goooooOOOOOOO COUGARS!!!! RAW!

Hello my wonderful and beloved family and friends! I hope things are going well in Utah (and all over the rest of the world!). I have seen so many miracles in this past week and I absolutely love every minute of my mission! I am sure you are curious though about the title of my email... right? Well. Let me explain. First of all... school starts really soon and BYU is just the best school out there so I had to use that for the title! Good luck to all the cougars starting school soon! But second of all... WE GET TO GO TO A BYU BASKETBALL GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not really sure how it is all working quite yet. But we got an email from the ayudantes and since today is preparation day we get to go to the BYU vs. some team in Spain game! But the only catch is we have to bring recent converts and investigators. NO PROBLEMO! We have three coming with us tonight!! I am so so so so so so so excited!!!!!! We have to wear normal missionary clothes but we have a "dress code".... we all have to wear white and blue haha. I love it! It is only the Barcelona zone that gets to go to this game tonight!! How lucky is that?? I feel very blessed to be here in this zone right now :) I can´t wait! I will send pictures later this week! 

This past week I have been kinda sick and so has Hermana Lee. BUT we haven´t had a single day in piso yet because we are not going to stop working when we are here on the Lord´s errand!! This is HIS time and not ours... just like Elder Holland has told us... "we have to run the race now and we can rest later"! I love that! I have learned from this past week how important it is to just push through pain and sickness and work hard because we truly are here to do the Lord´s work. Even when we don´t necessarily feel up to it, this is His work and I want the Lord to know that He can always count on me to do it :) I challenge all of you to do something hard this week for your Heavenly Father and Savior... whether it is giving something up in your life for something better, sacrificing your time to serve someone - driving car pools for your dear mama when you really don´t have time, doing the dishes at 1am for mom and dad, stopping to help a friend who had a bad day... whatever it is. Do something out of the ordinary that maybe might be hard for you or you don´t have time for!

Hermana Fernandez is the new sister in our piso who is companions with Hermana Wiseman. She is seriously the cutest thing on planet earth!!! I love her so much! She is from Madrid... a true Spaniard! But speaks perfect English too! We all speak spanish all the time which is fun! I hope my spanish will get better in this next transfer! PS. How crazy is it that time goes by so fast! I only have 5 more weeks with Hermana Lee!! AHHH!!!! 

We had 7 girls in our piso last Tuesday!!! HERMANA PARTY IN BARÇ! It was so much fun!!! So here is what happened... we had transfers and Hermana Lee and I stayed the same. Hermana Wiseman got Hermana Fernandez to come. And then Hermana Lee and I went to the office to pick up Hermana Plant... she was a brand new sister who came in this transfer and we got to take her out for the night and she slept over at our piso so we could give her a little taste of the mission. (I whipped up some taco soup in five minutes for her and made her chocolate chip cookies. Apparently none of the other new Hermanas get treated like that is what Hermana Lee said! She said Hermana Plant was very lucky! Thanks mom for teaching me how to take care of people haha). Anyways, when we got back to the piso on Tuesday night we found Hermana Een and her new companion sitting with ALL of their luggage outside our door! They had gotten purses and passports and wallets stolen AND missed their train to Bilbao! WHOOPS! Soooo they ended up staying two nights in Barç with us. It was so much fun though! I love those sisters so much!! 

Adriane and Jaqueline are two of our new investigators! They are 17 and 15 and we are helping them learn english for school but we are also teaching them the gospel. They LOVE learning about the gospel and read the Book of Mormon every night. Both of their families seem interested in the church as well! I love when we find families... it is such a huge miracle because this gospel is centered on Jesus Christ and families! It is wonderful! Jaqueline and Adriane keep asking if I miss my family and siblings... OF COURSE I DO!!! But then they always end by saying that they can be my sisters and they will take me shopping and to get ice cream! haha I just love them so much!! I love how the members and investigators here truly do become family! 

