Well, here we go with another too-fast-typed, completely rambling,
horrible grammar email. All that I hope is that the love I have for you
and the mission is conveyed in the disjointed commentaries that always
spill out of my emails :) Hahaha
ANYWAY.
On Monday, after Pday, we went on splits with the other Ica sisters and I was with Hermana Villena and we had a FHE with our pensionist family
(the Galindos, whom I love) and I hurt my finger and Candy, their little
girl, (the one from the Christmas picture) was like you need to look for
your Mom! And I just started laughing and it made me think of how much I love my parents. And how I always go to them instantly when I am
hurt or need their help :) Well, except when I am like in a different
country. But in reality.... it is still their faces and voices and
advice that comes to my mind. And then it also made me think... how
quick are we to repent or to turn to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
when we get hurt? They know how to fix it. It might hurt... like a mom
waiting with hydrogen peroxide and a band aid when you skin your knee...
but she knows how to fix it. Just like our Father in Heaven and our Savior :)
Then on Tuesday I got 3 letters from Grandma Judy! She will probably
never know how much those mean to me (and little does she know she is
keeping our family history....) or how much it pains me to not be able
to answer her and just have the other side of the conversation with her (It
doesn't help that Serpost of Ica (just Ica, no worries) is on strike, or
too lazy to open...) and then, that day I was reading in Mosiah 4 ( I
love Mosiah 4) in verses 6-12 and I loved that it says just believe in God. Believe that He is! That He exists. I think that is one of the huge
things I have learned on my mission.... that Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ are real. That the Atonement really happened. That the creation
really happened. That we are really daughters and sons of God. That it
isn't all just a fairytale or something you learn at church.... it is the
most important knowledge and understanding we can come to have.
On Wednesday, I walked into a mission prep class to steal a hymn book and
the teacher asked me to bear my testimony to the class about family
history... Sometimes all we need to feel the fire again or to remember
why we are here is to testify. Bearing testimony and saying to ourselves
and to others and to Heavenly Father what we believe allows the Holy Ghost to enter us and remind us that WE DO believe it. Testimony is very
powerful :)
On Thursday, we were playing like Spanish quaker in language study where
the first person to speak Spanish loses (I lost, by the way) and it was
hilarious because when I lost, Hermana Villena (in English) was like
she knows the rules... she broke the rules.... and the way she said it
was so funny. And really this isn't even funny now that I think of it, but
everything is funny in the mission because.... well it just is. There
isn't a lot of entertainment outside of the scriptures. Ahahaha. And the
stupid Huacachina that we are climbing today. Again.
On Friday (like all other Fridays) we had weekly planning and we had
both just felt really strongly that we needed to work to put everything
in order.... So we did and then that night it was lesson locura (madness) from
like 6-9. It was awesome and a huge blessing to see what happens when
you follow the Spirit and try to do everything to like "clean the
vessel" like it says in the scriptures.
On Saturday, we had a like finance workshop all morning (which will help
in the mission and in my future life,but math stresses me out) and then
we went to the restaurant of the family Galindo where we pension. They were like super stressed with customers and it was just the two of
them working with the little girls running wild por todos lados. So I
went in the kitchen and started washing dishes to help them. It was just
something I felt like I could do... a lot of times, we want to help but
there are very few things we know how to do. So we just do what we know
how (that is all the our Heavenly Father asks of us, too. Just do what
you can.) and Hermano Galindo was like, "Hermana Bailey, do you know that
you are a good person?" And that just hit me really hard. Because that is
all I really want to be. I want to grow to be a good person. And I have
a looooong way to go. But I hope that my mission is accelerating it :)
Well, this week has flown by. This next week we are going to be working
like crazy to get a bunch of people ready for the temple. We are
planning on going the 30th and 31st of January. Pray that all will fall
into place for these people! They are working so hard in their family
history. I can't wait for them to have the satisfaction of getting to go
inside the temple and do the ordinances for their ancestors :)
I love the temple! I love the mission. I love people :) I LOVE my family :) I love my Savior. And I know that he lives :)
Thank you for all that you do for me!
Have an amazing week!
Love,
Hermana Lauren Bailey
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