Hola and Adios....
I head for the Mission Home in MALAGA mañana en la madrugada!! (6 15 am ah!!! ) I can´t wait to meet President and Sister Clegg, I get butterflies in my tummy just thinking about it, I remember opening my call packet and seeing their sweet picture, like 6 months ago.. and now I finally get to greet them in person.. Welp, I don´t have tons of time today, cuz I used it writing personal emails.
However, I am most grateful this week for the intricate ways that Heavenly Father blesses my life, I know that when I do what´s right, he can guide me throught he Spirit.
This last week my companion was sick and so I got two full days of personal study time, but to be honest I felt like she got sick so I could have this special time to ponder and come closer to the Lord. It´s kind of crazy to think that my MTC time is over and that my ¨real¨ mission is now beginnning, because I´ve now been an MTC missionary for two and half months, that´s too long!! Ha, but I just want to relate two neat things from this week and then I gotta run becuase we´re visiting the Madrid temple for the last time in 20 minutes!! Yay.
So, I missed the big saturday in the park because Hermana Yardley was ill, but they planned an extra tracting day for Monday afternoon.. wE found out that there was actually an 8 year anniversary from the terrorist attack in the Metro, so we weren´t sure if we´d still be able to go, but the President okayed it. So, thus far with our Park experiences, it has been thee most difficult to talk to people in the Metro, because we enter with like 20 missionaries, somewhat spread out and immediately everybody is ten times more interested in their ipad, nook, book, cualquier cosas... And so we just keep setting goals, we just gotta talk to somebody!! And it´s only like a 5 minute to the park, so not tons of time.. But Monday, H Yardley and I were just so excited because we missed the last park day and we just wanted to overcome these silly fears.. So we´re like doo da doo.. And we plop down next to this 20ish young man, oh no he´s got his earphones in, how do we talk to him.. But we look over and say hi and he´s like super friendly.. Before we know, we´re talking to him about our church and missionaries and we´ve already missed our stop for the park... So we followed him out on his salida (exit) because he was in a rush to get to work, but he wanted to give us his information so we could send over missionaries, ah man, he was SO sweet, and so excited that young people have faith in God. Because he said most of the youth in Spain don´t care about God. Anyways, we also left him with a book of mormon but we didn´t get to say much becaust it was super hard to hear on the metro, I had a hard time understanding his spanish and then after he had to take off for work.. But anyways, we gained a testimony of talking to people on the metro, even though it´s hard and awkward, but awkward can´t exist when people´s eternal salvation is on the line!!!
>Next, k, we got to listen to the coolest fireside last night by Elder Bednar, it was a recording from 2009, but I am so grateful that this was the selected devotional, because I sure as heck needed to hear it. His whole talk was centered around the question ¨how can i know if it´s the Spirit or just my own thoughts¨ Well, his answer was, quit worrying and fussing and stewing and GO to work!! Press forward, the Spirit can´t work through you while you´re sitting around. I´m so grateful for this message, I´ve got to use my own reasoning and if I¨m keeping the commandments and doing my part I can have confidence that my thoughts are in harmony with the spirit. I know that this is true, I¨ve seen it so many times and in so many tender mercies, the Lord is so involved in the great details of my life, what a blessing. So, as Elder Bednar said, just be a good boy or a good girl and go to work!
I love you guys, and can´t wait to report from my mission field next week
Hermana Nelson
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