October 7, 2013

Dear Fam!

 

Hopefully I don't delete this again.  But things are going pretty good!  I went to the Doctors today and he said he thinks its just a pulled muscle where my quad meets the top of my knee and I also have some fluid in my knee. but he just said to take it easy take a bunch of Ibuprofen and stretch. He said he didn't notice anything bad.  I was SOOOOO relieved, I am going to Brazil no matter what!!!    I see him again in two weeks.  He was a cool guy.

 

Lexi emailed me and I was able to email her back!  It was awesome to hear from her and see that thing you sent me. Ha. I miss her!  She needs some good friends, or something.  I hate hearing that shes lonely cause i know how bad that can suck.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEVI!  That gun is soooo sick! It's like the one from COD.  IDK what youre wining about.  I think  it's just your thing you do...ha.

 

Well conference was AWESOME!  I loved the Saturday session WAY more than the Sunday sesh.  I wish they would've flipped it cause I know NOBODY watches it on Saturday. My comp didn't even know the sat sesh existed till he got on his mish. HA.  Their was a ton of great talks about MEMBER-MISSIONARY work.  We missionaries are so lucky to have them reinforce that right now.  The members here are great tho, they feed us, come on visits and help a ton!  We went over to a families on sunday and they fed us breakfast and lunch during conference, felt just like home, their were two crazy kids, one little girl younger than bells kept trying to climb on me...AWKWARD!   But i liked Hollands talk on Saturday night about Depression, I felt that one was really inspired! for ppl that felt how I did a year and a half ago.  I feel that conference helped us out a lot!  My brazillian comp is only 18, he came out in march and he is on fire and wants to work, I get along really well with him.  We got the Fire from conference I think we needed.   Im really excited for this week.

 

The work here is really slow, their isn't a ton interested, and the ones that are, seem to be SUPER busy.  It's tough, like we almost had all zeros for our stats this past week,  we visit a ton of less actives and have members help out, the members are so willing! So we all fasted for the area this week and we are already seeing results! I had an AWESOME experience.  Later last night we had to go pick up some stuff  PR cause my comp is DL and we came back to the apsartment cause the ZLs needed to pick them up and after we gave them the Records we had ten minutes before Language Study, so we decided to go out and go to this families house that Ive really wanted to get a hold of, he was my first contact and  we went there and knocked then knocked again and we were walking to the car and I was like I really feel like we need to ring the doorbell,,but it was late my comp was like naw lets go, we got to the car and I was like dude i really feel it, he was like is it the spirit? and i was like IDK! idk when hes talking or if its just me, so we sat for a sec then we went back up to the door and rang and sat for a couple seconds, then a car pulled up....IT WAS HIM! we were in the car about to leave, we would've driven right past him!  The spirit didn't say wait, he said ring the door bell cause he knew how we would react and it would cause us to wait longer. We talked to this guy, hes 19 and his twin brother is on a mish in Mexico. Hes a really cool guy! It went pretty well.  Ive been praying sooooo hard to recognize the Spirit this past week and studying it in PMG.  Cause that's how you are supposed to do the work, by the Spirit!  I remember what President Monson said about the Spirit, he said to find out if it is the spirit then act on it!  And that's what was going through my head when we were in the car about to leave!  So it felt soo good to see that finally pay off!

 

The Lord's timing is perfect, if theirs anything ive learned in my life it's that.  It doesn't mean you wont get frustrated or discouraged while waiting on the Lords timing, but we can have Faith that if we are doing our best, the Lord will provide, Like nephi said, the lord provides a way for you to do what He has commanded!  It is so easy to get discouraged, im constantly getting discouraged out here but we can know that  "He does visit his Children in their afllictions" Whether its a struggle we are going through or like me, trying to recognize the spirit,(which i suck at) as we do our best, we can trust that the Lord will bless us...IN HIS TIMING!

 

Thanks Bryson, We just read that thing in the hand book the other day about how visiting family is completely against church policy....oops! Ha.

 

well i miss you guys a ton! Go Cougs! 

 

-Amo Voces!

 

-Elder Grondel III