Well... I had fun skyping..After quitting a 4 hour persuit of trying to get the internet to work in the Chapel we started calling other areas to see if they could help us out. My district leader (and other factors... but mostly he alone) made me so stressed I started laughing until I cried (but in a funny way not sad) so I left the chapel and started walking to where Elder Bingham was skyping. My district leader CHASED AFTER ME and I was like ... ¡¡NO!!
so We just kept walking and they finally gave up and while we were finally on our way, some guys tried to snach/rob/grope us!!!!!!! and we had to RUN to this store where I know a Menos Activo works as the night guard and I was just like "Auxilio! dos borrachos están siguiéndonos!" and He stood up with his GUN! So....
the guys left us alone and we continued walking because I really wanted to skype. Right then Elder Chavez called and asked "¿por dodne estan?" and I was so frazzled emotionally I just sucked in air like a kid does right before he cried BIG TIME and hung up. hahahaha and then I WAS crying when he called back and I´m in HIS area so I don´t even know whats happening and he´s trying to get me to keep saying where I am but Im so shooken up I cant so Im just like saying weird stuff like "Im in front of a sign that says rafael... there is a picture of bread on it" and then he hands the phone and SOMEONE (I dont even know who) starts talking to me in perfect english and asking like verifying questions about where we are "You´re by Gimenez Fotos, aren´t you?....You see a bench now, don`t you?" and I was told to sit and stay where we were because someone was coming in a car to get us. Then Elder Chavez rolls up in a car with some member and I just wanted to hug them because everything was crazy! (but I didn´t because Im a missionary and they are boys)
Then we got to the house and they were like "Call your family"
hahahah
can you imagine?
As soon as Skype connected I BROKE DOWN.
But then I calmed down and got to see digital versions of my favorite people on the Earth! (minus a few...) #missyouZman
In other news,
We had a wedding this Saturday and we have a baptism this coming Saturday!
Pray for Edna and also for her whole family because her husband isn´t keeping his commitments so she is getting baptised without him, but that it a hard thing. The gospel blesses FAMILIES!!!! but it does so more effectively as EACH family member CHOOSES to act for THEMSELVES in faith and hope of that promise.
We are contacting a ton and working hard.
I´m still trying to finish strong but my overwhelming love for my family keeps getting in the way and coating me with a thin layer of TRUNKY. But thats okay because I wash it off in my morning shower and keep moving forward (with a smile #JUSTIZizZOcute)
I´m still trying to be a good trainer... except almost getting us killed before Skype.
I´m still learning a lot.
The mission is still the weirdest and coolest and hardest and best thing I have ever done.
The Book of Mormon is still true.
The Savior is still Jesus Christ.
This is still HIS work, gospel and glory (moises 1:39)
God the Father still loves you...
"That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there” - President Thomas S. Monson.
And I still love you too... many not as perfectly and unconditionally as Our Father in Heaven, but I try and I do!
Life is Wonderful... and If you start to think contrarily (which is normal... I do it sometimes), try to meditate good and hard of where you´d be if you hadn´t chosen to come.
Bodiless and "life"-less
And as if THAT isnt enough... then choose to focus on the miraculous gift of the atonement and how LITERALLY whatever you are gong through or wherever you are or whoever you´ve become...
There is a way to make everything right again.
THAT is the power of the Atonement.
The price has been paid.
That is the gift our big brother gave us, because He loves us too.
That is why He organized His church, so we would have access to His gift, to His love, comfort, correction, guidance and power.
Accept that gift and I testify that you will be able to see your life for what it is;
Wonderful.
Not perfect... At times... when you´re 22 at least, it is "miserable and magical" as T Swift so elequently stated.
But...
It´s good.
My family makes it GREAT!
And the sure promise that I can have them FOREVER, if I do my part (and KNOWING what my part is)....
that makes it Worth it!
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