¡VIVA MEXICO!

Sept. 19, 2013 Hello, this is Nathans  mother. I forgot to post his email last week, so keep reading  past this post and you can read another week!

Hello Family!

 

INSIDE Fireworks!!! not very safe but okay! I liked them

Another week gone and I am about to get sent into the field! We keep losing districts and we are the ones about to leave now. So the weekend was MEXICO INDEPENDANCE! Saturday some LDS latino dance group put the fiesta on! We had tons of fun with the music and dancing and the culture was awesome. It was fun to watch the Mexican group of people just go insane with the fiesta. they showed an awesome video that was about the Mexico culture. We sang the Mexico National Anthem with the hand over the chest and the color gaurd! I FELT SO MEXICAN! We really have no culture in america which is lame. So we need to have some culture in our family and have some amazing traditions, OK! 

 

District with the stars of the night

 

 

 

Espana and I. Forgot to take off my other tag.....

Elder Cordova and I,  I played cordova in soccer he was on the Rangers team.

My comps and I with a mirror pic

 

 

Sunday I got to play the opening hymn and pass the sacrament! The meeting was amazing every talk. One of my favorite parts was a scripture that was read. I have heard it before, in fact I read it in my personal study just a few days ago, but it just struck another  string in my mind and made me really contemplate. It was ALMA 26: 27 ¡Paciencia! Something our family, specifically me, lacks. I thought of all the times I have flipped out over stupid things.... Forgetting to charge the boat, forgetting the key, forgetting the plug to the boat, losing a ping pong game and kickin the door in, trying to find a lost tube plug, the boat randomly stopping and not starting again, not having enough food to eat from wendys, the list can go on forever! ; My foot breaking, going to be late to an event, rachel drawing all over something, rachel pooping on a rock, James cutting two bottles of pickles, not being able to find the soccer game location, who took something.....

 

this got me thinking about Job, a man who was perfect in the sight of the Lord and in the faith. Satan comes to God and says that Job would fall away if God took everthing from him. So he does just that. Job loses EVERYTHING! We have nothing to complain about! He lost it all and yet stayed faithful and praised gods name.  In the end has more than before! He had such patience. In Mosiah the people who followed Alma and were baptised are brought into bondage. They were not bad people, but bad things happen to great people! This was done so God could "try their patience". Job 20:5 says that the wicked will prosper for a moment. That moment may be this whole life, but how NOT great will be their joy in the life to come!  I like how Shon H. puts it "Wherever you are... there you are!" And "When something goes wrong just laugh at it" :) I know that with that faith and patience all will turn out fine! After every time I freaked out, I felt stupid after because everything always worked out! Trust in God and it WILL ALWAYS work out..... I got the grades i wanted, the boat started, we found the plug, I can run again, its rachel and she will be amazing in the next life, It all works out. On top of that Christ suffered everthing that we go through so through him all becomes possible.

 

So dad guess who was the substitute teacher for my district the other day!? Sonya Valdez, I was introducing myself to her and said I was from provo. She said she was too and I told her we lived at the ropes course. She flipped out and said that my dad was an angel. LAter she explainedShe said that she had a sudden financial issue and wouldnt be able to afford her mission. She met with the bishop and they knelt and prayed together that someway someone would step in and help her. Not two days later. Dad ( I think I was actually hometeaching with you) was talking with the latinos and asked if we could help someone with the mission. It was this hermana  that you helped dad! She said that the mission meant the world to her and she was really emotional. She was a great teacher for our district tooo! Miracles do happen, prayers are answered, we just need to be living righteously enough to receive and act on promptings.

 

Sunday night was the EL GRITO! We all gathered at 11 pm for the grito. ¡VIVA MEXICO!, ¡VIVA HILDALGO!, ...... I felt like I was going to have to give up my American citizenship! After the grito we went home at about 11:30 and were told to hurry because the mexicanos get out the pistoles and shoot in the air and we dont wanna get shot! It really did feel like a war zone on the way back!

 

Two elders from our district left to CHILE today! It is about to get REAL!

Love ya all lots   stay tight like a dish and fight the good fight.

 

-Elder Allen