Hey ya´ll!
This week has been a great week. Been working hard. Meetin a lot of people. On Sunday there was a devotional at the church and we went and it was a stake devotional. So since I am in the same stake as my first area I was able to see members from Tamboril!! I was awesome! They were so excited and happy to see me and talk to me. They had heard about the accident and were concerned for me so it was nice to tell them that I was ok and ready to work.
We were visiting with a family, they are members and part of them are less active. And afterwards we were just talking and the mom was all oh your the missionary who got hit??!! All really excited and then the son was all yeah you´re the famous missionary. I was all no I am not because that is weird. It was funny.
The Spanish is coming back and I am getting to teach things more often. It is hard not doing something everyday and going back to doing it everyday. I am still learning a lot!! But I am learning and progressing. It has only been one week. Which is really stramge to think about. But awesome!!
My companion is going to be going home soon so when I say she is dying or going to die that is what I mean. I always remind her and then she does GRACIAS HERMANA BUCHANAN PARA RECUEDARME!!!! It is really funny. She teases me though when I talk softly. That is what we are working on is talking like a Dominican. With Gusto! Not my forte but I am working on it.
The people in this ward are awesome!! They love to help us and fed us. I have missed the Dominican food. I have had Mangu, and la bandera, plantanos fritos. It has been awesome.
I was reading in one of my books and found this quote that really hit me really hard. It is...., ” Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side-signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect; signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn't love you; signs, if you will, that problems pass and happiness can be ours.” ― Jeffrey R. Holland
It hit me because we all have experienced painful moments in our lives. Some with more pain thatn other and some with very little (physical or emotional), but it is still pain all the same. But the fact that in our pain we are never alone. Sure the person stilling next to us may not be able to feel or understand completely but there is always someone by your side who knows EXACTLY how you feel. All of it, every last bit of pain. He will help us through it if we confide in Him. If we do all we can so we can receive the blessings that are ours if we do those things he requires of us.
I love you all and hope that life is good for all of you!!!
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Todo Bien!!!
Hermana Buchanan
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