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!
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| Best Preparation Day - BYU basketball game |
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| The new transfer - In our piso with Hermana Fernandez |
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| Making cupcakes with Susana and Jala |
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| Cute Jala |
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| Ice cream with Gabriella, Gloria and Crystal |
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| Brazilian dinner with Alex, Adriane, and Jacqueline |
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