our true potential

HELLO TO ALL MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

This has actually been a crazy week and it went by soooo fast.  My mind is all jumbled up today so bear with me.  In summary, this is what happened:

Tuesday- We had a district meeting.  It was fantastic!!!!  We talked about what we can do to work with the members and find more people.   Our mission is starting a new plan to work with the members and IT IS SO COOL.  The SHEs((sister training leaders)) and zone leaders are doing a test run on in this week and then we'll try it with everyone.  I'll let you know what it is and how it goes a little later in the

future.  Then we went straight to the train station and headed out to Fuengirola!!!  I had to do some residency stuff there so I got to see my group :-)

Wednesday-the residency stuff was actually Wednesday morning and then we spent the whole day traveling back so there was no time to do much.   We contacted a bunch and passed by a few houses and then it was time to go home.

Thursday- thanksgiving!!!!!!!  We had plans to go to a member’s house and eat but last minute he failed so we ended up having an American thanksgiving in the church as a district.  We had mashed potatoes, chicken, salad, brownies and homemade rolls.  It was wonderful :))  We talked about what we were thankful for and it was a pretty great time overall.  I just want to put it out there that I am MORE than thankful for all of you, my wonderful, favorite people.  Thank you so so much for all your support and love.  I couldn't do it without you.  Thursday night, we had a cita with a woman named Lola. She's actually a reference from a member family and she is AMAZING.  She is seriously golden!!!!!  She's been reading the Book of Mormon and we invited her to pray about it.  She said she would definitely do it by the next time we saw her.  Keep her in your prayers please!!!  She's recovering from a super big surgery because she has cancer :(

Friday-my first intercambio!!!!!!  Hermana Lamb and Hermana Stilson came and stayed with us until Saturday afternoon.  Hermana Lamb is from my group so that was fun to work with her.  We just walked a ton because it was raining and everything we had fell through but it was great to catch up with her and talk.  We talked a lot about our true potential the fact that we can never really reach our full potential in this life but that the church is definitely a church of progression.  We can always try as hard as we can and even if it's not enough we will still get credit for trying.  We should try to be a little bit better tomorrow than we were today and naturally our potential will keep rising and we will have to keep working at becoming more like our savior.  If we use the atonement more fully in our lives and use the power of repentance and the strength that Christ provides the act of perfecting our imperfections becomes more possible.  Hermana Stilson is a brand new, one week old missionary and she is a rock star!!!!!  We had a SUPER great time and it was fun to work with someone that is so brand new and so pumped with animo.  It was a really good intercambio overall and it made me really excited for the ones we will continue to have this transfer :))

Saturday- I have officially hit 10 MONTHS ((what???)) these months keep going by faster and faster and it's kinda freaking me out a little bit.  We had a ward activity for thanksgiving and it actually turned out great!!!!  The bishop just kinda threw the whole responsibility on us so we did the activities, the spiritual thought, the food, the decorations, and the cleaning.  Needless to say, we were very stressed but it was a great turnout and super fun :)) there's some videos and pictures attached so you can appreciate these crazy Spaniards.

Sunday-I was sick and feverish all day and it rained like crazy this week so that didn't help :/ We laid low but we got to talk to all of our hermanas and have a district lunch so it was a good day overall.

The new "light the world" video came out this week!!! ITS SO GOOD GUYS, GO WATCH IT. It's on www.mormon.org :)) There's also a list of 25 things you can do in the 25 days of Christmas.  If we all make an effort to serve the people around us, this might just be the most special Christmas yet.

Hermana Højholdt and I are BEST FRIENDS.  Ah, we seriously have so much fun together and we're always laughing.  I'm so excited for this transfer to continue to unfold and see all the miracles God has in store for us.

Until next week,

I love you all!!!!!!!

Hermana Spangler