March 29, 2010

Hey guys! Man sounds like the cruise is great, pretty jealous. It's weird thinking your gone somewhere without me!? And whats going on at home, whos taking care of my Macy? Every single person here in Utah has about 3 dogs, if not dogs then 20 cats. I don't understand it but it makes me miss Macy more and more. I think I'm going to send a t-shirt home of mine that she can sniff for hours and go crazy about.

Right after writing these emails we go and pick up our mail, and last week I got so much mail! It was so exciting, I felt so loved. Honestly it was the greatest feeling reading those letters, you don't feel it throughout the week thats for sure. Thanks Lindsay, Dianne, Jim, Debra, Breanne, Kamry and Taren! I even got one from the Dick's, seems like they send it to all the missionaries they know, but it was really kind. And mom thanks so much for the pictures and picture frames, sadly the picture frame that opens up broke in the mail but the bigger one for the family picture was all good. Looks great in the appartment and don't worry about the other frame its all good just having the pictures. All you guys are the greatest. It's so to get time to write people back! There are so many people I want to write! Anyone who wrote me I want to so bad! Plus like 20 others I think about while I'm here! We are only allowed to write emails on Pday's during Pday hours any other spare time during the week (the 5-10 minutes at lunches) is used for extra studies. Since we are not DISO at all and 100% obiendent I follow that rule, sometimes I wish I didn't though. For example Pday's are only from 10-6 and today we had to clean the whole appartment, laundry, wash car, emails, go get mail from zone building, particpate in zone activitity (ultimate frisbee, lame want some ballers in my zone), get some groceries, hair cut, dry clean suits and I got to write letters this week or I'll go nuts! OK enough about today, but thanks to everyone who has sent me something I appreciate it and dad thank you x100 for the GPS its going to help.

So for this week I'm going to sum it up quick because we don't have much time yet, we are late for our zone activitie. It was pretty successfull. There are many highs and lows aleady. Some times we will go a full day of just straight shut down. One day we had two lessons planned, both cancelled so we decided to go tracting because we had nothing else to do, already went through the part member family list and unbaptized list. Well it was a full day of people slamming doors on us, telling us all the problems of the world come from religion. It sounds lame but after a full day of talking to no one it gets depressing, Elder England was getting so mad only thing that kept me going lol. You start to think holy cakes two years........

But then next day things pick up and your happy as ever! It's weird you work hard and don't give up things fall in place. We got 5 investigators on date, we picked up two new ones and sadly dropped that awesome Mary girl I told you about last week. Well we are still teaching her and shes totally golden just she can't get baptize her. We big sixed her (six questions to decide who interviews her) and the last question is something to do with probabtion. Well she has one full year of probabtion due to something, I think DUI. It was really sad, she had no clue that would prevent her from baptism.

Later we picked up this lady Angila who we found from on Chadborn in WA9 ward, its the most ghetto street in our area. She just needs a change in life, her ex boyfriend just went to jail for beating her. She was thrown down the stairs and broke her jaw or something and story goes on and on. But he is truely a great ladie (about 30), she adores her three children and they are so well behavied its unreal. She wishes she could spend more time with them and not have to work to raise them with a stay at home mom. It's really weird you learn to have this love for your investiagtors and really anyone you come in contact with.

Second one we picked up is Lourdes Tea, she has only lived here for two years with her RM husband. He grew up here and she grew up Peru, so she has a strong catholic background. Only one lesson with her so far but we brought the spirit into that lesson big time! So if she follows through with the commitments and shows some faith she will feel the love and gain a testimony!

So its great here, I love Utah as far as the mountains and such. The area we are in is beautiful huge trees, deer in our backyard we like to chase feels like banff. But its a little culture shock, things are just a little different here. Weird to see so many members and since there are so many, you see so many less active and part memeber families, you just want to help out but its only up to us to carry the spirit unto the hearts and not into the hearts.

What else..... Well I gave a talk in a retirement home, they old a sacrement service there. It was really funny half the people sleeping and the others just huge smiles nodding!

OH! I met the architect who designed the Rome Italy temple! He showed us all pictures of it and everything! He was the cheif architect! or is! No one else on the universe even knows what its going to look like and we so all these pictures of it and he told us stories of it and the things they went through to get permit to build. It got my hopes up big time and can't wait to go to school.

Well family I hope the cruise is amazing, make it fun, and send me some pictures via letters one day, so real pictures! And don't worry about the first paragraph I'm doing fine! That was one day, every strong LDS family just wants to take us in and make us there son because half there sons are on missions. But we say no no! we got to keep on working!

LOVE YOU ALL.