AUDREY!!!! Does everyone remember Audrey from last week´s email?? She is SO SO SO SO SO prepared!! WOW!!! I can´t even believe it! We had a lesson with her last Tuesday and she walked in and pulled out all of the pamphlets that the church has and her Book of Mormon and said, "so what else do I need to know before I can get baptized??" We just looked at her with wide eyes and tried to figure out if this was all really happening! We had a kneeling prayer with her and she cried afterwards and then we talked all about her baptism and the things she already knows about the church and her questions. She said she really wanted obispo to baptize her and right then obispo walked in the door! How perfect!! We talked to him about her baptism and scheduled it for August 28th... THIS FRIDAY!!!! I am so excited!! Another baptism! I honestly find the greatest joy in helping others to come to the waters of baptism and make special covenants with their Heavenly Father and then on to the temple to continue on this incredible path back home. It really is an amazing work! I will send pictures and tell stories about Audrey´s baptism next week! 

On Saturday after clases de ingles and a lesson with investigators... I taught Jessica (Alex´s sister) piano!!! Hermana Lee and I both play the piano so it is perfect. Alex had questions about the Book of Mormon though so Hermana Lee and Alex sat next to the piano and read from the Book of Mormon while I taught Jessica piano. Then we all shared our testimonies together after the piano lesson. I LOVED IT!!! I have missed teaching piano so much and I didn´t realize it until I had an actual lesson with someone. I will definitely be teaching piano when I get home next year! It is a little different to teach piano in Spanish but it is still just as fun (and funny as I stuggle to figure out piano terms in spanish haha). 

I have a miracle story to share about the importance of following promptings from the Spirit. On Saturday we had about 45 minutes before a lesson with a less active member. We were just going to pass by and see if we could visit with her a little earlier, but then I had the strongest prompting that we needed to pass by Elana´s house. We met Elana in the street the other day and prayed with her. She is from Chile but lives here now with her husband and teenage son who has Autism (I don´t know how to spell that). We went to the address she gave to us but it didn´t end up existing. We tried calling multiple times but nobody answered. We called one more time and a man answered the phone... her husband Eduardo. I talked to him for about 5 minutes in Spanish about when we could pass by on another day and then he started speaking English to me (miracle #1). We talked for about another five minutes and then he said, "what church are you from again??" I told Him "the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints" and he said, "OH yeah!! You know... in 1987... a long long time ago... I was a member of your church. But I haven´t been for a long time. But I think I would like to come again". WOW! We invited him to church the next day with his wife and his son as well! It was such a powerful moment and I realized how important it was that we followed the prompting I had received to go pass by their house even though we didn´t have the right address! It truly was a miracle! Then right after we talked to him we walked a different way than we usually would because we were in a different area and we ran into another Eduardo and his cute pregnant wife, Mirta and their daughter Melony! They are so prepared and we had not been able to reach them on the phone for the past few days but they said they would come to church and they want to have us over next week to their house! Honestly there are so many little and powerful miracles like this everyday here in our area! I love it so much!!! Heavenly Father truly is guiding this work. It is just like Grandpa Eyring always says, "There are no accidents, there are no coincidences. Heavenly Father runs our lives and this church in detail and in advance". I love that and it is so very true... especially in missionary work! 

I want to close with a scripture in Matthew 16:21-23. (everyone go read it). The Savior told his disciples what was going to happen to Him and Peter was only saying no because He didn´t want His master and one of his best friends to have to go through any such thing. Yet then Christ gets a little upset at Peter and says "get thee behind me satan thou art an offense unto me: for thouu savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men". WOW. How powerful. Peter was only saying that he would try to save Christ´s life. Yet Christ knew that it was the will of God and He was not going to let ANYONE stand in between Him and doing the will of His father in Heaven. I'm sure the Savior didn´t want to have to go through so much suffering. But He did it because He loves us and because he gave everything to our Heavenly Father. If we truly want to become disciples of our Savior Jesus Christ we will choose to give everything - 100% to Him and our Heavenly Father and not let ANYTHING or ANYONE get in the way of doing their will. I know that as we do this it will be really really hard and we will have to go through things and do things that we don´t necessarily want to... but it will ALWAYS be worth it in the end and "God shall exalt thee on High". Comparto estas cosas en el nombre de JesuCristo, Amén. 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring 

Random

1. Everyone tells me I look like I am from England or Germany 

2. yesterday we had a fireside with Presidente y Hermana Dayton and I played the piano for the opening song and I didn´t hear the page number right and neither did Hermana Lee. So we went through a whole first verse of her just singing and me playing and everyone else looking SO confused. Finally someone told us and we all laughed so hard. WHOOPS! I should practice my numbers in Spanish probably. 

