For the first time i've felt like that starving missionary
living on ramen. cause i really was! one day i had 2 ramen for breakfast and
lunch haha. anyway, things are better now. this elder gave me some australian
money cause his friend sent it to him and he was like, "it's no use to me
here" but i exchanged it at the mall and it was worth 850 pesos! woohoo! i
was so happy i bought sister Drio's dinner for her at pizza hut and we were so
full! you should totally send me a video! oh my gosh i would love that!!
i have bug spray stuff i just always forget to put it on.
the mosquitos really aren't bad but in certain areas they're HORRIBLE! it's
like i'll go the whole day without a single bite and then we get to this one
member's house and I'm swarmed. I don't know what it is that attracts them to
certain places like that. Ya, there is a piano in our branch but we have a
player, so I haven't played at all yet. and the girl that i was going to teach
piano lessons to, her piano broke so that didn't work out either. oh well, i'm
sure i'll get a chance in the future.
Hahaha its funny that you've seen so many snakes and i
haven't seen a single one out here! i saw a huge cockroach and a 2 inch in
diameter spider in our house! so gross! i just ignore them and then sister Drio
eventually kills them haha. she's not afraid of bugs at all.
I saw a poster for Step Up 4 in the mall today! oh man, have
you seen any good movies lately? Everything is good here, I'm still healthy and
having fun. things with sister Drio are back to normal and we established that
every time she's mad at me she'll ignore me for 2 days and then go back to
normal and there is nothing i can do to change that. so even though i tried to
explain to her that its better to work things out right away and not waste so
much time, she wouldn't accept it and I've decided to just be super careful about
everything i say and do so i don't offend her. cause 2 days without the spirit
is basically a waste of the Lord's time.
One of the hardest things for me here has been having faith
instead of fear. too often i let fear and doubt creep into my thoughts and
eventually take over and i'm paralyzed. then i wonder why the Lord isn't
helping me. But the times I completely put my trust in him after doing all I
can do, I feel his presence so strong! It's amazing how much fear can get in
the way of the Lord's work.
You told me to tell you when i got the gift of tongues, and
i did the other day! i had studied so hard and was praying for the Lord to help
me be confident and bless me with the gift of tongues and we went to our first
meeting and the words just came out. I wasn't even sure if they were right but
I felt like I just needed to say them and not question it. I didn't stumble, or
pause or anything and the lady we were teaching understood everything I said! I
was so happy and proud of myself and thanked Heavenly Father over and over.
then the rest of the day went great because i was so pumped by that experience.
Since then I haven't really felt that again, and I was kinda thinking that once
you got the gift of tongues you had it the rest of your mission, but i think it
comes more slowly and then when you really need it and are worthy of it it
comes again. I still stumble a lot but I'm much more comfortable speaking and
participating in the lessons without looking at my notes or sounding like I'm
reading, ya know?
the work is good, we are focusing on less actives so we only
have 2 investigators and don't really knock doors. a lot of people just sit on
the side walk and people watch so we talk to them sometimes when we don't have
anyone to visit. everyone is really nice but most aren't interested.
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