Al Sur [To the South]

Hermana Oliphant y yo en el campo de alcachofa. [Sister Oliphant and I in the artichoke field]

La falla quemando en nuestra calle... 3:30 de la madrugada. Mucho ruido. [The Falla burning on our street...3:30 in the morning. Lots of noice.]

La falla en nuestra calle ANTES de quemar (pasabamos el día antes)... Cinderella! [The Falla on our street BEFORE it burned (we went by the day before)...Cinderella!]

Me voy a Murcia [I am going to Murcia]. (wiki)

I´m sad to leave Valencia. It feels like home now (like Palma did). But I´ve been here just about 6 months. Some of the things I´ve learned in Valencia is to have more patience and to have faith that the Lord will provide when we do our part. It´s so true. I love it here and we´ve seen a lot of miracles this week. But I know it´ll be a great experience to be in Murcia. But, I just keep getting farther and farther from Barcelona. I´ll be in a trio with an Hermana Gum and an Hermana Montes de Oca (I don´t think she´s a native speaker... I really know nothing though. I´m leaving Valencia in a few hours to go to Murcia). I am the hermana of the trios I guess. My 3rd one in the field and my 5th in all of my mission, if the MTC counts (which it doesn´t... pero para que sepais[but just so you know], I´ve been in lots of trios). The very best thing about trios is the ease of intercambios [exchanges]. I love it. I also love having more company. It´s more fun.

I had a last visit with my Mongolian family last night. Some of them were crying and I gave them some little hymn books and some ties for Nasanbek and Chinzo. They are the best. I´ll probably get to visit them in April because Elder Richard Hinckley is coming to do a mission tour and I think we´ll all be going to Valencia for it. Wahoo!

My Brazilian friend Maria gave me a cute jacket as a going away gift (I think she noticed that I´m a jacket person). I´ll have to send you a photo. Speaking of photos, something is wrong with my camara... it´s pretty messed up and I don´t know how. Something is wrong with the lens because I can still view the photos that are on the card and everything, just when I go to take a picture it´s just black and white garbled-ness. I´ll see if I can get it fixed... if not, I might want to buy a new one pretty soon.

Miracle for the week: se llama Victor [he's called Victor]. We got a call from the mission office on Saturday morning with a reference from a man who had called the phone that used to belong to the Elders here in Valencia 2 (they turned their phone in to the mission office when their area got closed and the mission has since given it to a senior couple in Mallorca.) So this man got this number somehow and called to ask if someone could come and teach him and take him to the church here in Valencia. So I called him a few hours later and asked him when we could come by to teach him that day (he lives in our big pueblo, Torrente). He told me he liked our church and he wants to be a member. Aaaaaa! I loved that phone call. We took a member who lives there in Torrente and is also from Nigeria and we taught him about the restoration. He already had a copy of the Book of Mormon because he had known some members of our church in Nigeria and since he had come to live in Spain he had become friends with a member who lives in Australia (internet friends) and she mailed him a copy of the book with her testimony. It´s really an amazing story. We set a baptismal date for the 3rd of April. Too bad I´ll be in Murcia... oh well. I´m glad to leave the area strong for Hermana Oliphant and her new companion Hermana Snow. The best part of the visit was that Victor had decided to start reading a bit in the Book of Mormon and he opened to the 10th Chapter of Moroni and really liked verse 4. So he marked it with a highlighter and told us he felt like God was really speaking to him in this verse. Miracles!

I have no more time. I want to attach a foto. Don´t worry about me coming home at the wrong time Alyn (or anyone else). I´m gonna work it out. I love you all.

Hermana Diehl