This has been a great week so far!! I've been super excited about things and things have been getting a lot better!! I loved the package mom! You're the best mom a son could have. I miss you a ton dad, I hope that things are going well and that Rosie still has a tough hiker to go up the Y with her. I hope that everything is going well for you Allison!! Steph and Amy, I am sooo excited for you to be in the MTC!!! What a great opportunity and experience. You're going to realize that there are plenty of kids in here that's for sure...but there is no better place then a mission to get someone to grow up a little eh? ;) You'll have to be sure to remind them when you get the chance to! We actually had a kid blowing a whistle in the cafeteria tonight. We couldn't find him but it really was embarrassing for a lot of us because it's almost degrading when people disrespect there call as such. I hope that the guy who was has the chance to repent about it and be a better servant of God. I just hope for the best for him. I'm thankful that we have a Heavenly Father that gave us a plan that allows us to have second chances...or a lot more than just a second chance hahaha without this gospel I would be nowhere near where I am today. I'm so grateful for you mom and dad for being solid with our family. Because you I have such comfort in life. Thank you. Jon and Morgan! Thank you so much for your letter! I love you both so much and I'll be honest, that art in the card should be framed and put into a museum because only a real professional could produce something of that quality! Jen, keep playing hard on that cello and jam to some good dubstep tunes for me since I'm not able to!! I love you all so much! Now I have a little...or large story for you all. Hopefully it'll give you a solid picture of this week and how it's gone.
So things have been getting a little bit better with my companion, I wouldn't say that they are perfect but they are better than the normal. He's still making us late to every single activity we go to and i'm thinking that I am going to have to report him to the president again but as a more serious case this round, but aside from that, things have been great! Monday was a pretty normal day, we ended up preparing for the wrong untersucher so we had to prepare a lesson in the five minutes before we went in with ours. It was pretty scrambled and Elder Fiahlo and I kept changing topics. I'd be bearing testimony of one thing and right in the middle he'd ask a question about something completely different. That is one of the things the teachers have tried to work on with us because we tend to not want to work as a companionship :P Classes took it out of me and I still have this lame cough. I have been slowly getting better though and I can tell that the lord is giving me extra energy even when I feel like I have none. I have definitely been pushed to my limits though. I sleep like a baby most of the time now just because my body requires it. I can't help but fall asleep sometimes. I literally will be sitting there and I'll feel my eyes starting to close and then I'll have a pen hitting me in the face from my teacher trying to get me to wake up hahahaha. Yesterday was such a wonderful day though!! The lord blesses his servants I can tell you that right now! We were chastised in the morning by our teachers. I guess someone in our zone said that they were embarrassed to be a missionary because of our zone...it confused me because Elder Ostler, King, Fiahlo and I are the best missionaries in our zone and none of us were complaining so we were a bit confused but it was a humbling experience either way and we were all grateful for the boost in motivation to be greater missionaries. (I have always needed a solid bit of humbling hahaha) After that Elder Fiahlo and I had a lesson with our second untersucher, Karl. Elder Fialho seemed really humbled and so we all of the sudden were working extremely well together. We were prepared and when we went in to the room to give him the lesson we started out on the Plan of Salvation. As we were going along we reviewed some things and started talking about it, I then gave the scripture 1 Nephi
17:36. It just basically talks about how the lord created the earth so that it may be possessed by his children, we then went over how we are god's children and we said that god loves us so he has a plan for us, I then asked the untersucher what he thought about his purpose in life. He then started talking about his children and how everything he did in life was for them. He also was worried about them because he felt like they were splitting apart. I then had the distinct impression to give a scripture in 3rd Nephi 18:19-21.
on Thursday and we said we would. When we got back into the classroom I had such an amazing feeling of peace and happiness. When my teacher came in he looked at Elder Fiahlo and I and he said "I want you both to know that Karl truly felt the spirit." It was sooo huge to know that!! We haven't been very successful at all and so to finally have this experience was so huge!! What a blessing it is to have the spirit, I never truly realized how much of an aid it can be and how the gift of tongues is a true blessing. The Lord just requires humility and a little faith and then he opens his blessings for us.
After I gave the schriften Elder Faihlo started talking about a commitment to pray with his family every night. Karl seemed like he wanted to but I could tell that he was a little iffy. He kept saying Ich Versuche aber Beten jeden abend ist schwar. Ich weib is nicht uber jeden abend. (I'll try to pray every night but it's hard. Idk about every night.) I then had another impression come to my mind, it's weird how it just pops into your head. I decided to talk about my family and how we always had trouble praying and how at the time I wasn't very happy with my father for trying to get our family to pray. I then talked about how I realized now how important it was that my dad put in the effort. I love him more for it and I realize now that he was trying and that he wanted the best for me. I then bore testimony that I knew that if he tried to pray with his family, even though they might not be happy about it, that the lord would bless karl and his family and that he would take care of them. I continued to bear testimony that the lord wanted to help karl, all he had to do was ask. I could see that I was saying the right things. The spirit was so strong and it was helping me with everything I needed to say I only had to ask Elder Fiahlo for help on a couple words. I just kept talking and everything was coming together, I was remembering things that I had had such a hard time with in class and I was able to correctly convey those things. Elder Fiahlo added his testimony to mine after that. We finally closed the lesson because Karl had to go to work but he asked us to come back again
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