I love getting letters from you as well! I look forward to being able to read your talk for stake conference! I am sure that it is great and that you will do a great job! It sounds like you and dad had a great time in NY! That is so fun that you got to go on a little vacation and take some time for yourselves. You look great! We really are blessed to have these flight privileges and that cool that you got to go on a trip with him as the pilot. I hope I can do that when I get home. I told dad that it would be another motivation to learn spanish well if i got to travel to spanish speaking countries with you guys...
You're on your way to Ragnar right now? I am sure that you will do a great job! I want you to email me about it and let me know how it goes. I know I probably don't need to say this but, don't forget to take and send pictures. I look forward to doing that with you as well! That's cool that Scott and Patti are doing it with you as well!
It was really neat being able to go visit one of the most sacred places on Earth and being able to go where no one else is allowed to go. They gave us a really cool tour and took us where only the missionaries that serve there are allowed to go. Super cool. I definitely think that I was supposed to be called to this mission and I have loved being here. It still is kinda hard occasionally to see a lot of my friends in foreign countries and in really cool places around the world but I know that I am supposed to be here. I love serving in the VC so much.
I was able to write dad partially in spanish and that was good. It took a lot longer than it would have to just write it in English but I know that it will help me to learn it as I use it more often. I definitely have a LONG way to go but it is coming slowly. It is hard, especially because I am around people that speak english like 90% of the time and I am always just giving tours in english.
This week was good! We had zone training on Friday and they talked a lot about prayers and how we need to have Action Prayers instead of an Object Prayer. We can't just pray for things to happen and expect Heavenly Father to just do things for us and we take no action. We need to tell Him what we are going to do (following the spirit) and ask for His help and His spirit to be with you as you do it. We have to act and not just expect.
After zone training, we went and tried a headquarters Bible referral but he wasnt home so we went to one of our swahili speaking families that was in the area and they were home, which like never happens! We were able to go in their home and teach them I Am a Child of God and super basic things. They were so cute!
We had exchanges on Saturday and got to set up for a halloween event that is going on in Independence. We went and contacted a less active that hasnt been to church in years and he was super nice and came to church on sunday! He said that he had been thinking about coming back for a while but he didnt have anyone in the branches number and it cant drive because he is an amputee (plus no one here has cars. its so weird). But we were able to arrange him a ride and he loved it!
On sunday, we had a little run in with the cops. Again. This time though, the cops were called on us. We went to contact a LA and no one came to the door so we went and talked to the neighbors and that was a success! He has been to BYU hawaii and knows a lot of mormons and was super interested. We talked to him for like 20 minutes and as we were getting in our car, cop cars pull up with their spotlights shining right at us. Turns out, the lady in the first house was home and she panicked when she saw our car sitting in front of her house for 20 minutes and called the police. The cops had a nice little laugh when they realized that we are harmless because all we do is talk about Christ and our car is full of scriptures. It all worked out but the lady was still upset that our car was in front of her house for that long...oops.
Yesterday we had district meeting and our district leader gave us the invitation to invite someone to be baptized every day for the next week so that will be interesting! So far, its going well! I'm excited to try this out.
Pday today has been good! I love hearing from you and I hope that you have a great week.
I love you lots!
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