Sorry My Emails Are Lame

everyones been yelling at me to write an email so estoy aquí. Except not much has changed soooo

its warming up here in cali and i dont mean to alarm anyone but im starting to get a white line where my watch is. Thats right, all you south american missionaries im coming for your tans.

As soon as i wrote that in the middle of the week it started duuuuuumping rain

Randoms

- tried new mexican dishes that changed my life in all the best ways

- hna barker and i took our dinner hour and went to bed at 8:50 one night

- Hna barker almost made a member cry when she accidentally spoiled the byu basketball game outcome before hed watched it 

- Had exchanges with hermana silva and put 2 people on date!!! Both lessons were incredible and hna silva is an incredible missionary i learned so much! 

- Gave aaaaaanother talk in the group

- Zone conference was epic and is always a blast

- We were talking to a man and he told us he couldnt meet cause he only spoke spanish? (we were speaking in spanish the whole time)

- Had a white lady pull the reverse racism card on us

- we get to go to the temple this week! 

- Tracted in the rain for 2 hours 

- interviews with president!

This week has been kind of frustrating work wise cause we've been working so so hard trying to grow our group so if any of you missionaries have any ideas on getting people to church/reactivating members please send them my way (and if any of you say calling/texting/going to their house/getting rides ill hit you with my bike)

Theres a really good talk called After the Fourth Day that i love and that gives me hope 

"Not long before His prophesied entry into Jerusalem, Jesus Christ was fully engaged in His ministry when He received word from His dear friends Mary and Martha that their brother Lazarus was sick. Although Lazarus’s illness was serious, the Lord “abode two days still in the same place where he was. Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.” 

Before beginning the journey to His friends’ home in Bethany, “said Jesus unto [His disciples] plainly, Lazarus is dead.” When Jesus came into Bethany and met first Martha and then Mary, perhaps out of frustration for His late arrival, they each greeted Him saying, “Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.” Martha further exclaimed, “By this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.” 

These four days were significant to Mary and Martha. According to some rabbinic schools of thought, it was believed that the spirit of someone who died would remain with the body for three days, offering hope that life was still possible. However, by the fourth day that hope was lost, perhaps because the body would begin to decay and “stinketh.” 

Like Mary and Martha, we have the opportunity to experience all of mortality, even sorrow and weakness. Each of us will experience the heartache that accompanies the loss of someone we love. Our mortal journey might include personal illness or the debilitating illness of a loved one; depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges; financial hardship; betrayal; sin. And sometimes these are accompanied by feelings of hopelessness. 

When the Savior arrived in Bethany, all had lost hope that Lazarus could be saved—it had been four days, and he was gone. 

Sometimes during our own challenges, we might feel like Christ is too late, and our hope and faith might even feel challenged. My witness and testimony are that as we move forward with faith in Jesus Christ, the fourth day will always come. He will always come to our aid or to raise our hopes back to life. He has promised: “Let not your heart be troubled.” “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

It might seem like He won't come till it's too late, but He will come.