Hello friends!
This will be a long one but this week has been a crazy one!
It all started last week ago right after I got done emailing. Hermana Gentry and I got on a bus to teach a normal lesson to our incredible investigator Karen. When we got there and we're just talking, Karen looked worried about something. When we asked her about how she was doing she said, "well, I have some good news but I also have bad news.' She then went on to say that she talked to bishop on Sunday and she has decided to wants to be BAPTIZED! However, the bad news is that she's moving to Málaga. Her papers to work are coming though this week and she has a contract to work in Málaga. This is what she was worried about. I thinks she was surprised when we exclaimed how exited we were that her papers finally came through and that she has a job! In that moment i think she really felt our love for her as our dear friend, not just an investigator. We're obviously sad she's moving, but it is an answer to my prayers. I've been worried about transfers and what'll happen to me. I love Hermana Gentry and want another transfer with her and I love Granada so much. One of the huge reasons I've been wanting to stay is because I want with all my heart to see Karen enter the waters of baptism. Just a couple of days ago, I realigned my heart and desires to God's will. I resigned to go where He needs me to go happily. Once I accepted that I might not be here for Karen's baptism, God in all his mercy and love, touched her hear and prepared her for baptism!
Karen said that the possible earliest she would have to move would be the 9th-ish of february. But she said she lives the Granada ward so much and she loves us so much that she wants to get baptized here before she leaves. We pulled out a calendar and she asked if she could get baptized she on February 3rd or 4th! We settled on Saturday February 4th, the last weekend of the transfer! We were bursting with joy! God is such a good, perfectly loving and merciful Heavenly Father! When we left, I hugged Hermana Gentry so tight and just said "we're her missionaries!" I love being a missionary. All the rejection all the exhaustion and everything hard about being a missionary is swept away by moments like this. Karen is getting baptized on Saturday!
We taught another lesson the tonight and then got home at 10 pm. And that's when our day really began! Hermana Gentry put our key in the door and it wouldn't open. I tried it too and when we took the key out, we saw that the tip of the key had broken off in the lock! We called Elder Egbert and a few other people and finally our land lord. I learned some new vocab (useful words like: locksmith, lock, bolt, we're locked out, etc.) and explained the problem seven times. Eventually we persuaded him to call a locksmith (un cerrajero!) and at 11:30 pm he finally came. He fiddled around with the door for half an hour, handed us our keys back and said it was impossible to open. Thanks. We called the land lord again and he said that his sister in law had a key for our apartment (what?) and that she would come the next day at 9:30 am to see if it could be opened with another key.
So there we were, Hermana Gentry and I, sitting in the stairwell at midnight, locked outside our apartment with the promise of help coming in nine and a half hours. So at that point, we called Elder Egbert and asked him what to do. Luckily, he had already called President Andersen and made a plan just in case we weren't able to get in that night. So at midnight, Elder Egbert and Elder Köhler (who just so happens to have strep throat) came to our rescue and picked us up in their car in their pijamas and drove us to a member's house to sleep for the night. We eventually fell asleep in our skirts at 2 or 3 am.
The next morning we woke up at 8:30 and had cookies and hot chocolate for breakfast ( a breakfast of champions!). The elders, who got permission to drive us around during this ordeal, picked us up at 9:30. We went back to our apartment to meet our land lord's sister in law. We tried her key and it didn't work. I didn't think it would because there is still a part of our key in the door! They called a locksmith and they said they could come at 5 ish.
So, without having taken a shower, brushed our teeth, or put on make up since 10 am Monday morning we grudgingly headed to the church for district meeting. We ate lunch afterwards and then went to meet with Karen, in the same clothes as yesterday! We talked about teaching and learning in the church so it was a pretty informational lesson. She was sweet and just so happened to being us apples. She did know what had happened in the last 15 hours so it meant a lot! I am completely convinced it was the Spirit telling her. :)
At 5:30 we met the locksmith at our apartment an he tried everything in the Book to get it open. He ended up having to take a giant drill and drill through the door. They got the door open finally at 7 (after an hour and half!) and by 8 or 8:15 we had a new lock on our door and new indestructible keys in our hands. Once the locksmiths left, we almost cried a bit from exhaustion, laughed, brushed our teeth, showered and got into our beds to sleep an incredible 10 hours of sleep! It was a fun mission story. And honestly, Hermana Gentry was the only person I would have wanted to go through that with! We just kept positive and kept each other laughing. Ohhhh what a day. It was good to be home after 30 hours!
The rest of the week didn't go quite as planned because Hermana Gentry got sick... but we celebrated her birthday with brownies and a missionary conference with some banana bread. We stayed in a lot of mornings so she could rest up but we still taught some lessons and taught Karen everything else she needs to know. Everything is all set to go and she is so very happy!
One night we taught a less active member, Rosario. After we had a nice lesson about the love of God, she was going to give us a few things to take home. She put two cartons of milk, a package of crackers, oranges and yogurt in a bag and handed it to me. We thanked her a lot and then said "Rosario! We just ran out of milk this morning and we didn't have any for tomorrow morning. How did you know?!" We felt a rush of the spirit and she felt it to because she just hugged us and told us how much she loves us. It was a really tender moment. I really do love her a lot.
I feel so incredibly blessed to be serving a mission. I have an awesome ward, perfect investigators, people who love us, an amazing, hardworking companionship, and elders in our district that are our best friends.
I know that God is real and that He loves to bless His children!
Enjoy some pictures!
Hermana Gentry and I sitting in our stairwell laughing with our broken key at 11:30 pm. :)
In the process...
Hermana Gentry's birthday!
Fruity pebbles she got from home!
I love her to pieces. 
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Love, Hermana Moore
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