By now you may have heard that today there was a tragic event which occurred at the Plaza Cataluña near Barcelona's City Center. A van plowed into a crowd of people on the famed Rambla causing serious injuries to more than 20 people; CNN reports at least one death in the attack. Immediately after I was notified of this by Church Security, my Assistants made calls to every single companionship in the Barcelona, Badalona and Hospitalet Zones (more than 70 missionaries in our mission) which are all in the Barcelona area. Gratefully all missionaries are accounted for and none were involved. If your missionary is not in one of those 3 zones, it would be highly unlikely they would be affected since they need permission from the mission president to leave their zone and none had requested said permission. We are so grateful the Lord has watched over His missionaries and protected them once again. We love them very much and feel honored and grateful that we can serve side by side with them in this great work of bringing souls to Christ. We pray for the victims of this senseless tragedy and ask the Lord's blessings to be and comfort them during this difficult time.
Sincerely,
Presidente and Hermana Dayton
Dear Rachel,
As soon as I heard about Barcelona, I also read you were safe and sound. But we looked it up and its only about 20mls from you?? That was way too close for comfort and I am very relieved and grateful.
I look forward to your group email. Lots of friends have been asking and are interested in your welfare.
Here's a perseverance poem I ran across. Its called
The Frog Poem
Two frogs fell into a can of cream,
Or so I’ve heard it told;
The sides of the can were shiny & steep,
The cream was deep & cold.
"O, what’s the use?" croaked Number One,
"’Tis fate; no help’s around.
Goodbye, my friends! Goodbye, sad world!"
And weeping still, he drowned.
But Number Two, of sterner stuff,
Dog-paddled in surprise.
The while he wiped his creamy face
And dried his creamy eyes.
"I’ll swim awhile, at least," he said-
Or so I’ve heard he said;
"It really wouldn’t help the world
If one more frog were dead."
An hour or two he kicked & swam,
Not once he stopped to mutter,
But kicked & kicked & swam & kicked,
then hopped out...via butter!
We love you,ma
YEEES
I live so far away from barcelona. like 45 minutes. yeah I need to
get on that huh...hehehe HEY! daniel wrote me and he says he´s doing all
good! he is FREE and they are going to go BEAST mode this next
transfer. he loves his companion and his recent convert just received
the priesthood!
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| Yesss! That's my girl...she never lets me down with news. I am so happy she is safe and sound and the news about Daniel's new convert thrills me to no end.
Amarillo!
well look! 2 weeks until the end of the transfer and i haven´t written once. BAD HERMANA FULLER BAD!
So here I am, group email, vamos.
we are in Terrassa still which is about 45 minutes from Barcelona. Don´t worry all the missionaries are safe in our mission. The Lord really does protect us. We´re really praying for the families that are suffering this week though.
For times like this I´m incredibly grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the Lord has a plan and those people that are suffering because of the agency of others, Christ will make it right in the end.
So on another note here in Terrassa people are super lazy and don´t like to actually do anything with their lives except, work and eat and sleep. (oh...wow the things I have in common with Spaniards)
so helping them commit to things so they can repent and come unto Christ is a LITTLE tricky, but my companion is very creative and likes to try new things and different ways of contacting the people.
so this week we will be drawing the plan of salvation in chalk and singing in very populated areas, we also want to find old ladies to teach us how to knit and then we hope to reach some very high goals these last two weeks.
as far as me personally, I´m learning a lot. Spanish is coming along slowly but surely and I´m just really grateful to feel the love the Savior has for me and for his children. It´s crazy to have this realization of HEY no matter who you were or what you´ve done, He´s always there for us and we can always become better.
So ANYWAY
this week we have conference tomorrow and then Wednesday we have German class and English class and then Thursday we´re gonna go contacting with some of our young women. so poco a poco I´m learning how to be more effective as a teacher and as a friend to the people we meet. It´s a beautiful thing to see the love the savior has for the people that we meet. It´s a special ability missionaries have I think, even though sometimes I´m just like....why are you a crazy person? I still feel the love of Christ for them...it´s a miracle....
THE GOSPEL IS TRUE!
I love ya´ll ;)
Love,
Hermana Fuller
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