The final countdown

Well another exciting week it has been! As a mission, we read the book of mormon in 2 days and oof it was kind of exhausting but I loved it! I loved seeing the excitement it brought people and the spirit that it brought into our lives and those that participated with us. And my favorite part was hearing everyone's testimonies at the end and just being surrounded by the spirit testifying of the truthfulness of that book!

We also got a little taste of Colombia this week! I met this guy on Facebook named Samuel and he doesn't live in Spain, but we got to teach him over video call and my oh my i have never seen someone so ready to be baptized. He basically taught himself all the principles of the gospel and asked how he could join our church and then share it with others all in the space of about an hour, and he's well on his way in the book of mormon. Incredible.

On Monday night last week we met with Mathias to talk about his baptism and see if he would be able to be baptized this month. Lots of stuff went down. He's ready to be baptized and he knows it. But he wants to take care if some things first. The spirit was so strong in that lesson, some tears might have been shed, and i felt how a small portion of how much love God has for that man. And don't worry, Mathias is still on track, possibly could still get baptized in May pero vamos a ver, just a small hiccup.

After 64 days, quarantine is over!! Well not quite, but we entered phase 1 which means we can leave our piso! (so we're gonna stop counting now) So today we went on an excursion to centro and i showed my comp around since she hasn't seen anything of malaga yet and we did a lot of walking. And let me tell you, after 64 days of sitting in piso, we did 3 hours of walking and it hurt. And it was nice to breathe fresh air kind of. We had masks on and it was very warm outside so they got a little sweaty in there, but we'll take what we can get!

Well, just want to let you all know that I know that the book of mormon is true. And i know that the most important thing I could be doing right now is sharing that with others.

Love you all! Have a good week!

Hermana Pendleton

I have pictures that aren't just quarantine countdowns :)

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Pringles save us

This week we just did a nice little tour of the south, which was very nice because all the other cities aren't as hot as malaga plus all the other hermanas pisos have air conditioning haha. We went from malaga to fuengirola to ronda to Jaén to Granada and back to malaga. And when we finally stepped of the bus back in malaga, the heat hit and humidity hit us harder than ever and we had already started back on filling those lakes just on our short walk back to piso. I love Málaga. On all of our very long bus rides we got very hungry but you're not allowed to eat on the buses because of Mascarillas. And the only food item we ever had was Pringles because it's the only good thing they sell at bus stations, so we would just slide one under the mask and into our mouths every few minutes when nobody was looking so we didn't starve to death. We really know how to do things right. When we were in Jaen on intercambios, we visited this cute member family. And like I said, they wer...

Rondaaaa

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Lakes to slightly smaller lakes

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