Hello everyone! 

This week has been crazier than usual. I went to the mission home in Fuengirola to finish off my residency, so now I am an official resident of Spain! And I had intercambios so one of the other hermanas came here to Granada and Hna Roan went to Malaga. It was crazy, but it was so, so good. But it does mean that I spent a lot of time sitting in a bus station or on a bus. So I was able to get pretty far in the Book of Mormon. We´re trying to read the whole book by the end of the year as a mission, highlighting every time one of Christ´s names is mentioned or he speaks. It´s been really cool, I´m excited to look back through and take a closer look at what he´s saying at the end of the year. 

On Sunday we had a baptism in the ward. Her name is Yolanda, she´s really quiet but super nice. She recieved a very special confirmation blessing and bore such a sweet testimony. It was so brave of her to get up infront of everyone and share her testimony, I was really proud of her. Hna Roan and I and a girl from the ward, Ruth, did a musical number. I played the piano and Hna Roan sang and Ruth played the violin. It was really beautiful, I think we´ll be doing it again. It was I need thee Every Hour. I think. I played a lot of songs yesterday, the baptism started late so I was playing prelude for a really long time. But it was a super awesome baptism, one of the most spiritual I´ve ever been to. 

I´ve really started falling in love with taking the sacrament. It becomes more special to me every time I take it. I understood what the sacrament was before my mission and accessed the blessings and lived my covenants. But something about  being on a mission changes things. I´m so much closer to the Spirit, I think I´m learning things on a different level out here. 

So when I was at the mission home we had Cafe Rio style burittos for dinner. It was so, so good, reminded me of home because Hna Deere did a cilantro salsa thing on top. So yum! That was my favorite food of the week. 

Intercambios are always kind of funny. Both times the other Hermanas freaked out over Granada. I kind of love seeing it again through their eyes. And I always get a laugh out of how many pictures they want to take. Both times the hermanas pretty much carry the camera in hand as we walk around. 

So, explaining intercambios. We have ´head´ sister missionary´s, kind of like a Zone Leader. And they just work with every companionship of sisters they are over once a transfer to help them learn and give advice on their area. They´re just more experienced Hermanas. It´s good to see how different people contact and interact, both times I´ve picked up little things. 

I got your package Mom! Thanks so much for the drops and photos and such! The photos made me laugh, they´re on my wall along with the ones Grandma Woolley sent and tylers drawings. It looks great :) This computer doesn´t have a place to plug in my thumb drive so I think I´ll send the pictures next week. 

Funny story of the week. A member (Rosario) that we visit every week is homebound and pretty old so we and the Elders have told her to call us when she needs something. The other day Hna Roan and I are woken up by our phone, and it´s Rosario. We decided to call her back later.  I get out of bed and go into the bathroom, thinking it´s time to get up. When I come out I try to wake Hna Roan up, telling her it´s time to get moving. She´s super confused, which confuses me. We look at the clock its 1:·30 in the morning. I slap the light switch in the living room and crawl back into bed without another word. Our alarm clock is on our phone so I think it messed me up. We both laughed about it in the morning, but in the moment I was just relieved that I got to keep sleeping because I was super tired still, for good reason.

I love you all a lot! Stay warm and have a happy Halloween!

Hermana Woolley