Holly just passed her 6-month mark 4 days ago and she is no longer a child of the island. Today she moved to the costal city of Valencia, which is the 3rd largest city in Spain.
Here is her new address:
Hermana Holly Thomas
c/Polo y Peyrolon 23, puerta 17
46021 Valencia
SPAIN
(Put an accent mark over the last o in Peyrolon.)
She is pretty excited! Here are some excerpts from her emails:
February 26, 2008: Here I am in Valencia with my new companion from Argentina la Hermana Ferranini. Yep. She is a native, so I am so going to be speaking spanish when I am done with this transfer. And she loves to run and so we are going to run in the mornings and this is her last transfer, so she is on fire. There are 2 other hermanas in our piso so we are 4. I can´t even tell you how happy I am right now. I was sad to leave the island and yesterday we spent the day running around saying goodbye to everyone, but here I am in VALENCIA!
March 3, 2008: wow. you wouldn´t believe the weather here. unbelievable. every morning we wake up and open the door to the balcony that is right above my bed and we just soak up the morning sun rays and heat. it´s so warm here. i am going to be wearing sandals here in a few weeks. oh man. i thought palma was amazing. but no, valencia is INCREDIBLE!!!!
so, we don´t have a lot of investigators, but the amazing thing was yesterday at church. there were like 5 people that randomly showed up that werent members. so many that we didn´t have time to talk with them or anything cause we had 3 investigators in church and my companion was playing the piano and i was trying to set appointments with people and meet the people and it was so much chaos cause we had just run across the city from an eating cita with an investigator and a member and we were almost late for church and the other hermans had locked themselves out of piso so we had to run back and give them the keys and then the elders needed my preach my gosple and then we lost the list with all the eating citas and it took an hour to figure out that the relief society presedent had taken it with her.... breath! so yeah. i tried to make that as exciting as it really was. haha. we were running all day yesterday. and guess where we are going today? it´s called teh oceaongraphic, or something like that. google it. i hear that its amazing.
so i finally get the METRO! it´s so weird. we travel underneath the city and so when we get out of the metro, i basically have no idea where we are cause there is no visual. but it´s great fun. i love it. i have to pay very close attention to everything that is happening cause this is my amazing companions last transfer, so for sure i am going to be here by myself trying to figure everything out! so i am payying close attentino to every step we take. lots of bus transportation tambien. bueno.
que mas. my spanish is improving alot cause my companion is always helping me. God sure does love me to give me a native compaion who wants to run and who wants to work...
mom. this is what a mission should be like. it´s hard, i´m not going to lie. but i love it. i wouldn´t trade this experience forever.
Here is her new address:
Hermana Holly Thomas
c/Polo y Peyrolon 23, puerta 17
46021 Valencia
SPAIN
(Put an accent mark over the last o in Peyrolon.)
She is pretty excited! Here are some excerpts from her emails:
February 26, 2008: Here I am in Valencia with my new companion from Argentina la Hermana Ferranini. Yep. She is a native, so I am so going to be speaking spanish when I am done with this transfer. And she loves to run and so we are going to run in the mornings and this is her last transfer, so she is on fire. There are 2 other hermanas in our piso so we are 4. I can´t even tell you how happy I am right now. I was sad to leave the island and yesterday we spent the day running around saying goodbye to everyone, but here I am in VALENCIA!
March 3, 2008: wow. you wouldn´t believe the weather here. unbelievable. every morning we wake up and open the door to the balcony that is right above my bed and we just soak up the morning sun rays and heat. it´s so warm here. i am going to be wearing sandals here in a few weeks. oh man. i thought palma was amazing. but no, valencia is INCREDIBLE!!!!
so, we don´t have a lot of investigators, but the amazing thing was yesterday at church. there were like 5 people that randomly showed up that werent members. so many that we didn´t have time to talk with them or anything cause we had 3 investigators in church and my companion was playing the piano and i was trying to set appointments with people and meet the people and it was so much chaos cause we had just run across the city from an eating cita with an investigator and a member and we were almost late for church and the other hermans had locked themselves out of piso so we had to run back and give them the keys and then the elders needed my preach my gosple and then we lost the list with all the eating citas and it took an hour to figure out that the relief society presedent had taken it with her.... breath! so yeah. i tried to make that as exciting as it really was. haha. we were running all day yesterday. and guess where we are going today? it´s called teh oceaongraphic, or something like that. google it. i hear that its amazing.
so i finally get the METRO! it´s so weird. we travel underneath the city and so when we get out of the metro, i basically have no idea where we are cause there is no visual. but it´s great fun. i love it. i have to pay very close attention to everything that is happening cause this is my amazing companions last transfer, so for sure i am going to be here by myself trying to figure everything out! so i am payying close attentino to every step we take. lots of bus transportation tambien. bueno.
que mas. my spanish is improving alot cause my companion is always helping me. God sure does love me to give me a native compaion who wants to run and who wants to work...
mom. this is what a mission should be like. it´s hard, i´m not going to lie. but i love it. i wouldn´t trade this experience forever.
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