Birthday party with the Mongolians (Chinzo = 10 and Hna. Oliphant = 22)
Hola,
I remember talking with Hermana Henderson and Hermana Grant about how the longer you´re in the mission the more worn out you get (and the greater your appreciation for elevators... instead of having to take the stairs)... well, I was feeling old this week. Yesterday was the first day of my 9th transfer (since we measure time in ¨transfers¨ in the mission... 1 transfer= 6 weeks), and I was sad that my time left is getting shorter and shorter. But let´s not talk about it, okay? We´re just going to pretend that the mission never ends.
Good news this week:
I stayed in Valencia with Hermana Oliphant! I love Valencia and I love being able to stay in one place a long time. We continue to see miracles. We´ve been teaching Bulgan´s children and they´re super smart. (Hermana Grant- we played your jumping game for lesson 3 and they loved it muchisimo!) We taught them what prophets do like this: before the lesson we hid a bag of chuches (uh... candies) in this park where we knew we would be teaching them. When we got to the part of explaining what prophets do we told them, ¨There´s something tasty hiden somewhere near here... and you have 1 minute to find it if you can. Go!¨ They ran around like crazy looking in all of the bushes and things while we sat and laughed with Bulgan for a minute. Then we told Bulgan where we had hidden the chuches and she told them... it still took a few tries for them to get it right, but they said in the end, ¨So, the prophets tell us where to find the good stuff from God.¨ Exactly! I love kids.
There was a broadcast stake conference on Sunday for all of Spain and Portugal. It was so good. 2 members of the first quorum of the 70 spoke a member of the Primary General Presidency and Elder Nelson of the 12. They talked a ton about the family and Elder Nelson pronounced a beautiful apostolic blessing on all of the people of the Iberian peninsula. I don´t remember all of the blessing right now because I don´t have my notes with me from the conference, but I loved it.
And the sad news:
As Hermana (Melanie) Grant was saying, there are 4 Hermanas going home this transfer and we´re only getting one new one. There was a trio in Zaragoza last transfer so President had to chose 1 hermana area to close... and the time finally came to close my beloved Palma. There are now no Hermanas in the islands... well, that´s not entirely true, since they put a senior couple of missionaries in Inca...but it looks like I won´t be returning to Palma to finish my mission like I wanted to. It was a small area and it will be easy for the Elders to take over it... but I loved it there and I´m sad that it´s closed.
Well family (and friends), I´m going to close for now. I love you all. I´m so glad to be a missionary and to be serving in the Lord´s work. I read several times in my studies this morning that all we have to do is obey the commandments and we will be well. I know it´s true because I feel it. It´s so clear to me now, and I wish everyone could understand it. Be good. Take care of each other. I loved the pictures of Eliza´s birthday, Charlie´s mismatched shoes, and Cai in the dog food bag (he´s getting so tall!). Give those neices and nephews kisses from me.
Love,
Hermana Diehl
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Tell Hermana Diehl that I love her so much. This is Hermana Henderson, her first companion. She is such an awesome missionary!! What a honor it was to serve with her, I only wish I could have been there longer. I remember laughing so hard I cried. She has such an amazing smile and a contagious laugh. She is a miracle worker. She came out the first day speaking like a pro even though she didn't believe it. She taught me so much about oragnization that I'm stil trying to apply!! I miss her so much. If it's okay with all I want to come to Arizona in the summer and give her the fattest hug ever. Thanks for sending me your angel!!
PS- I knew she would understand about the elevators vs stairs all too soon.
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