today, just a few short hours ago... one of our dear friends passed away... hermana camacho... i am not exactly sure how old she was, but both brent and i know that she is so happy to be with her husband again...
(sister camacho is the adorable senora in the green sweater... she is with a few of the jovenes from our ward ... last year we went to her house to put up this christmas tree...
funny thing about this picture... i had taken another one just before ... but she told me immediately after that i had to wait a moment and take another... because i had not given her the chance to comb her hair yet... this is the second and more beautiful picture...)
... one big thing that i keep thinking is that we should never leave anything for tomorrow...because you never know what will have happened by then... i am going visiting teaching on thursday... and it makes me a little sad to say that i no longer get to visit her... but i am so happy that i was able to visit her those other times... and that i can have so many fond memories of this dear woman...
... just a few things i want to remember about her...
she was amazing!!!!
she had the best memory ever!!! she knew everyone in our ward from grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles... you name them and she knew who everyone was... by name and face... i was the gringita...
she has not been able to go out much at all lately so our ward was taking turns to go visit her and bring her food... what a blessing it was in our lives to be able to serve her!!!
she was so loving and would get so very excited just to see a smiling and/or familiar face stop by...
she did not have much, but you always knew what was most important to her...
she was a fighter... and a lover...
she would always tell us how she thanks her Father in Heaven for what she has and was a very faithful member of the church...
i love in the picture above you can see the picture of Christ... she would always point to it and say she knew that he was with her...
she had one of the best personalities and was so funny... i would laugh every time i went to visit her...
one time... i was visiting her with another sisiter in our ward and as soon as we got there she quickly told us that she was not doing well... but that she would love some churros... she was like a little kid... of course who could say no... we went all the way downtown to get a little bag of churros so that she would "feel better"... what a sweet tooth she had... she made me proud...
... what a sad time it must have been for her when her doctor told her that she was not able to eat anything but fruits, vegetables and some grains... no more churros, cakes, brownies... tamales.. oh how excited she got when i brought her tamales from ley...
i will be forever grateful for her example to me, i will always remember her huge testimony of the gospel and what it had changed in her life.... her loving kindness and simplicity of just loving life and being happy for the small things... i love her!!! ... and we will miss her!!!
