FAMILIA!!!
First
off, I LOVE YOU ALL :) Thank you for the emails, and I'm sorry to those
of you whom I have not responded. The time is ridiculously short here
at the computers.
Yay for good weather!! It's really gorgeous here most times,
except when there are clouds, cause that's when it gets humid. Yucky.
Nobody likes religious people that are sweating more than your average
NFL player. Speaking of sports, watch some Wimby for me!!! We had a zone
dinner at Chili's last week after zone conf with the new pres and
there were tvs EVERYWHERE. Funniest thing ever with a table full of
elders and three tvs surrounding you all showing different shows of ESPN.
You'd think they were getting translated or something. The zone conf
with Pres Jensen was super duper fabulous! He's a world famous remote
sensing geographist, but he is so kind and funny and he's gonna be
grrrrrrreat! Here's some things I learned from that:
-Why wouldn't I be happy? (reminded me of Pres. Holland quote--you
have every reason to stand tall and know that the Savior of the World
walks beside you. look for the roses, folks. God didn't just create
thorns).
-Sometimes people want the leaders of the Church to be sober, but I'm happy!
-A
quote from one of the trainings of his at the MTC from Elder Perry about
this time of missionary work: "This is as important as the Restoration.
As important as the coming forth of the BoM. We need to step it up. He
expects a lot from us." Wow. A prophet of God saying that this time is AS
IMPORTANT as the RESTORATION and BOOK OF MORMON??? That got us all in
gear, and I hope it does the same for you. There is no time more
important that right now to get involved and get to work. That doesn't
mean that we all go on splits with the missionaries every free second we
have. The broadcast did a perfect job at depicting what to do and how
to do missionary work. This is the LAST dispensation--wahooo! We don't
have to end in apostasy this time!!! We end in the glorious second
coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ! And we get to prepare the world
(that is falling apart morally and physically and getting dirtier and
worse each day) for Him to come. So thrust in your sickle with all of
your might, so that you bring salvation to your soul, as well as those
around you. When you labor to bring success and light into the lives of
others, your salvation is put in order through the Atonement of JEsus
Christ. There is nothing goood about worrying so much about ourselves
and crying on our pillows every night because you are the worst. Read D&c123:13-17.
It's supremely wonderful and has taught me a lot this past week.
Trev--enjoy
the temple!! It'll be a lot to take in, but just have fun, be chill,
and listen/feel the Spirit. Wish I could be there, but I know you'll
have a grand time :)
"How was your 4th of July? What did you do?"
We went to belle plaine
and did a concession stand sponsored by the church for some local causes
and such. I'll write about this in the letter--it was a cool experience
and i have no time here.
"How are your investigators?"
They won't come to church, dang it all!!
And they wont answer they're phones or return texts. When we have
lessons they are golden--I mean like crying and huge great spiritual
things--but then they just love sleeping on sundays so darn much. It's
frustrating when they are so good and trying to make changes but just
won't act in faith. Bless their hearts. I'm pretty sure we need more
prayer.
"Is your mission making any plans for opening up your ward buildings for tours in the near future?"
No......that
is a great question that I should ask someone....we give tours to
investigators and such but for now the building is closed unless we open
it with a key....so i dunno yet . lo siento!
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