wow i was not ready or expecting to hear that news!!!! so the bigelow family now has a houseboat! alright that is awesome!!! i am way excited right now. to bad i wont get to use it for a couple more years. but it is alright. i am just way excited for it now. sounds like a really fun weekend alot like mine was. with conference and the amazing spirit and testimony building experiences that there were to hear the words of a prophet of god and his apostles here on the earth today and the personal revelation we were able to recieve and answers to our prayers. it was so amazing!!!
alright so you want to know about my pension, my comp, and my investigators... well i will do my best to describe them all and give you all the information i can think of about them. i have kinda lacked on that stuff i guess and i cant really think of what to say anymore. so it is good that you have questions and thoughts of things you want to hear about and stuff so i know where to go with what i am saying now. but i did also recieve four packages. two from mom and dad, one from beccy, and one from grandma johnson. so thankyou all very much i loved it and was way excited and everyone in my pension was very jealous that i have people who love me so much. i just told them that they are now realizing how important and vital to the function of the family i was and is bribery for me.... haha but seriously thanks it meant alot!!
alright so for my pension. it is actually really nice. i like it alot. it is pretty big as well. there are four of us living in it and it is in a three story apartment building and we are on the third floor. we have hot water and a small shower that we need to squigy the floor everytime after showering but it is fine cause it is a pretty good shower. and we have a bidé in our batheroom still like all batherooms here. but i have come up with a few invention ideas for it that i may use after the mission to make my millions... and we have two bedrooms where we sleep a small bancony in my room where we can hang clothes to dry and put my comps smelly shoes out there so that the whole room does not stink up and we can smell the air fresheners i have got from beck. thanks it is coming in great use these last couple transfers with my last two comps smelly feet and shoes. and we have a way small kitchen that two at a time cant even fit in it, but we are all big guys to so that might be a problem, but it is small. and we have our study area and i have a sweet view of my area out the window right infront of my window, helps me to remember to study for my investigators and people i will see in the day. and the apartment building is orange. and that is about all i can think of for right now. but it is really nice, i would live in it outside of the mission also.
my companion, his name is elder hopkin. he is from boston. he is way cool guy. football, basketball, etc player from his school and background. he is the youngest in his family and has 14 nieces and nephews. and his family all is members and strong in the church. he went to byu before the mission for a year. is way smart and wants to be an accountant. he is a big guy also. a little bigger then me, and eats alot. he has one transfer more then i do in the mission. so six weeks more is all and is a capo. works hard and speaks very very well. most people think he is argentine or some latin descent. so that is cool. we get along great and are working well together. we could not believe president put us together becasue it was with his zone and him that i was competing with in augost to win the cup and then we got put together. our zones baptized the most in the mission last transfer we had 23 and his had 22 so we are expecting big things to happen and president is also he is expecting us to make the zone explode and this pilot program we are starting and testing out here to explode and take off from us. so we will see. really good elder and good friend for me.
in my area and the people i am teaching. we are always looking for people to teach and new experiences to have. but we have one maybe two baptisms on saturday. and teaching some really cool people. one of our investigators names is fabrisio, he is 20 years old and wants to change his life so he can get work and have a better life. he is adicted to marijuana. and we are working with him to stop that. at night he goes out and fights in the streets to get money so we are woking with him to stop that and to have a better life. he loves talking to us and is a really good guy. this kid who is 16 is getting baptized on saturday, and maybe his mom but she has some doubts about the need to be baptized again in a different church. but we are woking with them and they are really cool. we talked to them in the street last transfer and went by there house and taught them. it was funny we wanted to talk to the mom, maria is her name, but she closed the street when she saw us. so we crossed to, the she crossed back so we did also so then she stopped and said well they must have something important so say. haha it was funny so we will see if we can get her this week to or no. and now we are also teaching this kid ivan, he is from salta, and we got the reference from the salta mission it was weird but really cool to go and see what was up with him and what we could do. so we did and he is cool, a little need of confidence in the things and just really busy cause he is 20 and in school and working and doing alot all the time but wants to know more about the church so called his mormon friend in salta and told her to call us and send us. so we went, and we will see what happens there. and also we are teaching this family where the parents are members but have not been to church for 13 years and they have 10 kids and only two are baptized, so we are working to reactivate and baptize them. four came to conference over the weekend so we will see i think we will for sure get a couple atleast to come back and be baptized and stay. the dad is really pridefull and stuborn. he has a big problem with that we need to take the sacrament every week. he says it only slhould be once a month. but we will see what we can do with him. then there is our golden investigator that we have. her name is yesica. she is 19 and has a strong strong strong testimony of the church understands everything. comes every week to church reads the book of mormon and does it all just has a problem with her friends making fun of her if she is mormon and her dad wont except and will be mad if she gets baptized. so it is tough but we are woking hard with her and doing what we can. we have others, but they are not really progressing right now so we will see what we can do and we hope to find more this week and do more with them and help them to come closer to their savior.
this week was a special week. to be able to hear conference and feel of the spirit that was there. i really loved it and they talked alot about the prophet and we need to follow him and his teachings and our pride and choices we make. i loved those talks from priesthood. by monson and uchtdorf. they were ones to rembeber forever!!! my testimony was strengthened this weekend. and i want you all to know that i know that we have a living prophet here on the earth today, just think about that... what a blessing to have a mouthpiece from god to speak to us. i know that thomas s monson is a true living prophet of got and that he was called of god. i know joseph smith restored the gospel in its fullness through the gift and power of god and that through him the authority of god is on the earth again today and if excercised with faith and correctly we can work miracles. i know all this through the book of mormon i know it is the word of god and like joseph smith said through it we can become closer to god and that it is the most true book on the earth today. through this book we can know everything, if the church is true, if we have the authority, if a prophet lives today. all through reading and praying over this book. i know it is true!
i love you all and miss you. take care and your in my thoughts and prayers!!!
con amor
elder bigelow
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