3. soooo I broke the word of wisdom. haha I drank tea!! COMPLETELY on accident and I had no idea until after the fact! I repented don´t worry! 

Love you all! 

Best Preparation Day - BYU basketball game

The new transfer - In our piso with Hermana Fernandez

Making cupcakes with Susana and Jala

Cute Jala

Ice cream with Gabriella, Gloria and Crystal

Brazilian dinner with Alex, Adriane, and Jacqueline

My First Transfer Day!

HOLA DE BARÇELONA!!

How is everyone doing this fabulous week?? I hope everyone is happy and having a fantastic last few weeks of summer! I can´t believe it is almost over! I will forever feel like it is May 26th because that is the day I got here! But somehow it is the middle of August! Next week I will have been here in Spain for 3 whole months! AHHH! Time definitely needs to slow down!

It's my first day of TRANSFERS! That means I've been in Barcelona 6 weeks already! I didn´t get transferred because I have one more of training with Hermana Lee and then she will probably leave after this one and I will stay here. BUT you never know! We had an unexpected thing in our piso... Hermana Een is now going to Bilbao to be a sister training leader AND to WHITEWASH!!!! She is a little scared but she will do great! Hermana Wiseman... is staying here.... THANK HEAVENS!!! I am pretty sure it was a blessing right from heavenly Father! He knew I needed her for at least one more transfer!! Hermana Wiseman´s new companion is Hermana Fernandez from Madrid. She is so cute!! I can´t wait to spend more time with her!! We went to the train station today and saw all of the missionaries getting transferred and all the ones going home! I saw Elder Slauson one last time... Derek and Emily...He is super excited to come see you :)

So last week we had intercambios (exchanges) again like always and I was companions with Hermana Wiseman! I love that girl! We saw so many miracles when we were together! Jen... (one investigator from the Philipines) is incredible! She has three kids with autism and her husband left them. She is literally super mom and reminds me so much of my sweet mom. She never thinks about herself and just wants to help her kids be good. It is hard to teach her sometimes because her kids are always screaming and literally bouncing off the walls and drawing all over the walls and floors, but I love it because it makes me feel right at home. She is having a hard time progressing because she literally has no time so we haven´t been able to visit her as much. But when we do have time to visit her she LOVES hearing about the gospel and always cries when we bear our testimonies or pray. She is incredible. It makes me realize how lucky I am to have such an amazing family and to have the gospel at the center of our home. Jen has to wake up every morning to these 3 kids who scream and do crazy things all day. But she is so patient with them and just loves them! She has a tiny little apartment and she doesn´t have any money but she is trying to be happy and just raise her kids everyday. We are so blessed to have the gospel in our lives!!! It makes me realize that not a single day I have should ever be "hard" for me! If Jen can do what she does everyday for the past 10 years then I can do any hard thing that comes my way... especially since I have the knowledge of the gospel. Don´t forget how lucky and blessed we are to have the gospel!! Try really hard this week not to complain about anything and if you find yourself complaining think about the blessings you have in your life and then look for someone to serve!! 

Hermana Lee and I had an activity for the mujeres jóvenes (young women) last week and it was AMAZING!!! The theme was "share your light". We did lots of fun activities in our pjs and then played games and we all DIED laughing with each other! We had different object lessons about light and then had a testimony meeting together! Then we walked them downstairs where we had set up a TV and popcorn and cookies and candy and christmas lights and blankets and they all watched Tangled together since that is about light (kind of sort of haha it was more of a bonding and uniting experience). Hermana Lee and I obviously couldn´t watch it so we went to coordination :) But the girls absolutely LOVED it!! It was so fun and I really think it helped them to get excited about loving each other and sharing their light especially with their friends who we can teach! 

We had our first district meeting last week with our HUGE district and it was SO fun!! Elder Maurer, from Australia, is our district leader and he is AMAZING!! Dad, he reminds me a lot of you. He comes up with these incredible ways to teach us where we all just look at him and listen to what he has to say and he immediately captures our attention because it is so interesting and fun and spiritual and uplifting all at once!! I love it!! He truly is inspired and such a great leader!! Last week we learned all about the role of the Holy Ghost in conversion and how the Holy Ghost plays the most important role in working with us, members AND investigators. After transfers today we now have 3 new missionaries in our district and I am so excited to get to know them! 

