The weeks are FLYING by!!

the days drag on but the weeks are FLYING by! we continue to get most excellent speakers for devotionals and firesides so there is no absense of new things to hear. ive noticed that most of the talks we here is about Christ and faith in Him.  theres a billion different ways to explain that fact haha. but all in all they always say that the closer you are to Christ the more you can do for Him through His name. which is sweeeet. im doing great if u were wondering :) me and my companion Elder Sargent tought a lesson yesterday in pure spanish! he did most of the talking but i knew what was going on and asked some questions too. then we did an english lesson and it was stinkin HARD! with spanish you only know the basics and the questions you ask are simple and stuff but with english... we know way too many words and trip over ourselves and accidentally get carried away with unimportant things that have nothing to do with what we are trying to teach. so yup im thankful for spanish :) we as a district always set huge goals and somehow always acheive them, its great! yesterday and last friday we could only speak spanish ALL DAY LONG.. so we did, and we mobbed, until dinner then we were sick of it so yeah, all things must come to an end.

    thank you everyone!! all of your letters and thoughts are so awesome to me and i am very stinkin thankful that you care for me, or at least act like you do ;) nah just kiddin. and yes i LOVE the treats and snacks and goodies and sugar and chocolate and cookies and pies and all that you send! i get to share it with my fellow district members too, so your allowing me to show charity, which is a Christ like attribute, so basically what you all are doing is helping me to become more like him and i cannot thank you enough. i learned this week something basic but staightened my mind out quite a bit. we have these spans of time in class where we ask whatever doctrinal questions that we want to our teacher and he answers them as best as he can. we somehow got onto very deep and mind bottling subjects that make you question everything. after he did his best to help us out, he blantently said to all of us "this doesnt matter!" at first i was taken aback thinking he had lost his marbles but he explained that these questions about God's God and Satan's Satan are all irrelevent to our salvation. we are here to learn and accomplish the ordinances that will save our souls from eternal misery. knowing what a cherubim looks like and things like that is essentially pointless to our salvation. if i think dinosaurs lived here or not it has absolutely NOTHING to do with my eternal life. yup i thought it was cool and it got my mind to be at rest.

        on a different note ive discovered the best cereal on the planet! blueberry muffin top. aka heaven in a bowl :) that is my breakfast now because the eggs here are not eggs and the biscuits and gravy are just dissapointing.

       we heard Elder Zwick from the quorum of the 70 last night talk of his experiences on his mission. he served in argentina as well, traveled to bolivia in a train car with his three companions and all their horses. he told that they had to go to a distant city and get supplies to build a chapel in their little town. they rented donkeys to haul the supplies. they were going up a switchback up a mountain when it started to rain like crazy. the trail became unbelievably muddy and the donkeys were slipping. one donkey slipped off of the side of the trail and fell with all its supplies down to the rushing muddy mucky river below and Zwick thought they were never going to make it home alive. he got to his knees and at that moment in the rain he felt Christ at his side like never before. he told us that we all will have our switchbacks on our missions and in our lives but as we pray and submit our will to the Lord, we will have peace in dire daunting situations. i love this church with every ounce of my being. i love you all. BYE!!!! :)