(A little insight as to why this weeks blog post is so late. Rachel usually sends her emails on Monday mornings, except when it is a transfer Monday and then she emails on Tuesday. We knew this was a transfer week because Rachel told us in her email last week. Ron, myself, Taylor and Courtney were all up at our churches youth camp, where we had very little cell reception. It was a little comical to see Ron and me searching for a spot at camp where we got cell reception. We were in the Sierras. We kept checking our emails on Tuesday but nothing came. For the most part we stayed calm. We knew there was a good reason she didn't send her email Tuesday. I will say we were very happy and a little relieved when she emailed us on Wednesday. Hence the subject line in her email "I promise I'm alive!)
HI! Sorry it's so late in the week. Transfers were crazy yesterday and I had no time to email. First of all that picture of all of you at the teaparty is soooo cute and I'm super jealous that I couldn't dress up and go! I want to do another one when I get home okay? You all look super hot! I love that Carolina commented on it. That's so awesome!! How cool is it that you have a Spain friend now mom?? By the way, she's happy about Chile winning because that's where shes from. Just so you understood correctly! (When Chile beat Spain, Carolina posted on Facebook and from what I could understand in my elementary Spanish, she was excited that Chile won. I wasn't sure if I was correct in my understanding, since she lives in Spain. Rachel cleared it up for me and now it makes perfect sense.)
I hope you are all having a great time at girls camp! I really wish I could be there! Next year hopefully though. I'm sorry I couldn't write you (Taylor and Courtney). There has just been a lot going on. But just know that I'm singing girls camp songs in my head every day before I eat so I can feel like I'm there with you all :)
Well are you ready for all the updates!? I know you're waiting for transfer information but I'm going to make you wait a little longer. I have to go through the week first of course!
So the weather has been super hot and humid here lately (which is awful let me tell you). But the other day we were in a cita and it was all sunny and beautiful. We took the bus home and there were clouds rolling in. The minute we stepped off the bus, there was the biggest storm I have ever seen!!!!!! It was pouring rain and we couldnt even walk or I would have blown away! The elders came running over with jackets and umbrellas for us so we could get home. They were soaked too. They came to our rescue though because they only live 2 minutes from the station and we live about 15. It was super nice. The umbrellas broke on our way home, but we made it safely. SOAKED, but safe haha. It was quite the change in weather.
Okay the truth is I dont have much time to write today so I'll finally get to the good stuff. So they called on Saturday to tell us about transfers...all they told me was that I was going to be getting a mini missionary but they had no idea who or where she was coming from. So what is a mini missionary? It's a youth from a ward in the boundaries of our mission who wants to see what a mission is like before they serve. So there are I think 5 in the mission right now because we are getting a huge group of missionaries in August and our mission president didn't want to close areas. The only way to keep them open though was to bring people in for one transfer before the new sister missionaries get here. Do you know what that means?? I am most likely trainging next transfer, and I'm literally starting from scratch right now! (Just some stats about Rachels mission. Rachel got to Barcelona last September and in her group of new missionaries 24 were sister missionaries. At the time her mission only had 12 sisters in the entire mission. Since those 24 sisters, almost a year ago, they have only had 8 new sisters come to the Barcelona mission. This August they are expecting another large group of sister missionaries like Rachels group.)
My companions name is hermana Tineo. She is from Peru but lives on Mallorca, the islands here. She doesn't speak any English so this is going to be awesome!! I am going to learn so much this way! She is here for 6 weeks and she literally is starting from scratch. She found out on Sunday night that she was coming to the mission! She hasn't been to the MTC or anything. I really am going to teach everything...I guess I got what I asked for when I said I wanted to train right?? haha I am super excited though. She is excited and so willing to do the work! It's going to be a great learning experience and a great transfer!
So yesterday I had to go to the train station in Barcelona (an hour and a half train ride north) to drop off my companion and then get another sister and go to the airport to pick up our companions. It was a little bit crazy but we finally found them, got back on the train to head home and now were safe and back in Tarragona! (Now we can see why she didn't get a chance to email on Tuesday. She spent the entire day traveling.)
Well I'm like out of time because I was supposed to do this yesterday...oops haha. But thank you for emails this week. If I didn't respond to people it was because I really only wrote to you! But give everyone my love at girls camp and sing loud for me! Thank you for sharing a little of Elder Higbees talk! He is goign to do great! (Our friend Brett Higbee is going to Mexico City on his mission and gave his farewell talk in church this past Sunday. I shared part of his talk with Rachel. In his talk Brett shared remarks from a talk from Elder Bednar on being Steadfast and Immoveable. It's a great talk if you would like to read it).
Have an amazing week and try to see the hand of the Lord in all you do! It's amazing what the Lord can do for us if we have faith and the desire to know and to grow.
Con amor,
Hermana Barker
Hermana Barker
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