Running it Back!

Hola mis queridos amigos!! 

I hope you all had an amazing week! This week was awesome and flew by! We had a lot of miracles and some really hard setbacks with our friends, but all in all I am so grateful for the experiences I had this week and the opportunities I have had to draw closer to my Savior ☺️

Highlights/ Fun facts:

- On Monday we went to San Sebastian for pday and it was so beautiful! We saw the views and amazing beaches and it was so fun! Then we headed back the the Hermanas to Pamplona for exchanges!! It was soo fun to be back in Pamp for a few days and it made me so happy! 
- On Tuesday I had an exchange with Hermana Christiansen who just came into the mission this transfer and it was so fun! We had some great lessons and opportunities to teach in the streets! She is so fun and willing to learn and it was a great day šŸ˜Š
- I got to have an exchange with my dear Hermana Chase on Wednesday and it was so fun to run it back for a day! We had a lesson with our friend Diego who is getting baptized this week and we had some awesome miracles finding people in the streets! 
- While I was in Pamplona I got to see some of my friends and members which was so fun! I saw Alejandro who was helping the Elders in a lesson with his friends he brought to church, we visited our sweet friend Rita who just got baptized on Sunday, and Nieves and her boyfriend Adrian came to meet us in the Plaza to say hi which was so sweet! We both teared up hugging each other and I just love her so much!!
- We went out to visit our friend Bri who lives out in a pueblo and it was so fun to meet her in person! She is so cute and we had a great lesson talking about baptism and temples! 
- Our friend Ali got baptized on Sunday and she was so excited!! She gave the cutest testimony about how she came to know the church is true and the power of the priesthood and I was just so proud of her! I love her so much šŸ’• 
- We went to one of the Elder's friends wedding on Friday and it was sooo cute! They are the sweetest couple and are so sweet to invite us! She also got baptized on Sunday with our friend and it was so cute!
- We had a great lesson with our friend Jazmin on Friday about temples and eternal families and then on Sunday she was so excited because her boyfriend agreed to come to church with her and they stayed for the baptism!!
- On Sunday we were headed outside to do some planning and I saw this girl walking and I felt like I should stop her even though she looked like she was on the phone. I complimented her shoes and then we got chatting and she saw our tags and asked us if we were religious. We explained that we are missionaries and started to talk about how she felt lonely here in Spain without her family and we were able to share a message of peace and that her Heavenly Father knows her! Her name is Laura and now we are going to meet again on Tuesday and I'm so excited! It was so cool how God put her in our path especially since I had just said a prayer asking God to guide us to more people that wanted to hear his message!

Miracle: 

On Tuesday we were headed back from the church in Pamplona and I felt like I should talk to her even though she was faced away from me. She turned around and immediately recognized me. She said we had talked before and suddenly I asked, "Is your name Natasha?" and she said yes!! About 2 months ago I was riding the bus and I sat next to a woman named Natasha and we talked and she said she had an Aunt named Sandra that was a member and she was interested in learning more! But when I was getting her number, she had to get off at her stop and I had no cards with me and I watched as the doors closed between us and I wasn't able to get her number šŸ˜­ I called all of the Sandras in the ward and nobody knew her and I was so sad that we would never be able to meet with her BUT months later on my one day in Pamplona God put her in my path again and I was able to get her number and give it to the Hermanas! It was amazing!!

Spiritual Thought: 

I have been feeling a bit out of it this week with so much going on and some hard things that have happened this week in the work, and yesterday I felt prompted to read my patriarchal blessing. As I read I just felt this wave of love wash over me and I felt like I was just getting a hug from my Father in Heaven and I knew He knows me!! It was so amazing and I was just reminded what a powerful gift patriarchal blessings are as our own personal scripture written just for us!

My invitation is for all of you to go reread your patriarchal blessing today and ponder what it teaches you about God's love for you individually! And if you haven't received your patriarchal blessing, I invite you to ponder and pray about if now is the right time for to you to receive it because I know it will bless your life šŸ«¶

I love you all so much! Please feel free to reach out!
Hermana Hardy ❤️

Pictures: 
- exchange with Christiansen!!
- Pamplona Hermanas šŸ„°
- Hermana Chase!!
- the wedding!!
- Bri šŸ’—
- Ali and Briggitte's baptism ☺️









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