Hola! Feliz Pascua!
¿¿Como estan??
Pues, Me and my companion are finally friends!! Our companionship was kind of flailing for a while there. We were only companions and we didn´t get along super well. As far as the work went, we did. But I´m with her 24/7, it was getting rough. I realized though, that I didn´t want this. I wanted to get along with her. And that maybe it wasn´t her that needed to change, but me. So I started praying to have charity, after reading about it in Preach My Gospel. It took a few weeks, but now we get a long so great, it´s almost weird! I love it, the mission becomes so much better when you love your companion! Who would´ve thought!!?? Haha. Sad that my training is almost over and I´m about to leave!! I´m so sad to leave Valencia 2!! This is my home! I love the people here way too much!!
So my legs have been super itchy lately and then it just started spreading everywhere.So we went to the hospital, turns out it´s just eczema. But it´s because the water here has so much calcium and it dries out my skin. Weird.
Remember when I used to be afraid of contacting? I´ve come so far from when I was in the MTC in Madrid. And we would go to the park and I would let so many people walk by without contacting them. Well we don´t do that anymore. Not when you are put on an intercambio with someone who contacts every single person on the street! Me and Hermana Reid had a miracle day, we had 7 new investigators in one day!! The goal for the mission is that everyone can get 6 in one week, so 7 in one day is a lot!! We just didn´t have any citas planned so we just hit the streets and we followed the Spirit to tell us what to say and who to talk to, it was awesome! Now I´m not even scared to contact.
When we´re walking on the street, anyone who walks past us we say ¨Hola! Disculpe. Somos misioneras de la iglesia de Jesucristo y tenemos un mensaje de Jesucristo y su iglesia. Usted es una persona muy creyente?¨ Basically 90 percent of the people say ¨Tengo prisa¨ (which literally translates to ¨I have busy¨) and keep walking. We just keep trying to talk to them and talk about the Book of Mormon and the Bible and how we believe in the same church Christ established when he was on the Earth. It´s kind of fun. And then if they´re still listening we ask them if there´s a time we could stop by their house and share more with them. It´s so great when they say YES! I´m so excited for all the people we met yesterday that are interested in the Restored gospel.
A long-time investigator came to church for the first time this Sunday!! So we stopped by yesterday, and he wasn´t home, but we stayed by the timber (the thing you have to ring to get in to the apt building), and good thing because he came walking up behind us. So we went up but couldn´t go in (cause there wasn´t another woman) and we asked for some water, talked about church, confirmed our NDH (family home evening) for tomorrow, prayed and then left. I realized that we had totally forgot to invite him to be baptized!I was so upset! I knew that we could set a fecha (date) with him tomorrow at the NDH but it would be different because the member would be there and also his wife and sometimes he´s kind of shy and maybe wouldn´t accept it. So even though it was super awkward, we knocked on his timber again, we still couldn´t come in without another mujer, but we asked him to be baptized and he accepted a fecha!! It was awesome!! So I learned that sometimes the Spirit tells us to do awkward things, like go back up to someone´s piso, even though you were just there, but you just do it anyway!
My Spanish is coming along. I read the Liahona (the church magazine) in Spanish and I can understand it, it´s just hard actually speaking the language. But I know for sure that God is helping me to learn the language, as missionaries, we learn the language so quickly, people are always super surprised that I´ve only been here 3 months (well now like 4). ç
I love you all, have a wonderful Easter and enjoy General Conference!
Con amor,
Hermana Birch
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