May 4, 2015
Ok, first
things first, I had a wonderful week. It went by really fast, but all the
members were great. They fed us a lot, because everyone just wants
to feed me because I´m leaving Paraguay.
So mom, food
I´ve missed would be vegetables, lots of vegetables like a big huge salad! I did finally,have a weird food
experience. I guess every missionary needs one of those lunches where
they want to feed the food to the dog when they aren´t looking. I almost managed
to go my whole mission without having one of those, but Friday this sweet,
sweet recent convert lady, I just love her so much (She´s the one who taught be
sing in Guarani), she made us Milanesa de Mondongo for lunch. So Milanesa
is fried meat basically, and it´s actually really good when it´s chicken or
steak, but Mondongo is like the weird insides of the cow, like it´s intestines
or something. It´s yellow and stringy and smells just like you would
think. (Hermana Line says it looking octopus) Ya, so we have all
heard that when done right, Milanesa de Mondongo is
really good, but we do not share that opinion, but we ate it and we
survived.
Monday we had
a district activity; we went and played Badminton which was fun and
different. We also passed by for that reference we got last week from
Mario. The coolest people ever!!
I´m
so sad that I have to leave them. Graciela and Antony are the best.
They are a brother and a sister and they older. Graciela is super sweet
and Antony is like the coolest guy every. He is a pilot and he´s super
smart. He always says that he´ll teach us science and we´ll teach him the
gospel, but he is pretty golden. The first time we explained the book of
Mormon he said, "Jesus Christ came to the Americas? I had no idea"
And he´s been reading every since and loves it. When we taught the Word
of Wisdom he was drinking Coffee and he said, "At least I only drank a
little bit" And then dumped it out. The only down side is that he
lives in Bolivia, but he wants to move back to Paraguay. They couldn´t
come to church because it rained really, really hard (like nobody came to
church), but I just know that they will progress in the gospel. Antony is
already asking for double of what we give him so he can teach his friends and
coworkers.
Other than
that it was a pretty normal week. I am sad about leaving. It still
doesn´t feel real, like it hasn´t hit me yet. Basically tomorrow is my
last day, because Wednesday is our day with President where we go to lunch and
the Temple and my plane leaves Thursday afternoon (not excited for 20 hours
of plane flights). I have learned so much on my mission and I wouldn´t
have changed this experience for anything else in the world. Maybe my Spanish
isn’t so good or I wasn´t the perfect teacher, but I have a much clearer view
of the atonement and how to use it in my life. I know what kind of member
I want to be for the rest of my life. I learned to have more charity and
love for others, to share the gospel with everyone, to help the missionaries at
every opportunity and to just
strive to be more like my Savior. This scripture that I read this week
describes it best:
Ether 12:27 And if men come
unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men
weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all
men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before
me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto
them.
And
that is so true. I may have a lot of weaknesses, but through the
atonement of our Redeemer those things can become strong. We can be a better
missionary, daughter, sister, mother, father, brother, son, ward member,
person, because that is part of His plan! Don´t ever feel worthless or hopeless because
Christ wouldn´t have done what he did for a hopeless case. He sees what
we can´t. He knows our whole potential. Trust him!!
I
love you all so much and I´m so grateful for your support on my mission! Love
you and I´ll see you on Friday. Have a wonderful week!
Rohayhu!
Hermana
Amy Pamela Lindsay
