First, Thank You Sommer for the birthday package! It was sent to my old house and there was all kinds of craziness about how I had to send a copy of my ID and wait to receive a package slip, sign it, and send it back. Even then those poor Irmas who are in Mem Martins now had to argue with the mail guy to get him to break some kind of Portuguese law and give them my package to send to me. But, thanks so much! I'll get it in like two weeks; once they drop it off in Lisbon.
This week was really good! I turned 22! Weird. So freakin' weird. I'm getting old and becoming a grown up; kind of. Irma Palmer keeps me nice and young. We laugh too much. Seriously, I love my companion. She is amazing and I will be best friends with her forever!
We taught some really great lessons this week, but here's one that I really enjoyed. Carlos has been an investigator for a really long time and hasn't really progressed even though he prayed and received an answer that the Book of Mormon is true. This is because he is addicted to smoking, and also really really enjoys marijuana and coffee. Those are all no-goes.
So we've been working with him on stopping all of those habits but he still hadn't been taught about the law of chastity. Yay! So in order to make sure his addictive tendencies didn't also translate into a problem with pornography, we taught him the law of chastity. It went a lot better than expected. I actually felt really bad for him because he told us about how he's not dating anyone right now because his girlfriend of seven years broke up with him and started dating one of his best friends. Sad freaking day. You could just see the pain when he talked about it. so we testified that in order to avoid getting ourselves that hurt we can maintain healthier relationships and make better choices that have more to do with respect than with following the natural man.
We watched that video Together Forever that I think is horribly cheesy but, hey, what can you do? Turns out, he LOVED IT. Seriously. He was going on and on about how much he liked it. He told us he felt like that's what relationships are supposed to be like. Then we committed him to live the law of chastity and it was good. So we were about to leave and I was like. "Oh, wait, just one thing.. we're taking away this pornographic calendar. Because when you look at her you have no respect for her and you don't see her as a daughter of God even though she is." And he got up and took it off the wall himself and handed it to us! I was so proud of him! Then we had a good time ripping it up and putting it in the dumpster.
And so, to go along with the theme of the fact that we should all keep the commandments, especially the law of chastity, and word of wisdom, here's a fun story for you guys! Today was p-day and we needed to go shopping so we went to this mall in part of our area. We went to go get lunch in the mall after right, and so I go to this place and I get some pasta and the guy's like, "What do you want to drink?"
I say, "lemonade". Just lemonade. That's it. I said one word, "limonada" and then I go to my seat and I start eating and I get halfway through this lemonade and then all of the sudden the spirit is like, "pay attention, something's not right" So I smelled my lemonade. Don't worry, it was definitely alcoholic. I have NO IDEA how I didn't notice that for half the glass. I really couldn't even taste it, it was only when I smelled it that I recognized it. Craziness. So I have already repented for that accident and that I didn't just get water instead because Europe is sketchy like that. But there ya go, I turned 22 and I accidentally broke the word of wisdom this week! Yay! but the word of wisdom is true. Don't drink.
I have a strong testimony that it will make your life a lot happier. I'm still a good missionary. The church is true! I love you guys!! Go read 1 Nephi chapter 8. It's really rockin' my world this week.
Love you!
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