Week 27

 I never know how to start these emails lol.

 Things are going good here in Lexington. Now I cover the west side of the city but we are in a "car share" area with the Spanish sister missionaries which means we get the car for half the week. We also got a new mission president and we had Interviews this week and he seems pretty cool. We live a little outside of the area that we are assigned and its a 40 min bike ride to get to the neighborhood where most of the people we are teaching so you know that I've been in great shape lol . 

My Spanish is getting a lot better but now I just need to learn a lot of vocabulary and some more specific grammar stuff. 

 On the 4th of July we got to watch the fireworks from our apartment and because it's on a hill we could see 4 different firework shows. 

One thing I have been thinking about this week is that if we are looking for the blessings and the hand of God in our lives then we will find that we are very blessed. To me faith is an action word that means we don't know what is going to happen in our lives but we do the things that Heavenly Father has asked us to do because we know that he will bless us if we do them. However, sometimes we come across decisions and forks in the road where it would be so much easier if we were told which path to take and when we pray about it and we make a choice and it doesn't turn out the way we expect or the outcome is disappointing it can be confusing and frustrating. 

I've learned that for me Heavenly Father allows me to trip and fall and stumble and make a fool out of myself sometimes. I think that he knows that I'm stubborn and that sometimes the only way that I learn is by being humbled. I know that everything happens for a reason, even if I can't fully understand what those reasons are until later down the road. I know that God has a plan for each and every one of us but we have to be constantly asking ourselves how can we learn from our mistakes and from our trials. 

Please water my plant mom 

Elder Amata, 

1) We always offer to take out the trash of the members that feed us and the only dumpster in this apartment complex is on the other side we put the bags on the bike rack. 

2) we were talking to some teenagers and I tried to do a kickflip and my shoes got scuffed but that's what shoe polish is for lol

3) i was cutting the hair of some of the members kids.