Christmas pics from Spain - December 2013

Our huuuge District! 8 of us are in Elche 

Christmas eve!! us compies :)

the coolest 4 missionaries in Elche...yes that is wine...we did not drink it lol 

Elder Paxman is on the far right. He was with me in Almeria!! siblings united :)

Christmas eve table! 

our meal...it was actually really good!!...because the family is from Argentina:)

White elephant party with the Zone! Hna Hubbard and I chose this awesome mini pool game and they just had a blast...it was as if we were watching Santa Claus 2 with all of the adults playing little kid games haha

members like to call me hermana diario...lol cuz that's daily in spanish

Elche Hermana's:)

Eliz Ano Nuevo!!! - December 30, 2013

ELIZ AÑO NUEVO!!!!! 

It was SOOOO GREAT skyping with you guys!!! Why is my family so dang funny and awesome? Im really glad that the video worked out perfectly. Thank you for making it the best Christmas ever :)

It has been SUCH A GOOD WEEK! We got to eat with members almost every day this week and actually eat real good food! Then at church we got like 3 new investigators on the spot! Remember the story from last week when we knocked a member's (Clara) aunt's door and she slammed it in our face?? Well that aunt came to church with Clara!!!! She is sooooo awesome and is dying to have us over :) We are going to see her tonight and now we are besties with her daughter who is not a member either. So, as you can see, we are super super suuuuuuper excited. There is some huge work here that could be done with this family and the rest of Clara's family :) 

This week is our last week together as compies, Hna Hubbard and I :( It'll be weird cuz she is seriously the map and knows eeeeverything. I just follow her lol so it'll be super interesting next transfer. Cant wait to see who my dying compy will be!!! 

MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH! Have a happy new year!!! 

love

Hermanita Daly

Skype with Hermana Daly - December 25, 2013!!

Alaena is doing terrific and enjoying the last 2 months of her mission:)  Merry Christmas from Spain!

Christmas Party pics! - December 23, 2013

me and Hna Hubbard at the Ward Christmas party

the party

the disgusting food they gave us....shrimp?! oh Spain...

the four Hermanas of Elche :)

Feliz Navidad!! - December 23, 2013

FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!

I love you guys!!!! Just two more days and we'll FINALLY be able to have functioning skype and see each other. It's only been a year....sheesh im so excited :)

So the mission totally owned it!!! We were supposed to find 800 new investigators this week and we ended up finding like 847!!!!! YEAH! Super awesome. It was a really hard week for me and my compy but we worked ourselves to the ground. We found this one guy knocking doors and he was like, "yeah, my cousin is a member of your church but I dont think she goes very much and I am definitely interested in the Book of Mormon." YEAH! We were so excited. So we are going to see him tonight and hopefully find out who his cousin is so we can reactivate her.

We also had a super cool experience at church yesterday. OH ps we got to see the salt lake christmas devotional!!!!! I got teary eyed of course. I freaking love MoTab!! Anyways, we were getting ready to watch it with the wards and a girl our age in our ward, Clara, came up to us and said that we knocked the door of her aunt who isn't a member and she apparently slammed the door in our face but her daughter wanted to hear us!! So she then told her cousin, Clara, that she wants to have us over! Clara is the only member of all her family and she is going to get her mom to come to church next week and then have her aunt and cousin come! Such a cool miracle. We had such a hard week and then just hearing that the other day totally was a testimony to me that even though we didn't meet our goal of finding 8 news, we had some huge miracles that we didnt even know about. It was super cool. Can't wait to meet her cousin :)

Other than that we have been teaching a 20yr old Romanian who is the BOMB! I freaking love her. Her name is Narchisa and she is the coolest person ever. She is drop dead gorgeous and so needs to be baptized. She was studying with the JW's but she was like, "yeah I dropped them because I realized that the Book of Mormon is true and the JW's teachings were all against what the BOM said so I couldnt handle that anymore." YES! She is such a stud. We hope she gets baptized in the beginning of January. She just needs to come to church.....she is always taking care of all her little nephews :(

We are stoked for Christmas. We got to go caroling all last night with the 6 other missionaries here and with some members and it was incredible. We visited some less actives and some really old widows and all of them were crying. We must have visited like 10 different families and they all loved us so much even though their hearts are a little harden. It was super awesome. I love caroling and my comp is SUCH a good singer. So we sounded dang good ;)

Love you guys so much. Talk to you in TWO DAYS! YES! Merry Christmas. I hope you all serve lots of people this season and help them remember that their Savior loves them :)

love

Hermana Daly

New Pics! - December 16, 2013

Gracia's baptism!our capilla!

this the the Dama de Elche...it's super creepy haha

Hna hubbard and I on our way to the baptism!

our capilla futbol court...holy palm trees!

