Contacting, knocking and more contacting...........January 27, 2014

Hello!

Another week that seemed to drag on for forever but it was a good week! We are still expecting to have to awesome baptisms on feb 9th!! WE ARE STOKED! I freaking love Encarni and Narchisa! It'll be great! 

This week was full of contacting and knocking and contacting and knocking and walking till our backs die. It's been hard but we are slowly finding some potentials. My compy, Hna Theoblad, is making me fat with her delicious cooking. I love my life :)The weather has been super nice as well! Like high 60s!! YEAH! Thats my winter right there. 

Here is an awkward story:

We have been trying to get together with this investigator from a few years ago and we call her all the time and she always tells us to call the next week. Anyways, after like a month of doing this we FINALLY got to come to her house. We go there and we meet some of her nieces that are like 20s and super nice and all from Columbia and then the mom was like, "ok kids, the Americans are here! Let's have english class." We were like.....ummmmm we are definitely not going to come just to teach english...that's why we have designated english classes twice a week at our capilla. We both just stared at each other like, what do we say?? Right off the bat I was like, "so we were confused and we actually had a message prepared for you guys but we can just teach a little and then share the message, k?" The mom was not very happy with me hahaha but in the end it went well and like 4 more people from their family walked in and listened to the lesson! They werent super interested but we could tell that they totally felt the spirit in our lesson. We'll see if we ever see those guys again. 

Thats our life....only teaching english class and never the Gospel haha jk jk we teach the Gospel lots ;)

Ok, have a great week everyone! sorry for never having pictures.....we never do cool stuff cuz eurpoean missionaries get gyped on money. Ive been using my own money for 2 months. Lets just say me and the financial Elder in the mission office have lots of fun chats on the phone...

love you guys!

Love

Hna Daly

Coolest investigators for our LAST month! - January 20, 2014

Hey Fam!

We have the coolest investigators. Even though we just have like 4 in total...3 in one family...they are the best and so prepared. They all came to church last sunday and the ward just loves them. Encarni and Conchi are 43 and 63 years old and they both stopped smoking! They have smoked the majority of their lives and they are 1 week without smoking. It is a miracle. Encarni has just been bearing her testimony to everyone she sees about the power of power and the Savior. She is incredible. I cry like every time when Im with her. She has made all of our members cry!! haha she is incredible.

We also had an awesome noche de hogar (FHE) with all of our investigators and a few members. Our recent convert, Gracia, was there too!!!! I havent seen her in soooo long! (She's in the other ward) I love her so much. It was the funnest night ever. Lots of spirit felt and the funnest game ever that involved chocolate....I'll have to teach it to you all when I get back :)

I love my compy, Hna Theobald. We are going to kick some butt this last month together.

I hope you are all searching for people to share the Gospel with. Im currently reading THE GREATEST BOOK EVER!!! It's called The Power of Every Day Missionaries by Clayton Christensen. Greatest book ever. I hope I can be the greatest member missionary after the mish. READ IT! It will blow your mind. 

Love

Hna Daly

Awesome week!! - January 13, 2014

Hey guys!

K, sorry this will be a short one! but we had an awesome awesome week! Our freaking awesome family is progressing lots and came to church and they just love it! And then our cute romanian girl also came! It was a great sunday and the ward accepted them suuuuper super well. We are really hoping and praying for them to be baptized before I go. I love them SO MUCH!!!

I just love Elche. So much. This place is the best and Im super glad it's my dying area. Me and my new compy, hna Theobold are doing some awesome work right now.

We have had the most powerful lessons this last week that I have ever had on the mission with our investigators. They just need to be baptized. They are all so incredible.

Ok, I have to start doing some BYU stuff. LOVE YOU GUYS!

love

Hermana Daly

pics from Day of Kings - Jan 6, 2014

me in Murcia!! so pretty

our district is so dumb haha we always get lost!

we took the funniest little bus ride of our lives

THE ELEPHANT right outside our piso!!! 

that's an elephant with the black king on it hahaha

compies!! this was during the huuuuge parade party

el roscón!! suuper delish. the famous bread treat that they eat for the reyes

part of the family that we are teaching! also the other Hermanas and Clara in the front!

pure chocolate mmmmmmmm you eat this with the roscón :)

Feliz Dia De Los REYES!!!! - January 6, 2014

yuuuuup it's Jan 6th...aka like the biggest fiesta you have ever seen! Ok, really last night was the biggest fiesta of my life. It was like Christmas Eve and New Years Eve mixed together....so huge. THERE WAS AN ELEPHANT right outside our piso just parading down the street!!! Like, what?! It was the funnest party I have ever seen in Spain. It just made my love for Elche that much stronger. I love Elche SO MUCH! I have some sick pics comin soon. Basically they just celebrate the 3 kings. One king was black and riding the elephant and then two others were just white...how boring...riding the camels. They had such an awesome drumline just pounding it out and dancing like fools. So funny. I have some super cool videos. They just had thousands and thousands of people in the streets with their kids picking up all the candy that the kings and other performers throw at them. Loved every second of it.

We also had a huge party in Murcia with 60 missionaries and Pres Deere and Hna Deere. Also so much fun. We did a talent show and ate tons of good food and had the most spiritual conference I have ever had. The main topic was the Atonement and I LOOOOOOVE the Atonement!!! It is like the greatest thing to study and to understand. I just cant get enough of it. It was amazing. The talents were also hilarious. I never knew that natives could act!!! haha it was so funny. 

On the work side....we are still working strong with our investigators. We are teaching a whole family now!!! That one aunt of Clara we found knocking doors, yeah we are now teaching her family. I love them so much. We just havent had much working time due to the milllions of fiestas that are going on but we are going to work hard with them this week!!

Transfers....so depressing. I freaking LOVE Hna Hubbard and she is leaving me! Im super sad. Hna Theobald is coming on Wednesday to be my compy. I never like changes lol we'll see how they go! 

LOVE YOU GUYS! Keep spreading the Gospel and reading those scriptures!!!! If you arent reading your scriptures and praying, you won't have a desire to share the Gospel :)

Love

Hermana Daly