Tonight is my last night in the Madrid CCM! We are taking a train to
Barcelona! It´s really sad to leave the CCM. I have loved it here so
much. I´m going to miss it. Keep me in your prayers. I´m going to get
assigned to a trainer and an area! I feel really scared but this is
what God has been preparing me for! It´s time! It´s been a rough few
last days here. But I´m just glad I got through it all. We just had
our Field Orientation so I feel pumped up!! I love you all!!
Monday, January 19, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Fw: Semana 5 en la CCM
Es loco that I have been here for 5 weeks!! The language is coming
along. Me and Hermana Thorpe have been having some really good lessons
with our ´investigators´. Missionary work is just awesome. I think
I´ve learned so much about myself and others from being here. I´ve
learned how to comfort others when they need it and how to be a better
friend and a better, happier person. I´ve learned to be patient and to
be kinder. I love the people here. I spend a lot of time with my
district, 3 elders in a trio and then 2 other companionships of
Hermanas. I love them so much. We study together pretty much all day,
eat together, sing together, play soccer together, go to P day
together. We´re all really close and I love each of them. Sad to say
goodbye to them as we part our ways and go to different missions of
Spain on Tuesday. I feel the Spirit here a lot. I know that God is
watching out for me. I read my patriarchal blessing pretty much
everyday, it gives me a lot of strength. We have so many awesome
devotionals, scriptural thoughts and experiences here, I just don´t
know how to say everything in one email. Hermana Lovell (pres. wife)
has us memorize stuff every week and if we do she bakes us something.
We memorized el objetivo, el bautismo invitaciona and this week is
Moroni 10:4 by Monday, and she just told us yesterday. So I´ve been
working on that. I treasure my time here. And I´m excited for el campo
on Tuesday! The MTC has been great. I actually loved the MTC. I wish I
could stay here longer, it´s our safe little bubble here. Haha, but
it´s time to press forward. I guess I´m hoping for a native Spanish
speaker for my entrenador. I want to master the Spanish language and
having a native, I would be able to learn the accent really well and I
feel like I would learn a lot better. But we will see what the Lord
has in store for me, I trust Him. Everyone always says that you change
on your mission, and become better. I don´t know if I´ve changed yet,
I don´t think people really change. They just come to recognize Christ
as their Savior and then they try to emulate Him in every way they
can. I pray about you guys all the time. I worry about you and I hope
you all are safe and happy and that school is going well for all the
boys. I love you all so much. I can´t wait for you guys to go on
missions, it´s such an awesome experience. Keep feeding the Sisters
and take good care of them!! Think of them as me. I know you do and
I´m glad that you were such an example to me of taking care of the
missionaries! It´s really important.
Send me videos and pics!!!
Love always, Hermana Birch
along. Me and Hermana Thorpe have been having some really good lessons
with our ´investigators´. Missionary work is just awesome. I think
I´ve learned so much about myself and others from being here. I´ve
learned how to comfort others when they need it and how to be a better
friend and a better, happier person. I´ve learned to be patient and to
be kinder. I love the people here. I spend a lot of time with my
district, 3 elders in a trio and then 2 other companionships of
Hermanas. I love them so much. We study together pretty much all day,
eat together, sing together, play soccer together, go to P day
together. We´re all really close and I love each of them. Sad to say
goodbye to them as we part our ways and go to different missions of
Spain on Tuesday. I feel the Spirit here a lot. I know that God is
watching out for me. I read my patriarchal blessing pretty much
everyday, it gives me a lot of strength. We have so many awesome
devotionals, scriptural thoughts and experiences here, I just don´t
know how to say everything in one email. Hermana Lovell (pres. wife)
has us memorize stuff every week and if we do she bakes us something.
We memorized el objetivo, el bautismo invitaciona and this week is
Moroni 10:4 by Monday, and she just told us yesterday. So I´ve been
working on that. I treasure my time here. And I´m excited for el campo
on Tuesday! The MTC has been great. I actually loved the MTC. I wish I
could stay here longer, it´s our safe little bubble here. Haha, but
it´s time to press forward. I guess I´m hoping for a native Spanish
speaker for my entrenador. I want to master the Spanish language and
having a native, I would be able to learn the accent really well and I
feel like I would learn a lot better. But we will see what the Lord
has in store for me, I trust Him. Everyone always says that you change
on your mission, and become better. I don´t know if I´ve changed yet,
I don´t think people really change. They just come to recognize Christ
as their Savior and then they try to emulate Him in every way they
can. I pray about you guys all the time. I worry about you and I hope
you all are safe and happy and that school is going well for all the
boys. I love you all so much. I can´t wait for you guys to go on
missions, it´s such an awesome experience. Keep feeding the Sisters
and take good care of them!! Think of them as me. I know you do and
I´m glad that you were such an example to me of taking care of the
missionaries! It´s really important.
