Way Better than the Easter Bunny

Hola familia!!!!!!!!

How are you all!!!!!! How has your week been??? I hope that you had a wonderful Easter! I hope Mom and Abby had wonderful birthdays with lots of fun and celebration! How was everyone's Easter? I hope it was good!!!! So in Spain today is actually Easter! Here it's super different than at home. The whole last week was Semana Santa--Holy Week--and they all have school off and work off and it's a holiday the whole week! Friday is a huge holiday and today is the biggest! It's all Catholic and they have all these crazy processions in the street with people that are wearing KKK looking hats haha. It´s a little crazy! But people don't really do much, they just are with their families and everything. But tonight we are going to have two family home evenings with 2 families, and they are going to make us the traditional Easter chocolate cake, so that should be fun!!!! Yesterday was really fun! Hermana Anderson and I celebrated Easter by making chocolate-chip pancakes before Church in the shape of bunnies :) We tried to dress all springy even though it was raining here haha. But it was a really good day!

This week was so good!!!!!!!! SO many miracles happened! We are teaching 2 families right now and we are so happy! It's the biggest miracle ever. So we have Sonia and her family, who are from El Salvador, and her son Oscar and girlfriend are living together and can't get baptized. But they are still progressing and coming to Church and everything! But Sonia is doing so well! She absolutely loves everything we teach them. The bummer is that she has to work the rest of the Sundays in April, so she can't get baptized until May, but that's okay! She is still progressing and we just love that family so much!

The other family we contacted on the street, and they are from the Dominican Republic. We are teaching the mom, Lucrecia, her mom, her daughter, and 2 of their sons!!!!!!!! The only problem is that the dad is a Spaniard and doesn't want them to go to church. But we are working on becoming friends with him by melting his heart with brownies and stuff :) But the family is the best and they love all we teach them! We are so blessed!

Okay another HUGE MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember Jakeline? Who is 14 and her parents are super inactive and who was too scared to get baptized? Okay, so the 3 of us went and got ice cream this week, and we are sitting on a bench in the park, and she all the sudden leans over to us and whispers "yo quiero bautizarme." I laughed and then looked at her and was like "WAIT WHAT!!!!!!!!!" and we all screamed and were freaking out! She wants to get baptized! We were so happy, and I seriously just floated around the rest of the day not even touching the ground. She is getting baptized this week and I am SOO excited! Best miracle ever!

More miracles:
This weekend, Hermana Anderson had to go to the Islands, because Elder Evans was there and had all the mission leaders fly out for a special meeting there. So on Friday I went with an Hermana in Barcelona and we had a lot of fun. On Saturday, Marielos--the cute girl we found that is just here from Honduras and is coming back to the Church super strongly--came with me and was my companion all day! It was so fun! She is so cute and was so excited to be a missionary. So all of our citas fired, and I got a prompting to go visit this family that we hadn't seen for a while and that never come to church. They live super far away, and I knew getting there would be hard for Marielos. But I decided we had to go anyway. So we went, and it took us almost an hour to get there. We walked in and they were eating, but I just invited them to church, told them we loved them, and left them with a prayer. Then..............we're sitting in sacrament meeting, and guess who walks in???? THE FAMILY!!!!!!!!! They haven't come in SO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!! Hermana Anderson and I looked at each other across the chapel (cause we were sititng with different investigators) and freaked out! I was so happy, I seriously thought I would explode. Then.............I´m sitting there freaking out and then I look at the door and our family of 8 that hasn't come to church in years walk in! Almost all of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just have to tell you that I sat in the back row and just cried. I watched them all walk in with all these kids and I just cried. There can´t be a better feeling in the world than watching families who have been missing the gospel in their lives come back and feel the Spirit again. This family has had so many problems, and they used to be so strong, but they've just struggled so much. And they are coming back! I was so overwhelmed with joy that I just grinned the whole day and seriously was probably the happiest I've maybe ever been. It was the best miracle ever. Way better than the Easter bunny :)

So pretty much life here is good :) Hermana Anderson is amazing; we have so much fun together, always laughing and just seeing so many miracles. Here's a funny story for the week--a lady the elders just baptized is absolutely NUTS!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and her name is Loli haha :) She has two eyes that both look different directions, no teeth except for one screw, and just curls that go everywhere. She says what she thinks and it doesn't matter haha. But at a baptism the other day she was telling us two how she has scars on her stomach. She throws up her shirt to show us--everything--and before we could stop her, the elders walk in and are like "whoa, what the?" And Loli was so startled she yelled "Oye!" and started running with her head backward and she tripped over a bag and went sprawling with her crazy eyes looking every which way and her arms flailing all over!! It probably doesn't sound that funny, but I seriously laughed so hard that I was sick. I layed in my bed and laughed for like an hour before I fell asleep. Gotta love the weird stuff too.

