Hola mi familia. Come estan? Good I hope. Ok so first off, mom, you said that you were happy to contribute, so here are some things I thought of that I might need haha. Well...a water bottle for one, bpa free...you know the good stuff. Um oh and snacks, I ran out of snacks. The nature valley bars are perfect. Just make sure they dont have too much sugar, Im trying to eat better :). Also maybe like almonds? Dried fruit? I dont know, whatever. You are the best. Oh and if for some reason sometime soon you are at desert book and see a temple card holder with the Vegas temple. My temple recommend holder broke.
So this week...hm I always forget what happens but here are some of the things I remember. 4 of our investigators have baptism dates!!! Haha (yay for fake baptisms). Really though they feel real to us. These are people we teach atleast once a week and they are pretend investigators. The only reason we are getting these is because we are learning that it is not our teaching that really affects anything, its us being open to the spirits guidance and creating an enviornment for the spirit to be felt. Its pretty awesome. Oh one experience though that will lead into the next theme of the week...so we are teaching an investigator called Genesis and she is a strong Baptist. She is 18 and has heard a lot of things about the church. Our whole class teaches her. Well she has called some of them the devil and so on. So pretty rocky. One day we were teaching her about Christ and watched a movie on Jesucristo and read from the BOM and she was just really happy, so we asked her to say the prayer. While we were saying the prayer I really felt like I should ask her to get baptised. So we ended the prayer and I was like...sooo ummm we are having a baptism on the 18th...pause....you should come. I totally chickened out! Then afterwards my teacher (Genesis) was like...soo were you going to ask Genesis to get baptised and i was like...yeah. She then said..well what happened? I just said I chickened out and she said that Genesis would have said yes ....AHHH! I was so mad at myself for the rest of the day. Good news though we taught her again shortly and asked her to get baptised and she still said yes! Yay!
But that is really the theme of the week. We have been talking so much about relying on the Spirit to direct us in our lessons. We watched a talk from Elder Bednar and he asked the question... how do I know its the Spirit or just me?...he then said "STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT!....just be good boys and good girls and keep the commandments and you need not worry...the Spirit will guide you". Cool huh? I love it. So we have really have been trying hard to listen to our investigators (teach people not lessons) and listen for the spirit, which is really hard for me because when I hear them speaking spanish and i want to say something back im concentrating in my head how I can say what I want to say in in Spanish and then I just stop listening to both. Ive been learning to let all that go...its pretty awesome.
Another theme for me this week is that this gospel is all about LOVE. Really, i cant explain exactly how I have just NOW figured this out but every little things is because God loves us. Read the title page and introduction of the Book of Mormon. God asked prophets to write in these gold plates (which im pretty sure took a lot of effort), he then went through the trouble to make sure they were hidden for US. Oh man. It is just so cool.
Oh so i got the compliment of my life this week. We were all stressing about spanish and our teacher was like "listen you are all really white kids trying to speak spanish, spanish people are going to find that endearing"..."well maybe Elder Manu and Hermana Tippetts arent so white"...HOLLA. Im just saying.
Oh mom you asked what our laundry faucilities are like...well yes that is a weird question...but its pretty much a giant laundry mat under the main building. Its nice. We have tables and computers in there too so we can write letters. Pretty snazy. Also mom you may or may not have said "newb" in your letter...that makes you a noob because its NOOB. ok I will never say noob again because Im a missionary and I dont say those kind of things (p.s. make sure millie can still say it though...someone has to carry the legacy).
I hate how fast this time goes! Ah. I love being a missionary. It really is great. Its really hard. I doubt myself a lot, Im not great at spanish, Im never been the most gentle humble person, but the Lord is working on me and he will make up for his weaknesses. And then...when i feel that way i think ( because of my companion).."it could be worse I could be part of the Martin Willie hand cart company". So there you go.
So I heard there was something called the super bowl?? Whats that all about? Did someone win or something? Who might it have been? Tell me if you so please...
I love you guys! haha. Its true..when all else fails...tell the truth. Good motto eh?
Me and my companion are really weird. We name ever email the same thing even when we dont tell each other. Also we walk up the stairs with are feet out really wide we are convinced that it works a different muscle in our leg...pero, no se. Oh and we sing in the shower some times and fight if mulan is a princess (which she is clearly not...no pretty dress...no princess-ship HA). Its pretty awesome.
OHH so my Lord of the Rings loving has come in handy...we were in class the other day and Elder A likened the gospel to harry potter and then someone brought up Lord of the Rings and how frodo had that "light thing" that made the spider go away and i was like (with an appalled look on my face)...you mean the light of galadriel...hahaha Then the Elders told me I went up like 20 cool points. So just in case you were wondering if I am still cool...I am. I know it was keeping you up at night.
I love you guys so much!!!!! I think of you all daily! Tell Grandpa thanks for the message! I love that hes thinking about me!
Oh and I have been getting letters from Missy and Vanessa pretty much every week. They are awesome and I am so thankful for them and for all my friends for that matter! Yay! Oh and tell chelsea that the letter got sent back to me so I sent it back today...so check her mail.
I dont know what else to say...Yo se que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador!
LOVE YOU FAMILY! (oh i sent the picture card in Mariah's letter today so look out for it!!)
