So today is a holiday and
all the shops are closed so we couldn´t buy food today so we are going to buy
sometime this week so we don´t starve to death. We just stayed home for
most of the day and took a breather and relaxed a bit. The other 2 elders
went to the mission office so they were gone for most of the day and my
companion took a nap. I took the privilege of cleaning our piso. Not
because they told me to do it, but for me it helps to destress. What
destress? For me I can put all of my thoughts and pains on one thing
which can be cleaned, this stain off the stove or cleaning the dishes. It
puts me into a world where Ican clean my thoughts of the life of a missionary
and the life of a normal person for a second, so I cleaned our windows, all of
them, the stove and counter top, dishes, floors and mopping, cleaning our loft
where we sleep on the second floor (super cool to have a second floor), wrangled
up some dust bunnies, etc. The weather has been getting warmer here in
Sabadell and it is nice to have light all the way up til 9:30.
Random thoughts:
we had district meeting
last week and we always do our recitations before the meeting. we had the door open and a worker who was
fixing the church walked by. Must think we are robots or something.
It´s official, red lights
are from the devil!
I saw a rolls royce, the
british luxury car.
We were called a false
church from a woman at the timbre, doorbell.
Bird climbs into heat
exhaust of house.
Romans 15:24,28-29
journey, and to bebrought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be
somewhat filled with your company.
28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealedto them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall
come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Romans 15:24, 28. Did Paul Ever Journey to Spain?
Paul intended ultimately to
travel to Spain (see Romans15:24, 28). Though it is notknown for certain whether
Paul ever made it to Spain. There is some evidence suggesting that he did fulfill
this desire: “Writing aboutA.D. 96, Clement of Rome said that Paul had reached
the ‘boundaries’ or ‘limits of the west,’ a phrase far
more appropriate for Spain than for Rome. The early
Muratorian Fragment also says that Paul visited Spain,though its source of information is
debated” (RichardLloyd Anderson, Understanding Paul, rev. ed. [2007],311–12).I´m
fulfilling a prophecy!
We had lunch with the
Smiths and we had a form of Taco soup with tortilla chips and cilantro.
Yum! American family with a mexican soup!
So this week was a little
rough for me. It all started with being full of stress. Then my companion
got sick so we stayed in piso for friday morning. I did some cleaning and
some organizing. We live on the fifth floor of our building and have a laundry
rack outside our window. I was cleaning the bathroom and I took the rugs
out to dry on the racks. It wasn´t very windy, but the wind had blown the
rugs off the racks and on to the roof of our neighbors who live next to us and
2 floors down. And Now I had to retrieve them. It isn’t really the
fact that I lost the rugs, but it´s more the fact that my companion said something
that put my on edge so I had this battle of trying to understand why is it that
I try doing something that I feel like I can only get 70-80% done right but
always falter a big chunk left? I just can´t make par. It took a
lot of prayers and studying to realize that we are all imperfect people and
have to constantly rely on a perfect person to save us from our imperfections
and his name is Jesus Christ. More things happened this week that just
pushed me to my limits, but right now I´m trying to cool off and rest again,
pero me cuesta mucho.
Rain
mom at church was helping
a toddler blow his nose and the boy kept saying "déjame en paz"
or " leave me in peace!"
Well family, the mission
is like a refiner´s fire, because it is, especially in Europe. We have
our ups and downs, but we just have to endure to the end, and like Neal A.
Maxwell says, we have to endure it well. We can be better or bitter so
I´m trying to make the best with what I have and like Joseph B. Worthlin said
" come what may and love it." After all the conflicts we have
in the streets, the book of mormon is true and this is THE church of Jesus
Christ. I hope you have a great week, and God bless you with happiness
and love.
Con amor por el día de
preparación y por zapatos que no son rotos,
Élder Gonzalez de El Faro,
España
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