Week 13 -- Dec. 30, 2019

Almost Gave Someone a Broken Nose for Christmas


This email is for last week, sorry I ran out of time ahahaha..

Great week as always!!! I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas!!! Christmas here definitely didn't feel a whole lot like Christmas! It was a good day, but definitely very different, super grateful for the opportunity we have to call our families!!
It was weird also that my warmest day here was Christmas😂 One of my favorite traditions is every Christmas eve with my sisters, we build a big fort in our playroom and sleep in it! Well after telling Elder Toro that, he said we had to do it, so that, along with watching the family video that my dad made, was the highlight of my Christmas!!!!! It was a lot of fun😂
It was weird waking up and the only presents to open were the kinder surprise eggs we bought the night before, but was still a very good day!
Christmas here is basically the same as us just very mellow and people don't care as much😂

How was Christmas for all of you???

On Saturday we were playing fútbol with a bunch of people in the park and I went to score and probably kicked the ball a little too hard because I kicked it and it hit this guy right in the face crazy hard and his whole nose was so bruised after and I literally thought I'd broken it. So yeah go me.. and no I didn't even make the goal 🤙

We met another homeless person this week. Her name is Tatiana,  she's like 75 and has lived on and off the streets  pretty much most of her life. We just talked to her for a while and she's super super nice. We ended up giving her a Book of Mormon, because she has an incredible amount of faith and wants to be as close with God as possible, and when we gave it to her, she literally kissed the book and in tears so humbly thanked us. She even ended up telling us that her friend who's been with her for years in Spain out of nowhere died last week and she's now just alone:( Turns out Elder Toro knew this man and had met with him a few times just in the streets here and gave him a Book of Mormon a while back. She told us he died with the book in his arms. Wow.. 
It was such an eye-opening experience to me. Here is someone who has nothing, her only friend died out of nowhere and she trusts God so much and knows He is so good. What an amazing example of what our amazing prophet said about, it isn't our circumstances that defines our happiness,  it's our focus. 
The next night we brought her an extra blanket and pillow from our apartment. 

This morning we woke up pretty early and went running on the beach with the Hermanas! Wow it was super fun and the sunrise was incredible! Cotton candy skies everywhere! Geez it was cold though!!! And I've also learned that the Basque people are crazy, they cant be cold. It was probably 38 degrees outside,  I'm dressed in double layers and shivering and they're out swimming and surfing in the ocean, I dont understand!!! 

That's about all I have for this week, I love you all! I love getting your emails every week!!! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!(:  

-Elder Boden

Pictures!!
1. You should be jealous I get this view every day.

2-3. Our awesome fort!


4. Pretty good representation of how much the people were into the whole Christmas Spirit.

5. Best city ever!

6. Of course we had to leave a scripture on the  beach(: 

-Elder Boden

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

September 9, 2021 -- Week 100

Image
It's a Great Day to Be a Missionary!   Hello hello hello!!!  Just one thing... I love God and Jesus Christ!!! Being able to show other people how much God loves them each day is seriously the best thing ever!!! I'm so excited to use everything I have learned here after the mission (in like a month )  We are crazy busy busy busy, but like my companion and I tell eachother each morning, "it's a great day to be a missionary" Here's a little miracle we saw recently. We were going over to the grocery store to get a few things. Before leaving, we knelt down and said a prayer. In the prayer I asked that we could find someone who would recognize us in the streets. We went to and from the store and nothing happened and I forgot about that prayer . Later that day, we were walking to visit an AMAZING family, and I heard someone honking at us. I turn around and see someone waving us down! We walked over and realized who it was! It was Rensol and his family! I had taught t...
Read more

Week 29 -- April 27, 220

Image
Serve Someone Hola hola hola!! Mission time is very weird, I've been inside, without being able to leave for anything other than groceries every two weeks, for the past 43 days, and I can't decide if it has flown by or if it's felt like 443 days. I think both. I found myself every day this week really just counting down days until Preparation Day,  and now that it's here, I felt like the week FLEW by!  I also did the math, 20 percent of my mission I have been inside this apartment without being able to leave, that's pretty cool that I have been able to have such a different opportunity than so many missionaries in the history of ever!!  Everyone, here's something I've really learned during this time, and I've still got a whole long way to go before I'm perfect but here it is. This is freaking hard, for literally every person on the planet, idk if there's been a time quite like this in history where literally every person in the w...
Read more

October 4 -- Week 104

Image
2 years and 2 days as a missionary   Wow! Two days ago I hit two years in the mission! THAT'S CRAZY!!!  It has been a LONG week! A lot of crazy and stressful things happened. There was a day this week where it just seemed like anything that could have possibly gone wrong, did!  By the time night came around, we were exhausted, stressed, and wanted nothing more than to just go home and sleep. We had a District Council that I will probably never forget. We were all just talking about Jesus Christ, and how important He really is in our lives. He is our Savior, He died on the cross for us, He loves us and cares about us so perfectly and individually!  We have experienced some really tender experiences this week. My testimony and love for Jesus Christ has grown so much! He stays true to His promise, "I will not leave you comfortless."  I love my Savior! Also, wow, General Conference... Just incredible! Elder Kopishke's talk about mental health was beautiful. Eld...
Read more