My sweet family! i love every single one of you, thank you for your letters and words of encouragement. thank you everyone who sent my dear elders!!! blake, chelsea, aunt kathy, brookie, matt, brittany and everyone else! they help so much! HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANNY! i love you so much.
So this week was another busy week here in the CCM. it is filled with so many emotions and i love every second of it! A typical day is waking up, breakfast, in the classroom till 12;45, then gym time, lunch, then MORE class hahah it is awesome tho. I have 2 teachers, one in the morning..Hermana Gomez and one in the afternoon Hermana Galvez. They are awesome and i love them. hmn. gomez doesnt not know a lick english hahha so thats a thing. but its awesome because we are forced to use our spanish! Hmn. galvez is from a more wealthy family and was able to get a good education, so she knows english! they are both so spritiual and they loved their missions so much! So they are very passionate about this work.
So usually here it rains everyday at 4pm, buuuut it hasnt rained in 5 days, which is weird. We are in a drought lol just kidding. it is as green as ever! There are 5 rooms in our casa. 2 rooms of american missionaries and 3 rooms with latinas! I LOVE the latinas, they come into our room and we sit on our beds at night and talk about everything we can with the language barrier haha. but they are all so funny and sassy. I am so excited to serve these people, they are amazing,
funny story...so apparently i am allergic to something!! they had they really weird beans, usually they are the standard beans, but these were different, They were really spicy and they were making my mouth burn so bad and i just though it was cause of how spicy it was. I was sitting with my district telling them a story and elder lossee was like, Hermana farrow there is soemthing going on with you neck. so i went to look in the mirror and i had a rash allllll on my neck and my chest!!! hahahah then i put 2 and 2 together. no wonder my tongue was completely numb and my throat was itchy hahah who would have thunk.
SOOO general conference?? SO AMAZING. I tried to soak up every word. It is such a blessing that we get to hear from the prophet and apostales of God! All the american missionaries watched it in the theater room thing, its really nice and has comfy seats..like a big movie theater really. So it was fun to be in a room with so many kids feeling the same way i do haha ANYWAY! Every talk was so amazing, but one in particular stood out to me. Sunday Morning session, Russel M Nelson! he talked about Suffering with Joy! i love it so much. because of the atonement of Jesus Christ, we are able to suffer with joy. in the midst of trial and challenges we can find joy. When we come unto christ, our suffering is swallowed up by his atonement.
I wanna share some thoughts that i had this week about our savior. I have been studying 3 Nephi so much, beacuse my AMAZING Dad (shoutout to kevlar) gave me articles about 3 nephi. So i was specifically reading in chapter 11. This is where Christ visits the people in the Americas. After heavenly father introduces his Son, Jesus Christ calls the people to "arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may fell the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that i am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world." Can you even imagine how these people were feeling? The savior then lets every person individually recieve a physical witness of the prints and nail mark in his hands. As i read this, i thought to myself..i wish that i was there. i wish i could feel the marks on the saviors hand and feel of his light. As i was thinking about this, i felt the spirit overcome my heart with love. I then realized that i have. No, i have not physically felt the marks in the Saviors hands, but i have felt them in my heart. I have felt the marks everytime i fall to my knees asking for help. I feel his sacrifice when i am relived of guilt, shame and sadness. I have felt the Saviors atonement work through me to make me the person and the missionary that Heavenly Father and my Savior need me to be. because i have felt the love of my savior so strongly, i have to share this message with the people of mexico. This gospel is la verdad. Dios es nuestra padre celestial. He is aware of us. So come unto Christ "thrust your hands into my side. feel the prints of the nails. and know that i am the God of Israel, and the god of the whole earth."
I have felt the love of my savior every single day here in the CCM. being here is hard, its hard being with another girl 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is hard to be away from the comforts of home and being away from family. BUT through Christ i can find JOY! I know that this is true, i promise that when we come unto christ, we will feel of his love. feel of his atonement and we will be able to SUFFER WITH JOY! I love being a missionary and i am so thankful to be here.
OH ALSO. we got to go to the Mexico City temple last friday and we are going again today! It was so so awesome, some parts were in english and some in spanish! I was thinking of Grandma Moon a lot the whole time, so grandma..know that i love you so much!! The lord really protects his missionaries because i dont know how we made it back to the CCM alive. the driving here is SOOO SKETCHY! hahah its very scary. anyhooo, I love you guys and i hope that this email makes sense. I just have so many thoughts and so much to be grateful for! I will talk to you next week and im going to try to send pics!
LOVE,
Hermana Farrow
ps. BROOKE WHY ARE YOU SICK?? i prayed for you every single day, i love you so sosososo much. get better soon!
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