2015.06.15 Cienega de Flores
here let me answer your
questions first.
Well, 6:30 we get up and
do exersize. right now I´m doing something that my convert F taught me, where
you start with diamond pushups and then you go to marine push ups and then
regular and then spread pushups. I also do the jump rope a bunch and core and
whatever else I have time for. ITS SUPER HOT IN OUR HOUSE. honestly it is not a
very pleasant house, but that´s ok I didnt come on the mission to be the prince
of bel air (smell ya later!) It is super humid, so it´s hard to fall asleep.
You can´t open the windows unless you want a million cockroaches to join ya! so
we got our two fans and that´s that! the spider unfortunately died :( poor guy,
but I find other weird bugs in the house so it´s ok. anyway in the day what
we´ve been doing a lot is looking for families, we talk to families, we teach
families, we eat with families, we ask people if they know families. Well we
talk with everyone, EVERYONE! but we want to find that family that desires to
have the restored gospel in their life. Weather=super hot.
Speaking of families, we
found many this week. It was so awesome to teach many full families about the
restored truth of an eternal family. We would start each lesson with
"families can be together forever" and with that I could feel the
spirit fill up my whole chest, and I´m positive it did the same with my
companion too. From then on, in every lesson we were truly guided by the
spirit, and If I had the time I could tell you many wonderful experiences that
we had in the lessons.
Oh but in sunday, we
were disappointed. We sat there waiting in sacrament meeting, and not one of
the 4 families that we had commited to church came. A. came late and wasn´t
able to be confirmed (but don´t worry about him, his work won´t be a problem
now and he will be on time next sunday) I thought to myself "I thought
that the blessings came after the trials" Later I felt that voice say to
me "patience" Well here is another lesson that I learned. Sometimes
we are stuck in the middle of a sticky situation, and we feel heavy in trial,
and at the end of the day we say to ourselves "I suffered it well and
willingly, the blessings will come." But, I guess sometimes we don´t
understand that some trials are longer than others, saying to ourselves
"be patient" and then expecting the blessings tomorrow isn´t really
being patient. If there was one spider that I could have in my house, it would
be charlotte so she could sing to me "Cheer Up! Cheer Up!"
But don´t worry about
me, I´m not the lest bit disanimated. I thought to myself "Well, If these
families, or I, are not receiving great blessings, my Heavenly Father should be
sending them to my family." I hope you guys feel wonderful this week. The
gospel is the most wonderful thing we have and It´s great to have the blessing
of an eternal family. Maybe since Nathaniel is so bored, you guys could all go
to the Temple, or do a super fun family home evening where you do service to a
neighbor or an old person and then get ice cream. Dad is in charge of the
service projects in the ward now isn´t he? He should have plenty ideas.
dang I didn´t bring my
thingy to send photos, but next Week! We´re going to go to San Nicolas for a
zone activity in the afternoon, but then we are going to stay and work there in
the evening in the area of two other missionaries and stay at their house,
because tomorrow we´re going to the temple, and after we are going to have a
zone conference! It´s the last zone conference with president Swapp too, how
sad, he´s going to be leaving in two weeks. He´s been an awesome mission
president and I´ll miss him a bunch. But I am excited to have another, it´will
be super cool to learn from two mission presidents. Hey, did I tell you guys
that Elder J is the newest assistant to the President now? So I´ll get to see
him tomorrow as well!
Let´s all 4 of us have a
super duper week!
I love you!
Elder Davis Garner
(for dad Elder Davie
Chocolate)
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