Semana 4 - Elder Selfie

This week has been an absolute roller coaster, thinking of going to Honduras brings many emotions and of course still missing all of you!

I am sorry that I can't email all of you, our district has made a goal to be more obedient and that means only an hour on the computer. This week my district also made a commitment to 

speak only Spanish for the next two weeks. We have tried, but it is so frustrating because we still cant say many things, but we are beginning to be able to make our way around what we need to communicate.

It is so good to hear how everyone is doing, I hope everyone's week was great! this week I have really got down memorizing the mission purpose, baptismal commitment, and Moroni 10:5 all in Spanish. I am now working on the first vision. 

This week I learned many things in my study of the gospel but the thing that stood out to me the most was commitments. Mom and Dad, i think you might be able to use this on your BoM Journey (which I am so excited you are going on). How do we show our faith? through commitments and obedience to those commitments. that is between no one but us and our Heavenly Father. To bring investigators closer to the spirit and to properly feel of the saviors atoning love, we are taught to extend commitments for them to show of their faith. We need to do this individually with our Heavenly father as well. Whatever it may be, we need to express the intent of our heart to our Him.

I have also learned that the gospel can help anyone with any problem that they might have. whether it be an addiction, family problems or the need to feel of the Saviors love, our gospel has the answer. 

We heard a talk from Elder Bedanr called the 20 mark note. if you get the chance to youtube or read it, it has helped me so much in recognizing why the spirit doesn't always hit us like a ton of bricks. 

I will send a few pics, things in mexico city are a little chilly but i'm not complaining! The food is the same every day and there is always studying to do. Elder Wight and I have tried to make a goal of remembering 100 words a day. We don't always get there but we trust that we can learn the language!

A huge thank you to Mom, Dad, Marshy, Syd, and Savannah, Rachel and the Blake family The Gardners for your love and support packages, and letters! 

Thank you for all your love and support,

I love and miss you!