Firstly, I apologize for not
having sent this message yesterday; we didn't end up having time to
write anything to anyone. But hey, it was a GREAT day! We visited
Malargüe as a zone, Malargüe being another distant city in my zone, a
bit like Alvear but prettier. It has wonderful snow-capped mountains in
the near distance, and is full of green inside the city. We even spent
the morning in labyrinths, which was my first experience in a real maze
that's not on paper. I loved it. I attached a lot of pictures.
Now,
a special message to Jacob: you have a Latina girlfriend here if you
want one. She heard that I have a brother seventeen years old and was
immediately interested, because she is also seventeen. She saw you in my
family picture and said you're "chiquito", which means "cute" in the
context, but is ironic considering your towering size. But yeah, her
name is Sheila, and she's newly baptized and has no boyfriend, so she's
free game. So, if you want to Google-Translate yourself a degree in
international relations, as we heard in General Conference [from Elder Gong], you can do
that. I'll send you her number and everything. Just so you know.
Would you please send me the music file of the "Evermore" (from "Beauty and the Beast") minus track that I bought on your Amazon account? I need it for an event next week. I'll sing it in a ward activity, in Spanish! I was lucky enough to find lyrics for it in Spanish, and I already have them memorized.
I
realized something really funny this week. I have been feeling very
pained by my imperfections and errors for a while (or, up until General
Conference I was), and I realized that I just completed my ninth month
in the mission. Guys, I've gotten to the end of the pregnancy, and those
were my birth pains. Or, I guess my pains at being born...? Because I
wasn't the one giving birth, and I don't think anyone was birthing me...
That metaphor is full of holes, but it conveys my point, that I feel
like I've been reborn in these past few days, and General Conference
helped so much with that. After nine months of learning to be a
missionary, I have finally been born into the field.
I
think my favorite talk in Conference was that of President Eyring, in
which he taught much about holiness, and how to develop it. It spoke
straight to my soul, and I drank in every word of it. I hardly even took
notes because I was so rapt that I didn't look away. But obviously, I
was also insanely inspired and excited by the announcement of the
Bicentennial Conference, and I was overjoyed to learn from Mom's email
to me that the change will be the acceptance of The Lord of the Rings as
canonical doctrine! That's amazing. I'm also joking. [Elder Uchtdorf's talk.] But honestly, I
have never, in any Conference, felt so incredibly excited, not even when
they announced the Temple in Mendoza (and I stopped breathing at that
one). I have just been screaming inside because of extreme excitement
combined with impatience. I will prepare myself for that Conference,
because I want so incredibly badly what the Lord has in store. I know
that if I prepare myself, it will be something grand.
Con muchísimo amor,
Elder Hill
Fotos (la mayoría de estas fotos son de los laberintos y de Conferencia General; voy a describir unas pocas):
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