This week was really awesome. Really awesome. in district
meetign about two weeks ago, we were talking about how hard we were working and
all of us flet like we had been underperforming and underachevieving recently
and we decided to set soem pretty epicly large goals for how har dwe anted to
work these past weeks and the entire district really took it to heart and we
gave it our all th3ese past two weeks and dang I am tellign you I have nevcer
worked so hard in my mission nor have I eve thoguh it was possible to work so
hard here but I am absoultely lovign it!!
This week, I also started Presdient Nelson's challenge to
read the Book of Mormon befre the end of the year and decided to start
outlinign and mark up a copy of it and I've never realyl been one to color and
mark my scriptures too mcuh in the mission, especaily the ones I use in lessons
I don't rreally know why but I've never really 100% loved it, but I'm very much
enjoyign markign up the pages of this Libro de Mormon nad its been really
interesting. Weird random study thoguht of the day comes from 1 Nefi 4 (creo?)
where Nefi is goign to get the plates and he pretends to be Laban. I was
reading and for some reason I thought, there are three options here, 1- Zoram
the servant was not very familiar with how Laban's voice sounded, 2 - God
blessed Nefi with a wicked ability to imitate voices or 3 - the Spirit was
wrokign ridiculously hard in that moment to convince Zoram that it was his boss
and to go get the plates. I don0t know which optimn is correct, but it sure
made me laugh to think about it. On a more spiritual note, I love what
Nefi writes about the Book of Mormon, that he gives commandment unto his
descendents to onyl write the thigns of God. I absolutely love that part.
Speakign of the Book of Mormon, today we went to Alamos (yet
again) and we found atiny antiques store that we hadn't found before because it
was hidden behind a very myuch for touruists t shirt shop with super chesey t
shirts. WE went in, and they ahd a bunch of old books and I went YES and
because I wasn't going to brign home a nicolas sparks bok or anything, I
actually went looking to see if they had any old bibles, because I tought it
would be kind of cool to bring an old mexican bible home and to my surprise I
didn't find abible, I FOUND A BOOK OF MORMON: the 1980 panish version
befor ethey have the corss references to the bible and it sooooooooooooo cool!
I was literally over the moon with joy and althogh the lady in the sotore
wanted to sell it pricy after noticing how excited I got when I found it, she
sold it to me for 50 pesos. Cheap. (althoguh book of mormon should not be sold,
salvation is free everyone byut i'm permitign it this time because it was an
antique) IT SO FREAKIGN COOL!
We also (unfortuntealy got back running from the activiy in
lamos so i don't have my converter with me today so I can't sen dmore foots
than the ones that one ofr the elders forwarded me, so you'll have to wait ti
see my new book of mormon. I've got a collectoin now of like 14? In like 6 or
more different languages? I don't know why but they're cool and weel, we all
know how I am about books.
I love you all!!!
Con mi amor eterno,
Hermana Rawlings
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