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hello and howdy!
First
off sorry if this email is hard to understand- the spacebar on this
computer is
messed up. haha. But anyways it sounds like at home was a super fun and
adventurous week! Can talitha ride a 2 wheeler? Or was she pulling
the wagon on a 3 wheeler? So weird. She looks so big in the pictures you sent.
Speaking of which thanks so oooo much madeline for the plan de salvacion,
talitha for the drawings, and mom for the pics and
thing from Lula’s funeral. All of these things are on my desk and
wall now. thanks so much! Really enjoyed that lots and lots. also so cool that
you are going to go see hna melissa morris for her homecoming!!!
She sent me pictures of all the things she is eating haha. I miss
her lots. The girls in my house last night told me that I need to start
trying to be hna black and not hna morris...I think i must be talking
about her a lot and how I want to be like her haha.
As
far as salud goes- i am feeling awesome. i did take the charcoal, along with
some other things perscribed from Elder nelson, and even went to
the clinic because
it just wasn’t stopping haha. But they said I
was perfecto. So i asked my zone leader for a blessing. The blessing said
that because I decided to use faith, the medicine in
me would start to work little by little and that I didn’t need to take anything
else! So.. ... I am learning a lot about faith this week. :)
on
monday I was kind of frustrated with trying to do my calling as
leader, have good logros (number of lessons? I dunno what logros is
in english anymore haha) and train my
companion. But reading the quote you sent me mom
helped me to remember to take things one day at a time. Sometimes I get
frustrated because I just want the church to work as good here as it does in
utah. I just want someone, anyone to
be a home
teacher or a visiting teacher. I know we are far from perfect in utah
haha but like . ... a lot of things work a lot better
in utah. And i know like the chruch has been in utah for 200 years, and
we are just barely going to get to 50 soon here in bolivia. But sometimes
because I’ve seen how the church CAN work i just want to make everyone
here do it in the same way. haha.
But
anyways its really going good here. FAith though has become big
this week for me. sometimes when you just get no no no no no
no no no no no day after day you start to get disheartened and lose faith. It’s
because you want to protect yourself. Well at least me. i don’t
want to be sad again, don’t want to get my hopes up, so I think I lose faith
because it’s easier to just not believe that the people will progress. When you
really picture someone in white, really believe that they
are ready, really put all your heart and soul
into helping them and then they don’t except the truth and happiness you have,
its hard! And it really hurts. so I think somet imes I shut down a
little sometimes. But you just gotta keep having faith.
gotta keep believing that there are people here you are meant to
teach and baptize. And sometimes you go weeks without
finding them, and if you’re like me you get nervous because you think,
where are the people I promised before this life that I would find
? What if i don’t find them ?! But
you just gotta keep going with faith.
Trust that the big guy up above is going to make everything work
out. I just have to do my part- which is
open m y mouth and talk to everyone and do my best. God will do his part
if I let him.
Anyways
this week was also cambios. I am still with Hermana Barrios ( one month
with the same companion if you can believe it ! haha ) but now there are
two more hermanas in our house that are also working in our
area! One of them is a new gringa ! hna baldridge. No one can say her
name here hahaha. We went from 2 gringas in this mission to 6 this
week! so that’s cool.
also thanks to my calling as leader I was
helping with the cambios. My favorite
part of this was running down the street in front of a taxi with 6 mattresses piled on top. haha
None of our investigatores came to church this
sunday, but we aren’t giving up faith. We will get there. We will find
the people ready and chosen for the gospel. We choose to be chosen.
God is in this work, God is my captain in chief, and this is
His work that I am doing. I love it. I love helping others. I love saving the
world .
thanks
for everything! love, Hermana Elisa Black
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