Also the weather here is really weird it will be sunny and warm one day out of the week and then cold wet and raining the rest of the week.
Spanish is coming along pretty good, whenever I hear a word I don't know I put it in an app called quizlet so I can study and memorize it. I've also been using a lot of duolingo. We speak spanish every day but I still speak more English throughout the day than I do Spanish but I know it will come eventually.
Surprisingly there's a good amount of Mexican places to eat so the other day we got gorditas and they were sooo good.
We only get fed my members about 2 times a week which is less than I expected but honestly a blessing because I don't wanna get fat yet lol.
On Sunday we were able to do a little church meeting in one of the members homes and we were able to invite a family we were teaching. So we prepared a little lesson to share in place of sacrament talks and then we ate some really good food after. So it just goes to show that coronavirus isn't going to stop us from sharing the gospel.
Quick thought for this week is about pride and how when we start to get prideful in the sense that we give ourselves all the credit instead of recognizing the things that we have been blessed with from God and from others it can be a double edged sword. For example as an athlete it can be really easy to say look at all that I've accomplished, look at how well I'm doing, look at all these achievements that I've reached and forget to remember all of the blessings that we have been given. Blessings from God and also the people that have helped us get to where we are. Then when things get tough, maybe you aren't performing the best or you get injured it can be easy to get discouraged when you have this kind of attitude because then it also puts all of the failure on yourself, when sometimes life happens and there's nothing we can do about it. I saw it happen to a lot of athletes in high school and it happens to a lot of missionaries because they think that because no one is interested or they get a bunch of doors slammed in their face, that it must be because they just aren't a good missionary. But if we remember that like Job in the bible, we can be doing everything we are supposed to and we can still go through really hard times but we should have the mentality of measuring success by how honest our efforts are and always remember what you are blessed with because there are always things that you can look at and remember that you are blessed even in the smallest things.
Please water my plant mom
Elder Amata
Pictures :
1) district council and president interviews
2) Sunday "church" with the Bobadillas and the family we are teaching and the hermanas
3)hermana Soto got us mango Chile ice cream. They are a family that we are trying to get to come back to church and they are super cool
4) no toilet paper at Walmart
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