Dear family, friends,
animals, insects and all other beautiful living things in my blessed home town
of Logannnnn,
Holy hanna! How energized and motivated are all of you lovely
people to live this stinkin’ life after conference!?? Cuz I will tell you what,
I am about ready to just dominate this life here on Earth. I have such an
appreciation here for conference. Everyday Hna. Velarde and I woke up saying
our countdown, “Tres dias mas hasta conferencia!!!” (Three more days until Conference!) We were a little excited, and for good
reason! People we are listening to a LIVING
prophet and apostles!! Why have I never
realized the significance of this. But yeah... it was a jolly good conference
and week, and I hope you are all making goals and changes in your life to be
closer to our Savior after listening to it.
Basically all of us ‘gringo’ missionaries watched it in the
stake center in English, so I was just with all the other missionaries in a
little room. It was really special when they prayed or talked about the
missionaries....
I ADORED the talk by the Chinese guy, haha, of course because it was about missionary
work! It was so valid. We really do need everyone to help work together and
bring souls unto Christ. Here in the mission I’m learning how vital the members
are. I‘ve always thought that missionary work is just for the missionaries. I
can’t imagine how this work would take off if everyone put in their part and we
all worked together to accomplish this great work!
Also the talk by the German guy... hahah, sorry, I don’t remember names. But he talked fast and
about 7 things we should be doing. It made me realize that I need to start
taking better care of myself physically here as well... no voy a regressar
gorda voy a empezar a cuidarme! (I’m not going to return fat, I’m going to
start to take care of myself.) (That will be a tough one, right?!)
Alright, so my companion is Hna. Velarde. She is from Bolivia
(but everyone thinks she is from Japan). I was going to tell you guys that she
was from China and is learning Spanish as well but... like I said I’m trying to
be a better human after conference, and lying is not in-line with those goals. She has 14 months and is a CHAMPION! People I
LOVE this lady! We work so hard together and laugh our stinkin’ brains out! We don’t waste one minute! I just like her.
She kinda reminds me of T...(my best little Asian buddy at home) and not just
cuz’ she looks Asian haha hahahahaha!
This week, it rained buckets. Usually this would be a time to go
for our boots, but we really wanted to visit this lady. SO we literally walked
through a river. I can’t describe it
exactly to you, but it was, for reals, a
river in the street. But we just did it and laughed and got to our visit, which
was actually really special. SO yes.... Hermana Velarde and I like each other and get along quite well so
far. But who knows, in one week she may turn into the hulk, for now I am
enjoying my little ‘Japanese’ lady!
The first week of the change is usually a little slow and also
we had less lessons scheduled because of General Conference. But if you want to
hear a cool story about prayer, this week we put a fecha (date) with Brandon for
baptism on the 25th. WAHOOO!
But in order for him to be baptized this day,
he has to attend church three times with his mom, and we only have 3
Sundays until this date. Well his mom had work and couldn’t get it off. We
prayed every night that she would be able to find a way and on Sunday morning,
like 30 minutes before conference, she called us and said she could come! WOOT
WOOT! True--prayer works people.
So this week our joy in Los Campos is the Elders had a wedding! They threw it together in one day. It was SO
special! Just like a movie! In one day they called a lady who does weddings for
free here, we helped make some streamers and balloons and the bride just wore a
white dress she had in her room. The Relief Society President made sandwiches
and we picked some flowers from outside of the church. In all, we had about 10
people there. We sang Families Can be
Together Forever , and BOOM, they were married. They are getting baptized
next week. AH it was so cute!
Also this week I have been studying a lot about desires. I
studied the scriptures and the general authority’s talks. Really SO many things in our church talk about
desires and how important our desires are. I know without a doubt that as long
as we have a desire to do something, it will eventually happen, God wants to
help us. If we truly have Christ written in our hearts, and our desires to
serve him are pure, then making decisions and prioritizing things will be a lot
easier because we will understand where we stand with Him and what He expects
of us. I've been asking myself a lot, “What are my desires truly?!” Obviously, I always say that I want to follow Christ and
be obedient, but if I'm doing worldly things or not really following His
commandments, where are my desires?
I love you all and I hope you are all like Pres Monson said--
motivated to be a little bit kinder, work a little bit harder and make a change
in the next six months! (Which by the way is just about my year mark... thats
SOOOO weird.)
Les ammooooo! ( I
LOOOOOOVE you all.)
 |
Conferencia!!
This little fruit is called Lecha and is DELICIOUS!!!!!!!
Thats all..
|
No comments:
Post a Comment