How y’all doing?
Walter has a truck! A
Ford Ranger?! What!? That boy better have his Eagle Papers in!! Anthony,
welcome to the big leagues buddy!! You’re growing up too fast!!
Dad, that’s so cool that
Jack is the new webelos leader, you guys are going to do great. Tell the boys I
said what’s up!
I sent the memory card a
few days ago, so it should be home soon.
Alright, missionary
stuff we’re still working on finding. We don’t really have any investigators.
We’ve been going by a ton of referrals and they’re usually never home or not
interested. So then we contact people on the street, we have had some success
with that in the past, but not lately. All you can do is be obedient, do all
that the Lord asks of you and thrust in your sickle with all your might and see
where the chips fall from there. I have a feeling Fallbrook is going to be my
toughest area. It's a good thing I'm going through the inevitable
"mud" every missionary goes through early on in my mission.
We had zone conference
last Wednesday. President Kendrick trained us on how to give talks in church,
it was super good. When I get back I’m going to be able to give talks like
Elder Holland. He also gave us some counsel at the end that struck me. He said
that "if you’re out here focusing on how the mission is going to bless
your life you’re not going to be successful. You’re out here to find, teach,
and baptize and bring your brothers and sisters back into the fold. That’s your
purpose and needs to be your main and only focus. After that, then
the blessings of a mission will take its course." I kind of got stuck in a
rut for a while and forgot why I came out here in the first place, I was only
thinking about me. So for now on all my efforts will be focused outward and on
my purpose as a missionary.
Hahaha, One more story,
so we were eating dinner with a family on Sunday, a mom a dad and their four
daughters, and I almost died! We had roast and potatoes, and I ate
way too fast and couldn’t breathe. Long story short I had to run to the bathroom
and well, use your imagination. On the bright side, after that we had
a super sweet lesson on the Book of Mormon! So I don’t think that family will
ever forget Elder Daniel anytime soon, haha.
I've been praying to be
a better missionary and I've still been having a few issues with my comp. This
morning I felt like I should study some old notes and scriptures and stuff and
so I did. and I found a scripture that was buried in my notes that
answered my prayers perfectly. 1John 2: 8-11 it helped me out a lot.
We’ve been on exchanges
a few times this last week and they’ve both been in my area, so that means
I’ve been in charge. Pretty scary, but they went well. I survived!! What an
exchange is where you switch companions for a day so that you can learn from
each other.
Well I love you
all, I think aboutcha all the time. Like I always say “stay true and look
out for each other"
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