June 20, 2011
thanks for the letter dad! it was exactly what i needed to hear and what i needed to kinda help me through with the passing of maxi. i talked to his family a couple times on the phone and they were just a wreck and couldnt even talk it was even hard for me to talk when they would all start to break down in there tears. i will for sure get in the information of him to go to the temple and do his work for them when i get home. this week was pretty crazy! it started with me getting stitches in my knee from falling while wrestling with elder roberts before going to bed on tuesday night and i fell into the bath tub in the pench and hit my knee on the tile soap holder in it and it exploded. in all the laughter of what happened and trying to figure out how to fix the soap holder i pulled up my pants to see my knee and say it was split wide open! haha so we went to the emergency room and i got stitches. dont worry the mission has a deal with the hospital where i went and it was free. little sketchy but free. and it is healing really nicely. almost all the way sealed up now. we gave capacitations all week and talked for about 4 hours straight everyday except saturday. it was exhausting! but really fun, i got to see lots of missionaries as they were getting ready to have there interview. i will have mine this week and i am looking forward to it very much! my very last with president lindahl cause he goes home the first of july! he told me he would be honored to give his testimony at my homecoming on the 28th of aug. he just needs the time... because bishop rasmussen emailed me and asked if he would. so i asked and he said he would be honored to but needs the time so please let me know asap!
well in the week of interviews we drove up to san juan in the mission car to do the interviews and stuff. it is wierd to be in a car again and driving and things. but it is fun. i dont drive much typically someone else drives. but still it is wierd. we went up with the lindahls and that was such a great experience!! i loved it. i learned so much about being a good business man and missionary and alot about there lives and things. it was alot of fun. elder roberts and i shared our whole story with themn and they loved it. and we made some plans with them to someday after go out on our boats and go skiing and boating. and lots of other plans for the future. it was alot of fun. they always make me ffeel so loved and noticed in all that i do and just make me feel like a million dollars. it is so great.
i came back and had to pick up a new misionary on friday that came late from guatamala because of visa problems. so that was fun and we also went out and worked in the area we technically have for us on saturday. elder harvey and i did, because leal and roberts stayed in san juan to get somemore people in the water in san juan. but harvey and i found some miracle pople and found this great family of 7 that all accepted to be baptized and honestly were the family of gold that we have been looking for in our own area and been working with in all the other aeras of the mission. so that was way cool. really fun experience to know that now it really is your own investigator family. i also found out where the ditoto family is the family of gold i found last year in alvear and how they are doing. they are good. still going to church and doing well. they are sick but doing really well. i wrote them a letter and will be trying to go out and visit them this weekend if i can find the time to do it and to get out of the office and out of areas that are struggling a little bit. im sure i will be able to find the time so i am excited to see them and how they are.
happy fathers day dad. i hope you enjoyed that letter. it sounds like you did and i really meant all that i put in it. i would really love to get a tag if at all possible! it is all my dreams had been about the past like months then i got the news i did not draw and they ended and it killed me! so that would be great if we could get that hook up! also i forgot to let you know that YES I AM IN for the texas game!!! please! i cant believe you even asked haha and hopefully the tcu game which i hear will be in dallas cowboy stadium..... also keep in contact with the roberts family. you need to continue talking and becoming friends! haha
thanks again for all you do! i hope trek went well for sean. and i hope powell goes well for all of you this weekend! you will be in my thoughts and i will be wishing i was there. but loving it that i am here! good luck with the house boat! thanks for everything again! i love you all and miss you all!
con amor
elder bigelow
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