Llamado a Servir en España: 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!