So Robbie left the teenage years behind without even looking back. April was here to celebrate!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Holly's Adventures in Palma de Mallorca
11/5: Wow. The work here is moving. We are doing a lot of menos activo activation, which is emotionally draining... but well worth it. I am learning so much. The language is coming without any problems. I can understand everything that most people say, but struggle a little when I try to talk back. We just go go go! Lot of work, lots of people. It feels like the middle of winter here. The mountains here are amazing.
11/12: We went to lunch iwth a member named Debbi from England who is rich at this great restaurant (I am sure that we are the first missionaries EVER to go there!) and the food was fantastic. authentic med food. You would have loved it! The Keralos from Chile fed me a BUFFET of vegetarian food last night.
11/19: We just got back from Soller the most beautiful place on earth! Well, not quite, but it was amazing. We went hiking on a cliff that overlooed the mediterranean ocean. Sheesh. the seconds count so much here on the mission! guess what? it snowed here!
oh! Zone conference... wow. can i tell you that Elder Johnson (Kenneth) is AMAZING! I was so on fire after the conference with wanting to just get out there and give my all the the people here. he talked about how missionary work is about loving people.
oh mom. can you belive that i have been a missionary for 3 months on the 22? really, where has the time gone? Some days last FOREVER! other days just fly! But I love it.
11/26: Mom! What a crazy week. so many things happened. so it was thanksgiving, eh? all the members wanted to celebrate with us since it is an american holiday. so we drove to the other side of the island (it only takes an hour) and we ate with a less active family. turkey, corn, potatoes... even a very warped pumpkin pie (they don´t have canned pumpkin here!) It was so great. I was so full after we ate. blah. and then just last night we had another thanksgiving feast wtih another family. they are really great. they are the Queirolos and they are from chile and oh my goodness. i can´t even tell you how great the food was. they made me a special vegetable soup that was so great. i am going to get the recipe from her and send it to you so that you can try it! it was so great.
So you wanted to know what we do on pdays... we just catch up, buy groceries, laundry, roam the city, write our families, and EXPLORE! there are so many beautiful places here to explore. yikes! so little time. and our first transfers are on December 1. I am almost 100 percent positive that i will be here for at least 4 months or so. But my trainer will probably go, which will leave me to do all the work... ahhhh!!!!
We had a pan carta yesterday which is where we set up a display and talk with people. it was so cold i couldn´t hardly move my mouth. and trying to speak a different langauge when your mouth won´t move is VERY difficutl. haha. needless to say, we got 3 phone numbers and maybe God is preparing these people´s hearts. who knows? our days are full of appointments. with less active members, recent converts and investigators. we have 2 hours during 2-4 for language study and lunch... but sometimes we don´t even get that cause we are at a cita. Oh, so yesterday, the primary had a program here. i had to play the piano and it was so funny. it reminded me of you cause there was just pure chaos once again. our rama is so great. the members here have to work so hard to fulfil their callings. there just aren´t enough of them.
can you belive that i have been away from home for 3 months now? Remeber how I used to come home like every weekend in college? SHeesh. But the time here is going so fast. SUndays are crazy, and then mondays come and it´s so nice to take a break! missionaries live p-day to p-day i have decided.
12/4: AHHH!!! I am left alone on the ISLAND! yes. my companion did get transfered to MURCIA. I get my new companion tonight at 8 and so I get to hang out with the ELders all day and sheesh. I am so nervous. I have to navigate the entire island all by myself. The funny thing is that the first week that I was here I knew that my companion would be transfered. We were walking around the city and I was learning where everything is and the Lord told me that she would only be with me for 6 weeks. I feel so overwhelmed, but very humble that Heavenly Father would trust me with this responsibility. My new companion is Hermana Sorenson and she has been out for over a year.
the family that we are teaching from peru is super great. Cesar, the father, didn´t belive in god, and the last time we went to visit him he was crying and telling us how he knows that god answers prayers cause when he was 10 he prayed that his grandmother would live cause she was dying from cancer and she did. it was so great. they are super people. Vanessa is still coming to church, and it was AMAZING that we had a cita with her mom and taught the plan de salvacion. she really opened up to us and told us that vanessa is a better person because of us. sheesh. it´s so crazy how much god is in charge of our lives.
whoa. spain has amazing chocolate. pan and chuches. i am going to send some chuches for christmas cause they are way better than anything ever! they will be a suprize.
12/10: Mom! So much to say, so little time. so yes, i have a new companion. i am doing everything. making appointments, teaching the lessons and takling on the phone (which usually doesn´t happen until later on in the mish, like 4 transfers or so),so i am super busy. but the lord is blessing me with all sorts of abilities that i never even knew existed. it´s amazing. yesterday we had a 10 year old in church. her name is Angela. her mom was listening to the discussions, but doesn´t really want to but her daughter is so excited and she wants to go to allt he activities and everything. she made a ton of friends at church. it was great. the lord has BIG plans for her!
One of my most favorite moments in my mission happened last night when we were taking her home. she lives far from the church and so we were walking a little bit to the bus station and the bus was coming, but still had somewhere around 10 minutes and i was sitting at the bus station and we were playing a game where you slap hands and sing a song, like patty cakes, kind of and i just felt so much peace. it seems strange, but i realized that this is the mission. just loving people. i am here on my mission to love people. and that is what i am doing. it´s great.
alvaro has a baptizme date for the 22 of dec. he is the 9 year old boy that is the son of a menos activa, and his mom helena is coming back. they are both from spain. angela is from ecuador. that is the great thing about serving in spain. it´s like i am serving in south america also cause there are so many south americans here. i love it. so much culture. alvaro told me i was the most guapa (beautiful) missionary ever. haha. 9 year olds, eh? so i knocked on my first door this week. i moved to the bottom bunk. wahoo!!!!
