December [Letter 49]

Okay can anyone believe it is December?!?! I can´t.

Now I have an announcement to make.... *drum roll* I am being transfered to MÁLAGA 3rd ward.

Yes I got transfered. After two transfers and a little bit of being in Almería. Man I´m going to miss this place. The ward is great and so many wonderful people. I´m sad to leave but excited to get to know a new place. My companion will be Hermana Nelson. We are the same age in the mission. I have known her since the first day in the Provo MTC. It will be exciting to work with her. Pretty much we will be companions until the new sisters get their visas and come then we will be training. So I´m not sure how long I will be her companion. But we will definately have some fun and get a lot of work done. I´m excited.

This week we have been working hard in the rescue and in finding new investigators. So we spend a lot of time in the streets. Which is cold but we get to know a lot of people and share our message with many. This week we saw a lot of tender mercies.
As we were walking to pass by a future a woman stopped us. She told us that she was a less active that we had called and that she was sorry she didn´t have time to meet with us. We ended up setting up a cita with her. If she had passed us by and not said anything we would have never know who it was. Interesting enough that morning in weekly planning we had talked about her. The Lord truly knows His children. It was not a coincidence that we where walking on that street cornor at that time on that day. The Lord knows. I am grateful for those little reminders everyday. Like finding a passage of scripture that answers that one question, or seeing that one long lost friend at the grocery store, or recieveing a hug just when you needed it. My dear family these are not coincidences. They are a demonstation of the Lord´s love for us. This month is the month we celebrate the Savior´s birth. Let us remember His life. Try to be a little more like Him everyday. And I know just as it says in 1 nephi 1:20 we will recognize the tender mercies of the Lord even more in our lifes.

with lots of love,

Hermana Petru