¡Vive America!

Familia!!!! 

¿Como están? How are you all! It sounds like this was quite the week! I´m so jealous a lot of you were doing trek stuff! That sounds so so fun! It sounds like it was a really good experience for everyone with not too many disasters! I´m so jealous; that sounds so fun! How is everyone´s summer going?? I hope you are all having a blast. Welcome home, Spencer! I am so so happy to hear that you are in Utah and doing well! I am so happy I could just burst. :) Happy Birthday to Adam this week! I hope you have a super fun birthday! I hope you are all doing well!

This week was super crazy haha. It was good, but wild! I learned that I do NOT know this area very well haha. I think there was literally one cita we had where I didn't get lost haha! This week was full of wrong buses, running to catch buses, stopping and asking for directions and getting led super wrong, and running all over the city! It was a wild time. But luckily, Hermana Noakes is super chill, and it didn't bother herhaha! I felt so bad I had us running all over everywhere.

Let me tell you a bit about Hermana Noakes--she is a hoot. I just love her. She is seriously the most open, honest, blunt person I know haha. She says what she thinks, and that´s that haha. But she´s super chill and works really hard, and she loves to have fun. She is so funny--she has me laughing so hard all the time. She is from Bountiful and has three more months in the mission. She is pretty much engaged, so she talks about her wedding a lot, but other than that, she works really hard :) She made a goal on Thursday to only speak Spanish, cause she wants to improve it, and she´s been doing it! It´s amazing. So we only speak Spanish now! Actually, I cave and speak English to her and to the elders sometimes, but she hasn't caved! She´s amazing. She´s going to do it for the rest of her mission. At the beginning of my mission I would've hated it, but now I can express myself all right in Spanish, so it´s actually pretty fun. :) She´s really good though, cause she has lots of ideas how to help this branch, and we are combining our ideas and experiences to hopefully help this branch!

This week we had some good citas: Marina and her friends are all doing well--they couldn't come to church, but they are reading the BOM and doing well! We are super excited about them, and they are super prepared! Roberto and his family are also doing well! We are teaching them English, but they are also reading the BOM, and that´s really good! These two miracle families just fell into our laps, it´s pretty amazing. But we are excited about them!

I don´t think I've sufficiently explained about Jessy. Jessy was baptized a few months before I got here. She is from Ghana, but lived in England for a long time and has the best British accent ever. She is seriously our best friend. Whenever she´s not working she comes with us on citas. We are the only thing she has here in Spain, and we just love her so much! She is so sassy and it kills me haha. But she calls it "cheeky" rather than sassy, and I think that´s super funny! But she came with us every day this week, and I just love it. She is hilarious and the most high-maintenance person I have ever met but also has one of the strongest testimonies I´ve ever seen. She´s the best. To deal with Hermana Findlay leaving, she bought me a new pair of shoes--that´s the kind of person she is. I love her so much! Just had to tell you about her cause she´s the best ever.

Alexander and his family are doing well! It was so cute--remember how I told you that we taught them about the temple and made little footsteps with things they needed to do to get there? Well when we saw them this week they had put them in this frame with a picture of the temple and it was hanging on their wall! I was so happy I cried. It was the cutest thing ever. We are hoping and praying so much that Diego comes to church this Sunday, cause the meeting schedule changes!!!!!!!!!!!

This branch has a lot of problems, but we are working as a district to fix it. We've been putting all our ideas together, and we are making a plan to have every single member visited every week, no matter how active or inactive they are. We are also going to have an activity every week for anyone that wants to come. We are going to make a mission plan with every family too. We are praying and fasting so much to know how to help this branch, but I have faith that with a lot of hard work, we can do it. It´s definitely a challenge, but I love it.

Can I just tell you about my day today? So we went to play laser tag as a district. Guess what my score was? Not 100, not 0, yes--NEGATIVE 4300!!!!!!!!!!! On the paper at the bottom it said, "Being last isn't the worst thing that could happen!" We were laughing so hard. Then we went to this park and there was a zip line I wanted to try. I was all excited and jumped on it, but it was too high. I was still holding on and tried to swing my legs up again, then my legs fell and started dragging in the dirt, then I just gave up and fell-- literally face in the dirt. I turned around and they were all laughing so hard they had fallen over. FAIL. Then we played Scum and I lost. Then we are getting in the elevator from McDonald's and it gets stuck! We were stuck for like 30 minutes. Then finally it starts going and it takes us lower and lower, way more than the floors there are. We step out and it´s all dark--like nothing. We were seriously in this dark abyss with nothing. the Spanish lady we were with seriously almost passed out of panic haha. It was a wild time! Anyway,just had to share about my day. :)

Anyway, this week I was reading Helaman 3:35, and it´s one of my favorite scriptures. I've been thinking about how we truly do have to yield our hearts to God so that He can purify them and sanctify them. I think that´s what I have learned the most on my mission, especially the past two months, that we have to give our hearts to God--otherwise we are nothing. I´m so grateful for this refiner´s fire, because it purifies us, even though it hurts sometimes. I love though that one day we will be purified and shiny enough that the Lord can see His reflection in us.

