Hey Everyone!!!
So this week and last week... and the week before are all just one massive blur. I cant tell the days apart anymore. Its just wake up, study, eat, study, teach, study, sleep. And do it all over again. Its kinda funny. But I have started the awful habit of waking up before the alarm and I hate it!!! Sleeping is hard to come by as it is, so once i get to sleep i cant even enjoy it now. but everything is going really well here. im having a lot of fun and have been getting art assignments from kids for the LDM (libros de mormon) so today im playin with that. its been fun. but anyway. i forgot to write last week and tell you all that i saw Amanda Coffelt like three times in two days. i hadnt seen her here the whole time and all of a sudden she was every where. it was great seeing her!
on our Sunday walks to the temple the past couple weeks there have been... well im not sure what to call them. for the sake of time lets call em protestors. they stand out on the corner of the parking lot where we walk by to get to the front gates with these white crosses that have stuff written on em. and they scream about how they love Jesus and what he did for us and that we suck. and the first week it was really funny. we had a few missionaries that would stop and talk and basically start teaching the guy. and then someone took pictures with them (we got kindly chewed out for that during the devotional that night for that one) and this week they had a new guy with em. so now the bearded guy is yelling and some other dude just holds the cross. and the third one right by the temple gates was playing some music. i recognized it. like it was good music and i toldt everyone to be quiet cause thats the first music ive heard since i watched a mormon message about a blind kid that plays the piano. and when we heard it Elder Morrin was like WOO music!! but the guy thought he was supporting him. so he said " YEAH!!! it was really funny, and we just walked away.
So our first investigator became our teacher and i just have been forgetting to tell you about him but i brought my little black book today. so i wont forget anything. but his name is Kevin Miller or "Aldo" or "Manuel" but its really Kevin. and he is the Safety for BYU. and he is seriously yoked!!! he is massive. but besides that he is seriously the coolest guy in the world. he has said some of the most inspiring things i have ever heard. like every time we leave after class im just so pumped up. like everything sounds possible. im like oh im totally fluent in spanish. what the Pope has a free half hour? oh i can baptize him in twenty. its just funny how some people can be like that. he used a quote that said "todays Homeruns wont win tomorrows games" so just because we are spiritual today and know what we are doing right now wont help us tomorrow. we have to always be working and strengthening our faith.
This place is funny. so you know that song. we have been taught and we understand. something like that. "we are as the armies of Helaman" that one? well there is a part in that song where it says "we will be the lords missionaries to bring the world his truth" but instead of "we will be" it is now " we are now" its just funny little stuff like that that keeps you on your toes.
Jolene Allphen came. it was the same lady from that trek fireside we went to a few months ago. she came and talked... it was good. but its nuts the things those people did for us. oh and turns out 17 miracles is basically the greatest and funniest movie in existence. the little midget guy was so funny!!
so we watched a talk from Elder Bednar. and he talked about the 20 Mark note that he gave to a general authority and he didnt know why he did. but later learned that the government in Germany was trying to kick that authorities wife off the train. so he gave the gaurd their passports and inside was a 20 mark note which was aparrently a lot of money back then inside his wife's passport. well when the guard came back the money was gone and they were allowed to go on their way. but the funniest part was he stopped for a sec and said. "now just to be clear. that is NOT a bribe!.... its a righteous exchange" hahaha i died. it was so funny. same talk he said that a member was being mugged and the robber had a gun. and the gun went off but in the members pocket there was a small book of mormon. and even the bullet stopped at the Isaiah Chapter!!! hahahahaha ohhh mission humor is weird
Landon is gone now. it was funny. i went up to his room to say good bye and it was way weirder saying good bye this time. but he was good. they gave him ENGLISH LDM's so he hopefully got rid of those either in the airport or gave it to the poor soul that sat next to him on the plane. we have a joke that when people come to sit down and see a missionary in the seat next to them it must just be shear dread in their mind. haha cuase they know that we dont stop talking. my friend had to go get a ultrasound for something and got to go to the hospital and he said it was so fun. like he just talked to people. it was exciting just to have someone to interact with. so he talked to every doctor and nurse. all the people in the waiting room. stuff like that. and i totally get that. everytime i see someone i just wanna talk to em now.
So we have this thing called TRC where we have real members that come in and they dont pretend to be an investigator anymore. we teach them how they are at that time in their lives. like one lesson was a couple. they were so cool. but they wanted to know how to get their... nieto.... grandson. to go on a mission. and we talked about that and it was awesome. like we had scriptures going everywhere. Scott, i used your angels thing in the Index so props. except im not 100% what it really said. i just took a guess cuase it sounded cool. anyway. the next one was just a guy. and he was talking to us telling how they had just got back from a mission he and his wife and how he went on his mission when he was younger and all this stuff. so we asked if we could start with a prayer. well all of a sudden when we said amen he became a freaking catholic with a protestant wife. and he was way hard to understand so i was tryin to follow and i thought he said he was a member and she was catholic. and he said he wanted to know how to get his own answer and know Jesus better. well i thought he meant like he didnt quite know if he had a testimony or if he was thinking about joining his wife. well that was wrong!! and i started like saying you need to read your scriptures and he would only talk about the bible and i got so confused. hahaha it was terrible. and then he got confused cause i kept talking about prophets, but hey "Paco" doesnt know about prophets or the BofM so i was so confused. it was crazy.
well i forgot my card reader (that some random kid who i still dont know) gave to me. so i will send pictures in the afternoon.
my scripture is Alma 29: 6 AND 9 not six through nine. thank you
when we get those family pictures back, send me some yeah?
dear elder is always fun just to get something. uh... oh and tell
Kristi thank you for her letter. it was really good and ive used it
in lessons and will continue to for sure.
Les Quiero.
hasta pronto.
Elder Whitaker
have fun at the rodeo tonight!!!
Le amo!
Nomeolvides ;)
Elder Whitaker
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