Sister Taylor Webster

SHE LIVES!

Just received this email this morning and it made my life!

Hey!

Okay so I'm just gunna write a little about everyday here, and the schedule and the cool experiences that I've had, an then at the end i will try to answer everybodys questions, vale?

TUESDAY:

Okay so I flew from Houston to Frankfurt, and then me and 47 other missionaries flew from Frankfurt to Madrid on the mae plane. IT was really cool, just seeing all of those people in hte same exact situation as me. Okay so when we landed we got our luggag and stuff and then we walked around and found the people from the CCM (MTC), and then the loaded us all on some buses nd drove us the the CCM, which is on the outskirts of madrid, in Pavones. The CCM shares a plaza with the Madrid temple, which is super pretty, and a stake center. SO it is in this big red building, but it only takes up 3 floors. President Jackson and his wife welcomed us and we had a devotional about being a missionary. Oh and I thought that I would get my tag then but they said that we would have to wait unil the next day. SO then we left and went o th 6th floor and had lunch, and let me tell ya, the food is super amazing! I got paella!!! After that meeting, we went back down and president told us basically that he couldent assign companions until afte he had met us, so in the time it took for us to eat lunch, he prayed and recieved revelation for who was going to be our comapanions! MY companion id HNA. Cristensen, wh is pale, and a ginger. LIke two peas in a pod? And then we went to bed.

WEDNESDAY:

Okay so it turns out that learning a language s actually really hard. Who knew. So our basic routine is the wake up and get ready, eat breakfast, and then we ae in class for about 4 hours at a time, but we get losts of breaks and also some devotionals nd fireides so we dont get bored. Today we got a really good devotional on how imortant it is that when your teaching investagators, to teach them, not the lesson. Thats about it.

THURDAY:

OKay, So normally today would be our P-day, but since we just got here it is not really, so we went to class in the morning, and then in the afternoon we got to go to the temple, which as alwas was super marvelous! Then after the temple, President showed a powerpoint on the temple that was written by Presidnt Monson especially for misionaries, and it was a really spiritual experience. So my room is basically he size of jos, but there are two sets of bunk beds, and a pull out bed. There is one bathroom in our room, so I shwer in the communiy bathroom which is way more comfortable. MY roomates are the cats pajamas, super cool, and just not wierd... Its nice, ya know.

FRIDAY:

SO today was even better than yesterday, We had a seminar on la idioma (the language), or SYL which means speak your language. Anyhow, im really loving all the ackronyms I get to use know, makes me feel in the know.. Something that they keep telling us is how importan it is for us to love the people, and how if that is your main priority then the language will come. Okay so after the seminar, my district, who by the way is called MORONI, we talked, and really got to know eachother, and they are way cool, oh by the way, HNA. Christensen and i are the only sister in our district. Oh and they told us today thhat we will get to to got proselyte in the park tomorrow for two hours. sounds cool except all the people here speak spanish and i speak no that.

SATURDAY:

OKay so today went to th park, which is massie, and super pretty. Its called retiro park i think, look it up. So i was not with my companion, but i was put with some sister who are learning russian, bless their hearts. BUt we went and it as amazing, i was in a tro, and the only one who could speak any spanis, but the lord blessed us in our efforts and we got to refferals and haded out like 5,000 pass along card, and three book of mormons. Most of the people we tried to talk to had no clue what i was trying to tell them, and then we ran into like 6 people who spoke english, so tender mercy there folks.

SUNDAY:

Okay so today was church, which has been the best day so far. I basically cried the whole time, like not just church but the whole day.. Waterproof mascara, im telling you. Oh and persident basically just tell us all to prepar talks on one subject and he will call on us in sacrament metting if he feels like e shuld talk, so my comapnions got called in sacrament meeting. but she killed it. Oh and we hd an amazing lesson with president packer about the atonement... I MEAN LIFE CHANGING!!!

MONDAY:

So today was our first lesson with our fake investagator, who is one of ur teachers, but it was stil pretty crazy, and we had to teach in espanol o that was pretty intense. It went well but now we teach her everyday except thusday and sunday, so we basically have to prepare a lesson for her everday.. Crazy, just because we really dont get a ton o time, or how much i would like. BUt it is really good practice.

TUESDAY:

SO today has been prety normal, we just had class. SO none of our teachers really speak english, but their sanish is not hard to understand and i can really understand almost all of what they are saying to us. Its totally awesome because all of our teachers are from south america bassically so i can understand them, but peope from spain i cant understand at all. BUt during our lesson today totally saw the gist of tounges or the don de lenguas work in my life. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT I WAS SAYING!!! but apparently our investagator did..

WEDNESDAY:

OH Man, so i have the worst blister on the back of my heels from playing futbol, and ultimate frisbee. and they are really gross. SO anywho, i really love being here, the spirit here is really amazing. And ive totally noticed that my "Hablaing" has gotten better.