May 23, 2011

Hi mom and dad and Brigham and Caleb...

This week was pretty good, we both were whitewashed into the sector, so we really didn’t know where a lot of stuff was but we are good now. We just contacted and talked with a ton of people, and we found a whole bunch of way good people too. I’m excited to start teaching them and stuff. Elder Riding already speaks well; he has a change more than me in the mission. Ya I'm still Zone leader, but I think this might be my last change as zone leader. They are usually only ZL for like 5 or 6 changes. Ya Elder mientus, Elder Vargass comp, is way tight, I feel really bad for him, and he has had a way hard life. He is 2 already and his dad is like anti Mormon and he has had all these crazy health problems and he is struggling pretty badly with his Spanish. I have trying to help him and stuff. He is way nice and loving and humble though, really is a great example. No I have never seen that hotel, it cause I have only been downtown twice. Downtown is out of our mission, so we just go there 2 times a year to renew our ID. It’s not that far from my sectors though. In the public transportation you could get there in like an hour or less. Ummm I guess we could use public transportation, it’s like always pretty busy though and we would look like way out of place, like rich gringos, and some of the sectors I have been in are pretty gangster so it would be interesting. I think it would be better to rent a car, but I could show you around the metro one day anyway, because it’s pretty cool.

That’s cool that Sinjin goes home pretty dang soon, when does mike go home? Like in august too? That’s good that you have been really busy mom, they are blessings for all the things you have sacrificed. I’m want to go to Dixie first when I get home, cause some of the credits that I have wont transfer until I get my associates... So yaw I need help doing that and registering again. And I need help looking up information about that Spanish test I can take that will give my credits. I will be able to get a Spanish minor like right away.

Do you know if the jazz got good picks at the lottery? Who are they?

Ya I’m going to answer a few of those questions that you wanted me to answer.

I have been really blessed by obeying because the rules that we obey are always for our protection. And the first law of the heavens is the obedience, so if I obey any rule, I will receive a blessing for having obeyed that rule.

The lord considers missionary work so important because it is his ¨work and his glory to ring to pass the immortality and the eternal life of man¨ and he does that through the member and missionaries of the church. It is also important because literally it is the most important message that any single person non member could ever hear and receive in their life, because it’s the only thing that will give them salvation. Missionaries have rules like that because all those things distract and draw the spirit away. Without the spirit we can’t teach the most important message in the world. People don’t join the church just by hearing doctrine, but they join the church as they start to notice their spiritual needs be filled and when they start to feel satisfied and filled spiritually. We also have rules like that because they protect us, and allow us to be more focused in the work. The that has came from following these rules is that I feel good before god and I feel worthy even if I’m baptizing people or not. When I follow those rules I also have promised blessing in m way, maybe in that same moment or years later.

young girls can meet their purpose if they write letter that are uplifting and spiritually focused. And not o baby I miss you I want to marry you crap. That makes it harder to focus.

Well family I love you guys have a good week!

Elder Whitney

P.S. I want oatmeal cream pies, Swiss cake rolls and stuff like that. And mountain Dew would be... heavenly. Maybe just like 3. And don’t worry about the caffeine. I drink coke every single day. President gave us Dr Pepper too the other day. I like zours. And cow tails. I’m good on taco seasoning and all that stuff. Don’t worry about the Tajin spice either. and reecies pieces and reecies fastbreak.