BEST FRIENDS WITH A MONKEY

CRAZZYYYY fast week and constantly busy busy busy!!

THIS WEEK

☆I hit HALFWAY today, I legitimately don't know how that even possible

☆our new friend Cristian came to church yesterday and stayed for the first 2 hours and loved it so much that he stayed for the temple class after and used my Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants...he's a real one. definition of escogido

☆made best friends with a monkey...me and my comps dreams were made come true, his name is Titi and we're seeing him tonight im so excited

☆we traveled 45 minutes in bus to a further area called Luz de America and let's just say the mosquitos there are NOT my friends...104 mosquito bites later, I even used repellent but my comp told me "hermana your repellent is for the gringo mosquitos, it doesn't work" learned that lesson well

☆we did 2 service projects this week and man is was WORK. We painted a whole garage on viernes and painted a whole house on Saturday morning. I painted a whole room by myself and it took everything out of me haha

☆today we went to los Tsachilas, a cultural place here in Santo Domingo and it's actually part of my area lol all the pics are in my Google photos!

SPIRITUAL:
Thinking back on these 9 months, they've 100% been the most humbling few months of my life. Every day humbles me little by little and it's incredible. I was reading a scripture in Isaiah that says,

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 

 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Reading these scriptures makes me think about how sometimes we know what's best for us, and we know what lessons we need to learn. But in all reality sometimes we don't even really know ourselves. Only He knows us. He knows every word, every thought, every action we make. So we should make everything we have, His. Every single thing we do, we should think "What would he do?" Or "what would he say?" So that we are able to be completely formed to His higher ways.

These 9 months have taught me this. They've taught me to be more loving, respectful, humble, and do everything as Christ would. And in the 9 months I have left, I'm giving my everything to Him. Everything I possibly have to get to know Him even more and change to become more like Him.

Hope you all have an AMAZING week!! LOVE YOU!



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