Hola family and friends!! How is everybody? How is Martin Luther King Day? Enjoying the day off? I have a day off today too! (only like my 8th day in a row now but still...) Only difference is I would much rather be working. Well my week hasn´t been full of baptisms or finding new people to teach..BUT I think we´re making some progress as far as my health situation goes and I am learning to love the Book of Mormon even more than I did before. So I am thinking that must count for something! ;)
I am still locked up, and in a lot of pain, but we´ve been back and forth at the doctors this week for various tests! The doctors can´t seem to pinpoint what is causing all of this, but we have high hopes that the results from today's tests..will give us some answers! :) Thank you all for your emails and PRAYERS. I really can feel your love from here and I know I will make a quick recovery due to all of your faith and strength in me. So thank you!
This week I have done a lot of reading, watching some church flicks (like the phone call) and wait for it....I GOT TO GO TO THE TEMPLE. One of the sisters, Hermana Gonzales finished her mission a couple of weeks early to start school so I got to be her companion for the day..and she wanted to go to the temple and of course I was feeling up to it. So I got ready for the first time in like a week, haha and we made our way to the temple. Despite all of my pain, the temple was such a blessing and I felt so much peace afterwards. Not to mention, my tummy didn´t even hurt the whole time. What a m i r a c l e. In the temple I kept receiving confirmation over and over again that everything would be okay and that The Lord has a specific plan for me, and that if I accept happily, that everything will work out the way it´s supposed to. So, I am staying positive and trying to remember that the Lords plan for me is ALWAYS better for me than my plan for me. So I am not worried, and I know that everything will work out exactly how it´s supposed to. :)
In the Book of Alma this week I was reading about when Alma and Amulek were preaching the gospel and declaring repentance and half of the people accepted and the other half didn´t...So the unrighteous then burned the righteous alive along with their scriptures and made Alma and Amulek watch..HEARTWRENCHING. So then, the unrighteous put Alma and Amulek in jail..and for ten days they sat there suffering. The unrighteous came in and spat on them, mocked them, and provoked them..and what did Alma and Amulek do?! They just took it. WHAT STUDS! They didn´t say a word, they demonstrate meekness and humility without a single complaint. On the tenth day they prayed that they would be delivered from their enemies according to their faith and the Lord delivers them (duh.) The entire jail fell to the floor in smoke, every single person inside died..and they walked out of their without a scratch!!! Sing it with me! ¨Here come the men in black!!!!!¨ All the smoke and stuff behind them and they just walk out of there in their black suits!! Ya know...because they´re missionaries..ya with me? Anyway, I am sure that neither Alma nor Amulek looked anything like Will Smith, but I bet they felt equally cool walking out of the mess unharmed. My point haha..this whole thing reminds me of the Savior. When he suffered for my sins, and your sins..He was mocked, spit on, and provoked..and He, like Alma and Amulek...willingly took it because they knew that they were completing the will of their father! I love this story they are such great examples for all of us!!! If we submit cheerfully to the will of the Lord, he will a l w a y s do His part. If none of you understood my Men in Black reference...it´s okay haha because I think I am going a little crazy being locked up in here..so we´ll just blame it on that. HELLLP.
Puns that I thought of to keep me laughing throughout the week about my stomach problems...haha
...it´s really a ¨bum¨mer
I´m a little ¨butt¨hurt about it..
how do you feel? Like ´crap¨
We really need to get to the ¨bottom¨of this...
Ok I´m done hahaha.
Well it looks like I am about out of time. I love you all and am so grateful for each of you. Please continue to pray for me, because I am really anxious to get back to my people in Carmelo..They need me! But more importantly, I need them. I know I will make recovery this week!!!!!! I am bound too with all of your prayers and the prayers of the missionaries!!!! I will continue to pray for all of you at home. I miss and LOVE you all!! Have a beautiful week! ¡HOY ES EL DIA!
Food for thought: ¨Strength isn´t something you have, it´s something you find.¨ -Emma Smith
Hermana Gonzales and I at the Montevideo, Uruguay temple!!
It´s seriously so beautiful you guys!
I wish you could all see it. google it.
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