I love you all so much! Thank you so much for being so incredibly wonderful! I love you all more than you even know! Have a wonderful week!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

Email from Zaragoza

My wonderful family!

How are you??? How is summer treating you??? It sounds like you are having so much fun! I´m so jealous you all get to hang out together! I hope this summer is the best :) I´m so excited for you guys to go to Wyoming! I hope so much that it´s super fun! Mom don´t get any crazy GTA (is that right?) attacks again please! :) but really I hope it´s super fun!

This week was really good!!!! I´m so sad though cause Hermana Findlay left me!!!!!! I am so so sad!!!!!! We thought she might leave cause it was her third transfer here and she only has four left. The whole day of transfer calls we were freaking out cause we didn´t know. I was so sad when she left this morning! But she´s going to finish her mission in Barc, so she´s way excited :) But I will miss her so much--she is incredible and we had so much fun together. I´m just so grateful I got to be with her and learn so much from her! And I will get to see her in Holladay so that´s good :) My new companion is Hermana Noakes, and oh my gosh, she is the funniest person ever! She´s not here yet, but I've done intercambios with her before and she´s HILARIOUS!!!!!!! Seriously so funny. She only has two transfers left so she´s going to die here! Super crazy. I´m way excited though, it´s going to be a wild time.

Also, we are MELTING HERE!!!!!!! It is SO hot. Unreal. I forgot what real heat is like haha! Seriously I just sweat all day every day haha. It´s been about 94 everyday and everyone says it will rise at least 10-15 degrees! Woohooo! It´s unreal haha.

But this week was good! We found 11 new investigators! Seriously the Lord just put them in our lap, I don´t even know what happened. One day a guy named Roberto called us (nobody ever calls us!!!!!!!!) and said that he was given a card four months ago by some missionaries and he wants us to come teach and his family English. YAY!!!!!! We went over to teach them and we taught them English, then introduced the BOM. When we went back, they had read it and wanted to come to church!!!!!! They didn´t end up coming cause of a birthday party, but they will :) It was amazing!!

And then a few weeks ago we contacted a lady named Marina from Nicaragua and two weeks ago we had a lesson with her. She asked us if we could meet her daughter, so we taught them both together and it was the best! They were so stoked about the BOM and said they have been wanting a religion, but haven´t found one they like yet. YES! Then, we had a lesson with them this week and when we met them in the park, Marina was like, "so is it okay if we go to my friend´s house and you teach her too?" OF COURSE!!!! So we went to her friend´s house and her WHOLE FAMILY wanted to listen! So we taught all of them and they all said they love God, but don´t know what religion is true. We taught the first lesson about Joseph Smith and the Spirit was so strong. It was amazing. We were so exctied! It was the biggest miracle ever!

And also we went to visit Alexander and his family (who are doing super well by the way), and Alexander invited his friend to come listen! (Well he says it´s his "friend," but we accidentally saw them kiss haha :) ) But anyway, she came and listened and it was the best! She wants to know what church is true. It was amazing. Alexander is doing super well and his family is coming along for sure! His dad said when the meeting schedule changes next week he will start coming! He is the key, so if he starts coming, his whole family will and I´m SO excited for when that happens! So we are super excited about them and they are the best :)
Well, things are really good! We are trying to help this branch because it has lots of problems and there´s very few active members. I am super excited to reactivate a lot of these members and get things going here. I am praying a ton to know how to help this area, and sometimes it´s daunting, but I know the Lord is helping us so much. I am so grateful to serve in an area that needs a lot of help, so there´s a lot to do :)

I love this work so much! I am just so grateful to have grown up in a family that is so amazing. I´ve seen so many broken families here, and every day I am more and more grateful for all of you and that you live your testimonies and love the Savior. Thank you for being so amazing! I seriously love you all more than you know. I hope you know that! :)

Have the best week ever!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

P.S. I think the mail system here has scared you all off, but it works, I promise! The mail in Badalona was sketchy cause it was in the ghetto, but the mail here is totally fine cause I´m in a nicer city haha :) I´m so sorry I´ve been so bad about writing letters; I have so many started and then something just always comes up! But I will get them to you, I promise, and know that I love you SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! :)


Us in our Barc jerseys! :)


This is my favorite picture ever haha. I always make a barfing face when something goes wrong, so my whole district loves it and now they all do it haha. So this is us barfing haha.


