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I love the new ward, I'm so so happy to be here. So grateful. We had Stake conference last week so I didn't really get to know very many members but the ones I know are fantastic and I'm so excited to be here serving with them (:

Ps. I really don't feel like writing a group email today and I didn't get any new pics this week so I'll just write everyone on Monday.

I LOVE THE TEMPLE!!!

Carabanchel

February 6, 2017

Hola mis queridos! Well what a week. This week was kinda different because we had temple day on Wednesday. I LOVE THE TEMPLE!!! Then on Friday we had our district meeting. We met with our cute friend Martina and our other friend Emma.

I love Emma with all my heart! I'm going to miss her. ... Oh yeah!

I got TRANSFERED! I am now in the beloved Barrio 9 (Carabanchel) in the south west part of Madrid. I've been praying a lot this past week because I've been having feelings that I'd be leaving. I feel very at peace. I know that this is where the Lord needs me to be and I am excited to help his work progress. I am companions with my new friend Hermana Snyder! She is too cute and I know we are just going to kill it this transfer. We are praying for lots of conversions. She is also a blonde from Utah and we will be serving together as Sister Training Leaders, so we are in charge of the sister missionary exchanges in our zone. It's both of our first time being STLs so we'll see how it goes. I'm not too worried, she knows what she's doing ;)

So yeah, hasta luego my beloved Villalba. Sunday was incredible. It was fast Sunday so everyone in the congregation bore their testimonies. The spirit was so strong. One young man that went up had also been inviting his girlfriend to the church. This was the second time she had come but he went up and bore powerful testimony. Later, other young adults went up and bore their testimonies as well. At the end of the meeting this young mans friend, Marta, came up to us with him and asked us to start teaching her. It was such an incredible experience and although I won't be there to teach her I am so grateful for the example of this young man, for his faith and testimony. 

That's how missionary work should be. It's not a rote thing we missionaries go out and share with random strangers. It should be an invitation of love to help those around us find the path that leads to true happiness. Let us be bold and loving when we share our beliefs with others. I pray that each of you will be able to find opportunities to share your testimony with those around you and that I may have sincere love for each person I meet so that I may be a more effective support for those I teach.

I hope you all have a fantastic week! All my love!

Hermana Warner

(Emma)

SHES BACK FROM THE DEAD!

SHES BACK FROM THE DEAD! Sorry again for how awful my last few emails have been. Yes I'm alive, and yes I'm okay, thank you all for the concern (; so I guess I could update you on what's going on here in Villalba.

Every Monday we meet with our cute friend Dayana, she's the only member in her family but she is super strong. I have a ton of respect for her. All you out there who complain to go to church activities or to church because of travel, I don't want to hear it, she lives like a 20 min bus ride away from the church and the bus passes every hour. The motivation she has inspires me, I want to be more like her. She wants to serve a mission too so we've been helping her know how to start being a member missionary now and giving her tips for the future. 

Tuesdays are usually pretty slow. but in the mornings we usually meet with our cute friend Martina. She is from Peru but is visiting her daughter here in Villalba for as long as the government will let her. Here testimony is incredible, she's older but she doesn't let that stop her from looking to God and looking for the truth. Her first language is Quechua so its hard for her to read Spanish but she is doing really well and when she feels ready she will enter into the waters of baptism. That's her greatest desire.

Tuesday nights we used to meet with our friend Hernando but he is out traveling right now and wont get back for a few months. I pray that when he comes back he will take the lessons again with the missionaries here. We now have a new friend that we found from Honduras. She is a MIA member but we found her and we are going to bring her back! We taught her for the first time yesterday and we can see a to of potential in her.

Wednesdays we have District meetings in the morning, English Class at night and lessons in between. Last week we had the Missionary Broadcast, announcing all the changes happening in the mission field, so last week not a ton happened on Wednesday. 

On Thursdays we have weekly planning. Last week we met with our new friend Maria. It takes about 2 hours to get to her house when we leave with the bus so that is a little difficult. But she and her children came to church on Sunday! We have only met with her but we'd like to teach them as a family as a whole, we don't know the next time well be able to meet with them because of their schedules but the family is so cute and I'm excited to witness their progression. (:

Fridays are my favorite days (: In the mornings we've started meeting with our new friend Ramón and his wife Maria. The story of how we found them is actually pretty good. I don't know if I've already said it so I'll say it again!

So on a Tuesday I believe we were waiting at the bus stop to go visit Martina. Her son-in-law just happens to be standing nearby waiting for the same bus. We go over and start talking to him and he told us of how he had lost his phone on the way home from work. I decided to tell him about an experience about when my dad lost his phone. (This is how I remember it dad, I was pretty little so excuse me if its a little hazy) It was when flip phones were generally new and my dad "lost" it. I remember that around the same time, my aunt lost her wedding ring, so as a family we decided to have a special prayer that we could find these two very important things. I don't remember how long it took but I remember we looked and we looked for the lost phone. Until I remembered the small tables leaning against the computer closet. There was a small gap in there that I could reach my little arm in. I remembered seeing my dad's phone left at the computer desk and thought it would be funny to tease him by hiding it in the little gap between the tables and the closet. So when I reached my little arm in the slot to my excitement, I FOUND THE PHONE! And it was an answer to our prayer.

