hola family and friends!!!!!!
this week was hard but im telling you the days are FLYING by!!!! there´s not much to write this week so hopefully i´ll have more time to actually read all my emails this week.
this week has been crazy and hard and has really tested my faith but dont worry im still going strong!!! the park was GREAT this week!! my companion was hermana estrada, a full spaniard that speaks no english whatsoever but has the sweetest and kindest soul ever. it just so happened that this week in the park we only talked to 1 english person, so for the whole 2 hours in the park i only spoke spanish. which was amazing but also way hard. we gave out 4 books of mormon and 15 pamphlets and contacted 67 people!!! hermana estrada did most of the work because when people hear her spanish they speak a lot faster and its hard for me to keep up. she would talk to them and teach them and then let me testify with my broken spanish. the first lady that we talked to wanted to know more so we got a reference!!!! (her name and number and email) it was so great because that means that different missionaries can go to her house and teach her more. she was very excited that i was from texas and kept bringing that up throughout our whole conversation. everyone else we talked to didnt want anything but let us bear our testimonies to them-which is definitely still something!!! i gave a book of mormon to a man from turkey that wanted to read it on his own and everything so that was exciting!!!! the other 2 and the rest of the pamphlets were all spanish speakers so i didnt understand everything but it was still great!! hermana estrada had such a love for the people and for me and the gospel and i really learned that showing the people the love you have for them will really let them open up to you and they will be more willing to listen.
in other news, hermana allen and i were called to be the sister training leaders!!!! which bascially means we are in charge of all the girls here and making sure that everyone is happy. its fun because we get to spend extra time with thte president and his wife and its given me the opportunity to really meet all the girls here. we have 6 full spaniard girls and also 5 girls that are learning russian. so our group is very diverse but we have a lot of fun. every night before bed we have a group prayer all together and the prayer is in a different language almost every night (spanish, english, russian, french, portuguese..)its amazing and the spirit is seriously so strong in that circle. we are so blessed with our zone and the group that we have and i have made so many friends that i know i will stay friends with forever. one hard part for me on a mission is all the goodbyes ;( we meet all these people and become really close and then have to separate in 6 weeks. its hard but also great how the spirit and the love we have for the gospel can really connect us. my favorite teacher and favorite person EVER left this week and i cried like a baby. one thing that this mission has done for me is that its made me more emotional...really i cry all the time now and its crazy because i really was never been that big of a crier. the spirit just touches me so often that i cant ever hold back the tears. its amazing how the spirit speaks to us in different ways and can touch us in ways we never thought would happen.
a lot of people have been asking to hear spanish so i decided i would end this letter by bearing my testimony in spanish.
yo se que dios es nuestro padre celestial y nosotros somos sus hijos. yo se que jesucristo es el hijo de dios y a través de su expiacion, podemos recibir la vida eternal. el libro de mormon es evidencia del amor de dios por sus hijos. yo amo mucho el libro de mormon. estoy agradecido por todos las personas en mi vida y les quiero mucho!!!!
sorry if that makes no sense at all but there´s a little sneak peak to what ive learned. also sorry that the email this week is a lot shorter AND no pictures but thank you thank you thank you all for all the love and support!!!! all the letters and emails and everything else have really brightened my day!!! i LOVE you all and miss you guys so much!!!!
con amor,
xoxo
hermana spangler
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