Here everyone uses fans cause it's so hot so we bought some haha :)

Happy Father's Day!!!!! (from June 16)

My wonderful family! 

How are you all???? Happy Father's Day, Dad! I'm so sorry you didn't get to celebrate! I hope you get to do something fun this week though. :) But know how much I love you and that I am so grateful for you! Happy Father's Day to everyone else--I hope it was really good! How was Powell?????? Ah, I loved the pictures Mom sent me--it looks like it was a blast! I'm so jealous! All week I kept randomly wanting to jump into water--I think it was 'cause a little tiny part of me was subconsciously there haha. But I´m not trunky or anything, I promise! :) But I'm glad it was fun and that there weren't any huge disasters or anything.  :)

Also--Happy Birthday Spencer this week! I don't know if he can email, but Annie, tell him I love him and Happy Birthday! Also, next week is transfers! Time goes so fast, it's just wild. But I can't email until next Tuesday--so don´t be worried when I don´t email on Monday.  :)

Oh my goodness, I can't even tell you how amazing, incredible, stressful, and crazy this week was haha!!!!!!! But mostly I have never felt this kind of happiness in my life, because . . . Alexander got baptized on Saturday! It was incredible, absolutely incredible. Thank you SO much for praying for him--he needed those prayers, and I´m so grateful for your support! 

So here´s how it went--Saturday was CRAZY--one of the sets of elders had two people get baptized at 7:00, but Alexander wanted his own service, so we did his at 8:00. But the elders´ baptism didn't get done until 8:30, and tons of his family was there and all this stuff! Also, we had to print the elders´programs, find musical numbers, buy and make food, clean everything, help the convert of the elders get dressed since they didn't tell her to bring extra clothes haha . . . just CRAZINESS. But when Alexander´s baptism finally got started, it was incredible. I know I'm biased, but it genuinely was the most beautiful baptism I've ever been to. And lots of other people said that too. We had 57 people there! That's SO many for here!!!! And at least 20 of them--his family and friends--weren't members!! It was amazing. 

So Alexander is 16 and he has two younger siblings who are 14 and 12. They aren't really interested in anything because their dad, a less-active, doesn´t want to come back to church and takes them to play soccer every Sunday. But the mom, Tatiana, one day in February had the strongest feeling to come back to church, and she looked up the church on the Internet and showed up at the building. When the missionaries started vising that family, Alexander was super Catholic and told them not to try to teach them. So Tatiana was fighting alone, and it´s been so hard for her. But now, Alexander has had this incredible change of heart and loves the gospel. Seriously, the Lord touched his heart, and he just loves it all--he eats it up and has no doubts about anything. It´s the biggest miracle I've ever seen. So at his baptism we had two talks, then a musical number, then his baptism. President Gomez baptized him and after just pulled him into this huge hug, and everyone was crying. Tatiana turned to us and threw her arms around us, with tears and a huge smile, and it was one of the best moments of my entire life. After, Tatiana bore her testimony about how the song "Families Can be Together Forever" has gotten her through all of this and she is going to get her family to the temple--and this is the first step. Then Alexander got up and told about his change of heart and bore the most heartfelt, sweet testimony. I literally don´t think there was a dry eye in the room. Afterwards, I went up to Alexander and we just agreed that only tears describe the feeling there. The whole time I was thinking of this family that I just adore in white at the temple and how this is the first huge step for them. They have come SO far and they are on the right path. Now Tatiana isn´t alone, and her efforts and struggles are being paid off. The Lord loves this family so much--I know it. Seriously, every time I think about this family in white it brings tears to my eyes.

After all the food and staying late cleaning and running home to be somewhat on time, we both just sat there and prayed together in gratitude for this family and the miracle we saw tonight. Seriously, I can´t describe the feeling at the baptism- it was incredible. Everyone there was touched by the faithfulness of Tatiana and the change of heart in Alexander. It was unlike any feeling I´ve ever experienced--a kind of happiness that you really can´t describe. The Lord is so good to us to just let us watch Him change hearts and unite families. I just love it! I love this work so much, and how grateful I am to be a small part of this incredible work where hearts are changed and families are brought together forever. I just love it and am so grateful for it.

