11/22/2011

Hello Shmello!!

 

Soooo, my week. Nothing too exciting or new. I still dont have me electronic visa so its looking like I will have to be reassigned to the United States. But hey, thats alright with me. I just want to get out and share this awesome news of Jesus Christ with everyone!! Anyway, my companion, Elder Knowles left this morning. He got his visa so he is out of here. So now im a single zone leader for awhile and they havent given me new companions. Its weird having him gone. He helped me SO much!! I will see him in like 2 months though. Last Tuesday, Tad R. McCallister of the Presidency of the 70 spoke at devotional. He talked on the apostasy and the loss of the gospel. It was really good. This week is a holiday week meaning we will probably have an apostle speak tonight. And Thursday we will probably have one or 2 more. STOKED!!! Zone leader has been awesome! I LOVE getting to know and befriend the new missionaries. This last district that came in are some of my best buds now! Cant wait to meet the new ones. I love training them..even thought I dont know much more than them and they are sometimes older than me!! Haha I like it though. It takes away from some of my studing time but thats alright because the Lord is definitely blessing me!! This week, here me out...we got both of our investigators preparing for baptism!!! I asked Juan and it was so cool! They really are progressing..and so is my language!! I can talk a lot better. I can understand just about everything that is being said, but im starting to get better at talking. I love it! Story time: We were teaching Juan once and his friend showed up so we taught them both. And at the end, we asked one of them to pray and they argued. But then Juan finally did and the whole prayer, he was chastising his friend. And asking God to bless him with humility and that he would pray next time and stuff. It was really funny. I made another mistake..I was praying and wanted to say "Thank you for our teacher, Brother Duerden"... I said prophet instead of teacher. It was funny! Thank you Qile Lakey, Tomas, Ami Hines, Erika Jeungling, Kirsten Daines, Nicole Allen, Brynn Lakey, Alex Morgan, and Stephanie Blackham for the letters this week. YOU ALL ARE AWESOME!!! Now, tell Colin to write me about his call. And Adam. And maybe if my family missed it last week, I would love to hear from you!!! Dearelder.com is so easy. Just follow the steps. It takes a couple minutes. And if you have questions, ask someone. But really, Shaunelle, Darek, Jantsen.....C'mon!!! I love you guys..but I dont love your inability to write me! Voce deve escrever me! Eu quero escutar sobre seus vidas!! Por favor? Obrigado! ;)

 

Man, I dont know what else to say. I know Im a little boring but its the same schedule every week. Nothing crazy spectacular. I played 4 square during gym and i dove to get the ball and got in trouble. And almost got 4 square taken away for the rest of gym. Woopsies!

 

The MTC is weird. Its a place where you feel the Spirit SO strong at times, and other times it feels like the Spirit is nowhere to be found. You rely on it so much!! Ive loved learning the language of the Spirit. If you dont know it, find out. Its amazing!! I went to the temple a few hours ago. It was amazing. I did sealings again. There is no way im not being married in the house of the Lord. WOW! Thats all I have to say.

 

Eu sei que Deus vive. Ele filho, Jesus Cristo, Morreu para nos. Seu expiacao e real. A igraja De Jesus Cristo dos santos, dos ultimas dias e como nos vivemos Deus outra vez. A igreja e verdadeiro. Ler O livro de Mormon. Voce precissa a verdade em seu vida. Eu amo muito eles!!

 

I love everyone that is reading this right now. I do. Thank you for your thoughts and prayer. I expect to hear from you familia!

 

Um abraco,

 

Elder LAKEY!!