Oh Hi Again

i just sent an email like 4 days ago so not much has changed since then but i guess ill fill ya in on the small things. This might be my most boring one yet, sorry bout that! 

Friday we go about our normal routine and start to walk our bikes downstairs and my tire was super flat. Someone HAS to be playing a prank of us. Pumped it up thinking all is well and as we're about to leave we noticed a goat head in the tire. it wasnt losing air that bad though and we were way too prideful to call the elders for the 700th time so we just brought the tiny handheld bike pump and before we left somewhere we just added a little more air. Missionary fix!

Went on exchanges with hermana darrington! So i got to be in a car for the day, it felt weird to be away from my mission mom (hna bagley) but we had tons of fun!

Hermano Pacheco was out of town on sunday and he normally does the translation for the branch because we have a couple english speakers, or sometimes someone will give a talk in english and he translates to spanish. Well the branch president gave me a heart attack and told me i would have to translate! The joke lasted about 5 seconds and everyone started laughing at me and said i looked like id peed my pants (i almost did)!

We have mission tour this week which I think is just like a 3 day zone conference? Not totally sure but I'll let you know what happens when we cross that bridge! 

Spiritual thought

I'm gonna use this chance to send a long thought but This talk is sooooooooooo good it's called Remember Lots Wife BYU Devotional January 2009 by Elder Holland. Elder Holland is like actually amazing idk how people listen to him and don't immediately want to be baptized. 

Anyways he's talking about Lots Wife from the bible and looking behind in the past. These are a few sections I loved 

"In the time we have this morning, I am not going to talk to you about the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, nor of the comparison the Lord Himself has made to those days and our own time. I am not even going to talk about obedience and disobedience. I just want to talk to you for a few minutes about looking back and looking ahead.

One of the purposes of history is to teach us the lessons of life

So, if history is this important, what did Lot’s wife do that was so wrong? Apparently what was wrong with Lot’s wife was that she wasn’t just looking back; in her heart she wanted to go back. It would appear that even before they were past the city limits, she was already missing what Sodom and Gomorrah had offered her. 

That happens in marriages, too, and in other relationships we have. I can’t tell you the number of couples I have counseled who, when they are deeply hurt or even just deeply stressed, reach farther and farther into the past to find yet a bigger brick to throw through the window “pain” of their marriage. When something is over and done with, when it has been repented of as fully as it can be repented of, when life has moved on as it should and a lot of other wonderfully good things have happened since then, it is not right to go back and open up some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died trying to heal.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is it charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone

we are guilty of the greater sin if we keep remembering and recalling and rebashing someone with their earlier mistakes—and that “someone” might be ourselves. We can be so hard on ourselves, often much more so than with others!

Now, like the Anti-Nephi-Lehies of the Book of Mormon, bury your weapons of war, and leave them buried. Forgive, and do that which is harder than to forgive: Forget. And when it comes to mind again, forget it again.

You can remember just enough to avoid repeating the mistake, but then put the rest of it all on the dung heap Paul spoke of to those Philippians. Dismiss the destructive and keep dismissing it until the beauty of the Atonement of Christ has revealed to you your bright future and the bright future of your family and your friends and your neighbors. God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go."

Anyways gotta bounce but l8er sk8ers hope this next week is the best one of your lives! 

Hermana Buhrley