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well that will be really exciting for jenny and the whole family to have another adition. i have been telling everyone here and they all are excited as well. everyone loves seeing the family picture and thinks everyone looks great in it. and all the other pictures i have of the family and things in my photo album. im sure i will get the address and stuff for my mission president and things for when he goes home so that you all can go to his homecoming and come in contact with him. he is such an amazing man, i think he will be a seventy for sure and possibly a twelve! he is that good. but i will come up with the information when it comes time and is getting closer. he goes home the first part of july.

my companion and i are doing great. we talk about high school and stuff alot and the people that we both knew back in the day. we have alot of fun and makes things a litlle better since we live alone out in the middle of no where, that we can talk openly to each other and stuff. he struggles a little bit and gets a little un focussed. but we are working on it and things are improving greatly. he is getting better and feeling better about the misison and just everything in general. we work well and are seeing miracles and success come for us. that is the great thing about it all.

so dad asked me a little about my studies and the things i have read and learned, since i dont say much about any of that. sorry i have not mentioned it to much, i didnt know that everyone was wondering about that. but i have read the book of mormon through cover to cover a few times and am currently in the process of doing it again. currently i am in mosiah. amazing book in the book of mormon with king benjamin and all that he said and did for the people is a great story that i love learning about. and then again probably one of my most favorite stories in the whole book of mormon especially now in this time of my life on the mission. is alma the younger, and his story with the sons of mosiah. how terrible they were. to the point that they were destroying the church and calling it false. even saying that his father alma, the prophet... is a false prophet and is not called of god. that is just huge to me that he said and did that... it must of hurt alma so much hearing and seeing that from his own son... but he kept praying and fasting for him that he might change and be better. but in his pride it would not happen, till an angel of god had to strike him down and teach him a lesson while he was dumb. i wish i could do that with some people here on the mission to help them to see the importance of the things i am saying and not just say... soy catolico, pastolico, romano... i hear that probably 100 times a day. and they wont listen from there pride. obviously i have helped and taught several people that have said that. but it is from the pride of there fathers that they are this way. and the tradition continues to where in the street a 5 year old boy will yell...long live the virgen mary...from the tradition of his fathers... everyone of us needs to come to our own conclusion and deciding factor of whether or not the church is true. GOD IS ONE SOLO. he is not the creator of so much confusion!!! if there is ONE GOD why are there so many churches....... the confusion and PRIDE of man. god is not a god of confusion. he is the same TODAY, TOMORROW, AND FOREVER. if he called prophets in old times to help his people be guided out of confusion, it is obvious he will call prophets today to help us and guide us out of confusion. just like alma did for his son in the last part of mosiah going into alma.

that is a little bit of what my studies have been lately is in mosiah and more update alma the younger this last week. i have read other books we have in the mission. but i did not come with anything more then my scriptures and the day of defense book from austin. i never bought any before i left. but i find some laying around her and there in pench´s and i will start to read them. i have read our heritage great book. articles of faith. and almost all of jesus the christ twice. i have learned alot!! but i learn the most in zone conferences and personal study from the scriptures. i love reading the triple. i learn so much from doctrina y convenios. there is so much revelation to be learned and understood from it. i love it.

this week i was able to go out and do some divisions with the zone leaders and i got to work with elder roberts. the other alta boy. the one that i did not get along with to well in high school. but now we are best friends. i love the kid. he is great! we had alot of fun and alot of success. we are working towards trying to become companions and stuff. and hope to have it that way our last two transfers of our mission together.

during the week, we talked to alot of crazy people and had some really interesting experiences knocking doors. and some great laughs from it. i swear sometimes people just do not think of what they say or even do sometimes here. well in the entire world i guess. but i think it happens more often here then anywhere else. but we worked with our investigators and had some good experiences with them. we are working with this kid named maxi. today is his 21 birthday. and the majority of his family is members of the church but he is not. even though he looks like he could be a RM he is not a member. nor comes to church. but we gave him a book of mormon a couple weeks ago and on sunday he came to church. perfect sunday to come to, because i had to give a talk on the blessings of the word of wisdom. and he smokes a little. so that was good. he loved it and will continue progressing i feel. keep him in your prayers. also we have a man named pedro, that was living with a woman and could not come to church cause she did not want or anything. but she just left him for another man... blessing in disguise. and now he cam and loved it alot and wants to be baptized and we plan on baptizing him and maybe maxi in between sessions of conference. so keep that in your prayers that a miracle can be worked and we can get it done. i am really excited and happy with what is going on in our area. i love it. and i love it even more that we have men to teach. future priesthood holders to help this ward out that is all women!! haha

but thanks dad for doing my school stuff. that was a great help to me. and thanks for all you all do for me. i am so lucky to have such a great family!! i hope all goes well with jenny and the new baby. it will be in my prayers. let me know what my new nephews name is. have a great week.!! love you all

con amor

elder bigelow