Hermana Boyer with President and Sister Pace in Barcelona

Dear Families of our new missionaries,

We are pleased to inform you that your daughter has safely arrived in the Spain Barcelona Mission. Hermana Pace and I, along with the two assistants, met her at the airport. The group of missionaries we received is wonderful young men and women, ready to go to work. Their enthusiasm reflects their love for the Savior and we are grateful for the privilege of guiding them along as they serve the Lord.

Every area in the Spain Barcelona Mission is unique and beautiful, rich in history and tradition. More importantly, each city is full of children of our Heavenly Father, waiting to hear the glad news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thank you for the trust you have put in us to shepherd your daughter. Please know that we feel a great responsibility to guide and protect “our” missionaries. We love your sons and daughters as if they were our own. With the Lord’s help, we intend to make their mission experience in Barcelona the most memorable time of their lives.

Sincerely,
President and Hermana Pace

Last Email from Madrid MTC

Hello family!!!

How are you all??? They told us we can email since we are leaving the MTC tomorrow! How is everyone doing? How is Thanksgiving week going for you all? I hope that Thanksgiving is so fun! So I´m leaving to Barcelona tomorrow morning at 6!! I am SO excited/freaking out/can´t believe this is real/every emotion! It´s so funny cause when I left home, I wasn´t really nervous or anything, but I feel like I¨m leaving on my mission for reals this time cause I´m so nervous! I´m SO excited though. It´s so many emotions cause today has been super super stressful (packing was nuts!), saying goodbye is going to be so so so so sad, but I can´t wait to start doing real missionary work and to see my city Barcelona!!! Yay!!!! I seriously don´t think I´ve ever experienced so many emotions in my life than I´ve experienced on my mission haha. And stress too. But it´s so good. I love it!

So since I emailed you last, it´s been super crazy but really really good! On Friday we went to Sol again- the center of Madrid- and it was way fun. It was just us 3 girls, so it was a party! We got McDonald's and it tasted SO good- I can't even tell you haha. I love me some greasy fries and chicken nuggets!

On Friday we had our last day of class and it was really good, but we were all super antsy cause we´re so excited! But Friday something really cool happened- so Elena is our investigator who is "Muslim" and we never thought we were making progress with her. In our last lesson with her, we were just planning on giving her our testimonies and that was about it. But during the lesson, the Spirit was so strong, and we felt like we should commit her to baptism! So we did! It was an incredible experience because we didn´t think we had affected her at all, but she accepted the invitation and shared her testimony with us and it was amazing. Hermana Ganaza (the teacher who was role playing Elena) and us cried together cause the Spirit was so strong. Even though they aren´t real, the Spirit is still guiding the lessons and it really is amazing.

Saturday, the park was so good! Hermana Shelton and Sister Statham and I got to be together! It was so fun cause Hermana Shelton and I speak pretty well when we´re together and we know how each other teaches. So I wasn´t nervous this time, just way excited! We gave away 6 copies of the Book of Mormon and got 2 references! It was cool cause the whole time, we just had really in-depth conversations with people- which is my favorite thing to do rather than give out tons of stuff. We talked to one lady who didn't believe anything at first, but as we bore our testimonies that the Savior lives, her countenance literally changed- I can´t even explain it. She ended up taking a Book of Mormon and she promised us she would read it. It was amazing. Then there was a couple that we talked to on a bench and the man started firing us all these questions- why don´t we worship Mary, why don´t women have the Priesthood, why are boys and girls separate on missions, and what we think about abortion. BOOM! All in Spanish. Yep. Luckily, we had had a training on answering most of those questions! But that was training was in English. But we were able to answer their questions in Spanish and it was really good! At first, he was hostile toward us, but at the end you could tell he respected us and we definitely planted a seed with him. The girl he was with took of Book of Mormon and said she wanted to find out for herself if it was true. Then, on the Metro, we went up to 2 girls from Romania and told them about the Book of Mormon- they both said "Wow! Why haven´t we heard of this before? Can we know more?" Woo hoo!!! Best question ever.

On Sunday we had our meetings as usual. Every week, we have to write a talk in Spanish about a topic and they call you up randomly in Sacrament Meeting to give it. They called on me yesterday! It was awesome. I gave a simple talk about the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and it went pretty well! It was a really good experience for me cause it gave me confidence that even though I can´t think fast in Spanish, I can still teach about something and help people. That night, we had a talent show! Hermana Shelton and I were charge of it, so it was super stressful haha. But it turned out awesome! Right before, I pulled together a song. I played and sang "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson (Anna would appreciate that) on the guitar. I play it at home a lot, but I haven´t played the guitar since home haha. But it was really fun, I love playing the guitar. It was really fun with lots of awesome music. President Jackson- the president of the Madrid mission, played the accordion! It was the best thing ever.

