week 4

(Coree's taken over blog management duties, heads up...)

So Mexico. It's still an adventure. I can't believe I'm almost down to the last week here!!! LOCO! But I still love it and am trying to make the best of every minute I have. That being said, here are some of the Accomplishments of The Week:

- Districto Prancercising. Yes. Enserio. It occurred. Now, you may be asking, "Hermana LaBanc! How did you do it?!" The answer. I have no idea. But ALL of the Elders participated! 

District prancersizing!

- Dominating at volleyball. I must say. If business, teaching, becoming a vagabond, or the president 'fall through, professional volleyball player is in my future. Consider it official.

- Consuming copious amounts of tienda icecream. I regret nothing.

- Being assigned last minute to teach a lesson in Districto Sunday School and  finding a way to relate Alma 2 to setting goals on our missions. How do I do it? No se. (I do not know)

- Dancing in the rain with Hermana Phipps. It pours here randomly, so when it was on our P day, we made an event of it :}

- Waking up at 5:30am with Hermana Taylor to go running everyday!

- Cutting Hermana Blankinships bangs. Like the boss that I am

Anyways. The weeks are going so fast! But I love it here. We're learning so much from our teachers, especially the Spirit. I can't believe how present it is here in almost everything we do! And during lessons, it's incredible. You can literally be sitting with an investigator"and have no idea what to say next and just as if someone was sitting behind you, you can hear exactly what you need to say next to help your investigator!

ice cream.  lots and lots of ice cream.

Or, earlier this week I was at one of the devotionals by Elder Anderson of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles and I had this immediate prompting that I needed to share Alma 5 with one of our investigator, so I wrote it on my hand, and not even 10 mins later, Elder Anderson quoted like 5 versus from Alma 5! So many little promptings like that! It's amazing how much Heavenly Father is helping His missionaries, particularly though the Spirit in order to bring His children closer to Him. I love this work. Every minute of it is worth it. Even when it's hard and stressful and discouraging, the proceeding moments after those feelings are always accompanied by the love of God surrounding you and baring you up, telling you that you can do all the things which He has commanded and He will never make you do it alone. That's also one of the greatest feelings. You are, literally, never alone. I thought that would drive me crazy, but not for a moment. It's the greatest comfort, and a testimony to me that we were never meant to do this whole life thing by ourselves. Thank goodness!!

cutting Hermana Blankinship's bangs

So yeah. So good. I love it. Also!! Reading the scriptures here is so powerful! So many things are making sense and I'm making connections I've never made before and receive so much personal revelation about the things I need to know for our lessons and just for things I, personally needed to hear. New favorite Book of Mormon story, The record of Zeniff!! How he was a boss,but had a rotten kid, King Noah, who ruined everything Zeniff established by making it wicked, then Abinadi teaching King Noah and only Alma believing, then Abinadi being killed and Alma having to flee with those that believed what he taught, then the Lamanites coming to destroy the kingdom (as the wicked priests escape) but King Noahs awesome son Limhi saving the day be talking them out of it (although they got put in bondage instead), but then Alma and his people returning to the kingdom, baptizing Limhi (the son of the man who tried to kill him!!) and bring the entire city out of bondage and restoring righteousness!!! HOW IS THIS NOT A TV SERIES!! This is like the biblical version of Downton Abbey!!!

Yep. That's my rant for the week :}