9-27-10

Howdy y´all
Hows it going huh? I didn´t find glasses, because i can see close fine, its just distances that i have trouble. but it really doesn´t matter unless im trying to catch a bus and cant read where its going. No its not a big deal.
Horay! for street vibrations and the community show! did you catch a glimpse of grry? im sure he was there, ha!
Im not sure if im going to see much of general conference, i certainly hope so, but if we continue working like we are we won´t have any investigators to bring and we´ll probably be out in the streets!
the weathers dandy, it just started raining out of the blue, just now! I cant imagine having to knock doors in 101 degrees, and i hope it remains that way. Why do you think im discouraged? IM NOT DISCOURAGED!
I would be discouraged if i thought i was capable of this work.
im attaching photos, cause i don´t have anything to say!
the first is me after too many tacos. TOO MANY TACOS! no, this is when my face was swollen, before it started to puss, like a month and a half ago.
the second is called MAKING QUESADILLAS, i was in charge of the quesadillas while my companion created ¨frijoles puercos¨ i guess an authentic meal known only where he´s from...cinaloa, or something like that.Next is TORTA WITH PEOPLE SINGING, from today, when i ate a torta and people started singing.
luego, WALMART! i thought it was funny.
finalmente, a picture of part of CENTRO. where we ate the tortas! and where the mail office is!
PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL
is following! we were walking, and i said to my companion, pointing to a hunched lady on a curb, ¿que le parece si placticamos con esta Señora?
how does it look if we talk to this woman...more or less, who turned out to be a member, selling peanuts and seeds, and whose two daughters were selling chicklets at a stop light. Apparently she had been a member for many many years, was teaching in Relief Society (she proudly noted) but felt as if she was judged by the sisters there, and decided to never return to the church again. She said she had learned much, but felt as if everyones words were beautiful but the actions ugly.
I tried talking to her, asking her why she was baptized, why she let these imperfect people get in the way of her following Christ, why she couldn´t forgive them, and a whole bunch of other things. But all in all, although she told me she had forgiven these people, it was clear she hadn´t, and she let this separate her from God.
i read once that pride is the universal sin. i reckon that means that everyone in the world has to overcome it. really, its the natural man we each have within us. the problem being its so easily seen in others and so difficult to see in ourselves.
but what do we let get in the way of our relationships with others, and what do let get in the way of our relationship with God?
really, this lady because of her pride, let other people choose for her. she let their actions stop her from partaking in the sacrament, from learning, overcoming, and following the Savior. Now her children suffer, and they don´t even know it. President Gordon B. Hinckley taught that we can choose to be offended, or we can choose not to be. It is very much a choice, and one that decides to whom we give our agency, the only thing we truly own. THE MORAL!!! We must never cease to forgive, just look how the Savior forgives us
¨for behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend on the same Being, even God...? Mosiah 4:19
im gunna go, i love you, and forgive you for not sending more swedish fish.
o yeah! i got the package! and the swedish fish! and the stickers! nice work with the stickers! I got a letter from Sister Racconi too! and Riley! Thanks alot!
Let all learn from these good people!
thanks!
ok, im gunna go, i love you! till next time huh!?!