Today was super stressful cause we were in class all day, but we have so much to do! Packing and cleaning and pictures and signings and everything haha. We had SIX HOURS of a training today haha. It would be like if a class of 7th graders were going to Disneyland on Saturday, but Friday they had an all day review of everything they learned that year. Yep- same emotions! We were going crazy haha. But that´s all right. Tonight we are having Dominos pizza! I´m so so excited! And then we are having a testimony meeting all together, then we say goodbye! I can´t even tell you how sad it will be to say good bye to everyone here. We all are so tight and some people I will never see again! Our teachers I definitely won´t cause they live here. It´s so sad! Saying bye to my district will be the worst. thing. ever. haha. But luckily, most of them will go to BYU, so we can party there!

But I am so so so so excited! I can´t wait to finally be really doing missionary work! I´m so excited to start teaching lessons, finding people, working with members, everything! I am so nervous because I will be completely immersed in Spanish and I´m going to have to learn it super fast. It´s also super scary to teach real people that don´t already have testimonies! There´s no messing up haha. But it will be so great! I can hardly wait to see Barcelona and to meet the Paces. Tomorrow will be such a crazy day! So we leave at 6 AM and take the train- I think a 2-3 hour train ride, and then we go to the mission home and from there we go to our new area. I can´t wait to find out where I go! So crazy. This is real. Just taking it a day at a time so I don´t have a panic attack haha. Actually, like a couple hours at a time. :)

Family, I love you so much! This Gospel is so true! I´ve been thinking about what I´m grateful for this week, and the thing I keep thinking of is that our Savior lives! He lives! He is there, He walked out of that tomb and He is there. I know that with my whole heart, and that is the message that we are all giving our lives for. I can't wait to help real people see that they have a Savior who loves them and feels their pain and sorrow. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful, hopeful message to give people! I can´t wait to get out there and share it.

I love you all so much!!! I can´t thank you enough for your prayers and your support! I hope you have such a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

PS- AnnMarie Pace has a blog and she posts pictures of every new group of missionaries that come. If you search Spain Barcelona Mission, you will find it! There´s 2- one from the old mission president, and then the current one. Just look at the dates and you will know. :)

Hermana Boyer studying in the MTC (Pres. Sitterud, Madrid MTC president, sent this picture to our dad). 

Email from Madrid

¡Mi familia¡¡¡ ¿Como estan?

How are you all??? Thank you so much for your emails and letters and pictures! I can´t tell you how happy they make me! I seriously love them with all my heart! Ah, family- I can´t tell you how much I love you all! I am the luckiest missionary in the world to have so much support and love! Thank you a thousand times over!!!!!

Wow, life is happening! It´s real that I´m going to BARCELONA!!!! AH!!!!!! I have so many emotions about it, it´s crazy. It hasn´t been real until the past couple days. I am SO excited!! But so nervous haha! We leave for Barcelona on Tuesday morning at 6 am! There are only 3 of the North Americans going to Barcelona, and then a few natives. So it´s going to be SO sad to say goodbye! My whole district is staying in Madrid, so I won´t see them until after my mission! I am so sad to say goodbye to them! They are like my Spain family! (no one compares to you all, but in Spain they are like my family :) It´s odd- I feel like I´m leaving on my mission again because the MTC is like my comfort zone and all these people have been my best friends and family for the past 6 weeks. And since I´m one of the only ones going to Barcelona, it feels like I¨m leaving again! It´s really funny. But ah, I´m so excited to see Barcelona, it´s unreal. I have been in love with that city for so long, I finally get to see it! I can´t wait. I´m super nervous though cause my Spanish is not very good and these are REAL PEOPLE!!! But it´s going to be awesome, no matter how bad I am :)

