Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Cuenta tus Bendiciones

June 15, 2015

Hola familia y amigos!

Man this week was pretty crazy! 

Well Tuesday morning we had transfer meeting and I got my new companion, Hermana Anderson! She's so great! I also love being able to see everyone at transfer meetings! I got to see Josseline and Arlene from the Chicago 4th Ward and GUESS WHAT. They both opened their mission calls the same day and Arlene will be serving in the Ecuador Guayaquil West Mission and Josseline will be serving in the ECUADOR GUAYAQUIL WEST MISSION. And they report the same day NEXT MONTH. Isn't that so crazy?! I'm so stoked for them! I still can't believe it. 

We had an awesome first lesson with a new investigator! Her name is Satu and we were finally able to teach her the message of the restoration on Friday! The spirit was so strong and Satu was so attentive as we testified. Towards the end of the lesson as we were explaining the first vision of Joseph Smith one of Satu's relatives came in (maybe her daughter) and she just started listening so sincerely to what we were saying. It was such a beautiful experience to teach them! We left them with a Book of Mormon and have a return appointment for next week! ALSO another cool miracle happened immediately after this lesson. We went directly across the street to visit a PNI (potential new investigator) and her son came to the door and told us how he's really been wanting to change his life and that wants to meet us at the church on Sunday. Miracles left and right! That was such a sweet experience! 

Saturday was an extremely long but great day! We basically had nothing but finding time so Hermana Anderson and I walked out of the apartment with the guitar and started talking about the gospel and singing to everyone! It was awesome! After that we went to a baptism for the midway ward which was great! When we were about to leave we noticed a lot of traffic outside of the building because the train had stopped. So it was a wonderful opportunity for contacting! Hermana Anderson, Hermana Warnock, Hermana Shipp, and I went out and talked to everyone in their cars and it was so fun! I brought the guitar with me too, of course. It was so great we would go up to a window and offer someone a card and some of them of course weren't very interested in that but when I offered to sing them a song they were like, "Sure! It's not like traffic will be moving anytime soon." So either way they were able to hear my testimony whether we just talked to them or sang, I Know that My Redeemer Lives. 

Last night as we were driving home my companion and I took a few minutes to enjoy the sunset. We parked our car and ran up a bridge to get a better view and it was so beautiful! This week I've really tried to take note of all the tender mercies my Heavenly Father blesses me with. I feel I've found true happiness in taking note of those things. That sunset was very sweet to me and I could feel the love of my Father in Heaven and just how precious each of His children are to Him. I love this work and I invite each of you to really strive to pay attention to the tender mercies or little things this week that brings you joy. O sea, cuenta tus bendiciones :) 

I'm also so thankful for all the things I am learning on my mission. This week we will have a member of the seventy come and visit us, Elder Martino. In preparation for his arrival the mission has been studying charity and I very much look forward to learning more about this attribute from Elder Martino and the other missionaries. I love this gospel and I love sharing it with everyone. I hope everyone has an awesome week! I love you all so very much.

Keep smiling, 

Hermana Knowles 
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Cuenta tus bendiciones
1.Cuando te abrumen penas y dolor,
cuando tentaciones rujan con furor,
ve tus bendiciones; cuenta y verás
cuántas bendiciones de Jesús tendrás.
Bendiciones, cuenta y verás,
bendiciones que recibirás;
bendiciones, cuenta y verás
cuántas bendiciones de Jesús tendrás.
2.¿Sientes una carga grande de pesar?
¿Es tu cruz pesada para aguantar?
Ve tus bendiciones; cuenta y verás
cómo aflicciones nunca más tendrás.
Bendiciones, cuenta y verás,
bendiciones que recibirás;
bendiciones, cuenta y verás
cuántas bendiciones de Jesús tendrás.
3.Cuando veas a otros que más ricos son,
piensa que de Cristo es tu galardón.
Oro no te compra lo que Dios te da:
un hogar eterno donde Él está.
Bendiciones, cuenta y verás,
bendiciones que recibirás;
bendiciones, cuenta y verás
cuántas bendiciones de Jesús tendrás.
4.No te desanimes do el mal está,
y si no desmayas, Dios te guardará.
Ve tus bendiciones y de Él tendrás
en tu vida gran consolación y paz.
Bendiciones, cuenta y verás,
bendiciones que recibirás;
bendiciones, cuenta y verás
cuántas bendiciones de Jesús tendrás.



