Good morning everyone,
It is a bummer that grandpa decided to scare you guys and take a trip to the hospital. But I have no doubt that he will be there when I walk down those stairs.. He is strong. I loved the pics of icebox canyon. You are all looking so great and in such good shape. I was pretty bummed this morning when I sat down and read President Lopez's email.
Quote "2. There should not be any kind of free weights in your apartment. If you have one- please give it away. Missionaries should not go into any kind of gym to workout. Common sense will help you understand the wisdom behind this rule. Should you have any concern, please text me."
So... my life sucks. But I know that this is the God's time and I should not be focusing on myself. I have less than 4 months left to give it my all. And thanks to Mikes inspiring letter I just read, I am pumped up and ready to make the sprint. We have a lot investigators right now so I have no time to get trunky. Plus this week is transfer week and the word on the street is that I am going to train a new missionary again. We'll see.. To answer your questions mom. I love this ward. The members are awesome! The are not as involved in missionary work as I would like them to be but that's why i'm here. This week we couldn't teach as many lessons to investigators and we wanted to. We spent a lot of time with members and less actives trying to pumped em' up! Missionaries can only do so much, but if the members are working, baptisms come. I put some pictures on dropbox of our family home evening on monday and me with some members. Sorry they are not as cool as yours... But I try. We are going to baptize brother Melchor Locsin this Saturday. He is an apa( mute) so teaching him has been really fun. We just make weird signs and then his sister translates it to him. He is rad. We are also teaching a girl named Kristen, she loves the church and the gospel but her dad is a drunk and a devout catholic. So every time he finds out she went to church he freaks out. The other night we went over there and he was super drunk and he had just beat up his son and was chasing his wife with a "binangon" (a big knife). I almost put a fool in the ground. But the Christlike side of me said just let the cops take care of it. It's sad that there is really no law here and no rules so that stuff happens all the time. I guess that's just another reason why the gospel is so important. I love you so much and I am so grateful that we have the gospel in our lives. We need to help others get it too. I got a nice letter from the Beacrofts today. Tell them I said thank you. It was nice to hear from them.
Birthday package? Umm... you know I love my protein bars and nuts.. I don't really need anything, you can just send me some letters and then just buy me and iphone when I get home???