Hola mi familia. Come estan? Good I hope. Ok so first off, mom, you said that you were happy to contribute, so here are some things I thought of that I might need haha. Well...a water bottle for one, bpa free...you know the good stuff. Um oh and snacks, I ran out of snacks. The nature valley bars are perfect. Just make sure they dont have too much sugar, Im trying to eat better :). Also maybe like almonds? Dried fruit? I dont know, whatever. You are the best. Oh and if for some reason sometime soon you are at desert book and see a temple card holder with the Vegas temple. My temple recommend holder broke.
So this week...hm I always forget what happens but here are some of the things I remember. 4 of our investigators have baptism dates!!! Haha (yay for fake baptisms). Really though they feel real to us. These are people we teach atleast once a week and they are pretend investigators. The only reason we are getting these is because we are learning that it is not our teaching that really affects anything, its us being open to the spirits guidance and creating an enviornment for the spirit to be felt. Its pretty awesome. Oh one experience though that will lead into the next theme of the week...so we are teaching an investigator called Genesis and she is a strong Baptist. She is 18 and has heard a lot of things about the church. Our whole class teaches her. Well she has called some of them the devil and so on. So pretty rocky. One day we were teaching her about Christ and watched a movie on Jesucristo and read from the BOM and she was just really happy, so we asked her to say the prayer. While we were saying the prayer I really felt like I should ask her to get baptised. So we ended the prayer and I was like...sooo ummm we are having a baptism on the 18th...pause....you should come. I totally chickened out! Then afterwards my teacher (Genesis) was like...soo were you going to ask Genesis to get baptised and i was like...yeah. She then said..well what happened? I just said I chickened out and she said that Genesis would have said yes ....AHHH! I was so mad at myself for the rest of the day. Good news though we taught her again shortly and asked her to get baptised and she still said yes! Yay!
But that is really the theme of the week. We have been talking so much about relying on the Spirit to direct us in our lessons. We watched a talk from Elder Bednar and he asked the question... how do I know its the Spirit or just me?...he then said "STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT!....just be good boys and good girls and keep the commandments and you need not worry...the Spirit will guide you". Cool huh? I love it. So we have really have been trying hard to listen to our investigators (teach people not lessons) and listen for the spirit, which is really hard for me because when I hear them speaking spanish and i want to say something back im concentrating in my head how I can say what I want to say in in Spanish and then I just stop listening to both. Ive been learning to let all that go...its pretty awesome.
Another theme for me this week is that this gospel is all about LOVE. Really, i cant explain exactly how I have just NOW figured this out but every little things is because God loves us. Read the title page and introduction of the Book of Mormon. God asked prophets to write in these gold plates (which im pretty sure took a lot of effort), he then went through the trouble to make sure they were hidden for US. Oh man. It is just so cool.
Oh so i got the compliment of my life this week. We were all stressing about spanish and our teacher was like "listen you are all really white kids trying to speak spanish, spanish people are going to find that endearing"..."well maybe Elder Manu and Hermana Tippetts arent so white"...HOLLA. Im just saying.
Oh mom you asked what our laundry faucilities are like...well yes that is a weird question...but its pretty much a giant laundry mat under the main building. Its nice. We have tables and computers in there too so we can write letters. Pretty snazy. Also mom you may or may not have said "newb" in your letter...that makes you a noob because its NOOB. ok I will never say noob again because Im a missionary and I dont say those kind of things (p.s. make sure millie can still say it though...someone has to carry the legacy).
I hate how fast this time goes! Ah. I love being a missionary. It really is great. Its really hard. I doubt myself a lot, Im not great at spanish, Im never been the most gentle humble person, but the Lord is working on me and he will make up for his weaknesses. And then...when i feel that way i think ( because of my companion).."it could be worse I could be part of the Martin Willie hand cart company". So there you go.
So I heard there was something called the super bowl?? Whats that all about? Did someone win or something? Who might it have been? Tell me if you so please...
I love you guys! haha. Its true..when all else fails...tell the truth. Good motto eh?
Me and my companion are really weird. We name ever email the same thing even when we dont tell each other. Also we walk up the stairs with are feet out really wide we are convinced that it works a different muscle in our leg...pero, no se. Oh and we sing in the shower some times and fight if mulan is a princess (which she is clearly not...no pretty dress...no princess-ship HA). Its pretty awesome.
OHH so my Lord of the Rings loving has come in handy...we were in class the other day and Elder A likened the gospel to harry potter and then someone brought up Lord of the Rings and how frodo had that "light thing" that made the spider go away and i was like (with an appalled look on my face)...you mean the light of galadriel...hahaha Then the Elders told me I went up like 20 cool points. So just in case you were wondering if I am still cool...I am. I know it was keeping you up at night.
I love you guys so much!!!!! I think of you all daily! Tell Grandpa thanks for the message! I love that hes thinking about me!
Oh and I have been getting letters from Missy and Vanessa pretty much every week. They are awesome and I am so thankful for them and for all my friends for that matter! Yay! Oh and tell chelsea that the letter got sent back to me so I sent it back today...so check her mail.
I dont know what else to say...Yo se que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador!
LOVE YOU FAMILY! (oh i sent the picture card in Mariah's letter today so look out for it!!)
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