Well, I feel like I should leave you on my testimony haha but there was a lot more that happened really fast: we had zone conference and it was incredible! I learned so much from the Paces and got to see Stu, their son who has been serving here this transfer! We found a bunch of incredible investigators, it´s so hot here that we are constantly sweating no matter what we are doing haha, I went to the bathroom the other night and literally got stuck! I could not undo the lock for real! I was stuck in there for 30 minutes and when I finally got out the other 3 were there with video cameras and the elders were on the phone about to come help me haha. Also, Hermana Findlay threw up after we ate a cake that apparently the cat had walked on before we ate it at a members house. I didn´t know, so I just ate it fine haha. But after she told me and she threw up right as we left the house! It was so funny. Oh the adventures.

Well, I love this work! I love the craziness and the stress because it means we are helping people come closer to the Lord. I am just so grateful for this little family and they mean the world to me! I can´t wait for when they get sealed and I am just SO grateful we get to be with our families forever. I love being able to sit back and watch the hand of the Lord in changing these people´s lives and hearts. I love you all SOOOOOOOOOO much and thank you SO much for your support and love! I love you all so much!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)


Us with Alexander!!!

This wonderful family! I love them so much!

Lake Powell, Eh?

YOU ARE GOING TO LAKE POWELL WITHOUT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha just kidding I'm not mad. I´ll just go eat some Spanish gelato while I´m looking at a castle :) haha just kidding. :) Really though I'm so jealous and that will be so fun! You have to tell me all about it! I will be praying no disasters happen like crazy wind, losing dee dee (or was it Matt´s blanket) in the water, all sorts of catastrophes haha. But I hope it´s SO FUN! I will be thinking about you guys and hoping it´s wonderful! Do some good cliff jumping and water skiing for me :) And take pictures! I want to see tons of pictures and here all the details :)

How are you all??? Annie I can´t believe you are home! I´m so glad that it worked out for you to come home. I just wish I could be living with you at home at the same time! Wow, it sounds like crazy stuff is happening! I hope everyone´s summer is so fun and everyone´s loving it:)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, DAD!!!!!!!!!!! I hope Sunday is the best day ever and that you feel so loved :) I love you SO much! I wish we could talk to our families on Father´s day too! Not fair! But I hope you know how much we all love you :)

This week was a little crazy haha. It was super good, and super stressful haha. Here are the really good things:
Alexander is getting baptized on Saturday!!! For real!!!!!!!!! Not going to get called into work, nothing--he´s getting baptized! And he´s so excited about it. He´s inviting all his nonmember friends, his family is excited, who are either less active or nonmembers--it´s just the best. He is so smart and funny and he just loves the gospel. About 2 months ago when the other Hermanas starting teaching him he said he was Catholic and would never change, so not to talk to him about baptism. And look where he is :) The Lord changes hearts. I believe it. But I am SOOOO excited for that it almost makes up for not being at Lake Powell :) haha Just kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another huge miracle--so in November this Spaniard--SPANIARD--family was baptized and it was the biggest miracle ever and the whole branch was so excited . . . and they disappeared about a month later and nobody has been able to get in contact with them. Everyone has tried visiting, calling, but nothing. It´s hard cause they live in a far away pueblo without a bus. Finally this week we asked the Branch Pres., President Gomez, and his wife to come with us to stop by. We prayed the whole week before that they´d be there. So the four of us go to the doorstep (they live in a pueblo, so they have a house) with brownies in our hands and giant smile on our faces, praying they´d open the door. . . and they did!!!!!!! They let us in and were so excited to see us! They said they have just had a lot of problems, had started smoking again, had to work on Sundays, family problems, so they were embarrassed to go to church. But they said they wanted to come back and they want us to come teach them everything again! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were so happy after we could´ve just floated home. Best miracle ever.

Another awesome miracle--so Alexander´s Mom--Tatiana´s--friend Rachel. So basically Alexander´s neighbor who is friends with his mom--we are working with her cause she´s less active but barely knows anything about the gospel. Her kids we are working with us too, who aren´t members. This week we had a FHE at President Gomez´s house with Rachel´s family, but Rachel just showed up. But it turned out to be the biggest miracle--we watched the Restoration video and we all just cried and she said she felt like it was true and it was amazing! President gave her a blessing that said one day all her kids and her would be sealed in the temple! The kids we are teaching! I was just weeping in the blessing--it was incredible. Seriously amazing. Ah, I was so happy!

