Okay so here´s about my week!!! WOW!!!! I absolutely LOVE It here!!!!!!! So last week was kind of crazy cause we were so tired and jet lagged, but it was good. It was seriously the longest week of my entire existence. I feel like I´ve been here for weeks haha. But this week FLEW by!!! But I love it SO MUCH!!
So the MTC here has 41 missionaries! Isn´t that so crazy how small it is?? I love it so much though! So about half of those are spanish missionaries from north america like me. We are the only spanish speaking sisters. Then there are native Russians going to Russia, native French speakers goign to France, and lots of Portuguesse people going to Portuguses. So every meeting we have has all this translation going on it´s so crazy!! I love it so much though having so many cultures, it´s so so cool. So my companions are Hermana Shelton, who is way chill, funny, and down to earth she is awesome- and Hermana Knell who is way funny! She was a cheerleader from Bountiful and she acts like one haha (no offense Mo), but she is amazing i love her SO much.
Anyway, they are the best! And my district is THE BEST!!!! It´s Elder Rawlinson from Pleasant Grove, who is super obedient and naiive, but so so funny and he is so cool. Then there´s Elder Schwenke from Provo who is a Polynesian super star football player (recruited for both the U and BYU when he gets home) and he´s SO chill and SO funny. Seriously my favorite human. I love them so so much! they are like our brothers. Everyday they laugh with us, sympathize with us when it´s hard, and help us feel the spirit so much. They are honestly like my family!
So what do we do here?? So every day we have spanish classes, Gospel classes, and meals basically haha. We have physical activity everyday where we can play soccer or whatever. I usually go running around the soccer stadium or something like that. it´s awesome. but we can walk or run wherever, which is amazing!!! it´s so chill here. And P days are THE BEST!!! We get to go to the temple every p day morning and i just have to tell you that the Madrid Temple is my new favorite Temple. Mom and Dad- we HAVE to go there, it´s absolutely GORGEOUS and I can´t get over it. Seriously, so pretty. stunning. I love it so much! Then we get to do whatever we want in the afternoon! Today we went to Sol, the center of Madrid. I was freaking out!!! It was ah-mazing! Okay, I legitly cried when we passed the Prado- not joking. I´ve wanted to see that my whole life!!!! It´s exactly how I pictured Europe- small streets, huge plazas, equestrian statues everywhere, cobblestone streets- i was FREAKING OUT!!! So we got off the bus and we were all gaping and so excited and I was all teary and one elder says "I am definitely not in Wyoming anymore." well said elder. haha. it was really funny. ah it was the best day! We went to corte ingles- which is 7 stories of all american stuff! It was the best. Then we just went around the streets. we went to this candy store and i felt like a little kid in willy wonka and the chocolate factory cause it was the best candy ever! We got ice cream and tried chocolate covered churros- a legacy in Madrid haha. They weren´t that good but Im´glad we tried them!!!
So my favorite part of this week and of being here is the park. Every Saturday afternoon we get to go to this HUGE GORGEOUS AMAZING park and proselyte!!! Truly, I was more nervous for this than I was for when I actually left to come here haha. SO SCARY! But it was amazing, I cna´t even tell you. So we switch companions for the day, so I was with Sister Brown, who is American going to Russia, so she doesn´t speak any spanish! Ah!!!! Okay, we got THREE REFERRALS!!!! They said if you get one that that´s really good!!! BAH! So the best was in the park, a portuguese lady came up to us crying and said that she had just prayed to God that he would send her hope, and then she saw us and it was an answer to her prayer! WHAT?! So we gave her a book of mormon and picture of Christ and she was so grateful. It was amazing. Then we found a guy who was Romanian and he loved hearing about the Book of Mormon and wanted to know more! So we got his number and stuff and it wsa the best! I was absolutely Walking on air!!!! It was the best thing ever and it made me so so insanely excited to do that for 18 months! It was so scary cause my spanish is ver ylimited, but the Lord provides for you and it´s amazing! I loved it so much.
So speaking of Spanish, my Spanish is okay, but not awesome! I´m SO glad I have 4 years of spanish back ground because EVERYTHING here is in Spanish! Big surprise! But really, some of my teachers don´t even speak engish haha. If I didn´t know what I knew before I came, I would be toast. But I´m learning and I can teach a discussion in Spanish! I can understand almost anything, but I can´t speak as well as I´d like. But I love learning spanish and it´s so fun to speak! And especially with the theta- the lisp!!! It´s so funny to hear it, but it sounds really normal now that i´m used to it. It feels like my tongue is really big when I speak with it cause it feels so weird. I love it though. hermana shelton and I are at abou the same level, which is awesome. I´m better at understanding, and she´s better at speaking, which is awesome. We are dynamite team! Oh and I´m SO grateful I memorized the First Vision in spanish and my purpose as a missionary in spanish before I came because that has saved me tons of stress! yay! So its crazy cause we are in class literally 24/7, but we have like 3 hours worth of stuff to do every night. It´s kind of stressful haha, but I love it. I´m learning how to use my time very wisely :)
So our MTC president is President Sitterud and he is the best. He reminds me exactly of President Monson by the way he speaks and how he looks! It´s hilarious. His wife is amazing and the most down to earth woman ever. She has helped us SO much with the situation with my companion. I´m so grateful for them. So the food is pretty gross, but not too bad. I´m surviving haha. They have bread and nutella and fruit at every meal, so I´m okay haha. Usually there´s one pretty good meal a day :) oh and the ice cream we get twice a week is muy delicioso. But I really am surviving. Today I bought snacks at the grocery store so I´m set :)
So everyday we teach investigators, and it´s the best! We have two investigators (who are our teachers haha) but its amazing to teach them! it´s really scary cause it´s all in Spanish, but it´s amazing. The Spirit is there and I can feel the Spirit guiding our lessons even though they aren´t real. But they are crazy! It´s so cool to be able to teach in Spanish, and especially to be able to pray in Spanish. I love it!!
Okay, the elders are making fun of me for writing so much haha. Sorry this is SO LONG!!! They probably won´t be able to be this long every week, but I just had so much to tell you! PRobably most of you have gotten bored by now, but if you are still reading this, know how much I love you! I wish you could know how grateful I for all you´ve done for me, especially the weekend I left. Thank you so much fro all your support and for being so amazing. I miss you all so much that sometimes it makes me sad, but I´´ve never gotten homesick :) But I love you all so much, I wish I could tell you how much!!!! Thank you a million times over!!! I love you!!!
Love, Hermana Boyer :)
This is us outside the temple! The middle one is Hermana Shelton and the other is Hermana Knell. I love them so much!
This is my view from my window! Gorgeous huh? I will try to send more next week!
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