Hello everyone!! I hope you're all doing well and had a great Easter. I'm going to tell you the funny stuff and then some cool experiences! 😎
1. We went to an Easter "dinner" with a less
active family, not knowing that it was a PARTY!!!! We drove up and there
were like 10 cars in the driveway and we were both like oh no. We walked
to the back and let me tell you. It was a party. People had been
drinking a little too much liquid death and then they tried to give some
to us!!! They sat it down in front of our plates and after I had been
staring at it for about a minute trying to figure out if it was alcohol
or not, the less active member said, "are you going to drink that
water?" When I said no, she grabbed it and drank it. 😂 Their giant dog
climbed out of a window upstairs and was standing on the roof! Everyone
freaked out because he was trying to jump and they thought he was going
to break a leg. They lured him inside with a toy. They also talked
about Starwars for 3/4 of the dinner lol. We actually got to share a
message with them at the end though and it was pretty powerful!! They
loved it!!! Before we left, they told us to eat this homemade flan and
let me tell you... it was rough. I took a bite thinking it would be good
like normal flan, but it was so bitter and burnt!!!! I shoved the whole
thing down and when we got to the car my companion said, "that was
definitely coffee in that flan." Now I know I don't like coffee. 😂
2. I've been out for almost 11 months!
3.
We were having a lesson with a less active member with the most tender
soul. He is a little bit special needs, and so sometimes he can't get
his words out very well, plus he tries to speak English to me, but he
knows very limited vocabulary. We were teaching him and then he turned
to me and said, "you look like you're from another world" and I said,
"like an alien?" And he goes, "NO! Aliens are demons!!!" "I meant an
angel. You look like an angel" hahahahahahaha
Cool
experience: We were looking for a less active member's house and we
knocked on the door and he wasn't home. As we were walking away, we ran
into our recent convert Luciano!! He was talking to us when all of a
sudden our less active member walked up the stairs!! If we hadn't gotten
lost finding the address, or run into Luciano, we would have just
missed him! Crazy. God really does place everything just perfectly when
he needs you to do something.
My spiritual
thought for this week is that God loves us as His children first.
Someone was saying a prayer on a devotional call this week and said,
"please help us as missionaries, but as his sons and daughters first"
and that really stuck out to me! We might be workers, bosses, parents,
missionaries, etc., but before anything else, we are his children!! He
loves us as His children and He is looking out for us. He wants what's
best for us and cares about our happiness.
I
hope you all had an incredible Easter. As we were reading deeper into
the Savior's atonement, I really was able to appreciate what he did
more. Even though He wanted to give up, He said Thy Will Be Done. I
think sometimes it's tempting to do that in our lives too, but as long
as we are trying to follow Heavenly Father and trying to get direction,
He will lead us to His will and help us accomplish it. He also won't
make us do it alone. He sent an angel to help Jesus. He will do the same
for us.
Love you all! Thank you for the support!!
