Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Umbrellas

It rained a lot this week. I mean, a lot. We got kicked out of the Apple store" kind of downpour. Members called to check on us kind of rain. As missionaries we're just accustomed to being rained on. It makes for really good finding. One of my favorite is "OW! Your umbrella poked me in the eye!" - finding. 
Good stuff.

Sometimes I just get way too into thinking about the water cycle. LITERAL TONS OF WATER ARE FALLING OUT THE SKY AND WE THINK IT'S A NORMAL THING!!

Chinese culture corner!
The father of woodworking one day had a problem. He wanted to make it so that travelers in all of China could travel dry. He complained at dinner one day to his wife, then set out to make little gazebos every mile of every road in all of china. After a while his wife told him that he didn't need to worry about it, she had already solved it. How could she have already solved it!?!? She didn't even know carpentry?! Then she pulled out the first umbrella.
moral of the story: don't complain about your problems because then others will beat you to solving it and hog all the glory. Or something like that.

I got my birthday package this week!!!! I never thought taco seasoning and stain stick could make me so happy. I always knew that Jelly Beans could make me that happy though. 

This week I have been trying to understand that gospel by trying to think in ways that it is not. One of my favorites is "God is not a cosmic vending machine". Can you imagine? 

"God. Is the answer to #37 C of D?"
*a giant ray of light lights up his chair and desk and a deep voice thunders*
C

or

"God, I want a convertible"
giant red convertible falls out if the sky, along with doves and sparkles
"NO! I wanted a blue one!
Convertible slowly lifts into the sky, and a blue one calls down where the red one used to be

That would be ridiculous!! But so often that is how we want things to happen! But one thing that I'm learning is that most of the time if I ask for more patience, he will give me something really annoying to deal with. If I want more knowledge, he will give me some free time to study the scriptures. So one thing that I am praying for is the gift of discernment to discern the answers to prayers that Heavenly Father is sending me. What answers has He sent you that you've missed? 

Love you all!!

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Sister Hugo
Yiu Ji Muih
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