Temple day!!

Wow! So much has happened in the last week and a half I can't even believe it! Well I guess first things first... 

On Tuesday we had Concílio, which is just a leadership meeting in the mission home with President and Hermana Pack. I loved it so much! We are making a lot of goals and plans as a mission to be the best we can be. While i was there I was reunited with my cute MTC friends Hermana Duffin, Curtis and Campbell. It was really nice to see them after a year!

On Wednesday we had intercambios with the cute Hermanas from Leganes. I got to be with Hermana Jarman because I went with Hermana Webster last transfer. Hermana Jarman the CUTEST! #shoutout This is her first transfer but she is already killing it here on the mission. I wanted to give her the best intercambio experience so we focused on inviting people to be baptized and different finding approaches in the street. The lessons we originally had planned failed but we still had the goal to invite people to be baptized, so we passed by our friend Mimi, we met with her a while ago but she hasn't is been able to set a day to meet. And guess what! She was there! We read together in the Book of Mormon I nudged Hermana Jarman and she flawlessly invented her to enter the waters of baptism and Mimi said Yes! we finished the night sharing the #PrinceofPeace video (look it up atMormon.org) and made our goal to talk to more than 25 people (:

The next morning Hermana Jarman and I went out again with the goal to find a new investigator and invite them to be baptized. Again the plans failed but God put us in the right place at the right time and we were able to talk to Lusmila. As we were about to share a scripted with their in the street she was like, "Hey I live pretty close we can go sit down and be more comfortable." Uh, yes please. Idk how it is for all you cute other missionaries but that NEVER happens. Legit the first time with me. Anyway, miracle, we taught her the first lesson and she too accepted the invitation to be baptized. I know that if we work our hardest and do all we can do the Lord will bless us with success. This experience also really strengthened my testimony of prayer. God can do so much more than make us feel good about ourselves, he wants to bless us with miracles, we just need to be worthy and ask for them.

Tô finish the week we had GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!! Oh my heart, y'all just need to watch it and read it and listen to it all over again. I especially like the talk of Elder Rasband and Uchtdorff. Also the prophet has spoken. Read the Book of Mormon everyday, there are so many promised blessings as we do so.

Today we went to the temple so we didn't have Pday on Monday. I'm so grateful for the temple and for the opportunity I have to go there often. It doesn't matter what language it's in or where in the world you are, this is truly Gods Church. (Today we got to have a session in Portuguese)

Overall this has been an incredible week. I am so grateful for how aware and loving our Heavenly Father is for each and every one of His children. He's full of Grace and forgiveness. This is Christ's true church here upon the earth. He has called a living prophet to lead us in these the Latter-days. I am grateful for his love.

I hope you all have a fantastic week!!!

Loves and Besos

Hermana Warner

Intercambio with Hermana Webster, Jarman and the Snyds 

My granddaughter Hermana Santoyo, My daughter Hermana Davis and me :)

 #cheesygenerationspic

Shout out to Elder Cummings! He's going to kill it in Russia

Hermana Duffin Curtis and Campbell

Zone Conference

Mission tour and Intercambios

Did January and February just fly or what? I can't believe we are already in March this week. CRAZY!

This week was super loco.... we had a mission tour from Elder Soares of the 70. Wow. He and his wife are spiritual beacons. They are absolutely incredible and I learned so much from their words and their example. They focused the importance of planning, serious goal setting, Companionship study, and what it means to be a representative of Christ. I wrote all about it in my journal but if you want to know more about it just ask me (: 

With them coming down we had TWO intercambios (I guess they're called exchanges in english...) anyway its when other sister missionaries in our zone come and stay with us for 24 hours. We then split up the two companionships and learn, study, plan, practice and teach with the other sister. The first intercambio I had was with Hermana Hinton from Colorado! She is my favorite. We were in Galicia (north western Spain) together for 6 months and are now again serving pretty close to each other. She finishes her mission here in Spain in 3 weeks so I honestly learned so much more from her than I'm sure she learned from me. While on the intercambio we go to take some reactivated members to the temple to do baptisms. We didn't get to go in but we waited outside the temple with Camila and worked on Personal Progress together. (I love personal progress! I'm so excited to work on it with you and Lindsey when I get home Libby! You're getting so old! I love you!!!XOXOX)

It was kinda of crazy but Hermana Hinton already knows my area so we didn't get lost (: they left around 2ish on Thursday and around 4 our friends (sister missionary friends) form VIGO came and stayed with us! I got to spend the evening with Hermana Jimenez (from Ecuador) and Hermana Snyder (my actual comp) got to serve with Hermana Duffin!! (Hermana Duffin and I are pals from the MTC, she's my hero and has been a huge support to me on the mish) It was awesome. Hermana Jimenez also finishes the mission in 3 weeks and knows the area better than I do so it was also really successful I learned a lot from her as well (:

The Vigo hermanas stayed with us because we had a meeting with Elder Soares for the mission leaders in presidents home on Friday. It was so great to see all the missionaries I'd served with before working together to know how to lead the mission. We made lots of great goals and we are going to keep them. Hermana Snyder and I felt kind of out of place at first because we are both brand new sister training leaders. Hermana Snyder would just turn and look at me and say that she didn't know why she was there. But she is incredible and contributed a lot. A lot of her input was really helpful for the discussions we had. I have the best companion. She's such a great example to me and I am grateful to be working so closely with her so i can learn even more from her example. #blessed

The more I spend on the mission the more I am so grateful for the restored gospel. We are teaching a girl who has been meeting with the Jehovah's Witnesses. I have a lot of respect for them they work really hard to follow the Bible and live high eternal standards. There are a lot of other people here in Spain that live their lives to the best of their abilities to find eternal happiness. And many people have asked me, "Why does it matter what religion I live if I just follow Christ the best I can?" It's a good question. What really are they missing out on? 

