Some thoughts...

As all of you guys know I like being super busy all the time haha....This week has been busy busy but I must say that is has been definitely good! Well for a start this week I started noticing changes since me and Brian started going to the gym almost everyday - well he does I can't Monday and Wednesday. It is amazing how just some extra work out and a healthier diet can help. I remember telling my mom a couple of weeks ago that I felt I was gaining weight:s...I remember Leo telling me: haha told ya! your metabolism changes! It certainly does...So for a total of three weeks I have been working out before going to school - some abs - and then in the afternoon I go to my intense dancing lessons - which I love!! It is amazing to see how that makes a difference. I feel like I have more energy already, I sleep better and I am in better shape! :)

This week - as always - I have been thinking about random stuff. In my art interrelations class - which btw I finished the test...horrible haha - we're analyzing different adaptations from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to movies from Zeffirelli and Robbins. I was re-reading the play this week and I realized that reader-response criticics are so right when they say that no book is the same even when it is read again by the same person. I had read that play in junior high as a hobbie; however, I felt that since I am certainly different from that time, the play was absolutely different for me. I guess I was able to truly catch on the imagery, cosmology and formalism of the text. I was watching Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet yesterday afternoon while I was taking notes on it. I took a total of almost five pages of only imagery and from the diegetic reality of the movie. I must confess, I was fascinated by the movie and how Zeffirelli - being a Shakespeare expert - was able to catch on the water imagery and so many details and put it into different shots. The soundtrack is beautiful. What is a youth? is the main song that I think describes the plot quite accurately. I find it quite interesting how the play places the antithesis of fate and agency in a way that it ends in tragedy. I would write more of my thoughts concerning this but I believe this will be enough for now.

On the other hand, I have been going to the MTC for almost three weeks now to serve as an spanish speaking investigator. It has been such an awesome experience. Ever since I was little I have always felt that missionaries have a different spirit, a very noble but full of power kind of spirit. I've had missionaries that either know spanish almost perfect or that have just started and can only say two words. Both experiences have been different. My experience with missionaries that know spanish already has been different in the sense that I feel amazed on how the spirit speaks a universal language. It doesn't matter if you're preaching the gospel in your native language or not the spirit is the same. I felt amazed on how this missionaries were able to bear their testimony with me in a language different than their native one and still feel the spirit so strongly - I feel so blessed to be able to be sensitive to these promptings. My experience with missionaries who are still learning how to speak spanish has been quite different. I guess that it has increased my capacity to love people you don't even know. It feels so good to be able to help them and just say: relax, when the time comes the spirit will help you and you will be able to open your mouth and change lives...for now you're doing great! I feel love for the missionaries and their faith to go outside their homes to a strange place and preach the gospel. I admire them so much. I will continue to go as I know that it fortifies my spirit and builds my character.

That is all for today. I feel happy and incredibly blessed...I wouldn't have my life any other way:)