So amazing things are happening. The Lord is blessing us so much. This week we laughed a lot and pulled out our hair cause of some stressful things like: the Elders called us at 11 the night before the huge branch activity and told us they think we should plan it without them. So we stayed up forever planning it! It went okay despite the videos not working and all these other things haha! Also on Saturday, every single cita we had fired on us and we passed by everyone in our area that we know and NO ONE was home. So we were in the streets for 4 hours in 93 degree weather! We almost died. But we laughed it off, got some Gatorade and we were good to go. Only to find out when we got home that the elders in the ward had a baptism that we were supposed to be at, so we didn't need to walk in the street for 4 hours haha. But it´s okay! Gotta love missionary stress cause it´s all about good things.

I love Hermana Findlay so much! We just laugh so much and just have the funniest stuff all the time. We have so much fun and I am learning SO much from her. She is seriously incredible and I'm so lucky! I just love her.

I just love this work! I am so grateful for who the Lord is shaping me to be. The mission has been the most humbling experience of my life--every day all my weaknesses are right before me and sometimes it just seems easier to give up rather than fight my weaknesses. But the Lord has so much mercy, and I know that He gives us our weaknesses so that we rely completely on Him and have complete faith in Him. I´m so grateful that the Lord is remolding me into who He wants me to be. I´m so grateful for the refiner´s fire even though it burns sometimes! But He knows so much better who we can become, and I´m so grateful He loves us enough to let us hurt so that we grow into better people. I love Him so much and I'm so grateful for this work.

I love you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much, and don´t have too much fun without me in Lake Powell! haha :) 

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

This is Hermana Findlay and me in front of Taste of America--all American food! We were dying at all the things we forgot about like Pop Tarts and Skittles and things haha! I bought Vanilla Coke and Skittles :)

While I was taking a picture, a random Spanish guy came and stood next to me and I didn't even notice him until I had taken the picture! It was so funny.

¡Feliz Verano!!

Happy Summer everyone! I can't believe it's officially summer and everyone's out of school! Even though it doesn't affect me, I still feel the excitement of it! How are you all?? I hope that this first week of summer is so much fun! The first week of summer is always the best!

Things here are really good! I´m loving it! I just love the mission! Okay, I have to share something really cool. Yesterday I was reading about Zaragoza and guess what year it was founded??? Just guess. Okay, 24 AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck??? I read it and was freaking out! This city is OLD. I guess it was founded by Cesar Augustus and was a port for the Roman Empire before it was conquered by the Arabics later. Man, Europe is just plain cool. The oldest city in the US is from what like 1700s? Anyway, pretty cool. I love Zaragoza! It's very nice and clean and safe! It's really big, but it doesn't have a big city feel--it feels really mellow and there's actually grass and trees and it's beautiful! Pretty much the opposite of Badalona haha. I love it though, it's a really nice city.

Things are really good here! The branch is doing well. Yesterday we had 94 people at church! Lately we've only had around 70, so this was super good! They are really good people. They are mostly Spaniards or Africans haha. The Spaniards are so fun. I have come to realize that Spaniard are very . . . passionate I guess. Whatever they believe they believe it with every fiber of their being and nothing can ever sway them from that haha. Every opinon they have is the most important one in the world and they have to share it with everyone. IT´s super funny cause they all have super strong personalities, but they are such good people and I just love them! There's so much to do in this branch and I'm so excited! There's a huge emphasis in this mission and everywhere to work with the members and I'm SO excited about it! That's something I've always wanted to do, but felt alone in it cause all the other missionaries thought we should spend all our time in the streets rather than visiting members. But now there's a huge focus on strengthening members and working with them and I LOVE IT! It's what I wanted to do this whole time, but was never supported in it. But now we are instructed to do it! Woohoo! I just love it so much. That's one of my favorite things is strengthening families in the church.

Anyway, after that little rant--our two part-member families are doing well! Alexander is doing great and is getting baptized in two weeks! He is so solid and is a huge example for his 2 little siblings and his inactive dad. We are working super super hard with the dad to get him active so he can baptize him! I love that family so much and they are just the cutest. We see them almost every night. Tonight we will teach them about eternal marriage and we made this cute poster with the temple and footprints to get there and how to do it. We are so excited!

This week we have found lots of menos activos and investigators! We have seen so many miracles together. We found this one woman who hasn't come to church in years because 4 of her kids have passed away from drugs--FOUR!! We are so sad for her, but are going to bring her back so she can have joy again! So many amazing miracles like that.

We also have had some funny things happen, like we passed by this one menos activo and she lied to us about who she was, and then just started barking at us and screaming at us to never come back and all this stuff. Whew! It was wild, but gotta love the craziness :)

Hermana Findlay is so amazing! She is such an example to me; she's an incredible missionary! We have so much fun together! We are always laughing, but we both have so much energy in the work right now that it's bouncing off each other and we both are just so excited to work and we are seeing so many miracles! It's so fun. She is the best. And she´s from Holladay! She lives right by Walmart. Crazy huh? So we have lots of fun talking about our common friends and stuff :) She is the best.

