Hey y'all how's everythin goin back in the ol land of the free & home of the brave? I hope you're all livin as happy as I would be if I could go buy a Mountain Dew whenever. Dang I miss that stuff. The little things like that kinda make me miss home, like I remember thinking to myself this week, "dang, I'm gonna go a whole 2 years without a night of coon huntin" iykyk. Stuff like that is just kinda tough caz the longer I live here, the more I realize how sweet the life is back at home and the fact that we can just do wild redneck stuff whenever we want. I hope y'all are embracing your lives back in the ol cowboy state cuz I'm starting to realize that there are billions of people that can't even comprehend how sweet our life is. Yeah life back at home isn't perfect, but it's about as close to heaven as you're gonna make it on this Earth haha.
So my memo in this lil message is about learning about this new culture and people and just how different everything is. I have had to adjust a lot of the things that I do and the way that I live here and at first it was pretty difficult. Long story short, the people here are different than at home, they live differently, eat differently, and of course talk way different. So at first it was so hard to connect with them cuz I had no understanding why they are the way that they are, and we have nothing in common. I would be seeing all the things that I thought were weird or different and it was blocking my relationships with them. Like why are you putting mayo, ketchup and avocado on everything? Why do we drink coke with every single meal? Do you realize how horrible it is for you to eat this amount of bread everyday? Does anyone care about being in shape, or is it cool to be overweight? There are others but you get the point, and this was beginning to be a struggle for me, I didn't know how I could connect with people so so different than me. But then I was reading in PMG and found an amazing scripture to help me out with this, in Alma 31:35 it says "Behold, O Lord, their asouls are precious, and many of them are our brethren; therefore, give unto us, O Lord, power and wisdom that we may bring these, our brethren, again unto thee." It hit me that no matter how different the people are, we are all children of God and he loves us all the same. Literally everything has changed the last few weeks after I have decided to have this change in the way I intend to see people, I now try to see them more how Christ would see them and love them perfectly. I've also been able to adjust to some of their strange things, one of my favorite things to eat is pansito with avocado and mayo and some aji, its so weird but delicious. I'm starting to want put mayo and whatever now and I'm enjoying their drinks and all the stuff. The culture is different, but right now I live in Chile, and this is home, so their culture is mine as long as I'm here so I might as well do my best to just embrace it, understand it better and love it more.
That's kinda the message I wanna share with y'all today. Just remember a few things always, you guys are living in the greatest nation in the world, and you shouldn't take certain things for granted (Mountain Dew). More importantly remember that people are different but they are all children of our loving father in heaven, they are our brothers and sisters and we should do our very best to love everyone no matter the circumstances. As I have focused in more on this I have felt way more love from my savior, so I will promise all of you that if you do your very best to love everyone no matter circumstances and do your best to see them though God's eyes, you will feel closer to the savior and have more happiness in your own life.
Elder Micheli
P.S. -This is the last email of this transfer, so next Monday I'll find out if I have a new comp or area and all that crazy stuff, I'll also complete 4 months, wild stuff!! #billsmafia
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