As far as my knee, I'm not sure because I haven't been
running so it hasn't had a reason to hurt, but I am going to a session of
therapy tomorrow and will let you know how that goes and what is going on.
For the newsletter I would say that every member needs to be
a missionary! It is crucial for the work to progress! Read Mormon 9:21 it is a
recipe on how to have miracles! I challenge every member to read that scripture
and then to accept the challenge to have a miracle happen in their lives right
then! To pray to know who they can help to receive the gospel. Then sit there
for a moment and think of names and then start saying the names and have
someone write them down (this is what PMG and the apostles have told us to do)
Then think of specific goals for each person on your list to help them come
closer to Christ. It could be things such as have dinner with them and the
missionaries. Or maybe serve them, or maybe to share your testimony with them,
or invite them to have lessons with the missionaries. Also each member should
be familiar with the ward mission plan and how they can help to achieve that
plan because EVERY member is needed to achieve it!
As far as losing a companion I have no idea... President
told us in our interviews that we weren't going to be in a trio the whole time because
one of us was going to Murrietta but we don't know when it is opening... so it
could be anytime but we haven't heard anything so far so we don't know anything
yet.
The best parts of being a missionary are the opportunities
that I have to go and share the gospel. It is so amazing to see what kind of a
difference it can make in people's lives! You see miracles happen all the time
as you pray for them and seek out opportunities to serve those around you and
do your best to spread the gospel with all you come in contact with! It is also
really cool to get to know people, I have met so many people that I never would
have met if I didn't come on my mission. It has also changed the way I see
people as a whole. Everyone has their own story and everyone out there is just
trying to live life like we are. They may be lost and confused and only need a friend
or someone to help guide them in their lives. It is crazy how we will talk to
people from gang presidents to hobos, to hard workers, to lazy people, to
really rude people (a lot of the time). The worst part about being a missionary
is that I don't get to see you guys. That is by far the worst part. Elder Fe
will always talk about how he would give all his money to go play baseball and
when I hear that and think of water polo I miss it but it isn't what I want, I
would give everything to go see you guys. The best would just to go on vacation
and spend time with you.
I have been emailing my friends but not a ton, I usually
email one every week. Me and Nate, Steven, and Elder Wallentine have been
emailing. It is so great to hear from them! I have really missed Nate and
hadn't heard from him in months and it is awesome to be able to email him. I
was also really happy to hear from Steven because I didn't have his address or
anything!
Well things are going pretty good here! We have been getting
a lot of new investigators and a few are looking like baptisms! We are
struggling with G who we thought was a for sure baptism because his wife is
very anti-Mormon and didn't say anything until church this last Sunday, so we
are working with him to see what we can do. We have other investigators though
who have good promise to be baptized in the near future and we are working hard
to make it happen! So it would be awesome if you guys could maybe pray that his
wife will not be so hard hearted and allow him to go to church and be baptized.
My clothes are doing well! My shoes are awesome! They still
look brand new after I polish them! I did have to buy some things like blanket
and pillow because I have no Idea how long I will be here and I can't just
borrow forever. So I had to spend some money recently and still have to pay for
the therapy (which they said will be something like $20) so hopefully that
isn't a problem.
As for Skype I think we will be able to! We just have to
find members who have three devices with Skype capabilities because there are
three of us, ha-ha but we are in the rich area so that shouldn't be too much of
a problem I don't think! As far as time limit I'm not 100% sure but I think we
get an hour.
Oh, so I got a lot of letters from 1-2 months ago like your
postcard from Vegas. So the problem is that you have been sending them to the
wrong address it is 451 NOT 415. I don't know if I told you wrong, but send all
letters and packages to 451. Did you send the camera to 415? if so that is
probably why it is taking so long, but I should have it next week even if so
because they were averaging about a month with the wrong address.
When I get my visa... ha-ha I don't know. It is hard for me
to say. It is interesting because here in Temecula the Spanish work is very
slow. The area was dead when we got here and we have been slowly turning it
around. I think what will happen is I won't too much miss the tracting and
things like that that have filled most my days here but will miss the people.
There are a lot of awesome members and our investigators who actually are
progressing, ha-ha
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| These guys will listen to us all day. |
I was wondering if you could burn some CDs for me because I
don't know how much longer I'll be here. (It does sound like 3 months is the average
right now, two different families who live here said their sons waited three
months to go) but I can listen to lots of music here and I was wondering if you
could burn a CD of Reliant K's Forget and Not Slow Down along with two songs
from the albums MmHmm and Five Score and Seven Years Ago called Forgiven and Be
My Escape you can find the music on my hard drive. Also maybe like a CD of
everclean and maybe some MAE songs. Those all are things that we can listen to!
I usually end up copying and pasting what I wrote to
President into your letter, ha-ha like the one about G, that was pretty much
all of what I wrote to President this week.
I don't have enough time to share my testimony in here so I
will mail it to you!
I love you guys so very much
and can't wait until Mother's Day; it is much too far away!!
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