I'm so grateful for the knowledge we have that God is our father. He loves us and cares for us. He wants us to learn and progress in this life. For this reason He has given us His Gospel through living prophets. To give us exact instruction in our lives to know how to follow Christ with exactness. Of course we are not perfect but I promise that as we follow the guidance the prophets give us we will be able to achieve the greatest level of happiness this life has to offer. God has given men His power and authority to lead us and guide us in this world of confusion that is only worsening. We don't have to walk in darkness. We don't need to play guessing games. Through His prophets God has shown us the path that leads to happiness. All we need to do is follow it.

I'm so grateful to be a missionary here in Spain Madrid. (I'm sure Malaga is incredible too Brook) I know it's exactly where I need to be to do what I need to do and learn how to become the person I need to become. 

I hope you all have a fantastic week and that you take advantage of every moment!

Much love and awkward besos,

Hermana Warner 

At the temple with Camila and Hermana Hinton <3

Carabanchel. It's a good place to find people who need the gospel.

We are going to a Forrest park today! 

Vigo

Well it's the first official week in the field...

And I love it!!! My companion is Sister Schriever, she is from Eagle Idaho and Is fantastic!

 Here's a pic of us on the train ride here (6 hour train ride)

She and I have a lot in common and I'm so grateful for her as my new companion, although Hna Sperry is super missed, she's serving in Barcelona...
Anyway! Wow, week one. First off we have iPads which is why emailing is 100 times easier to put photos in, hallelujah. I'm so grateful for technology. So yeah 6 hour train ride, Vigo is in the north west part of Spain and its absolutely stunning here. We live super close to the ocean but the place they ship to not necessarily the beach, there are small mountains and we got to see a ton on the way here which was a super tender mercy for this Utah chick who misses her mountains. 

First off our Piso. We live in pisos or apartments, ours has Ben used by the missionaries for YEARS so there are a lot of interesting things we always find, and when I came it was super dirty. But mom, be proud of yourself for raising me right, my first Pday here (today) instead of going exploring and stuff my companion was willing to clean with me (insert another hallelujah) so now it's super tidy and we have food from grocery shopping! YES! 

The mission field is not the CCM. Or the other way around... I was told that everyday would be like park day. They lied to me. Haha jk, but contacting here is a lot harder than at the park, everyone here walks everywhere and with a purpose, so they don't really appreciate it when we stop them to tell them about the love of God for them, and the Restored Gospel (I don't see why, it's only the single most important thing we could learn) So we need to be a little more creative for contacting. And the greenie fresh off the train I probably have too many ideas. But One of them actually worked out all right. In Spain, Mother's Day was yesterday so my comp and I made little bouquets of flowers with a cute note on it and handed them out to all the women we could! 

It was really fun and I was happy to serve.

We walk everywhere here in Vigo, and you can't really see it in the pics I took but there are hills everywhere, I'm super pumped about it so I can be in shape for Pdays we get to go hiking! It's also really nice because if I need some more walking shoes (which I shoudnt) they have them everywhere.

Brayden thinks my emails are too long so I'll cut it down a bit here.

Here's a picture of my roommate from the CCM, Hna Hill and I at the temple before leaving to the train station:

I'm going to miss her and the temple, but all is well because...

Insert really dramatic drumroll 

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Like super dramatic and obnoxious because this is the coolest thing ever and I'm literally jumping out of my seat just thinking about it!

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Continuing drumroll!!!!!! :D :D :D

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ELDER BEDNAR IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAHHH!!! I'm so excited!!!! :D :D :D So yeah! Next Friday I get to fly to Madrid and meet him on Saturday! I couldn't be more excited!!!!! Oh so happy. Life is so swell here and I hope you all are doing well too!!! 

I know this gospel is true with my whole heart! This is truly the Lords work! Otherwise I wouldn't be able to speak nearly as much Spanish as I do and I wouldn't be here. I know it's true and I couldn't be more happy to share it to the people of Spain! I will update you all on investigators and such hopefully next time (Monday)

Besos!

-Hermana Warner

(PS that top photo was taken at a suburbsy area on our way to some less active members, as an artist I'm super impressed.)

Oh and here is an older pic 

My CCM Spain Zone!

Elders Warr, Riggs, Delaney, Waters, Moffat, Wright

 Hnas Sperry, Curtis, Campbell, Duffin, Richardson, Hill, Taggart, Burt, Me

Heyo!

Payeya

  My roommates!! Sperry, Hill, Me, Taggart, Duffin

My district l2r: Sperry, Campbell, Me, Curtis, Moffat, Wright, Delaney, Waters

                                  

Roommates

All the girlies in my zone! Sperry Richardson, Tagart, Duffin, Hill, Me, Burt, Curtis and Campbell

Another one of the girlies

Some pics of the beautiful Temple!

fotos del parque