So this week- let´s see, the park! The park this week was very cold and very wet haha. We got SOAKED!! But that´s okay cause we have the burning light of the Gospel! haha just kidding, I¨m really not turning into one of those missionaries. So my companion in the park was a native! Ah! It was such a different experience cause usually I¨m the one doing all the Spanish speaking, but this time I was the awkward mute standing there grinning with a Book of Mormon in my hands, having no clue what in the world was going on. It was awesome. But my companion´s name was Hermana Herrera and she´s from Barcelona! She´s been in the church for just over a year, so she wants me to convert her family! So awesome! We had so much fun talking even though my Spanish is no bueno. We laughed a lot though. We placed 6 copies of the Book of Mormon! (Here we have to say copies of the BOM because it´s a serious source of contention whether or not it´s Books of Mormon or Book of Mormons.) Anyway, so that was awesome and we got 2 referrals! I am so happy, but I didn´t really have anything to do with it, so I can´t take any credit haha. I thought I understood Spanish until Saturday because they speak SO FAST! I could barely even understand haha. But that´s all right. But one really cool thing- there was a woman on the metro that we talked to and she said her sister is taking discussions. My companion gave her a Book of Mormon and bore her testimony about the BOM. I couldn´t catch all of it, but I just had this feeling to bear my testimony about my family. So I told her this book has changed my life and brought so much joy to my family. This light came into her eyes and she said that she has had problems with her kids and she would read this to help her family. BOOM! I was so happy. Even though my testimony was super simple and compared to their Spanish, super super slow- I knew it meant something to her and that was worth all the feeling gone in my body from cold and soaked to the bone. I was able to help one person with my broken Spanish, and that´s all I need! It was awesome.

So I feel like lots of random things happened this week, so I will just do random little stories:

- We taught the Law of Chastity to our investigator Ana yesterday! Before we taught, I was so nervous and didn´t think I´d really enjoy teaching it. But it ended up being one of my favorite lessons! We just laid it out for her cause she´s moving in with her bf and it was awesome! It was crazy- I´ve obviously always respected and understood the Law of Chastity, but never had a special love for it cause I didn´t think about it very much. But as I taught about it, I realized that I love this law! It is so inspired and I got so passionate about it! I bore my testimony to her that my family can be together forever cause my family has kept the law of Chastity and it was amazing to realize the blessings that have come from it. It was an awesome experience.

-Last week we went to Sol- the center of Madrid. It was just us 3 (my companions) and 2 elders in our district and one of the teachers that is like our BFF. Imagine a black Chad Cannon that is a total spaz and that´s him. haha. But he´s awesome. It was super super fun- we did some shopping (Mom, I got dry shampoo!) and we got Madrid´s famous Churros and chocolate! They are SO good. It sounds weird, but it's so good. We also got some really good candy and postcards and things. It was so fun! I love Sol cause it's so classic European. I think we are going back today, so I´m super stoked.

-Today was our last day at the Temple! I can´t even tell you how much I love that Temple. The only thing that kept me from staying there forever is that next time I´m there, I´ll be there with Mom and Dad! I´m SO excited about that. I kept imagining my investigators that we have now in the Temple and it was amazing. I´m so excited to help people experience the joy in the Temple- thát´s the reason why I´m here!

-My teacher on Saturday nights was Lisa Tate´s companion! So crazy.

-The natives are our BFFs, even though we can barely talk to them haha.

-One Elder at lunch starting insulting a bunch of the paintings and artists from the Prado. I didn´t realize how passionate I am about art until I stood up from the table and yelled at him and walked away haha. Oops. It was kind of an Anne Shirley type moment haha. It was so funny- I don´t remember ever raising my voice at anyone but I did at him haha. One of my teachers loves art as much as I do and she told me she was so glad I yelled at him and to do it more haha. Oh gosh.

-My district is the best thing ever. They don´t believe me when I say how much I love them and that I really do write home about them- so here you go haha. They are honestly the best in the world. I can't tell you how much I will miss them! It honestly hurts me haha. Hermana Shelton, Elder Rawlinson and Elder Schwenke are all going to BYU hopefully and they´re all from UT county, so I´ll see them again which is good cause they are the ones that I am closest to. They are honestly the best, I can´t say it enough. But all the elders are awesome and I will be so sad to leave them.

I think that´s about it! So it´s going to be a mellow thanksgiving? I hope that it´s good! Mom and Dad, I hope you have fun in St. George! That´s crazy that it´s going to be so split up. I really hope it´s good though! Thank you a thousand times over for all you do for me, I love you all more than you even know!
I just want to leave you with my testimony!

Yo sé que este Evangelio es verdadero. El Libro de Mormón is la palabra de Dios, y que si leemos este libro, cambiará su nuestras vidas. Yo sé que my Jesucristo es mi Salvador y que Él murió y sufrió para mis pecados. Estoy muy agradecida por la Expiación y que puedo obtender pardón por mis pecados. Dios verdadamente es nuestro amoroso Padre Celestial y nos ama mas que sabemos. Le amo mi Salvador con todo mi corazón. En el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.

