*kicks dog in face*
This was a MIRACLE-Y week and proof that God is good and love His kids.
- Hna Gentry kicked a dog in the face that was attacking us. Quite an adventure.
- We went to 18 de Mayo (AKA May 18th, the towns and streets and everything here are named after important dates in Uruguayo history. Is that confusing? Yes. Yes it is. I get 25 de Mayo and 18 de Mayo confused every day) anyway and there was a panadería right by the church and we went there before and after the district council, cause our bus came early and we were waiting for the bus after. The lady looked quite confused but I'm sure she was grateful. Her bizcochos were pretty dang good.
- We taught English class this week, and it was SO fun. We seriously have the time of our lives with the English students. This week hna gentry got on a shpeel and we ended up teaching them the difference between the words look, luck, lick, leak, lack, and like. Pretty effective English class if you ask me.
MILAGRITOS:
- We have friends named Katerìn and Richard and they are incredible. They told us this week that they want to be baptized!! Please please pray for them to be able to do everything necessary to be able to do that, cause they are so excited and I know the Lord is SO excited for them.
- We have a family we're teaching, with 7 kids, and they told us this week too that some of them want to be baptized as well!! Seriously miracles after miracles. Such a cool opportunity I get every day to watch people change, become better, and make covenants with God. Send prayers that they too can be able to do everything necessary for their baptism!
- Our friend Julio is impossible to get in contact with, but every time we show up at his house he is just there, and so willing and excited to have a lesson with us. We were talking, and he stopped me mid sentence to say "ya know? I just love that all you missionaries never stop smiling while you talk. I have no idea how you do it." (Or the spanish equivalent of that) and I hadn't even realized I had been smiling the whole time, but it really made me take a step back. Every day I walk past and talk with people that look downtrodden, depressed, and burdened. And every day I share smiles with them. Some of them smile back, some of them don't, some of them I get to teach them how to smile, and others I'll never see again, but how cool that there are so many hard things in this world, and we get to just. Spread smiles. Thanks Julio for teaching me that!
- So there's this company here that makes empanadas. And they do delivery. And have only one delivery man. And you best believe once or twice a week Hna Gentry and I are buying empanadas, and now we're friends with the delivery man. And the other day he asked us what church we belong to and what we believed, so we got a second to testify and tell him about it. And maybe have we bought empanadas one or two more times since just so we can talk to him more? Yup. What a guy. Thanks empanada man for moving here from Cuba to give us empanadas.
SHPIRITUAL SHPEEL:
Guys you can literally change lives. There's so many instances in the scriptures when it says "and there was one among them" talking about one person, who then goes on to change a whole people. This phrase is used for both people working for good and for the bad. But guess what? Each and every one of us can be "the one" who makes a difference in our towns, with our friends, in other people's lives. At the end of your life, how do you want YOUR sentence to end after it says "and there was one among them" do you want it to be "and there was one among them who was always kind" or "and there was one among them who found joy in the little things" or "and there was one among them who read their scriptures every day" or "and there was one among them who took care of the sick" or "and their was one among them who had faith, even when they didn't have the knowledge quite yet" or "and there was one among them who loved everyone they met" or or or.... on and on. What legacy will you leave? What is going to be the thing you're known for? We each have the choice every day to change someone else's life. Now it doesn't have to be changing their whole eternal destiny, but what if we changed a part of their life? Just a moment of their day, to make it that much better? Go be one among them and change someone's life and do good in the way that you know best.
Love you all so so much!!
- hermana allen
