promptings of the spirit

{thought id share part of my  my sisters email today. im so grateful for her serving a mission right now she is such a great example to me!}

 

 this week was pretty interesting haha, since the summer is coming on, lots of different types of bugs are now flourishing haha, and since there are so many stray animals here especially dogs, there are a lot of fleas....i have been getting eaten alive! i first thought that it was mosquitos but the mission presidents wife saw the bites and said they were too many to be mosquitos and gave me something to spray my bedding with...apparently the fleas are everywhere and we track them into the house on our clothes and backpacks etc...but, all in all, even tho i hate fleas, i learned a lesson from them the other day... since i was finally aware of what was biting me, i took all my bedding off and sent them to get washed (which was a pain cause to wash two loads of laundry it was 20 dollars) and they were too big to wash by hand or i would have done it! i will never take a washer and a dryer for granted again..

 

.anyways lets just say its really hard to wash things here, and my bedding never got washed, but i knew i needed to because of the fleas...so i sent it anyways... they come and pick up the clothes on their  moto and then deliver it to the house...its was really nice to sleep with clean bedding for the first time in like a year, it was one of the happiest moments of my life...and i am not joking. and since then, i have been super ocd about not touching my bed or going near it until everythings put away and i´m showered and not covered in the dirt from the streets...anyways, i was about to sit down one day, and i wanted to read a little bit so i grabbed my backpack and was about to put it on my bed without thinking, then suddenly i thought...¨no there are fleas on your backpack!¨ so i took it to the other room not expecting to see anything but trying to avoid them...and, what do i find fleas!  it was the first time that id actually seen them, and that we really do tract them into the house from being in the street all day...your probably wondering why i´m just rambling on about fleas this week, but really you have to understand what a struggle it was getting my bedding washed, and i had to wait days to get it back, so i slept with al my sweat shirts on so i wouldnt get cold. so when i suddenly was prompted to check my backpack i saw the flea and avoided having placed it in my clean bed...it may seem trivial, but i know that it was the Spirit that even in this small instance prompted me not to bring the backpack near my bed, which i almost did without thinking...and i had been searching for fleas before, and couldnt believe that they were really there because i´d never seen a single one, but right as i was about to throw them onto my bed, i was saved! i am grateful that the Spirit really does prompt us on things that are important to us! it protected me! i had been getting so many bites it looked like chicken pocks! and since then i havent really gotten bitten...the point i am trying to make is that we need to do everything we can to live worthy of the guidance of the spirit, and follow the guidance when it comes...anything that we think, do, or say that is negative or will drive the Spirit away we need to stop doing. when we make an effort to live worthy it will always guide us especially in the day to day things. i know that Heavenly Father really loves us and that if we are worthy of the companionship of the Spirit, we can accomplish amazing things, and we avoid painful consequences...i would have had i not listened to a simple warning to move my backpack..imagine the messes we´d all avoid if we followed the Spirit in every major decision, and didn`t disregard a simple prompting.

here are a few pics as well of our district..today we played soccer and ate chivitos!

 

love, hermana moyes

My Sister Gioia is the one on the far right. haha i love how short her companion is.