Well, family! I sure love you so much! This morning I read all the accounts of the Resurrection and I was just overwhelmed with love for our Savior! He lives! He is alive, and this is the hope that we have that we can share with everyone--that He lives and that He loves us. We can live with our families in eternal glory because the Savior walked out of the tomb. This is the testimony I am trying to share with everyone, and I'm just so grateful for our Savior! Okay--if you haven't seen the Mormon Message "Because of Him"--watch it right now!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right after you read this email! I am serious- it will change your life. I´m serious please please please watch it right now; it is so amazing. Dad--you will especially love it.

I love you all so so so much and just feel so lucky to have the best family in the whole world! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)


P.S. I know it´s kinda early, but I get to talk to you all soon on Mother´s Day!!!!!! I´m so so so excited! Hermana Anderson and I were thinking that Sunday is going to be super hard to figure out schedules, cause we would have to Skype at night right when you will all be at church. So we were thinking of asking President if we can do it Saturday--how would that be for everyone? Tell me your thoughts. I love you all so madly!

This is Hermana Anderson and me in our Easter outfits :)

This is Jakeline when she told us she wanted to get baptized! Best day ever :)

6 Amazing Months!

Family!!!!!!!!!

How are you, my wonderful family!!!!!!!!!!! How has your week been???? Is it just gorgeous spring there with all the flowers and everything?? I hope so! It's starting to get super hot here! Good thing I´ve got my 2 short sleeve shirts :) Haha no I bought more today and I love that it's getting hot! Woo hoo! How is everyone!!!!!!!!! Huge shout out to Mom and Abby this week! I hope you have the best birthdays ever!!!!!!!!! I hope they are magical and I wish I could celebrate with you all! I hope they are the best. Also, I am freaking out about Matt!!!!!!! Oh my heck that is the best thing ever! I officially feel famous being the aunt of the future SBO pres of Oly! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the best thing I have ever heard!!!!!!! And Lizzie--good luck with elections this week. I know you will be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is my 6-month mark on the mission! So weird, huh? I feel like I am still super new here and just barely got here! It's so weird. It's definitely not a cause for celebration, cause time is going too fast, and it freaks me out!

This week was really good up here in good ol' Badalona :) Remember our miracle family of Sonia last week? They are the best!!!!!! We see them almost every day, and it feels like we've known them our whole lives. I love them so much! So we found out that Yessenia and Oscar aren't married and they don't have nationality here (it can take up to like 10 years to get it here), so they can't get married. So they can't get baptized, but they can still progress!!!! But they came to church and are doing really well! Sonia is the best, and she is getting baptized on the 26th! If you think about it, pray for her that it happens! But she is super solid, loves the gospel, loves the Lord, reading the Book of Mormon, and pretty much I just love her so much it hurts. I am so excited and we are so grateful for them--they are the best miracle ever!!!!!!!!!!!

Also we have Irasmo, who is a reference from a member, and we've been teaching him in the home of the member. He plays soccer with a ton of guys in the ward, his family is LDS, and his girfriend is LDS--so pretty much he's getting baptized!! He is so good and committed himself to reading and praying about the Book of Mormon haha. He is so good, and I know he will get baptized. It´s a huge miracle!

