Un misionero con una rana muerta

Day: one of them I'm not really sure

Pushup Count: 310

Muy buenos días a todos  I hope y'all are doing well wherever you are. I officially journaled one day this week, so we'll see how much I remember 

- We started off the week with a pretty brutal bashing, we got tricked pretty good and then we couldn't escape for about 45 minutes. Not fun. But we said a good prayer afterwards and immediately felt better, so it ended up being a cool experience

- Our friend had to cancel a lesson because he had to take a baby owl to the zoo (true story I promise)

- Someone gave a whole bag of chiles de árbol and now we have to figure out what to do with them

- Listened to an old mexican dude rant about political issues for a good while (no fun as a missionary who's not allowed to discuss that )

- Went on exchanges with Elder Espadin and struggled through Spanish work by myself  usually I don't have many problems but holy cow that day was tough haha

- We had stake conference yesterday and decided to watch it in Spanish. Unfortunately the translator was less than perfect  and I didn't end up getting much out of it

- Elder Winkler beat me at Magic... my losing streak continues

- Last night we did a bunch of cleaning :)

- I went on a 30 minute run and it was easy! First time it hasn't felt long in a very long time 

- Remember how our friend had the cancel that lesson cause of the owl? Well turns out he didn't end up taking it to the zoo like he was supposed to. We had a lesson with a different friend yesterday, who told us that HE found the owl in a box at the park  so then he had to call animal control and they ended up taking care of it

- We also found a dead frog 

Sorry for the short email, I promise I'll be better about journaling next week so that I actually remember anything interesting that happens .

Spiritual Thought:

Mosiah 7:33 says, "But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage."

Okay, a lot to unpack here. The basic message here is that if we trust in God he will deliver us. But when we look closer we realize that God requires a little bit of effort on our end in order to help us. We can't expect Him to just save us whenever things get tough. We have to have faith, and we have to serve him. But remember the little part at the end, "according to his own will and pleasure". Sometimes we have faith and we're working hard, but tough things still hit us. It's at these times that we have to realize that we have to just tough it out and figure out what God wants us to learn.

Anyway, cool scripture I read this week, let me know if you have any thoughts :)

Mucho amor, 

Élder Page

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just the dead frog