11/12: We went to lunch iwth a member named Debbi from England who is rich at this great restaurant (I am sure that we are the first missionaries EVER to go there!) and the food was fantastic. authentic med food. You would have loved it! The Keralos from Chile fed me a BUFFET of vegetarian food last night.
11/19: We just got back from Soller the most beautiful place on earth! Well, not quite, but it was amazing. We went hiking on a cliff that overlooed the mediterranean ocean. Sheesh. the seconds count so much here on the mission! guess what? it snowed here!
oh! Zone conference... wow. can i tell you that Elder Johnson (Kenneth) is AMAZING! I was so on fire after the conference with wanting to just get out there and give my all the the people here. he talked about how missionary work is about loving people.
oh mom. can you belive that i have been a missionary for 3 months on the 22? really, where has the time gone? Some days last FOREVER! other days just fly! But I love it.
11/26: Mom! What a crazy week. so many things happened. so it was thanksgiving, eh? all the members wanted to celebrate with us since it is an american holiday. so we drove to the other side of the island (it only takes an hour) and we ate with a less active family. turkey, corn, potatoes... even a very warped pumpkin pie (they don´t have canned pumpkin here!) It was so great. I was so full after we ate. blah. and then just last night we had another thanksgiving feast wtih another family. they are really great. they are the Queirolos and they are from chile and oh my goodness. i can´t even tell you how great the food was. they made me a special vegetable soup that was so great. i am going to get the recipe from her and send it to you so that you can try it! it was so great.
So you wanted to know what we do on pdays... we just catch up, buy groceries, laundry, roam the city, write our families, and EXPLORE! there are so many beautiful places here to explore. yikes! so little time. and our first transfers are on December 1. I am almost 100 percent positive that i will be here for at least 4 months or so. But my trainer will probably go, which will leave me to do all the work... ahhhh!!!!
We had a pan carta yesterday which is where we set up a display and talk with people. it was so cold i couldn´t hardly move my mouth. and trying to speak a different langauge when your mouth won´t move is VERY difficutl. haha. needless to say, we got 3 phone numbers and maybe God is preparing these people´s hearts. who knows? our days are full of appointments. with less active members, recent converts and investigators. we have 2 hours during 2-4 for language study and lunch... but sometimes we don´t even get that cause we are at a cita. Oh, so yesterday, the primary had a program here. i had to play the piano and it was so funny. it reminded me of you cause there was just pure chaos once again. our rama is so great. the members here have to work so hard to fulfil their callings. there just aren´t enough of them.
can you belive that i have been away from home for 3 months now? Remeber how I used to come home like every weekend in college? SHeesh. But the time here is going so fast. SUndays are crazy, and then mondays come and it´s so nice to take a break! missionaries live p-day to p-day i have decided.
12/4: AHHH!!! I am left alone on the ISLAND! yes. my companion did get transfered to MURCIA. I get my new companion tonight at 8 and so I get to hang out with the ELders all day and sheesh. I am so nervous. I have to navigate the entire island all by myself. The funny thing is that the first week that I was here I knew that my companion would be transfered. We were walking around the city and I was learning where everything is and the Lord told me that she would only be with me for 6 weeks. I feel so overwhelmed, but very humble that Heavenly Father would trust me with this responsibility. My new companion is Hermana Sorenson and she has been out for over a year.
the family that we are teaching from peru is super great. Cesar, the father, didn´t belive in god, and the last time we went to visit him he was crying and telling us how he knows that god answers prayers cause when he was 10 he prayed that his grandmother would live cause she was dying from cancer and she did. it was so great. they are super people. Vanessa is still coming to church, and it was AMAZING that we had a cita with her mom and taught the plan de salvacion. she really opened up to us and told us that vanessa is a better person because of us. sheesh. it´s so crazy how much god is in charge of our lives.
whoa. spain has amazing chocolate. pan and chuches. i am going to send some chuches for christmas cause they are way better than anything ever! they will be a suprize.
12/10: Mom! So much to say, so little time. so yes, i have a new companion. i am doing everything. making appointments, teaching the lessons and takling on the phone (which usually doesn´t happen until later on in the mish, like 4 transfers or so),so i am super busy. but the lord is blessing me with all sorts of abilities that i never even knew existed. it´s amazing. yesterday we had a 10 year old in church. her name is Angela. her mom was listening to the discussions, but doesn´t really want to but her daughter is so excited and she wants to go to allt he activities and everything. she made a ton of friends at church. it was great. the lord has BIG plans for her!
One of my most favorite moments in my mission happened last night when we were taking her home. she lives far from the church and so we were walking a little bit to the bus station and the bus was coming, but still had somewhere around 10 minutes and i was sitting at the bus station and we were playing a game where you slap hands and sing a song, like patty cakes, kind of and i just felt so much peace. it seems strange, but i realized that this is the mission. just loving people. i am here on my mission to love people. and that is what i am doing. it´s great.
alvaro has a baptizme date for the 22 of dec. he is the 9 year old boy that is the son of a menos activa, and his mom helena is coming back. they are both from spain. angela is from ecuador. that is the great thing about serving in spain. it´s like i am serving in south america also cause there are so many south americans here. i love it. so much culture. alvaro told me i was the most guapa (beautiful) missionary ever. haha. 9 year olds, eh? so i knocked on my first door this week. i moved to the bottom bunk. wahoo!!!!
Sunday, December 9, 2007
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