Speaking about talking on the phone, on Mother's Day we`ll be able to Skype!!! The only problem is I don`t remember my Skype name and email so I`ll have to use a new account. Soooo I`ll need your Skype information so I can add you as a friend and be able to Skype with you! I`m really excited for that :D I copied that quote that you sent me in my notebook. I've learned to always have a pencil and paper ready when I check my email. You always have something inspiring to say!
I copied down:
"Elder D. Todd Christofferson explained what he learned from a personal trial: 'Though I suffered then, as I look back now, I am grateful that there was not a quick solution to my problem. The fact that I was forced to turn to God for help almost daily over an extended period of years taught me truly how to pray and get answers to prayer and taught me in a very practical way to have faith in God. I came to know my Savior and my Heavenly Father in a way and to a degree that might not have happened otherwise or that might have taken me much longer to achieve. … I learned to trust in the Lord with all my heart. I learned to walk with Him day by day.'" [From Elder Neil L. Andersen's October 2012 General Conference talk, "Trial of Your Faith."]
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"I also think that sometimes trials prepare us to receive or help us to recognize some of the greatest blessings of life. They humble us, give us empathy, teach us things about ourselves, allow others to serve us, allow us to serve others, and give us blessings or opportunities we might not have had otherwise. Having an eternal perspective makes trials more bearable. Trials can be seen as blessings."
and then I thought it was funny that you said, "Having said all this, I hope you are not experiencing heavy trials right now.¨
Soooo I haven`t been experiencing any terrible awful trials buttttt story time!! So we've been trying to contact a lot...like a lot a lot and the other day we talked to this man on the bus. Well Hermana Molina talked to him more than I did. She was sitting closer to him and so it was much much easier for them to communicate. Still, he couldn't hear very well, or really at all,and so she wrote down the church`s address and what time church would be on a pamphlet and then gave it to him.
So he showed up to church yesterday!! The only problem is he can`t really hear, like hardly at all. So he couldn't hear the entire church service. So we set up an appointment with him to meet with him later that day. Hermana Molina got a very vague address...he said that he lived by a certain store and told us his house was green, pink, and yellow. So we knew where the store was and started walking around there. Miraculously we walked past his house and he`d been waiting for us and he came out and called us over to him.
So we tried to have a lesson with him...I say tried because he really couldn't hear us and he talks so quiet and even Hermana Molina couldn't understand him and she speaks Spanish! We tried writing on a notebook so that he could read what we were trying to say buttt he can`t read very well either.
So our trial is we have been given this man from God, he came to church and we were miraculously able to get to his house, but we have no idea how we can teach him because he can`t hear us, he can`t read very well, and we can`t understand him when he talks.... I think that we really have to be able to trust in the Lord on this one.
So another story. Yesterday night it was really dark. There`s this road that we have to take to get to our house. Part of the road is really obscure, dark, and potentially dangerous. So we've walked back to the house on that road before. But last night we felt realllly nervous about walking there. We decided that we wouldn't walk but we had no idea how we would get home because taxi`s don`t usually pass by on that road at night and we don`t really have money left (we get more money at the beginning of each month). But we decided that we were going to follow the Spirit. Just then a taxi, which we called the taxi sent from heaven, came by. As we drove past the dark area there was a man there. When we got to our road the taxi driver told us it was no charge and we were able to walk the rest of the way to our house. I`m so glad that we listened to the Spirit instead of finding out why we were told not to walk on that road.
So last Monday after I had emailed you guys I had a little incident with a pizza. We cooked pizza at the church for Pday and I was trying to hold one of the pizzas up for a picture. So it slipped out and the sauce got all over my legs. It was hot out of the oven. I was burnt pretty bad. All I thought was "water!" and I ran to the bathroom. The other hermanas ran in after me. My companion started putting water on my legs but the water was warm (there isn't any hot or cold water just lukewarm) so they got some water from the drinking fountain in a little cup and used that to help me. So this week I had a huge blister on one of my knees and a little one on my foot and I have red splotches on my legs. Thankfully it hasn't been painful since the first day. I took a picture of the nasty blister...which I later popped so that I would be able to sleep on my stomach.
So I have five minutes left and four emails. haha.
Love you!!!
Hermana Koehler
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