Iguanassssssssssss! Sister Dimond? Bear Grills? What?

HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!  Seriously I think this may have been one of the quickest weeks of my life. I am just mind blown.  I think that is due to the fact that I am doing missionary work, but also getting to do it with a best friend.  I am SO happy that Sister Murdock and I stayed together for another transfer.  We are seriously just the same person and we are just having the best time.  We have the same goals, the same desires, the same humor, and we are just trying to do our best, and make sure that we are smiling while we are doing it! (:  Just love that goober!  We are still here in Hialeah, aka little Cuba, and I just love it!  My love for Spanish just grows more and more everyday, which I didn't even think was possible.  It has been so nice to finally stay in an area for a little longer and with the same companion, as I felt like in previous transfers I have just spent so much time just trying to figure out the area and my flow with my companion, that once you finally figure it out, its already transfers again and you feel like you did nothing to help the area.  So anywho, long story short, ITS A BLESSING, and I am just so excited for this transfer. 

This week won’t be too much of an email, probably just more pictures, because heaven knows I have way too many this week. So sorry in advance!! But it was a wonderful one! Quick recap: 

-The cute Jofre family invited us, which then led to all the missionaries haha, coming over and getting to the freaking IGUANA HUNT!!!!!   We got to skin em’ (Sister Murdock and the other sisters may have had to just watch from afar at that point, her stomach was NOT loving it haha!  Poor thing.  She just felt sick the rest of the day.  BUT I MADE HER TRY IT!  Hahaha) and kill them and eat them and it was just probably one of the more interesting things that I have done out here.  I LOVED IT THO! I felt like I was just in surgery or something.  Mom you would have been so proud! (:  It was pretty chewy though not gonna lie.  Anywho, love that family.  I’ve never met a family that loves the missionaries more. They just treated us like royalty.  People are just way too kind to us out here.  It was truly a day I won’t forget, Haha! 

-Another house that I live in that has got water damage!  YES!!!  One night we walked in and were planning for the next day and just see these gnarly huge cockroaches coming out of the wall and the baseboard and we noticed that the floor and wall had separated a little.  LOVELY (:  So long story short, people came to look at it, and now we have got like 10 giant fans and humidifiers in our living room that have to be there until who knows how long, and they messed with our air so our air went out and stopped working and our house was a good old 86 degrees. (: (: (:  Just love house problems!  But hey I HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!  STILL BLESSED!!!  I HAVE A HOUSE for crying out loud.  But I am excited for them to figure it out today! 

-This morning actually I was reading in Helaman 7 for personal study, and there was something that Nephi says that really just like BOOM stuck out to me that I just wanted to share.  Nephi starts by just talking about the wickedness of the Nephites and what had happened to them, and the sadness in his heart that he had for these people, and he says in verse 7-8 that he just wished that he could have lived in the time of Lehi and Nephi, because the people were just so much more quick to trust in God, and it was just easier, and he says he just would have been happy.  And I was reflecting upon his words and thinking about that and it made me so sad that he thinks and says that he would have been happy had his circumstances and situations been different.  I think we all too often are just waiting for the next thing, the next day, the weekend, or for our current situations to change, so that we too "can be happy" that we don’t choose to BE HAPPY NOW and make the most of the situation.  We cannot assume the lives of others are easier (as Nephi assuming with Lehi, as Lehi’s time was not easy at all either), and wish we had the situations of others.  God’s plan is perfect, we are given FROM GOD, this time RIGHT NOW, and what a blessing that is.  Make the most of each precious moment. 

That really just struck me and that is my goal.  To choose to be HAPPI NOW (: 

I love you all and am so grateful for the experiences that I am having.  I am sorry my emails don’t always reflect the people that I am teaching or really all the things that are happening, but honestly, something’s are just so special and spiritual, that with the short amount of time that we have to email, I just don’t ever feel like I can write them beautifully and adequately in the way that they deserve.  But know that Truly I am seeing miracles everyday.  I am seeing the Lord’s hand in my life each and every moment and I am so grateful. I love my Savior so much and I love you all. Have the best week! 

xoxo from FLO RIDA 

Hermana Dimond 

And one more pic with the madriz fam 

The new district (:

Voluntering at the salvation army.  We literally washed like 8932048329 cups for this one event 

And my fav little trucks to drive behind (: 

Elder Lewis asked me to make his "trunky" planner.  Basically his going home planner. litearlly it just made me want to throw up looking at it. he gave me a flash drive with like 400 pics of his girlfrined. hes our Assistant to the President right now. Pretty sure if president sees this planner he will ban the making of all trunky planners hahaha. thats the goal. i told elder lewis this is the last planner i will ever make. had to end on a bang. i hate doing those. because i just cant half do them. and they stress me out. 

Oh Elder Lewis.  Just my bestie. 

Learning to make hondoranian baleadas (:

Hahahahha that duct tape tho. Died.  They are still alive at this point.

The dirty work 

Me in my element with my peaunt butter hahahaha Sister Kurdock always snagging photos while I'm eating that stinker. 

GABI MADRIZ TISM!! literally my fav fam in this whole world! they are from venezuela and they have been converts for 3 years and are seriously the strongest fam in the whole world. sis madriz is my bestie and she is the releif society pres. they are moiving to utah after their daughter gets home in feb from her mission too! i am convicing them to move by us (: 

Best day ever!