Here are Hermana Holly's final emails to me! Tomorrow I pack, and the next morning I leave for SPAIN!! I can't believe it's actually happening. Today I got so emotional thinking about my reunion with Holly. I can't wait to hug my daughter again!!!
February 16:
hey mom! we just got done hiking up to the top of a castle here in Alicante. it was so much fun. vaya. i think i just got my exercise in for the day. if i lived in alicante i would do that every single day! haah. wow. what a week. are the weeks flying by or what? haha. i am really excited but so sad to leave the mission. good news is on sunday we invited to karina to be baptized and she will be baptized my last saturday in the mission. WAHHOOOO!I am so excited for her. she is so excited for it too. since we started teaching her about 4 months ago, she has missed one sunday at church. one sunday. that is amazing. and she comes on her own.
so on saturday we had a paella in the mountains and it was so much fun. the whole branch and us went up there and ate a HUGE thing of paella. i couldn´t believe it. i´d never seen so much paella in all my life. and they told me that it wasn´t the biggest one that they do. debbie was scared to drive her car down so it ended up that Presidente Sempere, our branch president had to drive it down for her.
I am trying to make the most out of the short time that i have here in benidorm. every second counts for me and even though i still have a hard time sleeping and eating, i am still the same Hermana Thomas that i have always been! Jumping over those hurdles! anyways until next monday, when it will only be 2 weeks! AHHH!!!! Love you. Big hugs for the cats! Holly michelle
by the way, get this... the mission president that will replace mine is president hinkelsys son! crazy. i`ll be gone.
February 23
so i don't have much time cause we are going to Guadalest, a beautiful pueblo in teh mountntains of Bendidorm with some members. I love benidorm. i am so excited to have been here in this area. They were about to give up on it and it's the area where i saw the most baptisms. 6! That is amazing. vaya. I cant believe it. i only have one more preparation day left, after today. more stories next week.... gotta run. Love you more than i love chocloate frosted cookies.... !!!! HOlly Mihcelle
Hey mom. It´s me again. Ya i have more time because we just went to GUADALEST with our English members and now we are back and can do internet for 20 more minutes! SO i can explain more. First of all, GUADALEST was AMAZING! you have to see my pictures. It´s this old spanish town with a monestery and all and little shops and its just really spanish. So. THis week was also really great. We had so many members helping us and so many really good appointments. This week we are going to Murcia again for Zone Conference. It´s my last and then i just have a week and a half. Weird. I am really happy for these baptisms that we are having cause, well first, i am just excited for them, and second, it will keep me on my toes until the VERY end! SUnday they get baptized after church, and the next morning i take a train up to Barcelona to see YOU!!!! Weird. I can´t believe that i will see you in 2 weeks. i really can´t believe it. You are just going to love spain. Sunday was our branch conference and all the stake members came from Valencia. it was good cause i said hi to them and told them i will see them again sooN! And PALMA! Hermana Henderson is so excited to meet you. Oh, and by the way, if you have room, bring your haircutting sissors cause hermana Olson wants some hair trimmed and i offered your services, since nobody likes to get their hair cut in the salon here in spain cause all you end up with is a mullet. i hope that´s okay. you can be the haircutter :)
OH, on sunday we went searching for inactive members in Villajoyosa, the town next to our town, and we met the craziest couple ever. we knocked on the door and just heard this weird man screaming who is it? who is it? and when he saw us through the peephole he was like, oh, it´s just the missionaries. their house smelled like a dirty diaper or something but they were so sweet and they want to come to church next sunday. oh, did i tell you that i accompanied an entire choir on sunday (well, the branch choir!) in our special musical number and didn´t mess up at all? I sat down at the piano and just started freaking out cause there were so many people there! We are almost a WARD! with these 2 baptisms that they will have coming up, we will be even closer! New chapel, coming right up! I hope so. Love you more than the fact that i will see you in 2 weeks from today! yesterday i made 18 months. time has sure flown by. Holly mICHELLE
March 2
ONE WEEK! AHHHHH! KARINA IS STILL GOING STRONG. SHE IS SO EXCITED FOR HER BAPTISM AND I AM EXCITED FOR YOU TO MEET HER. IT IS GOING TO BE FUN. NEXT SUNDAY AFTER CHURCH WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BIG PICNIC IN THE CHURCH AND THEN JUST HEAD ON OVER TO ALICANTE RIGHT AFTER. GUADALEST WAS REALLY FUN AND ZONE CONFERENCE WAS WEIRD CAUSE IT WAS THE LAST ONE. REALLY GOOD. GAVE ME THE STRENGTH TO ENDURE TO THE END. LINA CAME TO CHURCH AGAIN! WE ARE GOING TO INVITE HER TO BE BAPTISED THIS WEEK... MAYBE FOR THE END OF MARCH. I CAN´T BELIEVE IT.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN! OH MAN. VAYA. WE EVEN HAVE A CAR? 30 EUROS TO RENT A CAR FOR 3 DAYS? THAT´S INSANE! I THOUGHT IT WOULD FOR SURE BE MORE EXPENSIVE. OH MAN. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THE SPANISH DRIVING EXPERIENCE. THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING! HAHA. IT LOOKS AMAZING. I CAN´T BELIEVE THIS IS ALL HAPPENING! OH MAN. I CANNOT WAIT FOR PALMA. GET READY TO LIVE A DREAM MOM...
LOVE YOU SO MUCH. SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!
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