Monday, May 1, 2017

change is good, right?

MI QUERIDA GENTE-

I know you're all waiting for the transfer news so let's just get right too it.  I'm leaving and I’M GOING TO MALAGA.  I have gone through so many mixed emotions and madre mía I do not want to leave this special place ): Jerez has touched my heart and changed my life in so many ways that I didn't think were possible. You bet I cried like a baby giving my last testimony yesterday in church and I cried basically the whole rest of the time saying goodbye to people.  I genuinely felt like I was leaving home and it was so hard.  This whole week was full of goodbyes and I didn't like it at all.  BUT I'm actually really excited to start fresh and end strong in Malaga. My companion is a super cute chica from Washington state (shoutout to the Spangler family).  She trained Hermana Wood in Alcalá and then was companions with Hermana Bailey in San Fernando so we have a lot in common :)) We've worked together for intercambios and she's a really, really dedicated and hardworking missionary so I'm really excited!!!!

I'm really sad to say goodbye to Hermana Malterre as well because she has changed my life.  I think she is hands down the most obedient missionary I have ever met and I have learned so much from her.  I'm glad to leave the area in her hands because I know she'll continue to do great things.

This week I shared a lot of scriptures with a lot of different people as a 'goodbye' and I want to share one of my favorites.  It's in Alma 26:16.
"Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever.  Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord?  Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men?  Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

I love it.  Who can glory too much in the lord??  I don't think I will ever be able to express my love and gratitude for the Savior and everything he did for me.  I feel so blessed to be a missionary and to be able to share my testimony with the world and rejoice in the gospel :-)

Sorry this is a short one, but I've got lots to do today!!!!  Next time I write I'll be in Malaga!!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL

Hermana Spangler





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