Hiýa Family,
Sorry my letter was so short last week. I just spend so much
time in the mission fixing other people´s lives that I normally don´t have too
much to tell about my own life, and for matters of confidentiality, I can´t
really share a lot about what I DO do. haha. Between HIPAA and peoplé s
confidence, I´m kind of stuck in a hard place.
Cool things that happened this week:
A couple of sisters had trouble with a baptism this week.
They didn´t feel sure and because of that their investigators didn´t feel sure.
They called me to ask for advice and two days later they had a baptism. haha
Lesson of the week: fear and doubt do not come from God (unless of course
you´re about to do something dumb).
Also, we had a baptism. Her name is Angie. She´s really
great. We´ve been reactivating her family, and we finally got there, so we
finally baptized her. That´s the good stuff. Also we should be having three
more in the next 3 weeks. We´ll see how that turns out.
We did divisions twice this week and we also had a mission
conference with Elder Suarez of the presidnecy of the 70 for this part of the
world, so that was awesome. He basically machete´d us all, but it was great.
The only baad thing is that between divisions, doctors visits, calls, farmacy
runs, and the conference, it didn´t feel like a very productive week.
My bean plant grew.
We have a kitten who lives on our balcony. I named him
Bernard. My companion hates him and gets mad when I talk to him hahahahahaha.
Today I saw What (our pet iguana) go running across the neighbor´s
rusting tin roof. He´s prettu much the coolest giant iguana I´ve ever met. He
likes to nod his head.
Eileen, thanks for sharing the coming unto Christ bit. I´m
going to study the scriptures in my personal study (maybe someday I´ll actually
get to have my personal study... people always call me with sickness or
emergencies during my personal study. It´s really quite bothersome. I don´t
know why they don´t call during lunch or something. What punks. haha)
Pops, I still haven´t gotten another package or anything...
I think some lil´ HOnduran is loving whatever you sent me. Your transfers sound
very different. We have a giant meeting with everyone who has transfers and all
of the transfers are announced in one fell swoop, then you say goodbye to your
old comp and go sit with your new comp. It´s mayhem, but I assume it´s for
segurity. I don´t think it would be the best of ideas to have missionaries
traveling alone here, or to have missionaries waiting around alone in the
house.
I´m trying as much a I can to study and have an amazingly
spiritual experience, but as I mentioned to Eileen, I hardly get personal
study. I try to do it at night when I get home if I can´t in the morning, but
people call me then, too, so I do it in waiting rooms, at lunch, in buses, etc.
It´s a bummer, but sometimes the Lord needs us to take care of administrative
things more than He needs us to Chug from the Spiritual Jug.
Mom, life is crazy. Very very crazy. Those two talks are
great. I actually shared come join with us in a lesson yesterday. That was
pretty cool. A house is fine. With or without roommate is fine. I´m down for
whatever ward, and I think Greg´s cool, so that´s all good. Life sounds busy
but Good. I´m jealous you get to hear Elder Holland. He´s like my favorite.
He´s so direct. I´ve had to be a little direct this week. I really don´t like
cutting people down, but sometimes you gotta do it to help them grow. Enoch. I
like it. :)
Aside from that, I´m just doing my thing. I´m beginning to
understand why the mission is only 18 months. I absolutely love it, but with
how much I have to do each day, I´m beginning to get tired. That´s not to say
I´m baggy (trunky?), it´s just to say I´m beginning to feel my age, as it were.
If I could stay in the mission forever, I´d do it, but i think the Lord knows
that at about 19 months, I´d crash and burn, so instead of seeing that tragedy,
He just decided to pat my head and send me on my way. Sometimes when you give
so much of yourself for so long, you begin to wonder what more you can give and
where it will come from. Then you remember that God is in this work, and
everything turns out alright. Anyway, love you all. Take care.
Love,
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