Week 5 in San Sebastian

Hello Everyone!

How are you all? This week has been pretty interesting. Saturday was the start of what they call Semana Grande here in San Sebastian. They spent last week setting up all these amusement park rides and games and whatnot all along the waterfront and they began Saturday night by the craziest fireworks show I have ever heard in my life. It literally sounded like we were being bombed. They had another one last night that we watched and it seriously blew my mind. Greatest fireworks show I have ever seen in my life. I cannot even understand how much money they must spend on them and they will apparently have them every single night this week. So in short, there are tons and tons of tourists in town right now. It is crazy busy.

We are trying to work a lot with in-active people right now in our ward. The first presidency has been talking about how many there are recently and we are all working on this rescue right now. We are going to go find those lost sheep and bring them back. I love working with in-actives because I love being able to help them feel the spirit again and remember the feelings that they felt when they were baptized or when they received their answer that the church is true. It is a really special feeling and really fulfilling when we see them back in church and receiving all the blessings that have been awaiting them for so long.

With this blogpost I am sending lost of pictures that I have taken since I have been here in San Sebastian. I hope you can all see how gorgeous this place is and that if you ever have the thought to visit here someday, you really should. 

Well, that is all for now. Talk to you all next week.

Love,

Hermana Eyre

Explanations of the pictures are as follows...

1 - Dalleli´s baptism

2- Miguel´s baptism

3 - the gorgeous river that runs through town that comes off the ocean or into the ocean....

4 - sunset of beach from the path we run on many mornings up above the beach
5 - me...same place, same time as #4

6 - all the women in our ward

7 - the beach from the top of the mountain, crowded to capacity

8 - better views from the top of the mountain that has a gigantic statue of Jesus

9 - Us with President and Hermana Pace atop the mountain with the Jesus statue...we like to say, well we invite people to Christ everyday, but today, we will personally escort you there. We take everyone up there who comes to visit because it is one of the best views of the city.

10 - Us with Hermana Farrell´s uncle that was passing through

11 - Our preparation day with some Elder´s that came to see the famous San Sebastian

12 - The church right next to our apartment that faithfully chimes its bells from 8 am to 10 pm...every 15 minutes...

13 - The view from the restaurant that we ate at with Hermana Farrell´s uncle for her birthday...(it was the most expensive meal I have had in my life...but I forgot to take pictures of the food/art that they fed us)

14 - the view from the top of the other mountain that I love to run to the top of on Preparation Days. Gorgeous...there is a little amusement park up there too.

15 - The Wind Comb´s. For some reason San Sebastian is famous for these scultures...interesting.