Hola
hola hola!!
It's been a crazy
week! After an hour and a half in train and about 8 hours in bus on Wednesday
I'm finally here in Murcia with Hermana Phillips!
On Tuesday we had a
few citas, two of which were with people named Manuel! We had another cita
scheduled with another Manuel, but in the end he couldn't come. One of the
Manuel's was Manuel the máquina, who--even though we didn't remind him or
remember to send him the link--watched one of the sessions of general
conference! He loved it and said he was going to come to church on Sunday! We
also had a cita with Guillermo, which was good. We talked about baptism and
receiving the gift of the holy ghost. Then we went to visit Manuel B, who gave
us some French toast-ish food, that's apparently typical of Semana Santa here.
But it really just seemed like French toast. Then we kept packing that night!!
On Wednesday we
dropped off Hermana Moncayo at the train station so she could go to Jerez to
spend the day with the hermanas there, then a little later Hermana Malcolm and
I got on a train to Sevilla! It was about 1.5 hours in train to Sevilla, then a
rush to get to the bus station, then 8 hours in bus to get to Murcia! I got to
sleep on the bus which was super nice!
On Thursday we started
off the day with weekly planning, then visited a family with two parents and
their 13-year old son who's learning about the church. We had invited him to
read 3 nefi 11, and he did, and he remembered EVERYTHING! He is kind of a
genius. His name is Luis and he is so funny.
On Friday we visited a
family who recently got baptized, they don't speak a ton of Spanish since their
first language is Arabic but they're the cutest family. The mom is named Fatiha
and we mostly talked with her. They have 3 cute little kids and the mom is
pregnant with another one! There was also an activity with all the women in the
ward and we went with Fatiha and it was really fun getting to know everyone
there. The people in this ward are really friendly!
On Saturday we visited
a member named Genny, she was super friendly too. Then we went out to one of
our pueblos (we have a part of the city, but also a few pueblos) and worked
there for the night. When we got back to our piso, there was this huge crazy
parade going on! It went on until 2 in the morning, when the fireworks show
started!!! It was CRAZY and so loud that it was shaking the piso so needless to
say, it was a little hard to sleep on Saturday.
We're next to this big
church with bells that ring every 15 minutes starting at 6:30am, but on Sundays
they don't start until 8 which was very appreciated. We went to consejo and
then church on Sunday, then did some studies and contacted (talked to people on
the street) for a while before coming in.
Our piso is right
across the street from mercadona. It is the best!!! We did some shopping this
morning and it's been fun getting to see the area a little more. It's really
pretty! Now we're in the capilla (chapel) with some missionaries. It's fun to
serve around so many missionaries now--there are 5 companionships that meet at
the same capilla (only 2 are in our ward) so we see missionaries around a lot.
I'm really excited to
meet more people here this week, and to keep being with Hermana Phillips--she's
from Utah and is super sweet! I got to finish reading the Sunday night session of general
conference this week and it's been really good-- I love conference! I hope you all have a good week!
Love, Hermana
Walker
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