It is officially after Halloween so it is christmas time. It just is. So start getting ready to see miracles because the world will soon decide to put out their nativities, and if the nativities in Chile are anything like Paraguay, they are crazy big. And sometimes have creepy badly painted faces. Just sayin.
I think the biggest thing I learned this week was about not judging the judgemental. I went to go hang out with Jess Church and she had this friend who just was a little fake/judegemental, and I felt bad becasue she was just kind of trashing everyone, and we went hot tubbing in the Villiage I just felt like I was in the middle of mean girls a little teeny bit. And I just didn't like how a little mean she seemed to be, so then every comment she made I was a little bit like, well that wasn't very nice.
Anyway, I got home at the end of the night and I didn't feel good at all. And as I pondered and told Cassi all about how self absorbed a little bit she was, and how she said this and that, I realized that I didn't feel good because I had spent the whole night judging others. I was not only sinning, but I was also being super hypocritical, so how did I expect the holy ghost to be with me if I was not doing things conducive to the spirit.
Anyway, I was talking to Cassi and Cassi said that its hard not to judge others, especially when we view ourselves as clearly more righteous than them. But she read a book, and it talked about how we only villanize/become judgemental or others when we betray ourselves. When we chose to not do that act of service all the sudden we see everyone around us as dumb becasue why aren't THEY doing something about the situation, why arent they doing the needed act of service. But really, it was us that could have taken the opportunity, and should have taken the opportunity. I think this could have halped me a lot if I had realized this on my missison. It doesn't matter if our comp won't contact someone on the bus, or on the street. We just have to do it ourselves before we go along justifying our sins of omission. Anyway, My goal this week is to not think about the negative as much.
Love, Liza
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