But on Tuesday we have devotionals and they have become my favorite thing here. Mostly because it takes the place of a 3 hour class haha. This last Tuesday though we had Elder Quentin L. Cook of the quorum of the twelve come to visit. And the excitement I felt was just amazing. When he entered the room everyone stood up as a sign of respect and it was just SO COOL to have an apostle of the Lord a couple feet away from us. His talk was also amazing. He talked to us about how he assigns missionaries. A little picture shows up on a screen along with a small bio about you then he has a map with the mission's that need missionaries. And the holy ghost directs where each person will serve. He also touched on " feeling an urgency" in missionary work. Finding the urgency to serve is when we completely place our focus on others. And through the process we will lose ourselves in the work. Oh! He also brought a church historian that showed us a draft of Alma 34 ( scripture in the libro de mormon). This page was one of the few surviving drafts of the book of mormon that were left in a Church corner for 40 YEARS.
This week we also taught our first two lessons in spanish. It was kind of rough at first, because we only know broken spanish but she got the message. We are teaching a girl named Yaisza who is studying English at BYU. She's also from Mexico and she is sooo kind. Whenever we mess up she just smiles at us and tries to correct our Spanish haha.
I'm also still surviving. The language is coming, but it's kind of tough to fit studying in because we only have an hour to go over Spanish. From this, I just really have learned to trust in the Lord.
24/7 exhaustion is also a thing here. Every minute we are doing something and so there is no time for naps. And so there have definitely been times where sleep deprivation has taken over. On Wednesday night me and Hermana Amedee had to iron some shirts. So the irons here work best when you just use a spray bottle instead of pouring the water inside the actual iron. So that is what we did! We brought the spray bottles. And this is where it kind of went downhill.
I was trying to find the mist setting but I accidentally found the "aim" setting and I sprayed Hermana Amedee. She got mad and sprayed me back and yeah well eventually I stole her spray bottle and it was just free flying from there that is till she ran away. Haha she even LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ROOM. so I told her that jumanji was coming and she let me back in. I promise it was funnier in real life. Haha just know we are having a good time!
Anyways I hope you all have a great week! If there's anything I can do for you please don't hesitate to shoot me an email!
GREAT QUOTES BY A GREAT AUTHOR:
" The church loves us for which we are, but we can't stay who we are - we need to progress"
"It takes the elect to gather the elect. You are here now, because you are supposed to be here now. You may have even poed with your heavenly father to be reserved for now."
Love,
Hermana Pulver
