Familia!
Buenos dias! I swear we just had Christmas yesterday...how
is it already January 26th? That`s so not okay.
Anyways, hope all is going well for all of you in the USA,
Africa, and India. Between the 6 members of our family we`ll be in 4 different
countries...kinda cool (and maybe even 5 if Nate is on a secret Jack Bauer
mission that none of us know about).
Here are some various journal entries from the week:
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| Sorry...no story from Danika about the baby deer? |
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Today we knocked on a door. No one answered, but it knocked
back at us. It was creepy. And intriguing.
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WE CAUGHT A MOUSE! Haha. I set up the trap so well last
night, and this morning sure enough we caught a little bugger. The problem is
now we just have a pet mouse in a cage and aren`t sure what to do with it ha.
And he`s actually a cute little guy. I feel kind of bad plotting to kill
him...but at the same time he was eating our food and everything.
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We visited Ana today again with Adela. We taught la
restauracion (The Restoration of the gospel). It was seriously so good. She understood well. And it made her
reflect and think, "Well then, how can we know which church is true?"
and we could see the spirit working in her. And the best part is that after
teaching she said, "You know what, everyone always says things, especially
about Jose Smith and how you guys worship him, but now that I heard more I
realize that none of it`s true...why do the people say those things? Now I know
it`s not true." Seriously, as a missionary to hear someone say that is
like the best gift and so rewarding. It`s amazing to teach someone the
restauracion and have them understand it and feel a desire to know if it`s
true, and to understand that we preach and testify of Christ and of no one
else. It`s seriously so rewarding. I just want to jump for joy in this moment
and I absolutely love it!
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Funny story for the day. We had a noche de hogar (Family Home Evening) with la
familia Aguilar hoy and we decided to make french toast with them at the end
for the refrigerio. So I was taking care of the french toast that we were
cooking while my companion was by the table mixing the egg batter for the
french toast. Well in spanish there are two verbs for the word "to try"
in english. One is "tratar" which means to try an action or something
like a sport or dance or experiment. The other is "probar" which
means to try food, like to taste. Well since my companion is learning spanish,
she was mixing the egg mixture and to tried to tell Jeyka to try mixing the
mixture. So she said, "Pruebalo" (trying to say, try mixing it), and
so Jeyka just stuck her finger in the raw eggs and licked them to taste it
because my poor companion didn`t use the word "tratar". Seriously so
funny.
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Aside from that, the best part of the branch council today
was when Presidente Alex was talking about what things we can do as a branch to
be more self sufficient, and they talked about raising baby chickens so that as
a branch they have food to eat and help those members that need it. I loved
it...why? Because that is so NOT the solution that we would come up with in the
states. Never. But it`s so practical. And I love it.
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We had interviews with Presidente Spjut this week and
inspections of our house. Then after the interviews we had a discussion about
faith between me, Hermana Evans, and Hermana and Presidente Spjut. It was
really awesome. I just wanted to sit there all day and analyze it and talk it
through with them, like parents and daughter...but unfortunately we were only
given about 10 minutes.
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I`m learning a lot about faith. More to be shared maybe next
week.
Love you like crazy!
Love,
Hermana Wright
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