Week 3!

Hey mom! hey dad! Jess and Ton and all you other wonderful people!
How are you?
Im glad you enjoyed girls camp my mother dearest, and are super impressive at balancing on poles :), and thats pretty swell about Bishop Kersey, he´s great, though im pretty sure he thinks me a bum! thats ok, in actuality i prefer it that way! but im telling you stuff you already know!
Things continue to go splendidly down here. Just in the moment when i was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to thinking that i was alone in actually caring, i had a temporary companion switch with one of the zone leaders, who happens to rock, and happened to prove me wrong. the first thing he did when he saw my charla (ugh!) was rip it up and hand it to a garbage man!
But now im back with my trainer, and he´s a little peeved, and told me we´ll make new ones tomorrow....
So close!

Other than that, i was super excited when last week i was in the bathroom half the night thinking i had an infection! My first parasite! i thought to myself, but the fever that had accompanied me el baño then seems to have passed, and though i still feel like i spend half my life walking and the other half in the bathroom, all is well!

In other news, my companion told me that packages almost always arrive from the states, with one thing! a picture of the virgen mary!
so thats for all of you who have been waiting on the edge of your seats to send me swedish fish. Virgen Mary!

Umm....
We found a couple of cool families this last week that both accompanied us to church with their hijos, so that was super neat, and one of the dads was wearing an REO shirt when we visited his home the second time. I made an attempt at commenting that they are my dads favorite band, but either he didn´t understand me or he has know idea who REO speedwagon is...i dont know he just laughed alot...
anywho!
Pensamiento Espíritual!

The Book of mormon begins with the story of the family of this great guy Nephi. They live in Jerusalem, before the coming of Christ. Nephis father is a prophet, who goes around the city, warning all the jews to prepare themselves, and repent, or the city of jerusalem would be destroyed.
The people, as they tend to do, are infuriated to the point of seeking to kill Lehi. (nobody likes to hear they are wrong) So Lehi and his family are told by God to flee the city and head for the wilderness, leaving behind all their worldly treasures and whatnot.

The thing is, Nephi has these two brothers, who you know, maybe they´re just teens or something, but they just can´t stand their father. They call him a visionary man, being led by the foolish imaginations of the heart. Anyways they get to the point of wanting to kill their dad, like the jews in the city.

But lets get to the point. because Nephi, on the other hand, though he was younger than his brothers did not follow in their footsteps, and we learn why!

In Nephi 2:12, we read about laman and lemuel (the brothers of Nephi) that they did ¨murmer because they knew not the dealings of that God who had created them¨ Laman and Lemuel could not understand why their dad would do all these crazy things, all these marvolous things. Because they didn´t know the very being who had created them.
This goes hand in hand with my last spiritual thought!
God exists. And if God exists, he created us, And if God created us, he loves us, And if God loves us, he wants us to love him. Just like any other good father, save He is perfect.
But can we love that which we don´t understand?
Now, yes, because i love God though I could never possibly understand Him. But it is a yes only to a point. As we come to understand our Heavenly Father, and i hope im not repeating myself from last week, but i just feel like this is the point where so many people lose their way, just like Laman and Lemuel, who never returned from their wrong ways. As we come to understand our Heavenly Father, we come to love Him. like Enoch, we come to see like Him, love like Him, be a little more like Him.

Now, the difference between Laman and Lemuel, and their brother Nephi?

in verse 16
i Nephi, being exceedingly young, (and i would add to this humble, an important part!) nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know the mysteries of God (desire!), wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; (prayer, he asked God for help!) and...
behold he did visit me, and did soften my heart
that i did believe.

Mi Familia, Mis Amigos!
I am going to be the crazy Lehi to some of you right now!
We all know how blessed we are, if not, come to mexico! Come to have a testimony, as Nephi of old. Why? because! because life, our relations with others, our relations with ourselves, are better when we have a relation with God, when we have a testimony of truth.
As Nephi, we must be humble enough to have faith, we must have a desire to know the truth, who doesn´t? only the prideful! none of you! I know!
Then, we must act! ask! and ask believing, because i promise you will not ask in vain, and more importantly, the Lord promises you.
And this goes for all. there are none who know their savior enough, there are none who can ever think they know enough.
These things, i am beginning to know for myself, and desire that you all know as well, because they are the most important things.
I love you!
I hope all is well!
Im sorry for my hardcore preaching, but im not! its too easy in english!

Have a nice day!
and a week!
adios!