From: Saryn Moline <saryn.moline@myldsmail.net>
Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:32 PM
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To: Lauralea Moline <lauralea.m@gmail.com>, Timothy Moline <timmoline@gmail.com>
And another one bites the dust!!! What is lifeee!! This week went by sooo quick for me!
This is Week 4 but technically I have been here for 3 weeks from yesterday. Life here is like a dream!! They are not kidding when the days go by slow but the weeks go by like seconds. This past week was so full!!
I only have 2 and a half more weeks till i am out in Alabama! It's weird to think there is more to mission life than being in the CCM even though we talk about it allll the time.
First things first... In Mexico they have like A MILLION mesquitos. I am literally getting eaten alive every day of my life. We sleep with all the windows and doors shut, but somehow there are always mosquitos in our casa. I wake up with bites all over my arms and hands even on my fingers, but está bien. I just keep thinking to myself, things could be way worse, there could be giant moth things the size of birds just flying around all the time. OH WAIT MEXICO HAS THOSE TOO. I kid you not! Here in Mexico things are a bit different. Their moths are not little and don't bother you. They are like the size of a small bird. I honestly have never looked at one close enough to have known it was a giant moth because I just scream for my life and run away. But that is what i have been told they are. When iI first saw one I thought it was a legit bat. One actually got into the Auditorum where we have our Special Devotionals and was flying up and down the isles. Scariest thing of my lifeeeeee.
Also once a week here in Mexico it smells like dead fish everywhere. I am not sure why but its an awful smell that is only on Tuesdays. So weird hahaha
One thing I do love about Mexico is the beauty.. It is so pretty here!! And the weather is always top notch which i did not expect. Almost every evening around 6pm it starts raining and the smell of rain is just a beautiful thing. Big huge drops just like Texas. I love it!
Okay now onto the funniest thing of the week. This week we are continuing to teach our ¨¨investigator¨ Mario. Who is really our Teacher hermano Hernandez. This past Monday, Hermana Benioni and I were teaching him about baptism and the importance of it! The last lesson we had we invited him to be baptized and he said yes so we thought we would explain a bit more on baptism. Towards the end of our lesson I was going to share a wonderful scripture about baptism in the book of mormon. Alma 7:14-15 . it is one of my favorite scriptures on baptism. I look it up in my español scriptures (which everyone was given at the beginning of the CCM) and had him read it. At the end of him reading it he had a big smile on his face, and I thought ¨He totally gets it!!!!! He gets it!!¨ I was so excited.
After our lesson was over Hermano Hernandez comes into our classroom and asked me what the scripture was that I shared with him..I explained the reference, and He said. ¨Hermana, that was not the scripture you shared with me.¨ as he is trying not to burst out laughing. Sooooo apparently I wasn't paying attention when he was reading the scripture because I had him read Alma 14:14 which is a scripture about the burning of saints in the fire and brimstone or something....Hahaha it was soooooo funny and I was so embarrassed, but I am so grateful he is my teacher and not an actual investigato!!!!! está bien!!
The CCM is so wonderful though. So many resources and so much learning is going on here. The teachers are so nice here and so helpful and inspired. One of my favorite things of the week is Sundays, On Sundays we have a special devotional, as well as on Tuesdays. These devotionals are always so spiritually uplifting and wonderful. This past Sunday Devotional we watched a talk given by Elder Richard G. Scott at the Provo MTC a few years ago. It was on Communication with our Heavenly Father. But what I got out of it was the faith we need to have in our Heavenly Father. To ask in faith means to ask in confidence. It made me think of Nephi in the Book of Mormon, How he expressed faith and refused to be discouraged. He recieved guidance and power because he had confidence in God. He did not wait passively, he did not murmur, he acted.
During my studies I have been studying about exceeding Faith. I have read Ether chapter 12, 3 times this week. It is SO GOOD. Every time I read it I feel the spirit. I would mark every single verse. It is so powerful. After reading in Ether I realized that there is so much more that I can give to my Heavenly Father. There is so much more I can submit unto Him, so much more I can give. I want to give Him my whole self and all that is in me. I want to have exceeding faith in Him always.
I have learned so much here but one thing I know to be true is that in order to receive blessings and what we desire from the Lord, we much be exactly obedient to His word. We cannot pick and choose what commandments we want to obey or what apostle we want to follow. This is His gospel and we must obey it to its fullest.
I love what Dad said in his email to me ¨¨When we don’t allow humility and gratitude in our hearts, or reflection - we have difficulty seeing the Lords hand in our lives¨¨ this is so true.
I know this gospel is true, I know my Savior lives. It is easy to be here and feel the spirit and have such a strong desire to do our best, but i also know that my mission does not end when I get home. This is a time for Him to mold me and help me the best person i can be, not just the best missionary I can be.
I love you all!!! I am so gratefull to have such an amazing family and support system at home. I love you soo much and know that I am blessed beyond what I deserve.
Sure love ya!! Molines rock!! and Missionaries rule!!
love,
Hermana syringe moline
1. Elder McLane and I!! he has the same gym time as us and its so fun to see him all around here!
2. We pass this little guy everyday to go to class.
3. The city at night!
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5.Hermana Price in the middle. she left last week from our zone to go to Las Vegas West. One of the sweetest girls i have ever met! cutest southern accent from Tennessee
6.All the missionaries in our district going to Alablama. me, Hermana Benioni, Elder Causey, and Elder Perrault. Some pretty solid elders
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8.This morning we went on a walk around the CCM! So beautiful
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