October 28, 2013

HELLO WORLD. 

i dunno what to write this week... 

guess what?

I'm being TRANSFERRED!!!! first time in my whole mission. 8 months. it's super nuts, i can't wait though, i'm actually way excited to meet new people and see a different side of everything! new ward, new missionaries, new area, everything! so that'll be way fun. sad saying goodbye to everyone... BUT! i'm just super glad i got to know everyone here. i love these people so much. it's insane. 

SOOOO here's something cool and humbling. so every day out here, you think you learn so much, which you do! but then you go out and realize you have sooo much farther to go. haha but! it's not a discouraging thing! it's a wow!!!!! i cannot WAIT TO LEARN MORE. you guys. KNOWLEDGE IS AMAZING. oh my gerberfibners. i can't even explain it, I love learning things. i love just understanding it, not just knowing it, but studying and having that moment where you just feel it in your heart and your mind and it makes SO MUCH SENSE and you just KNOW it's pure truth. with the simplest things! i'm learning how to really study and search the word for myself, I used to think i was doing that! but noooo no no. haha it's amazing!!! 

anyway that isn't what i was gonna say.... what was i gonna say?.... OH YEAH. so anyway. wait. OH! okay no i do remember. so there was a guy who moved in with a less active we were teaching and i TOTALLY PRE JUDGED HIM. not juuuudged him, but i was just like... WHO IS THIS GUY. i wanna call him and tell him not to move in! NOOOOO!!!!! BUT. now that i've met him and we've actually been teaching them both and YES he is catholic forever.. (he says :)) and yes he has our LA going to the catholic church now, BUT, he promised us he'd read the whole BoM and he's doing it. AND he's just the nicest guy. he's like a cute little grandpa. haha i bought something from teresita and i didn't have the cash right then and he just slipped it under the counter to me, hahaha trying to be all sly. anyway long story noooot really short, I love the guy. and I'm just still learning how to love everyone right away, and immediately see them with the eyes of Christ, faith, love, etc. woo! 

oookay so one of our other less actives, his wife died.... we went to see him and he told us and he was so devastated. we just stood outside for an hour listening to him, and standing there with him while he cried, and saying whatever the spirit told us to say, cause nothing we wanted to say would really help... it was a really awesome experience though, cause we're both (me and hna despain) sitting there cryin with this guy and just, man it was hard to see him like that with so much pain, but it was amazing cause i gained more faith from it. he was super angry with God, and didn't understand why this happened, and kept saying over and over how he didn't deserve this and how it wasn't right. and afterwards when we left we were just driving in silence listening to a song about christ's love and trusting in him and i was just like oooh my gosh... i trust in him. i still feel that joy, i still feel that peace, cause Christ truly does make it possible to feel that sadness but still feel that peace and know that everything will be okay. i was so grateful for that. 

SO. whenever you all are feeling that sadness, that hopelessness, discouragement, frustration, stress, anything, DO not forget Christ. do not forget that it is possible to feel peace in the midst of that. remember the big picture, and the plan of salvation, the Book of Mormon, the atonement, the gospel. and just feel that peace, know that it'll be okay. know that he is here and that everything is possible. cause we are NOT alone. we aren't. 

OKAY GUYS. i know there aren't many stories.... haha BUT uh. well lets see. OH. something way cool! we brought two huge boxes of food to church to give to other missionaries since we're moving out, but as we went outside to unlock the car for the other sisters there was a family outside asking for food, and they had to leave cause i don't think that's allowed or something i dunno... BUT. before they left we were able to give them that big box :) so that was super cool. the mom looked so relieved and man it was just awesome. AWESOME TO BE AN INSTRUMENT IN THE HANDS OF GOD.

hmmm lets see anything else? anything funny? well i laughed a lot this week but i don't remember the stories why... haha ummmmm. 

WELL. sorry this is super boring... haha JUST LAUGH CAUSE LIFE IS GOOD. go ahead, chuckle a little bit! no reason not to! 

alright i'm headin out, gotta send like a billion pictures of our apt. to the mission office cause president wants to see how clean everything is from everyone! hahaha here's something funny, he sent us an email and said to everyone that, well let me explain first.

SO the office elders went around and surprise inspected all the house, (MOM DON'T WORRY OURS WAS CLEAN.) and took pictures! and then in the next MLC showed the worst pictures... haha so president emailed us and said that he had a private picture group on the new facebook for our mission, and he said something like "so i have this private facebook group for the pictures of all your apt's. I'd hate to see what would happen if this group went public and all your family and friends saw how you were living....... hopefully the apt's get a lot better in shape." HAHAHA i was laughing so hard, oh my gosh. he's so funny. but he's dead serious about it!

okay ANYWAY.

i'm really going now!

don't send any mail till i know my address! or just send it to the mission home address!

LOVE YOU ALL SO DANG MUCH.

LOVE HERMANA JESSY RUSSELLLLLLL!!!!

Transfers, saying gooodddbyyyeeeee TO EVERYONE! there are a bunch more but i don't wanna send them all... 

I LOVE THESE PEOPLE! the big family are the Morenos :) LOVE THEM. and uhhhh a bunch more, i don't remember what i connected now...