With Josseline.

With Arlene.

The Monday night FHE crew in Midway.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Hazme Andar en la Luz

Hola familia y amigos! 

Well this week was a blast and a half! It was so fun being in a trio with Hermana Warnock and Hermana Starnes. Since we were in a trio we worked both in Chicago 2nd and Midway! So we definitely kept busy the entire week. Most days it was appointment after appointment and I loved it! 

So last Monday we went to a missionary farewell and the Hermano's son has a little guitar so I was playing it while everyone was singing for a while. Afterwards the Hermano said we could borrow the guitar for the week! So this week has been filled with so much music! We seriously sang at almost every appointment and everyone LOVED it! Hermana Warnock came up with a medley of hymns and we even sang it at a baptism on Saturday with the elders. 

We had a lot of fun contacting this week too! It was so funny because we were determined to talk to everyone, so when the ice cream truck stopped you better believe we contacted the driver! Hermana Warnock was like, "we don't have to buy anything we'll just give him a card." So she goes up to him and starts explaining who we are then he's asking what kind of ice cream she wants. So she turns and looks at us and then back at the guy and says, "I'm going to need to get a powerpuff girls." Then of course Hermana Starnes and I joined in and got teenage mutant ninja turtle and Spider-Man ice cream. Don't worry we got in a good contact too and he accepted a card! 
Another awesome contact was as we were waiting for a train to pass. So there was a ton of traffic and clearly no one was going anywhere so we parked the car and got out and contacted people as they were waiting for this train to go by! I had a pretty cool experience talking to this man sitting in his truck. It was very clear that he was interested in learning about the gospel. He reached for the closest piece of paper and ripped some off and wrote down his name and all his contact information. So cool! 

There's an Hermano in the midway ward who professionally sings with his wife and since I've been bringing that little guitar with me everywhere he played a song for us! That HE wrote! I'll try to remember to send the video.

This week our mission president asked us to study faith and this is just some of my notes from what I learned. I really like in Moroni 10:7 where it says, "for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the children of men." God has the power to do all things, but we can't partake of all the blessings of this power until we show our faith. I love in the bible dictionary under prayer where it says, "Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings." Prayer is a basic yet powerful way we can exercise our faith. Because faith is such a powerful principle I know that is why each conference the general authorities counsel us to do very basic things that will help us to strengthen our faith. I was reading a devotional by Randall L. Ridd and I loved this quote, "Prophets past and present have pleaded with us to do small and simple things like praying and studying the scriptures. So, why doesn’t everyone do them? Perhaps one reason is that we don’t necessarily see dramatic negative consequences if we miss a day or two--just as your teeth don’t all decay and fall out the first time you forget to brush. Most of the consequences, positive and negative, will come later, over time. But they will come." I know that there are promised blessings awaiting us as we stay strong and make sure we are nurturing our faith on a daily basis. I know that our faith in the Savior will help us to progress and really understand and participate in the ordinances of Salvation which will help us solidify our testimony and increase our desire to share it with others. 

Well tomorrow is transfer meeting! I will be getting a new companion and she's so awesome! Her name is Hermana Anderson and she's coming from the Chicago 5th ward just next door to where I started. I'm sorry I don't have a ton of time left I wish I could say more about how AWESOME this week was! I love this gospel so much and I know with all my heart that it is true. I love you all so much and I hope everyone has a great week.

Keep smiling,

Hermana Knowles

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Hazme andar en la luz
1.Hazme ̮en la luz de Su ̮amor caminar.
Muéstrame cómo ̮a mi Padre orar.
Quiero vivir como dijo Jesús.
Dime cómo andar en la luz.
2.Ven, pequeñito, y juntos los dos
aprenderemos las leyes de Dios
para volver a vivir con Jesús,
para siempre andar en la luz.
3.Padre, las gracias queremos rendir,
pues nos enseñas la senda ̮a seguir.
A Ti loores cantamos, oh Dios.
Juntos vamos a ̮andar en la luz.







Las Familias Pueden Ser Eternas

Hola familia y amigos!