Alex got the priesthood this past Sunday and He was so excited!!! He told us later that day that he was so excited before church that he punched the wall and he accidentally made a big hole in it. hahaha. He is so funny! He wants to be a missionary so so bad! He calls us everyday to tell us about the people he talked to or prayed with on the streets. He says whenever he sees someone crying he always goes to talk to them to see if he can help them! So cute! And he invites everyone he talks to to clases de ingles and also to church. What a great missionary!! We gave him lots of tarjetas and also a predicad mi evangelio. He reads it all the time and wants to start doing practicas with us so he is ready to be a missionary in a year! I love it!! Too bad this was my first baptism because now after this I don´t know if every recent convert is this dedicated to the work and the church. BUT you never know. I will do my best to help them all be this dedicated! Alex´s family is now letting us teach them in his home. Jessica, his sister who is my age said the closing prayer the other night and I loved it!! We are also teaching His cousin and Aunt and they are ready to be baptized within this next month! I am so happy for them! Alex tells us at least twice a day how he can´t wait to baptize his whole family since he has the priesthood now! I love it! Definitely a huge miracle from Heaven! Oh also... He called us the other night and told us he was sick but that he was just sitting on the couch and watching conference talks! We had never even told him about conference. He said, "oh I am just watching President Monson and Hermana Eyring´s grandpa talk about how to be a good missionary because I want to be the best missionary I can be". AWWWW! That just melts your heart, huh?? 

AUDREY!!!!! She is our newest investigator! (I'm sorry I don´t tell you about all of them! There are just way too many and there isn´t enough time to type all about them each week!!! But just know this area is SO SO blessed!!). Anyways, Audrey is incredible! I loved her from the very start because her name is Audrey! I think I started crying when she told me her name ;) I sure do miss you Auds! It is fun to teach her and call her by name and think of you! Anyways, she came to church last Sunday and it was the first time we had seen her. We asked her if she was a member and she said "no". I sat by her in RS and she told me that it was her 2nd day in Barcelona but she had visited before and remembered loving the church and wanted to come back. She came four times when she visited last april and took lessons from the Elders here. Then she went two times while she was living in Brazil and now she is back here to actually live here! She looked at us and said, "I would really like to be baptized". Oh, really? Ok... I think we can help you with that!! haha. We are going to visit her tonight and I am so so so excited!!!!!!! 

We also are going to visit another one of our investigators tonight... Yahaira! She is pregnant and due in october and wants to get baptized SO bad! I am really excited for her!! She is just the sweetest ever!!! 

We have 14 baptisms scheduled for the next month! I am so excited for all of them!!!! Please pray for these sweet people here from all over the world who are preparing to enter into the waters of baptism and make and keep covenants with their Heavenly Father and start back on their pathway home to him! I will keep you updated with them! 

I wanted to share one scripture to close... John 14:31 "But that [Spain] may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me [this mission], even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." I love this scripture. I think Hermana Smalley shared it with me in the CCM... where she changed it to "Spain" and "this mission". It really helps me to put things in perspective and it is my testimony of a mission! I am here in Spain because I love my Heavenly Father and Savior and I want to help them in any possible way I can to bring their children back home to them. I know that this church is true. I am so grateful and blessed to have it in my life! I know that my Savior, Jesus Christ, atoned for me and each one of us and through Him we can change and be better every single day. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and just like Joseph Smith said... we can draw nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than any other book. I know this is true. I hope you will all take the time everyday to read from it and strengthen your testimony and then share that testimony with others around you! It will bless your life and theirs as well! In the name of Jesus christ, Amen. 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring 

random and funny things:

1. There are SO many mosi´s (mosquitos) here - we are itching all day long!! 

2. We basically eat ice cream everyday! But this transfer we are going to be healthy! I already said no to someone who tried to give me ice cream the other day! I was very proud of myself :) Lynds is not going to like me for this one haha. One day you´ll have to come to spain and eat all of this amazing ice cream. You´ll love it! 

3. They only teach Catalan and English here in Barcelona Schools. I find that so funny but these Catalan people really don´t like the Spaniards and I find it quite hilarious. 

4. They are changing our church to have sacrament meeting first at 9!!!! AHHH we won´t ever have investigators at church on time haha. 

