Well Well Well,
I really never have any idea what to write.
Tons of stuff happens all week but... I think that when I walk through the door to the Internet Café it´s like the Veil and I forget everything.
I made Budin de Pan. Mom you´re gonna LOVE it!... I think. If you don´t, don´t lie and say you do, but... I made it twice this week to practice so that I can get really good at making it for you... and also for me because I love it.
The biggest thing that happened this week didn´t even happen here;
On Wednesday Elder ZMAN started his Mission! HOLLA!!!!!! BALLLERRR!!!!
(check out his blog here---> workofjustiz@blogspot.com)
Which reminds me, I am teaching my comp English...
but mostly just the important stuff like what´s a BALLER!
TWICE this week we got to our lunch appointments and no one was home so we had walked all that way, in the sun, HUNGRY, FOR NOTHING!
We went to nearby(-ish) members and begged for bread (but actually they gave us pasta, SURPRISE!)
On the Second occasion I was pretty hungry and sad because they had forgotten us for the second time this week.... and I am a softy. Well I was playing with this member´s dog, Lula and she didn´t want to play with me (bit me).
I just set my head on the table and started crying because I missed Dagnee so freaking much.
It sound sad but it was also super funny.
The best part was to get myself to stop crying I had to think of something happy/funny and all I could come up with was when Aunistee was a Giant Teacup head and then a bag of seeds! HAHAHAhahahahahaa
I keep doodling it everywhere and laughing.
We made a ton of cookies for a Relief Society activity and then the Relief Society Presidentt never came to do her part the next day and when we got there on Sunday all the cookie packets (cutely decorated by yours truly) were just still there...
This could seem frustrating to some, but I chose to see it as "hey! cookies!" and we ate.
We taught this one lesson to a super cute lady and she said she didn't know who God was. We taught her how to pray. We taught her who God is and who Jesus Christ is. At the end of the lesson I said "If you remeber ANYTHING we taught today I want you to remember this: Everything we just said could be a Lie and the ONLY way you can ever know for yourself what is true is by praying and asking your Father in Heaven"
It wasn´t what she was expecting... "HEY! We could be Lying!" but, she said she would pray so that´s good.
Also this week we were walking by a little Red Brick despensa and the BEST smell-goods entered out lil´ noses! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm we thought and we asked "What smells SO good?!!"
PIZZAAAAAAAAAAA
Homemade pizza from a little paraguayan Abuelita and her Nietita.
I WANT THAT!
I started proclaiming my love for pizza to my comp, the Abuelita, and her Nieta, and to the young-man standing by waiting for his order.
"I LOVE PIZZA!" I shouted. "PIZZA IS EVERYTHING! PIZZA IS ETERNAL!
PIZZA IS MY BOYFRIEND!"
I explained with devotion (the last sentence is Guarani)
They laughed. Then we asked "¿how much?"
The answer was more than we had.... :(
As our hearts sank a MIRACLE happened. The young-man stander by handed us the change we needed to make our pizza dreams come true!
His name is Pablo (thanks Dad).
We thanked him graciously, wrote down his adress and said we were going to stop by this week with a present for him.
"What are we gonna give him?!" I asked Hermana Linares. " The book of Mormon, Dummy!" she lovingly replied. hahaha
I hope he gets baptised because if they ask "How did you hear about the Church" he can say "it was all thanks to Pizza."
Ok enough about Pizza.
NO ITS NEVER ENOUGH!
The pizza was so good and I ate it in the streets with my Columbiana best friend who I seriously LOVE.
Ok.
Seriously enough about PIZZA.
This week I taught a Menos Activa Jovensita about what is an Ordinace and what is a Covenant. We talked about the covenants she has made (baptism) and the ordiances that are related (firstly entering the waters of baptism and then weekly with the sacrament to renew the promises).
Then I asked : "What covenant is next for you and what blessings are promised with it?"
She didn´t know so we talked briefly about the temple and left her some scriptures to read.
She thanked us and said "I didn´t know there was more to do!"
Here is where I will begin talking to you, dear reader.
Baptism is the gate... the door... of the path to Eternal Life... but Exaltation is gained only after we ENTER that path and KEEP WALKING until we reach it. There are more covenants to make and more blessings and knowledge to recieve along the way.
After you find the keys to a BEAUTIFUL mansion (the priesthood) and open the door (baptism) are you going to stand there in the doorway looking at the closed doors down the hallway?
NO Way José!
There are treasures behind each door!
What blessing lay in the covenants we make in God´s Holy house!
Through the ages God has always made Covenants with His Children (Us).We are and have always been a Covenant people.
Ultimately, in the Temple, we can be sealed to our families for Eternity. That is when we may become joint-heirs to the blessings of an Eternal Family (as God promised to Abraham, Issac, Jacob and their posterity).
Thus, Celestial Marriage is the Covenant of Exhaltation.
Bastism opens the door. It is essencial and the only way to take upon us the name of our Savior, accept His atonement and be cleansed of our sins, but baptism alone is not enough for all that God has prepared for us. It only prepare us for the greater blessings ahead!
I pray that all who read this, wherever they are on their journey in life, will pray and ask what is next for them in order to prepare them for their next covenant with our Father in Heaven.
I testify of the blessings he POURS out over His covenant keeping children.
In the name of Jesus Christ
Amen.
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