So I just had a panic attack and
thought I had five minutes left, but just realized that I reeally have
30! haha So sorry for the super rushed replies to your emails. haha I
love running to buy fruit from the market each monday morning! and then I
run back with it all in both arms. its a great work out jared and
dallin, yall should run to HEB for mom before seminary, and you will
save gas too!
It was SUCH a great week! Seriously! I say that every week, but this week really was. Here is why:
First
off, we laughed lots. The first reason was because I had a dream that I
looked at our cellphone, and the background was changed to a picture of
Grandma Garlick with another grandma, and they had on extra large fake
noses! That sure made me wake up laughing. The other was that we thought
the power went out in our room since the light didnt turn on where the
door is, and our house is super long and dark. So i had to run in
screaming until the kitchen to turn the light on. It was super funny. We
laughed so hard. Our neighbor thinks we are crazy I think. But then we
sing hymns and its all good again. :)
This week we got to teach seminary three times!! It
was so great. I loved it. We were able to tie in the missionary lessons
into these chapters in the book of mormon. It was incredible, as we were
teaching, memories were flooding back from everything I learned in
seminary. Im so thankful for all my teachers and all they taught me. I
dont know how many times i said, when I was in seminary, my teacher
taught me... or something like that. I know those years in young womens
is such important preparation time for life. So everyone go to seminary!
Its the best! Maybe I will be a teacher one day. That would be really
fun.
I had the opporuntity to serve with Hna Cisneros
this week! She and Hna Garner traveled from Tumbes to be with us! So we
were all four together, except for when we went out to teach. Hna
Cineros is from ecuador and so sincere and selfless. The members that
visited with us felt so loved, she asked ALL about them and was such a
great example to me of forgetting yourself. All of our appointments
might have fallen through, but we were able to be led to two other
families who want to receive our message! It was incredible this day,
because hna Villena and I decided to fast. Fasting really works. I felt
an added strenght, power, help, and guide to teach, talk, and remember
all I needed too. Hna Villena told me the same happened with her.
Fasting and prayer are like a piano, you have the white keys and teh
black ones. With just the white keys or prayer, you can make some
beautiful music, and see blessings, but with the black keys, or fasting,
you can see miracles and an added level of beauty to the song.
There was a Funeral this week, and I of course
played the piano like I do for everything. I was thankful for this
opportunity. I love to share my testimony through music. I still
remember when nate helped me at byu prepare to play my piano solo my
last sunday in my ward there. You told me, dont play the notes, play
what they mean. Well thats what I always do now, and I love it. It may
just be the basic hymns in the hymn book, but I feel the spirit each
time as I play as I play what I know is true. In the funeral, surprise, a
dog ran in! Its like my fourth time with a dog in the chapel on my
mission. And it is one of the dogs here that doesnt have fur. Everyone
calls them feo, or ugly, because its true. They are called viringos. And
I was talking to a member afterwards, and they explained to me about
them. They are considered holy! They suck away any sickness, or sadness,
or problem that we have, and take that upon them themselves. Wow, when I
heard that I just was in aw. Thats why elderly people have them, and
why they let it enter in there. In a way, they are like Jesus Christ. He
took upon himself every sickness, problem, and sin that we have had or
will have. Im so thankful for the atonement. And Im just a little more
thankful for these dogs now. Look what understanding does!
Sundays are always the best. playing
prelude the kids come up and want to play too. This week instead of
wispering to them to go sit down, I took their fingers one by one and
play the hymn with the right hand and do the left hand jared taught me
that works with any hymn. :) they love it! great news at church too, we
got a mission leader en la rama talara altar! Gustavo! woohoo! We are
excited to get working with him.
Then comes the miracle! zuly was walking down the
street, and stopped us, with all her laundry falling out of her arms.
She said she listened to all the lessons from the sisters in talara
baja, and is reading in 2 nefi 20, and went to church lots of times, and
wants to be baptized!! the reference never got passed after she moved,
but Heavenly Father made sure we were in teh exact right spot at the
exact right time to be able to meet her!! she has 6 kids and is
separated from her husband. God really is a god of miracles!
The atonement carries me every day, it carries all
of us! I am so thankful for Christ, and for the sacred responsibility
heavenly father has entrusted with me-preaching the restored gospel of
jesus christ. He has trusted all of us with something so precious, the
truth! And he has done that because he knows that we will share it. So
lets just do it. It doesnt matter how simple the effort is, each day we
can shine the light of the truth to all! So go for it! and we will stick
it.
Ready for another great week! last one of the
transfer, and last one with hna Villena before she goes home! Next week
Ill be writing with my new companion! so crazy. Ready for the best week
of our lives.:)
Los amo muchooo
Hermana Garlick
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