-hit herself in the eye with the car visor
-tripped over her scripture bag
-dropped everything out of her bag in the church parking lot
-kicked herself in the knee
This girl needs to be a sitcom character. It's driving me nuts-o.
The
devastating news is that unless my lactose intolerance disappears, I
will not be chugging a vanilla milkshake from In N Out as planned when I
get home. But maybe I'll just risk it to get the biscuit. Tiff brought
me a straw from In N Out in Utah and I think I cried a little bit. I
missionary-laminated it (covered it in packing tape) and put it in Mi
Binder 'O' Junk.
I went on LDS.org and I see that Amanda will be going to a youth
beach party on the 13th. I insist that she attend because that is in
fact where the legendary CJC crew met the boys in 4th ward and the great
adventures began. But I must also insist she is not allowed to talk to
boys because I will punch someone. So she can go for traditions sake,
but she will wear a burkah and absolutely no flirtatious associations
with anyone besides maybe Tim Francis. Have I embarrassed you enough,
Pants?
I'm sad to hear that the Biebs is really a jailbird, it was a
heated topic of discussion this week at our house since Sister Heck is a
Biebs lover and Sister Bowler made a comment about him being sent back
to Canada. Are we ten years behind on the current celebrity drama? Maybe
so. But it was either converse about dumb things or sit and watch my
bean soup boil. (Shout-out to mom who emailed too late about the wrong
water proportions, my soup didn't turn out to bad. It was just...
soupless.)
This week at church the Law of Chastity was slammed into our heads
both in Sunday school and in Young Women's (yes, we snuck in). God must
really want me to learn something from those lessons because this
morning when we opened up our white handbook, we read again about the
Law of Chastity. It's an awkward topic, but it doesn't have to be. I
learned a lot just from sitting in class and raising my hand and piping
up with different thoughts. Here's what I gathered,
The lie Satan tells us"
"It's Natural"
TRUE. It
is natural. Great. Awesome. Congrats, Satan, you got us there. Guess
what else though? We're not hear to be natural. The natural man is an
enemy to God. Naturally, I want to eat nothing but cake for breakfast.
Is that wise? No. The greatest gift we have (not to mention the only way
we can progress) is agency. I may have ranted about this before, but
what literally gives is agency is our pre-frontal cortex. It's what
distinguishes us from other animals. Ours is large enough to make better decisions
rather than go what instinct tells us to do. We are designed more
intelligently and therefore with more agency than dogs, cats, apes, and
kimono dragons. We are designed to make better decisions than what's
"natural". And that's just scientifically speaking. If we're talkin
doctrine, the plan of salvation, God's whole purpose for us here, is to
become like him. We are here to be more than just man. So yes. It is natural. But so are monkeys and they fling poop.
So there you go, Satan's lie untangled. It's a
truth. But it's just an excuse. Anyways didn't mean to go off on that.
No idea how I got there. I love you all very very much. I'm grateful for
the atonement of Jesus Christ. I think the greatest thing I'm learning
is how to let things go and become better every day. Easier said than
done. This morning Sister Panoussi and I were talking about how hard it
is sometimes to let go of the darkness we've let settle into ourselves. I
read this verse this morning:
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light
Life
is about abandoning that darkness, walking as children of light.
Abstract? Maybe. True? Definitely. I'll let you think on all that
nonsense I just typed out, for the next week or so.
Miss you lots,
Be good
pinch people
-Sister Valdez
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