5. I have a problem. I can´t do stairs. I have fallen down the stairs I think 3 times now this week! One time was in the metro and those are A TON of stairs! haha it was quite a funny sight I am sure. I have a HUGE bruise all down my leg now and I can´t really sit down. Good times good times :)

Ok love you all!

Our investigator, Jacqueline - Alex's cousin!

My amazing district

Cutest family - Maryann and Damion and their baby Axel

Dinner at the bishops house with Ines and Lisset

Gabriella (a recent convert) and Kimberly who leaves
for her mission on Wednesday

On a hike with the Young Single Adults

Beautiful view of the city

Our bishop and his wife Angela - I sure love them!

"Media Dia" at a Mexican Restaurant

Bolivian Dinner with Alex and his sister Jessica

When there's a will, there's a way!

Querida familia y mis amigos,

This week was absolutely incredible and flew by so fast that I am not quite sure where the time went! We had specialized training last Tuesday and it was incredible! The spirit was so strong and I learned so much from other missionaries and from President Dayton. Hermana Dayton had to leave to Utah for family things so she couldn´t be there, but we have zone conference on September 4th and she will come to that. Anyways, there were so many wonderful principles and doctrines of the gospel that we talked about, but one of the main things I learned was how to better listen... As missionaries (and in life in general) it is so important that we take time to listen. We must listen to the spirit and also to our investigators, friends, parents, family, etc. People want and need to be heard. It was a very powerful lesson taught by our Ayudantes, Elder Dunn y Elder Skousen and also by Presidente Dayton. Hermana Lee and I decided to put what we learned right into action as we went to a lesson with one of our new investigators... Charlotte. She is amazing and so prepared to hear the gospel!! I love her! We were planning on teaching lesson one all about the restoration, but we ended up listening to her talk all about her life for about 30 minutes and then we did the first lesson in about 20 minutes because that was exactly what she needed. And the reason she accepted our message and set a meta for her baptism for Sept. 5th is because we listened to her talk about things in her life and then applied her life to the lesson and really taught according to her needs. LISTENING really does work!! I love it! Try harder this week to listen to the promptings of the spirit and listen to the people who need to talk to you! Sometimes it is hard, but it helps us to think less of ourselves and more of other people.

Charlotte and Raquel

This past Friday we saw SO many miracles!! I feel so incredibly blessed to be here on a mission helping so many people come unto Christ and enter into the waters of baptism so they can continue on the path home to their Heavenly Father. It is an amazing work and I am so blessed that the Lord has trusted me with a part of His vineyard to help build up. First on Friday, Hermana Lee and I went to visit Rubi. She is a 19 year old girl in our ward and is leaving on her mission next week. We thought we were going over to help her pack, but when we got there she said she just wanted to study PMG with us because she has never read it before. It was an amazing hour with her and I learned so much. We went over the how to begin teaching points and lesson 1 and Rubi and I taught Hermana Lee the first lesson together. I loved it! I loved helping her!! Missions are incredible and I can´t wait for her to get out into the field in Argentina. 

Rubi leaves on her mission to Argentina on Wednesday.

After an eating cita with members, we had about 30 minutes before we had to meet Alex to practice for his baptism! We could have just sat and done language study since we didn´t have another time to do it, but instead we both felt prompted to start talking to people. Sooo of course we did. We met Patricia who was SO prepared and we have an appointment with her next week and she wants to meet one of the members in our ward who lives in her building! Then we met Maria and she just sat and cried to us about how much she misses her kids in El Salvador. She showed us pictures and everything and after we prayed with her we set up an appointment with her too. She is so sweet and I am excited to teach her. 

We took Alex to the church for his interview with Elder Maurer (our district leader) and afterwards he couldn´t stop smiling because he was so happy and excited for his baptism!

