Guten nachte!
how art thou? i am glad to hear all is well. and mom, i hope you can forgive me!
who knows what happened last week, but i didn´t write and i am dreadfully sorry.
Wait no! i do know what happened!
I was on a bus almost the whole day, because i got changed from Irapuato to my new home in! Matahuala! Its the furthest area north for our mission, and actually, wasn´t even in our mission until about 3 months ago.
So! I have a new companion, Elder Javiere, who has about 8 or 9 months in the mission. he´s a neat guy.
I really like this place, not that i should care. Its really small, theres only one other companionship, and 2 branches. But i like it in the short time i have been here. Today we climbed a mountain, here! i will show you some pictures! in the last one is my companion, on my left hand side! closest to me! yep, thats him! neat huh?
ummmm
i´ll tell you a swell experience i had.
we went to lunch with a member of our branch, and her family.
well, we were about to eat these things that taste pretty good, but i always have a tough time downing, i think they´re called sope, and they´re basically tacos, but flat, and with a really thick tortilla. anyways,
i ate too many of them one time and now they give me this nauseous nostalgia (dont judge me for my spelling)of that occasion.
well, i sat down to eat them, with a little worry, as the hermana brought out more and more.
but then they turned on the tv and we watched this burned dvd of beautiful landscapes with smooth latinny mexican music, and i found myself at peace.
i don´t know why i felt inspired to tell you that. its just something about eating with members, and being in mexico, that i would like to share with you, because it brings me great happiness.
You have to eat what people give you! and its not a problem really, because you´re usually starving. did i tell you about the time the time the lady turned on the techno beats?
anyways, i wont waste more of your time.
PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL!!!
i was talking about something two weeks ago, but i can´t remember what.
But i spoke in church yesterday, i dont think anybody was listening, because i probably didn´t make any sense,
but i´ll share a scripture that i think i shared yesterday, with you!
pablo dijo!
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves.
Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
this makes me think of something i started to learn, and i say started to learn because im still trying, about the scriptures, and about prayer.
really the purpose, and the way we aquire and strengthen our testimonies, our beliefs.
this scripture is in 1 john, 2:21
i have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it...
When i have read the scriptures, when i have read them with faith, really searching for answers, really pondering over what i have read, and praying beforehand to ask for help in this aspect,
I find i don´t learn anything new.
I feel as if i find the words that were already within me. I feel as if i remember something i already knew, or i am given hope in something i had already hoped for.
the testimony, for me, is that that which i find, mirrors the yearning of my soul. in the times when i have questioned everything, fought to find a way out of believing, i have lucked, (or better yet recieved a little help), i have remembered something.
You cannot cheat yourself.
Even though you feel as if you are completely crazy to believe in something or someone like God, shoot! people talking outloud with arms folded and eyes closed and nobody around, and no, they aren´t talking to themselves!!! really, Its crazy! its absolutely ridiculous!
IF you skip out on faith
Its a rule! its a huge rule! one that we like to try to ignore at times! or that we don´t understand.
God has promised each and every one of us, that if we ¨ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you...¨ Moroni 10:4
I have a testimony of Christ, i have a testimony of God, his words in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon, and his words through living prophets today.
Search these things, and your life as well, with a hope to find, and you will. we all have the truth within us. align it with these gifts of God
I love you!
I wish you a nice week!
and have to go!
adiós
Elder Albano
how art thou? i am glad to hear all is well. and mom, i hope you can forgive me!
who knows what happened last week, but i didn´t write and i am dreadfully sorry.
Wait no! i do know what happened!
I was on a bus almost the whole day, because i got changed from Irapuato to my new home in! Matahuala! Its the furthest area north for our mission, and actually, wasn´t even in our mission until about 3 months ago.
So! I have a new companion, Elder Javiere, who has about 8 or 9 months in the mission. he´s a neat guy.
I really like this place, not that i should care. Its really small, theres only one other companionship, and 2 branches. But i like it in the short time i have been here. Today we climbed a mountain, here! i will show you some pictures! in the last one is my companion, on my left hand side! closest to me! yep, thats him! neat huh?
ummmm
i´ll tell you a swell experience i had.
we went to lunch with a member of our branch, and her family.
well, we were about to eat these things that taste pretty good, but i always have a tough time downing, i think they´re called sope, and they´re basically tacos, but flat, and with a really thick tortilla. anyways,
i ate too many of them one time and now they give me this nauseous nostalgia (dont judge me for my spelling)of that occasion.
well, i sat down to eat them, with a little worry, as the hermana brought out more and more.
but then they turned on the tv and we watched this burned dvd of beautiful landscapes with smooth latinny mexican music, and i found myself at peace.
i don´t know why i felt inspired to tell you that. its just something about eating with members, and being in mexico, that i would like to share with you, because it brings me great happiness.
You have to eat what people give you! and its not a problem really, because you´re usually starving. did i tell you about the time the time the lady turned on the techno beats?
anyways, i wont waste more of your time.
PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL!!!
i was talking about something two weeks ago, but i can´t remember what.
But i spoke in church yesterday, i dont think anybody was listening, because i probably didn´t make any sense,
but i´ll share a scripture that i think i shared yesterday, with you!
pablo dijo!
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves.
Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
this makes me think of something i started to learn, and i say started to learn because im still trying, about the scriptures, and about prayer.
really the purpose, and the way we aquire and strengthen our testimonies, our beliefs.
this scripture is in 1 john, 2:21
i have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it...
When i have read the scriptures, when i have read them with faith, really searching for answers, really pondering over what i have read, and praying beforehand to ask for help in this aspect,
I find i don´t learn anything new.
I feel as if i find the words that were already within me. I feel as if i remember something i already knew, or i am given hope in something i had already hoped for.
the testimony, for me, is that that which i find, mirrors the yearning of my soul. in the times when i have questioned everything, fought to find a way out of believing, i have lucked, (or better yet recieved a little help), i have remembered something.
You cannot cheat yourself.
Even though you feel as if you are completely crazy to believe in something or someone like God, shoot! people talking outloud with arms folded and eyes closed and nobody around, and no, they aren´t talking to themselves!!! really, Its crazy! its absolutely ridiculous!
IF you skip out on faith
Its a rule! its a huge rule! one that we like to try to ignore at times! or that we don´t understand.
God has promised each and every one of us, that if we ¨ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you...¨ Moroni 10:4
I have a testimony of Christ, i have a testimony of God, his words in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon, and his words through living prophets today.
Search these things, and your life as well, with a hope to find, and you will. we all have the truth within us. align it with these gifts of God
I love you!
I wish you a nice week!
and have to go!
adiós
Elder Albano
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