Our investigator hasn´t truly received an answer yet and had to work yesterday but is moving along. She has had a tough time recently though. I don´t know when she will do it but she should soon. If everyone could pray for her with us it will happen.
We did find a great family last week as well. I have felt very good about this family and am hoping for the best. It is a mother and her two children. They are very religious and have had some amazing expriences. We are going to keep going with them though and I hope they keep going on with everything.
That's what we really have to work with right now. I am really happy with how everything is going right now. We are improving in everything. I am grateful to be here as well. I am learning so much right now it is rediculous. It´s as if there is an open conduit from heaven directly linked to me so that I learn quickly and rapidly and more every day. Really it is amazing being on the mission. You learn a great deal in a very short period of time.
Well I hope that everyone is as happy as I am. Í am grateful for your prayers and support and for all you´ve done for me and taught me. I love you all and pray for you.
[eMail to Dad] I don´t feel any different right now than I did before I reached the "hump." Elder Sharp who was in the MTC with me said that he felt it was completely overrated and doesn´t change anything. It really doesn´t. But time has gone fast. Time just doesn´t mean the same thing to me anymore. I just feel that when there is a time on something, it just means that it will be over and when its done its done. You just have to do the best you can on it now.
My attitude is changing a lot in dealing with school and everything. I want to get things done when I get them, not just done on time. That goes with life as well.
As for everything else I am doing well. I know a lot of things now that I wish I´d known before but everything has to come in a learning process. You can´t just know everything at once, in that way you would never have full, true agency to choose. Sometimes you just have to choose without knowing everything or even why.
I am grateful for all the experiences I have been given and for what I do know. Many don´t know these things and for that reason trip and fall. Just the same there are things I don´t know and so sometimes I trip and fall and it hurts. But that's how we learn.
As for the mission right now, the President keeps saying that he keeps giving me tough assignments, but I really don´t feel or see how that should make anything any diffirence in my mission. Everything is difficult, you can learn and grow regardless of the circumstances. But I´m sure he is right to a degree and I know I will thank him in the future for the experiences he has let me have. The Lord knows exactly what He is doing. I am truly grateful to be here. I am learning a great deal and feel the Lord´s hand in my life more directly than I´ve ever felt before.
I thank you for supporting me and teaching me so much about all these things by your example. I´ve never been able to apreciate it enough, what you have done. As time goes on I realize more and more what you have done for me, thank you. I love you and pray for you. I hope that you know that and feel it.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
eMail of October 19, 2009
My week went well and I have learned a lot. As for the weather it is heating up but has rained a bit. I did get the package by the way, thank you. We didn´t have a baptism this week though, she is sick and hasn´t really received an answer yet.
As for Marc, I really think he is okay for getting into BYU. Just because BYU has or hasn´t sent a letter yet doesn´t mean a thing. I actually don´t remember getting a letter from BYU to apply. Not everyone gets one either. BYU still accepts more of the students that apply than just about any other university in the nation. I think he is okay with a 25 considering that BYU Idaho can accept with with a 2.0 and a 16 on the ACT. Most people only get around 25. Just stay calm and do your best. As for AP Euro, talk with Miller. See if he can set something up to lessen the busywork load on Marc. Three pages of definitions and events is a little rediculous even for college level clases. I´ve seen the class before, just focus on learning what you need to learn and talk with Miller about it. Marc will be okay.
Well, as for me I am learning a lot about stress and how to manage it as well. I am happy and feel much more prepared now for everything in life. I have a lot left to learn, but I am making progress. I love you and pray for you. I hope you can find joy in all that you do.
As for Marc, I really think he is okay for getting into BYU. Just because BYU has or hasn´t sent a letter yet doesn´t mean a thing. I actually don´t remember getting a letter from BYU to apply. Not everyone gets one either. BYU still accepts more of the students that apply than just about any other university in the nation. I think he is okay with a 25 considering that BYU Idaho can accept with with a 2.0 and a 16 on the ACT. Most people only get around 25. Just stay calm and do your best. As for AP Euro, talk with Miller. See if he can set something up to lessen the busywork load on Marc. Three pages of definitions and events is a little rediculous even for college level clases. I´ve seen the class before, just focus on learning what you need to learn and talk with Miller about it. Marc will be okay.
Well, as for me I am learning a lot about stress and how to manage it as well. I am happy and feel much more prepared now for everything in life. I have a lot left to learn, but I am making progress. I love you and pray for you. I hope you can find joy in all that you do.
Monday, October 12, 2009
eMail of October 12, 2009
Another week goes by along with another year. Time doesn´t stop, it just goes by faster. Even still I am learning a lot. This last week I´m sure has been a defining week for my life. I have learned a great deal about attitude and love and charity, along with humility and all those things.
The greatest attribute a man can posess is Charity. Charity being the attitude of a person of divine love towards another. Every commandment is to help us have charity, every single one. Every law and commandment and experience is meant so that we learn charity and become more like Christ. I am just amazed at how much I have learned this last week about that. This is in part because I felt that charity fill me the whole week. It was strange but I felt my pride just disappear in certain aspects and just felt that many things of the world were no longer a part of me. I am not sure how or why that happened, but I am grateful. I changed this last week, more than just learned. It is an amazing feeling. I feel free from many burdens. It is difficult to explain but thats how it is. Along with that came success and other blessings.
