Happy Thanksgiving all of you amazing people! Miss you guys a lot.
I was very very very homesick last P-day night. I have never been that homesick in my life before then. It is the only time I have ever just... I don't know how to describe the feeling. It wasn't good though. But I am so grateful for it. This was the first holiday that I have ever spent away from you guys. It was hard, but I made it :) It made me realize how much families mean. How merciful and perfect God's plan is for us, and how you all are honestly the most precious thing to me on this earth. Thank you for being strong, keeping the faith, and loving me as you have been ;)
What a great week full of lessons and great growth!!! I have truly learned to be grateful. First, I'll talk about Benilda. This is a woman about 45 to 50 years old. She wants to be baptized so badly. Every time we go to visit her, she cries about how she can't be baptized. She can't because she isn't married to her esposo, because he is married to another woman, so he has to divorce, then they need to marry. She asks, ¨Why can't I be baptized? When can I be baptized?¨ in full tears. My heart aches for her; how some who are able to be baptized won't, but someone who is so willing to follow God can't. She is going to be blessed beyond belief.
So I have given 4 priesthood blessings this week in Spanish........ Those were different and great experiences. Let's just say that my comp had to help me. I did 2 annointings, and the other 2 were the actual blessing. It is so hard to remember how to do it, let alone remember their names! But my first was to Benilda. Then I annointed 2 others later in the week, and yesterday I gave my 4th blessing. It went a lot better. The language is coming...
The language is a miracle. I am beginning to understand what people mean and what they say and I am able to talk, sometimes without even thinking! The gift of tongues truly is real and it is a tender mercy from God. Even though every time I start a conversation, I say that I don't know Spanish and that I can't speak or understand a lot, every time the people say how good I speak. They say that I speak Spanish so well, pronouncing every syllable and not slurring words. It's truly amazing. I don't talk fast either. I think that our language and the way we speak gives us power. So why rush it? God has helped me to see that you can be profound and be able to show the people that this is important to you if you say every word with conviction. I can teach principles in Spanish, I can talk a little in conversation and it is amazing. My goal of the first change, with prayer to God to help me, was to be able to speak and get my point across, and teach, and be able to understand the jist of what people say, and understand the idea they are trying to get to me by recognizing key words and what they say. Let's just say that I have been blessed immensely. It is not by my strength at all. You all know me, haha I am Bruce, the not-so-smart guy. But with God, my weakness has and is being made into a strength. I still have so so so much to learn, but God is showing His power through little me.
Cars are crazy here. For black Friday the traffic was insane. And even before black Friday, the streets aren't that wide, and there is no side walk or speed limit anyway. It's kinda just like a freeway in residential areas. The only safety features are speed bumps and pot holes here and there. I think that cars pass me while I am walking within about 2 inches going about 40 in residential areas. Let's just say if I took one step, my leg and everything is history. I am glad that God is protecting me though.
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