!!!! It was half in English half in Spanish! In my dream I got a phone call from a kid in our Ward who´s on his mission in Madrid, Brunei Lopez. He was talking to me in Spanish and was really excited cause I had improved a ton since he saw me last!! hahahahahaha I was rather excited when I woke up this morning and realized that had happened! :D It´s comin along y´all!! :D :D :D Hermana Muse
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:14:59 +0000
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