Hola familia!
What a week! This has been my favorite week so far and that is saying something because I loved the first 2 weeks so much! I have no time at all this weeek beccause we are having 4th of july festivities.... KFC! haha. sad that the usa is known for KFC and that is how we are celebrating here.
Anyways... a little bit about why this week has been so great and what I have learned...
So, learning spanish has been kicking my butt. It has been really really hard for me. And it has been so hard to watch everyone in my district be able to speak and understand far better than I can when we all started on the same level. And I know i know it is horrible to compare myself to others. Anyways, this week some one whoe gave us a devotional said that we need to first be grateful for what Heavenly Father has already blessed me with and then wait patiently for more insight, knowledge, help, etc. This really spoke to me. So, that night I poured my heart out in gratitude to Heavenly Father for blessing me with all that He has. I mean compared to what I knew the first week, I know a ton more now. And immeditately I felt at peace and know that I will learn spanish in Heavenly FAther´s timing. Ever since then I have had way more confidence to just open my mouth and speak even if I don´t exactly know how to say everything, and miraculously, words have been coming easier and I have been able to understand more. I know I need to trust completely in Heavenly Father and His timing and He will help me. I obviously have a long long ways to go butI know Heavenly Father called me to Spain to speak spanish for a reason and that He will not let me fail. It is so hard because I want to badly to express my tesimony and feelings and knowledge of teh gospel to my investigators but I know that really it is teh spirit that does the teaching anyways so I just need to be patient and alwasy be grateful for what Heavenly Father has blessed me with instead of wishing I could get more.
OK, and I am so sorry, after I sent the letter last week I realized I probably sounded like a crazy person! haha. There is this tiny room with some computers and a gazillion missionaries waiting for their turn so it is so hectic in here that I just type as fast as I can and try to tell as much as possible, but now thinking about it, it probably sounds like I´ve gone crazy. But just rest assured I am have not become too crazy. Although the lack of sleep I am getting here is really hard as well. I feel like it is impossible to turn off my brain at 10 thirty and try and fall asleep. Spanish memorizations, lessons, etc just go thorugh my head and it takes me for ever to fall asleep.
So, I have My Pourpse, the 1st vision, and the bapstimal prayer memorized in spanisyh and about half of d and c four. I am hoping to have all of d and c four by the end of the week. I love memorizing sciptures in spanish. Especially the first vision. being able to recite that in a lesson from memory, with emotion is indescribable. ahha ahh... english spelling is so hard for me now!
So, I ate shark this week... so so good! and more calamari which is definietly one of my faves here.
We went to the Prado last week (Man, it is so so weird that that was a week ago. I am alwasy so confused because it feels like the days are weeks but the weeks feel like days!) . It was a very interesting experience to say the least. the prado is like teh second largest museum in europe and we were all so excited to go! some of the painting were absolutely gorgeous but most of them were just so so dark and dreary and gory. It made me so so so appresiative of the paitings of Christ, temples, and anythign church related in our church! When you walk into teh church bookstore and see greg olsen paintings they are so full of hope, love, passion, forgiveness! I love it. And I love that that is what our church is all about. But these pics of Christ were so dark and sad and hopeless it felt. It was an interesting experience. Anyways, Hermana Mather and I got a llittle bored so those pictures of us with teh mustaches were taken when we were done and waiting for everyone else to get through. Haha I love her. And the guy in the pic is one of the elders in my district. And that sunset... BEAUTIFUL!!! With the temple in the background as well! That is the view I see every night from the window in my hall. I am so blessed.
Jenny, I got your postcard! Thank you so much! It made me so happy! I hope you enjoyed Hawaii!
Lindsay you are going to kill me! I got your package yesterday and opened it! I kow I know. And I could hear you in my head the whole time saying to wait but you have no idea how badly I wanted to open it. And it was SO perfect. That book that Brooklyn wrote to me totally made me and my companion cry! I read it and showed the pics to my whole district! Oh I love all of my nieces and nephews! And linds, THANK YOU so much for the package! I LOVE YOU! I know I should ahve waited till my bday but I just couldnt! I cannot belive I am going to be 21 in just a week and a half. So crazy.
Well, I just dont have words to express my gratitude for Jesus Christ and His atonement! There is nothing that makes me happier in this life than being able to teach people about Christ´s atonement. It is so filled with hope and love.
I know this is the true church restored through Joseph Smith in these latter days. I KNOW the Book of Mormon was written for our day and contains the fullness of the gospel.
Ahhh... I have no more time left. I gotta go sing the star spangled banner and eat KFC haha. ENJOY LAKE TAHOE TODAY!
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Oh, and Chunnie boy... you look SO SO handsome with glasses!
Oh... we watched this devotional from Elder Nelson the other day... holy cow it was incr3eedble. It was all about how we ahve angels on the other side helping us in this work! And how we have a whole heavenly army helping to prepare those who we are about to go teach! He also talked about how in times of need I can ask fro specific angels to come be with me, specific attributes that I need help with and God will send angesl to me that have them and together we will succeed! It was sucha wonderful devotional. I have been asking for grandma great and grampa daddy lately! I know that they are here helping me!
Love, sister heims
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