Hola familia!
Happy Thanksgiving this week!
This week was also the last week of transfers. We'll find out tomorrow what is going to happen. I really hope that I get to stay in La Cienega ward. I can't believe its the last week of another transfer come and gone! It has been so good, I've learned so much and probably changed more in this transfer than in my whole mission so far. I have loved learning from my companion Sister Garza and her amazing example of true Christlike love for everyone. I feel like she has helped me to come out of my shell and be myself, and I feel a lot happier and am enjoying every day of my mission. I love it!
Considering this week is Thanksgiving, I wanted to write a little bit about the things in my life that I'm grateful for. Well, just a few of them:
I am so grateful for my Savior, that has always been beside me and loved me and understood me, and is helping me to change and grow into what he sees that I can be. I'm grateful to be a missionary and for all of the miraculous experiences I've had that have changed my life for forever, and the people that will always be close to my heart. I'm grateful for my family; my wonderful parents, my loving and supportive grandparents, my smart, crazy awesome siblings, and just everyone that has touched my life and been there for me. I feel like if I had time I could fill pages of all of the things that I've learned that I'm grateful for, like knowing that I will be with my family for all of eternity. I'm grateful for never having had to live on the street and dig through garbage cans just to survive, for having recieved a good education, for having felt what real love is and not getting so absorbed in the" happiness" that the world has to offer, for growing up knowing that God loves me, for everything beautiful in nature that busy city people miss out on, and just for the hope and faith that I have that God has a plan for me and is guiding my life. It is amazing how many people we meet that do not have any of these things, and it makes me think of how blessed I have been and how much I took it all for granted. I love you and am truly grateful for all of you!
This week I had a really neat experience with an inactive family from our ward. They went inactive when their daughter was murdered by her husband in front of their two year old little boy, and so now they are raising the little boy pretending like he is their own and hoping that he never finds out what happened. I decided to make pumpkin pie and bake it during our weekly planning session, and I felt like we really needed to take one of the pies to this family. They usually aren't home and are in a remote corner of our area, but we decided to go visit them. The Sister was there, and it ended up being a big miracle for her, because one of her baby grandsons is in the hospital right now so she hadn't had any time to clean the house and hadn't slept in days and just really needed help. We asked to help her clean her house, which she resisted because she was embarrassed, but finally I just asked her "Hermana, have you prayed for help?" She said "yes," so I replied, "Well, here we are! Let us help you. We cleaned her house for her and gave her the pie and she was so grateful. It was another testimony to me of how the spirit guides us, because she was only at home for that little bit of time and we could have completely missed her, but we were supposed to be there at that moment to help answer her prayers. I love the quote by elder Uchtdorf that says something like "Perhaps not so important as the answers we receive are the prayers that we help answer," or something along those lines.
I'm attaching some pictures of the beautiful Getty Villa museum in Malibu that we went to today for our P-day activity. It was so fun. Dad would have loved it. :)
Have a great week! Eat lots of turkey and pumpkin pie for me!
- Hermana Dansie
1. Me and Sister Garza
2. Us with Sisters Madison and Mortensen
3. The Getty!
4. Me and Medusa
5. Statue
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