This Pday
morning, I washed about 50 articles of clothing by hand, including my sheets
and towel. I'm exhausted. The little Honduran women that do this every day are
made of hierro (iron.) Then we made a mango-maracuya-lime smoothie for
breakfast and went to get our eyebrows waxed at our neighbors house haha
This week
was excellent. I studied Elder Holland's talk from this past conference about
the cost and the blessings of discipleship and finished Matthew and John in the
new testment. Elder Holland talks about how people want a cushy, comfortable
God, not a demanding one. And ironically enough, so many people paint Christ as
one! Christ, who taught us that if our eye offends us, we must pluck it out and
cast it in the fire and that anyone who even looks upon a woman to lust after her has already sinned in his
heart! Christ commands us to leave our nets and take up our cross.
23 For we labor diligently to write, to
persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for weknow
that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.
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I love what Brad Wilcox says
about this scripture!
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o We had a really special lesson yesterday with a man we found
named Eric. We ran into 3 really rebelious teens from the ward in the street
and they surprised us by saying that they wanted to come to our next lesson to
teach with us. Turns out that Eric talked about how he was in a gang and did
drugs and stuff and it was exactly what these kids needed to hear. They were
able to share their testimonies and this man, Eric, accepted the baptismal
challenge for the 16 of August. Tender mercies.
o Hey, I forgot to tell you guys this, but I had interviews
with the President a couple weeks ago. In the middle of our conversation, he
told me, ''I know this is going to surprise you, but I want to give you a
promotion... I want you to be a trainer.'' I sat there for a couple minutes
thinking, ''Doesn't he know I'm already a training leader? There isn't a
promotion available!'' And then it hit me: he wants me to train a new missionary
again. I started to cry!! Because my training experience was the Gethsemane of
my mission--really hard. But he assured me that he's choosing the strongest
missionaries to receive the new ones and that this is a huge compliment. I love
my President. So I don't know what will happen next wednesday in transfers.
I'll let you know!
o Please pray for Eric, Julissa, Eduardo Rivera, Eduardo
Romero, Onida, Karen, Sofia, Angela, Melba, Paola, all the people of
Graneros.
o I love you all!
o F.F.F.,
· Hermana Flynn
P.s. we found a turtle in the road
and brought it in as a pet.
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