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














 

2017

Whoot Whoot!!!

Happy New Year! What a year and what a week! 2016 was an incredible year and I look forward to what the Lord has in store for Spain in 2017.

This week we've seen a lot of miracles and a lot of blessings. When you are obedient, diligent and faithful, the Lord works wonders.

Well, yesterday, last minute they cancelled the last two hours of church. While everyone else was silently and secretly celebrating, us missionaries were all like, "Shoot, it's flipping cold out and a holiday, what are we supposed to do for the next two hours?" Luckily the day before Hermana Koeber and I had already discussed and felt prompted to walk one of our widow friends, Adi, home. So when the meeting ended we looked for Adi but she was gone. We continued to talk to other members when I saw  Adi slip out of the bishops office and out into the street. We quickly finished the conversation we were in the middle of and went off to find her. After walking for a while we realized there were two different routes she could have taken to get home, acting quick, we took the longer busier route. We walked with haste not knowing whether or not we would actually find her when suddenly, in the distance i saw a fuzzy brown pompon ball on top of her grey winter hat. "I think that's her!" I called to my comp and we sped toward her. 

She was still a good way away from us but i was pretty sure it was her. I prayed in my heart that she would slow down or turn around, and as though the thoughts slipped out of my mouth and into her mind, Adi stopped abruptly, turned around and started running toward us!  She told us that as she was walking she felt prompted to share the gospel with the young men that passed her. So yep, the three of us went booking it to share the gospel but we couldn't catch up to them. She turned around a little defeated but accepted our invitation to walk her home. She told us how disappointed she was in herself that she didn't bring a soul unto the Lord last year. She told us that she had tried but that it wasn't good enough, she still needed to keep working. She then began telling us of her new friend who needed the gospel and decided to take us straight to this friends house. When she let us in, Adi insisted we teach the first lesson. So when the spirit gave us permission, we did, and it was incredible. 

I don't know if anything is going to happen with Adi's friend but I pray that we can help Adi bring someone to Christ this year. I'm grateful for her example to me that it is never too late or too early to share the gospel. It doesn't matter how old you are or where your life is right now, you can always share you testimony and a smile.

The Lord blesses us when we are obedient, diligent and faithful. Act on the prompting the Lord gives you and have confidence in the Lords blessings. I'm so grateful for this new year i get to spend in Spain, what a blessing. I hope you all are safe and warm this winter!

Lots of hugs and awkward besos!

Hermana Warner

I LOVE SPAIN! I love the food I love the people I love the history I love the art I love the culture I love the mission I love the mission President I love my comp oh life is too good! The lord be pourin all sorts a blessins o'me!

I like to read in the scriptures about how when we follow the lord we don't need to worry about what we need to eat or stuff like that because the lord will provide for us. I have a lot of confidence in those scriptures. It's promised that we will receive what we need in the moment that we need it, Even when "the very moment" is a little more stressful than having it before hand I'm grateful for that promise.

I hope your week is so great. <3

Jacquelyn

No pictures this week, but I drew this of my friend Alba and gave it to her for her birthday, I'm excited to come back home and actually have decent art supplies to work with. Love you!!

Merry Christmas!

Good Morning Utah! And Hong Kong... and Argentina... and Brazil... and Arizona... and Oregon... and Idaho... and Florida... and Mexico... and Jerusalem (if you're still there)... and wherever you are right now.... Good morning everyone!

This was such a wonderful week! Like I promised, we had a Christmas Party! One with all the Zones in Madrid and the other one in our Ward here in Villalba. So we took pictures at the Madrid party but i don't have any of them right now... But it was super cool!  Got to see all of my companions again! (Hermana Schriever, Davis, Phillips and Koeber... well she's still my comp ;) It was so wonderful! I'm so grateful for the incredible friendships I've made here in Spain, it was a very nice reunion. (:

The Ward Christmas party was so well done. Nines (our 3 month recent convert) was in charge of it and she did a FANTASTIC job. The theme of the night was "Humility" so we dressed up as if we were in biblical times (kinda) sat on mats and ate theme fitting food from the markets. It was so beautiful, I couldn't have been more proud of Nines! She is incredible. I will attach the photos at the end, definitely an occasion for the books.

Then the last of the celebrations we had a baptism yesterday! Her name is Emma, she's the youngest of a part member family that we've been eating with and she just turned 8. It was such a beautiful service, the spirit was so powerful as she and her mother and sisters bore their testimonies of the truthfulness of the gospel and of our Savior Jesus Christ. They invited EVERYONE. I admire their confidence as they share what they believe with others. They had been planing the baptismal service for over 3 months and inviting their friends and family to the sacred event.

In the scriptures, baptism is described as the gateway to the straight and narrow path. It's the first covenant we make with the Lord and so important that Christ himself did it. I loved watching this family as they recognized the importance of the event and hope to remember their faith and testimony as I prepare myself every Sunday to partake of the sacrament.

I'm so grateful to be a missionary during the most wonderful time of the year! I absolutely love it! It's incredible to see the change in everyone all around me and for the light of Christ that shines just a little bit brighter every day. I am so grateful for this Gospel, that it has been restored, never to be taken away from the earth again. I'm so grateful for my family and for all of you who support me. If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading or listening to or watching the Christmas Devotional. I'm so grateful for our Savior and know that He lives. No matter how many people don't believe it, it will always be true. I am grateful for that truth.

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas!

Loves and snowflakes ❄️☃️

Hermana Warner

1. Nines at the ward Christmas Party

2. Emma's Baptism!