I´m sorry- I want to say more, but I don´t have time! But that´s my simple Spanish testimony for you all! (PS- pecados is sins and pescados is fish, so a couple of times I´ve said that I know Jesus Christ truly suffered and died for my fishes.- oops haha) But I love you all so much! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! Love, Hermana Boyer :)

Here are some pictures!

The first is 2 of the elders in my district- Elder Rawlinson and Elder Schwenke (the ones we are bffs with) in front of the Prado! yes, we meant it to be awkward :)

The second is Hermana Knell, Hermana Shelton, Sister Statham and I in front of the Prado!

The third is Hermana Shelton and I eating churros y chocolate!!!

The last one is Hermana Statham, me, and Hermana Shelton in front of the Temple today.

I got these from Hermana Shelton´s camera, that´s why they are random. But I thought you´d like them!
If you or Mom get the chance sometime, could you print these off and send them to me? We don`t have color printers here haha. Thank you so much! Love you!
Hermana Boyer

Email from Madrid

Hola familia!!!!!!!!!

How are you all???? Happy birthday Linz, Mo and Boo!!!!! I thought about you all on your birthdays! How was it? What did you all do? I hope you had some great celebrations! Mo- your birthday was on 11-12-13!! I was dying when I thought of that and how happy your number loving brain would be! We had a fiesta at 9:10 on that day so it was a 9-10-11-12-13 fiesta! We were so happy haha. But I hope you had wonderful birthdays I love you all!!! Can´t believe Boo is 4! What is this?? And Matt, Lizzie, Mom and Mo, thank you SO SO SO MUCH for your letters! I was so happy I couldn´t stop smiling. I will write you all back very soon I promise!

Wow! Time is absolutely flying it´s insane! I thought I´d be so happy that time was flying, but I´m wishing with all my heart it would slow down! I love it here so much! Wow a lot happened this week I feel like!!!!

So the PRADO!! Oh. my. gosh. I can´t even explain to you how amazing it was! So the Prado is pretty much the best art museum in the world besides the Louvre! Seriously, the whole day before we went, I had butterflies and I was shaking so hard! All the elders were making so much fun of me because I was so excited- seriously like a little kid on Christmas eve. I can´t even tell you! So we only had an hour in there! To see hundreds and hundreds of the world´s most beautiful paintings!!!! I almost had a panic attack. Actually I pretty much did. So Hermana Knell loves art too so we ran through the museum chasing after our favorite paintings! We saw El Greco, some Rembrandt, Bosch, GOYA!!!, so many other ones- but the best thing- and the reason why I wanted so badly to go is because of Las Meninas by Valezquez!!!!!!! It´s my favorite painting in the world and I´ve always wanted to see it! Both Hermana Knell and I cried when we saw it! I stared at it for about 15 minutes, and I could look at it for hours. I cried when I saw Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco haha. Don´t judge me. I just love art. Melba and Anna understand haha. Anyway, it was the BEST.

So the park on Saturday! It was one of my favorite times there! I was with 2 of the native Russians- one is really outgoing and confident and she speaks perfect english. The other one doesn´t speak a lick of english and she´s super shy, but has such a strong spirit. It was crazy cause we were being filmed on the biggest tv station in Spain!!! They filmed us singing and some of the elders contacting! They said it´s on comando acualidad, TV1 Española- so I think if you look it up online and just search Madrid CCM contacting in park or something you might find it! But I´m not sure I haven´t seen it- but you can give it a shot! But it was crazy! So we had a couple really cool experiences- on the metro I was talking to a woman who was nice, but didnt´seem super interested. I just had this feeling to give her a Book of Mormon, so I did and I told her about it. I had this feeling to just bear my testimony about it- so I told her that this book has changed my life and that I knew that if she read it and prayed about it, it would change her life. As soon as I began testifying, I saw something change in her eyes and I knew that she felt the Spirit, even though the Metro is loud and crowded. It was incredible. The other really cool experience was that we went up to 4 women in the park that were from Venezuela. One of them had read some of thee Book of Mormon, but had forgotten about it. So I started telling the others about it and how much I love it. Once again, I bore my testimony about it, and the Spirit testified with me, I know it. I looked into each one of these woman´s´eyes- they were all probably in their late 20s or so- and told them that this book means the world to me and that if they read it, they will feel the power of God in their lives. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WANTED A BOOK OF MORMON!!!!!! It was unreal!!!!!!! As I testified, I felt something change in them and in their eyes. They all told me they wanted to read it! So we only had 1 Spanish copy, so we gave that one, then gave them the website to order another one. Later, we were coming back to the meeting spot and they were all there still, so we sprinted to the elders and got 2 more copies and gave them to the other 2! They were so so happy. It was honestly incredible. One of our teachers gave us a lesson on testifying and it was truly one of the most spiritual experiences in my life. Ever since then, I have testified any chance I have gotten and the Spirit testifies with you. If you have the opportunity, testify of what you know is true, and I promise you that angels will back you up and that the Spririt will testify to the people you talk to that it´s true. Try it, it will change your life.

