HAPPY LATE FOURTH OF JULY AND LATE BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!
This week has been awesome. I laughed when I heard about
your 4th of july, We remembered for a second that it was fourth of july for a
second but then continued studying, I starting humming the national anthem for
a bit, it was a sweet one haha. Sounds like you have had a good time there in
minnesota. sorry your all sick though that is never to fun. haha I loved the
story of dalan being a mascot you shouldve took a video.
Some things we did
this week,
Well for pday you
sometimes run out of things to do so we made a song for our mamita, we made a
cover of "Hero" by enrique iglesias, haha it started first in the
regular song, then in spanish, "Si Pudiera ser tu heroe! si Pudiera ser tu
Dios!" then we changed the lyrics to "Si Comiera con mamita! si tu
cuello engordara!" haha we are dorks but we have some fun, we recorded it
so you can see it in a year or so.
I have also been playing ping pong every pday and I think
God blesses us with a lot of things while we are on the mission because I am
recieving the gift of ping pong skills, im not quite up there with the matrix
ping pong guys but i can give a nice show haha.
I have had a nice
consistant headache all this week, but it goes away with some ibuprofen. I
think more then anything its a good sign though, We are working hard and I have
really been trying to grow and get the work going. ha but I need to find a way
to get my head to take a chillpill and relax. ha Also have been more tired then
I have ever been but also an awesome sign that we are working hard, we are
happy and have tons of animo all the day til we hit our pillows ha.
My testimony of fasts
has grown immensely on the mission and I thought Id share a cool story with you
guys. We have been teaching this one mujer and she has been progressing great
and loves the teachings and the church, BUT we lost contact with her this week
and had heard that she has heard rumors and such of us which has swayed her
mind, we dont usually believe the rumors but since she wasnt answering our
calls we knew something was up. We talked to a hna from the church to call her
or pass by to see how she is, she is a friend of her and we thought that would
be a better way to see whats going on. Sunday we fasted for her and really
really wanted her to progress and to help us have the chance to continue
sharing. As we were walking by her house (wihout having plans to pass by) I had
this prompting to knock on her house, I thought this was strange because my
plan was to just wait til hna danisa talked to her. but it continued to stay
with me and I thought about it and then realized I dont need to think any
further I just need to act, so I went to knock on her door (also praying that
there could be a man there even though she lives alone because if she invites
us in we cant enter without a man) and as I knocked a man answered then went to
get her and said come come in! all happy...some of her friends from work were
there taking once, but she told us to sit down in the front room and talked to
us for a bit. We told her that we had the impression to stop by and see how she
was and knock on her door. She thought it was interesting cause she said, that
is so funny, just a couple min ago before you knocked on my door I talked to
hna danisa (the member that we talked to), we thought that was interesting, and
she told us that she apologizes she didnt call us because she had a ton of work
but also appeared something else happened but we talked of how she was and how
were her prayers and then you could see she lighted up again and remembered the
number of sweet spiritual experiences that she has already had with us and the
compromisos that she has already done. After she said that she wants us to pass
by tomorrow (today) to teach her, and then we have a family night planned with
hna danisa. It was a complete turn around and she is more excited then ever. We
told her we thought it was funny how hna danisa called her then we passed by
right after, ha we laughed and let her know it wasnt planned haha. But after we
passed by to tell hna danisa that things are good now and she got happy, we let
her know that we were very greatful, it is so important after telling a member
to do something and when they do it to tell them what happened and tell them that
their work in the mission work helped us a ton, then she got excited and
started thinking of new things she could do for us. We dont have many members
here but we are working with what we got and getting them excited showing them
that this rama is a rama that has the lords trust (as you talked about I liked
that haha)
But we have had a lot of small miracles this cambio and this
week and it is awesome to see, sometimes the days are test of faith but one
thing that I love is every day no matter what happens you can learn something
and apply it in your life. one study that I had this morning that I really
loved is of the 2 ways we apply the atonement, first, is that of forgiveness of
our sins, we can be completely cleansed thanks to the atonement when we practice
true repentance and live the gospel. It is truly the greatest gift that we have
the atonement and one thing I loved from my study is the other part, as I was
reading in Alma 31 I loved the prayer that alma gives to his sons and the other
great missionaries as they prepare themselves to depart and preach the gospel,
the people were very wicked and what he said in his prayers was help us with
our weaknesses and strengthen us in the word of chirst and in the last 3
versiculos I love how it talks about how they will be able to withstand all
burden due to the atonement of chirst. We need to remember that the atonement
is a gift from god and it gives us strength, we need to remember the great
atonement of christ, he suffered all afflictions temptations etc for us (alma
7:11-12) and when we have hard times he will give us the strength thanks to the
great atoning sacrifice, its so cool to think of the atonement as the only way
to perfection ourselves but as well to strengthen ourselves.
But It was great to
here about your trip to minneapolis, haha I loved the picture of the dog peeing
thing...thats ridiculos haha the world is truly changing...buena la idea haha i
want to see the meeting of when they made the decision and planned that project
to make a dog peeing area.
Ha love you guys a
ton, having a great time here, Im lucky the weather has been really nice here
in natales we have had a ton of sun its really weird, but hey cant complain.
take care this week,
No haga lo que yo no
haria;) haha thats something mom always said to us...love you!
Elder Carter
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