Rabbitt rabbitt rabbitt!!!! I CANNOT believe it is already December!! I had such a great Thanksgiving. Or as us Spanish speaking folk call it, Thanksgeebing!!!!! My companion and I probably said that 976 times on Thursday! Emily would have hated me! On Thanksgiving Elder Holland came and spoke to us, it was absolutely amazing! He answered some great questions that missionaries had submitted to him a week prior. His wife spoke as well and her talk was equally as amazing. This was my favorite quote: "My husband took my breath away when I fell in love with him; And now without him, I cannot breathe. He is my life!" WOW! It was the sweetest thing I have ever heard. And I was pretty impressed with the food. We had a regular turkey(pavo / chompipe) dinner. Oh ya... one point that Elder Holland made about being homesick really hit home for me: he said, "it is healthy, as a missionary, to be homesick for your family. It is the same as our Father in Heaven. He has children that are not currently with Him or communicating with Him. He is missisng them like crazy. And it is our job, as missionaries, to bring those children back to Him. Our homesickness can be tool to fuel our desire to bring people to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
And the best part was that they turned on all the Christmas lights here! They're so good to us!
So here is a little rundown of my week:
We have Gym 5 -6 days a week and I've been running atleast 2 miles every time! Which is great but sometimes I have the extra energy to run more and sometimes I barely have enough to run 2. There is an elyptical machine right at this huge window that looks out over the temple and 9th east. I love watching the real world operate. I always see Garrett driving in to work!
Sunday was busy! We had sacrament meeting, Music & the spoken word broadcast, Relief Society, Study time, walk to the temple where I saw Carly and Cru and Shad which was so so so fun! Then a devotional and then we got to pick a Sunday night church movie. Sundays are just fully loaded but the greatest day!
On Monday we taught the first lesson twice IN SPANISH!!!! It was so cool. I had been praying so hard for help and I spoke so many words that were not my own! It was such a great experience! We started learning doctrine for the 2nd lesson on the plan of salvation. And last night was really fun because both of our teachers were there at the same time cause Elder Lee is leaving for the Peru MTC and we wanted a picture of all of us together!
I love you all so so so much! I can't wait to hear about all you all are doing!!!
con amor,
Hermana Taylor
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