So Spanish! I love it! We are learing all these crazy tenses, so it´s way hard, but I love it! Hermana Shelton and I are at about the same level, which is so awesome cause we challenge each other and we learn together. I can understand pretty much anything, which is awesome! Everything I do is pretty much in Spanish- the park, our lessons, everything. I love it so much. It´s so funny, I speak with the Spanish lisp so much! Now everything I say, even in English is with a lisp it´s hilarious. You`ll laugh when I get home. I love Spanish so much and I love studying it and using different tenses!

So this week we got over 30 new missionaries of ALL NATIVES!!! It´s so crazy!!! 12 of them are sisters! They are in a different zone, so we don´t see them that often, but it´s so fun! We eat with them at breakfast cause that´s the only meal we eat with them. They are so nice! It´s so scary though cause they speak Spanish! I love it though!

So teaching this week I had a really cool experience. We were teaching Ana about the First Vision. I was reciting the First Vision to her in Spanish- we always recite the part that Joseph Smith said, you never read it haha- and I got all choked up. As I was saying it, I felt the power of Joseph Smith´s testimony, even though it was in Spanish. I got all choked up and could barely finish. The Spirit was so thick and it was incredible. Also, we were teaching Elena- our "Muslim" investigator about the Atonement and I was testifying to her about how the Atonement has blessed my life. The Spirit was incredible even though it wasn´t real. Ah, missionary work is the best! I can´t even tell you! So hard, but so good.

Well, I have to go but thank you so so much for all your support, I can´t even tell you how much you all mean to me! Dad, good luck with Stake Conference! I hope that it goes well, I know it will! I´m so glad the Primary Program was good! I hope everything else is well at home! So after this weekend, if you write letters, write them to the Barcelona address because I leave a week from Tuesday. So probably after Sunday or Monday don´t send letters here any more. I love your letters so much thank you so so much! I can´t tell you how much I absolutely love you!!!!! Love, Hermana Boyer :)

PS- I´m so glad you got the pictures from President Sitterud! That makes me so happy!!!! I was hoping he would send them to you. He is the best.

Pictures from Madrid

This is my district minus 2 elders in front of the Prado!!! They are seriously the best- the 5 of us here are like my best friends and family out here. I love them!

The other one is me in front of the Prado fulfilling my life dream! Ah!!! (Don´t mind the elders photobombing in the background haha)

The last one is the 4 of us getting ice cream last week at the mall!!!!

Pictures from Madrid MTC President, Pres. Sitterud

He writes, "Sister Boyer is a fine missionary."

Singing at the park

Singing with the MTC in the background

In front of the MTC

Singing in front of the temple

Again, in front of the temple

Email from Madrid

Hola mi familia!!!!!! ¿Como estan?!!!

Oh my goodness how are you all??? How has your week been?? How was Cincinatti?? It sounds like it was so fun! I´m so glad that you both got to go and hang out with the Linscotts that sounds so fun! I bet that was such a party. I was thinking about you there hoping it was good! Oh my heavens Luke!!! I´m so excited for you! Wow that´s such a big decision, I bet that feels good to have over haha. I´m so excited for you, that sounds like an amazing position. ¡Felicidades!

How is everyone else doing? Is it freezing in Salt Lake? That´s too bad cause it´s only 73 here right now. . . pretty rough. haha just kidding :) But really, it´s still really warm. Life in España is amazing!!! I wish I could tell you how much I love it here. I love it more than I even thought I could. I am completely in love with Spain! Everything about it!! The CCM is seriously a heaven on earth, it´s an incredible place. Everyone here is like my family- we all are super super close and best friends. My companions are the best. Sister Statham is so great and I love her so much. It´s sad though cause we are only really together at meals, physical activity, and at night. But she is awesome and I´m so grateful for her. Hermana Shelton is my saving grace. She is so funny and I absolutely adore her.

