October 19, 2015

Hello family!

Thank you thank you for all the great updates! Happy to hear that all

is well on your side of the pond :) Things are going really well here

in Madrid. We had an awesome week in Madrid. I'm excited to tell you

all about it!

First off, we had two of our six intercambios this week and they were

awesome. For the first one, Hermana Hinton came here with me in Barrio

3. She is in training with Hermana Rossberg (I'm a grandma!) and

she is awesome. I asked her what made her decide to come on a mission

and she said, "The gospel is just the best and everyone needs to hear

it!" haha I love it :) Fun to work with her. Then I went up to

Villalba with Hermana Stephenson and oh I LOVED it. If I ever move to

Spain i'm living in Villalba. It is up my the mountains and it is

absolutely beautiful there! And only about 30 minutes from Madrid :)

Hermana Stephenson is an awesome missionary too it was fun to work

with her.

We had lots of miracles this week in Barrio 3. The first I wanted to

tell you about was Lourdes. So in our piso, we have this chest of

drawers with all sorts of things in it. It wasn't that bad, but from

the first day I got here I have been dying to organize it haha! We

don't have much free time as missionaries and everytime we had a spare

minute or two, something came up. One morning this last week I had had

it and opted to organize it over doing my hair (Hermonie hair yayy). I found a carpeta in it from about two years ago that hadn't been

touched in two years! This is gold for missionaries!! We opened it up

and the first page was Lourdes. She had heard everything and was ready

to get baptized 2 years ago, but she wasn't married. We called her and

set up an appoinment and guess what... She's married now!!! She said

she got married in may and has been thinking about the missionaries

and baptism since then. She wants to hear everything again since it

has been 2 years, but so much potential there! Not sure if it was the

Spirit or my OCD that made me clean that morning, but i'm very happy I

did :)

Next miracle- Calixto. He is a 30 year old man from Ecuador and he is

awesome. We met him at the ward party last week and were able to teach

him lessons 1 and 2 this week. He loved it! Especially lesson 2. The

plan of salvation is that best! He wasn't able to come to church

yesterday, but wow that guy is prepared. I'm excited to see what's in

store for him. We were able to find a few more new investigators this

week and now we just need to make the change from new to progressing.

I am amazed at the blessings we are receiving over here!

Our other main investigators are doing pretty well. Elena is solid, we

are still working on helping Aga quit smoking, and Ramber and Leidy

are still kind of in the same boat. It's really hard with a mom that

isn't supporting them at all, but there brother gets home from his

mission in December and i'm excited to see if anything will change

with that. I forgot to tell you guys about Nemesio too. He is a

Spaniard man married to one of the members and he's tough. I love

spaniards with all my heart. They are so caring and sincere, but they

are also very blunt and a little stubborn. We met with him last night

and i'm hoping something we said touched him. Pray for that guy!

Fun fact- I think I might have eaten horse this week. I don't know if

I really did or if the elders are just enjoy stressing me out, but

either way I ate some type of meat that was not bee, pork, or chicken

haha. It was yummy!

Also, this week is Stake Conference and guess who is in my stake...

Alcorcon!!! I get to see my family from there!!! I am so so excited :)

I think that is about it for this week. It is raining like crazy

almost every day, but The Lord is blessing us with lessons in a warm

chapel so it is all good :) I absolutely love my companion. She is

doing so good at not getting trunky! She's so much fun to be around

and i'm learning new things from her every day. I still love being a

missionary :) Thank you for all of the love and support you send me. I

couldn't do it without you guys! Have a great week 

xo,

Hermana Marsh

Villalba!!! You are supposed to be able to see the mountains in the
background. I don't really know what happened, but there ya have it.

 Can you see the cross from the apartment window?? It's right next to villalba!! 

Remember when dad fell?? 

Oh you guys are the best hahaha I love you!

 Yep my umbrella broke in half hahaha that was a fun rest of the night!

We got our hairs cut