QUESTIONS:
Who is Ben
Q?
Ben Kvisler. I think that's his last
name. I've known him a long time and was pretty good friends with him in high
school. I didn't know he was out here.
How old is Elder Concha?
Etc.
19. Like 3 months younger than me. He felt he wasn't ready at 18, so
he waited. He explained the military system in Brazil once, I don't remember
exactly how it goes though I think they randomly select a certain % of the 18
or 19 year olds and they have to serve for a few years. He does not have to.
random thing: we bump into Jehova's Witnesse's every once and a while and they
often bring up that they don't participate in the military no matter what, Elder
Concha says in his country they force you too, they say there are many JW's in
Brazil in jail because they refuse to go in. I think that's admirable sacrifice
they make for their beliefs, but it's too bad their pretty close to the truth in
a lot of ways, but still off. I'm very happy for the patriotic-ness of the
restored gospel.
Did you get my mail this
week?
yes!I
got a letter from home, sis Hagen and a friend from BYU (Sam Marco) who is now
in the MTC, (I think he is going to Armenia) and your favorite facebook friend
(Amanda)
Did elder concha get his
mail?
yes, he liked it a lot. He thought the
pop-rocks were weird/interesting.
Talk about your weather this week!! I
think I saw that it was VERY cold for you!
early in the week was pretty cold, but
not awful. I wear the sweater I got right before leaving most days now. I've
never felt the need to wear the sweater and suit jacket though. On my
leg-workout day I did lunges on a treadmill because I didn't want to do them
outside in the cold
Griffin’s question: what sports have you played while on
your mission? Please list. Football, soccer and basketball. Oh, and I played ultimate frisbee
once. also catch (i
borrowed a mit and ball) with an investigator once. Also I played volleyball in
the MTC.
Did you have a Senior Quote? You know
for the AHS yearbook.
Yes. it was the quote about 99% of life is not what happens to you, but how
you respond to it. Is Quinn struggling to decide? Tell him he has to put "I'm a
mormon, I know it I live it and I love it". and if there any complaints just
say: Would you sell your soul for a different senior quote?
I bet it would have been fun for the rams kicker to win on a record
breaking kick. oh well.
We had dinner at a members house who is from st.louis
and is a sports/rams fan. He must not be a huge sports guy though because he
said he is also a fan of all the teams in the NFC west and the cardinals
(baseball) game last night was really exciting because they were down like 5
"goals" to 1 in the 8th inning and then they ended up scoring like 6 "goals" in
the last 2 innings and won. I found it kind of funny.
It was fun to see the FF scores and standings. I can't believe Dad's team
is struggling so much. Who in the house follows sports the most?
I hope Griffin Radio win in the end.
I wonder what calling dad will get! are you still hoping to get to teach
one of the 2nd hour classes?
I'm excited to get my absentee ballot. I think I'm the only person in the
apartment who'll vote. Great Office reference
wow that's crazy Rachel and Erica are already turning in their papers.
President Packard sent us an email talking about how there's going to be a
lot more missionaries suddenly coming in and he's asking us for advice about
what areas are productive/could use them.
Tell Chase to eat a real philly cheese steak and take a picture.
Is Steven also in scouts or just YM? (Heather sent me a great update about
her, Steven and their staggering/drunken walking child Jayna). I liked the story
about Jayna seeing and liking squirrels. I'll always remember Griffin
seeing squirrels out the window and pointing joyously saying "doggy! doggy!
doggy!"
No big news with any of our investigators or anything, but we've "found"
like 3 more inactive families who are open for us to visit, which is great. We
have to make sure we do a good job of keeping organized so we can keep track of
who we've seen, who wants us to come back and who we still have never made
contact with. The baptism scheduled for the 28th still looks like It'll work
out, which should be awesome.
Elder Beck and I got to do service for a Part-member family which was
really fun; we were helping him (the father) build a shed. I got to use a nail
gun a few times, which I've never done before. we're going back tomorrow.
Today is the assigned "fall cleaning" day for missionaries. We have to
spend most of P-day thoroughly cleaning the apartment (bathrooms and stove and
everything). It's kind of lame, but not too bad.
Also tonight after our dinner appt, we're teaching a lesson to a
media referral we got, which is really cool. apparently he requested a visit
from the missionaries on mormon.org on early in September but we only heard
about it last friday at Zone meeting (we called him later that day). we should
have got a text right when it happened (september), but we never did; luckily he
still is willing to meet though.
that's everything. have a great week!
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