Hey Mom!
Ok first I got to tell
you a SWEET bird story that I JUST HAD. We got up to go on a run, and we were
running to this other park in our area that has a station for working out and
stuff. We got to the work out area, and we were about to get super ripped, but
then we heard a weird call. Elder J is now a birder (it always rubs off! it
happened with Bryce, Deven got reactive in birding and now he´s gonna major in
it or something, it´s super cool!) but he went over to the tree. The call we
heard was just a great tailed grackle mating call (they were doing mating
dances too) but we both found this one small plump bird sitting in the tree
above. "What could this be?" walk around the tree a little bit, stop.
the bird turns it´s head and MOUNTAIN PYGMY OWL!!!!! It was so cool! it flew
over to another nearby tree and we followed it and just watched it for about
thirty minutes, it called a little bit and cocked its head a couple of times.
Elder J said "I´ve never seen an owl so tiny!" oh it was super cool.
We didn´t work out, but we saw a super sweet bird. Life bird for me. I also got
another life bird this week, Blue-headed Vireo. I´ll have to send you my
mission bird list that I have up to now, it´s not very big.
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| Just in case you don't have your Birds of North America field guide handy, this is what these birds look like. Owl photo from owlinstitute.org. |
Anyway, this week was
tough, but really we did super well. K is preparing for the 31st of March to be
baptized and now the whole ward is going to be involved in preparing the
baptism, which is great! We just need to make sure that it´s reverent. I´ve
still been practicing the piano, and I´ve been getting better. This Sunday the
pianist was sick and so the first counselor (pianists husband) asked if I could
play...look at the songs...yes I know them all! I can play "All creatures
of our god and king" now which I thought I could never learn. I love that
song, but I´m pretty sure they don´t know it here (they don´t know a lot of
hymns hahaha)
We found some super
crazy lady this week, but we had a super powerful lesson with her too. She was
talking and talking and we were able to take control of the lesson very
smoothly and we delivered her a very spirit filled lesson of the
restoration. I realized in that lesson that I´ve gotten pretty good at
speaking spanish. She told us that she could feel the spirit and understand
that the things we were teaching must be...but she wasn´t willing to do
anything about it. For some reason she couldn´t go to church and she couldn´t
pray with us, hahahaha. She kept calling us guerito, which means little whitey
hahahaha. Elder J and I have had a lot of great teaching experiences together
and I´m glad that I have another change with him.
Good Job Nathaniel! I´m still putting on sunscreen but now because
there hasn´t been any sun for a while, it´s been rainy and cloudy hahahaha. I
think it´s been like that more than it has been sunny for the time I´ve been in
Mexico (5 months). [Mom told Davis about Nathaniel’s track meet and to
make sure he wears sunscreen.]
I love you guys! Keep
going!
Elder Garner
p.s. did this picture
send?
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