Dear mom,
Thanks so much for the
words of encouragement. I´ve been doing a lot better this week. It´s still been
pretty rough. Here we have a lot of investigators come and go really fast, they
love to listen, but don´t want to act. We did have two people in church this
sunday however, which was exciting. There was one wonderful experience that I
had this week, but it´s more personal and I don´t want to share it publically.
In Preach my gospel, It says that we shouldn´t share spiritual experiences as
if they are pokemon cards. Ok it doesn´t say THAT, but similar. They´re sacred
moments that we have had and we should only be shared for the benefit of
others, to help build their testimonies and feel the spirit, not to brag or
anything. One thing that I have talked about a couple of times is the economic
difficulties that our familty has had in the past, in general, and how as a kid
I really didn´t feel afraid because my parents were faithful and strong in the
church. Everything turned out better than before and now they can spend all of
their time breaking our house (hahaha.) But, I´ve been trying to be really
sensitive to the spirit to know what I should share and what I should hold
onto, especially because I have never been asked to give a talk in
church...with more than a five minutes notice. ahahahah it really is a dandy
thing though, I feel that I´m always prepared to share something and give the
members some cheer and uplifted spirit through what I say. I think my spanish
is best behind the pulpit.
Anyway, I got my birthday
package, that book from grandma, the blanket too. I got the journals and the
book and the hymn book out, and the hi-chews too(everyone enjoyed those)
Remember I won´t write you next monday, but wednesday. We don´t know what we
will be doing for mother´s day because there is no good place(or member´s
house) with good enough internet, so we might have to get permission to go all
the way to san nicolas(sweet) to go to a special cyber cafe to do it, and it
might be on the monday right after mother´s day. We´ll figure it out this week
and let you know next wednesday.
Birds birds birds. Lots
of birds here in Cienega. I FINALLY SAW A CRESTED CARACARA! I saw a bunch
actually in some field, it was awesome. I also saw a painted bunting. I was
never too eager to see one before because in the illustrations they always have
the red eye-ring and they look evil, but this one was seen on top of a bush
singing, super gorgeous. There are also many Pyrroluxia here, the "Desert
Cardinals" a couple northern Cardinals, Some cool Common Nighthawks, and
many other birds.
Ok here is a cool
experience I had (to share with everyone) I was on divisions in a different
area with Elder W. We were walking down a road and passed by two people
hacking at some giant log (actually one of them was a lazy 25yr old and the
other was like a 50 yr old lady) I asked, "Hey can we help you?"
Sure! We started cutting the giant log, sweating a bunch, getting blisters and
all, super awesome. We cut that one and moved on to the next. as we rotated in
cutting it, we taught them about the gospel of jesus christ, and introduced the
book of mormon, they were really receptive. We got nearly done with the log,
and then stopped and I said "You know, cutting this log is a lot like the
gospel, you guys can watch us finish this log and feel good because the job is
done, or you could finish it yourself and feel even more accomplished. With the
Gospel, we can listen to the word of god and feel the spirit, but even better
is to follow said teachings and recieve unexplainable joy." Elder W set
an appointment, and we left about 1/4 of the log to finish. It was pretty
awesome, but then we had sore backs hahahaha.
Sounds, and looks like
nathnaiel is doing great. tell him that starting the first lap by telling a
joke to someone is fun(hahaha i don´t know if he should do it or not, I did it
a couple of times, but i don´t know if it affects the race.) Anyway, I´m doing
great again, still.
I love you all,
Elder Garner
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| This is a photo from the National Wildlife Refuge to show what Crested Caracara look like. Davis didn't take this pic. |
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