May 1, 2012

Hey Family!

 

Things are as usual, going well. I went on exchanges with our district leader, elder goulding, last wed. That was super cool! Exchanges are fun, but that last one, we saw a ton of miracles! Every where we went, every person that we talked to was either nice, or they were interested in having us come back and have a lesson. There had to be at least 8 people that told us to come back in a span of 5 hours. We helped this lady move in some of her furniture into her house. She then paid for our lunch at this sweet Mexican market. It was dang good! The mexican food is sooo good down here.

 

Lately I've been learning/ studying about something called eternal rounds. A bit of an explanation: There are certain principles that we teach/ use in teaching investigators that apply to almost everything in our daily lives. You can in a sense call everything an investigator that has some sort of concern that you need to help resolve. Every day has a problem, and every week also has a problem. We have to figure out what that is and overcome it. By so doing, we are happy, everyone is happy, and we always know what we need to work on every day. That goes along with setting goals too. So I'm basically realizing that things here on the mission will work out in the real world as well. They are eternal principles that have always been used and will always continue to be used.

 

We didn't tract quite as much this week as last. We've done a lot of work in the Fallbrook area, going by and visiting Less-Actives. It's a mighty long drive over there! About 20 min... But thats super long for a missionary! Fallbrook looks kinda ugly. It has a bunch of trees and bushes and stuff. I kinda looks like Krupp. Back in the forest part. Here is a little more dense though. So it's cool.

 

One of the sisters in our vista 9th ward was giving her farewell talk on sunday. It brought me back to my farewell talk. I am soooo glad that none of you guys decided to come up and sing a song right before I spoke. That would not have been good! I would not have been a man after something like that. Because I wasn't after this sister leaving on her mission had her sister sing. Music really does and can touch your heart more then anything else. It's kinda stupid! But it's very good at the same time.

 

The whole service was dang good! They talked a lot about charity and service. Charity is built as we act upon it. We look past the negative influences of others and see that person as they truly are. We see they truly as a son or daughter of god with the greatest potential to become something truly extraordinary. I often think that I forget about that. I forget that everyone has the divine ability to become an eternal, glorious, exalted being that has the ability to progress eternally. We have to see that in everyone and treat them as such. That pretty hard when someone yells at you and calls you stupid. But that's what we have to do in order to have the greatest of all gifts, Charity. We act.  

 

Theres my little spill for the day. Hope things are all well!