Mesquite Nevada Stakes
Sister Dantzel Paek
Abeja Apis Mellifera
YES, WE WERE CHASED BY ONE OF THESE THIS WEEK… I have never been afraid of bugs before. This was the first time and for good reason. If you make it a spiritual thought you will learn more! Anyways how are you guys!?! Thanks for all the emails this week :) You’re all the best and I love hearing about your lives. A lot happened this week and I hope to cover it all… let's get into it :)
Bullet Points
<3 Happy late Valentine's day! The day of Love and Friendship <3
<3 We had another service project! It was super fun :) We had to prepare another house to be painted. Guess what my job was… watering the walls! You get the walls completely wet then scrape the paint off. Super fun and super effective!!
<3 My hands got destroyed from watering the walls. I have the pictures to prove it… No worries they feel better now haha. But, they will have scars for a bit :)
<3 The giant bee that chased us…. That was a first! It chased us IN OUR HOUSE! If you want to see more I took a video, go check out my google photos :)
<3 The busiest day of my life. Well at least it felt like it. The day of the service project we also had a meeting at the stake center for the missionaries in Ilo, a family history activity, and a missionary night (in our area) we were in charge of.
<3 We ended up leaving the family history early to make it to the meeting in the stake center which we left early to go to the missionary night and we were late to that too. It all worked out.
<3 We had an awesome Lesson with Monica! We taught the Plan of Salvation and she was very interested. She has a lot of good questions and I am super excited to see her progress.
<3 District council (this is when all the missionaries in a specific área get together and have a meeting about how we can do better) We had the LZ's and the AP's!?! There were so many people in our district council!
<3 Liahonas with mamita… this was really effective for our area! Our pension had an old Liahona she wanted to give to her neighbors and we found a few new people :)
<3 Stopped by the Cops… we got stopped by a cop for the first time since I have been here. Nothing crazy happened but I just thought that was a cool first to add :)
<3 We had a new friend at church named Alexis. I am super excited to start teaching him. We have a lesson tonight :)
Spiritual thought
Whelp… of course I try to relate my most interesting thing that happened during the week to something spiritual. So here we go. A giant bee!
Sometimes things come flying at us with high speeds and they are bigger than we thought they would be. Trials, opposition, temptation, distracciones, and much more can be hard to avoid in today's world. Even if you can't see it you can hear it rustling around in the corner, you can't avoid it forever. But, how can we deal with these problems without getting stung? We can try all sorts of things, using a bucket, a shoe, swatting it out the window, throwing things. All of which are in the video btw HAHA. But we can’t just put our phones under a bucket. Hit our temptations with a shoe or swat them out the window. We can't just throw words at people we don't get along with either. So what do we do? Yes, when bad things happen it's okay to do a little freak out dance. And maybe we are freaking out the whole time (with composure of course…) But, we have to deal with the problem head on. You can't just leave it hiding in the corner. We are blessed enough to know how to deal with these GIANT bees. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ! We can battle the temptations of Satan with the scriptures, general conference talks, prayer, and our testimonies. The best part about this gospel is that even when we are stung by the GIANT bees we can be healed by the saving power of the atonement of Jesus Christ. No matter what is flying around, if it's chasing you or not. We have an answer. Turn to Jesus Christ. He will help you in your deepest despair. But, I still recommend trying to stay away from the giant bees… they are pretty scary :) I've had experience!
Love you guys, stay safe out there! I will try to get to everyone's emails this week. Sorry I've been slaking… now for the real reason you read this email. To see the pictures :) It's okay I understand I do it too haha!
p.s. FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS BREA!!! I am so proud of you for making it to State for Robotics!?! Okay now it's picture time :)
google photo link