Saturday we taught a new investigator that I hadn´t realized wasn´t a member before. She has been to Church twice and watched conference. She has felt the Spirit and wants to know about the Church. We taught her and she accepted baptism and everything. It was amazing and if everything goes well she will be baptised this Sunday. I am so grateful for the blessings I have received. The only thing I can say is that I know that the Lord wants us to succeed. There is no other explanation.
As for everything else I am grateful for your support and love. I hope everything continues to go well. I love you all and pray for you.
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Elder David Skiles
The greatest attribute a man can posess is Charity. Charity being the attitude of a person of divine love towards another. Every commandment is to help us have charity, every single one. Every law and commandment and experience is meant so that we learn charity and become more like Christ. I am just amazed at how much I have learned this last week about that. This is in part because I felt that charity fill me the whole week. It was strange but I felt my pride just disappear in certain aspects and just felt that many things of the world were no longer a part of me. I am not sure how or why that happened, but I am grateful. I changed this last week, more than just learned. It is an amazing feeling. I feel free from many burdens. It is difficult to explain but thats how it is. Along with that came success and other blessings.
Saturday we taught a new investigator that I hadn´t realized wasn´t a member before. She has been to Church twice and watched conference. She has felt the Spirit and wants to know about the Church. We taught her and she accepted baptism and everything. It was amazing and if everything goes well she will be baptised this Sunday. I am so grateful for the blessings I have received. The only thing I can say is that I know that the Lord wants us to succeed. There is no other explanation.
As for everything else I am grateful for your support and love. I hope everything continues to go well. I love you all and pray for you.
--
Elder David Skiles
Monday, October 5, 2009
eMail of October 5, 2009
I got to see the whole conference live this last weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it even though it was hectic surrounded the sessions. This last week I was with a borrowed companion from another zone about 30 to 40 minutes away. We had to work both of our sectors. It was fun to get to know another sector.
Saturday though they had me change houses. That took up a good deal of time, all the time in between sessions. Today I did get my new companion though. His name is Elder Divitry from Logan Utah. He has about 9 months in the mission. I am looking forward to this coming transfer and the blessings we are going to recieve.
I hope that all of you are enjoying what you are doing as I am. As for the force of the talk of Elder Holland, he wasn´t alone. Others spoke strongly as well. The Book of Mormon talks about the power of strong, pure testimony to change the lives of people. Alma the younger at one time found it necessary to bear down in pure testimony on the people that they would repent (Alma 4). Other than that I learned a great deal about the Holy Ghost and following the whisperings of the Spirit. I also learned a few things about love and service. This conference was uplifting as they all are and very instructing. It seems that every time more that I watch and listen to conference the more powerfully it impresses on my mind and affects me. I am so grateful that we can listen to the prophets as we do in this way.
As for Grandpa I hope that they can figure out the problem and that nothing serious happens. But if anything at all ever happens to anyone it is all part of the great plan of Salvation. Everything leads to us being able to do the will of the Father and choosing to do that, while still being subject to the wills and demands of the flesh. To require the Lord to heal all men every time they suffer is directly in contrary to the plan of happiness, its the plan of the adversary. We must suffer to know good from evil. We must be subject to the things of this world so that our own agency works. He can´t choose for us, we have to choose. He can´t keep us from suffering all the time, because we are subject to it. We just need to overcome in patience and faith what comes before us.
Well, I hope that everyone is happy despite all the challenges and busy times we meet up with. I love you and and am grateful for your thoughts and prayers. I am praying for you too.
Saturday though they had me change houses. That took up a good deal of time, all the time in between sessions. Today I did get my new companion though. His name is Elder Divitry from Logan Utah. He has about 9 months in the mission. I am looking forward to this coming transfer and the blessings we are going to recieve.
I hope that all of you are enjoying what you are doing as I am. As for the force of the talk of Elder Holland, he wasn´t alone. Others spoke strongly as well. The Book of Mormon talks about the power of strong, pure testimony to change the lives of people. Alma the younger at one time found it necessary to bear down in pure testimony on the people that they would repent (Alma 4). Other than that I learned a great deal about the Holy Ghost and following the whisperings of the Spirit. I also learned a few things about love and service. This conference was uplifting as they all are and very instructing. It seems that every time more that I watch and listen to conference the more powerfully it impresses on my mind and affects me. I am so grateful that we can listen to the prophets as we do in this way.
As for Grandpa I hope that they can figure out the problem and that nothing serious happens. But if anything at all ever happens to anyone it is all part of the great plan of Salvation. Everything leads to us being able to do the will of the Father and choosing to do that, while still being subject to the wills and demands of the flesh. To require the Lord to heal all men every time they suffer is directly in contrary to the plan of happiness, its the plan of the adversary. We must suffer to know good from evil. We must be subject to the things of this world so that our own agency works. He can´t choose for us, we have to choose. He can´t keep us from suffering all the time, because we are subject to it. We just need to overcome in patience and faith what comes before us.
Well, I hope that everyone is happy despite all the challenges and busy times we meet up with. I love you and and am grateful for your thoughts and prayers. I am praying for you too.
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