eMail of October 26, 2009

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.