What the June? Anyway, this week wasn't terribly eventful but it was good! We finally had our plan of salvation activity at the church on Saturday. It was SO AWESOME we had over 100 people show up! Each room was decorated beautifully representing each part of the plan of happiness and all the members were so great teaching in their individual rooms. We had a few different groups go through the stations and everyone ended in the chapel (celestial kingdom). As people entered the chapel I was playing piano and the reverence was beautiful. We waited until all the groups entered the chapel (which was FILLED) and all the missionaries got up and talked about the celestial kingdom. We even got some referrals from that activity! That night we also celebrated someone from the ward about to leave on her mission. So all the missionaries sang for her and I arranged some music for us. We sang a song called In the Hollow of His Hands and I mixed it with I Love to See the Temple. It was great!

We have a really sweet less active member that we've been working with. She finally came to church on Sunday and we was at the activity on Saturday AND she brought a friend! Blessings all over the place. 

There's a recent convert family we have breakfast with every Saturday morning and guess who joined us this last Saturday? Sweet President and Sister Woodbury! It was great but I felt pretty bad because the ONE day they come with us we get fed cow stomach...FOR BREAKFAST. I guess that's a usual thing in Mexico so I'll stop freaking out. 

We have a new ward mission leader, Hermano Pule! He and his sweet wife are so awesome! Our district has lunch at their house after church every Sunday now. 

Well for the rest of this week I will be in a trio! So Hermana Warnock and Mansfield were/are our sweet Hermana Training Leaders but since Hermana Mansfield's mission was extended she went home a little before the transfer ended so now we get to hang out with Hermana Warnock! We're so pumped to have her she's an amazing missionary! I look forward to all the miracles we will see together! El poder de tres! 

Sorry this email isn't super long but those were the definite highlights of the week! I love being a full time missionary. I love it I love it. It's just so beautiful to see the Lord's hand in everything and know that we are such precious instruments doing HIS work. I know this gospel is true. I feel like particularly this week my testimony of the plan of salvation was strengthened. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and it is SO PERFECT. I love my Savior Jesus Christ and I know He is central to this Plan of Happiness. I know that families can be together forever. I am so incredibly grateful for that knowledge. I love this gospel with all my heart and I love each of you! I hope everyone has a great week! Paz y bendiciones. 

Keep smiling, 

Hermana Knowles :) 

Las familias pueden ser eternas
1.Una familia Dios me dio;
la amo de verdad,
y yo con ella quiero ̮estar
por la eternidad.
Eternas pueden ser las familias
por el divino plan.
Yo quiero heredar
el celestial hogar
con la mía por la ̮eternidad,
por toda la eternidad.
2.Quiero ̮esforzarme desde hoy
por ser digno ante Dios
para hacer convenios en
el templo del Señor.
Eternas pueden ser las familias
por el divino plan.
Yo quiero heredar
el celestial hogar
con la mía por la ̮eternidad,
por toda la eternidad.





Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Me Encanta Ver el Templo

Feliz día de preparación!
 
Our district has this super great activity planned for this Saturday where we're going to teach the plan of salvation at the church! We're going to go room to room explaining each part of the plan and we have all the members involved. It's going to be SICK. It is also a ton of planning and preparation to make sure it's a success! So that's been taking up a good chunk of our time. We've been meeting with members and making sure they're on board with their assignments, handing out flyers to our investigators and members, taping flyers to lamp posts, discussing the details in district meeting and ward council, and inviting everyone! It's a good time. I'm way excited to see how it turns out! Oh and also this activity will be part of a missionary farewell for someone in the ward that will be leaving on her mission at the beginning of next month! And her name is Jasmine too! She will be serving in Paraguay.

I would also just like to mention how much I love my district. They're so great! We all work so hard and we really have fun together at the same time. We went to lunch as a district this week and they're seriously a fun group to be around! Just thought I'd mention that haha.

