Que tal?!?!??! (that´s basically how they say how are you in spain) this week has just been another wonderful week in the lord´s hands.
Sorry I haven´t sent any pictures yet. they´ve been having trouble with the computers so hopefully I´ll be able to send some next week. I can print emails out so feel free to write long ones cause I can print them out and read them throughout the week! tender mercy! So guess where we´re going later today?? If you guessed the Real Madrid soccer stadium you´d be correct! Sweet right?! I´m pretty excited…false….I´m freaking out! It´s going to be awesome! This place never gets old. I don´t think i´ll ever get sick of this.
Spain is beautiful! It usually only rains about 3 weeks a year here and we´re in the middle of those three weeks. It´s kind of like Utah here. One second it will be pouring rain and the next second it will be sunny with clear skies. I thought i´d be super depressed with all of the rain but I actually found the opposite to be true. I LOVE THE RAIN HERE!!!! Ahhh!!!! It´s the kind of rain that you see in movies! Every time it rains I just want to run outside and play in it.
Guess what? My companion and I placed 3 more copies of the book of mormon this week! We had some pretty neat experiences tracting in the city. One cool experience was when we were walking down a street and came across this homeless man. We gave him some money and I felt this prompting to hand him a Book of Mormon. I told him in Spanish that it was a present for him. He was stunned! He kept looking from me to the book and then back at the book. He looked as if he´d never received a present in his life. Teary eyed, he took the book and hugged it to his chest. As we were walking away we turned to see him kiss the cover and open it up to begin reading. That single moment made everything I´ve done so far worth it. I could go home right now and feel accomplished (not really though cause I want to be out here). Seeing that one man come to the Savior brought me the sweetest peace. I can´t imagine what it will feel like when we commit someone to baptism.
Over the past two weeks we´ve seen a few families go through the temple to be sealed together for eternity. That´s what i´m working for. I´m here to invite others to come unto Christ so that they can be together with their families for eternity.
I´m so incredibly grateful that I got to come to the Spain MTC for training because it has helped so much! It´s such a blessing to be able to learn the Spanish i´ll be speaking here from Spaniards. It helps so much!
Another thing, I had a Russian companion this last week! It was just a temporary thing but so cool right? She´s from Moscow, Russia and is going to serve in another Russian mission. She only knows about 10 words in English so I got to teach her some English while she taught me some Russian. Yeah, that´s right! You´re little hermana here knows some Russian now. 3 languages: English, spanish, Russian….triple threat! Actually I´m to the point where i´m so focused on Spanish that my English has taken a huge hit. So basically I can´t speak any language right now. Haha. Who knew i´d have trouble speaking English so quickly? The communication barrier with this sweet sister was tough at first but after one day we hit it off and somehow found a way to communicate perfectly. She is the sweetest and nicest girl you will ever meet! We laughed so incredibly hard together!
I LOVE MY ELDERS!!!! They are absolutely amazing! All of the missionaries here have become like my temporary family! Because the MTC is so small, everyone is incredibly close! I love it! I love my district!!!!!!!! The elders in my district feel like my brothers! They are so fun, considerate, sweet, and just all around amazing! They are absolutely hysterical!
Funny moments:
So I told you about how I told you about how people in Spain greet each other with kisses on the cheeks? Well we ran into one of our teachers out on the temple grounds and she started to kiss each of us on the cheek. It goes right cheek and then left cheek. Well one of the hermanas thought that she had it down so as our teacher went in to kiss her our hermana went for the same side and they came SOOOO close to flat out kissing each other on the lips! Ohhhh we laughed so hard!
So remember how there are 6 beds in my room. Yeah…well we now have 7 girls in my room. I really don´t think they planned out the whole cramming the mtc full of missionaries thing. We´re pretty cramped but we LOVE it! I wouldn´t trade it for anything. It just makes things more fun!
K well I have to go now but I love you all dearly!!!!! I get out into the field on April 30th so look out Malaga! I´M Extremely happy right now! Each day I wake up and think that this day couldn´t possibly be better than the day before and every day without fail I find that it can. I love this gospel! I love my Savior!!!! “Come what may and love it”
Love,
Hermana israelsen
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