1 Nephi 3:7 (Kea's title) - Didn't take Kea long to find the Beach! (my title)

3.9.16
Familia-
I a writing this on my six hour train ride to my first area A Coruña - it
is the coast. I am excited to be on the ocean!!!! We will have to see
what the weather is like, I heard its humid and rainy. Good thing I
brought rain boots instead of sandals, eh? At this moment, I have not
met my trainer and I'm nervous to travel by myself in a foreign
country-all is well though.

So yesterday we waited at the stake center where we got picked up,
there was 12 of us, where we got taken to the mission home and we did
some stuff and got our iPads! So we each have our own iPads which is
crazy. They also fed us tacos, banana bread, and scotchoroos aka
deliciousness and i wouldn't mind more. Hermana Reidhead and the rest
of my friends left at 5:50 in the morning to leave for Barcelona and
Malaga that was sad to say goodbye to them.

So, last night I had to stay the night with some sisters that lived
close to the train station yet far away from the stake center so we (3
new missionaries with luggage and the 2 sisters) had to take all our
stuff around town on metros and walking and it was like a solid hour
and a half and very difficult.  So there was an elder with us waiting
at the hermanas apartment to take him and the other hermana and I
stayed at the hermanas apartment and to the train station in the
morning and they took care of us and were very nice.

3.9.16-9 hours later
So I have still not met my trainer and I am still on a train. So I got
to A Coruña and there were just elders and they were like this is
awkward where's your ticket your not supposed to be here. So they went
and bought me another ticket and so I went an hour and a half a
different way to Vigo where when I got off these sisters were like we
are sorry but you have to go back. So that's where I am now back on an
hour and a half train to A Coruña . So what apparently happened was the
elder who is in charge of tickets was supposed to buy me a ticket to
Vigo because that's where my trainer was with the other sisters for
the night but her area is A Coruña so that's where they bought it to
but when my trainer found out I was going to A Coruña she got on a
train to go there but nobody told the elders so she got there right
after I left again and it's just very complicated. But I'm happy - this
part of Spain is beautiful and I just get to see it all. I am just
tired of carrying my suitcases around. Also like 30 minutes before I
had to get off my first train the lady - she was like 40 - I was sitting
next too started crying and I asked her if she was ok and she just
started crying on my shoulder and then she told me her mom is about to
die and I told her you can see her again and I asked if she said
missionaries like me could visit her and she said no that just me
being there was enough but I said give me your phone number I can help
and she was like I don't want to bother you guys and I was like NO
THIS IS WHY IM HERE but I failed to get her phone number but I gave
her a pass along card with our number and I know that if she follows
her heart she will call and be ok but anyways for that whole 30
minutes there was a lady crying on my shoulder.. Interesting. Also I
am anxious to see the ocean.

3.14.16
Love my area, love my trainer, love my ward, love my investigators.
It's actually a branch but they are so bomb and so loving my
investigators are the best and I will explain in a letter, my trainer
is from Utah and she is so weird and crazy and nice and patient but I
love her! I just want to know Spanish though so I can talk with all
these people I love so it's hard I get discouraged at times but I just
try to be patient and get lost in the work, I know it will come. We
teach class ingles and noche de hogan and every Friday night a lady in
the ward teaches Zumba so we go there, there are non members so it's
missionary work! Same with class ingles and every Saturday morning we
play soccer with a mix of members and non members.

You are just supposed to send letters the mission office. For packages
though it cost like money to get them out of customs so address them
to Daniel young and then put my name on it somewhere and it will only
be a couple euros idk why. But in the letter you never got from me I
explained that if you use The England or Europe Amazon it doesn't have
to go through customs but it's not personal but for like the vitamins you
want to send me or something that's an option.

Today for pday we went to the beach and found cool places to eat hehe
it was the best.

^Kea's MTC teacher (Hermana Santidrián)

sent this pic - love her!

Hermana Clements - Kea's trainer and best new bud!