This week we found a woman named Marielos. Let me tell you about her. She moved here from Honduras a month ago to find a job. She was baptized 20 years ago and was really strong, but went inactive for a while. But she is here, and she found us and is coming back so strong! She is preparing to go to the temple, and she is the best! We have been visiting her a ton this week, and she is so cute! We are so happy for her, and she is so strong. The other good part is that she lives in a piso with 5 other women who aren't members, and we are teaching them! Every time we go there is another woman there that we teach haha--it's crazy! So we are working with them, and it's awesome :) Except there's one that is a little cray-cray and told us how she healed a woman, and she goes around blessing prostitutes, and she casts demons out of people and pretty much it was so blasphemous that in the middle of her sermon to us, I straight up burst out laughing and had to turn it into a cough, sneeze, dropped-something-under-the-table to hide my face type of thing. It was crazy haha. But the other ones we will convert :)

We have been spending tons of quality time with the members, and I love it so much!! I can´t even tell you how much I love these people. They are like my family here in Spain, and I have been here for so long that I am so comfortable in their homes and feel like I've known them my whole life. We eat with them all the time, and I just love them more than I can even contain. On Saturday we had a Relief Society activity at the house of a sister who lives in the mountains, and it was so pretty! We got there early and decorated and cooked and everything, and it was so fun! I seriously love these people so much, I can't even tell you how much these people mean to me. They do so much for us and can't stand when we are cold or sick or hungry haha. They do so much for us, and I just can't even tell you how dearly I love them!

Today we went to Tibidabo again--that cathedral castle that looks over Barc--and it was so pretty! Basically I just love this city so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty much, I love life. I love these people. We are seeing so many miracles, and the Lord is blessing us. Hermana Anderson is amazing, and I´m so lucky to learn from her. She is seriously perfect--she has no faults! It's unreal. We have so much fun and she is amazing. I love life! I´m so grateful for my mission, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I´m starting to realize that my time here is so precious and so short, and I´m going to live it with no regrets--serving with my whole heart and doing everything in my power to serve the Lord. This week my motto has been to shower everyone with love. It´s been amazing as I've opened my heart to just love as much as I am capable how much it's helped me more than the people. It´s amazing how close you feel to the Lord when you just love with everything you have. Thank you all for your love and all you do for me! I love you all so so so much and am so grateful for you!!!!! Have the best week ever, and I hope it´s magical! And Happy Easter on Sunday! I hope it's the best :)

Love you!
Love, Hermana Boyer :)

Shattered Tables and Miracle Finds

My wonderful family!!! 

How are you all??????? How was your week??? For those of you that went to St. George, was it just the best?? I hope you had so much fun!!!! It sounds like I got some of you with my ACL line haha. Sorry!!!!! :) How is everyone??? I hope everyone is happy and loving the spring! Or is it still snowing in Utah like last week? Lame. Okay, so Hermana Anderson had a meeting in Barcelona today with all the mission leaders, so I was there until now but my preparation day is ending, so we have to finish writing tomorrow. So those of you that wrote me individually, I will probably have to write you tomorrow, I´m sorry!! It´s not that I don´t love you :) Okay, Mom and Carrie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you SO SO SO much for the packages!!!!!!!!! I got them today, but I haven´t opened them yet, but I´m so excited and grateful for them--you are the best, and I don´t know what I did to deserve them, but thank you so so much!!! I can't wait to open them tonight, and I feel like it´s Christmas :) Thank you a thousand million jillion times over!!!

Okay, this week was super good! Pretty much I´m just so so happy to still be in my home of Badalona!!!! Oh yeah--and how was Conference for everyone??? I hope that it was super uplifiting and spiritual and wonderful! Guess what? I got to watch the Saturday and Sunday morning sessions live, so I was watching them with you!! (at 6 pm here). I felt so close to you all and it was magical :) I loved seeing Temple Square and everything; it was so crazy!!! So I actually only saw the first session in English and the rest in Spanish (except here nobody sees the last session cause it happens at 10 at night so people watch it on their own). But I watched the rest in Spanish! So to be honest, I didn´t get a ton out of conference, but I felt the Spirit so strongly, and it was still amazing :) So when the conference Ensign comes out if you could send it my way that would be fantastic :) They had a room for the missionaries to watch it in English, but the last two sessions we had investigators so we watched it with them in Spanish :) Yay for investigators! But I understood some and I loved hearing the music and just feeling the Spirit of it all :)

