Thanksgiving miracles in mexico

welcome back to the elder Grilliot weekly email. I´m really hungry. but we are going to make this a good email. we will eat in about an hour. in my internet cafe there is a good smell. it smells like mashed potatoes. i dig it.

So! i really haven´t told you guys very much for a few weeks! and that´s not because i don´t love you all. i just was having a bad time. honestly honest, if i´m speaking honestly, this was a tough cambio. i did not get along very well with my companion. The details aren´t important! the important part is what i learned! ... it was tough, but i chewed that thing down and i swallowed it. and i learned a lot probably. i hope.

I learned about dealing with people. about conflict resolution and about service. not everyone receives love in the same way! like some companions are just happy as heck if you cook for them, other comps just need encouragement, or hugs, or love letters haha, but not everyone receives love in the same way. Elder librado had a really hard time receiving love, like he would resist the love that i tried to give him, which is really sad. The best companions and friends that i've had have been really open and accepting to all the love languages even if it isn´t their preferred love language. like elder parra for example, some times i would cook for that guy and even if he didn´t really like what i cooked for him, or he wasn´t really hungry, he would always be really grateful and accept my offering. I think God is probably like that. generally, i think he is really happy with all our humble efforts to show him love. If we can cook four cheese lasagna with garlic bread, then he´s hungry for lasagna. If we can only put together a bowl of cereal and a banana, then cereal is all he ever wanted. He´s extatic for your cornflakes. because they´re yours.

Jesus said once that that poor lady gave more than all the rich Pharisees, because she gave all she had. Whether we are missionaries, parents, friends, or whatever, God is pleased with our efforts. the results belong to him, but the effort belongs to us.

anyway, this week we got our cambios. I was really nervous about the cambios. I felt sad, i was afraid that i might leave the area. And i prayed so hard. that god would do what he thought was best. and that i could stay another cambio here. And when we got the cambios i cried a bit. a weird cry. like just to get all these feelings out of me. but i felt so relieved.

Elder librado went to durango, he was happy about that, and i got a new companion. I´m training elder Stevenson, he´s from salt lake city Utah and although i hardly know him i think he´s one of the greatest people i´ve met. he is completely without guile, sincere, humble, and wants to do things right. I think he has a great heart. honestly i feel really overwhelmed with how good God has been to me. Overwhelmed. i didn´t expect this much goodness at all.

Right. so we didn´t get the chance to write yesterday so i´m writing today.

i love you guys.

Elder Grilliot