Send me videos and pics!!!
Love always, Hermana Birch
Semana 4 en la CCM
Saturday at the park
I had a really cool experience. My companion was Hermana Barbee. It was
awesome that I got assigned to her, becuase I had just told my comp. that I
wanted her! So I was really pumped for the park and was going to be really
brave and talk to everyone. First on the metro I placed a Book Of Mormon to
this young lady sitting next to me on the train. She didn´t want it at
first, but I was persistent and she was super nice. So we get to the park
and everyone we see we talk to. We faced a lot of rejection though and I
started feeling really sad. I wanted to give up. It was really hard. I just
wanted to cry. I was trying so hard with no results. Hna Barbee was really
encouraging so I said a prayer in my heart and we kept walking. We decided
to go on the less beaten paths of the park, where people are more at ease.
We started having success. We passed this one guy sitting on a bench and
when I saw him I just knew I needed to talk to him. But that made me really
nervous so we passed by him without saying anything. we didn´t go too far
though, because I had a tugging feeling we should talk to him. I told my
comp and pointed to him. She said ok let´s go. But suddenly my stomach got
all nervous (even though I´d been talking to strangers all day) and I
really didn´t want to. Hna Barbee told me that we need to talk to him even
more now, because if I´m getting all nervous that means something big is
going to happen. I still didn´t want to. He was a young guy, blonde hair,
sunglasses on, writing in a journal and he just made me nervous. On our way
out of that section of the park though I told hna barbee just to pass him
but luckily she didn´t listen to me and she approached him. He was very
nice. He´s from Germany and got to Spain they day before to study at the
university. His English was very good so we spoke in English. He was so
cool!! I´m so glad we talked to him and that my companion didn´t listen to
me when I said I was too nervous!! We told him about the Book Of Mormon and
how it answers questions about God´s plan for us and he was so interested!!
We almost left without getting his info but the Spirit told me to be
persistent so I got his contact info so the missionaries serving in Madrid
can contact him!! I got my first referral!! I was so happy after. I love
sharing this message with God´s children. I´m grateful that God is patient
with me in my difficulties and my nervousness in talking to people and gave
me a comp that day that would be bold enough to follow through with the
prompting we had to speak to him.
Also for New Year´s here you eat 12 grapes 12 seconds before midnight. 1
each second. Our juvas had seeds in them so it was kind of hard to eat
them, but it was funny.
I finally learned the word for ¨cool¨. During one of our lessons I told the
Investigator that I had a ¨fresco escritura¨to share with them. I thought
that meant ¨cool¨ but it means ¨fresh¨. It was really funny. And ¨que guay¨
is what you say for cool. In case you´re wondering. OH! And I got the
Christmas card mom. It made me so happy! I showed my district. My
compañeras think you are cute, Tyler. And Dad you look like this Elder
here. It´s really funny because you´re the same heighht, same hair, same
face, same glasses same everything. Really weird. The Elders thought it was
funny.
Also do you love the fact that I´m BLINKING in the pic with Archuleta!?
Ugh.
I love getting all your emails and pics, sorry I don´t have time to respond
back to them all! But it´s the highlight of my week reading from you all!!
Contact with the outside world!! Oh and one of my teachers, Hermano Ponsoda
is so funny. He doesn´t really speak English. I love how he says my name.
He says Hermana BEERCH. It´s the cutest thing. So now everyone in my
district says it like that.
Oh we just got a bunch of missionaries from the Provo MTC, they´re going to
Russia. They´re really cool. And yesterdaylots of native or proficient
Spanish speakers came in for my last two weeks (their only two weeks) here
at the CCM!! Crazy!! I leave January 20th for el campo (the field). My time
here has flown by. I have learned so much. I still have a lot to learn
though. Today for P Day we are going to the Real Madrid Stadium. It´s gonna
be cool! Me and my comp wanted to go to the art museo but not enough people
signed up, actually just us two signed up. So yeah. Oh the chocolate I´m
holding in the pic is Milka brand. It´s really good. I think I´ve said this
way too much but the chocolate here is so much better than America!!
Anyways, I love you and tell me how you´re doing! Love, Hermana Birch
More pics
after exercise time. Good stuff. I love my roommates.
