San Vicente
No Mom, I don’t need a hard copy of the newsletter. I never got the stockings that you sent. I don’t know what I need for Valentine’s. Yes, I want the study thing for the BOM in Spanish and Old and New Testament and Pearl of Great Price. No, don’t send Books of Mormon, we have plenty and plus they wouldn’t be able to understand English.
That is crazy that still Anna’s call has not come and Ian is going to Chile!!!!! That is awesome... I can’t wait to talk in Spanish to all my buddies. And maybe to Anna in Italian. Haha who knows, that is crazy that John Varner is already back, it seems like he just left.
Anyway, this was a pretty good week. We have three baptisms set right now for this month and maybe two more at the end of the month. We are working pretty good. I study a lot of Chapter 5 in PMG and I love the part about how the BOM and the Bible compliment each other. I love all those scriptures at the end and 1 Nephi 13 and 2 Nephi 29, how the bible was corrupted from simple truths and the BOM was revealed to correct those, 1 Nephi 13:41, I think. But wow, my testimony has grown so much about the Book of Mormon and the Bible and how with both we have the fullness of the gospel in our hands. Basically the BOM clears up all the crap that the people did to the Bible. It’s like the pooper scoopers. hahahahaha wow that just came to my head and I think it’s going in my journal tonight. I just compared the BOM to a pooper scooper. hahaha but really look those up and it will strengthen your testimony so much. Like it says in Mormon 6: 7-8 that if you don’t believe in the BOM then you don’t believe in the Bible and they are in our hands and I love 2 Nephi 3:12 that they will basically take down the world. That just hit me hard that so many prophets have testified of both and yet so many people still won’t accept in because of the craftiness of the devil, 1 Nephi 13: 29 or something like that. I don’t know my studies just keep getting better and better, I love it. I could do it all day.
So we have two bikes and one is bigger than the other and of course me being the junior comp he gave me the small one. So one day I asked if I could ride the big one just to go get our wash and he let me. We are going for about ten seconds and the gears get all jacked up and the thing that you can move the chain with bent into the spokes, I have no idea how, and so we bent it back and it was working fine and then I tried it again later and the same thing happened!!! Haha so, we took it in to put a new part on it and now it runs good.
Really I am loving my comp. He is teaching me how to become more assertive because a lot of times I wait for him to start talking when I could or I let him answer a question when I could. He is helping gain my confidence with my teaching and giving me good tips on how I can become better.
That is sweet that Sean is going to the Y and Will Walkon. That is sweet. I can’t believe he is already home!! That is cool, Mike you are learning how to do the bids and all. I can’t wait to come back too and talk nothing but gospel and all the deep crap that I want to learn. I really wish I had all day to study sometimes. But I got a lot of time left in my life, I hope. Get going on that p 90 x and I will do the same. I slack some days with working out but that is one thing I need to be better at because it wakes me up mentally and spiritually for the day.
Well Jess it sounds like your going to be the next balla at Oly. Your going to be the one that all the people talk about and the star. That’s just what I hear from everyone here, I don’t know what they are saying up there in the states. But no really, that’s only if you want to. I thought the same thing. My sophomore year I felt like I improved so much and I said to myself by junior and senior year I will be dominating. And look what happened, I didn’t grow............ hmmm thanks mom and dad for those genes...... haha no just kidding but, we got the jolly green giant here that will be pretty big for her age. Jess, keep working harder and harder and you can be that person that everyone will look to at the end of the game to score. Keep pushing yourself and I will be back for your junior and senor year to train like sluga.
Well lets see what else happened. Not much else, it was a pretty normal week other than that one day that our bikes broke down and absolutely nothing went right and it just went to the dumps. But my comp and Ii talked about it and said what can we learn from this. ..... actually I really honestly think that the bike did that right outside the house because while we were fixing the bike I realized that I didn’t put my badge on. I didn’t have my name tag. I don’t know what else it could have been because it was working fine before.....strange things.
Well there are some Americans here and I asked them if I could give you their address to send packages because that would be a lot faster. And the wife said that her husband is flying airplanes and is in SLC. I gave him mom’s number and he was going to call you to see if you had a package for me to bring down, and ask him if you can get his address so that you can send stuff there and it might be easier and faster. Oh, send me the D and C manual too. Wow, I am going to be packing a load. No, just send me the BOM and the D and C for now.
But I love you so much and pray for you every day. I hope all is well at home. Anna, keep studying hard. Get down Chapter 4 and 10, those are the ones that will help a lot. And in the first chapter I was reading and it said that as your understanding of the atonement gets deeper your desire to help others will become stronger. I love that and I think I am going to study a little bit more about the atonement this week so my desire can be stronger. My knowledge already has grown because we had a family home evening last night and my companion and I gave a lesson about the atonement and based it off of 2 Nephi 2:8. I love that scripture. And he gave it in Spanish and I gave it in English. It was hard translating and hard talking because I am used to gospel talk in Spanish so I was stuttering a little bit. It was weird haha but that was way cool because we have some gringos in the ward and they didn’t understand hardly any Spanish. But I also talked about Moroni 7:41 and how without the atonement we would basically be miserable. We couldn’t hope for anything more after this life. We couldn’t hope to live with our Heavenly Father again and we couldn’t be freed from all of the guilt that we have because of our sins.... I choked up a little, it was pretty sweet.
Well, I love you all so much and am thankful for your support. Mom, just don’t send a bunch of candy because I can’t gain anymore weight. Just send maybe the little post-its to write on and put in the scriptures. Not the mini clear ones to mark but the ones that area a little bigger. And maybe some colored pencils. Well, I love you all so much. Tell the cousins and grandparents how much I love them too. Keep doing what’s right.
Love, Elder Mahas
