FORTH OF JULY

Before saying few words about the forth of July here, we would like to say a few words about our mission:

We seemed to have reached a turning point and we are doing well.  We are at the three month mark and during these three months we have been tested.  We assume that we needed to show The Lord that we could handle the whole mission.  There were several time that if we knew were the bus station was we would have "abandoned shop"  but, we got through by praying many times a day and studying the scriptures.  We would be lead to read about having faith to handle adversity.  We reflected often upon the character of Nephi, never losing hope.  When he was so harshly tied down on the ship, watching his parents suffering and not being able to help. We noted that he didn't ask The Lord to lightning bolt his brothers, after many hours he just asked for the strength to bust the cords.  These kind of examples caused us to repent several times.

So now, we are still limited in the language but we are beginning to see why we are here, and, the many areas we can be of use.  Just talking and loving the missionaries we meet seems to be helpful.   We are very careful as things improve to understand that it is all God's work and our job is to just look forward and do the next right thing.

We finally have a car.  We do not use it for any thing but missionary work.  And, the new president seems to like us.  However, we are very careful do not think that we are "any better or any worse than anyone else" to paraphrase president Hinckley.

Now, the Forth of July.   This picture was taken last Forth of July and this is about as good as it gets.

Also, we thought the next picture is interesting.   The truck has one tire on one side and two on the other.  Note that only one tire can fit on the right side.  Maybe they turn right a lot and everything shuffles to the left side.  After many flats they decided to fix the problem.