Email from Monday, April 20, 2015
Faaaamily and friends,
How
are you all doing? Things are fabulous here! This week was great. I
have a home! Well...sort of. I´m living in a super nice apartment in the
center of Tarija but it is so far from our area that the assistants
said we can only live here for a month until we find a house in our area
so we´re still just praying for that. But I decided I´m never going to
move again after my mission and I also never want to live with a boy
ever after I saw the house of the zone leaders and almost threw up. So
Mom and Dad, I know you miss me right now but don´t worry, I will never
leave you again. :)
This week we had our zone conference
with President Willard and I had to watch another one of my companions
go up and give her final testimony (it doesn´t get easier by the way)
and I had to speak again (this makes 3/5 where I had to speak) and then
we also had stake conference with the presence of Elder Balderrama and
he´s now my second favorite Area Seventy (we all know the Bassett
family is #1 en mi corazón) and I just had a ton of learning
opportunities this week.
One thing that President Willard
said that hit me so hard was that we are often like birds who go to
school to learn to fly and then walk home. I think it hit me hard
because the guilty taketh the truth to be hard. How many goals do we all
set during general conference or big spiritual events and then we go on
doing the exact same things and we don´t ever progress or apply what we
learn? Okay maybe the rest of you are perfect and it´s just me but I´m
super guilty of this and any one who knows me knows how much I love
lists and goals and how much I lack diligence. But I´m working on it,
little by little!
#justBoliviathings
- this
week involved a lot of bug incidents, like a butterfly attacking us in
the night, mosquito bites on my face, killing a bug on my face and
another on my shirt and it got blood all over my white shirt
- at
stake conference, we decided to move seats to sit next to an old man
who was all alone and when we sat down, he got right up and moved seats
so that he could be alone, (not everyone loves the missionaries :))
I
read "It Isn´t A Sin To Be Weak" in the April 2015 Liahona this week
along with "The Gift of Grace" by President Uchtdorf from this past
conference and oh my goodness, I am forever changed. I always feel like
such a sinner when I fall short but in reality, I´m just weak. It was so
humbling to read that and it gave me so much help that I needed. I´m
just weak and I need the grace of God to do things beyond my mortal
capacity. And it´s possible because He loves me. He doesn´t want us to
repent and go back to who we were, He wants me to become like Him and
CHANGE and IMPROVE.So I´m working on being more patient with myself and
others and learning to rely on the merits of Christ. I´m so glad that
I´m here as a servant of God to proclaim His love and His gospel. The
greatest manifestation of His love is the atoning sacrifice of His son
and I get to share that every single day here. I LOVE IT!
Thanks for all the love and support. I love you guys so much!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Gauger
P-day hot dogs
The view from my new house window
Tiny doors at adobe houses
A snapshot of my area and proof that I´m serving
in the most beautiful mission. :)
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