mal, yep I have no idea where the balance
between bold and loving is. Its HARD. I tend to want to be bolder but
it scares the crap outta me because people get offended so easily, my
companion is sooooo loving and I am really learning that well, but I
need to find a way to be lovingly bold..... Also haha thats really
interesting about the haircuts haha here there are a MILLION
peluquerias..... like seriously there is a whole mall 5 min from my
apartment full of hair places.... and yeah I want to meet hermana leiva!
What stake and ward is she from!? I possibly know the missionaries in
her area!
Well this week has been an adventure, the Califon
(no clue how to spell it) keeps breaking so we have been showering in
ice cold water for 2 weeks (good thing its like 90 degrees outside and
not the dead of winter) and I´ve been a little sick all week, its funny
how a little sickness just DRAINS your energy, but its all good, we
worked hard and tried to work a lot with members this week!
So we are still preparing cleber for his baptism
(Dad he said he grew up in Porto Alegre and went to the military school
there!) things are going really well and I am constantly so surprised at
his faith. He lives in a little pieza (room) in the house of a lady
that is baptist, but she found out he is going to get baptized in the
LDS church and is going to kick him out of the house if he does... but
he continues forward and doesn´t let the mountain of struggles he has
get in his way, he is awesome!!
So funny story, we were teaching him the word of
wisdom and we said that it prohibits coffee and tea, he told us that it
doesn´t make sense why not Coke too because the caffeine is practically
the same as iced tea, so I told him that many people choose not to drink
coke either because of that so we talked about it for a while and
basically left it as his choice as far as Coke goes. The next day we
had an FHE with him and a family in the ward and the first thing he
showes me and my comp is that he bought juice instead of Coke when he
was at work in the morning haha but then the family brings out a tray
with 2 juices and 2 cokes, me and my comp take the juice without
thinking and then Hermano Suarez hands Cleber a coke. He was on the
other couch talking to hermana suarez and he turns around and gives me
the most priceless look I have ever seen! He had no Idea what to do!! I
just burst out laughing because just that morning he had decided not to
drink Coke and now he was in the house of a member that he had just met
and they gave him Coke! I turned to my comp and asked what we should do
(meanwhile cleber is staring at his coke in terror) and she just puts
her juice on the table hoping cleber will get the hint... he faked
taking a sip and put it down and later he asked for juice, but it was
soooo funny and soooo awesome to see that for him the Word of Wisdom
wasn´t "What specifically can´t I have?" but "How can I live this
council as very best as I can?" He decided that if coke is at all
similar then he didn´t want it, he is a cool guy, soooo excited for his
baptism this sunday!!
I also learned a HUGE lesson yesterday. We had a
lesson with a less active couple that are both returned missionaries and
have only been married for a few years. They pretty much had an
argument about their relationship for an hour in front of us. We just
sat and watched it all. Then we had a lesson with a recent convert and
his sweet wife that are working towards entering the temple, they have
been married for a few years too. It was CRAZY. The difference between
the two was TERRIFYING. I really care about each of the couples but I
realized how important it is to be careful who you marry and to put the
other person before yourself because one couple was doing that and one
couple was absolutely NOT. Agh I basically just wanted to bawl my eyes
out as I watched these two people have such a hard time in their
marriage. Something that should be so beautiful and loving was full of
sadness and blaming the other person. I just wanted to say thanks mom
and dad. I got back to my apartment and me and my comp just sat there
in shock and I cried. I realized how blessed I am to have such a good
example of what a marriage and a family should be. There are so many
people that just don´t have that kind of love here. It made me think,
what could prevent this couple from having so many problems? and the
answer was pretty much be as careful as you can in picking someone and
then once you are married stick with it, don´t be selfish, do what you
can to make the other person happy not yourself. This couple just
couldn´t see that if they would only stop worrying about themselves and
start trying to serve the other person their problems would be solved.
AGh it was sad sad sad sad sad. And I am so so glad that I have you
guys as parents to show me such a good example of what a marriage can
and should be. I want to have a marriage relationship like yours and I
am really greatful for the Lesson Heavenly Father taught me last night.
It was shocking.
Well.... gotta go now, but I love you all!
Hermana Kyrstin Millett
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