8.19.19: Human Mattress Dominoes

^unfortunately i didn´t participate in the mattress dominoes but during a lesson i witnessed it on tv so i guess that's a close second. It was a world record so i thought you all shoud know. I probs should've been paying attention to the lesson buttttttt...

This week we had splits and I got to be with another american sister and we spoke english for like 30 minutes at night and I legitimately felt guilty for speaking the language i have been speaking for the last 18 years of my life. But some highlights from splits was that we got free açaí from this random bar and we went to this fathers day ward activity that was super cheesy and hilarious. Then after the activity we bought more acai from a different place bc the first time was free. Just two americans eating acai and walking around random neighborhoods. Good times. 

On tuesday i taught yoga for relief society which was the most hilarious thing of my entire life. The ladies were absolutely dying and my companion was translating. You cannot make this stuff up. The mental image will never leave my mind. but lucky for me they're coming back for more this week so pretty much its a regular thing now. 

We have an investigator named Eliane getting baptized next week and she is so awesome! She has two daughters that are adorable! her husband does not really like us but she is getting baptized anyway so hopefully he will come along. She already comes to all of the activities and stuff and she is friends with the members. She is a go.

I read this scripture this week talking about the children of Israel that Moses led out of egypt and how all they had to do was look and be healed. It is so true that the gospel really is so simple but sometimes it is right there and we are too lazy or slothful to act. We are so blessed to know the things we need to do in this life but sometimes we aren't doing them which is super silly of us. Anyways, random thoughts. 

"Now the reason they would not look is because they did not believe that it would heal them. O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish?" Alma 33:20-21

Love you all! 
Tchau 
Sister barton




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