Que calor, que calor, que calor

Dearest family of mine,

Holy smokes it´s been hot. It´s been a bit difficult walking around the streets these last few days. My companion and I drink a lot of water.

Things are going well, we´ve been finding a lot of new investigators and teaching a lot of menos activo members. Hermana Grant is a good companion and we laugh together a lot. I really don´t know what I would do if I had a serious companion who didn´t laugh with me.

We´re going to visit another part of the island today with a few of the members from our ward. I like going places with the members because we get to practice spanish that´s not just gospel words and I can improve my vocabulary. I´ll try to send more pictures soon.

I loved seeing the Hancocks at the beach and hearing about what´s going on at the house (yeah, brick sidewalk!) Espero que todo de mis hermanos, cuñados, y sobrinos esten bien (y mis padres, claro).

Les quiero-
Hermana Diehl

Semana de Milagros [Week of Miracles]

Hola Familia Mia- [Hello My Family-]

I loved, loved, loved the pictures of Tanner and Family... Oh the joy of being born quickley (or c-section): no conehead. :-) Kori (or someone else who´s not quite as busy with a newborn)... could you print me some hard copies of some pictures of the boys to show people? I love to show everyone mis sobrinos [my nephews and nieces]!

This week Hermana Grant and I have seen lots of miracles. We had an investigator who was supposed to meet us for a cita [appointment] not show up and someone else walked in off the street to the capilla [chapel] to ask about the English classes that we teach and we taught her about the restoration of the church. We also have 6 new investigators this week. Some are from old english class references, some from the new english class we just started, and some are from off the street. It´s very exciting in Palma right now. I´m loving Hermana Grant. She´s super tranquila [tranquil or easy going] and it helps me calm down because I´m such a stress case sometimes. We´ve been having a fast from English this week... and I´ve been doing pretty well with always speaking Spanish (unless I get excited and want to share a story really fast)... I think it´s good for me. I love speaking two languages, it really opens up the possibilities of people we can teach.

Today we are going to Formentor (I don´t know if anyone ever posted a map of Mallorca on the blog...) it´s in the northwestern corner of the island. Quite far away. A member is driving us up there and I´m really excited. I´ll have to send pictures next week. I love this island. I´m going to be sad when I have to go back to the peninsula.

Thanks for the blogs I was able to see (Kori and John, Cody and Emilee, and Erin... I don´t think Matt contributed to the dress give-away blogging...) I have such a great family.

I hope all went well with the trek? I´m excited to hear about it from Jesse and Mindy when they get a chance (not such a subtle hint, eh?)

I´m still working on a bunch of real letters to send to everyone. Sorry I´m so slow... pero tenemos muchas cosas para ver y hacer los días de preparación... entonces... desculpenme por favor [...but we have many things to see and do on preparation days...so....excuse me please].

Les quiero, hasta la semana que viene- [I love you, until the coming week-]
Hermana Diehl

Las fotos[the photos]:
1- Most of my zone in Soller on a very old and narrow bridge
2- Most of my zone in Soller in front of a very old and Catholic church
3- Elder Millard with me supporting the bridge
4- Captain Morgan (a.k.a. Elder Hall) by some caves near the harbor in Palma... I´m mostly including this picture because it´s funny, not because you know Elder Hall

Al final de traslado dos y EL BEBE! [The end of transfer two and THE BABY!]

Hola familia-

Holy smokes! Tanner looks so little and cute... although I only saw the pictures that were posted on Erin´s blog (I didn´t get the pictures that John sent out to everyone... if you could re-send that to me please I would love it very much. My email inbox was quite full and there´s a chance that some emails got rejected because there wasn´t room. But I made plenty of room and am ready to see some more baby Tanner!) Good job and congratulations to Kori and John... and Spencer. Big brother Spencer! Hurray! Another May 26th birthday! I´ll never forget to celebrate that day wherever I am. I´m so happy that all is well and that he´s here. Now I can tell people that I have 9 sobrinos [neices and nephews]... I´ve been telling people. ¨Tengo ocho... casi nueve sobrinos.¨ [I have eight...almost nine neices and nephews] It´s a conversation piece if nothing else eh? Ahora nueve, segura! [Now nine, for sure!]

