9-9-09

Welp this last week has just been another same old week! We walked a lot, taught a few lessons, got stood up, had rain, wind, and sunshine... but to be honest, it has been an amazing week!! Nothing crazy or out of the ordinary happened, but I had a great week! Romina and Richard are going to be getting married, they are just working out when now!! I hope it is sooner than later!!
I'm sorry this letter is really going to be super lame, I have a really cool spiritual experience to tell, and a ridiculously funny story to tell, and that is all!! But if it makes anything better, I will try to send pics!
Ok, so I will tell the funny story first! So last week we spent our pday with the elders of our district at the church eating pizza and playing ping pong, well my comp and I didn't bring regular clothes because we thought they were going to play soccer and my ankle still isn't strong enough for soccer! Well they didn't have a ball so we played ping pong instead! Well the elders decided to play round the world ping pong... which I must say once I warmed up, I was pretty good... I came in second place once!! Well I can't say that so much for my poor comp! The shoes she was wearing are very slippery... I really wish I had a video of what happened, because words just can't even describe!! So we were playing, and she goes up and hits the ball puts the paddle down and goes to run around to the other side, only I'm not sure what happened but she lost her footing and biffed it, but hard... it was so funny to watch because it was like a twirly flip fall... haha the elders say it looked like Michael Jacksons triple spin! HAHA I fell on the ground laughing so hard... the elders went and helped her up... I felt a little bad because I should have helped her up, but I couldn't I was laughing so hard!! So I thought ok that should be enough to teach her that her shoes are all slippery... apparently not! Just ten minutes later she does another fall... but this one was a little scary... she hits the ball puts the paddle down and goes running only slips and goes to do a face plant on the corner of the table!! Luckily she put her hand out to catch herself so her head didn't hit the table, but she missed it by inches, we all were holding our breath until we saw that she was laughing and then we all lost it, I once again had to sit down because of laughing so hard, and the elders once again did my job by helping her up!! HAHA I decided that is was prob best if we left before she ended up breaking anything!! Whenever we see the elders they are always like hey remember that time you biffed it playing ping pong... welp she has her reputation now!!!
Ok now so for the really spiritual experience, well I actually wont write everything about it, but it was really very special. We ate lunch with a member with the elders we are sharing our area with, well after lunch they told us in their study that morning they read a really powerful scripture that talked about blessings and stuff, then they took turns giving each other blessings of comfort that morning, and he said, and well we thought about you guys and wanted to offer a blessing, well my comp and I def jumped at the offer! We walked to the church and went into seperate rooms to pray. After that one of the elders gave me and my companion a blessing, I cant write what was in it, but there were things he said specifically to me that I know there is no way he could know, and also the same for my companions blessing! I started crying realizing how much our Father in Heaven loves us and knows us more completely than we know ourselves! I've never had such a simple more profound blessing... It was so simple but yet so perfectly tailored for me! I'm so geateful to be in this country serving my mission right now, I know there is nothing better I could be doing! I'm so grateful for my Father in Heaven who loves me and for all the wonderful blessings he has given, to name just a very few, my wonderful loving family who is always there to support me... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!!

I Love you all more than you know!!

Hermana Gosnell