This week we had the craziest miracle of my life. So we contacted this girl named Yessenia from the Dominican Republic like a month ago, and we´ve been trying to get in contact with her forever. Finally this week we set up a cita with her. When we got to her house, it was definitely not the girl we had contacted--it was a girl named Yessenia with her boyfriend and son and her mother-in-law. We were so confused, because it was not the same girl and they were from El Salvador, but hey, we´ll take it!! So we taught them and they are PERFECT!!!! Sonia, the mother-in-law, is so prepared, it´s unreal. She loved everything we taught her and has so much faith. She was so excited to get baptized, and she has a fecha for the 19th!!! Wooohooooo!!!!!!! The other two are really good but they aren´t married, so it'll be a longer process, but it´s still so good!! It turns out that we found their registro (the record of their teaching) in our book after the elders had gone through and found all the ones in their area (this family lives in the elders' area) so it´s a crazy miracle that it was in our book. We have no idea how it got there haha! And we don´t know how the first Yessenia´s phone number got magically transformed into this Yessenia´s phone number! It is the craziest thing. Pretty much we just know the Lord wanted us to teach them, and the Elders told us we could. They are so sweet! They came to conference and loved it, and we are just so excited we could die! Best miracle ever and we are so grateful!!!!!!! 

We are still working a ton with Jakeline, the 14-year-old girl. She is super scared to get baptized, but she is ready. We are just working to help her feel confident and feel ready. But she is so cute and came to all the sessions of conference and loved it. I love her!!

Okay, funny story- -we went to pass by Maribel and her family- the family that Hermana Tyler baptized right before I got here. We passed by and Hermana Anderson was playing with the little girl while we waited for the older sister to get out of the shower. Hermana Anderson sat down on the crystal table they have in their front room and 2 seconds later--shatter!!!!!!! The entire thing shattered. Angela came running out in her towel, Marian the little girl got cut and started screaming, the mom came home and was already in a bad mood--pretty much ultimate failure haha. We felt pretty darn dumb but when we left, the two of us just laughed so hard at how dumb it was and we felt so bad haha. At least they are recent converts and not investigators!!!

The two of us just have crazy stuff happen to us all the time, because we are both blonde and just naturally have odd stuff happen to us. Along with my miracle journal I write in every night, I´ve started a weird stuff journal, because we just have crazy stuff happen to us all the time haha. It´s good though, cause it keeps us laughing and makes life exciting!

We are going through the ward list of people we don´t know and finding so many menos activos!! (less actives)!!! They are the best. We feel so blessed to be finding all these people. I have found that one of my very favorite things about missionary work is working with them, because I love watching them find their testimonies again and bring the Lord back into their lives. I didn´t plan on having this be such a big part of my mission, but I´m so lucky, and I love it so much. 

Pretty much I just love my mission! I love teaching people about the Church and all these things I´ve known about my whole life. We are SO lucky to have the TRUE church!!! We have the truth and the way to salvation--we gotta share it! I am trying my hardest to share it with everyone I can, and I know all of you are by your examples and the way you live your lives. I love you all so much I can barely stand it! Thank you so much for all you do for me, I really am the luckiest missionary ever. I love you all madly!!!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

My wonderful family!!!!! Here are some pictures :) Sorry I haven´t sent any in a while!!!!! 

I love you all so so so much!! Have a wonderful week!!!!

This is Maribel and her family from the Dominican Republic--the family that was baptized right before I got here. I love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!! (and yes, the one whose table we shattered. . . )

This is my little Jakeline! Actually she´s a lot taller than me, but here she is! So cute, I just love her :)

This is me in front of the Arc de Triomf! An arch that the Romans built when they conquered Spain forever ago. I love how old everything is here; it´s so amazing!!!

ACL Round 2

Hello my wonderful family!!!

How are you all!!! Happy April!! I cannot believe it's April; that is the craziest thing ever!!!! How has your week been? Okay, I am freaking out that Caleb is walking!! Somebody send me pictures or a video or something; I want to see! That is the cutest thing ever!! And Anna and Spenny moving to Irvine!!! I am freaking out about that too! I decided that '´m spending my next four summers working at Ruby's and living with you guys :) I´m so excited for you and I hope that it´s the best adventure ever!

I am so sorry to hear about Ann Ostler and Bill Jefferies. When I read Mom and Dad´s emails I just cried, because I know it must be so hard for their families. I will be praying for them so hard and thinking about them. I´m just so grateful for the Plan of Salvation, because we have the hope that so many people don´t have. 

