"If He Had Made Me Better..."

My family and friends,  

I have learned a lot this week and continue to learn a lot everyday through this challenge with my hip! Last week my mom told me to start doing something she did when she was having a lot of arthritis pain last year. So I've been keeping a list called "if he had made me better..." and I have LOVED it! I write down all the wonderful things I would have missed out on "if Heavenly Father had made me better". It has helped me a lot to stay positive through this hard time and keep smiling even when I'm in pain. This week I wanted to share a few of the amazing blessings I've seen that I wouldn't have seen if he had made me better right away. 

Last Tuesday a few of my members from Tarragona (Sara, Alicia and her parents) drove all the way up to Barcelona just to go out to lunch with me! They know I love pizza so they took me to Boston pizza!! There couldn't have been any place more perfect! We had so much fun together and it was nice to take my mind off of the pain for a little while! I love them all so much and I am so grateful for such incredible members here who have been taking such good care of me! If He had made me better I would have missed this fun time to spend with these people I love! 

The Morejons (the senior couple in the office) have also been taking such good care of me! I feel like I am on a mission tour with Grandma and Grandpa Zwick because wherever they go... I go! They are basically my companions all day :) we have fun together and I love learning from them! They are so sweet to make me food every medio dia and cena. I love them so much! Every night when they drive me back to piso we do "happy moments" :) at first they thought I was crazy haha but now we love doing it together! If He had made me better I wouldn't have become such good friends with the Morejons. 

On Wednesday night we picked up President and Hermana Dayton from the train station and went to the world wide mission conference!! It was SOOO good!!! I got to see my sweet little trainee Hermana Carollo! I miss her and I miss working with her, but she is doing a really good job keeping the work going in Tarragona. The conference was incredible and I loved it. But it was also really hard to listen to knowing that the next day I would be back in bed and couldn't go out and apply all of the wonderful things I had learned to "teach repentance and baptize converts". We got back in the MAV (Mormon assault vehicle) haha and president asked me what my favorite part was and how I will apply it. I explained to him how I felt and he said, "ok, well I would like to hear 5 things that you are going to apply then" haha. I just laughed and started thinking. Then I realized the biggest one I could apply into my life right now is really striving to better understand the atonement for myself so that when I am better I can more easily teach it to investigators! I'm excited to be learning more about the atonement everyday... Especially through this problem with my hip. If He had made me better I would have missed this time to study the atonement and really apply it to my life. 

I had my interview with President this past week in the mission home and loved it!  But I had to try so hard not to cry. He shared with me DyC 122 and we talked about how all of this experience will be for my good. And he is very right! I know that as I keep being patient and doing everything I can with faith in my Heavenly Father and Savior that everything will work out for the best! If He had made me better I would not have had this special interview with president in the mission home. 

On Saturday I got to go to two baptisms!! I felt like a missionary again for a little bit! One of them was in my old Ward here in Barc so I got to see all of my members again!!!! It was so fun! Also Alex (my first baptism) was there!! I haven't seen him for so long!! And it was his birthday! He told me "wow... This is the most best birthday present in my whole life" haha :) he is doing really well and he now has a stake calling! I'm so happy for him! If he had made me better I wouldn't have been able to see all of my members and Alex on His birthday! 

If He had made me better I would never be able to say "I'm active again" haha :) I got to go to church today for the first time in two weeks!!!!!! I was one happy Hermana! I could only go to sacrament meeting, but it was better than nothing! I loved being in church again and having that special time to think during the sacrament about how I can be better! 

Hermana Stapley and O'neill came over to the Morejons for Sunday dinner with a member, Felicidad! Felicidad is incredible... her personality matches her name... Happiness! She has had a lot of hard times in her life but she is always smiling and always happy! We had pie for dessert and all 5 of us Americans LOADED the whipped cream on top and Felicidad looks at us and does a pity laugh and when we ask her if she wants some she goes, "oh no no no es mejor SIN nata" (it's better WITHOUT whipped cream) hahaa :) she makes me laugh. If He had made me better I would have missed this special dinner! 

Transfers are next week so I will be emailing on Tuesday! Hmmm... If he had made me better... I wouldn't know where I was being transferred? Haha does that work? I know I'll be staying here in the office ;) 

This next part is a quick update on what happened this week with the doctors and the final diagnosis... 

