What I Want to Share with You

Okay. Here it goes. I have so much to write and so little time...

Can you send me some info on John Tanner from church history?

I went on an adventure. Well, we went to a small pueblo about two hours from our house and it was beautiful. And, I got to cross something off my to do list, drink fresh cool water straight from the ground. It was delicious.

I had my last interview with President this last week. Wow. That man is incredible and has really helped to shape me into who I am today and who I will be later. He promised my hubby is a good man. Haha. And now I just hope that I can get to know my new President that is coming tomorrow.

Let's see... A puppy pooed all over me the other day. After I totally stepped into a hole and have a nice scrape on my leg. Haha. Oh the joys of the mission. I was telling a girl, that's 14 and from the states, and her mom about what happened. Her mom was like, this isn't helping her to want to go. I said no, it should. These are the adventures of the mission. What makes it funny is when you get to tell your kids later. And all of it is worth it.

Elections are in September and there are signs everywhere for all the parties. Well I was walking, and dad, guess what... I saw the FIST OF LOVE! One of the party's symbol is a fist and all of their signs have them with a fist of love. Just another manifestation that this is where I need to be. Nowhere else in the world would I be able to walk by the fist of love everyday! Love you dad.

Our investigator had her baby. C section. But they wanted to get baptized but can't do it soon because she can't get in the water. We've found some other really positive people just working to baptize them.

Can you send me that talk mom, about the gifts of the Spirit? When he lists gifts that aren't mentioned in the scriptures.

Okay here is what I want to share with you. More important than anything else.

We gad our last conference with President Lorenzana and he taught the plan of salvation and then... incredible... habits, attributes, and tools and instruments of Satan. For his last discourse, he taught us the habits of Satan so we can be more aware and begin to rid ourselves of them. I want to list them and then you should discuss them in your next FHE. Talk about how as a family you can begin to rid the family of them. He said, if anyone has one of these habits they can not enter the celestial kingdom because these habits do not exist there. Harsh, but true. The beauty of it, is that we can be pure and clean and rid ourselves of the habits of Satan through the atonement by using the Spirit intelligently and our self control.

They are...

1. Curiosity.
2. The easy life.
3. Unbelief.
4. Procrastination.
5. Laziness.
6. Criticism.
7. Hidden intentions.
8. Apathy.
9. Me first.
10. Being followers of men and not of God.
11. Fighting with everyone. Being angry and liking contention.
12. Envy.
13. A thirst-hunger for power.
14. Justification.
15. Lack of character.
16. To live without purpose.
17. To love the world.
18. Irreverence.
19. Self pity.
20. Foolishness.
21. To not have goodwill.
22. Imitation of righteousness.
23. Double animo. Like having two sides.
24. Hiding things. Secrets.
25. I can't (I love this. It means I don't want to).
26. Spending money on things that don't have value.
27. Not studying.
28. Can't put on the brake. Don't have the ability to stop.
29. Trash talking. Negatively talking.
30. Low self-esteem.
31. Not liking or wanting responsibility.
32. Pride. The father of all.

Well family. This week I have learned a lot. And I am grateful that I can continue to learn and become who Heavenly Father wants me to be. I have immersed myself in conference talks from April. Amazing. Go and read and have the mysteries of heaven shown unto you. Love you all.

God Had a Remote Control

Just real quick. The time flew today. 

This is my last week with President Lorenzana. Dad, Daniel, tell me how changing of presidents went. Prepare me please.

I love my comp. That's all. We have a great time together. We had an extra mattress in our room last week and I was in the door way brushing my teeth. Romero was on the bed putting lotion on her feet. I made the quickest decision I have ever made in my life. I took off in a sprint and jumped into the bed. Flew backwards with my rain boots and landed on my bum. Romero is still laughing to this day. I don't know why I did what I did but we are still lauging. We think God had a remote control and had me do that. 

Let's see.... 

I was sick this week. I think it was a combination of not sleeping much. Because my whole body itches, and the weather changes, so sinus, and my body just needed to stop. But Hermana Bunting has been sick so we did divisions. What an amazing girl. She is from Vegas. Awesome. We have a lot of the same weaknesses so we talked a lot about how to over come them. Good times. 

Update of Vilma and Herncio, the familia Matais, we visited them casi every day. She is about to pop, she is expecting anytime now, but they are incredible. They have a fecha for July 9th. Please please please put their name in the temple. Familia Matias. Thank you!

Ahh. Time. Is gone. I love you all! Sorry there isn't more! Love you, love you. And i am feeling much better.

Hugs!

A Week of Personal Growth

What a week... How are you?

I met the president on Thursday. What a good man. He gave his talk in Spanish and English. His has great energy, a green and yellow color. He is funny. His wife has wit and  has fun happy personalty. She wants to be our mom. I got three hugs from her in just that day. I am so excited to work under them. They are wonderful. Oh, two of their sons served in Spain. Bilabou and Malaga and the president in Uraguay.

This week has been a week of personal growth. Sometimes I feel bad about that. When I grow and grow without the stats or proof in numbers, but I am realizing that it's not what it is about. I got to talk to Lambert on Monday. President Lorenzana's last favor. Ha. I could see my growth in the short time we had apart. I've had a lot of time to think this week and I am realizing that I don't have to be better than anyone else to have worth. I can stand for what's right in small ways and that can bring me confidence. I have taken comfort in the words of our living prophet and apostles in the Liahona. Thank you mom for sending me more.

I completed a goal this week. I wrote every single day in June in my journal. It was cool to look back and see what I had accomplished day by day. And I think sometimes life is like that. We want to change and accomplish things fast and right away, but we can't rush time. We can't write about what happened in a day that didn't happen yet.  We can't rush time. We must live here and now and do what we can to be happy. And happiness comes from following the Savior. I have felt His love this week. I can't say it's been the perfect week, but I can say that it has been a week of growth.

Family, I know this isn't long, but I just want to say things are well. Heavenly Father is aware of me and is helping me and loving me and is showing me things I need to change and be better in. Change is never easy. But the hope of knowing we can change is incredible. We had a sita with a really Catholic family. At one point, she said something about perfection. I just felt this overwhelming feeling that perfection is possible, but only through the atonement of Jesus Christ. It's so important because without it, we can't be perfected. We can't return to our Father's presence.

Thank you for your support and your love.