Week 83: Talents

This week was weird. We went through a heat wave. It was like 68 degrees one day, and then literally over night it went up to 90. So weird. So we had a sweaty week with insane humidity. But it's all back to normal now thankfully! 

So Mayalene and Miguel moved to a little pueblo up north called Alcala. Mayalene got a job up there which is awesome! She works in a rest home 24 hours a day for 6 days a week. Finding work over here is really hard. So they're really grateful she found something! So we're really happy for them! We just can't teach them as often now. Which is tough. But they're doing really well! They're reading and praying together when they can and they always have questions about what they've read. We went up to visit Miguel one day this week. He doesn't see Mayalene too often, so I think he gets a little lonely. So we went up to eat lunch with him. He showed us around Alcala too. It's a cool little town! There are some amazing views from the coast too.

Sacrament meeting was really good yesterday. The theme was developing talents. Claudio, a member of the bishopric, gave a really great talk. He talked about how the Lord has blessed each of us with special talents and abilities that are waiting to be developed. We just need to look for them and use them. He talked about a quote of some famous golfer. I can't remember who he was, but there's was one game where he totally destroyed and set some kind of a record or something. One of the players told him he's a very lucky player. Then he responded "Yeah. It seems like the more I train, the luckier I get, doesn't it?" Claudio talked about how if we work hard at developing our talents, we will be able to master them with the Lord's help. He wants us to use them! That's why He gave them to us! This golfer wasn't lucky. He had found a talent that he chose to strive for and develop. And after hard work and dedication, it paid off. Cool stuff.

Anyway, sorry this is short. I love you all! Have an awesome week! 

Elder Hendrix