Happy Birthday Dad!!! Hope your birthday went great.
Hey everything is going great here, I'm loving it. We taught a family yesterday and it went so well and the Spirit was so strong and my companion and me both said things that I dont think that we prepared to say. It was so awesome, and before that, we had to speak Spanish and ge tto know someone and everything about them, like famly and hobbies and stuff like that, and I spoke great and so did my companion.
You guys had some questions for me:
- The food is gerat and I'm loving every meal, its true that it does give everyone gas, but hey, its food, and buffet style.
- I dont need anymore hangers I'm good there but thanks.
- A present we got on the 4th of July was to stay up past curfew and see the show that BYU put on, and it was amazing.
- I'm not really lacking anything, except pictures, i would love to get some pictures of family, friends whoever. I really want that one by the computer in the dining room of todd kelsey and me.
- We've had geat devotionals and we've had to members of the Emeritus Quorum of the Seventy come and speak and they were awesome. Elder Morrison was my favorite and he spoke on opposition, and how nothing great comes without great opposition and that the Lord will not show you the great thing until after you've been tested and tried. It was a great talk. It was said in our little meeting after the devotional with the Elders in my district, that as we endure through our trials faithfully, we begin to take steps towards Gethsemane. We begin, though we wont ever fully comprehend, to take steps towards the Savior and his Atonement for us. It was extremly powerful, thats not exactly what was said, but the jist of it.
- The language is coming great, and I'm excelling ahead of my class a little bit and setting goals that seem really hard, but I'm reaching them everyweek, and opening up my vocab.
- Stamps just send me a single book, and then I'll let you know if i need more.
- We dont excercise on pday or sunday, but the other 5 days we get almost an hour of gym.
Thank you for your prayers, please pray that visas will go through, its getting pretty bad, please pray that the consolate of Mexico will soften his heart. Oh and mom thank you for the letters ... Anyway its almost laundry time and I gotta write a few more letters by hand, but the church is true and there is no way it cant be, despite obstacles, its true.
Love
Elder Howard
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It's so good to read his letters! I knew he'd end up being the pianist...he's going to be playing in every area for sure! And I'm surprised they let the missionaries watch fireworks. I was in the MTC over the 4th of July too and everyone was getting in trouble for trying to watch...past curfew and all that!
He's awesome! Glad to hear all is well! :)
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