Where do I even start? Well our ward mission leader and his wife are amazing! They fed us three times this week! Ha, they felt bad that no one had signed up to feed us on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday so they just kept offering to feed us! And Mirta is an amazing cook so of course we accepted. It was awesome, eating citas everyday!
Also we had intercambios again with the SHE´s! Hermana Crockett went to Málaga and Hermana Andrew and I stayed here and Hermana Israelson came to Almería! Ah it was amazing, I love Málaga, but I was glad to get to stay in Almería. Literally it´s so bad, I am in love with this city and these people and I never ever want to leave them! Ah I LOVE ALMERÍA. This place is so engrained into my heart I wouldn´t mind being here my whole mission.
Also a few weeks ago after church we were at the bus stop, and I turned to this lady next to me and told her I liked her purse and asked where she got it, she told me and we talked a little, then Hermana Andrew came into the conversation and we talked to her for a while waiting and on the bus. We got her information and this last week we had our first lesson with her! It went so well, she says she believes in God and has been looking for peace in her life. It was so perfect, if you´re looking for peace you only need to look as far as the Libro de Mormón! So yeah, we´re pretty excited to see where this goes!
This last Friday we had a karaoke night at the church! It was so much fun! It felt a little weird/jack to be listening to people sing the worldly music, but it was a blast! Ha, we obviously couldn´t participate by singing normal songs, but Elder Sandelin (an Elder in my district from Sweden) sang you raise me up and ´´Oh Holy Night´´ in Swedish! Oh man it was great, and the obispo sang Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash! And his son who just came home from a mission in London sang ¨Defying Gravity´´ from Wicked, he said while he was serving they get the chance to see The Lion King or Wicked and he chose Wicked!
Friday we went to eat with a couple who are members, it was just me and Hna Andrew because Hermana Crockett wasn´t back from Málaga yet, and they are incredible! They are studying English and help us with our Spanish. She is so nice, whenever I talk to her all I have to say is ¨Como esta?´´ And she kindly tells me how well my Spanish is coming along- ah I just love her! Everyone should try learning a different language, because then you can empathize with the missionaries who are struggling with the language! Anyway, so they fed us this delicious paella, and it had mushrooms in it which i don´t like but they weren´t bad and yeah it was really good! But then on the top there was this massive shrimp! And this is gamba, not like a peeled shrimp, but like a shrimp that looks like it just got done swimming in the ocean. I felt terrible, but i think by the look on my face they could just see my fear/apprehension! Hahah i was like, ´´I dont know how to eat it...´´ and the husband then showed my how you rip off the head (that still had little eyes) and peel the skin off and eat it including the little spine! Hahaha oh man it was hilarious! It literally took me like 20 seconds of staring at it before i could even pick it up! Ha, they were all laughing and saying, ¨No Hermana you can´t use your fork you have to use your fingers!¨ And i did it and ate it and they offered me more and I attempted to politely decline but I´m sure it was pretty tactless hah.
Today P-day has been great! We actually started out by having a lesson with a less active woman and her friend, which is out of the ordinary, but last week when we asked her if she knew anyone who we could share this message with she told us yes! Then gave us her number but was like, actually let´s just call her now! So she did and set up an appointment with her in her house, so we weren´t about to pass up an opportunity like that- we were just thrilled she gave us a reference! So that went well, and then we met up with the Elder´s to play paddle ball, which I swear I played in P.E., it´s like tennis so I was super grateful to get to play, it was a blast! Then we went to the store and bought tons of food and had a district barbeque, and two Return missionaries from the ward came! One of them just got home from his mission, and he actually served here in Málaga so everyone still just calls him ´´Elder Barbosa.´´ It was the best! We had it on theconcrete fútbol field behind the church and it was delicious and it felt like my favorite- the 4th of July!
The work has been going well. We tried so so hard this last week to get our investigators to church, but in the end only 1 menos activo man we´ve been working with showed up. It´s so hard to motivate people to come! We have tried so hard but people just aren´t attending...so we don´t know, but we were so grateful that Paco, the less active man, came! We just met him a few weeks ago, he hasn´t been to church in like 10 years! But we´ve been meeting with him and he´s been asking really tough/good questions, and he came to karaoke and church so hopefully he´ll remember those good feelings he felt when he was first taught by missionaries!
This is hard work, but it´s a blast! The other day we were sitting there, the three of us, planning for the week. We were talking about how we walk around all of Almería all day, but when we´re sitting in our piso we´re too lazy to get up and get our scriptures that are like 6 feet away, it´s hilarious! Hermana Andrew said something like, ¨Sometimes I feel like I just want a break from working so hard.¨ And I was like, ¨Well you can rest when you´re dead.¨ Ha, then Hna Crockett, in her Senior companion wisdom was all, ¨No you can´t because you´ll be preaching to all these people who are ignoring us now!¨ Hahaha we died laughing! But it´s so true, the work of Salvation is moving forward on both sides of the veil, and we all have the chance to be apart of it! It´s the best thing ever. I am grateful every single day for the opportunity I have to be here, I´m still shocked about it. I still don´t know how I got so blessed to be called on a mission, let alone to the Málaga Spain Mission! I get to breathe this air everyday, talk with these amazing people, sometimes when i get down about my Español, I just think, I get the chance to know these amazing people, even if they do speak a different language, I wouldn´t trade the opportunity to know them for anything in the world!
Life is good! The Lord is good! I feel the Spirit so abundantly, because I seek for it and ask for it. And as we live worthy of it the Lord won´t withhold his peace from us! What a blessing!
Have a fantastic week! Thank you for your prayers in my behalf.
Love, Hermana Miller
Docterine & Covenants 27:15-18
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