This past week has definitely been rough. I spend most of my time over on the toilet which sucked. I eventually just took my chair and scriptures into the bathroom and just stayed in there. Ha-ha! Yea it has definitely been rough. I was about ready to make a white flag out of toilet paper and wave it in surrender but I found enough strength to make it through another day. I have lost all the weight I gained in the MTC and some days I barely have the strength to do a pushup. I feel like I’m letting my companion down and the Lord so yea this week has definitely been rough.
When I was able to go out things were pretty good. We have been meeting with José and Lupita. They are both quite old but they are so funny. They don’t have any kids so they have no grandkids which is sad but when we go over there it’s like a 3 hour meeting because they just love to talk with us. Ha-ha! They also have 4 dogs which are unreal because they are so huge. When we first started meeting with them which was like my first day here they completely loved everything we had to say. They started reading the Book of Mormon and we also had them read Moroni 10:3-5. By our next visit they had already read through 1 Nephi. Ha-ha! There crazy I love them! So all our lesson go really good and we talk for a really long time until we came to the discussion on the word of wisdom. They have a problem with the word of wisdom because they are really fancy people and they drink wine with every meal. They don’t drink to get like drunk or anything they just drink because that’s what they have done all their lives. So these last couple of weeks we have been focusing on the word of wisdom with them and finally this past Wednesday they told us that they have stopped drinking wine and they are ready to be baptized. I was freaking pumped for them. Ha-ha! José come over and gave me rocks and Lupita gave me a great big hug so (yea mom and grandma I broke the rules, sorry!) We are really excited for them but the last hurdle is they haven’t been to church yet. We have invited them twice but they haven’t been so this week we are going to go pick them up and take them to church.
So I don’t know I’m kind of having a problem with my companion because we are only seeing the same people every week and only one or two are progressing and the others I feel like we are just needing to give them a break for a while because they don’t even listen to us but it has to be my companions way so what ever.
The other day we were teaching this family and there were ants just a scrambling around on the floor and as I watched them I started to think that we are a lot like ants. Ants work hard all day and all night carrying 8 times there body weight in order to build their ant house or what ever it’s called. And as I was watched these ants during our lesson I realized that we as missionaries and members of the church are like ants. We are all working together scrambling around trying to build the Lords kingdom here on earth. We all just need to pick it up a little more and do 8 times the amount of work that we are currently doing because the time is getting close, really close and we need to have everything perfect and ready to go for when the Lord comes.
I can’t remember what scripture is but it talks about how the earth is just a footstool or something like that for the lord. I wonder from the Lords perspective if we look like ants down here on earth scurrying around working hard together to build his kingdom?
When I contact people it makes me miss my family so much. Ha-ha! Because the only words I know how to say to people is if they love their family and want to be with them forever? The people down here love there families and that is our secret way into there homes. I just ask them do you love your family. And they always say yes so then I say would you like to know how you can be with them forever. And they say yes and then I say can we come in and share this message with you? It’s as easy as that!! Ha-ha! The only problem is they don’t want to come to church!!! Which is bad?
Freak worst thing happened to me besides almost dying. Well this might be even be worse. We were walking on the street and we past a dead animal on the side of the road and it had been dead for awhile and I couldn’t tell what it was, so I said to my companion I didn’t know you had deer down here in Mexico. He was like dud, that wasn’t a deer that was a horse.........................
Another cultural shocker that I’m struggling with is hair. Everyone down here is hairy, and most of the women have more hair on there legs then I do on my head. That’s probably one of the hardest things for me to do is concentrate on teaching a lesson when I’m looking at hairy legs and trying not to throw up.
I had so much written down to talk about from my studying but I don’t have my note book with me because my companion out of nowhere told me that we were going to write for some reason so sorry...
But Philippians 4:13 is a short but really good scripture. I wrote it on my tag. And then I think its Alma 5:27 if we were to die right this moment would we be ready to stand before Christ. I have way too much to do before I die!! When I read that scripture I was like oh dang I better pick it up because I got a long way to go!
<I love you all!! Rialeen keep fighting your my hero!!! Families are forever!!!!!!
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