Hola Again!
Funny story of the week...so during family home
evening last week, we went and visited a less active family. We planned a
pretty good family home evening for them. For those that don't know what family
home evening is, it's every Monday and it is usually an activity with a lesson
or game that helps bring your family together. Anyways, our activity was
that everyone had a piece of paper and we put our name on the top. We passed
our paper around the room and everyone wrote one thing good about the person
and one thing that we think they could work on. Well as the papers went around,
I got a paper that was the 5 year old daughter's...or so I thought. On the good
side I wrote "Funny" and on the side that you need to work on I wrote
"You could relax more and pay more attention during church and during
lessons with the missionaries." As we got our original paper with our name
on the top, the mom reads in spanish what I thought I had wrote to her
daughter. "Funny but I need to relax and concentrate more during church
and lessons with the missionaries?" hahahahahaha I was so embarrassed
because it was written in TERRIBLE spanish and everyone knew it was me who
wrote it. They all stared at me and I just started laughing super hard. I
couldn't even explain myself because I didn't know how to in spanish!!! Super
funny!
I don't enjoy the food here at all. I got super
sick last week. They just put stuff on a plate and then pour tons of sauce
on it so we can't actually see what we're eating...which is probably good.
Elder Murdock called me last week and told me he had been in the hospital for 4
days because of the food here. He said he was going home. He got to talk to his
parents and then called me back an hour later and told me he was staying haha
I'm tellin ya the food here is crazy!
We have so many rules out here on our
missions, but it's good because it keeps us safe. We're not allowed to
street contact or door knock so everything is through the members. There are so
many people here on the streets who I could just tell want to hear our message.
It's just too bad that we can't street contact because of some things that have
happened in the past. It's super funny though because sometimes we get stopped
on the street by people who just want to talk to me about being Amrerican. They
all like to tell me about their deportation stories and about how tough they
are. hahaha These stories usually include guns, noises and lots of bad words
hahaha.
Conference this past week helped with a bunch
of my doubts and fears. My favorite talk was probably Neil L. Anderson's.
He said that "I am grateful there was not a quick solution to my trials. I
learened to trust the Lord and stay close to him. With faith comes trials of
faith." I must look at my trials in a more poritive way because it allows
me to have a stronger relationship with God. He is always there for me and I
need to rely on him because he has a better plan for me than I do.
Well I hope you all had and will have an
amazing week! Keep workin hard and live each day one day at a time! "The
responsibility is upon us." President Monson
Love you all so much!
Elder Mike Payne
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