Quote that I liked from my personal study of the Book of
Mormon and the manual this morning: (keep in mind I'm translating from Spanish
so it's not a word for word original quote)
"In the very moment when everything seems ideal,
sometimes many difficulties arise simultaneously. If these trials are not the
result of disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord knows that you are
prepared to progress. So, He gives you experiences that stimulate your
progress, your understanding and compassion and that refine you for your
eternal well-being (Proverbs 3:11-12). To go from where you are to where He wants you to be is a
(difficult/arduous/hard) effort that generally is accompanied by
(sorrow/sadness) and pain." Elder Richard
G. Scott
Good perspective for trials, huh? I'm earning those gray hairs of mine!
Today was good, we contacted up a storm this morning, and it
was really hot! I used sun block and I still got burned. And super sweaty and
tired. So we drank a lot of water and hiked up some more lovely mountains to
visit some lovely people who didn't want to listen to us. Love it! But we went
and bought some fried chicken for lunch, so I was really happy after that. And
then we went over to Villanueva with everyone for the Stake Talent Show/Culture
Night to finish of la Semana de la Familia.
There were some good acts, and it was great to see the talents of everyone
here. And we hopped back on the bus to go back home, and we finally got to our
house, and the lights went out. So we went around and planned and ate by
candlelight until the lights came back on about an hour later, so now we are
currently making a shower head for our water spout in the bathroom. Hna Escobar
has some wonderful engineering skills! We're poking holes with a candle-heated
fork into a plastic Coke bottle, and then we'll stick it on our PVC pipe in the
shower and enjoy our water! So I'll try it out tonight and give feedback on it.
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| At the talent show in Villanueva |
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| Our shower head! |
We also found another church this morning, this one is La
Iglesia Libre de Dios Pentacostes, so we can add that to the list. I'm
seriously surprised at how many church are here. Crazy.
And as we were waiting with some members for the bus to pick us up to go to
Villanueva there was a somewhat drunk hermano that walked by and started
talking to me, but I honestly couldn't understand him very well, mostly all I
got was that the other people at the stop were supposed to take good care of
the virgencita ("little virgin"...that would be me, as I look like
the Virgen of Suyapa, the local Virgen, like the Virgen of Guadalupe in
Mexico...every Central American country has a Virgen) and make sure I'm safe,
because my eyes are so beautiful and I walk "en las cosas de
Dios". And some other interesting
comments. The whole episode made the members really uncomfortable and they were shocked that this was a normal experience for me out here.
Please, please, please don't drink or do drugs or other
completely nonsensical and pointless things in your life. I can't tell you just
how not smart that is and how you will lose so much.
But, today was a good day, nonetheless, didn't get to do as
much work as we could have, but it was a good day.
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