There was a cute elderly couple standing nearby the bus stop that heard my story and gave a little chuckle as well. We included them in the conversation and they agreed to let us meet with them. The first lesson we had with them was incredible. It's amazing to see how God has prepared them to receive his Gospel.

I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to serve here in Villalba, I know it's where the Lord wants me to be for now. I'm so grateful for my Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Chris. I can do nothing without him, this is truly the Lords work. I'm so grateful for the Temple and for the blessing that it is to have so many all over the world.

I hope you all have a great week! 

Loves and awkward Besos!

Hermana Warner

No ganas para nada, lo siento

This week was so good and so crazy!! We invited three of our friends
to be baptized this week and they said YES! Hallelujah! We can only
meet once a week with them though so I will update you about when and
who!
One of our cute friends is Emma. Her mother was baptized many years
ago and hasn't been to church since moving here and being married. I
found her in the street with Hermana Phillips and they finally met
with us! Emma came to church with her mom on Sunday and oh was it a
blast! She is my favorite! When they passed the sacrament she
carefully picked the está looking piece of bread plopped in in her
mouth nodded her head with satisfactory and gave a big "ok" sign to
the deacon. She then proceeded to pass the bread to her mother and
exclaimed, "try it! It's riquísimo!"
And it really is. I'm so great full for this gospel. I'm so grateful
for our Lord and Savior, for His infinite and perfect atonement. He
lives. And because he lives we don't have to sit hopelessly we can
start again we can turn the page and be better than we were yesterday.
I'm so grateful for this gospel and for the opportunity I have to
share the deliciousness to everyone I meet.
I hope you all have a great week!
All the love and happiness and leaves and flowers!

Hermana Warner

 Not an explosion, a sunrise out my piso.

Zone Conference

Bingham

(Elder Kyle Gearig and Hermana Maddie Pitcher)

Segovia

 

Día de los Reyes Magos y Segovia!

January 9, 2017

First things first... HUGE shout out to my greatest childhood chum Brooklyn who got her mission call to MALAGA SPAIN!!!! PUMPED! I absolutely love Spain and I'm too  excited to share that love with her. Pumped. Just be warned, in the summer, Malaga is HOT. You got this.

So yeah! With the anticipated email of my sister, this week has been really good! Here in Spain we have a holiday where we celebrate the kings that came to bring gifts to Jesus. It was super fun! We even bought ourselves a traditional dessert they eat called Roscón. It's basically sweet bread shaped into a gigantic doughnut cut in half with whipped cream in side (like a sandwich) and dried sugary fruit on top. It's full of sugar and goodness and I love it. Haha but it was really big so we gave most of it to the Elders. Not to mention the abundance of Roscón the members fed us following the holiday. Yeah, I'll bee good for the year.

With our less active friends, we've been sharing a lot about goals. My favorite part of the new year is reflecting on pass goals and making new ones. There's a quote i like from Elder Ballard that i love, he said, 

"I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don't set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. when one learns o master the principles of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life."

Anybody who knows me, knows I'm super passionate about living dreams and achieving goals. I hope all of you take advantage of this time to evaluate where you are, temporally and spiritually and strive to make the changes necessary to reach your full potential. It comes with a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice but I can promise that when we do what the Lord wants us to do, our lives will be greater than we could have ever imagined. I'm grateful everyday for the blessing I have to already have the gospel and to have had incredible parents to teach me to obey the Lord (even when I am a sassy pants and don't listen). The blessings I have received for being obedient are incredible, and I know even more blessings can come as I continue to try to become more obedient.

Well I hope you all have had an awesome last week and that this week is even better! Prayers for all of you that are in school again! Whoot whoot! You can do it! Yeah!

Anyway, lots of besos and handshakes! (Hey Pop, you get a hug!)

Hermana Warner

Since it was still holiday season it was hard to meet with people so we did a lot of door knocking. And when we went the sunset was so beautiful so we took pictures! Enjoy (:

Today we all decided to meet up as a district in Segovia. It's so beautiful and very spanish looking. It's famous for it's cathedral, castle and aqueduct. 

ROSCÓN!!!! So good. So sweet. Oh yeah! Also they have two things in it. If you get the slice with the bean you have to pay for the Roscón, if you get the slice with the toy then yeah, you get a toy! It was fun.

Sister sighting .......

Hello fellow missionary Mum's .....I have just had the opportunity to take part in a lesson with your beautiful daughters , and now they are helping us prepare for a baby shower this evening .  It's such a pleasure to be able to work with them . 

Thank you for sharing them with us   

Much love 

Jane X