July 6, 2013

Oh hey!!!!

Guys, how was the beach??????

I totally want to see some pictures!!!! Just email me some so I can see them!

My week was so great.

We just try super hard to study our little hearts out. I'm so excited to go to Washington, but I'm also a little nervous because I definitely don't speak Spanish! Panic. Oh. right. I'm going to WASHINGTON!!!! So excited. So grateful that I'll have a Wal-mart for at least a couple more weeks of my life.

My district went to the travel office this week to interrogate them about everything they know about our reassignments and visas and stuff. Apparently, the Argentina Consulate Guy that we have to sign stuff in front of has been on vacation FOR A MONTH!!! Probs hanging out at his Island Villa in the Bahamas. It's cool. We are just hanging here in the US. NBD (No Big Deal). With that being said, I think we still have a long time to wait for our stuff regardless of whether Argentina man comes home  soon or not. There are SO many missionaries here going to Argentina and not a single one has a visa. Everyone is getting reassigned. Argentina man is just an itty bitty problem to the big pic.

This week we had our first Skype lesson. So weird. SO, we did that instead of TRC this week. We weren't really sure if we should offer a prayer over Skype, you know? Kinda awkward. Totally didn't. But apparently the missionaries will be teaching a lot over Skype in the near future so they will probs come up with some curriculum for that.

Sunday I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting. In SPANISH. Say what?? It's slightly stressful because they give everyone a topic and then we all find out who is speaking after we take the sacrament when the Branch Pres. stands up to announce the program. Probably the first of many times I'll be asked to speak like that. Don't worry guys. TOTALLY PREPARED. Rocked it.

Oh, and Audrey Clifton is here at the MTC! She got here Wednesday. Fun to see her!

How was the Fourth of July?????

Our curfew was extended til 11 on the 4th so we could watch the fireworks from the stadium. 11! SO LATE ;) but really. So late.

And we also watched 17 Miracles on the 4th. The pioneer movie. Shout out to the family because guess who stars in that movie?! Jens Nielson and his fam! You guys probably already knew that. But if not, watch it! Totally wouldn't live here in the United States without him and the faith of his family to come to America and then travel to Utah. I basically felt famous. And super blessed. It's so cool to think about how America was the land God chose to restore the gospel in and we get to live here! Holla!

Cool story I heard about President Eyring's Dad I think. He had bone cancer which makes it extremely painful to move. He went with his ward to pull weeds at the welfare farm. He dragged himself along the ground for hours in this little patch, pulling all the weeds and when he was done, someone came up to him and said, "You didn't pull these weeds, did you? We already sprayed them so they will just die." When he got home, he was relating the story to his son and laughing about it and his son was like, "Why are you laughing??! Aren't you mad??" And his dad just said, "I didn't go for the weeds, I went for God."

I'm not here on a mission to learn Spanish or any of the little things or "weeds." I'm here for God.

Oh, also, as a missionary we talk about obedience so much. COOL STUFF. So there's that scripture in D&C 130: 20-21 that everyone talks about that I never thought was that great but it totally is.

God is bound to bless you based on obedience to the laws you follow. If you want blessings, you have to be obedient to the laws related to that blessing. And the coolest part is, if you do obey exactly, God HAS to give you those blessings. He is BOUND. If you don't obey, he can't give you those blessings.

SO, challenge for the week! Think of specific blessings in your life that you want or need and then do what you need to do to get those blessings with EXACT obedience. Totally works. I know, I'm being such a missionary. Sorry.

I love you guys!! Miss you a lot!!!

I'll try to send pics later today!

Meg