reach for the stars

just another week in the neighborhood...

the heat is coming back, it had cooled off for a while, ok not really but it wasnt as crazy hot for a while but its makin a comeback for feb. and another fun addition to our weekends, there is something called carnaval, down here in south america, they get all crazy dressed up and dance all night, here it will be going on everyweekend untill the end of feb. the best part is it happend on our street. woohoo. every saturday and sunday they close down the street and make poeple pay to get in, then at 10 -3 they party and dance, hahha its not so bad, it would be but we live behind another house so the music isnt as loud as it could be. but it makes for interesting nights.  i am also the official scorpion killer, weve stopped trapping them, the excitement is gone from that. and now we just kill them, but no one else will do it. good times.

this week was good.  i was feeling like i needed to  be doing more, like i was slacking but i didnt know in what way, then thursday for our dictrict meeting,  my zone leader talked about raising the bar, ive heard it before but this time it clicked. he  read a talk wheat applied to it the high jump, i didnt do high jump but i did do pole vault, (ok really i tried, but ya, you get it) but he explained that if we only practice jumping the minimum thats all we´ll ever get, and even then sometimes we miss it, but if we want to progress we have to raise the bar. we have to raise out sight, i wont get higher untill i start jumping for higher. untill i start pushing myslef. we hve our goals as missionaries and we can usually complete them, but they want us to push for excelent and not just stop for whats good,  it made me think of john bytheways talk of being extraordinary, the difference between the ordinary and extrodinary is the extra.  they are things i already knew but wasnt applying and it clicked that thats what im missing right now.this is the work of my Savior and He has people here for us to find but it wont happen untill i  " ponga se las pilas"  rough translation of putting in my batteries. so we are raising the bar and aiming higher, and maybe we will miss untill we learn how to get there, but at least we will be getting higher then we would be just aiming for the mediocre. our Father askes for the best, so that is what we need to become.

  iv ealso been reading " our heritage" about the begining of the church, i love it, it helps keep me humble, ok im not but im trying to be, about our conditions, when its hot and we are tired i try to think of the pioneers, man they had it rough, but they were being prepred to be the Lord's Zion and they had to learn obediance, and they had to suffer alot to learn it, so when i have a bad day i just pray that im learning to be a better person and remember that its ok, that my Father has a plan for me and it will all work out, as long as i do what i need to.

 i love this gospel, i wish i could share it like i feel and truely explain what i undersand but i can, not even in english, but i know its true and i love the plan our Father has made for us.

 

thank you for your love and prayers.

 con amor, hermana hanson