Transfer 10 week 2

Well this week has been really great. We have been running around like crazy people all week getting to appointments and find places and meeting new people. It has been awesome. We are mweting wirh somw really great people.

So we met this new lady who was a reference from the missionaries in barcelona, and then from la laguna, who is named caridad (charity in english), but we call her mama cari. She is originally from cuba but is here living with her son for a little while, a few months or years. Shes not sure yet. She is super sweet and one of those people that you love after talking with them for 5 minutes. So we taught her about the Restoration and asked her what she wanted to get out of talking and learning with us. She saod that she would like to know the truth and get baptized. So we were like, "Okay.... (whispers to companion)... Did you hear what I heard?" So she is super cool.

Then we are meeting with this guy named George. So he is this older guy from Ghana, Africa. He is the coolest guy ever. So we were talking to him about his life and he told us that he was a ship merchant for a long time, and that he would travel to all of these crazy countries. He lived in japan for like 3 years, amd learned japanese. He has this big, crazy dog named fushi which i gues is something in japanese. He also speaks spansih, and chinese, amd some african languages. He then taught african cooking classes. He is a machine. So we taught him a few times and its cool beacuse we also teach him in this dog paek so that his dog can run and play. But his dog always ends up sitting on the bench with us the whole time so its kind of pointless, but watching the dogs play reminds me of rocky, so its makes me happy. He is still working toward his baptismal date of the 7th or October. Also we invited him to come to church on sunday. It was stake conference so it was kind of wierd schedule, but we invited him and he said that he would come. So sunday morning came and i called him and he said that he was on his way. Then we waited and waiter and waited. But then we came just a little late and he was able to have a great time. Also there were people there ttanslating so he got to listen to everything in english! Miracles!!! 

Today is officially 100 days until I go home.    Crazy how fast the time goes by. I feel like, in thw beginning of my mission, the time went by so slow, and i felt like I would never be able to speak Spanish, or learn to be a good teacher, or follow the spirit, or be this awesome missionary like I wanted to be. Now that i am here, I have found that my expectations were a little unrealistic. I dont speak perfect spanish, but I speak and and understand it. I am defnitley not a perfect teacher, but people can feel the spirt as I testify of truth. I have learned to follow the spirtr, and the way that is speaks and communicates with me, and that when i follow the things it tells me, I always see miralces. I know I am not the "Perfect Missionary, person, sister, daughter, friend, grandchild, student, etc," But I know that I am a child of god and that I have worth, and that I can become a better and more perfect version of me as I follow the savior. 

Anyhow, we had a great week and next week will be even better! 

Something that I have been thinking a lot about lately is technology. Technology is something that can be such a blessing in our lives, or such a destruction and  destraction. It is something that can make or break our lives. What is at the center of your lives? If you took away everything from your life, every object, thing, what would be at the center? Is is christ? Is it a desire to follow him and to do all that you can do to be a witness of his name in every moment? Is his name always on your lips? If not, how can we chage that? I truly can say that as a 20 something girl living in the world today, that one of the biggest distractions I had before my mission was Definitly technology, and buy Things; the foolish and vain this of the world. So we must learn how to control these things so that we are agents and not objects. These are some quotes and things from a book called, "Safeguards for using Technology." You can find it under the missionary tab on thw gospel library app, at the very bottom.

The choices you make regarding how you use technology should help you become more like the Savior. Rely on grace—the help or strength given through Christ’s Atonement—as you seek to become an effective instrument in the Lord’s hands. The best filter you have is your own will and desire to make righteous choices. Elder David F. Evans stated: “The only really effective filter for lifelong technology use is the individual heart and mind of the individual young person. … We have great faith that … thousands of people develop worthy lifelong digital habits, which will bless their lives and their families forever” (“Elder David F. Evans Discusses Expanded Missionary Efforts,” mormonnewsroom.org). People should take seriously the responsibility of continually striving to “purify [their] hearts” (D&C 88:74-75)

74 And I give unto you, who are the first laborers in this last kingdom, a commandment that you assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves, and prepare yourselves, and sanctify yourselves; yea, purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you clean;
75 That I may testify unto your Father, and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of this wicked generation; that I may fulfil this promise, this great and last promise, which I have made unto you, when I will.

1. Columbus's house

2. The church where columbus prayed at before leaving on his trip. 

3. Us drawing the plan of slavation in a park with some random kids. 

4-5. Cuban money, note the guns. 

6. Us and luis, our recent convert, and his mom.

7. Some cool cursive paper that columbus wrote.

8. His house... Again. We took a tour. It was super cool. His house is older than our nation.