Hermana Starnes and I didn't really have a ton of food in our apartment this week so we've been getting pretty creative with our meals when we don't have appointments with members. Let's just say I feel I've mastered the technique of the omelette and perfectly portioned cereal. One day I found this soup mix that a member gave us a while ago so that was exciting! I thought I'd be all fancy and make that so I did! While I was cooking the elders called us and they were like, "Are you in your apartment? Well don't be weirded out but we're outside." They had an appointment nearby and stopped by our apartment to airdrop some sheet music to my iPad so I could start practicing piano for a song we're singing on Saturday. It was taking a while for airdrop to work and I almost forgot about my soup that was on the stove! I left our non-omelette/cereal delicacy at risk! But don't worry I got to it on time and it was quite divine. #lamemishstoryoftheweek

We had exchanges this week with the wonderful Midway Hermanas! I stayed in our area with Hermana Warnock. She's kind of super awesome! We spent a good majority of the day putting up flyers for our activity and we basically sang the entire time. It was so great! By the end we were pretty pleased with our How Great Thou Art harmonies. We also met some cool people who have just been on the road traveling for the past couple YEARS. We asked, "Where are you all from?" And they were like, "Well I'm from Montana and I met this guy in New Orleans and I met her in LA and we picked him up in Nebraska" or something like that. Their names were Nash, Zack, Demar, and Drifter with her dog named BOX CAR WILLIE. WHAT? They were great. When we were about to part ways Drifter said she had a question for us and asked, "Has anyone told you today that you're wonderful? Thank you so much for doing what you do." SUCH A GEM! #slightlylesslamemishstoryoftheweek #extremelylonghashtags

Highlight of the week was definitely when our zone went to the TEMPLE! This temple trip was easily one of the most spiritual experiences I've had on my mission. We had the unique opportunity to witness our mission president and his wife be sealed for a couple that didn't have the opportunity to do so in this life. There were also names of children that had yet to be sealed to their parents and President and Sister Woodbury each chose a couple missionaries to participate. Well I had the privilege of being one of those missionaries and I will never be able to deny the powerful spirit that I felt. The spirit of the temple is so amazing. I know that it is truly the House of the Lord. Afterwards we went to the mission home for some training/instruction and I just learned so much. I had a very specific question that came to mind while I was in the temple and President, being the very inspired man that he is, answered my question without me asking and it was so direct. My testimony was strengthened so much that day!

#awesomemishstoryoftheweek

I love this gospel! I know with all my heart that it is true. I know my Savior lives and I know we have a loving Father in Heaven who knows each of us perfectly. He knows our needs, our worries, the burdens we bear, and He knows how we can find relief and comfort and He will provide it. I love being a missionary. So. Much! Stay strong my wonderful friends and family! I love you all so very much.

Keep smiling,

Hermana Knowles

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Me encanta ver el templo
1. Me ̮encanta ver el templo; un día ir podré.
Me ̮enseñará ̮el Espíritu Santo ̮y oraré.
Pues el templo ̮es Casa del Señor,
lugar tranquilo ̮y bello.
Desde niño me prepararé;
es mi deber sagrado.
2. Me ̮encanta ver el templo; un día entraré,
y ser fiel a mi Padre, allí prometeré.
Pues el templo ̮es el lugar sagrado
donde la familia puede ser sellada
en unión y ser familia ̮eterna.






Monday, May 18, 2015

Dios, Bendícenos


Hola familia y amigos! 

Another busy week in the life of a Chicago missionary. 

Hermana Starnes and I taught during our district meeting this past Wednesday. Elder Gomez asked us to talk about chapter 7 of preach my gospel which is about learning the mission language. So we thought it would be appropriate to bring guacamole and chips and a sombrero to top things off as we discussed how we can better learn the Spanish language. We've learned very quickly that when you teach 4 elders you can't go wrong with bringing food! The lesson went really well and everyone participated so ...success! Afterwards some of the elders from the other district came in and helped us finish off the food and Elder Lee brought his nerf gun. I'll try to remember to send a video from when Hermana Starnes shot Elder Metro in the forehead. 

We have an AWESOME investigator named Kimberly. She truly has a sincere desire to know if what we teach is true. She's even come to church a few times! We're also working with Lizbeth and her family. They're progressing pretty well too! Lizbeth keeps telling us about how she wants to learn more and that the things we teach just makes sense. She's so great! We're also still working hard with Lucy. She's adorable. We met with her last night told her that it was getting late so we had to leave. So we closed with a prayer and then right afterwards (when we were already past curfew) she's like, "you know what we should do? I'll make you some tostadas con crema. You can't go to sleep on an empty stomach." Who said we had an empty stomach?! Well anyway, we ate with her and got back nice and late but that's ok. Please pray for our investigators! Lucy is just so great. Every time we ask her to pray she always prays for our family and friends. 

