October 26, 2015

This week was a good week. We have had a lot of success in meeting with our investigators that have been a little lazy in making time to meet with us. That was good.

We are meeting with a few less active families and well they're doing pretty well but one of them is moving to Peru. She has been pretty active lately so I'm worried for her and her kids but maybe them being there will be good for her to have a fresh start.

So... If we haven't heard this enough... I am sick, again! Oh man I am so done with being sick! I got a cold this time and have been coughing my lungs out since Friday. I'm taking medicine and everything but I think this one just needs a little more time to be healed. Oh well, just please pray for me!

Love you, sorry there's not much to report this week!

Love Hermana West 

October 19, 2015

Well, this week was great, especially because I´´m feeling great! Haha, it was just a bad 24 hour flu. Thank goodness I´´m done with that though.

Last Monday we had a sweet appointment with a future investigator all planned. The only problem was that it was going to be in his house so we needed a woman to accompany us. Well Mondays are a hard night to get members so we couldn´´t find anyone. The plan was to go anyways and ask him if he would mind coming down to do the lesson in a park. He wasn´´t okay with that so we rescheduled and left to find something else to do. 

About two minutes after this situation we ran into two young ladies from the Dominican Republic that are here studying. They are so amazing! They recently moved here and one of them has a grandfather that is a member! We met with her this week and she is really interested! I am so excited to see their progress.

This week we had interviews with president and that was good, it´s funny though because I see President Pack almost every Sunday. 

This week we have been preparing G for his baptism interview. Since he just has to be baptised because we can´´t find his records we don´´t have to do a lot but the language barrier is proving to be difficult. 

This week I was privileged to stay in my area on exchanges. Hermana Toone came to be with me which is so cool because she was in the MTC with me! It was fun to see her growth and learn from her because we haven´´t seen each other since the beginning of our missions. We had a miracle of a less active lady being home and available with her four kids. It was crazy in the house but Hermana Toone was just what they needed.

Yesterday was definitely the craziest though! We had stake conference in the building near the temple which is really far away from our area. Thank goodness we have the office elders that were able to give us a ride! We sang in the choir and that was really good and fun!

After we ate lunch we went to visit a less active of ours that is sick and took the elders so they could give him a blessing because his hip has been hurting. It was fun because they brought the ukelele and we sang a lot, the member loved it"

After that everything failed on us so, we were out contacting when suddenly it started raining really hard! We got soaked and stopped by a members house. She then insisted we get changed into her clothes so that we wouldn´´t get sick, it was funny because the outfit didn´´t go perfectly but I´´m glad we have people that love and care about us! 

I love you, and hope you have a wonderful week!

Hermana West

Stake conference at the building near the temple, we took advantage
and took pictures with our investigators and a recent convert. Also
our friend Hannah that is nannying in a house in our ward, she helps
us out a lot when she isn't working, she's great.

Oct. 12, 2015

Well, this week was a really good week until yesterday, I felt really sick and had to go home early from church. 

So basically I was in bed all day yesterday and well I at least made it out of my apartment to go shopping and now writing so that's good. 

We met a really sweet lady this week, she's half canarian half spaniard and is a bit crazy but she's cool and came to church! I'm excited to meet with her his week and bring her closer to Christ.

Other exciting things... It's stake conference this Sunday and I have to sing in the ward choir. Also my companion has to play the violin for it! Anyways should be good, I'm excited. 

Happy Canadian thanksgiving! I'm sure I'll celebrate American thanksgiving like I did last year so I'm not too upset I don't get to eat turkey today. 

I'm still really tired so I think I'm going to sleep for the rest of pday so I can get out and work his afternoon.

I love you and hope you have a great week!

Love

Hermana West

Oct. 5, 2015

Wow, general conference this week was amazing! I was able to watch all of the sessions except for the Sunday afternoon session. I was just blasted with the spirit and was able to feel at peace. 

This week a lot and a little happened. A lot because I got sick... It was a cold that got the best of me for 2 days but I feel a lot better now. Then after I was better we had district meeting with all 10 of us. It was great and I really felt the spirit. Afterwards we went out for Chinese food. That was really good but... That night my companion woke up at 3 am and started vomiting. That continued for all of Saturday until 6 pm when she was well sort of better and we went to the chapel to watch the Saturday morning session live. She probably shouldn't have gone but we made it there and home without any sickness!

But this week we did find a new investigator! He is really cool and knows a lot about the bible, he has a lot of promise and is genuinely interested. I'm excited to work with him more and I'm grateful for the blessing of having someone else to teach. 

This conference I think my favorite talk was the one by elder uchtdorf in the women's session with a parable about a girl and her great aunt. It was really cool for me to see the things he wasn't saying in the story.

I'm grateful we have prophets and leaders who guide us. I hope you had a great week.

Love 

Hermana West 

Sept. 28, 2015

Well, it's official I'm going to be in San Sebastián de Los Reyes another transfer with Hermana Harper. We received 42 new missionaries into the mission this transfer so almost everyone is training. It's going to be crazy and new for a lot of people this transfer but it's great!

We're really excited that all four of us Hermanas are staying here! We get along well and it's been really fun.

This week we were able to go to the temple! It was so great, I'm so grateful for the opportunity we have to do that. 

We've been having a lot of succes with the less active members we've been working with. They seem to be progressing towards reactivating. 

I have to tell you about G though. He is from the Congo and here in the refugee center. He is great but only speaks French and well that's it. He's learning Spanish and English right now... Here's to the 9 years of French I took, it's finally kinda starting to pay off. Haha not really, my French is horrible but it's good enough that I understand him. He's been a member since 2000 but was in Switzerland for 8 years really far from the church so hasn't been in a long time. We are reteaching him all the lessons and it is going great! 

This week is going to be awesome, we're going to have 2 more elders come into our area and that's going to be fun. I hope you have a great week. Love you

Hermana west

We got to go to the temple. All four of us are super close, it's a
great district.

A family home evening.... We were in charge of the lesson

Sept. 21, 2015

Everything is good, last week was a lot of fun. It was cool being. In the mission home for pday last week was really fun. This week we got to hang out with Hermana Larsen! We made sandwiches and banana splits. I love her, I'm so grateful I get to serve around her again. this week we had an open house of the chapel. It was well planned and great but no one came, not our investigators, no friends of members, there were only members... But it was only the first time. So, maybe next time it'll be better. This week we had zone training and that was really good. We went to a chapel in another town. Named Azuqueca. It is HUGE and it has pews... It was like being in a chapel back home. I loved it!  We found a former investigator that is now pregnant, I think with this change in her life she may be more open about the gospel and changing in regards to it.  It's been pretty slow here but I'm glad I get to be here.  Thanks for everything, I love you all! Hermana West