Gracia got baptized!! - December 16, 2013

Heyyoooo

Gracia got baptized!! YAY! It was a great baptism and the ward totally took care of eeeeeverything. I have never ever had such a calm baptism. It was beautiful. I think the ward should help us more often! ;) jk they do a lot, I swear.

I was pretty sick for a few days so we didn't get the chance to do much work :( It was really sad. We were so grateful for the other hermanas who went to some of our citas for us!! I love them so much for that. But Im all good and healthy again and ready to find 8 new investigators this week. It's going to be really really really hard. Briiiiiing it oooon

Yeah, Elche is just doin great! ish, we don't have work, but hey thats normal! We are ready to get some investigators. We are just very very veeeeery excited for Christmas because a.)we get to skype you lovely people :) :) b.) the members allll want us over to eat! c.) It's the time to celebrate our savior's birth!!! YAY!

Hey fun fact. Spaniards hate Christmas. Absolutely hate Christmas. Why? Because they don't understand that it actually is not about money and buying but it's about Christ!! They just don't understand and they need some love and happiness from this message :D

I love you guys and I am so grateful that I know the truth and that I have loving family and friends who always support me and help me in everything! Remember the reason for the season :)

love

Hermana Daly

BAPTISM!!! - December 9, 2013

Hola hola

We have a baptism this saturday!!!! Our bomb investigator, Gracia, is finally set on getting baptized. It took quite a while to fix her doubts about Joseph Smith and the BOM but she is all ready! We are so excited. The ward just LOVES her. She was actually converted by a pass along card. One of our ward members was also converted by a card so he allllllways gives cards to everyone he sees with the chapel address on it and he gave one to her on the bus!! She then showed up to church randomly one day and hasnt stopped going since :) Huge miracle right there. So, go hand out a million pass along cards to everyone with the church address on it ;)

We went to Alicante twice this past week to help them contact for 3 hours in the morning. It was a blast....kinda...not really. I wish 30 missionaries could come to Elche and contact for us!!! It was a good service though. We also had a zone meeting up their and had president interviews. I love president Deere!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love that man. Greatest interview ever. I seriously feel like im talking to the Savior when I talk to him. He is incredible.

Well this week we are going to hand out tons of cookies to our members so that we can be BFFs and get some new investigators ;) We hope it works. Everyone is Spain hates Christmas because they have no money and no lives. It's really sad but at least they love decking out the town with christams lights! I'll have to take some pics.

I've eaten like 85 napatolianas...i'll take pics of it. it is so.dang.delish. Get ready to eat some mom and dad ;) love you guys!! Have a great week and stay safe in the snow!!!

love

Hna Daly

NEW ADDRESS:

Please send all Christmas packages and letters to the following address:

Hermana Alaena Daly
c/ Capitan Antonio Mena 150 E.S.C. 2, 1 I        (the last letter is a capital i)
03204 Elche (Alicante)
España

Pics from Puerto - December 2, 2013

Our Puerto District!!! my favorite District ever. love them so much!

more investigators..looooove these girls!

members..love them...Jose Manuel in the middle!

our chicos from futbol. they are all non members and we taught three of them. great guys!

some investigators that i looooove! from Puerto

Thanksgiving dinner with another Sister in our district

Arrived in Elche!!! - December 2, 2013

HEYYY!

Happy Thanksgiving e'ryone!!!! We have a fun one in Elche. We went to the mall and ate an an all you can eat buffet. We ate lots of pizza and pasta. It was super good....Spain wise ;) It doesnt even compare to America. So Elche is suuuuper pretty. Holy palm trees! It has the most natural palm trees in the world. Did I already say that? It may be #1 or just close second to Hawaii or somethin. But it is still BUTT COLD! SO SO SO SOOO COLD. Im going to buy tons of tights and scarves and gloves and beanies today. It is ridiculous. We just have a strong ice wind here.

So, Hna Hubbard, my new compy, is super nice! We get along great. The work is freaking crazy at the moment. Some sisters in the past didn't handle it very well so we are going to clean it up and get the work going again. There are two wards here and apparently they hate each other so the stake decided to re-do the boundaries and now they are all mixed up and we pretty much have a brand new ward as of this last Sunday. IT IS CHAOS. So we have so much work to do to help the ward and get to know them since they have no idea who we are.

We only have one investigator here and she needs to be baptized asap so we'll get on that! She's way awesome. Other than that, we have zero. Lots of work to be done! We had some really awesome door contacts! We already found 3 potentials that seem pretty legit so we'll see if they become new investigators!!

We are just going to work our little buns off together! I am so very grateful for the book of Mormon!!! I just finished it again and once again my favorite part is the all of Mormon and Moroni. I love them! It is so true and I love seeing how it has changed lives.

Love you guys a lot. Thank you for all of the fun thanksgiving pictures!!!! Have a great week!

love
Hermana Daly!!