Email 72 - 100% at Peace in the Temple (Plus lots of incredible photos!)

 "This guy owned one of the shops we stopped in, and started teaching us typical Spanish Christmas songs.  I don't remember any, but it was hilarious. :)"

"This piglet is a specialty of Segovia...no, I didn't try it."

"(Friend from home) Aida's Aunt Sandra"

"Realizing how well we could hear the neighbors downstairs during planning one night."

Thanksgiving!

"Definitely the best Thanksgiving a foreign missionary could ask for."

Hey fam!

Happy Thanksgiving!! ´Sounds like it was a good one. I´m glad there was plenty of turkey trotting and... steak? Haha. Sounds like everybody had a good week. Thanksgiving was pretty fantastic for us, too. Hermana Jackson makes amazing food. We all felt very, very spoiled, haha. We even got a second Thanksgiving the next day when we were invited by the cute family of 6 from Utah on Friday. I brought chocolate cheesecake to both ;)

Though I will say that going out to contact on the streets being that full of turkey was a little tough, haha.

And Mike and Alicia are having a BABY! Aunt Chrissy. Aunt Chris? Auntie C. Hmmmm. ;)

Also glad to get the report from B-rad and Kate on the looks of the new Star Wars movie, haha. 

Good stuff all around.

So we went to Segovia today! That was fun. I took a lot of photos. A loooot of photos. I´m just gonna send them all to you so I don´t have to worry about losing them. Hope you don´t mind getting your inboxes clogged! ;)

We had a pretty good week, too. Things in general felt like they were moving pretty slowly, which was frustrating, but Hna Hillman and I had a good planning session last night, and we´ve got a lot of goals set to finally see some more tangible progress.  

We haven´t been able to see E--, or a lot of the other people we´ve been visiting, BUT I did get to go visit a member reference... from Aida Chilan! She has an aunt that lives a 3 minute walk away from our apartment! Her name´s S----a, and she´s awesome. We had a really sweet visit with her. She even offered to call Aida for me because she knows we won´t see each other before her mission, haha.

We also had a really special experience in the temple on Wednesday. More than ever before, I just had the overwhelming feeling of being home. Not the home I left a year and a half ago, but the one I left 20 years ago. It was GREAT. Of course that´s something we can feel every time we´re in the Lord´s house, but it hit me particularly hard this time, and it was beautiful. I just felt comfortable, and totally 100% at peace. There´s always plenty to stress about as a missionary, so it was a welcome break. 

Last night, we watched "Your Wonderful Journey Home," a talk from President Uchtdorf to the YW, with the Relief Society. We set up a little activity, and it turned out great!! It´s such a sweet talk, because President Uchtforf just lays things out so simply and sweetly. We´re Heavenly Father´s children, and we´re working on getting back home to Him. We had high expectations for ourselves, we knew what this was all for, and we´ve got a map, and a lot to do down here, but we can make it all work and do it with a smile. 

My favorite part of this darling talk was his testimony at the end:

"As an Apostle of the Lord I leave you a blessing that you will find your way on this journey home and that you will be an inspiration to your fellow travelers. It is also my promise and prayer that as you honor and live true to the covenants, the principles, and the values of the gospel of Jesus Christ, at the end of your journey Heavenly Father will be there. He will embrace you, and you will know once and for all that you have made it home safely."

I got a sneak peek of that feeling in the temple, and it´ll be a good day when we can all feel it there in the presence of the Lord. Sometimes we lose track of it, but that´s really what I´m doing out here in Spain; helping other people find their way there.

Sorry this was a short one, but I should probably get to sending those photos... I´m sure I´ll have more to talk about next week :)

Love you guys!!!-Hna Grover