This week was just so crazy, I don´t even know where to
start. I guess maybe I could start by saying that I now have a new
companion! She is named Hna. Latoja and she´s from Chile. She actually
lives in the same mission that Jessica served in! How great is that??
She´s only been a member for less than 2 years, and is a little shy, but
is way great. She has tons of desires to work hard, so it´s wonderful.
This week was a little tougher than most, but we have to go through the
hard times to appreciate the good ones, right? In a reunion we had this
week, President Thrugood was talking to us and said that the time we
are in right now has never been a better time to be a missionary or to
raise a family. I loved that! The church is growing so much and is so
accessible to almost everyone who lives in the world. The gospel is
being preached to all corners of the world and we are living prophesies
being fulfilled! I feel so grateful to be here!
It was interesting this week, because as we were riding the train to
go meet our new companions, I realized that I felt completely
comfortable here in Argentina. I didn´t really have any fears, as far as
actually living here goes, and it was the best. I never thought that
there would come a point where I would feel like Argentina was my home,
but it seems that day has arrived! This week we were blessed with a ton
of rain! I don´t know if I´ve mentioned it before, but almost all the
roads are dirt here and so when it rains, everything turns to mud. My
area that I´m in right now is pretty big and this week we were riding
from the bottom of our area to the top. It takes about 15-20 minutes and
as we were going it was sprinkling a little bit, and then it just
started pouring. We were so not prepared and we ended up just getting
soaked alll the way through! Haa it was crazy! There was not an inch of
me that was dry. By the time we reached the other end of the area, the
rain had let up a bit, but we were still soaked. Then later that day we
were in another part of our area that is all dirt roads but it was dark
outside. This part is not really near the city so the lighting there is
not very good and as we were riding down the road to go to an
appointment, my bike slipped on some mud and I fell into a nice big pile
of mud :)
It was
interesting how things had happened that day, because I was just already
not having that great of a day, and then this was just like kind of
hitting rock bottom. When we got to the pension later that night, I
started thinking. Sometimes the Lord lets us fall and get up and fall
again, sometimes even literally, so that we learn to turn to him, and
appreciate all the blessings that he has given us. I´ve been thinking a
lot this week about our desires. I have this talk by Dallin H. Oaks, and
it´s amazing. He talks about how our desires are our motivators, and
that our desires really determine what it is that we will become. If we
will become what our Heavenly Father expects us to become. If our
desires are temporal, we will never be able to reach our full potential,
and the times when we fall will seem so much more harder and dificult.
If our deepest desires are the things of eternity, we will gain the
power to overcome whatever trial that we pass through. No matter how
hard of a day we may have, our eternal desires will be what keeps ups
going through the thick and the thin.
Con amor,
Hermana Feldermann
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