September 17, 2013

Dear Family!

Well another week has flown by!  Weve committed both our fake teacher investigators to baptism. Ha. Wouldnt have happened in real life, but it's a good confidence booster!  We get reassignments or visas in two days! we are all pretty excited to get a "new" mission call or head straight to Brazil, noone has got there visa yet tho.  They will let us email when we find out so we can tell you where we are going and when we can call, so I will let you know when I can call you guys.  If youre even there, maybe you'll be geting Bryson!  I cant beleive hes done...crazy! 

Thanks for the pictures, dang DAD, youre living like a champ. Thats sweet.  That is the coolest helmet Gerritt!!! You look like a fricken rockstar on skates! That'd scare me!  Ah. I miss home! It's tough sometimes, all the time but the Lord has really strengthened me out here and kept my mind from wandering too much.

I couldnt read the whole letter today cause I dont have enough time, but I read part the parts about the kids and football :)  That's awesome for Jacob! Ive been praying for him. Just keep your head up, you will come around and figure it out, itll just take one hit and your addicted!!!!  Im so excited to hear Tumwater is killing everyone, they looked really good at the camps, their line just looked young and a lil small but they mustve figured it out!  They always do!

Caleb thats so tight! I bet those high school coaches were crying knowing that youre leaving to TumH20 next near!  Just keep working hard(Sprints are good) but dont lift weights with your legs too much cause you can hurt em and hurt your back, and it could mess youre growing up so you dont grow very much. like me.  Youre gonna be an animal.

Hey Levi, I remember every year I'd start out sloppy and timid, and then towards the end of the year I couldnt get enough of the helmet smashing bonebreaking physical contact.   Seems like youre picking it up faster than me!  Keep it up!

Oh Olivia!  middle school is way different dont get caught in the drama...it's just weird.

Bella! my friend (a sister) who saw youre picture said youre very pretty!!!  Yes you are!  I miss ya!

Well we had a day of only speaking portuguese yesterday and it was pretty dang tough!!! But we all did alot better than we thought, at least I did.  It was awesome!  I dont wanna do it again for a while tho.

Meu Joelhos(knees) were killing me the other day, it was just my left one for a while and then one night this week it felt like they were about to explode!  They felt better a day or two later tho, I can still feel some pain a little so i have been careful when playing volleyball. I dont really feel taller but im crossing my fingers its growing pains!  Elder Carter and I weigh ourselves every Sunday and I was 227 in my slacks and shirt, im trying to keep the fat on as long as possible.

The guy who came to the devotional this Sunday(Rob Tanner i think) helps make the Church movies, like 17 miracles, the testaments and the latest one ephraims rescue and he showed us an 18 min clip, theirs was a kissing seen...the whole room went insane! haha. It was funny. He said everyone in the testaments was LDS except Cohor, He said they couldnt find someone bad enough to play him. Ha Fun Fact. But ephraims rescue looks really good! He talked about the pioneers and he talked about one guy who was sent to find one of the pioneer companies and it was in the winter and when he went out he ran into two guys who were coming back and they said they were looking for that same company and they couldnt find them, and the guy who was sent said he was still going to look for them, and the two guys said, "We couldnt find them, what makes you think you can find them?" and the guy replied "because the prophet told me to go find them"  He related that to a mission, in that we are called by a prophet of God to do his work, and like Nephi said, God will provide a way for us to do whatever He asks of us,

That helped me especially because Ive been thinking late because we are about to leave about how crazy our message sounds to people and how people will except it, we just gotta temos fé!!!!  I cant wait to get out there, im ready for doors to slam and people to spit on me! I'll do it all with a smile on my face and Christ's name above my heart!

We had an experience this week when we went to play voplleyball across the street we could here this "Truth" yeller across the road before we even got there.  And I just stared at him, I wanted to rip him to pieces.  He had his poor old submissive wife there handing out pamphlets too.  On our way back, the cops had come and were just standing there and he wasnt yelling as loud,  but it was just a big group of missionaries and we were all quiet waiting for the light to change and he was just preaching away and it made me sick so I started singing "nearer my god to thee" (thats my favorite song right now). and then this Sister next to me joined in and then an Elder behind me then we were all singing it! HA! This dude was soooooo pissed! We were way louder than him, and He was like, "why dont you start singing praise to the man!"  but then the light changed ha.  He turned to the cops and was like "why dont you tell them to be quiet?" and they just shrugged thier shoulders.... HAHA.   What a great moment.  The spirit was strong.

Well I love and miss you all a ton! Try not to completely forget about me when Brycey gets home!

Amo Vocés!

-Élder Grondel III