Hola!! Que tal?!
I hope everybody's week has been as inspiring as mine has. I have changed, I have learned, and I have grown in my testimony so much this week. To give you an idea of how amazing it really actually was, Elder Holland spoke at devotional yesterday. Can you say, HOLY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE? Because I can. It was incredible. Really it was. I wish that you all could have been there to experience it. it was so intense and just exactly what I needed. Yesterday morning, I had a little bit of a reality check. It just hit me that, you know what, it's hard to teach people with intense problems when you don't know how to communicate with them. It's going to take time for me to learn Spanish and for the time being, I have to be okay with that and I have to make mistakes in order to learn from them and that's the whole point. It's hard to tell what's good when you don't know what's bad, right? Trust me, I've had some pretty low times here. It's been hard, this is the hardest thing that I have ever done. But it is the most right thing that I have ever done in my entire life. I mean that. My teachers are incredible. They know, most of the time, exactly what I need. Sometimes they just let me be because they know how seriously angry I am or how exhausted or emotional I am. But most of the time. They know just the right thing to say to make me laugh and realize that I'm not the only one who's ever felt that way. Elder Holland put it just right last night and it made me think, even though every missionary has felt everything that I am feeling, and will inevitably feel... Christ has suffered all. He was ridiculed, He was betrayed, He bled from every pore, He was whipped, He had a crown of thorns on His head as he carried His own cross on the way to His crucifixion, He had nails in His hands, wrists, and feet, and a spear in His side. So. When we feel like nobody could possibly feel the sorrow and the pain that we feel. Look to Christ. Christ suffered everything for us. And He did that for us because He loves us. I feel my Savior's love everyday. I hope that you all can feel that same love too. Get on your knees and pray. Pray for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the most amazing, yet unused, gift that God has ever given us. Use it! that's all that I'll say about that.
My district is so incredible. It's crazy how close we've all gotten over such a short amount of time... I'm going to miss them so much! Luckily all of the Hermanas in my district are going to the same mission as me so we'll see each other often enough! :) I love them all so much!!! AH! It's ridiculous. I can't imagine all of the people that I'll end up loving..... and then I'll just have to leave them, too!!! I don't like leaving people!! It's my least favorite.
I hope that everything is going well. I love every last one of you! Sorry my email is so short! My mom was taking up all of my email time ;) which I do not mind in the least. Love you momma!
Dad, I love you. write me twice a day. work out. grow that fro. I miss you, I love you, I miss you! Every day, Elder Toleafoa does something that reminds me of you, and I laugh and laugh because you are the funniest person in the whole entire world.
Mom, stay classy, stay beautiful. Don't kill anybody/thing. Keep calm and pray :) I love you.
Katie, my sweet Bubba Bean. I love your guts!!!!!!!!!!! Everything about you makes me so happy and I miss our party parties.... I'm so glad that you smile all the time :) I'm so glad that you are a happy girl :) You have always been my best friend. I miss you more than anything in the entire world. I need one of your hugs at least a million times a day. I love you, ya little turd!! :) you're beautiful. Be good! keep that plant of your's alive for me, and get a fish and name it Alexys so that you have to keep it alive. If you killed it I'd be super offended. I love you, I miss you, stay happy, and classy, and jazzy.
All of you, that I love. Remember who you are. Read your scriptures. Pray. Love everybody. Know that I really do love and think about every last one of you back home.
Talk at you later!! I love you, I love you, stay classy, I love you
Hermana Womack
