Hola familia!
I
love the feeling of breaking open a new missionary planner. What is the
most exciting about this one is that I have decided that I will ONLY
write in Spanish in it. So wish me luck! lol I have already decorated
the pages for Halloween and Thanksgiving in beautiful orange and green
colors. The only sad thing about this planner is that I know that
Hermana Stevens won't be here for all of it. She is being transferred
this Wednesday. But I know that she has a lot of other people elsewhere
to bless and that it would be selfish to tell her she can't leave.
This
is probably the last walk week of my mission (as now we will be back to
biking...) A miracle of this last walk week was that I finally have a
real hole in the bottom of my right shoe (you can actually SEE through
it! I can't tell you how proud I am of these shoes! :D It is terrific!)
Now my goal is to make a visible hole in the left shoe too! (I know, I
know, I'm such a nut!)
We did Spanish exchanges
this past Tuesday. I went up to the North sisters' area... It was
crazy... no one was home. We went to Good year to get the oil changed
and the tires rotated, no big deal but the TV was playing and it was on
the news... So I am innocently reading my Libro de Mormon when I started
hearing things like, "highly contagious," "you touch it you die..."
"eats your internal organs"... it was some story about Ebola (sp?)....
okay, I understand that as a missionary you just really don't get news
but I have found that Spanish missionaries are even MORE out of the loop
than English speaking missionaries... Crazy stuff! (This is the first
time I've ever heard about this disease! What the?!?)
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| Hermana Stevens, Sister Lopez and Hermana Ives |
We
took the bus once this week... the bus is such a joke here (it comes
maybe once an hour...maybe, and it is usually super early or super
late...) It was super crazy, we got a ride out to Stanton and then
missed our bus going back to our apartment so we had to call the Otter
Creek sisters to come rescue us!
Something I
learned this week from the people we talked to and the experiences that
we had is that, Heavenly Father knows what's up, trust Him and know that
blessings will come even though they may not come in the way that you
expect. Heavenly Father lets us go through trials and difficulties so
that He can bless us. He may bless us with counsel when we need it, an
added measure of patience or endurance. No matter what He blesses us and
wants us to succeed. It is okay to recognize that something is hard and
that you may not like it. But instead of asking, "why? Why me?" look
for the compensatory blessings (I promise they are always there we just
have to look and recognize.)
Well. Time is up. I gotta go. But always remember that no matter what Heavenly Father loves you!
Love,
Hermana Ives
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