Well, this week was so good!! It was crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so did I get you on the ACL? Haha April Fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My ACL is just fine :) Some missionaries are telling their families they got transferred to different missions or got robbed or are coming home, but I didn´t want to be that mean haha!!

But okay this is for reals. So this week I said some goodbyes--Jose cried when I told him I was leaving, and of course when he cried I just bawled, cause he means the world to me (he´s my recent convert here). But. . . . . .. I¨M STAYING IN BADALONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh, you don´t even know--I ´m SOOOOOOOOO HAPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Badalona is seriously my home, and I was dreading leaving it haha! I just thought for sure I was leaving, cause no one has ever stayed in their first area for 6 months unless they were training. So I thought for sure I was leaving, but they called and I´m staying!!! I seriously felt like bricks off my shoulders haha. I keep telling everyone, "It´s like the night before the first day of school they called and said there are 6 more weeks of summer!!!!" I´m so excited, it's unreal. I am just so grateful, and in my prayers this whole weekend I've just been thanking Heavenly Father and promising Him I will do everything in my power for this area and these people that I love so much!!! AH, I´m so happy!!! We are going to see so many miracles, I just know it. Hermana Anderson is the best, and we have seen SO many miracles together and also had so much fun--we are seriously always laughing, cause the weirdest stuff always happens to us. We have so much fun, and I'm so grateful to learn from her. We make a good team, and I know that we are going to have the best 6 weeks ever. Ah, I'm so grateful, I can´t even express it! I am the luckiest girl ever!!!

Well, this week was really good! We saw lots of miracles. One happened while Hermana Anderson was doing an intercambio and we got a member who is 26 and served a mission to come be my companion! It was so fun. But we were going through the ward list of people we don´t know and we decided to go to this one piso. The door opens and a girl steps out and just starts hugging Vanessa (the member with me), and they cried together and all this stuff. It turns out they have been best friends their whole lives, but Vanessa hadn't seen Ana (the girl who we decided to pass by but didn't know lived there) since before her mission 4 years ago! It was the sweetest reunion!!! We talked to Ana and she´s so cute, and she is inactive but wants to come back! And her husband is such a nice guy and wants her to go to church, and he´s not a member! We are so baptizing him. It´s the best miracle ever, and we are so excited!!!

We are still working with Jakeline, the 14-year-old girl, and she is the cutest thing ever. Right now we are just trying to work up her confidence by being her best friends and doing fun things with her and stuff. She is so ready to be baptized but is just scared, so we are trying to work her through that. But I am loving it so much, because I get to be a counselor again!! Ah, it´s so fun. She is the cutest, and we just have so much fun with her.

Things are really good!! We have been finding tons of people on the street and through doing the ward list. So now we are just trying to get those people progressing! Also this morning we had a cita with a member who asked his friend if he wanted to be taught by the missionaries, and he said yes! It was a really good cita, and we are so excited! The work is picking up so much here, and we are just loving it!!!!!!

I seriously am just so happy. Every timeIi think about staying here 6 more weeks, this happiness just rushes through my veins, because I love these people SO much--I would seriously do anything for them. I´m so grateful to have the chance to keep serving them, and I´m going to do everything I possibly can for them and to help this area!! I love my mission so much, and I'm so grateful to be here. I absolutely love this experience and am just so grateful for who I´m becoming through it, because the Lord is refining me so much, and I'm so grateful for that!

This church is true!!! I love it so much, and I´m so grateful that we have a prophet today that speaks to us and leads us and guides us! I´m so excited to listen to him this week! We are so lucky we have the true church, and I´m so grateful for the chance to preach about it every day!! I love it!!

Oh, some of you were wondering if I can watch conference--yes! I don´t know if it will be in English, but hopefully haha. That would be nice. But yes, in the stake center they are showing it, but it´s super weird times here haha. Like 3 and 7 and stuff. But I will get to see the women's meeting on Saturday and the rest of the sessions. I´m super excited! I love conference! I hope it´s amazing for all of you!!!

I love you all so so so so much and thank you SO much for all you do for me! I am so lucky to have the most amazing fmaily ever. I love you all so much and am so grateful for all you do! Love you!!! 

Love, your little Hermana in España :)