No en serio, cada día en la semana pasada y tambien en la semana que viene tenemos mil lecciones! No tenemos tiempo para hablar con todos de nuestros amigos porque siempre estamos encontrando nuevas personas! Tambien tenemos muchos amigos progresando y estamos muy emocionadas a ayudar estas personas!
English: No seriously, every day last week and also next week we have a thousand lessons! We don't have time to talk to all of our friends because we are always meeting new people! We also have many friends progressing and we are very excited to help these people!
Tambien... el domigo pasado tuvimos 10 amigos en la capilla! No sabemos que este pasó, porque nunca en nuestro 2 meses acá tuvimos un amigo en la capilla. Pero tuvimos 10!!! Fue muy loco! Pero fue buenísimo! Estamos muy emocionadas y no posemos esperar a ayudar estas personas. Yo sé que este fue un milagro, y estoy agradecida para la oportunidad de ver este milagro en mi vida. Yo sé que hay tiempos cuando pensamos no tenemos bendiciones, o no vimos las frutas de nuestro labor, pero yo sé que siempre hay bendiciones, y Dios siempre ayudanos por nuestro trabajo.
English: Also...last Sunday we had 10 friends in the chapel! We don't know what happened, because never in our 2 months here did we have a friend in the chapel. But we had 10!!! It was very crazy! But it was great! We are very excited and can't wait to help these people. I know this was a miracle, and I am grateful for the opportunity to see this miracle in my life. I know that there are times when we think we have no blessings, or we did not see the fruits of our labor, but I know that there are always blessings, and God always helps us through our work.
Si ahora usted se siente no hay milagros en su vida, mira otra vez. Porque usted va a encontrar no solo uno, pero millones de bendiciones.
English: If now you feel there are no miracles in your life, look again. Because you are going to find not just one, but millions of blessings.
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English Class
Okay our english class is getting really popular! Every Thursday we teach English and the first two weeks it was totally dead and no one came, but then it gradually started growing a little bit, and last week we had a whole family of 5, a mom and her daughter, a 21 year old aspiring English teacher, and a 37 year old breakdancer show up to class. Plus we have a bunch of people interested so now we have a big group chat of all our English friends!
I think it's been a great help for my Spanish too, and its really shown me how far I've come! I can't wait to see what my Spanish will look like in just a couple months, let alone in a year! I've served about 25% of my mission and the time is flying way too fast! I feel like I just finally got my feet fully under me with the language, and I've still got so much room to grow!
Spiritual thought
A talk I really liked this week was "Forgiveness" by President Gordon B. Hinkley in the October 2005 Conference. He shares a story of a woman who suffers surgery, disfigurement, and years of physical therapy after a 19 year old boy tossed a frozen turkey out of his car window onto her car. Yet this woman does everything she can to make sure this young man who might have killed her, can live a good life. In the courtroom she hugged the young man as he crying begging for her forgiveness and just told him she wants him to live the best life he can.
I wish we could all strive to be like this woman. Not seeking revenge, maybe not even justice, but just seeking to be merciful. To give more than we are given. To love others more. The scriptures say,
“I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men”
Even if we are not holding grudges, even if we have no one in our lives to forgive, are we still forgiving all men? Are we doing all we can to not just love those we know, but to love those who we don't, perhaps those we see as faceless villains, those who fight for a cause we don't support or have beliefs we don't share?
Let us all try to love a little more selflessly, pray for those who despitefully use us, and serve those who stand in need of service, no matter who they are.
I guess I'm pretty boring this week, cause that's all I've got to say. Chau chau!
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