Hollllla
Fun Fact: Like all the missions everywhere wake
up at 6:30 and go to bed at 10:30 but here we wake up at 7 and go to
bed at 11 because everyone in Argentina does this thing where they
decide to sleep from 2 in the after noon until 5:30 hahahaha. It`s
called !SIESTA¡ Lazy peeps.
Today we went on a hike with our
whole zone and it literally took allll dayyyy long hahaha and P-day ends
in an hour. But was so sweet! It reminded me of home so much. I miss
hiking everyday! You don`t realize what ya got till it`s gone! hahaha.
But
this week was Thanksgiving ya knowww and it was so good. I was a
trillion times more grateful without technology distracting me. Like
wow. I decided to write 100 things I am grateful for in my journal and I
was like wow I could literally write all day!
I can not even
express to you the happiness I feel everyday. Being a missionary has
helped me realize so much and has made me feel oooooohh so grateful for
the life I have been blessed with! Like I have never cried so many happy
tears! This week I decided to stop focusing on numbers because it has
been making my heart a little sad. I decided to focus on the reason I am
here, to help others come closer to Christ and know that they are not
alone. I don`t have the strongest comprehension of the history in the
church or of all the stories or completely without a doubt know all
things are true but one thing I do know is for sure is that God loves
his children. Not a doubt in my mind. And what I came to find this week
is that it`s okay to not know all things because I just got here! But
it`s important to focus on the things I do know. So as I changed my
focus my aditude changed and this week was amazing. We had two
investigators show up to church and I can`t even express to you how I
felt. Just know there were many many happy tears hahaha. We had a Family
Home Evening activity on Sunday and wow. I love this gospel with
allllll of my heart. Just all of these random random people came
together, all of these people that have gone through the hardest things
maybe 20 or so from the WHOLE ward. I am for sure not in Utah anymore
hahaha. But as we all came together and sang songs and did the
activities there was such a strong peace felt in that room. And when it
was over and everyone was talking in Spanish and I couldn`t really
understand what anyone was saying, so I was just sitting there watching
everyone thinking of how very very grateful I am to be here and all the
sudden I hear an English song and all I rememeber it saying was `This is
where I belong`and I just felt the spirit so so so stong. Like wow. I
know it`s soooo cheesy cheesy lemmon sqeezy but my heart was so full. I
know I say this every week but the joy I have felt in these past two
months is unlike any other.
Also today I was reading in True
to the Faith and I came across a scripture that said something like "and
after much tribulations comes the blessings" and wow I know that with
out a doubt in my mind this is true. I have experience a lot of things
here in the mission and a lot of things before my mission that I truly
doubted would ever come to an end. But I know that through putting all
of my trust in God and going forward with faith and not fear the Lord
has truly been with me every single step of the way and I am seeing
those blessings come to life as I look for them and put forth the effort
to see them every single day.
I hope everyone is happy and being good and not doing drugs.
Count your blessings not your problems!
And remember that I love you all dearly.
XOXOXOXO
Hermana Jar Jar
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