AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Jolin (pronounced Holeen) I can't believe how fast time is flying. As always I'm doing absolutely amazing! We are seeing miracle after miracle here, people are being prepared left and right and it just breaks my heart a little bit to think that I won't be able to see a lot of these people on their special day but so relieved to know that I am leaving this area so strong to two absolutely amazing missionaries. Which leads to me to the first bit of news:
Hermana Masters- For my final two weeks I will be in a trio with Hermana Ward and Hermana Masters. She is as sweet as they come. I probably sound like a broken record or that I need to expand my vocabulary because I use the same adjective with every companion but it's so true all of my companions are so sweet. She's from California, she's been in the mission 6 months, she is just leaving her first area Castellón (near Valencia) with none other than Herman Durham! Oh how I love all of my companions. You get so close to them and then it's so hard to say goodbye and to go so long without seeing them...new goal: go a whole email without saying "so," I am so American.
Okay so basically we are just teaching a bunch of amazing people! Harold who is the cutest little 8 year old gypsy, he has had a really rough life, he's never met his mom because she is a drug addict and just abandoned him when he was born three months premature and his dad has been in prison his whole life so he lives with his grandparents who are so sweet and so humble. We met him through another family we are teaching and then a few days later when we saw him and his mom on the street he introduced us to his mom and said "these are my new friends I was telling you about" the mom could not stop thanking us and told us that Harold loved the lesson and has told her he would like to be baptized.
Then there's Mireya who I talked about a few weeks ago, well we had another amazing lesson with her and she now has a baptismal date for the end of this month. When we started talking about life after death she began to cry, she has so many people dear to her that have passed away and I'm so grateful that we get to help her realize that the seperation is only temporary.
Another person: Rosi, I felt like I needed to contact her the other day, she was sitting on a bench and then last night we had a lesson with her (Joan Pau came with us) and it was perfect she wants to come to all of the activities and we have another visit with her today, she had all of the right questions and concerns and it was just perfect.
That leads me into my last thing I want to talk about that is: the miracle of Joan Pau. He coming on some visits with us and is absolutely amazing, he has such a a great perspective!!! He is even finding creative ways to introduce us to his friends like the other day he and his friend Noelia made us an authentic Catalán dinner. It was AMAZING! We then had a really good talk about family history work and that families can be together forever something really helpful for Joan Pau because his mom passed away from cancer several years ago. Then on Sunday, we sustained him in sacrament meeting to receive the Aaronic priesthood. I don't know what came over me but I turned around, saw him standing there with a white shirt and tie for the first time, faced forward again, and then his whole journey flashed through my mind and I just bawled!!!! I couldn't believe it! I never cry and I just bawled right there in sacrament meeting. I am turning into such a baby. President Pace was just looking at me with tears streaming down his face from the stand. It's been a beautiful journey with Joan Pau, if I have to end I'm glad I'm ending here.
I'm as sad and as happy as can be all at the same time.
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