Thank dad you know you can send me an email any time during the week my mission president lets us read our email after 10:00 at night so your good. Um all I really need is money I don't have any right now and I have been preserving my food but I haven't been buying things for a couple weeks I'm ok though I eat a lot. life is going great on the mission crazy busy learning, teaching and learning that I'm not
teaching as well as I could haha. 
"but the ship is in ship shape over" so me and my companion had to do splits for the second transfer training. the elder that trained with us was the best missionary in the mission fled his name was elder Bronson. The reason why he is the best missionary is because he was in the district 3 video which is a series of live filmed videos from salt lake for all future missionaries. It was like spending a day with a celebrity haha it was fun although he worked us real hard I loved every moment of it he taught both of us a lot of things. It was crazy we had four lessons
back to back and he was evaluating us in every thing we did it was a
little nerve wracking but I learned a lot from my mistakes. I learned
so thing in preach my gospel which can apply to any one and that is
the phrase "am I a burden or a blessing " for an example we are having a hard time with our ward getting them motivated to do there callings and also help us out in missionary work and it really comes down to how you handle thing with people am I a blessing or a burden to ward. I have learned instead of tell some you need to improve on etc..etc...etc you ask what are there needs and what could I do to help you? The attitude of the atmosphere changes and I can testify to that.
On Saturday we were teaching this family about the restoration and it
did not go well they knew a lot from the bible which can be a good
thing and a bad thing cause the bible can be taking so many different
directions and I learned that out real quick when I tried to resolve
there concerns with giving them answers in the bible that supports the restoration and when I did they toke that scripture in a completely
different direction. The restoration is beautiful it has given us the
opportunity to have a straight direction to know we're to go and what
to follow. We got some one on date it's was awesome we were teaching him the first lesson and a light bulb came on and he said to us "wait you guys are the only ones with a prophet and the priesthood, wait you have to baptized to go to heaven, when can I be baptized " me and my companion jumped through the roof I was like THANK YOU YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON I HAVE TOUGHT THAT HAVE REALIZED THAT so we put him on
date for May 20th which is a bummer cause I won't be there in fact non of my progressing investigators I will get to see them be baptized but that's ok the work moves on I fricken love this gospel. You have a
great week!!!!!!!!
I love you dad I agree on what you have said and you as well keep
moving forward.
This week was awesome a lot of our investigators are progressing
slowly but surely. Life on the mission is great I hope you are doing
well too. I have recognized the importance of having the sprit and his
role in teaching in preach my gospel it says that we are not to
receive personal revaluation for our investigators they must have an
open heart to receive there own personal revaluation through the
sprit. Some time that can frustrating cause many of the time they are
not yet ready and there heart is slowly softening little by little day
by day Visit by visit lesson by lesson, and that's the hard part some
I'm like darn it free agency haha it's important just some times
frustrating I wonder how God feels he probably like dang why did I
give that to him haha just kidding. Any ways It is our job as a
missionary to be worthy of the sprit though and as we do that we
invite the sprit. I have noticed in my life as I our my companion
testified the feeling of the lesson changes and then it's some thing
personal from us to the investigator then just come to church repent
and be baptized. It means more and I have had many experiences were the lesson wasn't going well then a testimony was said and there the sprit came and cleaned the mess. I recently was reading in the Book of Mormon the war chapters in alma there pretty intense I got to the two thousand stripling warriors and it was an amazing event. It said in the scriptures over and over that these boys were small young and little number the odds were against them but still they had faith and through down and was victorious. But I thought to my self that the missionaries are kinda in that same category. Young, small maybe in size or in mind, not that much experience compared to a priest that has been study the scriptures a lot long then I have. So what separates us from them simple we are called of God , we have the priesthood, this is the true church. The gospel is true and I love it the gospel has changed my life and countless others. That is my testimony I leave with in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
I love you mom thank you for the letters and pictures I love to see
the gang I'm glad you got a lot out of conference thank you for
sharing I pray for you and the fam keep moving forward.
Hey this week has been very crazy transfers, baptisms, and wedding
it's been a blast and like every thing in life it all had to happen on
the same day. Haha it went well though transfers came and me and my
companion stayed in Coolidge so Back to work we go. Although last
transfer was really hard for many reasons but the biggest one was my
relationship with my companion. We didn't get alone really well and
the whole time I was focusing on the negative things about him
thinking I was in the right but really wasn't, It came to a point were
I couldn't teach with him. tell one day during the first few days of
the transfer a scripture came to my mind and it was the savior talking
about the moat in my brother eye and the beam in my on eye. After that
makes moment I had a deferent perspective on things especially my
company and most importantly me. Sense being on my mission I have
realized that I have a lot to improve.
I am grateful for the gospel and the ability to repent and change. I
have learned the to fully repent we must change, it is one thing to be
sorry and another to be changed And the atonement allows us to do
that. I really loved conference I can't tell you completely what I
have learned only that I was inspired and the I felt the spirt. My
favorite talk was Jeffery R holland and elder nelson what I liked
about Hollands talk was his expression of love for us also that we can
make tomorrow great. Nelsons talk on the story about two girls that he
tried to save from heart failure and the family that he tried to
contact it was an amazing story about how the temple bring families
together and brings us closer to the fold of God. I loved last week
and I can't wait for this week. Love you mom have a great day and a
great tomorrow
