A smack in the face I hope never to get again... January 31, 2011

First, I´ll describe the pictures.

1.  The other night we were late to an appointment, so we were running to try and get there on time.  Calderon is super dusty all the time.  I totally tripped on a rock and face planted it.  I cut my knee a little, but my nylons, sadly, didn´t survive.  It´s not the first time that I´ve fallen over either.  I´ve done it two other times.  Once when I was eating a roll and all of the sudden I was just laying down in the street.  I have no idea how it happened.  The other time was when I was eating an ice cream and I slid down this little grass incline onto my butt and my companion laughed her can off like she´d never seen anything so funny in her life.  Until I reminded her of the time she fell over in the bus...

 2.  Hna Reid, Hna Castellani and I bought matching hats in the Otavaleño market in Quito last week.  YEAH!

3. The cake that Hna Castellani made this morning.  We don´t have an oven so she was making it on the stove.  She didn´t know how to turn the flame down (there is a special trick to do it) so it all burnt on the bottom and was doughy in the middle. 

4. We don´t have a microwave, so to cook the popcorn that you sent me, we cut open the bag and cooked it on the stove with oil.  It turned out good!

This week was a rather humbling one.  I felt the true meaning of D&C 121:43

Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;

God is a very loving Heavenly Father.  But his love is showed even more when we make bad decisions.  He lets us have the consequences to let us learn not to make the same mistakes twice. 

So just do the right thing.

Love. Love. Love.

Hermana Cooper