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| Happy Birthday Jane! |
Familia!-
Soggy cereal is the defintion of a mission.
A. You pour your cereal and barely take one bite before your comp yells, ¨my shower head just burst. Can you come help me fix it?¨ By the time you take it apart, scald your hand, get electricuted, and get crusty things from the shower in your eye, and return to the table... it´s soggy.
B. Eating cereal while you read the Book of Mormon and all the sudden you find the sweetest scripture for an investigator so you have to mark it, take 40 notes in your journal, cross reference every footnote and then all the sudden... you forgot you were eating and it is soggy.
C. You are eating in peace, looking out the window, pondering where the Lamanties would have camped in the mountains of Huehue... when all the sudden the garbage man starts pulling up and you realize its garbage day and you can´t forget again because your house REAKS... collect all the garbage and sit back down to soggy cereal.
D. The renter owner lady knocks on the window to collect the monthly payment and then starts telling you all the problems of her house and pets and children and tortillas... and this time is the worst because you didn´t forget about your cereal but you just have to witness it sog from 5 feet away while she talks 100 miles per hour for 100 hours.
E. You accidentally poured the milk before you blessed it, kneel down, and then remember the 5 things you needed to talk to Heavenly Father about and by the end of the prayer... you just make some pancakes for you and your comp because you can´t eat one more bowl of soggy cereal.
There are infinity more but I love it. I love every single minute of this blessed life. We washed dishes for a member this week. Oh my...I love serving. They use volcanic rock to scrape food off the dishes and it doesn´t hurt them. Don´t worry momma, I am bringing some home for you :]
We had quite the experience this week. We were headed down the mountain to the lower part of our area and my comp asked which of the two routes we should go. I just randomly chose one and thus we went... we passed through the little ally and through the gate where some members live with their non-member 80 year old grandma that does witchcraft. Legit. So we passed through the gate, turned and saw her sitting on the bench. My comp said ¨hola abuela¨ as we all call her, and she turned, stared at us in the eyes, and then started convulsing and fell over as if dead. My comp ran to tell the house and I grabbed Abuela´s limp hand and started praying my soul out. She started gasping for irregular breaths after a bit and then reopened her eyes, looked at me and said ¨Ore. Ore por mi. Estoy muy mal...¨ She kept kissing my hand and trying to put my hand on her head to give her a blessing. I just kept praying as she started regaining breath. Her family came out and we worked it all out but let me tell ya... that was one of the most stressful 5 minutes of my life. It is amazing how somehow we are always in the exact right place at the exact right time. Heavenly Father truly is aware of each of His children, and if we listen, we will always be led to someone who needs help.
After that all happened I offered a prayer with the family and during the prayer there was an earthquake tremor and the pans started banging the walls and the water was splashing around... what else could happen in these few mintues? The tremors have stopped but there were are about 4 different ones last week. Hopefully everything is still again.
The gospel is so amazing. It truly changes people from the inside out. Antonio was sustained as worthy to recieve the priesthood this Sunday. Never felt so happy in my life. Another investigator told us that we were glowing with a huge light around us the whole time we were talking and that we saved her life by coming to visit that night. Sayra is teaching her brother the gospel. This darling family in the ward are working to go to the temple. Every time we testify I can just feel the power of these things. I can feel the truth and the eternal nature of these things. As people become converted to the gospel their lives and actions truly do start changing.
I love Alma 60:23 que dice, ¨God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then the outer vessel shall be cleansed also.¨
This life, this gospel, trials and trimuphs... it is all about purification. We are just being taught and molded into the people that the Lord wants and needs us to be. Each of these tests and struggles are a blessing. Truly. They are. Because they point us to the Savior. They keep us humble. They give us experience that will lead us to exaltation. It is much more about the condition of our heart than anything else. I want to have a repentant heart.
I want to ¨try, try, try¨ every day a little bit harder to be a little bit more like my Savior, Jesus Christ. He lives. I know it with all that I am. He is waiting to help us and lift us and love us. I am so grateful for His infinite goodness and mercy. I do not deserve all that I have but I will pour my heart out to Him everyday for blessing me with the gospel and a family that is centered upon Jesus Christ. What glorious hope we have because of His sacrifice. Because we have been given much, we too must give. I am giving it all I have and finding joy in greater and greater abundance as I do so. So grateful. SO so so eternally grateful.
Love you guys with all my heart. In my thoughts and prayers always.
Hermana Jane McGill.
PS the exclamation doesnt work again... haha :]