So this week! Let´s see. . . Last p day, we went to the mall and it was way fun! We got ice cream and just shopped around. We found a Walmart type place and almost cried with happiness haha. It was really fun to just be in a European mall!!! The park on Saturday was really good, but hard. I think the Lord gives us times that are amazing so we get super pumped, and times that are really hard, but we learn a lot. This was a harder day cause nobody really listened to us. I was with Sister Tango, an Albanian sister who speaks English. But nobody listened to us! It was unreal haha. But we still had fun and tried our hardest. One guy was really excited and said he´d go to church on Sunday, so that was good. So crazy story- this gypsy came up to us- I know, I should´ve known better, I know haha. But she came up to us and started reading our palms, and I only got some of what she was saying. All of the sudden Sister Tango rips her hand away and starts bawling. I guess the lady had cursed her family and all this sketchy stuff. We ran away and its was crazy! Ah, I felt so bad for Sister Tango. Man, the people you meet in Spain haha. But this is cool- so I kept praying and praying that we would have a little success to help Sister Tango feel better. So I went up to 2 girls on a bench from Columbia. We talked to them about the Book of Mormon and stuff. I asked if they wanted one and they asked if they could have 2! Haha we gave them 2 and they were so excited! They couldn´t stop thanking us. It was amazing!!! I was so grateful for that. I LOVE THE PARK. Look it up online and see how pretty it is- It´s called Buen Retiro. I dare you to not cry when you see how pretty it is. :)

Everything else has been normal! We´ve been teaching 2 new investigators (our teachers are the investigators, but yeah). It´s crazy how much we care about the investigators even though they aren´t real. I feel like my whole heart and soul goes into preparing for their lessons and talking to them. One of our teachers decided to be Muslim- thanks a lot. haha just kidding. It´s good for us and we´re getting through to her! It´s incredible how much the Spirit directs our lessons even though they are just our teachers. The other day I was teaching Ana how to pray, and for some reason, it was the most fluent in Spanish I have ever been. I didn´t even think about what I was saying, the words just came out of my mouth! I know that´s so cliché but for real- it happens!!!! It was amazing, I was so happy. Teaching is definitely super hard and super scary, but the most rewarding part of being here.

Okay/ something funny- I am the only one that can play hymns here!!!! I play for every meeting haha. And I'm terrible! It´s so funny. I don´t even know. But I´m trying. Carrie- you´d be so proud of me! its funny cause there are all these incredible pianists that ALL PLAY BY EAR. useless talent. haha just kidding. but really, it´s exciting.

I love it here so much! Seriously, I love it. The sisters are awesome, and it´s been really cool to have my new assignment this week to get to take care of the sisters. Every night I´m up with one of them letting them cry on my shoulder- literally that has happened every night. It´s amazing to have the opportunity to serve them. I love it. The Elders are the BEST! They are seriously like our best friends, almost like younger brothers. They support us so much and they are so good to us. They go completely out of their way to make us feel so loved and to make us laugh and serve us. They are the best. Especially the ones in our district- I wish I could tell you how awesome they are. Everytime I think about leaving them- cause they are all serving in Madrid- I get all teary! Ah, I¨m so lucky.

It´s so funny cause the first two weeks I kept thinking- wow I'm two weeks down on a mission! Now I´m like- no wait, stop! Can´t time go slower!!! I´m SO SO excited to go to Barcelona, but leaving here will be so hard- especially cause only 4 of us are going to Barcelona, so I have to say bye to everyone here. It will be so hard! But I´m so grateful that I love it so much and that it´s hard to leave :)

Well, I need to go but I love you all SO much!! I Wish I could tell you how much I love you! Everytime someone asks about my family, my heart just swells with love! I can´t thank you enough for your letters, pictures, emails, prayers, and love! Thank you thank you thank you!!! Te amo MUCHO!!!!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

PS- I¨m going to the PRADO TODAY!!!! I have had butterflies all week cause I¨m SO EXCITED!!!!! Melba and Anna, you would die!!!! I will try to write you after and tell you how it was! If you don´t hear from me, it´s cause I melted away from happiness. Guys, I cried when we DROVE PAST IT!!! I´m SO excited!!!!! I´m like shaking I¨m so excited. Everyone makes fun of me for how excited I am!!! yay!!!!!!!!! I will probably pass out, but it´s fine. Just like one of the biggest things on my bucket lists ever. :)