Saturday night as Hermana Starnes and I were walking back to the apartment before it got too dark we both had the impression to visit a potential investigator that we had contacted a few weeks back. I knocked the door and totally blanked on his name but it was ok because he didn't even answer! It was a different family that answered the door (it's like a complex with multiple apartments). We met a really sweet lady named Satu (for short, her full first name is like 4 or 5 syllables let's be real). Well the contact went pretty routine and it was leaning towards her rejecting us but I was feeling a little extra persistent so I started to testify more of the truthfulness of our message and how it can personally bless her life. I felt like the atmosphere changed and she was really listening. Well afterwards she asked about where church was and when it started and said she would come! So that was awesome! 

The work is moving forward here! We're definitely seeing miracles in Cicero! I sure do love being a missionary. It's kind of the best! Well I love you all so very much and I want you all to know that I know this church is true. I know Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father live and love each of us perfectly. Have a great week and write me sometime! 

Keep smiling,

Hermana Knowles :) 

We're at lunch with a bunch of hermanas and I asked Hermana Warnock what her favorite hymn is and so that's my email title and hymn of the week! 

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Dios, bendícenos
1.Dios, bendícenos al irnos, con Tu gracia paternal.
Haz que cada ser mejore en su lucha con el mal.
Danos fuerza, danos fuerza; en el yermo sé solaz.
Danos fuerza, danos fuerza; en el yermo sé solaz.
2.Por el don del evangelio damos gracias y loor.
Que abunde en las vidas fruto de su esplendor.
Fieles siempre, fieles siempre, en la fe y al Señor.
Fieles siempre, fieles siempre, en la fe y al Señor.


This is me and Mary and her daughter Krystal! Mary always has us sing
for them at least once a week, she's awesome.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Por Campos de Trébol Paseo

Happy Tuesday! 

We switched our pday to today just for this week so we can go downtown to see a little boy in our ward play violin at the symphony center! So that should be awesome! 

I hope everyone had a very happy Mother's Day on Sunday! It was so nice to skype and hear from my wonderful family and friends! I love you so much and I'm so thankful for your support of me on my mission and I'm so thankful to my Father in Heaven for the many blessings my family has seen as I serve the people of Chicago. 

Well it was another busy week here in Cicero! Everyday is just nonstop I love it! We have a new investigator named Lizbeth who was actually a referral from the Plan of Salvation activity we did in the park as a district a few weeks back. At first it was kind of hard to get a hold of her but this week during a stop by to her house she actually answered and let us in! We taught her the restoration and it went really well! We have another appointment with her tonight and so I'm looking forward to it! 

Lucy is doing great! We saw her yesterday and she was telling us about how she's been reading from the Book of Mormon! She was saying how it's so cool that she can learn from and relate the scriptures to her life. So hearing that was just a little AWESOME. 

So we were at a members house for dinner and she was telling us that she smells peppers before she buys them to see if they'll be spicy or not. We couldn't really tell if she was serious and so we asked another member if people actually do that and she thought it was hilarious and said that she's never heard of that. BUT a different member said that was normal. We were just confused so we went to the store and smelled all these peppers and I bet we just looked super ridiculous. I couldn't smell any difference! Maybe you just need Mexican nostrils for that to work. 

Oh SHOUT OUT to Tami, Eric, and the kids! Thanks for the package I loved it! I most certainly got my companion with the silly string and it was hilarious for sure. When I saw the plastic pineapple cup I was like, good thing we have pineapple juice in the fridge! Putting anything else in here would just be absurd. And Juliann's picture is hanging on my wall by my desk! 

We also had zone training this week! We talked a lot about being creative and shared our ideas with each other. We also discussed the scriptures in Jacob 5 about being laborers in the vineyard. What I got the most out of that discussion was to be DILIGENT and PATIENT. Caring for a vineyard is a lot of work and can be a long process but the fruit is worth all our labors. This is one of my favorite scriptures from that chapter: "72 And it came to pass that the servants did go and labor with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them; and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things." At the conference we also talked about the sabbath day and how it can be a DELIGHT to us! This was from a talk by Elder Nelson in this past conference entitled The Sabbath is a Delight. I recommend it! 

