I love math. Let me do a little math problem for you all. We only had 3 gringos in our zone last change, including me, and the other 2 had changes unfortunately. I was afraid that I would be stuck with only Latins in the zone and me; the little white dot in the sea of brown, haha :P But the Lord heard the clamor of my prayers. There were 5 optional spots for another gringo to come to the zone, so I had a pretty good chance of getting at least 1/5 that I could talk to in English. It ended up being 4/5 of the missionaries that came to the zone are gringos! JACKPOT 777! :) I was excited. They're all really cool too. There are two brand new sisters here in the zone, both gringa girls fresh out of the MTC, but they went to the MTC in Guatemala because Provo is a madhouse right now with so many missionaries. The best part is that one of the sisters here is named Hermana Hunt, and where is she from? Escondido, CA, only a half hour from my house, haha, what are the odds? We swear we've seen each other before. I think that I might have seen her at Grossmont back in college, but she's a year younger than me, so the likelihood decreases. We haven't figured it out just yet, but we will solve the mystery soon.
A sad announcement that we heard this week was the passing of President Monson's wife Frances. That is pretty sad. I just hope that it isn't like most cases where once the spouse dies, the other soon follows. Being that he is the Prophet of God and he has his life timeline already set out perfectly in God's time, it will depend on His will if He calls him right away to truly be sealed to his wife for time and all eternity like they had covenanted so long ago. I know that after me and my wife have been sealed for so much time, I won't have a doubt in my mind that we will be reunited in just a few years after being separated by only time, but put together later for eternity. Man, I can't wait to be married...haha... anyway.
Fun fact that I discovered, the Lord declared the spot for Adam-ondi-Ahman exactly 175 years ago yesterday! It will be interesting when the Father of all mankind comes to take His place there in Spring Hill, Missouri. I remember getting in a very simple argument with one of my Latin comps a long time ago saying that the new Zion was to be established in Missouri, and he would just NOT believe me. One scripture in D&C; argument settled, haha. Everything can be solved with the scriptures, be it temporal matters or celestial matters, the Lord has revealed many answers to questions.
In our baptism last week as Satan was trying to keep it from happening as usual, the door to the baptismal font was locked, weird, who is going to go in there, to swim? But anyway, we had to figure out a way to open it up to fill the font, otherwise we wouldn't have the baptisms. Earlier that day we had already had to change chapels because where we had planned it for weeks, didn't have water, sooo...plan B, our chapel. I say to my comp "hand me a knife, I'll get that door open". He laughed. Others laughed. I made them eat those laughs because they didn't believe that I could open the door with a knife. Well, my last name is often mistaken for the word "knife"...all the more reason that I would have the necessary skills to open said door! 1, 2 many 5 seconds, I had that door open, then I just turn to them and say "allí está, llenenla los que no me creyeron". I'm a ninja. That's why everyone out on Blas called me "Espipi" and I sign my name now with a knife for the letter "i"; looks sweet.
Not a lot happened this week, we had changes and my comp Ortiz stuck around luckily, we get along so well and work together really well also. I'm excited for this change. Getting our baptism, Chacho's little sister ready to be baptized too this coming month, and the best part would be that he could baptize her himself, because he was made a Priest too. That would be one of the greatest moments of my mission for sure.
I'm truly grateful to be here in the mission, they are the best 2 years of my life so far, and I've honestly loved every moment, because it has taught me something that I would have never been able to learn had I not come. These next coming months I need to get ready for college too, get my brain thinking intellectually in the world as well, in Economics, Marketing, business type thinking with math and what not, which is going to be difficult.
I want to tell my dad HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!! You are a great dad, I love you so much, wish I could be there to celebrate with you and watch a Padres game or something :)
The scriptures for the week are Helaman 8:9 which proves that prophets of God are able to testify of things that are yet to occur, but will occur. Last in D&C 137, all of the section, because it's amazing and helps your faith grown, knowing what it is to be like living in the Celestial Kingdom, streets of gold, God and Jesus on their thrones. Someday everyone. Stay faithful, never forget your covenants and God won't forget you either. Have a wonderful week.
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