I went to the doctors again and they said it was a labral tear in my hip. It sounded logical to me because of all the pain I am in and not getting better. They said that I would need 2 surgeries. We sent the images of my MRI to Utah and California specialists again and on Sunday they came back with the final results. It isn't a labral tear but still a stress fracture. I still can't walk on it and have to use crutches and it will take a while to heal. I'm still in a lot of pain after 3 weeks of resting which isn't normal. President said we will see how it is doing in 7-10 days and if it isn't getting better I might have to go home to recover from this. My heart broke when I heard those words! So basically I am going to do everything I possibly can to get better. I will do whatever the Lord asks of me, but I really do hope that His plan and my plan are the same and I can stay here in Spain. I will let you know what happens next week! 

My last story for you all happened just barely today! We are starting the week off with a big BANG :) I was reading emails this morning and I got one from my sweet friend Lyndsee. This is what she said "even though this wasn't in your plan to serve this part of your mission this way, Heavenly Father knows that someone needs you to reach them through a different way.  So I'm excited to hear who you get to meet!" I read this and thought to myself, "oh my sweet Lyndsee... Thank you so much but you don't understand that I am lying on the bed and couch all day! Who am I going to possibly reach?!" Well Lyndsee was right... Right then the timbre (doorbell) rang in the office! A girl came in from the United States frantically looking for help! She started talking to the Morejons and I thought to myself, "they can take care of it... I can't even walk. I'll just stay here". Then the STRONGEST prompting came "get up and share the gospel with her! You're a missionary and she needs you! This is who Lyndsee was talking about!" Ok fine ;) I got up and went to talk to her on my crutches. We sat and talked for TWO HOURS!!! Her name is Caitlin and she is my new best friend! She has had A LOT of hard times in her life and is passing through a really hard trial right now. I laughed (in my head of course thinking, "ok Heavenly Father... I know you have a perfect plan") I testified to her that the gospel of Jesus Christ can help her! Then I read her an email my mom just barely sent to me (5 minutes prior). She cried and cried and I just hugged her while I told her that Heavenly Father knows us all and the trials that we face in this life will be for our good and give us experience. It was funny to me to be bearing testimony of what I personally needed to hear! But in that moment, I forgot all about my hip pain! I WAS A MISSIONARY AGAIN!!!! I shared the whole lesson on the restoration with her, challenged her to read the Book of Mormon and testified! The spirit was so strong and she loved all of it! AND on top of all of this I found out that she lives in my old area... So she will be in my old Ward!!! And Hermana Larsen will be teaching her! After we finished helping Caitlin and got her on her way (she promised to read the Book of Mormon and go to church) I called Obispo Arturo and Hermana Larsen and told them everything! They are so excited and ready to help her!! What an incredible miracle for me! I loved every moment that I spent with her! I KNOW that Heavenly Father has a perfect plan and that I was here in the office for Caitlin to bear testimony to her and help her find the gospel in her life! If He had made me better, Caitlin probably wouldn't have been able to have the first lesson or know the Bishop or Hermana Larsen! Heavenly Father sure does work in mysterious ways, but His ways are the best ways! 

I love the poem that President Monson used in a talk once...

"Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!”

         And he replied:

         “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.

          That shall be to you better than [a] light and safer than a known way.”

Right now I am kind of treading through the unknown, but I know that as I put my hand in His that He will lead me to a better light which is even safer than a known way... Lights like Caitlin that I can reach out and help! Heavenly Fathers plan doesn't always make sense to us, but it is always better than anything we could have ever planned for ourselves! I know that is true! I know that He loves each one of us and as we look for His hand each day in our lives, no matter how sad or scared or lonely or lost or in pain we might feel, we will ALWAYS be able to recognize it! He is constantly blessing us... Even in the challenges of life... Because we are His children and HE LOVES US! I know that is true and I bear my testimony of it in the name of Jesus Christ amen. 

I love you all! Thank you for all the prayers and fasting and letters and emails and packages! I am so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends! I can feel of your love everyday! I hope all is well! 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring 

So fun to see Hermana Larsen - we bought these matching coats
when we were companions but it was never cold enough to wear them.

A lunch date with my Tarragona Family - Sara, Alicia, Maria Rosa and Capi

Attending a Barcelona Baptism - so good to see Alex so
involved in living the gospel!

Medio Dia with Morejons and Felicidad

Rainbows follow rainstorms...

