i get busy in my everyday life. work...running errands...washing...ironing...cleaning bathrooms...church callings...being a wife...being a mom...being gramma. i need to take the time daily to slow down and breathe. i need to take the time daily to just be. i need to take the time daily to look for the moments in which i can feel the spirit. yes...i need to look for it.
tate's message...
the lesson i learned was about following the spirit....it has definitely been weird being here in the office because we practically don't ever teach or work in the sector...so all those spiritual experiences i used to have spending all my time teaching the gospel seem like they went away...but i was thinking that that is how the real world is... and i was thinking about before when i was dedicating all my time to teaching, and how it was so easy to find the spirit. instead of waiting for the spiritual experiences to come to me i was looking for them. so i realized that WE HAVE TO LOOK FOR THE SPIRIT. it is not always going to come looking for us. we have to look diligently for opportunities to feel it and follow it. or it will be a hundred times harder to have those experiences. this last week i hadn't necessarily been looking for it a lot...but i now know that it is necessary that we look for it. so do it. god isn't going to just give us everything...we have to go and get it. just like everything else in this life. i challenge you to be always looking for the spirit and to be willing to follow the spirit as you look. you will see miracles.
soooooooooooooooooo this week went by really fast ha! sunday was my first sunday in my new ward and it went really well...we also had a huge bbq for lunch. talk about a warm welcome. we then spent the rest of the day in the office doing a bunch of busy work...
monday was an interesting day. we had the final interviews for the kids that were going home and it was sad to see elder page there and say bye to him for one last time. he was one of my best friends. but he is going to visit in like two weeks and said he would take us out for lunch so that will be fun. then we had to go home early because we had to wake up at 2 o clock and take a latin missionary that was going home to the airport... we got to the airport at like 330...and made sure he got through security and then we headed home....got lost in the pintana...and then finally got home at like 530...
haha then tuesday in the morning we woke up bright and early two hours later and had to be at the mission office to train the new missionaries. it was cool to see them all on their first day of the mission. but after teaching them about how we do things here in the mission for three hours straight. my energy finally hit rock bottom and we had to go the the house to sleep...we slept from 530 til 1030....then woke up for an hour....and then slept from 1130 til the next morning...i felt like a champ that next day.
wednesday we had to help with some special changes so we had to switch a couple missionaries sectors around... those are always sad because they don't get a lot of time to say bye to the people. but the missionaries were humble to do as the lord asked. so that was good. we spend a ton of time in two places as assistants.... the car....and the office. that is practically our house. but its fun. i feel like im with all of my friends again. we have a pretty good time. i live with three other gringos...so its definitely a good time.
thursday we were practically in the office the whole day updating some information for president...
and then friday we practically did the same thing...one of the other elders i live with gave us all a rose for valentines day so that was thoughtful of him. i hope you guys all had a good day.
i love you guys more than you know!
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