Dusty's Email -- 7/31/2008

Hey, whats going on?

This week has been flying by so so fast. First off, amazing news. So President Dickerson, my Branch President, this last friday was at work and always eats lunch at 1130. But for some reason it completely blew his mind and so he ran across the street from his work to get something to eat. It was this little Mexican restaurant. SO he got his food and went and sat in the corner and was eating facing the wall, well this guy who came over an was talking to him, this guy was the owner of the restaurant. So he asked if he could sit by President Dickerson and he of course let him. They started to talk and the owner was saying how he joined the church about 10 years ago and taht he feeds the missionaries for free because they brought him the truth. So President Dickerson asked of there was anything he could do to help pay for the expenses that the missionaries have racked up. And the owner said no that it was his pleasure, and then asked if there was anything that he could do for President Dickerson. Jokingly President Dickerson said you could get me some visas for my missionaries. The owner said whats wrong with them. President Dickerson siad the Consilate was dragging his feet for whatever reason and was only allowing 10 to get theirs a week. The owner then looked around real quick and then leaned in real close and said that his uncle was the President of Mexico. ANd that he would call him and have him call the Consilate and get things moving. Crazy huh???

Well its almost been a week since that happened. Word is that 60 missionaries are recieving their visas and leaving by Saturday or Monday. This is such an amazing story. There are no such things as coincidences, there is only Divine Guidance. There was a reason that President Dickerson forgot about lunch that one day.

But everything is going so awesome here. I got to go to a temple session finally. For the first time since i got here. Cuz its been closed for 3 weeks and the other week I was with Elder Woodland at a Doctors Appointment. But it was so freakin amazing.

My new companions are really cool, Elder Miller and Elder Christansean, there are amazing Elders and we are getting along great. We taught the first lesson for the first time in Spanish and I love it. Spanish is so so amazing and I'm loving the challenge of learning the language. I've truly been blessed with the gift of tongues and I know it and I thank the Lord everyday for it.
We had Bishop Edgley come and speak to us this last Sunday from the Presiding Bishopric. It was such a good talk. The talks are so amazing here, alot of them are from emeritus quorum of the seventy but they are still amazing.

Our teacher Hermano Allen took a job with the Spain Consilate so we got a new teacher. It this little short Guatamalean woman. She so lil and cute I could just fold her up and put here in my bag and take her with me.hahaha, jk, but she is an awesome teacher. Well I'm attempting starting tomorrow to do a whole week only in Spanish, I'm so excited, no English.
Everyone is in great health here and I'm loving it, the food is great and so are all the arrangments dad. And i dont have another email for that person, lo siento. And mom yes some of the Elders have started from scratch, but after 5 weeks it amazing what you can learn and know. The Elders here are so awesome. I've been playing basketball with theis Elder who is like 6'5'', and played at Dixie. He really good and dunks it all the time, its so sweet. Him and everyone else here are trying to convince me to move to Utah and go to BYU after the mission. hahaha, we'll see.

But everything is going great, the Elder that was sick is all better, exactly a week after he started to be sick, he was up playin basketball. All is well.
I love you all and hope that all is well.

Love
Elder Howard