Buenos días a todos! Esta semana ha sido super bacan.
Monday: Gatorball. Had a thumb destroy the inside of my mouth but we got ice cream after so☺
Tuesday we had our first interviews with President Gervic! He's super awesome, I'm excited to continue learning from him. We then went to lunch with some friends, this new Venezuelan family we're teaching. We had Arepas, this kind of Naan bread made of Corn that Venezuelans eat a lot.
Thursday played some Baby fútbol with the ward, after a little I started playing keeper and I received the hardest kick straight to my Adam's apple. It was a good event though! Alembert came and played with us.
Sunday we had a cool miracle! There were 16 friends at church 😶 it was crazy, like 4 of the families we're teaching came. We are hoping to put some of them on date here in a bit, there's a few of them praying to know about Baptism. We hadn't found anyone yet in the week, so we made a deal with our district that we'd buy them all Luigis ice cream if we didn't find 3, and we ended up finding 3! Sunday was also like 70 degrees and sunny, and I found a frog! really God was just pouring out blessings that day.
We are ants: I had an interesting study this week about pride. Would highly recommend the talk pride and the priesthood by Elder Uchtdorf, and beware of pride by Ezra Taft Benson. When I usually think of pride, I think of selfish thought. And while that is one of the largest facets of pride, pride is so much more. At its core, pride is enmity, competition. Pride destroys self confidence, and it destroys the confidence of others.
I cant remember quite where I heard this story, but there's a story about a fisher who puts crabs in a bucket. It's a small bucket, and crabs can climb so you'd think it would end up in a mad prison escape. However, peculiarly none of the crabs could escape. Whenever one crabs started on his journey up, another crab sought to take advantage and pull himself up by pulling the other down. The crabs kept each other from progression.
On the flip side, ants are some of the most capable species to exist. Despite being a lot smaller than crabs, they are capable of scaling massive trees, crossing rivers, even wiping out entire forests. They do this by creating living structures, massive bridges or ladders made by hundreds and thousands of ants. In other words, they lift each other up, and the system as a whole progresses.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking less about yourself. As we strive to lift others up, we ourselves will be lifted In the process.
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