David Archuleta pic
guys saw it. I hate that I´m blinking!! Haha, he was so cool though
when he came and sang for us. I loved it.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Fwd: pic
Hola everyone! I love you all so much! Feliz ano!! On Saturday at the park I had a really cool experience. My companion was Hermana Barbee. It was awesome that I got assigned to her, becuase I had just told my comp. that I wanted her! So I was really pumped for the park and was going to be really brave and talk to everyone. First on the metro I placed a Book Of Mormon to this young lady sitting next to me on the train. She didn´t want it at first, but I was persistent and she was super nice. So we get to the park and everyone we see we talk to. We faced a lot of rejection though and I started feeling really sad. I wanted to give up. It was really hard. I just wanted to cry. I was trying so hard with no results. Hna Barbee was really encouraging so I said a prayer in my heart and we kept walking. We decided to go on the less beaten paths of the park, where people are more at ease. We started having success. We passed this one guy sitting on a bench and when I saw him I just knew I needed to talk to him. But that made me really nervous so we passed by him without saying anything. we didn´t go too far though, because I had a tugging feeling we should talk to him. I told my comp and pointed to him. She said ok let´s go. But suddenly my stomach got all nervous (even though I´d been talking to strangers all day) and I really didn´t want to. Hna Barbee told me that we need to talk to him even more now, because if I´m getting all nervous that means something big is going to happen. I still didn´t want to. He was a young guy, blonde hair, sunglasses on, writing in a journal and he just made me nervous. On our way out of that section of the park though I told hna barbee just to pass him but luckily she didn´t listen to me and she approached him. He was very nice. He´s from Germany and got to Spain they day before to study at the university. His English was very good so we spoke in English. He was so cool!! I´m so glad we talked to him and that my companion didn´t listen to me when I said I was too nervous!! We told him about the Book Of Mormon and how it answers questions about God´s plan for us and he was so interested!! We almost left without getting his info but the Spirit told me to be persistent so I got his contact info so the missionaries serving in Madrid can contact him!! I got my first referral!! I was so happy after. I love sharing this message with God´s children. I´m grateful that God is patient with me in my difficulties and my nervousness in talking to people and gave me a comp that day that would be bold enough to follow through with the prompting we had to speak to him.
Also for New Year´s here you eat 12 grapes 12 seconds before midnight. 1 each second. Our juvas had seeds in them so it was kind of hard to eat them, but it was funny.
Also for New Year´s here you eat 12 grapes 12 seconds before midnight. 1 each second. Our juvas had seeds in them so it was kind of hard to eat them, but it was funny.
I finally learned the word for ¨cool¨. During one of our lessons I told the Investigator that I had a ¨fresco escritura¨to share with them. I thought that meant ¨cool¨ but it means ¨fresh¨. It was really funny. And ¨que guay¨ is what you say for cool. In case you´re wondering. OH! And I got the Christmas card mom. It made me so happy! I showed my district. My compañeras think you are cute, Tyler. And Dad you look like this Elder here. It´s really funny because you´re the same heighht, same hair, same face, same glasses same everything. Really weird. The Elders thought it was funny.
Also do you love the fact that I´m BLINKING in the pic with Archuleta!? Ugh.
I love getting all your emails and pics, sorry I don´t have time to respond back to them all! But it´s the highlight of my week reading from you all!! Contact with the outside world!! Oh and one of my teachers, Hermano Ponsoda is so funny. He doesn´t really speak English. I love how he says my name. He says Hermana BEERCH. It´s the cutest thing. So now everyone in my district says it like that.
Oh we just got a bunch of missionaries from the Provo MTC, they´re going to Russia. They´re really cool. And yesterdaylots of native or proficient Spanish speakers came in for my last two weeks (their only two weeks) here at the CCM!! Crazy!! I leave January 20th for el campo (the field). My time here has flown by. I have learned so much. I still have a lot to learn though. Today for P Day we are going to the Real Madrid Stadium. It´s gonna be cool! Me and my comp wanted to go to the art museo but not enough people signed up, actually just us two signed up. So yeah. Oh the chocolate I´m holding in the pic is Milka brand. It´s really good. I think I´ve said this way too much but the chocolate here is so much better than America!! Anyways, I love you and tell me how you´re doing! Love, Hermana Birch
Oh we just got a bunch of missionaries from the Provo MTC, they´re going to Russia. They´re really cool. And yesterdaylots of native or proficient Spanish speakers came in for my last two weeks (their only two weeks) here at the CCM!! Crazy!! I leave January 20th for el campo (the field). My time here has flown by. I have learned so much. I still have a lot to learn though. Today for P Day we are going to the Real Madrid Stadium. It´s gonna be cool! Me and my comp wanted to go to the art museo but not enough people signed up, actually just us two signed up. So yeah. Oh the chocolate I´m holding in the pic is Milka brand. It´s really good. I think I´ve said this way too much but the chocolate here is so much better than America!! Anyways, I love you and tell me how you´re doing! Love, Hermana Birch
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