Once again another amazing week in Mexico. Spanish is going well, just gotta keep chugging along.
As for the events that happened throughout the week, most of it was a repeat of last week, but there were some awesome moments I'll share with you guys.
Starting off we had a very eventful Monday where it just started down pouring Mexico style, so of course because of how amazing my district is, we went out and played games and sang hymns in the rain just embracing God's gift of rain. My shoes were wet for 3 days afterwards, but it's the memory that counts. It really helped us appreciate what God has given us and making sure to put a positive spin on bad circumstances.
Spanish wise, we've finally moved on from only learning to apply what we’ve learned into a conversation, which has helped a lot. On a few instances I've been able to roll play some lessons about God that were completely in Spanish. I'm sure the Spanish sounded very broken, but I think I got my point across.
This brings me to our helping others activity for this week. For those who didn’t read about it last week this is when we are put in a real-life lesson. We talk in Spanish get to know who we are teaching then give them a lesson to help them in their lives. Last week we were able to do this fine, it was over a zoom call, so we were able to use out notes and have the notes guide us along our lesson. However, this week was different. We were one of the last ones to go and they threw us a curve ball right before we went. we would no longer be doing it over Zoom, but have out lesson in person all in Spanish which throws out any chance of using the notes we had prepared. So, we just went for it and it was absolutely amazing. The hermana we taught was so kind a genuine and we were able to teach about God's love for her, show her God's hand in her life and tell her how much he cares for her. She seemed to understand what we were saying and had many comments on the topic, so all I gotta say is that the Gift of Tongues is real.
To end this email, I gotta recognize the Temple in Mexico which is absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately, today was the last week we can go because of cleaning in the upcoming weeks, but I've loved it. They way it is built really shows the culture here and brings that symbol of hope to all those that look at it. I encourage you to look at pictures of it it’s amazing.
Quickly I want to share a spiritual thought with y’all. I want to talk about the aspect of embracing our circumstances. I have been thinking about this for a while and thought it had some importance in every person's life. I want to use the experience of when my district went out and had fun in the rain as an analogy. Our attitude on life directly depends on how we choose to handle the trials we are given because everyone has them. The two different ways we can choose to see our circumstances are, we can choose to walk through the rainy times just wishing them to be over or we can choose to find the joy in what we are doing. In our case we embraced the rain not caring about the inconvenience of getting soaked. Either way in this analogy we end up wet one way we got a lot more out of it. when we chose to embrace it, we created meaningful memories within ourselves and with the people we love whereas if we just sat in the rain all we accomplished was getting wet.
I really hope y’all look through your lives and choose to have joy in it I'll be working on that skill for the next 2 years. Love y’all and hope you’re doing great.
Elder Nelson
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