My dear incredible family and friends, 

I thought I would share a few feelings and thoughts from the past week with a little update on what the next part of my mission has in store. I am learning more and more everyday that Heavenly Father has a different plan than we do and it is His plan that we need to trust in. I went in on Tuesday, January 12th, to Barcelona to pick up my MRI results. Since I still am unable to walk, the Morejon's (senior couple) picked us up at the train station and drove us to the hospital. I picked up the results and we took them to President. He sent them to medical doctors in the United States and to a specialist in Germany. They reviewed them and while we were waiting, I lied on one of the beds in the mission office where the Morejon's brought us bocadillas and napolitanas :) President and Hermana Dayton came down and sat on the bed right next to me and told me what was going on. They told me they thought I had a small tear affecting my femur and the socket of my hip where they are joined together making it really painful to walk and sit. They told me that I would probably need to have surgery soon.  Hermana Carollo and I went back to Tarragona for two days and then President called again with both good and bad news. He told me that I wasn't going to need surgery after all!!! But, that I actually have a compression stress fracture and I can't put any weight on my leg for the next six weeks. He then told me I would be emergency transferred on Saturday to Barcelona and be staying with Hermana Stapely and O'neil in a threesome but coming into the mission office everyday to help with mission projects. (This week I will just be lying on one of the beds in the office though until I can sit up again and next week I will start helping President and Hermana Dayton with conferences and projects). Members from Tarragona came to say goodbye and helped me pack up my apartment to be ready to leave. Maria Rosa and Capi Berenguer spent their whole Saturday driving me up to Barcelona, taking me out to lunch and making sure I was ok. I am going to miss my ward so so so much!! They are amazing! It's been quite the roller coaster of emotions this week and for awhile I wasn't quite sure what to think of this whole situation and experience. Everyday I lie on the couch and just have time to think about everything and sometimes it gets a little discouraging and lonely. But then I checked my email this morning and found SO many comforting and uplifting emails from all of you with advice and your testimonies and concerns and I just broke down into tears! What an incredible miracle and blessing! THANK YOU!!!!! It has been a really lonely week and especially hard not being able to do any missionary work. But I am so so so grateful for each of you and the peace that came to my mind and heart as I read your emails this morning. Thank you again!! After all the tears this week, I am coming to recognize once again that Heavenly Father has a perfect plan. There is a reason behind all of this. I may not know that reason right now, but I will one day. And until that day I will just keep waiting patiently with a smile on my face. I know that our Heavenly Father loves us... Perfectly. And He knows us better than we know ourselves. So even though it is hard to lay here everyday instead of working in my beautiful country of Spain, I know that the Lord has a plan and this is a small part of it and I need to learn from it! I testify that our Savior understands everything we face in this life. I have felt Him here with me every step of this trial so far and as my Sweet Sister Patch would say, "this isn't a trial... It's just my school to learn more of the Lord's will". I know that all of our experiences are for our good and I know that as we face every moment of life with an eternal perspective we will be blessed far beyond comprehension. "I'll go where you want me to go dear Lord and I'll be what you want me to be". I know this church is true and as we have faith in the Lord and His plan and His timing then we will begin to see miracles! After the rainstorm comes the rainbow! But I also know that rainbows don't come when the sky is completely blue and sunny but when it's still gray and cloudy so I'm trying to find those rainbows with my skies still being a little gray right now. It's hard to even notice the gray sky when there's a beautiful rainbow to see. Thank you to everyone for being those "rainbows" for me as I try to see the good through all this.

Thank you all for your prayers - I feel them! I love you and hope you have a good week! 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring 

Last train ride back to Tarragona with Hermana Carollo - she is
staying in Tarragona with a new companion, Hermana Candles
from Honduras - they will be great together!

Sara and Maria Rosa came to visit

Treats from sweet Maria Rosa

Goodbye to Marta and Carmen Garcia Campos

Goodbye Carlos and Gabriella Gomez

Goodbye Maribel

Goodbye Tami

Blessings in Disguise

Dear family and friends, 

This week was definitely extremely different from any other week I have had on my mission. However, I have learned a whole montón (a lot) and have come to find blessings through all of the challenges. Last Tuesday I went in to Barcelona for an MRI on my hip. I didn't think anything of it because I have gotten MRI's before my mission and nothing ever happened because of them. The first little blessing was that I got to be with MELANY while we were in the hospital!! She is the absolute sweetest and woke up early and traveled to the hospital just to sit there and be with me while I went through this. I was so nervous but Melany was there with me to play the role of my mom for the day which was a huge blessing :) Heavenly Father truly places people in our lives to act as Angels... Especially as we are going through hard times. Sweet Melany is one of those angels for me. 

