Llamado a Servir en España: 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!