Subject: Elevad hacia mi todo pensamiento; no dedeis no temais.
hola familia!!
so this week has been super cool already i gotta tell you first off about this experience i had on our temple walk we take on sundays. so we always go walking to the temple on sundays and we were just hanging out with our zone and elder shaw and me saw this guy playing with his kid up on the hill above us and we were like lets go talk to him. so we went over and elder cluff came along too and we started talking to him. when he saw our name tags and that they were spanish he busted out in spanish so fast jaja( apparently they do jaja instead of haha in mexico haha i mean jaja) but it was so awesome because i understood like 75 % of it and i could answer him back with a little help. but it was so amazingly awesome because when he told us that the kid was his son you could tell just by how he called him his son that this man would do absolutely anything in the world for this little boy. the kids name was samuel but i didnt get the fathers name jaja que triste! but we talked to him for a while and he told us about his life. we found out he is a mexican he jsut moved to america like 12 years ago and that he served a mission in mexico as well. he told us something pretty funny jaja he said that in mexico there is a tradition that you cant turn down a glass of water even to your worst enemys jaja so he said that when him and his companion would see people starting to close their doors when they would walk up they would ask for a glass of water and then they would always let them in jaja how crazy!! so im definately gonna remember that one. so this man has had a crazy tough life but it was still so evident that he would do absolutley anything in the world for his hijo. so i've heard that mexicans are all about family and this jsut made me so excited to go to a place where familys are so important because the plan of happiness can bring so much well happiness to their lives. i was actually reading in moroni 7 (best chapter in all the scriptures in the world!!!!!!!!!!) jaja and there is one verse that says something like "they would be better off if there had been no redemption made" How unbelievable scary?!! no atonement no repentence NOTHING. i got to thinking about how terrible life would be if i didnt know that i could repent and be cleansed and how comforting it is to know that the Savior not only took upon Him all the sins of the world but all the pains sorrows and everthing else. he knows EXACTLY what i've been through because he's already been through it. whenever something is tough here like i have to work on patience or something with someone i like to think of how much more pain the Savior suffered and then it makes me feel like a fool and totally selfish because i know most of the things i will go through in this life will not even be a fraction of what he went through!! but then i realized most people dont know that theey dont realize how much the atonement can comfort them. so that scripture and this man ( el Padre de Samuel jaja) made me wanna work so much harder this week because i have only 3 weeks left in the mtc! oh yeah thats the other thing the mexico visas are so much better now. we had missionaries leave before they were supposed to last week!! that was the first time mexico missionarys have left on time in 9 months!!! how awesome!! but yeah i am gonna write you during my laundry today
love ya oh the subject is a scripture from D y C try to figure out which one it is.. it is awesome!!!!!!
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