A Few Words of "Wisdom"

Hello people! It's Hermana Tapia again -4 teeth!

I have to apologize, I'm too embarrassed to send you any videos Hermana Doyle took of me after I woke up from surgery Wednesday cause I was very strange and emotional. But here's a couple things I did shortly after waking up from my wisdom teeth removal. I have zero memory of any of this:

• I asked Sister Huntsman if she was rich.
• Woke up and asked if I could call Taggart so he could pick me up.
• Got emotional as I was asked about my testimony of Joseph Smith. And described him as a "really wonderful and brave guy". 
• Sung a lot of hymns.
• Cried about one of our recent converts who is struggling.
• Confessed who my favorite investigator is. (Nefi) 
• Cried when Sister Huntsman talked about the new mission president coming in July and I told her how much I would miss her. She held my arm as I cried the whole way home hahaha! She's so sweet.
• Cried some more, cried a lot.
• Told Hermana Doyle to get over her crush.
• Walked out of the car as we were waiting for my prescription. Hermana Doyle may or may not have had to run after me.
• Tried to "preach the gospel" to the workers at subway when I went in to go to the bathroom. Hermana Doyle had to pull me away and explain to them that I had just gotten out of surgery.
• Recorded a video of myself describing my experience ending in "the name of Jesus Christ" and took selfies.

That was an adventure I don't mind having no memory of! Hahaha! But honestly I healed SO quickly and I felt zero pain the whole week, there was no swelling, not much bleeding and Hermana Doyle is an angel and took such good care of me. Love her. Really though, the Lord blessed me with amazing people I was back out working hard by Friday. We were also working so hard the time we were indoors, we got to organize a lot and call people we haven't been able to hear from in a while and it brought so many miracles! We ended up finding the record of a man who was taught in 2015 and he was so excited to hear from us. He said he had lost contact with the missionaries a while ago and missed the lessons, we are meeting him this week!

Here's a few random lessons I learned this week:

• Getting your wisdom teeth out is not that bad! Worst part by far was the IV, I almost passed out when they mentioned the IV. I don't do shots.
• The best time to get them out is when you're surrounded by amazing people that love you and take care of you till you get better. (Bless Hermana Doyle, Aunt Karry, Sister Huntsman and my ward's hearts.) 
• Focus on Christ and you will never fall. 

Here's a little more on that last one, Tuesday night I started dance classes for the primary girls. I love children, the gospel and dance so much so all 3 combined was great! We had the girls bring friends and it was such a fun class! One of the visitors volunteered to say the opening prayer and asked us to visit her parents so she could come back to church Sunday so... EXITÓ! But as I was preparing for the class I was thinking of ways to tie gospel principles in. I was preparing basic turns for the across the floor sequence. Dance hack: the secret for not getting dizzy when doing turns and pirouettes is spotting. If you keep your eyes on one object it's prevents dizziness and loss of balance. So to teach this I taped pictures of Jesus Christ onto the wall and had the girls keep their eyes on Jesus as they turned! They loved It! I later tied in the scripture where Peter is walking on the water with Christ and starts to fall when he looks away from him and explained how we need to always focus on Jesus Christ so we don't fall; literally and metaphorically. It was fun to get to be a dance teacher again for a day. The primary presidency and the mom's were so excited about it that they asked if this could become a regular activity so I am PUMPED! It's so fun to think of creative ways of sharing my testimony of Jesus Christ and all He has done for me. Here's some cute pictures from dance class! (I'm prepared for the jokes about me being the size of a primary girl.)

Winter: I said bye to my sweet Winter Friday night. We went over, played a card game Aunt Karry sent me, shared one last message, took some pictures and said goodbye. It was sad to say the least. I care so much about that little girl and was worried she wouldn't get the support she needed in California. Well, yesterday I texted her dad asking if he could send us their California address so we could send the missionaries ASAP. Turns out the missionaries had already knocked on their door! Without us sending over any information! Winter's dad could not believe it, he thought we had sent them. Phew, of course Winter is in good hands, she is in the hands of her loving Father in Heaven. I will miss that spiritual giant of a girl.

One last thing!!! I had my favorite Mexican soup in the world Tuesday before my surgery. Our less active from mexico (who is no longer less active!) Found out I love Pozole and was getting my wisdom teeth out so she invited us over for Pozole the day before my surgery and I had more bowls of it than I am willing to admit. If this isn't love I don't know what is. I was in heaven.

Wow this email was all over the place, sorry! Just glad to be back out and working hard! Love you all, have a wonderful week!

Hermana Tapia