Okay so this week we had Enfoque--where the zone leaders tell us what President told them in their meeting--and it was awesome! They told us that the mission has a goal for June of finding 2000 new investigators--through the members! I almost got up and cheered when they said that cause that´s how I´ve been finding members this whole time, but I got criticized for not being in the street enough--but now we´re all working with members! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we all got on our knees right there and said a prayer that we would reach this goal. The Spirit was so strong and we know it´s going to happen! It gave us tons of animo and we´re so excited! This month is going to be amazing!

Okay, so here are some of my thoughts that I had this week. This week I read the talk "How to Become a Consecrated Missionary" by Tad Callister (Dad´s cousin, right?). And it changed my whole mission! It said that all missions have good, even great missionaries, but only a few consecrated missionaries. It talks about laying everything on the altar for the Lord. One line has stuck with me so much this week--it says that we must give every ounce of energy, every drop of passion, and every waking thought to this work. That struck me so hard! So this week I decided I am going to work to become not just a good or great missionary, but a consecrated missionary. I have SO SO far to go, but it´s my goal :) So this week I decided I would live with no regrets--I want to give everything I have to the Lord, not holding anything back. So every time I thought about something other than the work, I changed my thoughts; every time I almost didn't contact someone cause I was too tired, I just did it--it´s a process, but I´m trying, and I know the Lord is blessing my efforts, even though they are weak. The talk also talks about laying every ounce of pride on the altar of sacrifice. I have so much pride, and this week I have been working on laying it all down and just giving it to the Lord. It's been so amazing cause the Lord has blessed my efforts and I've been so much happier (I was really happy before, but this is different), we've seen more miracles, and I go to bed every night knowing there´s nothing more I could've given. Anyway, I have so far to go, but these are just the thoughts I´ve had this week. Dad, if you ever talk to Tad Callister, tell him he changed my entire mission! I know the Lord blesses our efforts, no matter how weak or small they may be. But he blesses them and consecrates them for our good and the good of others.

I love this work so much! I love you all SO SO much! Thank you for all your support and love! I couldn´t do this without you, really I couldn´t. I love you all more than you even know! Have the best first week of summer!

Love, Hermana Boyer :) (Bo- Yeh as they say it here) :)

 These are my roommates! I love them so much!

 This is at a Specialized Training with Hermana Findlay and President and Hermana Pace! I love them so much.

Hermana Findlay and I in front of a castle in Zaragoza! :)

Happy Memorial Day!

Hola familia!!!!

How are you all!!! I realized this morning that it's the end of May! Summer is here! Are you all so stoked! I hope you have such a fun Memorial Day at the cabin! I am so jealous, I miss the cabin like crazy! I bet it's gorgeous up there. Don't have too much fun without me :)

This week was really good and crazy!!!!! Hermana Findlay is a Sister Training Leader, so she travels a lot. So this week we did two intercambios--with our roommates! It was really fun. Hermana Porter is one and she's from California and Polynesian, so she´s super chill and way fun. She´s training a little Italian who is the cutest thing ever! Every day she makes us MOUNTAINS of the best real Italian pasta I have ever had! It´s so yummy and we love it haha. So it was really fun. On Saturday Hermana Dorgia, the Italian, came with me in my área and it was hilarious! (Sorry it keeps auto-correcting to Spanish, so if there´s random Spanish words--that´s why!) But I don´t know my area hardly at all, so we got lost FIVE TIMES!!!!!! One time we took the bus all the way to the other side of the city and had to walk 2 hours back haha. Luckily we both just laughed super hard (did I mention it was pouring rain during the 2 hours?). It was super funny. Later in the day we ended up in a random field out in the middle of this pueblo somewhere cause I couldn't find a house haha. As you all know, I am the WORST with directions haha. I kept thinking about the time when I told Joe that Sweet Tomatoes was right by Zupas and then we drove around SLC for 2 hours looking for it haha. Such good times!

Anyway, it was funny. But cool intercambio miracle! I was with Hermana Porter in her area and we were just sitting on the bus, writing cards. All of the sudden this lady comes up behind us and starts rubbing my back. We both thought that the other one of us knew her haha. At the end she said, I'm Christian and I need some direction in my life, and we gave her our number and she got off. THEN. . . an hour later we are walking and get a call--from this lady! No one EVER calls us!!!!!! She said that she wants us to teach her entire family and that before she saw us on the bus, she prayed with her sister over the phone that God would send them angels to help them through their trials. Then she saw us (she didn't even see our name tags before she started talking to us) and said that she knew we were the angels God sent her! It was the craziest miracle of my life. Unfortunately, they live in the Elders area :( But I will make sure she gets baptized! So crazy!

