June 21, 2015

Hey everyone!

This week has been a crazy and amazing week! 

I have been doing a lot of exchanges with my calling as a sister training leader and I saw so many miracles!

I went to one area with a sister that has been out less time than me and is currenlty (whit washing) going into a new area with another companion that is also new and she is training! She is from Australia and is an amazing missionary! We had so many contacting miracles, she is fearless and an example to me. She is stressed as her situation is very challenging but I can see how much she´s growing from it. 

I went with another sister that was in the MTC with Hermana Rossberg. She is so cute! We had a great time and it was so fun to see where her spanish is as I know Hermana Rossberg will have progressed just as much if not more in these last 2 transfers. We had a great time getting to know each other and we also got to eat churros and chocolate in the morning with a  less active member! Yum spanish food!

But the coolest thing this week

Weel I think I´ve mentioned Liz but I´ll repeat her whole story.

Well, I met her the day that hna Welcker went home in May. I was waiting for the metro and she was like"Hi Sisters"... Well hello. Anyways she told us she had just gotten back to Spain because she is usually worknig in Holland. She said she received most of the charlas in holland but wanted to learn more. So we have been teaching her and bugging her about getting baptised because, well, she was ready. She just kept on telling us that she hadn´t received an answer. Well, this Wednesday we had a lesson with her and half way through she just said "Hermanas I have decided to be baptised this Saturday" WOWOWOW! She is leaving for Holland the 26th so it was last Saturday or never. So we planned a baptism with the help of our awesome ward mission leader and she was baptised!!! I will send a picture when I can.

Such a great week filled with miracles. I feel so blessed. 

I love you all and encourage you all to read the Book of Mormon. It brings me so much peace and happiness and it testifies of my Savior. "I know that Our Redeemer Lives, what comfort this sweet sentence brings."

Have a great week and look for the small miracles!

Love Hermana West

June 15, 2015

I was priveledged to be part of the leadership council this week. It was such a great and spiritual meeting especially because it was the Jackson´s last as we will be getting a new mission president the first of July. During the meeting we talked a lot about covenants and the purpose we have as missionaries. Then after the meeting all of us leaders received our Ipads so we could configure them properly! That was super cool.

So then the day after because I´m the only Sister training leader in our zone (They do it differently here than in Canada) I gave 15 minutes of training on covenants at the zone training meeting. If I though teaching an investigator with a companion was nerve racking... teaching 20 missionaries in spanish without a companion is way worse. 

Then we had some great lessons this week with our investigators and a few less active famillies. The only unfortunate news is that one of our investigators goes back to Holland on the 23rd... So that stinks but she´s great and I know the missionaries there will take care of her!

We were very priviledged this week to eat with the Garcia family. They are really great. Thy made us everything spanish, from tortilla de patatas to paella to tuna salad. It was great and I really love them. Seriously this area is so great. 

Love 

Hermana West

June 8, 2015

Okay, well here´s to another week of being a misionary! I cannot explain how much I love being a missionary! I just love the gospel and I am so blessed to be here in Spain with my friends. 

Thisa week we received 2 referrals from sisters in another area... and one of them is so prepared it´s ridiculous and the other is a really awesome lady that´s new to the country.  I am really grateful for the opportunity I have to teach them! 

Also one day this week Hna Hillman woke up with no voice and Hna Galvez hasn´t been feeling great. So, Hna Vilariño and I went out together so the other two could rest... it was a great day being back to work with her. I really love speaking spanish and so that was fun, but not only that is that Hermana Vilariño is one of the most humble people I have ever met. She´s amazing, we saw many miracles that day and now I can talk with my companion again so that´s what´s important. 

Well, tomorrow I have a meeting with president and the others sister training leaders and the zone leaders in the mission. I am soooo excited. We will be receiving training for the ipads and then on Wednesday will teach training to our zone so that they as well can know how to use them! I am soo stoked.

For pday today we went to do some sight seeing in Madrid. It was really nice to relax and have a good time with the sisters. I have the best people ever serving with me. 

I love you all, remember that Jesus Christ is our savior because nothing is more important than that.

Hermana West

June 1, 2015

Hello friends and family!

This week has been a crazy and great week full of CANADA! 

If having 2 Canadians living in the same apartment wasn´t enough, we ran into a few men with Canada shirts, a bar named Öttawa and a man wearing an Edmonton Oilers hat. Crazy! Haha, it´s like the saying "once you buy a car everyone has the same one" It´s been great. 

Well, this week has been a week full of miracles, from a bus driver handing Hermana Hillman her Bus pass back to lesson miracles. It was really amazing.

This week district meeting was a lot of fun with all of us getting to know each other and it was great because I got to speak about how the ook of Mormon testifies of Jesus Christ. It´s interesting because as missionaries we don´t focus too much on the contents of the book of mormon, we just say that it signifies that the church was restored. But if we really read the book of mormon it will teach us of Christ.

We had a lot of fun with an older lady in the ward this week. It was her birthday so we went over to sing to her and we gave her  a rose. She loved it sooo much! She´s amazing.

Hermana Hillman and I have been having a lot of fun. Being a missionary is really just so great. I´m so glad I get to be here in Leganés. 

Love

Hermana West