Hermana Ines (my best friend in the ward who is a few years older than me and just got home from her mission and speaks english) came with us to a few lessons on Friday night. They were all INCREDIBLE!!!! The first one was with Rafaél and his family. We thought it was just him, his wife and his daughter... but when we showed up at their house we realized we were very wrong! They are a family of 8 from the Dominican Republic!!! It was our first lesson with them and they had food all set out for us and when we walked in they all sat on the couch and turned off the TV and looked at us and with enthusiasm said, "so... what are you going to teach us??" (in spanish of course). Wow!!! We taught them all about the restoration and they loved it and they all want to be baptized! We set a goal for their family to be baptized on September 12th... I´ll let you know how that goes! I can´t wait!!! We also met another family in the street. Hermana Lee pretended to know them and then we got talking and they ended up asking us if we could somehow possibly stop by their house to share more about our church because they have been searching for a church to join!!!! hmmm... I think we could make that work :) They had a little 4 year old boy who I played with - we were sword fighting with a balloon haha. I just love all the little kids here so much!! They have such a sweet spirit about them and it is incredible to me!! 

Having lunch with Hermana Lisset and Ines before the baptism

We also met Candy and she is excited to be taught the gospel and we prayed with her! And we had a lesson with Gloria and Manuel (two other investigators... a mom and son) and they had a friend there with them who also wants to learn about the church!!! WOW! Miracles everyday and every minute!! This was only ONE DAY too... honestly... if I told you about the miracles from the whole week I think I would be here for the rest of my mission. The Lord truly prepares his people to hear the Gospel!

Ok, ok, ok. Now the moment you have all been waiting for!! ALEX´S BAPTISM!!!!!!!!! This was my first baptism here on my mission. I have been to 3 other ones but this was MY real first baptism!! It was such a beautiful day!! I definitely won´t do it justice trying to explain it all... but I sure can try. Hermana Lee and I got everything ready in the morning and throughout the day... ironing clothes for him, filling up the font, cleaning the church, making Korean food and cookies for afterwards, making the program, practicing musical numbers, etc. It was such a busy morning but so wonderful too. Alex´s family has been telling him for the past few weeks that they weren´t going to come but then he texted us 30 min before his baptism and said, "I have a surprise for you". And he showed up at the church with his whole family!!!!!!!!!! They were a little nervous to be there at first because they thought we would try to convert them haha. But once they found out we were nice and normal (ish) people they calmed down a bit. His mom actually started crying during it. The spirit was SO SO SO strong during the whole entire service. Hermana Lee and I had to walk out at one point because she was crying so hard! It was so amazing! She told me that it was the most spiritual baptism she had ever been to on her mission (and she has been to over 20). There was so much support from the ward that I couldn´t even believe it!! We did a musical number with all the missionaries and then another one with me, Ines and Hermana Lee (come unto christ). It was amazing! Alex cried during both of them and usually he never cries! While Alex was changing after the actual baptism (which by the way had to be done twice because Alex is a pretty big guy and Limber is a pretty small guy haha) Hermana Lee and I had prepared a book for him... everyone wrote a note in it for him and testimony and welcome to the ward and then we gave it to him along with a triple set of scriptures with mine and Hermana Lee´s testimonies in it. He loved it and carries it around now wherever he goes and reads it whenever he can!! Honestly it was such a special day for all of us. I am so so happy for Alex. He kept telling us over and over and over again how happy he was. Then last night we went to visit him to see how he felt after being confirmed and he just looked at us and with tears in his eyes (but a smile on his face) said, "I want to say thank you. I don´t know if we will see each other after your missions. But I know I wouldn´t be here without you two. Thank you for sharing this message with me. I am going to go to the church for the rest of my life. I want you to know that I will never leave! Also, you know what... remember how people were standing up and talking all about Jesus today in church? I hope one day I can be that person too and stand up and talk about Jesus to people. And everyday right now I am preparing for my mission. Even today in the metro on my way to church... I talked to the people about the ¨mormon book¨ and the Bible. I want to serve a mission RIGHT NOW! But I will wait patiently until next year and keep doing whatever God needs me to". WOW. He is such a good example to me and Hermana Lee and all of us! I am so grateful I had this opportunity to teach Him and learn how to become a better disciple of Jesus Christ. 

Alex with his favorite picture of the Savior

Surprise! Alex's Mom, Dad and Sister came to his baptism

What a special day!

We fasted and prayed for Alex and his family and received a miracle as they were all there to be part of this memorable day!

