July 16, 2012

Hello everyone! I was so excited to get to come to the internet today!!!! I am praying for everyone in harvest! Kert and Corissa with the race!! And our family as a whole! I love you all so much!!! This week was ok ish. My companion has this cronic back problem and so we have to walk really really slow. We have had to return to the house a few times so she can put a heating pad on her back. Sometimes I have the feeling it really isn't hurting but that she wants to waste time but I am thinking the best and trying to help her and stay firm these last 3 weeks. Its just hard when we go back to the house because I either get anxious or my animation leaves. Huh, but lets stick to it!! I was thinking a lot Saturday and Sunday about love. There are lots of different relationships and forms of love, husband and wife, parents to children, children to parents, co-workers, ect., you get the point. But I was thinking about how in ALL of our relationships in life we need to do our best to make it christ-like. Our efforts of becoming more like him personally and then acting as such in our relationships brings happiness and light and good things into our lives and the lives of other people. This becomes the pure love of Christ in action in our lives. Always starting first with ourselves. We begin to be more humble, more teachable, showing more love. As we naturally show more love people naturally want to be around us more. Think about the people you like to be around. Why? What feelings do you have while you are around them? For me I know its people I feel loved by. I think of how a scripture says ´and light cleaveth unto light´, I know the scripture says more than that but I can't remember any more than that right now, its cold. I was doing a self evaluation the other day and thinking...do people like to be around me? I started to think through situations and thinking about how I could treat people better. Usually it has nothing to do with the other person and everything to do with the way I treat them or make them feel. Then its a natural thing for them wanting to be around but when they don't come around I think...what am I doing? What can I do better? What are they feeling? And then I try to be better and change. It's obviously a work in progress :) but I have found myself happier this way. I love you all. These were my thoughts this last weekend. It was enlightening for me, you all have probably caught on to that long ago! :) This last weekend we had to travel to another city to take the flu shot. Our city here has 40,000 people but they release like 500 shots one day. 100 the next week. So we knew it would be impossible to get it here and its a public health system so people have to wait in line. In Cruz Alta, another city we travel to frequently for meetings, liberated 20,000 so we decided to go there. While we were on the bus our Lida de Zona called and asked what we were doing and who knew we were traveling. Ya, we had only talked with our district leader that we were going to travel so we had to call the Mission Sister and ask/tell her we were on the bus already she said she would talk to President but no one called again so I think it all worked out. Honestly it hadn't even dawned on me to ask for permission to travel...opps. When we got there the next morning was crazy. We wiated in line for 3 hours to get the shot. There were people coming and coming. There were so many people!!!!!! The line went for blocks and blocks!! But it all worked out. I love you all. Excited to see you all soon! Praying for all of you! Love, Kat