Paige's Mission to Spain: Christmas & New Years

Okay. This last week has definitely been the best week so far. It started out chatting with my family on Skype. Weirdest thing ever. It doesn't even seem like that happened. Thankfully the work is picking back up a little bit as people are coming back from holiday.

This week we had a meeting with all the new missionaries that I got to Skype in on. I'm not kidding it was a game changer for me.
I realized something. Even in my good intentions and righteous desires I am thinking so much about myself. So far my thought have been, how can I be a better missionary, what can I study to be more knowledgeable, how can I improve my Spanish. These things aren't inherently bad buttttttttttttt... If you want to be happy, stop thinking about yourself so much!
So I tried this. Man. As I spent even just a few days thinking about others I felt my very capacity to feel joy expand.
Wow. I was so happy this week. There are so many incredible people here... I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Life is Good!

New years! Yay! Church was kinda crazy.. Haha we had 2 investigators come so yeah.. We have quite a few investigators but not many progressing so this was really awesome to have someone follow through on a commitment!
But new years eve we participated in the Spanish tradition where when the bell strikes 12 you eat 12 grapes in 12 seconds.... Haha our grapes went bad! So I ate 12 moldy grapes at midnight to roll in 2018!

My ode to 2017, man....... No words...... Just grateful for all I learned. But 2018 I feel so lucky. This is year I have the unique chance to forget myself and work like I've never done before! I can't wait to work and love and serve others every day! This year I don't have to think about myself one bit! Yeah I feel so lucky to have this opportunity and I'm stoked to work!
This may be the year with the least naps of my life...... Sorry to end on that bummer note.

Ooooooooh yeah! It has been dumping buckets hahahahahaha I'll send some pics! There was this insane rain storm the other day, I broke 2 umbrellas in a day haha. It was hilarious but awesome.

So yeah... That's all. We really got to work hard this week because our teaching pool needs some shaking up!

Today is pday and we went to a pulpería and had some octopus.. Not going to lie.. I didn't consider myself a seafood person but maybe I just never had it done right. It's good!