Christmas was awesome. I just ate tamales like no other, and ate my body weight in grilled meat and salad and tamales. It was so worth it. It was so good. But I miss our Christmas breakfast, and smoked turkey.. ahh freak I'm drooling.
Skype was pretty great. I didn't want to say goodbye to y'all. But it was great to see your faces and hear your voices... AND DYLAN HAS THE VOICE OF A MAN. It's so weird...I hope he grows, or else he is gonna have short man angry syndrome or whatever that is. I'm loosing my sense of humor slowly... it's killing me.
In our district meeting, our district leader bought us yogurt. Merry Christmas, that's what you get for being a missionary and having no money. Haha jk it was great, cause I was in a bad mood, like what the crap am I doing here missing all my family and missing opportunities in my life I could take right now. But then I realized I shouldn't be worrying about that. I have so much to look forward to for being a missionary. I'm only away from my family for 9 more months. I will have better opportunites when I get back and have returned with honor. I'm doing THE LORDS work, not mine, and I can't pay him back for what he did for me, even with this 18 month mission. But I can be with my family forever and help others be with theirs. The plan of salvation is my pick me up on those hard days. I don't need to be worrying, I just need to focus on the work.
We had the ward Christmas party this past Friday. Kareoke, tamales, and cake. it was actually really fun, besides all the ex missionaries telling us what we can and can't do. When OUR MISSION president told us we could sing and listen to songs as long as they don't have bad words in them. But I'm over it. I'm like "thanks but we have OUR mission president in the mission of COSTA RICA. not yours... move on with your life and get married for heaven sake! and stop worrying about what we do with our mission, as MISSIONARIES". They don't understand... but I'm still developing those Christlike attributes... and to make it even better, THE CAKE WAS HARD. but I'm over it. hahaha I'm done complaining. I'm still breathing. Don't worry bout me. Sometimes the red head rage comes out still. hahaha
So the cookies that you sent, we went to Claudias house and made them. It was so fun. We are trying to reactivate her son, Roberto, he's 25 and has made some bad decisions in his life, and we were talking about the second coming, like "these cookies are gonna be done when the second coming comes", and Roberto was like, "yeah I better change my life around, cause the second coming could come right now!" and he's like" I just wanna be excommunicated so i can just start over." hahah we were like, "uhhhh no you don't wanna do that, just talk to the bishop and make it easier." And I was like, "you should go back to church to start off!" haah and he has a friend that lives with them and he was like," I'm good, I was baptized when I was a baby." and we were all like, "uhhh yeah well tell ya what, nope. sorry dude". yeah we are still working on both of them. one day!! I hope, because they are amazing!
I had my interview with President yesterday after church. IT WAS SO GOOD. always is, but we talked more about the goals we have as a mission in 2014 and as well as a companionship, and how he wants us to have 130 or more people at chruch until changes the end of January. WE CAN DO THIS! just need a lot of work. he said he is pleased with the work we are doing in Concepcion and that he can see a change in my spanish and myself spiritually everything else, he can just see a change. It makes me a better person to hear that people can see a change in my. I want them to see the light of Christ that I have, so that makes a difference. My mission prez is the best.
Elder Cordon from the 70 gave a talk in the ward today, no big deal, just because he is in our ward... hahah anyways he talked about goals and how we should teach our family that goal making is serious, and we should complete them. fast, like internet speed fast. because at time we think 3 seconds and a page hasn't loaded is slow, so think about that in life aspect, that if we want something done, we should do it, without waiting. and thinking about if we should do it or not. because we should do it. I dunno, it was kinda confusing, but it was still good. Just make goals and complete them this year. I've got a couple that I will be working on. Even though I don't know what I'm gonna do with my life,,, that's one of them.. to figure that out. hahahaha I should do that fast...
This is my joy. in ALMA 29:9
I love you all.
HAPPY 2014!! make it the best.
blow things up for me. since I can't here. And eat a lot of shrimp and cheese balls with crackers. ahhhh delish....
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