January 18, 2016

Hi Family!

YAY OLIVIA!!!! She´s coming to Spain!! I totally called it. Oh I love

this country and I'm so excited to share it with her! Paella, churros,

and tortilla parties will definitely be happening. Best news of the

week :) Happy to hear that everyone is happy and healthy. It's always

the highlight of my week to hear from you guys. This week was a great

one!

The highlight this week was... the temple! We were supposed to go this

week, but the temple is closed so we assumed that we wouldn't get to

go this transfer. It's my companions last transfer though, so we got a

phone call from the AP's one night asking us if we wanted to go the

next day. Of course!! I don't know what it was, but this time was SO

amazing. I mean it always is, but this time was even more incredible

for me. I love the temple!

We had concilio this week as well which is always a highlight. I feel

like a broken record, but I always leave feeling so grateful to be a

missionary. It's so fun to be with other missionaries and the Pack's

talking about the things and people that we love. And we even stole

the Gijon hermanas (Santiago and Rossberg) after to help us with our

work and for a sleepover :) It was exactly was I needed. So grateful

to be a missionary!

Our people are doing great. We visited Sonia a few times this week and

as of Saturday she is cigarette free! Her brother is here visiting and

that was the biggest blessing. She's having a hard time dropping

smoking (as anyone would) and he is keeping her distracted and busy.

The only sad part is she didn't come to church yesterday... and I

don't know why! The worst. Still excited about her though. Nicole is

kind of in the same boat. Great lessons during the week, but something

always comes up on Sundays. We had a really great lesson with her

yesterday though, so hopefully she'll make it more of a priority.

We still have faith with Ramber!! The answer is still kind of up in

the air, but it's not a no! We had ward council yesterday and

seriously the whole ward is praying for him.  We love him and are

praying hard for him.

We have our English class miracle... Lenny. He is my favorite right

now! He has been coming to english class for months now and we've been

trying to meet with him, but it's been a little hard over the

holidays. Things have settled down a little bit more though and we had

an AWESOME lesson with him this week. He's active in the catholic

church, but there are things that he doesn't like. He really wants to

know what church is true and is willing to act. He came to church and

everything!! Funny story though. We were walking to our lesson and I

was talking to him and not paying attention where I was going and ran

RIGHT into a pole. I have a bruised face and everything hahaha! So who

knows if he's coming out of pity for me or not, but we'll see :) I'm

excited!

I think that's about it for this week. We found a few new menos

activos that we are really excited about. And we are so excited for

the missionary devotional this week! We are very blessed missionaries

and are trying are hardest to make our Heavenly Father proud. I know

this church is true. My testimony is strengthened everyday by sharing

it and I will forever be grateful to my Heavenly Father for letting me

serve Him in Spain. It has changed me! I love you and am praying for

you.

xo,

Hermana Marsh

 Toledo!