What a week this has been! I feel so much excitement to be
here in the Florida, Fort Lauderdale Mission with each day! This week I gained
my first new investigator and was able to give her a Book of Mormon (actually a
Libro de Mormon) and it was the first one I had ever given, I had tried at
home, but my friends never accepted, and I learned here that its because I
wasn't bold enough, I gave them an out and they took it. The most spiritual
experience I have had this week has got to be watching the 183rd Annual General
Conference with an investigator there! She was so receptive of the spirit and
knew without a doubt that it was true and she feels the strongest desire to be
baptized, and an even stronger desire to be sealed with her husband in the
temple, her only struggle now is getting her devout Catholic husband on board.
We are making every effort to get him to be involved but to no success yet. In
The Book of Mormon I have been reading and learning about the need for faith
even when you have seen miracles, because Laman and Lemul both saw MANY
miracles and angels and more, but still fell away repeatedly, and it just
amazes me that they did, and so I have been trying to keep my faith high so
that I never forget the miracles and testimony I have seen. In Conference one
of the quotes that struck me that where along those lines was, 'doubt your
doubts before you doubt your faith' and that is the type of missionary and
person that I want to become.
ok first off I have gotten 3 packages 2 large square ones
and the long odd shaped one with the hanger! Thank you SO much, at first
I thought all the green stuff was because it's your favorite color and you were
trying to remind me of you. It didn't even dawn on me that it was because I was
green! But thank you so much!! Awwwhahaha, he knows me so well. That is totally something I would do! I didn't, but I so wish I had thought of it! And I have been sharing a ton. I can't remember
all your questions, I can only send letters
and packages on P-Days though and I'm sending you a whole lot of letters again
because I realized I only have 2 American stamps left and I didn't have an
opportunity to get more. Transfers are every 6 weeks, I will be with Elder
Lamb for 2 transfers because he is my trainer. We get roughly $130 dollars a
month on our MSF debit cards and that's great! We shop at a Windixie because it
is the closest place and the cheapest. There is not a single Walmart in my
entire area!! Conference was great we watched all the sessions at the chapel
and we did get to watch in English so that I could understand everything. I
really think you ought to try the thumb drive thing, I just don't know if I will
ever have time to email all of the pictures I have taken! We asked about sending a thumb drive to copy his pictures on and send home so we don't have to worry about his memory card getting lost in the mail and losing all his pictures. We have kinda figured
out the meal stuff we still eat VERY sparingly in the evenings and I value the
granola bars immensely! I pack a couple of those and a jerky stick and spread
that out over the evening. I have lost a ton of weight! the biking mixed with
barely eating enough to have the energy to pedal has made this exciting. I bike
roughly 10 miles a day which if you even have to ask, it is crazy! We have a
LARGE area and our apartment isn't even in it. We have to bike about 2 miles to
get to our area. If this was Utah our area would be 4 stakes, I swear, its like
if I lived in Herriman but my area was all of Riverton! Its brutal! But I love
it SO much! The bright side is that there are NO hills, mountains, raises or
any thing, which I find really odd, there's something that feels safe about
mountains... I don't know paranoia.
This was been so great the people here LOVE Christ and are
so receptive to the spirit and want to be baptised!
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