Alright, I´m going to try to
keep this short because I actually have a lot of email and birthday responses
to reply to, and I´m bragging about this because I truly am grateful that
people haven´t forgotten about me :) so blessed!!!!
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| Happy Birthday to Me!! |
So basically we started off our birthday festivities real
well with being OVERFED from Sunday till Tuesday, I have not eaten so much food
in my life. P-day was its normal problem and I was justifying just about
everything since I had just one more day to be an irresponsible teenager, which
meant: eating half a liter of multi flavored ice cream...unassisted. And then
familia Balbuena were just the most amazing people ever and Hna B made homemade
ravioli SOOOOOO GOOOOODDDD and her peach cake SOOOOOO FREAKKINGGG GOOOD and
then after lunch she gave us the leftovers to take home...he he he so what
ended up happening was Hna Simmons and I hard core repenting for over eating
and breaking the Palabra de Sabiduria. This repentance process took in the form
of cancelling all of our member lunches and us getting permission to go on
the...Eat Your Heart Out Diet. For diet novices it goes a little like this:
Day1 - frutas
Day2 - verduras
Day3 - frutas y verduras
Day4 - 8 bananas y 8 vasos de leche
Day5 - pollo y 6 tomates
Day5 - pollo y 6 tomates
Day6 - pollo y verduras
Day7 - sopa de milagros
Anywhoo we totally did it...until
this morning when Hna felt like she was going to pass out before exercises and
I was just sad, so I ate some dried fruit. But the fact that our form of
"craving" was in oatmeal and dried fruit instead of ice cream and
cookies, I would say is a sign of full repentance. But basically the diet is
doable and totally works, but highly unadvisable for the mission field. Ha
worst week ever!!!! Actually not really, now I feel awesome, but in the moment
it was definitely a form of slow torture...
We had interviews with
President on Friday, which was amazing because he is just so full of wisdom.
And while waiting we were talking to Hna LaPierre and were on the subject of
pranking. The Elders were confessing all of their juvenile delinquencies and
Hna LaPierre was talking about how she short sheets their bed every once in a
while to keep President on his toes hahaha they are adorable.
Read two super capo articles in the Liahona this week the
first one was about the blessing of journal writing:
-written family record
-clearer, richer memory of the past
-practical method for setting goals
-therapeutic means of solving emotional, social, and
spiritual issues (personal favorite)
-improved writing skills
-many righteous desires will be fulfilled
and the second is called,
"Our Divine Heritage" which talked a lot about discovering who we are
and our true potential. It is so crazy to think that Heavenly Father has a plan
for EACHAND EVERY ONE OF US!!!! Sometimes when I think of the billions of children
on the earth or even the thousands of children in his army serving missions
right now, I can´t help but think how insignificant I must be. BUT, that's so
not true, because God loves ALL OF US and answers ALL OF OUR PRAYERS. I know
this is true and the more I learn about him and teach these people about the
true nature of God, the Spirit is truly undeniable.
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| Basics in opening a can with a knife & pan |
Well...that's about all for this week. Oh wait FUN FACT: did
you know you can open a can with a knife and a frying pan?? and also I
ate something really nasty the other night called, REVIRO. Its just fried flour
and then they put a fried egg on top (which actually helped) and then they put
SQUID on the side....what??? that is not food...
Speaking of food, Hna and I had
to make a new rule that we couldn't talk about food from home. This was greatly
needed after our 20 minute discussion of the different types of Krispy Kreme
donuts...I definitely felt some tears coming on. I think I´ve gotten to that
point where I miss the things of America more than the people. EXEPT YOU MOM,
DAD, and GEORGIE!!!!!!! haha just kidding I really do miss everyone! Thanks
again for all of the birthday love!
20 is going to be my best year yet.
20 is going to be my best year yet.
les qiero mucho!!!!!
Chauuu
Hermana Cannon
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