I went in by myself (which was really strange because I haven't been without a companion for the last 8 months) and the doctors were all very very nice. They first had to give me a hip injection which I didn't think would be that bad. I was wrong. It was pretty bad! There was a huge needle sticking out of my hip for about 10 minutes and it was HORRIBLE! But it's all ok now because it's all over and I'm still alive so no worries :) then I went in to have the MRI for about an hour. The nurse who was helping me was so nice and helped me walk all around the hospital since it was a little hard to do so alone. That was the second little miracle... She said she has a daughter who has 18 years and so she knows how I must feel in a different country away from my family. It was so sweet! After the MRI the doctor told me I would be fine to walk and even run around if I wanted to! Well...... I tried to get off of the MRI table and almost collapsed to the ground. I thought to myself "hmm I don't think I can walk". My leg felt really weird and weak...especially my hip. I went out to the waiting room where I found my companion and Melany and they both gave me big hugs and then Melany gave me another one saying "and this one is from your mom- she just emailed me". I think I had enough at that point of pain and emotions that I just broke down in tears. But everything was still ok even though I was in a lot of pain we tried to look on the bright side of things and figure out why "this is great" :) (Thanks to Hermana Dayton) 

We called the Morejon's (the couple who works in the office) and they came to pick us up since I couldn't walk. They brought us back to the office and when we got inside there were about 15 elders and President and Sister Dayton because a new missionary had just arrived!! It was quite embarrassing to walk (limp) into the office crying in front of everyone and I just started to laugh at the whole situation! :) President took one look at me and he and Hermana Dayton took me right upstairs to the mission home. Since I couldn't walk, I couldn't really get back to Tarragona. SO.... we ended up staying in the mission home for two nights helping the Dayton's get things done from the couch. That is where the third blessing comes in... President is a doctor and so he was able to help me and treat me and get me the right medicine. Also we had the most amazing time with the Dayton's... Especially our meal time together where we would sit and share our testimonies and scriptures all together! I love the Dayton's so much!! They wanted to keep us in the mission home longer because on Thursday I still couldn't walk...but we needed to get back to Tarragona. So they drove us to Zone Enfoque and gave me some crutches. Zone Enfoque was amazing and we talked about being more focused on baptism! We all got ping pong balls with a blue baptism sign on them to hold whenever we are not thinking about baptism! I've loved it because I've been able to hold mine all week and focus on baptism even in piso :) 

We got back to Tarragona on Thursday night and I have been in piso ever since! The instructions from president were... "You can get off the couch to go to the bathroom and to go to your baptism. But besides that you can't move for 5 days!" So that's what happened. I haven't left the couch for anything. It has been probably one of the hardest weeks of my mission not being able to go out and work. But not only that.... I can't even sit and so I can't work on anything in piso. I just have to lie there. At first I was a little frustrated. But then I realized what I have been realizing throughout my whole mission.... All experiences will be for our good. So I've been trying to look for the blessings even during this trial. One of them is definitely the members. We have really been able to help our members step up and help even more in this missionary work because we have A LOT of potential in our area and we can't get to it right now! So they have really been helping us a lot! Especially Nora (a returned missionary) and Sara! Nora has been going out with my companion and Sara has been "babysitting me" here in piso :) Honestly, I couldn't ask for a better ward! The members are incredible and I feel so so blessed! 

Oh I almost forgot... PATRICK GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!! The elders really had to help us out this past week because preparing for a baptism is a lot of work and since it was Hermana Carollo's first one and I was stuck on the couch we definitely needed some help! They helped us finish teaching him a few things and prepared the programs for us! I got to leave piso (it was amazing) for one hour to be at his baptism! Patrick was so excited! He has had such a hard life but as soon as he was baptized he sat down and said, "I feel at peace"! It was incredible and the spirit was so strong! He was confirmed on Sunday and I couldn't be there for it but we had investigators text us to say it was wonderful! I am so grateful for this work and grateful to know that Heavenly Father provides a way to accomplish His will even when His servants are stuck on the couch :) he has a perfect plan for each of us! 

My scripture to sum up this week is found in Mormon 5:23 "Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? Know ye not that he hath all power...?"

I know that we are all in God's hands! I know He has a perfect plan for us even if we can't quite understand the things that happen to us in this life, He knows exactly what experiences we need to help us become who He needs us to become. I know this is true and I know our savior Jesus Christ lives and loves each one of us and that He suffered every pain we will ever experience so that we don't have to suffer it alone. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring

At the hospital with Melany and Hermana Carollo

Zone Enfoque

Zone Conference Lunch

Nora and Sara helping us this week

Fun in piso with Nora and Sara

Patrick's Baptism! He is amazing!!!

