Lexie - August 4, 2014

Hola everyone! Another quick week and I have officially finished one cambio! My training lasts for 12 weeks though so I´m half way done with that. I finally got to have an interview with president George this week. Holy smokes I am so grateful to have an american misión president that I can speak to in English. When I was in the interview I felt totally like myself again! Personality and all! That was really nice. He´s extrememly laid back which I like! He was funny he was telling me all these stories of things that have happened since he arrived and after he would say, I probably shouldn´t have told you that lol. He´s really great, and so is his wife. She´s extremely concerned about health things so we´re getting lots of lectures on washing our hands and all that jazz. So guess what I ate this week! Lazagna! No joke one of the members that fed us tried to make it and it was actually pretty good! I was so happy to eat something that didn´t go with a tortilla! I´m not really taking yoshas advice with the one tortilla a day thing so lets hope I don´t come back twice my size. Also I started using a pillow this week and I am sleeping so much better! Haha. There were pillows at the apartement from the elders that had been there before us but we decided that was gross and we would go with out. One of the elders is in our zone still and last week at out conference he told us that they had the pillows washed before we got there! So my ability to sleep has improved a ton! I also ate something called mole? I think? I´m not really sure what it is but It wasn´t my favorite. We were supposed to have a baptism this saturday but the family wants to invite other family to come watch which is great and someone important couldn´t come this week. So it will be next week. It´s a really great family and I´m super excited! I´ve absolutely loved my study time this week. My companion talked to me about the christ like attributes section of Preach my góspel the other day and I started Reading through them and decided to choose one to work one every week. This weeks attribute is humility and WOW there are some extremely powerful scriptures about being humble. I think some days here are so fast pased that I forget really what I am doing and what my purpose is. I literally am an instrument in Gods hands, and I know that the more I ask for his guidance and help the stronger I´m going to be. Everything about how I´m able to communicate with people and share this góspel is because He is blessing me with the ability to do it. I also have been Reading true to the faith the last couple weeks. I know it´s a reference book but I´ve liked Reading through it. I read something the other day in the prayer section that I absolutely loved. Every day with our investigators we talk about how we are here on this earth to grow and progress and that we are not in anyway perfect and that´s ok! We need to excersize repentance and grow every day. We´ve talked to serveral people and I know I´ve had this feeling before about not feeling like I was able to pray. Feeling like Heavenly Father didn´t want to hear about another day of my earthly drama. But I know that this is not a feeling from God. In true to the faith it says, If you do not feel like praying, pray until you do feel like praying. I love this so much. I hope that everyone can remember this when it comes to prayer, Heavenly Father is always there and always wants to listen. I hope everyone has a wonderful week. I love you all! Can´t believe it´s already been six weeks!


Con mucho amor, Hermana Baer