I love you all so very much and I hope everyone is doing good! I love being a missionary and I love the people I serve. I know this church is true and I love bringing the happiness of the gospel to others. Stay strong my beautiful family and friends! 

Mantener la sonrisa, 

Hermana Knowles :)


My favorite Mother's Day song :) I love you momma! 

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Por campos de trébol paseo
1.Por campos de trébol paseo a menudo,
y suelo manojos de flores juntar.
Recojo capullos por todo el prado,
y madre, las flores en ti hacen pensar.
2.Con cada flor quiero mi amor obsequiarte,
fragancia constante a tu vida traer;
si amo pasearme por prados y flores,
oh, madre, de ti yo lo pude aprender.



Can't forget that Skype group hug.






Thursday, May 7, 2015

Cuando Me Bautice

Hola familia! 

This past week has just been so crazy busy! I basically got home each night after everything was done and collapsed haha. That's how you know you're doing missionary work right! I wouldn't have it any other way! Let's see, where to start. 

On Monday we had a family home evening with the Hernandez family. Hermano is our Ward mission leader so we were there with all the elders too. We basically just had a little testimony meeting for the elders that were being transferred. It was a lot of fun I really love our district! So now we have two new elders in the district. Elder Hautau who is AWESOME and Elder Randall who was in my district back in Chicago 4th! So fun! 

After district meeting on Wednesday we all went to a restaurant that one of our investigators and less-active members works at. We watched those poor elders ride their bikes the entire way from the comfort of our little Toyota Corolla haha. They're so great! Afterwards as we were about to part ways sweet Elder Gomez found out he had a flat tire. So we all stayed and helped him. We didn't have much to work with so thanks to a nearby Walgreens he crazy glued the hole shut and they were on their way to their next appointment! Good times. 

Yesterday after church we went over to a members house so I could help their sweet 7 year old son practice violin. That was definitely fun! The elders also live next door to them on the third floor so Elder Gomez just sat in the window and joined our conversation as we were having out in the patio. His companion, Elder Hautau, was making some kind of smoothie so we kept throwing more fruit to them through that window. It was so entertaining. We even threw half a watermelon. Our accuracy got pretty impressive! 

We met with Danny almost everyday this past week leading up to his baptism! He was so ready and it was such a sweet experience to see him make that covenant with our Heavenly Father on Saturday! His mom was so happy. She was telling us that right after he was baptized, as he was leaving the font, he hugged his mom and they were both in tears because they could feel the Spirit so strong. Now Jackie (his mom) has a goal to be able to go to the temple and do baptisms with him when he turns 12 in two years. THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT. If I've ever seen the facial expression of pure joy it was on that sweet 10 year olds face on Saturday when he entered the waters of baptism, and also as I looked over at his mother with the same facial expression. Where else can you find such pure happiness? No where. THIS IS THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. It is TRUE. It is REAL. This work is HIS. I just want to go to he top of Sears Tower with a megaphone and tell everyone! (Let's be real, that's not going to happen and if I had the opportunity I'd probably be taken away in that famous Chicago wind so probably not the best approach, so I'll just stick with ground level proselyting.) But you know what I'm saying! I love this gospel with all my heart. There is absolutely nothing else I'd rather be doing than sharing this perfect gospel with everyone here. I love you all so much and I love being a missionary! Stay strong my beautiful friends and family.

Mantener la sonrisa, 

Hermana Knowles :) 

Cuando me bautice
1.Me ̮encanta ̮el arco iris
después de ver llover,
y pienso en lo limpia que la
tierra ya se ve.
Tal como tierra
limpia cuando ̮acaba de llover,
yo quiero comportarme bien
y con mi Dios volver.
2.Cuando yo me bautice
se limpiará mi ser,
mi Padre me perdonará y ̮el
bien querré ̮escoger.
Tal como tierra
limpia cuando ̮acaba de llover,
yo quiero comportarme bien
y con mi Dios volver.


I gave Danny a race car CTR ring :P