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Sooo that awkward moment when you realize you never sent your long email from the week before... here it is, better late than never!

Familia, Amigos, y los demas,

Wow, already time to email again? Weeks are definitely going by faster and faster.

Sooo...I can finally tell you what President told all of the Sister Leaders last week in Leadership council. We are all training a new missionary from the new group that comes in this week and be in trios which means: I will be training Hermana Walker and a brand new missionary... I'm kind of freaking out. I feel like I've been in the field for just a couple of weeks and that I am so under qualified to be responsible for two missionaries before I've even hit my sixth month mark but I'll be honest, as stressed out as I get when I think about it, all of you (or at least those who know me well) know that I love a challenge so a part of me is super stoked (p.s. they say "stoked every other word in Spain so consider this your fair warning that I'm going to come home and probably say it all of the time...feel free to beat that out of me)

So I'm afraid this week might be a little boring since I was up in Barcelona for four days of it (for leadership training and to get Hermana Walker's residency card) but whatever, I'll do my best :)

Okay but before I get too far, can we please just freak out for a second that it is already September (almost my mom's birthday! please spoil her for me!)

Alright so when we last communicated I was just about to leave to Barcelona. You'll be happy to know we arrived safely but at like 10:45. We didn't get to Hermana Shaffer's piso, where we were staying that night, until about 11 or a little later, I felt super rebellious! ;) ...no idea why I am in such an emoticon mood right now but I totally am. Anyway, super great as always to catch up with Hermana Shaffer oh and fun fact, her companion (a friend of mine from the MTC) is coming down to Valencia this transfer which will be awesome! Wednesday we picked up the residency card then hung out in the office until our train left with the office elders and President and Hermana Pace (things have been super hectic there because they have 44 missionaries coming in this week! that's like a third of what we have now. Transfers are going to take three days! It's crazy but they are super prepared).

Then we got home from Barcelona and visited a sweet older lady in our ward. Afterwards, we ran into a member who I absolutely love but who out of nowhere left his family a couple of weeks ago and who no one had heard from since. It was such a tender mercy to see him again. He has returned home and we are visiting with his family tomorrow night for a family home evening and I am very excited. I don't know what happened but I'm so glad that it's fixed and that he has invited us over!

We had a few really good less active lessons but I'd say the best lesson we had this week was with a man named Isdi. Every time we teach him he is so interested and asks so many questions. He really wants to understand what we are teaching and when we answer his questions he always says "ahhh" or "oh I never knew that before"

We taught a few other lessons but unfortunately nothing really worth documenting but we are determined that we are going to have a really good week.

Today for preparation day we toured The Mestalla (The Valencia C.F. stadium) it was fun (not nearly as nice as Madrids but still super cool) and then we had a big lunch and played uno in the capilla. Just enjoying our last day together before transfers (there were only I think two companionship in the whole zone that aren't changing, it's super sad, I'm going to miss a lot of the people who are leaving but I know I'm going to love all of the people who are coming). It was a super fun day and then tonight we are having a family home evening/birthday party with the Mambos (the family we eat with every Sunday). It'll be great.

Well I love you! Have a great week! 

Hermana Tuttle