Mission Review - September 2014

September has been a great month of change, learning and growing for McKenna.  Her first area - Alcala de Henares has been a great move!  She has enjoyed her companions - 2, a bull fight, a running of the bulls, and of course - sharing the gospel!  

A member wanted to take them to the bull fight and the sisters received special permission from the President to go.  The member helped them get ready - complete with fans and hats!  Sister C. and McKenna in their own running of the bulls!

 McKenna was a little sad to wait for all the letters we had sent to the mission home.

The view of the university from a park they proselytize in.

The Hermanas of Alcala.

Saying goodbye to Hermana C.

Saying hello to Hermana F!

McKenna's caption was "Three nuns from one church and three nuns from another!"  I love the I love you from behind her back!

Having a jamon sandwich!

At the cathedral.

Splits with Hermana D.

Splits with Hermana H. 

Hermana H. is from Canada.  Her parents sent some pictures and she shared them with McKenna - they had traveled to Bryce this summer and were in Panguitch for the balloon festival!  McKenna was ecstatic to say the least "So this is when I really started freaking out - like dancing around the piso!"

McKenna finally received the package we had sent on Sept 11th.  We were worried because the tracking has stated that the package was "undeliverable".  Not that there was really anything too important or costly but that we had been to a wedding and asked family members if they wanted to write a short note to her.  Those would have been a tragedy to loose!  She was so excited she had to read the notes while they were still walking!

And then finally they got back to their piso!

  

  

Tears of joy for home bottled peaches and peach jam!

Addison and I had attached a scripture that applied to each item we sent.  It was kind of fun to look up scriptures we could relate to deoderant, seasoned salt, lip gloss, jerky, and granola...to name a few!

Exploring the old university.

Melting chocolate over a candle during companion study:)

Hermana E. - a recent convert on her way back to Peru.