I can`t believe Christmas is here!! I have loved this Christmas
season. It has been one of the hardest times on my mission but I have
felt so close to the Savior. I will be calling at 6 o clock peru
time. I hope this isn't very inconvenient because I know you guys have
things going on but this was the best time. We will be skyping from
ipads and mac computers in air conditioning. So holler back!
Well I don`t have much to say this week. The work has been hard but I
have the best comp ever. Hermana Alailima is so great! She makes me
laugh and keeps me going on. We laugh a lot and we also see a lot of
little miracles. I have love watching her grow up. She speaks super
great now and teaches like a boss. She has a love for the people that
is just amazing and loves being a missionary. Although sometimes we
do say this line when a the tenth appointment falls through “well i`m
going to start walking back to the states…” But its only a joke. We
don`t really want to go home.
This week I got attacked my a thousand ants under my desk. I really
hate ants now. They always get me really good. I didn`t turn the
lights on and didn`t see them. I noticed the trash was fallen over so
when I went to pick it up I got a thousand hungry ants on my hand and
feet that bit me like crazy. I can`t believe a small ant can hurt
that much! But seriously I`m alright now. Also we had a guy come
and spray for bugs all over our house. So that will be really nice
and probably will be the best Christmas gift ever. Also the
landlord´s dog was found sleeping on my bed. He happens to have blood
sucking sand leeches all over him and so I serisously had to strip my
bed and now I get the heebie jeebies every time I look at it. Oh man
I love the jungle. ..
This week we visited a very special lady who told us we were wasting
our time and that the Church should pay us for going on missions and
that its stupid that we don`t gain anything blah. Blah blah. It
didn`t make us to happy especially because when we tried to explain
why we were here and why it wasn`t a waste of time she just talked
over us. We ended with our testimonies and left but it left us
talking and it left quite an impression on me. Mostly because I
don`t feel at all like that.. and I was dumbfounded that someone would
say that to us. I studied the next couple of days about sacrifice and
it helped me a lot. The church requires a lot of sacrifice. But I
read a talk that said at the end of it all we will say “Was that all
we really had to do for all of this?” Isn`t that wonderful? We are
sacrificing now for something so great and so beautiful that we won`t
even feel like we sacrificed enough. I found this line that I have
hung onto you all week that says “The blessings you receive are
better that you could ever give up” I love this. I love being a
missionary. It may be a sacrifice but I feel like I am getting so
much than I give or could ever give up.
I also studied about eternal families this week. I know that families
can be together forever. I am so grateful for our Savior that makes
this possible and for the Restoration of the Gospel. Without those
two things we would never ever be able to be eternal. I found a
scripture that I absolutely love in D&C 130:2 “And that same
sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only
it will be coupled with eternal Glory, which glory we do not now
enjoy.” I LOVE THIS! The same family that we have now will exist
forever. I am so grateful for you guys. I love you with all my heart
and think the world of each one of you! HAVE A GREAT WEEK and a very
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
LOVE, Hermana Russell
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