3/30/16
Last Thursday started off strange. We were in the comedor for lunch and I saw a dude who looked super familiar but I couldn't remember why! I sat down and after we all blessed our food and started to eat he passed by and said "Hermana Gourley, you were in my ward at BYU" and I was like OOOOOOOOOOH THATS WHAT IT IS! His name is Elder Wood and he just got here last Wednesday. I see him every day now and we talk for just a second every time. That was a good little piece of home haha!
Oh man! I'm going out of order but that's okay, still relevant. The devotional yesterday...hahahaha! So Elder Wood (the dude from BYU) played the piano for the opening and closing song. The closing song was Somos los Soldados (Onward Christian Soldiers) and oh my gosh. That. Was. Hilarious. hahahaha! Mi compañera was leading the music and oh man I felt so bad for them up there! So here is why... There is something you need to know about latinos. They love to sing. And they love to sing LOUDLY. Which is good! ......ooooother than when they are literally ten to twelve measures ahead of the pianist and chorister, while singing at twice the speed the song is supposed to be sung at, taking literally no breaths hahahaha! It was a disaster hahaha but it was totally hilarious. We watched a devo from Provo of President Nelson which was fabulous. His wife gave an awesome talk about being desperate and how she hopes we are desperate many times on our missions because when we are desperate we find ways to do what needs to be done, we depend on God more, we look at things differently, and we are able to do His will more effectively because we have to depend on Him. That's how I feel with the spanish thing too...I can't rely on myself because I can't say what I want to say in this language. We have to trust in God 100% to help us to convey His message His way. The devo was awesome.
The days are flying by so fast I don't know what to say about what has been happening haha! We have watched some pretty awesome videos since being out here so I thought I'd share just a few of them and some of my thoughts from my personal study...
--The Hope of God's Light (Mormon Message)
--The Holy Land in 4k
--I was reading about resurrection and read Revelations 20:6, then I had a question pop in my head about it and I didn't even really say a prayer, just kinda had the thought "help me find a answer to this", and then within a minute I came across Mosiah 15:22 which answered my question and was exactly what I was looking for. God is so good:) even just the tiniest things...
--Enos 1:8--"thy faith hath made thee whole" I think we all have a lot more faith than we give ourselves credit for at times...
--Alma 29. Literally just highlighted in different colors the entire chapter. haha! This chapter is AWESOME.
--Also D&C 88. of course. And a lot of other sections in D&C. And in Alma. Alma 26 and 32, 34, okay.....JUST ALL THE SCRIPTURES: JUST READ ALL THE THINGS!! :)
--A devotional video from Provo by Elder Holland I have named "Feed My Sheep" where he talked a tad about his conference talk about "Do you love me?" that devo was crazy powerful
--this quote by Elder Cecil O. Samuelson: "Just as we should not lower the standards that the Lord has established for the conduct of His servants, we are also not authorized to raise them...Be sure that you do not have higher standards for yourself or others than the Lord has established."
Anyway, i am about out of time to email, now I can send out all those pictures really quick (not technically counted as email time :) haha)
I love you all!!!!
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Mucho Amor, Hermana Karra Gourley
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