Rough Week--Happy Valentine's!

Hello! :-)

"My miracle story for this week actually happened this morning. It has been a hard, trying week. It has been difficult for me to keep a positive attitude. I would have a great experience and then pessimism would set in immediately after. We did not have a good week numbers-wise and it is easy for me to get frustrated because I want to try and do new things, but Hermana Fuentes and I are not always on the same page and I´m not good with working with other people all the time. I went to bed frustrated last night and woke up still trying to shrug it off. I´ve learned that the first place I need to go in times like this is to my knees in prayer and then open the scriptures. We invite our investigators to do it every week--so we should be doing it, too, right? So I felt like I should start in PME, chapter 6. I read the Christ-like attribute of patience again and decided to do the exercise along with it. It was exactly what I needed: the comparison between Alma 17:10-11 when the Sons of Mosiah are frustrated and Alma 26:27 when Ammon is looking back and sees the blessings of their patience, diligence and long-suffering and how they were able to bring many souls to Christ because of their work. It´s not about the moment--it´s about the long run. These scriptures and the change in perspective were the answers to my prayers."

So yeah, frustrating week, but I decided that being frustrated isn´t going to solve anything so...I decided to make peanut butter cookies and valentine´s for the elders in our district for our meeting tomorrow! Yah! haha We all know that I strongly dislike valentine´s day, but might as well make the most of it. I took pics so you can see thefruits of my labors :-) When you have rough days, you do something about it!haha So I did and I´m going to keep my chin up this week.

Mom, you will find it ironic that the past few weeks, my mission has felt chillingly like the movie "Errand of Angels." Remember my comments about that? Well, it is so much closer to the truth than I even believed. And we are even getting to do intercambios this week!ahaha I will be in Pamplona tomorrow through Friday--that´s Elder Dalton´s district!haha We won´t see each other, though. But I am oh-so excited for the change and seeing how other missionaries work and their pace/style.

Thanks for the support and kind words. I can´t wait to read the emails when I get back to piso today! Life is hard, the mission is harder, but that's what makes it so worth it! Here are some pics-oh, if I look pasty-that´s because I am. Pray for me and the sun--we miss each other a lot. I miss my tan :-( haha

Keep smiling,

Hermana Dalton