Well my time here in the CCM
is running out and it´s a little weird and I´m not sure how I feel about
it all. But it´s casual. And District 16B is the oldest district in
zone 16 now! (That´s my district btw) This week has had some of the
highest highs and some of the lowest lows so far. And probably my lows
will get even lower and my highs will get even higher in the actual
mission field. But lets not think about that, ok?
This week was Hermana Eddy´s 20th birthday and we
went to town. We all made her some pretty great cards. I wrote a very
touching ode to her. Probably my finest work... Haha actually it was
really dumb. But everybody thought it was pretty funny, so that was a
win. We even got to play Signs with our favorite teacher, Hermano Polo.
In other news, I ate 6 peaches in one day. Yeah. The
peaches here are out of this world. I´m gonna miss
all-you-can-eat-peaches for basically free.
Today
we celebrated Christmas for real. Complete with a Merry Navidad sign on
our door and everything. Elder Richardson even made a construction
paper tree. It is adorable. We all wore our best sweaters and we had a
white elephant gift exchange. It was probably the funnest thing we have
done yet. For my gift I gave away our district´s ugliest tie. It usually
hangs on our bulletin board, and every day the Elders in my district
try to "cambiar" with the Latinos. It never works. So I stole it last
night. And I wrapped it in one of the big water jugs. The wrapping was
absolutely classic. Remember that one time I gave Steph a headband for
her birthday and it was wrapped so obviously? Yeah. Imagine giant water
jug. Wrapped in notebook paper. I have pics. So it totally happened. Go
big or go bigger. Everyone had a good laugh. And it was the best wrapped
gift for sure.
But anyways, seriously, this week was a little
tough. I had a hard time feeling like I was measuring up to
expectations. A couple days I had a mental block with Spanish, and I
wasn´t being very Christ-like. However, we had a really great talk about
it last night with our sister training leaders (Hna Eddy and Andrews)
and we have all been struggling with this apparently. Hna Andrews
reminded me that patience is an act of faith and hope. And it reminded
me of the lesson that Hna Webb and I are teaching on Sunday about faith.
If you guys want to look up the talk by Elder Bednar "Learning by
Faith" I would suggest it. It´s a good one. Basically we are all acting
on faith right now, taking steps into the dark. And we are messing up
and stuff, but it´s ok. Learn and move on. Literally repentance is so
great. And the Atonement is the best thing EVER. And I was reminded of
something Elder Holland said in one of the devotionals we watched here:
The biggest lie from Satan is that we cannot change. I am so grateful
for the chance to improve everyday, and to become more like my Savior
everyday.
I hope you all have a fantastic week and that
everybody has success in their various sports and activities. The gospel
is true! I am having the best time ever. If you are thinking about
serving a mission I have one thing to say: GET YOUR BUNS OUT HERE.
That´s all.
Love,
Hermana Frei
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