My second transfer has come to a close. Hermana Henderson is going to Elche (mas por el sur de la mision[more to the south of the mission]) to be companions with one of my CCM [MTC] companions Hermana Konopinski, and my new companion will be Hermana Grant. I met her when I went to Barcelona a few weeks ago and we are going to have a great time together. I believe she is from Michigan... but I´ll have to let you know later. I´m sad to see Hermana Henderson go. She has 3 more transfers until she goes home (in October), so I might get to see her again in the mission... maybe. She´s been a good mom (trainer) to me. She took good care of me!

I´m excited for these coming weeks, we have a lot of potential for new investigators and we´re going to find the ones who are ready!

Gotta go, love you all so much! Mas la semana que viene- [More the coming week-]
Hermana Diehl

Happy Birthdays

Familia Mia [Family of Mine]-

I know that I already missed a few of them, but I wanted to wish happy birthday to all of my family members that have birthdays in May. Grandma T (how old is Grandma now? I can´t remember what year she was born in), Mindy, Spencer, Jesse, Lia (and my cousins that have birthdays in May too- Spencer and Jacob at least... there are probably more, but I can´t remember right now). I´m sorry if I forgot anyone... pero ¡feliz cumpleanos a todos! [but, Happy Birthday to all!]

My Barcelona trip was good. I love trips so much. We flew into Barcelona one day and did inter-cambios [exchanges] with some of the Hermanas that are serving there (I went with Hermana Lunt and Hna. Henderson went with mi amiga [my friend] Hermana Brown). There´s a 4-missionary piso [floor- here meaning apartment] that the Barcelona and the Hospitalet Hermanas live in and they refer to it as the ¨Barcelona Hotel¨ because there are always Hermanas from other zones staying with them for conferences or what have you. And that night there were 8 of us total in the piso. We talked a lot (in Spanish since there were 2 native speakers there) and I really enjoyed seeing my fellow Hermanas... not that I don´t like the Elders... but we see them all the time. And the conference was excellent. I just felt so tranquila [tranquil] during the whole thing. We have a good mission president. Him and Hermana Waddell really love the missionaries and take such good care of us. I got to visit my suitcase and it was almost like Christmas. I have floss again!

I have a new goal... during the conference the ayudantes [helpers] were translating from English to Spanish for the native speakers and they were able to do it perfectly and really fast. It was quite impressive. And then yesterday in church there were a whole bunch of people from England the United States who asked the missionaries to translate for them... so Elder Carpenter (who finishes his mission next week), Hermana Henderson, and I all ended up translating (from Spanish to English... I actually felt bad for the people who had to sit around us because there was so much talking... we should´ve planned it better and grouped all of the English speakers in the back corner or something so they could all listen to one translation together, pero bueno [but oh well]). I didn´t do a really great job, but I was able to pass along the message. It just wasn´t in the words of the speakers, it was in my own, summarizing words. But my new goal is to be able to speak Spanish well enough to translate from English to Spanish OR Spanish to English. So... I´ll let you know how that goes over the course of my mission.

Que mas? Vamos a visitar unos sitios turisticos hoy. Estoy animada. Gracias madre por la carta con mucho informacion. Me alegro a oir de la boda de Anna y Cody. Espero que todo va bien. Mande mis saludos a ellos. [What more? We are going to visit some tourist sites today. I am excited. Thanks mom for the letter with alot of information. I am glad to hear about Anna and Cody's wedding. I hope that all goes well. Send my greetings to them.]

Les amo a todos! Y besos para los ninos, por favor! [I love you all! And kisses for the kids, please!]
Hermana Diehl

Foto 1- flying from Palma to Barcelona last week. How pretty is my island?
Foto 2- Elder Archibald and I were really excited to see each other at the big zone conference. He´s one of my CCM [MTC] little brothers and a really good missionary.