So right now we have Alexander, who is the 16 year-old of menos activo parents that has a fecha! We are so happy! He is the best! We decided to make his baptism on June 14th so that we have time to get his 2 little siblings on board and reactivate his dad to baptize them. So good! I'm so excited. We also have another part-member family that we are working with and both the kids are progressing super well! We want them all to get baptized together :)

This week we also had a Specialized Training with President and Hermana Pace. We had to travel to Lleida to get there on train. It was really good though! I absolutely loved it.

Yesterday at church was a little crazy cause Hermana Findlay had to leave yesterday for a conference in Barcelona and she´ll be gone til Wednesday! So I was companion-less at church haha! But we have this girl named Jessy who was baptized 2 months ago and she is the BEST. She is from Ghana, but grew up in England so she has the best accent ever. She is seriously like our best friend. We visit her all the time. She is super active--in the RS presidency and all! So she was my companion all day and will be tomorrow :) So it´s a wild adventure! Today I am just with my roommates, so that´s nice :)

One of my favorite people in this area is a little tiny Spaniard woman who we met in the street and her husband just barely died. We go sing to her every few days and she is SO sweet. She can barely talk, but we just love her so much and she says that our coming is the only light in her life right now. It´s so sad, but we´re just so grateful to be able to help her a little bit. She is the sweetest thing in the world and I just love her!

Sorry this email is so scattered! This week was just kind of all over haha. But really good! I love Zaragoza. I love the city and the people and everything! It´s super different, but I love it. I´m getting more used to things, which is good. I already love the people here so so much!!!!!!! Absolutely love them. I have been talking to a lot of members and realizing that church attendance has gone down a ton cause we have very few priesthood holders that are active in this branch. So I've been thinking and praying and I have a whole bunch of ideas for how to reactivate them so that this can be a ward! In ward counsel this week I´m going to present my ideas to the Branch President and see if we can´t get things going in this branch! But I love these people so much already. They are so sweet and faithful. They are super spunky and it´s funny haha. But I love them so much already and I can´t wait to really start helping them and getting this branch on fire. All they need is a little push and a little animo and we can do that :) So things are really good and I´m going to do everything I can for this little branch that I´m already in love with :)

This gospel is so true! Thank you so much for living your testimonies and for your examples of faith. You are all my heroes and I look up to you more than you even know! I hope you all know how amazing you are! I'm so grateful for this gospel--I love that it´s true everywhere--even in this little tiny branch where only 2 people have to pass the sacrament, the Church is so true and the members have the strongest testimonies. I love this gospel and it´s spreading! I´m so grateful to be a part of it.

I love you all SO SO SO much!! Have the best last week of school ever! I hope it´s magical :)

Love you!
Hermana Boyer

P.S. Does anyone have any ideas for Family Home Evenings that you've done that are really good? I have some but I've exhausted most of my ideas and am looking for more--for all ages :)

Sthuff in Tharagotha :)

My wonderful beautiful family!

I wanted to name this email Thkinny in Tharagotha because of Mom´s student that said "thkinny!" when Mom was trying to get him to say "thin" haha! But I decided that´s it´s not really applicable because I am still carrying around the hospitality of Badalona on my hips! haha :)

But how are you all!!! How has your week been?? Summer is coming! Are you all stoked! I am so excited for you that you get to do all sorts of fun things soon :) Huge shout-out to Emmy for her birthday this week! Tell her that I love her so much and give her a huge hug for me :)

So Zaragoza! Basically, I love it here. So much. This week was kind of weird because it was my first time away from Badalona and it just felt like a long intercambio or something. At first I missed Badalona so much, and I still do, but I love it here! Let me tell you a bit about Zaragoza :) This city is beautiful! Imagine moving from the ghetto part of LA (but a little less ghetto) to a nice east coast city. That´s what it´s like haha. Here it's super mellow and there are actually trees and grass and fresh air! It´s so nice. It´s a big city, but the buildings are a lot smaller and there´s so much space! it´s gorgeous. Also, it´s mostly Spaniards here! In Badalona it was pretty much all South Americans haha. But here it´s mostly Spaniards or Africans. It´s the best mix ever. And I´m out of Catalunya, so all the signs and everything are in Spanish instead of Catalan! It's kind of nice :) 

