We have a pet, his name is Max, he's a baby skunk, and he stinks! For some reason, every night, without fail, our pet Max, stops by a pays us visit. Sometimes is happens during the day, several times a day! It's horrible!! Our apartment smells so bad, one night I had to sleep with a febreeze spray, it was that bad! My companion laughed at me the whole night. Hopefully Max will find a new home somewhere else, sometime soon!
We went to go visit a recent convert yesterday. We called ahead of time to see if it was okay to go visit her. She said that she just wanted to stay home and sleep and that she didn't want anybody coming over. We knew she was sad so we decided to stop by a store, buy some flowers, get a card and drop it off. We knocked on the door for a good 3 mins, she didn't answer, so we left the flowers on the door, slipped the card under the door and left. A few minutes later we decided to go back. We knocked, rang, and called for a good 5 minutes until she opened the door. She was happy about the flowers and the card and by the time we left she was happy we stopped by! Persistence becomes annoying when it's not done out of love. We love her a lot and she loves us!
Funny thing that happened at the Battalion. There was a little kid who peed and one of the senior couples (Elder Rasmussen) had to clean it up. Haha he wasn't too happy about it.
This week we had a special Training for all the Sisters that are serving in the Battalion. Bro. Rasmussen who works for the church in the visitor center department came to visit us. He took tours to see how we were doing them, but he didn't say who he was, luckily I wasn't the sister to take him on a tour! Our Mission President, President Clayton, talked to us and gave us a little pep talk. He said that there are 2 sets of glasses everyone puts on. The glasses of obligation or the glasses of opportunity. This isn't figuratively speaking, but more mentally speaking. Every morning we can either wake up and say; "Ok another day of work that I don't want to go but I have to" or "another day of school, I don't like school." We just put on our glasses of obligation. When you "put on" the glasses of opportunity it's a whole different view! You can go to school expecting to learn something new, you can go to work with the mind set of having the opportunity to be able to make money for the things you need. This is helping me a lot while I'm on my mission. Every morning we wake up a little before 6:30 to work out. Recently instead of thinking I HAVE to work out, my view of things have changed. I think more on the lines of, I GET to work out and strengthen my body. I have the OPPORTUNITY to share my testimony, not the obligation to do it. As do all of you! You have the opportunity to work, to be in school, to raise a child, to help someone else, so don't look at it as an obligation because then life becomes numb.
I love you all!
-Hermana Recinos
Pic 1- Sister Contreras came back to visit!
Pic 2- Sister Tucker came back to visit!
Pic 3- Sister Calderon, Sister Rex, Me, Sister Tucker, Sister Contreras, Elder Hernandez, and Elder Blackley.
Pic 4- Cute cards I found, I love turtles!!
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