Mosque P-day

Well my sore throat from last week has turned into a giant sniffle. My poor comp was kept up one night last week as I coughed and sniffed my way through the night. But I´ve been able to work the whole time thankfully and I´m on the up road. It´s funny, I´ve been more sick on the mission than I ever was at home. It´s all the besos and handshakes and dirty buses. 

This week for pday we arranged with our district to go to Cordoba to see a mosque. Well, used to be a mosque and was converted into a cathederal. The elders were being super sweet about it too. They were being taken by a member that one of hte missionary´s is really close too, and there wasn´t space for us in the car. The train ticket was kind of expensive so we weren´t going to go. But the elder all chipped in a little for our tickets so we could afford to go. We brought them lunch, so it worked out well. 

Unfortunately we wre just a little too late getting to the cathederal-mosque to get in free. And it´s kind of expensive and we would have had to wait a long time to go in because its still in use. So instead we went with the missionary´s that work in Cordoba to see some other cool places. It was still a super fun pday. And I got to nap on the train, so that was really nice. At one point I was nodding off and did that head jerk thing. The man sitting across the aisle from me was laughing, but I carefully pretened to not notice. It happens to the best of us, especially as missionarys. :) 

This week was a very unusual week for us. We were in the pueblo from last sunday again talking to those family´s and we had zone conference. And because of zone conference we had some other hermanas in our piso the night before and picking them up took up most of our night.

 And we had interviews with President Deere this week. He interviews all the missionary´s about every 3- 4ish months. It´s one of my favorite things in the world because he´s the closet thing we have to a parent out here in the mission. I went in looking for some really specific help and he had jsut the right answers. Its amazing to see how close he is to the Spirit. Listening to him pray you just know he is talking to the Lord. And so nice to have a reminder of all the people who are thinking of me and praying for me. We spend so much time as missionarys taking care of other people that it was nice to have 20 minutes where someone else was taking care of me. It made me want to go out and work harder to give people the same type of comfort he gave me. And showed me that it doesn´t have to take a long time to comfort and help someone, it just needs to be with the Spirit. 

He talked to me a lot about the phase I am in the mission. He called it hte grind phase. I´m at the point where I feel comfortable more or less with Spanish and teaching, but I don´t have enough practice or skill under my belt just yet to get all the results I´d like. It´s really hard sometimes, gotta admit. But, as President Deere reminded me, right now is a time of dilligence. And pretty soon I´ll be soaring. :)

 So because of all these things, we actually didn´t work in the street a lot this week. It was kind of strange. Has us both ready to get to work and find some new investigators! We´re (always) in need of investigators. But when we start to get down about feeling like we don´t have much to do I just remind myself and my companion of the week I had in Granada with only 5 lessons. And then we feel a lot better. 

It´s a beautiful sunny day here in Spain. So funny though, because everyone is still wearing coats. Not just the old people either. On our way here we saw a girl about our age bundled up in a winter coat with a scarf wrapped all around her neck. So odd, seeing as how it´s probably close to 70 degrees. Makes me nervous for the summer if they think this is still cold. 

I asked Elder Bastien, one of the missionary´s in my district today if he had any advice for how to survive an Andalucía summer. He told me do a really good job at doing your job, because then you´ll be inside all day. Sounds like great advice to me. 

Okay, love you all a lot. Enjoy today, cause it´s going to be awesome! Stay close to Heavenly Father through prayer and everything will work out better. Hugs and beseos (unless you´re a boy, and then just a handshake. Because boys are icky.). 

Loves,

Hna Woolley