This week has been quite an interesting week. Im not sure if i can explain how .. but it just seemed like everything was a bit off. but its just another trial and we decided that it was satan who is scared of our killer companionship so he is trying everything to throw us off our game. but its not working. not even with hna benson being sick.. she is a trooper. I really really like her. We just clicked from last transfers intercambio and its a huge blessing to now be companions.I will send a picture of us next week. Then you will be able to see her. she is tall, like six foot and blonde, were look very opposite but our personalities are pretty similar. we get along super well.
We are still working with Jose luis and Sussi. they are WONDERFUL.II dont know if i explained who they are.. i feel like I would have. but sussi is member who has been inactive for a very long time, 10 years. but now she has met jose luis and wants to marry him but off course she has never been able to deny the church and she knows its true. so she has shared all her knowledge about the church with him and now he wants to be baptized. they found the church and have been coming now every sunday. They are an artsy and interesting couple but they have the biggest desire to learn and progress in the gospel. they are just waiting for her papers so they can be married. But the other day for our second visit of the week, jose luis pulled out a paper where he had summed up the main points of the lesson we had earlier that week. apparently he wanted to remember it and wrote it out after we left. how incredible! He is going to be a super strong member one day. He loves everyone and says hi to everyone at church who he knows. Its a bummer though that it takes super long to get married here in spain, especially if they are foreigners.
Talking about weddings there was a wedding on friday and there is going to be another this friday. They are older ladies in the church too. its so fun to see them find thier match and be happy and get married. In spain our church isnt recognized as a religion that can marry people, only the catholic church can so here the members have to get married civally first and then go to the temple as soon as they can right after to be sealed. Its amazing to see how the people here have to travel all the way to madrid to go to the temple. I have never appreciated living so close to the temple at home, than i do now. members have to pay 50 buck to go on a bus as a ward just to go the temple for one day and then come back the next day. and if not enough people sign up they cant afford to pay the bus so they have to cancel the temple trip.. its happened a few times now in different wards that ive been in. its so sad to see how dissapointed they are when they cant go to the temple after being so ready and willing to go. If anything , i want to encourage all of you who live in utah and do live right next to a temple to take advantage of it and go. I have not gotton "homesick" on my mission but i have gotten"temple-sick" haha. I am one of the very few in this mission who have had the opportunity to visit the temple, and what it did was make me miss it even more. so please, go to the temple, and help the lord with his work on the other side of the veil. we can be missionaries together:) if you go i would love to hear about it and your experience. I know every visit to the temple is a special visit to the lords house.
I love you all and am looking forward to hearing about your temple trips.
love, Hermana hair
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