Grateful rain

Last week of the change was a good one for Elder Bof and I. Elder Bof just finished his first change in his mish, que tierno :). He has learned so much this change and is already a superstar missionary. We're going to have a really good six weeks this change. 
On Friday we had a family night in the chapel. Every other Friday we have a family night in the church. A lot of members and investigators go. There's really nothing like this night in the states,  but it's a missionaries dream night.  This week we were able to bring one of our investigators Alberto. Alberto is from Perù. He lives with his family, he actually lives on the same floor as us in our apartment. We always have good lessons with him and his family. In the church me and Elder Bof talked about how to gain a testimony especially of the Book of Mormon. We shared Alma 32 and how the word is like a seed and needs time and nurture to grow. Alberto told us that he liked the class and had some good questions for us. On sunday we had big plans to eat breakfast with Camila and Juan and his family and afterwards go on divisions with members so that they could all go to church with one of us. But of course, Juan had to go out of town for a family emergency and Camila went to the hospital saturday night because she was so sick. Story of my life on the mish :) So I was thinking of how we can literally  use the healing nature of the gospel in our lives. This week I read a talk that I really liked by Dieter F Uchtdorf about how a grateful heart heals and eases our problems.

We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?