The Evolution of a Missionary
Ok, so here´s the lowdown.
This week, I´ve gotten a ton of spiritual revelation. I´ve been putting
into practice praying and then to look for the answer in the scriptures by
flipping open to a random page and pointing, without looking, at a verse. So far,
it has been helping me a ton. I have had the opportunity to counsel a lot of
the other missionaries this week. Everything is turning out great though!
No one is going home and our entire district is closer than ever! Basically
this week was super eventful and moved really quickly. I hope all the
other weeks of my mission are like this because if they are I´ll be home a lot
faster than I could have hoped! I lose
myself in the work and I love it!
Thank you Mom and Dad
for the package and your contributions. The package was
super awesome! Everybody was jealous so I shared. It came in especially handy
when I was trying to help Elder Baldwin feel better, he was concerned he was
going home soon. It helped to just eat some Reeses. It was hard to share,
but my favorite hymn Because I Have Been Given Much has been a major
influence in my life recently and I couldn't help but to give him the best
candy of the box. He said it made his night. I felt super duper
awesome about it after. That´s what usually happens. A mission can be
stressful but I know I´ll be a much better kid afterwards. And I know it
will bring blessings to everyone in my life.
Oh! Also I forgot to
say that I bore my testimony about faith and miracles in testimony
meeting on Sunday. It was four minutes of straight Spanish, not one
word in English. Each of the branch presidency came up to me afterwards and
said that they really enjoyed my testimony and that my Spanish is very good. So
yep, this week has been phenomenal. And yeah, my English is gonna get terrible. It’s
already deteriorated quite a bit. Earlier typing faith and testimony I
almost wrote fe y milagros en la reuión del testimonio en español. Yeah, I
frequently cannot remember the proper English word for stuff. Here´s a
pre-apology for when I get back and don’t know how to do anything for a few
days. Man, I’m probably gonna sound brain damaged. Nobody judge me.
I love you family! I´m glad everyone is having a good time with
school and stuff. And good job Harrison
at your trumpet performance! Keep it up! Eliza, you know I am drinking nonstop juice.
I'm getting really weird looks from people with how much juice I end up buying
at the tienda with our 100 peso allowance per week.
Also to address some
of those questions now, the food is actually super good. At least, I like
it. Not everyone does, but you know how I pretty much like all food.
These people know how to make tortilla chips though. SO GOOD. Their salsa is
amazing but often a bit too hot for me. I´m building a tolerance though.
And the guy’s name that knows Savannah and Skylar is Elder Sorensen. And
Yeah, I found Elder Biehn. He seems to be doing great! We actually called their
casa the first night they were here and prank called them by coincidence. It
was super funny when they found out it was actually just us. So yep
pretty awesome week due to the package and mail! I love it! And no I still can’t
print stuff. So when you send me letters it’s nice because I can read
those throughout the week.
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