Week #63, January 5, 2016

Ringing in the New Year, 2016

ok bad news. they supposedly dont sell camera in walmart anymore so next week im going to have to look around and i will send the receipt on thursday i think we are going to the church in maipu for a meeting. and OH MY GOSH I HAVE TO TELL THE SCARIEST STORY i almost died this week. so i was casually in my bed sleeping like a rock at around 10:50pm and you know, 16th floor and its ridiculously hot so we sleep next to a huge window and we open it at night and next thing i know i wake up to a freaking bird crash landing into me!! i jumped out of the bed so fast, it was insane. and i ran to the bathroom screaming like a little girl, no joke and i shut it and just waited for like 5 minutes. so yes, i am alive but i came very close to dying this week. 

this was a pretty good week. the step dad of josue was out of town so we postponed his baptism until this saturday. today we went to maipu to get him a suit from the missions DI so he can look good for his baptism! he is so excited and so am i! i really have grown to love this kid a lot. he is 15 and wants to serve a mission. i feel like i knew him before i even met him. and its the same thing with another person we are teaching. this 24 year old woman francisca. She is so awesome! she is getting baptized here in a few weeks. elder toneatti and i are very happy! life is good! i cant complain about anything, The Lord has blessed me so much in my mission. even though crappy things happen, im still happy! 

i read something that really touched me this week in alma 39 verse 7 after corianton committed the bad one and is really getting chewed out by alma. but something that alma says is so cool, and sorry im translating it from spanish to english, it says he isnt talking to him to torment him, rather for his well being. so alma got after him so that he could fix what he had done. ha, this is really hard to explain in this dang language. so anyways, i applied that to myself bc a lot of times i felt like you and dad were always getting after me about this and that and i felt bad for myself a lot. but now i see that you guys did that for my good. so yeah, parents are inspired of God and they are important. being a parent is the most important calling we can have in this world and really, in all the eternity. that is what our God is to us. he is our father. so think about that. :) have a good week love you all!