Hola Familia,
Pues, two grande noticias (big news items)…
UNO, your package came!!!
From the 2nd of
December!!! It only took a month to get here which is amazing.
Thank you for the goodies, mum (only the almonds made it in recognizable form
but everyone loved them) and I LOVED the CDs. They worked! And your letter was
wonderful, mum, thank you. I've gotten a few other letters from the beginning
of December, too. It seems like sometimes the hand-written ones get here sooner
than the dearelders. I don't think I've gotten any dearelders from December
yet.
Can you please tell Sally thank you for the card and gift $? I needed it to buy a new watch and it saved my
sanity. :)
TWO, we had transfers today and... I am a trainer!! I am
going to open the area of Gineres, which is the residential area attached to
Centro, so it's a pretty city. I know it a little bit because we had been going
there when we had references, but I still don't know where anything is. The
blocks are HUGE city blocks so I will definitely get my workout. And we won't
waste time traveling between Madero and Gineres! Hna. Torales will stay
in Madero and we're in the same stake so she'll be able to fill me in on all of
our investigators.
I've been feeling everything in the past 24 hours... at
first the news didn't even faze me, but then as we were going to the trainer
capacitacion (training meeting) I was
suddenly filled with dread. But I
realized that Heavenly Father called me to do it because he will completely
enable me to do it. There is no reason that it can't be an incredible
experience. I have no idea what it's going to be like or what in the world I am
going to do, but I feel very peaceful right now that Heavenly Father will help
me do whatever He wants me to do.
You guys will get to meet my “hija” (the “daughter” she will be training) next week. :)
To the left is my birthday present to Hna. Torales, because one
time I played hymn this at a baptism and it happened to be the song she had
been looking for since she heard it by the MoTab. There's a small quote from it
in Spanish in our missionary manual, but the rest of the song is only in English
so I translated it. I also wrote out the English with the pronunciation guide
we've been using.
This is the pronunciation guide we've been using-- with the
signs from my dictionary but with words she already knows how to say. We didn't
get to finish it before transfers. :(
Ah, I wish I had time to write everything I planned to
write!
Well, one thing is my realization of the reality of Satan
and the way he has permeated my thinking my whole life in ways that are so very
subtle-- and so very much an impediment to my happiness. He is so sneaky. Being
a missionary is a CONSTANT battle to recognize that if I am lacking faith or
feeling despair, it's him, and I just need to pray and pray and pray that
Christ will help me to 'hedge up the way of my enemy' and ‘not shut the gates
of thy righteousness before me' (can't remember how it's phrased in Nephi's
psalm but it's something like that). Neph's psalm explains how I feel so
perfectly I just want to read it out loud.
Thank you to mum and Grant for writing out the instructions
to the DearElder. Lots of people have been asking for the instructions in
Spanish.
Mom, I wish I had time to write and tell you how perfect
your quote was. Thank you.
Love,
Hermana Ludlam
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