The festivities continue...Happy Dia de los Reyes!

Hello hello everyone! 

We are still having fiestas here in Spain! :) This Wednesday is Dia de los Reyes (Kings Day) and then I think we have a little break before the next set of fiestas start up again. It has been so fun to keep listening to Christmas music and everyone is still so happy and friendly! It's as if everyone is still getting ready and anticipating Christmas! I love that the Christmas spirit is still here in Tarragona! I wish it was like this year round! 

This week we were fed SO much food for New years! We ate in Alicia´s house with her whole family and the Bishop´s family and the missionaries. After we said the prayer, all of us missionaries loaded our plates with food because we were starving (since lunch isn't til 2 or 3 here). We ate and ate and when we all finished and were stuffed, Hermana Maria Rosa said, "ok let me clear all of this and I will bring out the second course". We all looked at each other STUNNED. We couldn´t believe there was more food. We ended up having 2 more courses and THEN dessert. Me mató!!!!! But it was all incredible and I felt so blessed to be able to eat with all of them to celebrate the new year! 

This week has been a week of learning! I learned so much in the training that I am going through with Hermana Carollo. We focused a lot on family history and how we can better use it to help the people come unto Christ. And what we realized is that for the people in Spain... Family History really could be the key!! They don´t necessarily like to listen about the gospel sometimes but they LOVE their families so we are thinking it will be really helpful to try and start passing out family history pass along cards and invite people to come look for their ancestors. It will be a great opportunity to help teach about the importance of families and why our church focuses so much on family history work... leading right into the restoration! I can´t wait! After this incredible insight we had a prompting to share it with a family in our ward! Their dad hasn´t been coming to church recently and we thought since he just retired last week that maybe he would now have time to do family history. We shared our message about the importance of family history and challenged them to do it. The dad didn´t say a word but got up and left the room. We were so worried we had offended him but when he came back he had a HUGE binder FULL of all the family history work he has been doing over the years! WOW. What a miracle! We were so grateful we followed the spirit to teach that lesson and then we talked to the bishopric about having a Noche de Barrio with the dad of this family to teach the classes! The bishopric agreed and now we have a fecha and they are putting the plan into action! I am so excited!!!! I know that family history really can bless and change lives and help people come closer to our Savior, Jesus Christ. I know sometimes we think family history work might be a little boring or time consuming. But I promise you all that as you make time for it that you will find blessings! It is afterall, one of the biggest forms of missionary work! 

It is so incredibly important to follow the promptings of the spirit! This week we had a morning where we didn´t have any visits planned so we were going through one of our areas and contacting and doing pass bys. We first had a feeling to go to Jimmy´s house and because of that it lead to us meeting all of his friends and family and we taught them all lessons, set up return visits, got all their information and they all became news!!! They are all from the Phillipines and it was one of the most miraculous experiences I have yet had on my mission! I am so grateful for the spirit and I know that as we follow the promptings we receive we will ALWAYS find miracles! 

I am so grateful for the Gospel in my life and the opportunity I have to be a missionary! I know this is the work of the Lord and we can all be a part of it no matter where we are in the world! I know this church is true and I LOVE being a missionary with my whole entire heart!!! Thank you for all of your examples to me! Happy New Year!!! 

I love you!!!

Love, 

Hermana Eyring

ps. I can now say that I have officially had dreams in Spanish! It was quite a wonderful feeling :) 

Have a great week!

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Cute cupcakes made for us by Maria Rosa

I love Hermana Carollo!

New Year's Day with the Berenguer Family

Special Medio Dia - Berenguers, Obispo's family and missionaries

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My wonderful family and friends! 

Happy 2016 everyone! Last year at this time I had just opened my mission call and now here I am in Spain serving these incredible people! I love my mission so much and I am so grateful for the time that I have been able to spend here this year and I can´t wait for all of the amazing experiences that lie ahead in 2016. 

