Valencia

Hola familia y amigos!!!!

It's starting to get cold (NOOOOO) and I wore a cardigan for the first time today! Sad sad sad:(( It is fun to see the Spain winter style though. These people are so dang beautiful I LOVE seeing their outfits and the way they put themselves together. Spaniards know their stuff. 

Speaking of which, today was such a fun preparation day. We were going to meet up with all the Hermanas in our zone and do a girls day but the valencia metro and bus system was super slow today so we didn't make it. So we ended up just walking around and exploring. Took pretty pictures. Bought winter dresses at zara (HAPPY:)))) A member bought us sandwiches (because we saw them in the sandwich shop), and we found gelato! It was a super fun, relaxing, we felt like tourists day. Those are my favorite.

The work is also super happy. I love that we're meeting so many different kinds of people. It's fun to be in the kind of situation where I can just go into people's houses and talk to them, teach them, get to know them. You feel really one with the culture. And make tons of friends. I love it:)) 

So this week we met with Claudia (remember the woman I told you about last week whose friend brought her to church?? yeah her!!! She's so great!!) and taught what was one of the best 1st lessons I've ever taught in my whole life. Hermana Vance is so good, she's making us better. She's got tons of good ideas. So for this lesson we planned out questions to ask Claudia after every single point of the lesson. And it flowed BEAUTIFULLY and she answered our questions, and asked us questions when she didn't understand something. It was beautiful. And then we invited her to be baptized and she was all for it. And she wanted to know everything she has to do to prepare and everything. So she's gold. But then she moved to Valencia. So maybe we won't be able to teach her, but I feel blessed that we got to see her introduction to the church.

We're also still teaching Denisse (the Brazillian who wants to get baptized but can't because her boyfriend won't marry her unless she gets baptized into the Catholic church and they get married into the catholic church). Pray for her. She's had this recent fire desire to get baptized so we're really thinking things might start happening and the wedding plans will get rolling. We fasted with her this week on Wednesday. And she said the cutest prayer to start the fast and was like "please bless me with a way to get baptized". Love her. It's incredible to me to see that the desires to act in faith and be baptized come so naturally once someone has put in the work to really know if the church is true or not. I love it.

So that's my week for ya!!!!! It's so good. I love love love the work and I love my companion and I love Catarroja and I love the gospel and the Book of Mormon and I know it's true!!!

Love you all!

Love,

Hermana Johnson

LOOK AT HOW PRETTY VALENCIA IS!!!!!!!