hola familia y amigos

March 15, 2010

Fa noah feliz cumple año dos años que es bonisimo

Yo querro la torta esta noche con ustedes. la torta esta aqui es un poco feo, pero algun tortas es bueno. todos es hace con fruta o cosas como eso. extraño la torta alla en la casa con la familia. recuerda el año pasado con noah y su cumple...fa fue muy bueno y torta en mi cada. que bueno esta noche ustedes tienen. ahora tengo mas amor y abilidad a intender la familia y la importancia que es. aqui mucho familias tiene mucho problemas y no intiende la importancia de el evangelio y los bendiciones dios tiene por todos de nosotros. que suerte tenemos la estada vivimos en y evangelio tenemos y mas importante la familia yo tengo y el amor tenemos juntos. graciac por todos familia.

Well this week was a pretty good one. we put another fecha with a lady and her baptism is this saturday so we have two baptisms on saturday so that is good. and our zone has been having a little competition this transfer for open the mouths and first lessons taught and me and my comp are and have been tied for first place with the other two elders now living in our pensh, one of which is an ex zone leader and was the zone leader for 9 months and is one of the next assistances. but this saturday we are competing against each other and who wins should be the ones who wins it all. its been fun and we have been tearing it up. we had 14 first lessons taught and 5 news (two complete lessons taught) and 10 lessons taught with members present. we have been doing way well and working like mad. i only have two weeks left in this transfer and i cant believe it i have no idea where the time has gone this transfer i have been having so much fun. these past couple weeks i have felt such a sincere love for the people and there families that when we have had to leave there houses i have felt sad and not wanted to leave. its weird i will be sitting in the house talking to the family or listening trying to understand and i honestly feel like i am at home with them and they make me feel so welcome and are so loving to me. i feel like i am with my family. i love it so much and i love them so much. it will be a sad and difficult day when i have to leave them but i hope and dont think it will be for a while. this truelly has been a gift and i am so grateful for it.

this week one of the families we teach that is not progressing much and we only go by every once in a while when an appointment falls through or something cause they are like 75 plus years old and are always home. but the time before this last time we talked to the wife for a while and she told us that her husband is having a problem with the law of chasity and was just blown away by the things that i was told and stuff and she was in tears. so the next time we planned a lesson for him and stuff on the law. so when we started teaching it he said, alright yeah i like this and i like that and i do this and that but its normal...she doesnt understand she is a woman. you two are guys you get it, right? its normal? i could not believe it. satan has such a hold on people in this world that horrible things like that he makes them seem and people to thinks its normal because so many people do it. its horrible, i have fallen into that catagory i think all of us have where we have acted one way and thought that it was normal and were decieved by the devil.

in my studies this week i decided to study a little on a few things that i have been impressed about and have been on my mind. and the fact of the matter is that it all came down to faith. thats all everything is in this life is faith. we all have those struggles and hardships but we should be praying for more faith each and everyday. with more faith we have more hope and more understanding of things and with that we have more joy and happiness and with that we help others with it. even with a simple smile things in someones day are completely changed. i pray and hope to have the faith like moses to take his people and journey for 40 years or like abraham to have faith to sacrafice his son knowing that the lord had a way and a reason for him, or like adam who made sacrafices not knowing why simply cause he was told to. nephi is and all the prophets in the book of mormon are examples to me of faith to go and do what the father commanded or to take armies with less numbers against unlikely odds or to lay down weapons of war to make convenants with the lord. i pray to have faith and i know that the rest will follow. and it has....

In april we have conference i am so excited i cant even wait. It will be a good one i think i can feel it. and also in april we as a mission are having a challenge to try and read the book of mormon in the same amount of days that joseph smith translated it. in 66 days we are going to read it and we were all handed out new books to read it and markers for it. I am excited for this. it will bring blessings to us. just like what hinkley said when he challenged the church. i did not take that challenge i thought i was to busy. and i regret it to this day and work to make it up all the time. and this is my chance i think to redeem myself for that is a small way and will already be my third time reading it cover to cover in the mission. it truelly is a book with a great power a power of god.

Keep praying for me and the people here. and thank everyone in the ward for there concerns and thoughts and prayers i am very grateful for them. the language is coming but i still have a long ways to go. But it is coming and the work is continueing to go forth. i love you so much! dan un gran beso a noah por me. muchos gracias por todos te amo!

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