Pday! We stayed home
and washed clothes for 3 hours, cleaned house, wrote some letters, and painted
our toes. Then we went and wrote our homies (hi homies!), bought a bunch of
food for the week, got ourselves ready again at home, and visited Lolita and
then had dinner with la familia Flores. And came back home, planned for
tomorrow, took a normal shower (as our pila/house water came back! Whoohoo!)
and hopped into bed.
Big events of today: I painted my toesies a beautiful,
sparkly, raspberry jam sort of color, with some nail polish I found in a store
a few weeks back and had been wanting to try out, which is part of the reason
I'm painting my toes again. So that was awesome, I was really happy with my
sparkly raspberry toes!
We also bought a flyswatter (matamoscas, or
"fly-killer"), por fin! So now
we're killing 8-10 flies a day that decide they want to live in our house and
land on us and eat our food. No more! Die flies, die! So we have some fun
adventures as we're jumping around, swatting a plethora of flies. Good times.
And all the music everywhere today was of the usual
bachata-reggaeton-pop mix, but there was a whole lot of 80's classic rock
thrown in there, so I was jamming on that. Made me think of my Dad, and all the
times he's in the computer room or the garage, doing his stuff, playing his
songs at full volume. I miss him.
But yeah, good day, actually went by really fast. But we're
ready to get back into gear for another week! Only have this and another week
left before cambios again.
[Excerpt from a personal email to the Madre:]
"That's awesome that y'all are ponderizing, praying and
getting spiritually fed even before seminary. Very good start to the day. As
missionaries, we start each day with 2 hours of studying the scriptures, General Conference talks, Church manuals, Liahonas, Preach My Gospel, and other materials
individually and as a companionship.
I am developing an unshakable testimony of this Church. It
is of Christ, and He has given us, as missionaries, the authority and calling
to teach about it. There is power in knowledge, and the Spirit is the Teacher
of all things. The plan of God is perfect for us. We are His children, and He
loves us. He knows us personally and wants us to be happy. We have families to
help us learn and grow, and the prophets guide us today as they have done in
ancient times. Christ established His Church upon the pillars of prophets,
apostles, priesthood power, revelation, and the scriptures. Due to the
wickedness of the world, this great light was taken from the earth for a time,
but God called again to a worthy young man to prepare himself to be an
instrument in the hands of the Lord to restore the gospel in its fullness. We
have the same organization of the true Church of Jesus Christ, and we enjoy
great blessings.
These are the principles of the first lesson we teach to
people, and they pretty much reject it all and have no interest when we teach.
They do not listen, and they do not understand. So that is sad. It really is.
But I am all the more grateful to know that my family is trying to do what is
right and am happy to know that you guys are being blessed and becoming
stronger as a family. That brings me a lot of comfort. Keep on keeping
on!" :)
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