Fall Face Forward in the Mud

Buenos tardes! This week has been CRAZY!

I and my companion taught the district meeting this week on the Fe en Jesucristo y sus expiacion, or Faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement. It was a really good lesson. My companion Hermana J talked about faith, and I talked about the atonement. At the end I sang one of the songs I wrote call "The Rescue" which I have actually revised since being at the MTC. It was really scary without my guitar, but it was good, and you could feel the spirit. 

Who knew that that song and theme would be the theme for this week. I have been really dropped in the dirt and humbled. But I know Christ is always there for us to pick us back up, and the atonement really can help us conquer anything!

 I have been sick for most of the week with a bad cold, and the medicine I took for it during the day made me a little loopy. It got so bad that I ended up asking the elders in my district for a blessing. I am doing alright now.  

At the beginning of the week my companion and the other sisters in my district went to Boise. It was good because it gave me some time away from my companion. I spent most of the day with the elders. 

At one point I was with some other sisters in my zone and while they were changing after gym I just started singing like I tend to do all the time, and they were all like "woah who is singing?" and "wow if you lived with us we'd make you sing us to sleep every night. If you ever make an album we all want it" Ok so I am not crazy, I do actually sing well. I was beginning to wonder because my district always tells me not to sing, and quite honestly I rarely sing here compared to home.  

I started TRC this week which is were you teach a volunteer investigator. The first time SUCKED! But it got better from there. My investigator ended up telling me and my companion some really cool stuff about Mexican holidays. It was really neat, like Santa Semena ...I think that's how it's spelled. It means holy week. It's the week before Easter and it sounds crazy. He also told us about some really cool things they do during Christmas, and if I had more time I would write about them. 

This week was a total roller coaster. It actually made me cry in front of one of my teachers at one point, which is saying something, because I don't cry like that. Luckily only the elders were there. At the same time I have had a lot of growth and have taught some of my best lessons yet. My companion has also been a bit more chill lately.

PLEASE write!

Hermana Shingleton