i miss you and love you way lots.
This week was a good week!
It has rained like crazy this week. since thursday, night and day, it rained. and rained and rained. When it rains here its weird. Its like a mist of water that's a wall. So because my body is now a whimp to the cold I was SOO cold all week haha I wear so many layers now, I look like a local haha Everyone hear goes "oh my gosh this winter is out of control" and I used to be like Winter? but now Im like jumping in and adding to the conversation like "oh my gosh amen this winter is awful, its so cold, i can't believe it" haha . Because its been raining so much, the Sacramento river is out of control. Its been flooding over and has shut down a lot of roads so thats kinda scary. Dont worry mom, I know how to swim
There are lots of icecream trucks here and Sister Saavedra thinks they are the weirdest thing. She goes "americans are weird. they drive around and give sugar to small kids in white vans and play weird music. americanos..." hahaha it is the funniest thing. I just pray that we can run into icecream trucks during the day because her lil schpeel is funny. she just shakes her head and mutters some stuff in spanish
We had exchanges this week which at first I did not want but they ended up being really great. Sister Ngawagu (nah-fah-row) spent the day with me, she is from New Zealand and 6'2''. She is way legit. She has the best accent and I tried copying it all day. They have the coolest lingo in New Zealand. We went to an investigators for a lesson and she gave us the best cheesecake bars I have ever had in my life. So good in fact that we stopped by Chipotle to get plastic forks so we could eat the bars she gave us for the later haha. Sister Ngawagu didn't get the memo that they were cheesecake bars and she doesnt do milk so no bueno hahah poor girl
We had graffiti abaitment in Davis. it was very fun to be there with the other missionaires. There is this elder from Canada that I love. He is so aware of everyone and makes sure everyone is loved. I am so impressed by him and he is such a reminder to me to be better and love everyone. There is no reason not to be happy.
I love west sacramento. It is so humbling to be here. these people are so poor, living in awful places, and have gone through horrible circumstances. and they put their total faith in the savior. It has strengthened my testimony. I find myself asking if I rely on the savior as much as I should.
There is this one lady we met with that has been through so much. She has gone through the imaginable and then on top of it all has cancer. We went and visited with her and she asked us If it was bad that she sometimes asks god to stop the trials that, she is done with it all. My heart broke for her. I sat there and she asked me why? why does she have to go through so much and suffer so much. when will it end. I remembered some verses in Doctrine and Covenants 121:1;7-8. I told her that it reminded me of Joseph smith when he was in Liberty Jail and he felt like his trails were never ending and he wondered where god is. It reads "O god where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place. and then in versus 7-8 it says
7 My son, peace be unto thy so
8 And then, if thou endure
I think so many times we face situations where we ask ourselves where is god? when will this trial end. But the father says. Peace be unto thy soul...if thou endure it well god SHALL exalt thee on high. What a promise. what a comfort that brings. God will never leave us and he knows all.
I love the mission. I love the people. I love west Sacramento. I feel a type of joy I can't explain; this must be the spirit of missionary work. It causes people to feel real things, to love people, really love them and care for them without even knowing them for very long. There are so many things I have felt here that can't be explained other than that there is a God and he is mindful of us. He knows us. I've witnessed the gospel and the atonement change others but I would have never imagined how the gospel and applying the atonement has already changed and shaped me.
I love you and miss you so much.
xoxo
sister thurgood
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