I know that this is the true church. I know that it has changed my life and continues to do so everyday! A challenge for this week is to try your hardest to share the gospel with someone because just like Alex said... it will change their whole entire life!!! I promise you it will... even if it is scary, it is so worth it! I know that as we truly strive to be humble and obedient disciples of Jesus Christ that we will see Milagros cada día! En El nombre de Jesucristo, Amén. 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring :) 

Random things:

1. I almost got pick pocketed by someone this week! Haha. Their hand was in my bag on my wallet but I caught them in time and my first instinct was just to take my finger nail and stab them! AHHH. What was I thinking?? Whoops! But it got them out of my bag... so I guess that´s good? EEK! 

2. We caught one of the cockroaches and gave it to the Elders! It was so funny! I was so scared to do it... but the mission is helping me overcome all fears :) 

3. We eat homemade popcorn every week for weekly planning! I love it! Traditions! 

4. I talk on the phone in spanish to people now everyday!!!!! AHH! It´s kind of nerve racking but I love it! 

5. Thank you Brother and Sister Call (in my ward) for my letter in the mail this week! 

6. I have had some weird bite on my head for awhile and it is finally starting to go away... but EVERYONE has asked me... "are you from India or something??" because it is right in the middle of my forehead. haha. good times! 

Love you all! Let me know if there is anything I can do for you!! 

Noche de Hogar with our ward family

We love being companions!

Our awesome investigator, Gloria!

Alejandra - an adorable member of the ward!

Me and Hermana Een ready for the day and matching!

We weeded in a menos activos garden with our whole district and then had 
lunch with them! It was so so much fun!! I worked so hard and I am grateful 
for such amazing parents who taught me the principle of hard work! 

Last Preparation Day with our District - transfers are next week!

Lunch with Shim at my favorite restaurant in Spain - "Tasta la salseria del grill"

Gifts from Italy 

Jala, Susanna and Eduardo went to Italy and brought us back
these adorable hats!

Obedience brings blessings... EXACT obedience brings MILAGROS!

It is incredible how much love I have for these people in this area of Barcelona and I have only been here for 4 weeks! Sometimes it is hard to turn outwards because a mission is physically and spiritually and mentally and emotionally draining! But it is also so easy to do on a mission because so many people need our help and I know I am specifically in this area to help specific people! Fast Sunday yesterday was amazing!!! EVERYONE in Spain starts their fast Saturday during Medio Dia and ends it Sunday Medio Dia... no questions asked! We even had a cita Saturday night and the family cancelled it because it was fast Sunday the next day and you NEVER eat after 2pm on Saturdays before fast Sunday NO MATTER WHAT! haha. It was kind of funny! I love the culture here! Anyways, fast Sunday on the mission is always amazing because we always find miracles through fasting! For example... Alex is about to get baptized this coming Saturday but he has had so many temptations and reasons why he shouldn´t be baptized (just like most people go through). The miracle though was that even after talking with his friends and family all about reasons why he shouldn´t get baptized, he came to us and told us he promises that he will still get baptized! It was incredible!!! Fasting is so powerful and really works... especially when you are fasting for other people. 

Speaking of Alex... HE IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!! I have been to 3 baptisms since I got here for other missionaries, but this is MY first baptism for MY investigator! I probably shouldn´t say that it is "mine"... it is completely Heavenly Father´s and I am just the instrument. But I am so excited to go to His baptism and watch Him become clean and a member of the church and know that I was able to play a small role in helping one of Heavenly Father´s children start on the path back to him! He is already thinking about serving His mission next year and He wants to go to the temple as soon as he can! He is so prepared I can´t even believe it!! I love all the things he says...the best "Alex quotes" of the week were... 

1. "I like to do everything that makes me better. So if that means I need to not eat chicken for 24 hours to do this fast then I will do it! I really love chicken so it will be really hard. But I will do it."

2." I felt like a lot of things were on my back before I started talking about the church but now they are being lifted off! "

3. "Life is like a book... and this book is beautiful!"

So the title of the email this week is basically that exact obedience brings milagros... or miracles. And it is so true! We talked a lot about this in Zone Enfoque this past week (which we have every month and I LOVE IT!). One of the "rules" of the Barcelona mission is to always contact the first person you see. Hermana Lee and I have been really good at this, but sometimes I forget. But this week we did it everytime we left the house and that is how we found Eusevio from Cuba who speaks perfect english and is SO excited to learn about the gospel!! We didn´t even teach him anything and he said, "what is this book you are holding? How can I get a copy of it and learn more about it? I would love to learn more about what you believe!" He is so golden! Then we met José. He is also so prepared! He told us to come over to his house anytime because He wants to learn more about the Gospel! I can´t wait to teach him. He is from Mexico and also speaks perfect english. Exact obedience Brings MILAGROS... SIEMPRE!!! 

