Sweetness,
You got the package, YES! Alright, here's the low down. All the little wrapped package thingys are for all of the nieces and nephews. They are Mardrid key chains. I dont remember how many i sent, but hopefully there are enough for everyone. If i remember right, i bought them pre-Kaysoughn mortality, so i think his is for you, mom. Everything else should be labeled or just for everyone in general.
As for the extension of my mission, I clearly remember the following statement,
"If you have the guts to extend your mission, even by only one day, don't bother coming back because i will be waiting here to kill you."
-Maria Carr
That may not be word for word, it has been a long time since you said that to me, but it is the general idea. My current thought, which has been my way of thinking for a while now, is that i will not ask for an extension, but if they ask me to extend i will tell them to call my mom and ask for permission. As of right now i am thinking that what is planned is what will go down.
As for the New Testament videos, i think it sounds awesome and hilarious. Awesome because they might let me be one of the dragons from the book of revelations. Hilarious because i was talking to a companion about a year ago and told him, "I am probably going to end up selling stuff door to door during the summer, but i would much rather be at home. So if i manag to get an acting job during the summer, i will stay home, and odds are that if my mom finds out about that she will make it happen, she is one of those universe commander people." Mom, you are so omniscient it scares me. I will try to get some mug shots off next week. Is there a deadline?
As for the russian accent, i think that is awesome. I am not really sure why Alejandra thinks that, but i can see a little bit of that. Most people say i sound dominican, but that is mostly due to the fact i am in the dominican capital of spain. I dont really try to have an accent, just speak clearly. Funny how all of it added up sound russian. When she told me that i just started saying DA whenever she asked me something. That is the extense of my russian expertise. Oh, and i flipped when she told me she is going to get baptized. It is going to be incredible, apparently she is going to travel all the way to madrid so that all of her missionaries can come and so i can baptize her. It was way humbling to hear that.
As for the last note i wrote in my planner for stuff to answer/tell you, i had a really cool interview with president this last week. Usually i always have one things in specific i need to ask him about or get helf on, but this time i had a million things. I am so caught up in working on tons of things right now that i had no idea where to start. When i go there he asked me a few questions about normal stuff than asked if he could help me with anything personally. The only thing i could think of was to get a priesthood blessing. The last time i got one in this style was from dad. It has been a long time, and i was kind of craving it. It was a really amazing experience. The interview consisted in pretty much just that blessing. The pàrt that hit me the deepest was that it felt like dad was doing it. Hard to describe. The priesthood is so real. It was exactly what i needed.
As for the work, there have been some amazing things happening. We found a man a few weeks ago in the street who was really cool. I was walking beside him and i looked over at the same time he did and he kind of jumped and dropped his sodas. It was funny, i didnt expect the baby face to have that kind of effect. We ended up talking for a while and he was really cool. Apparently his life was pretty dumpy, which explained a bit of he nervousness, and he was looking for something to calm him down. When he asked why we had been walking so fast i told him that we have something really important to share with as many people as we can and that we would love to share it with him too. He was pretty stoked. Well, the devil hates it when we teach people, so he made him really busy for a couple weeks. We ended up going by his house one day and teaching his roommate. He actually walked in towards the end, totally hammered, and we told him that we would be by the next morning so we could talk to him sober. He was there when we went by the next day, and it was one of the coolest lessons ever. I had never been so forward in a lesson. We sat down with him and he kind of vented about his life and how much he wants to fix things. After he got it out, we told him a bit about the atonement and how it was going to help him. I then asked him what he was willing to do to change, and when he said anything, i committed him to stop drinking that very day. He agreed. Then we told him that what we were going to share with him was why he would be able to do it, our message is a testament that God is still in control and still cares and would help him do this. After explaining about the importance of prayer following everything we share, i told him to open his heart be ready because when finished sharing the experience of Joseph Smith, we were going to kneel down and pray with him about it so he could know it was true. It was so cool how the whole direction of the first vision changed after that. He soaked it all up. When we prayed the spirit was so strong that he just hugged us forever after we said amen. We set up to pass by the next morning and we taught about the book of mormon and prophets. I had never been able to see it so clearly before, but it was like he was dying from thirst and we were just teaching out buckets of water. We set a baptismal date for the 22 may. He is so excited and so prepared. I have always heard people talk about elect people and very few times have i ever been able to see it. It is incredible to see. Most of the time, though, i dont agree with what most people say (caution: you are about to get an elder carr power point of view) that if they are elect it wont matter how we approach them or teach them. I think that is bullhunky. In my opinion, only the elect find the elect. I am in no way elect, but i know that i am trying pretty darn hard to be better than i was yesterday, everyday, and i know that the Lord is capable of making up for the rest. It was cool, we were working one day and there were a bunch of wierd things that came up. Contacts and failed lessons that are usually awkward or tough to go through that we just swallowed hard and did, and after doing them, he came to mind to pass by. It has always interested me to think about what i have had to do on my mission to earn a referral from the Spirit. It has never been easy, and i am super grateful for that.
Well, times up,
Loves,
Elder Sky
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