Dearest Familia and Friends...
Wow. Time sure seems to fly when you’re having fun and working hard right?? I can’t really believe this is already my second P-day back. It’s loco how so much happens in one week while at the same time you feel like it was only yesterday that you were here in this same seat feeling this same strange feeling haha. I’m sorry, I sort of forgot how to speak English so writing it is even harder. The theme of this letter is mosiah 15:7 "allowing our will to be swallowed up in the will of the Father".
Sometimes the Father wills that you have a second hot shower in a house of 4 mujeres... no complaints there. Other times the Father wills that we get to go to a suuuuuper awesome dance performance by my very favorite BYUI team! Holy bananas they were amazing. I felt like Rexburg was having a huge get together there in the Costa Rican Theater. I’ve never been with so many people from Idaho at the same time in the same room during my mission. It was awesome! Even just to see a familiar face like Kendall Egbert’s brought the feeling of home to my heart. Their whole program was about the family and though at least 80 percent of the audience was already LDS there were at least a few who got to feel the spirit for the first time. I even heard some investigators called the missionaries the next morning and told them that the baile made them feel the need to be baptized hahaha. And sometimes Heavenly Father lets it be your companions birthday and she turns 24 and your cook gives you guys a huuge cake that takes you literally a week to eat!!! Those are the easy moments. The times where it’s like okay Lord have it your way, that’s fiiine by me.
Then there’s those moments when he lets your brothers and sisters have their agency.... those moments aren’t so hard to accept. Some days are puro rejection... of you, of your message, of todo. But no one likes to talk about those moments because they aren’t the ones that really matter! So just know that although it isn’t always easy to submit our will to His, but if we do, he can take even the painful things and use them, for our eternal benefit.
Just a few other fun notices from this week. Elder Lopez was one of my ZL waaaay back. He’s from Costa Rica and he was serving here. But he finished his mission and came home, to OUR ward!!! It’s awesome, if a little scary. It makes me feel the need to be even better, even more obedient missionary but that’s a good thing, it also gives us a fifth half missionary in our ward!!! uuuushsh! Also, I may have mentioned this last week, but the gift of tongues is freaking crazy. When I left my Spanish was so so right? While I was home I used it a little... but now my Spanish is faaar better then it was even before I left! Blows my mind every day. I love speaking Spanish. But sometimes ill be saying a sentence and right in the middle or at the end a word in English slips out and I don’t even notice until I see the semi confused looks haha.
Anyways, I love you all and hope you know that I sincerely pray for you each day. By name. Unfortunately I don’t have the leisure to be able to write each of you a personal note every week. Please forgive me if I don’t respond... I appreciate your letters and love hearing anything and everything from home! You’re in my heart and prayers.
All my love,
Hermana Kugath
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