Monday, May 21, 2018

Week 25!! My coat was stolen but I got it back..

So I'll just start with the coat story: I was on the bus to the chapel for interviews with president McReynolds and I was sitting on the top story of the bus(double decker). I had taken my coat off because it was hot and it was on the seat next to me. When I got off the bus, we saw some elders from another zone (they had their zone conference that day), and we socialized with them for minute. I'm in the chapel by now and I realize that I left my coat. Normally I would be just annoyed but the real problem was that in the pocket of my coat was our flat keys and Address! We call the elders we saw bc they were on the bus, and they said that they interviewed everyone there but no one had seen the coat. So long story short, I had a 20 minute long panic attack while sister colinares had to call elder magolbe to explain and get the spare key. We can't manually lock the flat door either so we put a table and a massive box of book of Mormons in front of the door once we got home. Luckily there is a happy ending to this: the person who took my coat recognized us as missionaries and had Mormon neighbors, so he gave if to them. I will have to pick it up, but at least I know its safe.
So this week was really busy. We had zone conference on Thursday which was really nice. Elder Monsongo (who was in my mtc district) is in my zone again, so basically we've seen each other every zone conference so far. Aside from that though, everyone is new. The mission has been downsizing a lot because we have more missionaries going home, than coming in. Lots of leaving testimonies.
For this week's spiritual thought the theme is meekness! When people normally think about meekness, they think of someone who is quiet and doesn't star up for themselves, but that isn't true. One of the qualities of meekness is self restraint. Someone who has the willpower to push aside temptation and wild appetites  is much stronger than a person who has little control over themselves. I'm sure everyone has seen this video, in  one of elder Uchtdorf talks, he mentions a study that was made on the patience and self restraint of small children. The kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they aft the marshmallow alone for 15 minutes, they would get another one. The children who waited later grew up to be more successful and happier than the others. Having meekness is so much more than turning the other cheek. When you are meek, you are able to be restrained and patient enough to receive much better blessings in the future! 
The funny stuff: 
England is all about the phrase: suns out guns out. Lots of fat shirtless men walking around
There are no bathrooms in the stores in England, so you have to learn to hold it, or you go a members house. Like 20% of my member visits are for the bathroom.
Since I'm the one with an iron stomach in this companionship, if sister colinares can't finish something, she makes me eat it while the member isn't looking, haha
We are supposed to have a 70 pound emergency fund, but mine was only at 30, so I started putting all my change into this jar and in 3 weeks, I'm almost at 40 pounds. I'll probably start doing this at home, so my change is useful for something
When sister Wilkinson was in the shower, she had a speaker which was connected to sister colinares tablet. We though it would be funny to change her music to the looking through the glass video. We were dying. This is the missionary version of a prank.
There's this painting in the chapel that I swear we have the same one except with different colors. I took a picture so could someone confirm it please? 












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