¡Hola Familia!
Guess what happened this
week?
Nothing at all that was
really significant...
Right now, Guatemala is
in the middle of their rainy season from May to October. The amount of rain
we´ve had this week could have solved the California drought. It's really nice
when it rains, because when you don’t feel like playing volleyball while taking
a shower, you can go into the gym, which has a wonderful tin roof. There is
nothing like the sound of rain beating down on a tin roof. It rained all day yesterday,
and the P-Day before that. The clouds hang really low in the sky, too, so when
lightning strikes, sometimes, it’s as loud as a gunshot. There is nothing more energizing
than hearing thunder up close. I love it here.
Scorpion, when was the
last time you had fried plantains? They’re a staple down here. I’m open to
basically any food, and they're not bad! I have a new favorite fruit, too.
They're called lychee and they look like tiny little dragon fruits. They're
really good.
CCM humor is really
really really really really really really really really stupid. The funniest
things at the CCM are the word "clean" and smacking things out of
people´s hands. Whenever we´re not studying, we´re back in Deacon´s Quorum...
I’ve been focusing my
study on the Atonement for the past week, and you know how in every picture of
Jesus, he´s always straight-faced? I don´t remember the last time I saw a
picture of Jesus smiling. Kind of random, but it was something I was thinking
about as I was studying this week. Christ may have lived a perfect life, but he
was still just as human as you or I. How else could he know the needs of the
people he worked with? He smiled with
them, laughed with them, cried with them, and did everything in his power
(which was a lot) to bless their lives. He was subject to the same pains, the
same trials, the same temptations, and the same sufrimientos (suffering) that
life has to offer. What made him perfect, what made him our Savior and Redeemer
was not that his perfection made him beyond the pains of the world; what made
Jesus our Savior was that his perfection made him constantly subject to the
tortures of sorrow; Jesus was the Son of God, but he was born into this world
in imperfection, that he would better know how to succor his people. I am so
grateful that he knows who I am, and that he knows exactly what my life is
like.
--
Elder Jeffrey Reed
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