Christmas in the mission really is THE BEST! I know that everyone says that but it is hard to believe until you actually live it. I loved every second of it! We did a lot of service for other people... like singing with the relief society at an old folks´ home, making white trash (an Eyring family favorite) for members and less active members, making christmas cookies and caroling to recent converts, having a christmas breakfast for anyone who didn´t have family for christmas (mom, everyone LOVED the cinnamon rolls and crepes! The elders were especially happy with those. Everyone said to tell you thank you!), and also eating A LOT of food... including lots of turron (a traditional candy here in spain during christmas time). The members were so sweet to us and were always giving us gifts and feeding us! On Christmas Eve we ate with the Campos! They even surprised us with gifts under the tree! Then we slept under our little christmas tree that night and we watched a little bit of the first presidency christmas devotional. In the morning we watched Liza´s "real meaning of christmas" dvd and talked about our gifts to give to the Savior! And then we took lots of videos of us opening up presents under the tree :) We had medio dia on Christmas Day with the Rocha family and it was a huge BBQ which was really fun! And then we SKYPED! That was probably one of the highlights of the year! I loved being able to see my whole family and to share our testimonies together on Christmas. It was definitely very different being away from home for my first Christmas but I loved being able to at least talk to all of you. Thank you for making my Christmas so magical! We went and had dinner at the Giron´s house (another family in the ward) and found out that Alejandra is moving on January 7th and she is supposed to get baptized on January 9th!!! We both just cried and cried! She is so prepared and it is going to be really sad to see her leave, but I know that no matter where she goes that she will get baptized because she knows the church is true and has a testimony of her own! 

Christmas doesn't end here in Spain on December 25th! We had a wonderful medio dia at Obispo´s house with a lot of members for the "holiday after Christmas"... San Esteban! We aren´t really sure what the holiday is and nobody in Spain really knows either... they just think of it as another fiesta and time to eat more food. So we celebrated it in Obispo´s house with lots of members and had an INCREDIBLE meal. Also, next week is dia de los reyes! Which here in Spain is apparently even bigger than christmas! This is when the three kings come and brings LOTS of gifts for all of the kids and there are a ton of fiestas celebrated on January 6th! Pretty much the holidays don´t really stop until the end of January! Which is fine by me! We still sing christmas hymns in church and everyone´s talks and lessons are all still focused on christmas even though it already ended. I really actually enjoy it because then it´s not just a one day event but we have more time to think about what we are really celebrating! 

Church yesterday was also another highlight of my week!! We had not seen Steven all week and when we walked into church HE WAS SITTING THERE 5 minutes early all by himself!!!! It was a Christmas miracle! He loved church so so much! And another christmas miracle... President and Sister Dayton came to our ward on Sunday. Hermana Dayton´s son just returned home from his mission in Africa and so he really enjoyed talking to Steven all about his country and what he is doing here in Spain! It helped Steven a lot to know that someone has so much confidence in him. Another investigator, Patrick, was in a different class with President Dayton and he was really able to help him better understand everything that was going on and be a friend to Patrick. I love President and Hermana Dayton so much. I know that Heavenly Father has a perfect plan for each of us and it is neat to be a missionary and see his plan fitting together just like a puzzle. 

Our recent convert, John, is really progressing and we are teaching Him about the temple. Everytime we talk about it his face lights up and He is so excited to prepare to go and do baptisms for the dead. He is such a huge example to me! Even though it costs a lot of money and is far away He says he wants to go as soon as possible! I am really excited for Him. I know that as we sacrifice just a little bit to be able to get to the temple then we will be blessed. The people here really have to give a LOT to go to the temple. But in the United States we are so blessed to have temples really near by. I would challenge you all to set New Year´s resolutions to go to the temple more often and make it a priority in your life and you will come to see many blessings from it. 

My favorite scripture that I read from this week is found in Luke 9:7-62. The Savior is asking us to follow Him. Not to follow Him after we get the things WE THINK are important done. Not to follow him after we hurry and post one more picture to instagram instead of reading our scriptures or just sleep for 30 more minutes instead of going to the temple. He is asking us to give up everything we can and follow Him. This is 100% consecration. It is hard, I know that. But He promises us blessings beyond comprehension if we will but choose to give up our own wants, wills, and desires, and follow Him in every step of our lives. I know that as we do this we will come to know our Savior more and we really will be able to walk with Him and do the will of our Father in Heaven. Digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo, Amén. 

Have a phenomenal week and a very Happy New Year!

Love you! 

Love, 

Hermana Eyring

Singing with Relief Society Sisters at an Assisted Living Home

Tarragona

Goodbye to Camilla Gomez - She just got back
from her mission and moved to Salt Lake! 

Christmas Sugar Cookies 

Caroling to Yolanda and Cristian's family!

Christmas Eve with the Campos Family

A beautiful Christmas Eve dinner - we love the Campos!

Papa Noél came to bring gifts for us

Matching Christmas Jammies

Christmas morning baking

We slept under the Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve

We made Christmas morning breakfast for everyone who needed a family!

Eating at Bishop's house for the San Esteban Holiday on the 26th

We love Alicia!

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