Dear Ya'll,
Okay, so. I'm an aunt!!! Well, I already was an aunt. But now I'm
an aunt again! My beautiful sister Joslyn gave birth to another beautiful baby
girl yesterday ❤❤❤ I'm so happy for her!
This week a little lizard got into our house. He's chill. After
spending 15 minutes trying to shoo him out, we just accepted it and named him
Filip. And then later in the day we were just casually talking about Filip to
one of our neighbors. But we don't know to say lizard. So we described the
little guy to our neighbor and she told us the word was "culebra."
Okay cool. Filip the culebra. But then she kept going on about how dangerous he
was. And that we needed to get him out of the house immediatly. wow. okay, I
just thought it was a little lizard, but I'll trust you Ramona. She told us to
tell our landlady, Pina, so she could help take him out. So we go to Pina's
house, and there are a bunch of big dudes hanging out there. A little akwardly
we interupt and tell them we have a culebra in our house. Pina's mouth drops
and everyone begins freaking out. They all rush up to our apartment to kill
Filip. And as a let them in the door, I thought to myself ...."Either I
don't understand how dangerous a lizard is, or they're overreacting, ....or
culebra means something else...." So I grab my dictionary and found out
that lizard is lagartija. As I explain this to them, everyone begins laughing
their heads off. They see Filip scurry across the wall and laugh and laugh all
the way out the door and downstairs. Culebra means snake. A couple minutes
later, Pina returns with a bowl of Pity Soup. Because she pities us. But that's
okay, now we have soup! It was good.
I haven't seen Filip lately. Maybe he left too.
This week I've been so impressed by children. The children are the
best here. We're teaching a lot of families, and the children and youth are so
much more willing than the parents. For example, one mom is hesitant about
everything, but her 11 year old firmly bore her testimony that she knew what we
taught is true. And she said she was definitly going to church on sunday, no
matter what her mom did. Another young man we're teaching, age 13, went to
church yesterday without his family. Another adorable 11 year old girl loves to
go to church and hear our lessons. We taught her plan of salvation the other
day and after we bore our testimonies at the end of the lesson, she wanted to
bear hers. She told us "I know with all of my heart and all of my soul
that you are going to the Celestial Kingdom. I know that Heavenly Father is
proud of you! I know that what you teach me is true because I feel the
Spirit so strongly whenever you're here and it's like all of my troubles go
away and the moment you leave they all come back." This little girl is one
of my favorites, she could get baptized this week, but we want to keep working
with her family. They just need to be ye like the little children. Like Christ
taught. Suffer the little children to come unto me, for as such is the Kingdom
of God. I know this is true, the children are so humbley willing to learn,
faithfully trusting, and happily following. If you're at a trialing time in
your life, perhaps Heavenly Father is trying to teach you to be more humble,
more faithful, and more happy. Trust Him and His plan!
With snakes and sunshine,
Hermana Pollard☀
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