 So I am in this tiny little branch! And I absolutely LOVE it already. There are about 90 people in the branch and it´s mostly Spaniards! There are a few Africans and South Americans, but mostly Spaniards. It´s a totally different feel from my old ward, because there it was all really sweet South Americans with absolutely nothing. But here it´s all Spaniards who are well-off, and they are really sweet--in a totally different and spunky way haha. It's so fun though! Yesterday I absolutely loved church! I loved meeting everyone, and they were so sweet to me. There are 2 sets of Elders and us in this branch. Our roommates and 2 other sets of Elders are working in the ward, which meets in the same building. So it´s kind of cool. But this branch has SO much work to do, and I´m so excited I can barely stand it! I am going to get this branch to a ward before I leave--I am determined. There are SO many people to reactivate and baptize! I am so excited. Here the missionaries are so much more needed because it´s so much smaller. We have ward council every week after church and they won´t even hold it if we can´t come. It was awesome though--the branch president makes a list of all the people that didn't come that day, and we go through in branch council and decide what to do to get them there next week. SO awesome! I love this work so much.

So yesterday I got to give a 10-minute talk! I was actually so excited! They asked me to get the members excited about helping us. So I got up there and spoke about how we need to work together cause we´re a team! I asked them to be a friend to everyone, have the courage to invite, and pray. I told the story of Sara Waldo, Joe! You are officially famous here now :) But it was funny cause I got up there and said, "Hola todos!!" super excitedly and everyone laughed. I learned after my talk that no missionary has ever had that much enthusiasm from the stand haha. I´m so excited to get these people going and we are going to get this branch growing so fast! I´m so excited I can barely stand it. I already absolutely love these people.
This morning we had the biggest miracle! So there are 2 families we are focusing on--one is Tatiana and her familily. She just got reactivated, and her husband is less active. They have 3 kids that aren´t really interested, and they aren´t members. But we´ve been working with the oldest who´s 16--Alexander, and he came to church yesterday. This morning, Tatiana texted us to tell us that Alexander decided at church that he needs to be baptized--THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! Best thing ever! We don´t know if it can for sure happen this week cause we haven´t planned anything--but for sure next week if not :) We are so excited and hope that this gets the rest of the family going! The other family is Tatiana´s friend named Rachel, and she is being reactivated and her kids are getting taught! Her son is friends with Alexander and they do everything together, so we are hoping he will get baptized too! We are so excited for these miracles! It´s unreal. I´m so happy!!

Some of you asked about my Spanish! It´s getting better haha! I can say anything I need to, I just am still working on some grammar. But yesterday I didn't ever look at my notes from my talk, I just went for it and it worked out! I was so happy. I actually feel really comfortable in Spanish now and I can understand pretty much everything, unless it´s a really strong accent or really fast. But I love Spanish! In this mission we speak Spanish whenever we aren´t home, and at first I didn´t like that, but now I love it! I love Spanish and it´s so fun to speak with the theta--the accent--and I just love it :)

You also wanted to know about Hermana Findlay--she is amazing! She is the sweetest thing ever. Sometimes she´s like a Disney Princess with how sweet she is haha. She is so fun and we laugh a lot. She knows how to work really hard and she´s super duper obedient--like to the very minute and little details. So that´s awesome! We have already seen so many miracles and I know we will see so many more. This week we found 8 new investigators! The normal is like 4 or 5. We are so excited! We are going to tear this place apart :) But she´s so fun and we know a ton of the same people, so it´s super funny. She lives right off 45th and 13th east haha. Who knew??? It´s also been super fun living in a 4-hermana piso! The other 2 hermanas are from California and Italy! It´s the best. We don´t see them throughout the day really, but we party at night and it's way fun :)

Well fam, I sure love this work. I know it´s true. Heavenly Father is so aware of us, our every need. I know that He answers every single prayer and that He will never, ever forsake us. This work is incredible! We are a team and it´s moving forward! There is an energy and excitement about this work that´s just rippling through the earth--it´s incredible! I´m trying to transmit it through this computer to you haha :) But you all already have it! You are such incredible examples of living the gospel and living your testimonies. I look up to you all so much! I love you all SO, SO much and thank you so much for all you are doing! I love you, and have the most wonderful week!

Love, Hermana Boyer

P.S. If the Conference Ensign comes out from this last conference, could someone send it to me? I am super excited to read it in English haha :) But no hurry or anything, just whenever :) Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

This is me with my homies Sergi and Kevin :) Pretty much my besties :)


Here is me with Laura and Denise, some girls our age who are seriously some of my best friends. I love them so much!


Here is Hermana Findlay! Isn´t she the cutest!!!!


This is me with one of my favorite families from Badalona--the dad is not a member, and we worked with him so much. They are the best and I love them so much!