Hola!
How bout that conference huh?? It's about a thousand percent different as a
missionary because you think of how everything applies to you, but also
for about thirty million other people too at the same time! Good stuff about the family too. How some of the most
important work we can do in this life is that within the home. We try to get that across to people here, but they don't
really get it. A lot of families here aren't "families". Especially
coming from Utah and thinking I knew what a "not" family was and what
family problems were. Boy that was a slap in the face over and over and
over here. It's hard to teach how God loved us so he gave us families
to people when they either don't have family or their family isn't even
close to what a family should be. People out here go their whole
lives not even knowing what love is in their life (remember the talk
about that girl that came from the darkness and needed to be shown the
light because she didn't know it even existed? Twas Uchtdorf) But yeah
things are rough in families out here. So it makes me thankful
for ya'll back at home! Even though we go through hard times,
that's life and we need to continue to show unconditional love for each
other because that's the way that God wants it and He gave us
families in the first place, so we need to show Him respect. And that one guy who talked about marriages: Marriage is a gift of
God, the quality of our marriage is our gift to Him. That's pretty
crazy true. So much of the world doesn't even realize what a blessing it
is to have that eternal companion, and that's talking about all the
members of the church! People take it for granted and don't try to work
through problems with God and Christ as their guide and they lose the
love they once had. It's sad that that is something that is failing in
the church today.
But anyways happiness! FIRST BAPTISM DONE AND
DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah I baptized a lady named Maria and elder
Casey baptized her two little daughters! AND duh I had to mess up on my
first time. How would it be memorable without messing up? Turns out
when you ask "Cual es su nombre completo?" to a hispanic person you
should ask about ten times to make sure they don't have any hidden
names, and most of them have like 5 names. So I missed one of her names! Oh well Casey noticed and I just redid it anyways. But it was all
good! That was Saturday afternoon. And this Saturday is the beach! It'll be at about 6 ish in the
afternoon. I'm baptizing one girl and Casey's baptizing the other!
Tomorrow and the next day,
two days in a row, we're doing exchanges with two sets of english
missionaries. Tomorrow I'll be by myself with an english kid that
doesn't speak spanish in my area, that'll be Elder Fisher, but then
Wednesday I'm going to the english side of things and hitting that up
that'll be with Elder Buck. Fun stuff!
Oh for the priesthood session we had a whole four
members show up!!! Whoo!! Ha ha nothing like Utah here. Nobody comes to
even the english one really. Like maybe fifty for an entire city? Weird.
But I watched the whole thing in Spanish! That was the only one I
watched in Spanish because I obviously can get more out of english right
now, but I still understood a lot! That was interesting to get the
translation going on. Weird.
I'm gettin pumped for the
heat! It's starting to get HOT here. And it's not an average hot. It's
death hot and wet and sticky all the time. WHOOOO!!! And I'm on bikes
this week! Party and a half coming up for this big guy.
Live Hard,
Love Hard,
Laugh Hard,
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