many thanks 21 July 2010

I am super excited to get your stuff, you are all so faithful at winning my love. It is yours.

So i experienced a lot of firsts this week. Three that are of the greatest interest.

#1: At precisely 7:12 last saturday evening we were at a members house helping him fix his printer and at that very moment i fell in love with shakira. Her new wakka wakka song came on the computer and it was a choice between that and the rear end of the member as he battled with the chords of the printer. She won.

#2: We were teaching Paula the law of chastity and she had one of the hardest doubts i have ever had to faced on my mission, and it is for the sole reason that it was absolutely doctrineless. She had already said that she would live it, in her words, "if God says it, we do it." But it troubled her to think of her personal future as to the fact that she had no idea what was allowed within the dating realm. Her question was- how do mormons flirt? She just couldnt imagine it. It was awkward. We were there with her aunt, her new friend in the church, and a member man: all single mormons. And then of course us who are in a class of our own. Unpracticed and unavailable. The best thing i could muster was that she needed to come to the US and walk across the BYU campus once and she would see, hear, and experience all she needed to.

#3: Mission Council with the new boundaries. The tricky thing with this is that the mission now is twice as big with the canaries as the cherry on top. It was too hard to make everyone travel, and president wanted it to be fully combined, so we got to skype it. Leon and Santiago set up in their chapels to get the video conference going, and the canaries did the same a little bit later because of the time zone difference. We got to go to the MTC and use the systems there. The biggest lesson i learned: the church has some serious tools at its disposal. It was way fun to judge the heck out of all the other missionaries. I dont know why that happens, but it is so much fun to just try to figure them out by what you see on a blurry plasma screen and hear through the speakers. I would love to know what they think of us. For some reason Elder Middleton and i sat in front of the camera most the time, were the first to be asked to do everything, and did the training. Everything in our own special way. We will see if we run into them some other day.

Best quote this week: "Elder Middleton, when i first met you i thought you were the biggest slacker of a lazy missionary i ever met. And then when i found out you and elder carr were my zone leaders i thought to myself - how could he put two of them together? But now i know that i am wrong. After your workshop in zone conference and our exchange i know that you are both great missionaries and somehow know how to have fun." -Elder Jackson (Trainee in his 2nd transfer)

Sorry, we need to end this fast. We dont have enough money to pay for the extra time.

Love,

Elder Sky