Jan 13, 2009

hello family again, so this week has gone by super fast i cant even believe it. its good though. i hope the rest is just as fast. so to start out ill tel you what i did today. so we woke up at six and went to the beach to watch the sun come up. that was really cool, ive never seen the ocean so calm. then i made a sand castle and blew it up ioth my fireworks, that was the best. if only it was bigger. then we met up with all the other elders and we rented this indoor soccer field and played for a couple hours, that was really fun, im definitely improving. but it sure does drain you. then we went to go buy some food at toledo, its like the walmart down here.so athis last week has been good, just enjoying the time here. no real succes with anyone, we invited our investiator marcelo to church so we went and got him, atleast we have someone to teach, i dont know idf he will progress much but i sure hope so. then on monday we had lucnh with the branch presidents family, i dont think they like me very much, but they atleast fed me, so i shared the spiritual thought, i gave an experience that i had with an elder in my district in the mtc, he could be a real douche bag sometimes, then earlier that day i read the scriptures and it just so happened that i read the one that talks about loving your enemies and pray for them, and one time i was really offended by him, i brushed it off and continued on despising him, i guess heavenly father had a lesson for me to learn, so in class the instructor did an activity to write somethin nice about an elder in our district, so we all pulled names and it just so happens that i pulled his. its been to this day one of the hardest things that ive ever done, i really didnt want to do it, but then i remembered that scripture. so after that i had done it i felt so much better inside, i didnt have that spirit of contention and the feelin passed, i was still a little wary of saying anything around him but it turned out well for me. so nothing insanely big but i can also say that it follows with you get what you pray for, that week i was asking the lord to help make me a better person, so the lesson is that if you ask to be a better person the lord does it by giving you situations where you have to choose to be the better person. so another story, right as we were walking away from the lunch this guy came up to us and wanted us to drop by his house sometime this week, even if things never work out it made me happy just to hear someone say that. something very small but it made such a big difference to know that there really are friendly people out there, it was a small thing but it made my day. well thats all of my cheesy stories. keep me updated with jordan, i sure hope he hasnt suffered to much eye damage, what do the docters say about it? will he have problems with his sight? anything else new with the family? maybe send me some pictures of family stuff. oh and mom can you send me a recipe for making biscuits, i have an idea for empanadas that i want to try. oh and also for a gravy to go with it. i have been wanting biscuits and gravy for a while. well i love you all be safe, you cant have all the fun now. elder seegrist