Susana and Eduardo and Jala are also a wonderful milagro. They are the cute family that I have sent pictures of. They have lived all over the world but they said right now their dream is to live in Utah. They want Jala (their 14 year old daughter) to grow up with more member friends because here her mom and dad are her best friends. They are such a sweet family. I am so grateful that they were placed in this barrio (it isn´t their original boundaries for their piso but somehow they are in our barrio). And I am so so grateful they are because I feel like Hermana Lee and I can really help Jala love missionary work and feel like she has friends and a testimony and a place here in Spain! She is such a sweetheart and example to me!! I love working with the members! 

I am so grateful for the wonderful work here in spain! We have so many progressing investigators and I love teaching all of them! Whenever I am feeling a little down or tired and then we go into teach a lesson... I ALWAYS come out feeling like I am on top of the world! The gospel really does heal people... just Like Alex taught us last week!! 

I love you all and I am so grateful for all of your examples to me! Keep sharing your testimonies with everyone around you! The Lord needs each and every one of us in this missionary work around the world!! 

My favorite scripture this week: Isaiah 41:10

Love, 

Hermana Eyring 

Random/funny:

1. They call me kangaroo because they think I just hop around helping people like a mama kangaroo.

2. I need games for Noche de Hogar!!! Everyone send me your ideas please!!! (ones that relate to gospel principles and then just fun games. I will have to send you a video next week of me eating flour because I lost the game last week. Super funny) 

3. One of our JAS (YSA) gave us a HUGE packing box filled with packets of mayonnaise and now Hermana Lee casually gives it to people when we go over for lessons. hahaha I laughed so hard! 

4. Ines is probably my best friend in the ward! She is a returned missionary of about 3 months and we are just best friends! I love talking to her and taking her to lessons with us! She is the greatest!!! 

5. Future missionaries... BRING FLIP FLOPS!!! Elderes white ones for when you baptize people and Hermanas for the piso because it is always dirty!

6. There are SO many different people here from SO many different countries! I think I have met someone from every place in the world besides Antarctica! They are all so nice and I love it! It is fun to eat food from all over the world too when we have eating citas! 

7. Esther and Pedro are my abuelos here! They are members and the sweetest! They are helping us with Lydia and Juan (two other "abuelos" who are our investigators). They all talk SO SO SO much though that basically Hermana Lee and I decided that next time we are bringing popcorn to the lesson to keep their mouths full because we literally try to say something about every 30 seconds but we can´t because the 4 cute old people NEVER stop talking! So Hermana Lee and I just sit and watch and laugh at the whole situation! But Lydia and Juan are so great and so prepared and love talking to Esther and Pedro about the gospel! We are so blessed to have such great missionary members here! 

8. We had such an incredible baptism from the Elderes in our new district (we had emergency transfers this past week so now we have a big district and I LOVE IT). You could almost touch the spirit because it was so strong in the room. Our district did a musical number that we literally threw together in 2 seconds but everyone was bawling through it so that was good! 

9. Tomorrow is SPECIALIZED TRAINING with President and Sister Dayton and our zone and Badalona zone!!! I can´t wait!!!! Hermana Een and I are doing the musical number! AHH! Wish us luck! I will send a recording of it! 

10. Hermana Wiseman and Hermana Een are the two other sisters in our piso and I LOVE them to death!!!!! Hermana Wiseman and I are so much alike! And Hermana Een is a combination of Lyndsee Anderson and Becca Slater and Ashley Eyring - three of my favorite people combined in one!

Hermana Susana, Hermano Eduardo and their daughter Jala -
they feed us the best food ever!!!

Susana's yummy cooking

The cockroach we found in the kitchen sink - Brave Hermana Een smashed it in half!

At the wedding in our ward

Ice cream with Hermana Susanna and Jala - they are helping us with our investigators!

Hermana Lee teaching the Relief Society Sisters to make Sushi!

The ward sisters ready to assemble sushi...Thanks Hermana Lee!

Preparation Day at Familia Sagrada - it was free day for Religious Groups