Yo Alex;There is a song by the band The Police that says: There's a hole.....in my life..... and that is the truth with you being gone. We all missed you very much over thanksgiving. That is your whole entire family missed you. You are a very blessed young man and have wonderful abilities to make people feel good about themselves and to make friends. You must get that trait from your mom. I am attaching some things from the Wade thanksgiving celebration, from the menu and agenda to letters that people wrote to you. I will write more later. We hope you enjoy!!!DAD
hey fathaaaaa!!!!
how was thanksgiving!!!!!! wow the
whole day on Thursday i couldn't stop thinking about all the stuff that was going
on and what you guys were doing and it was as for me too a whole in my heart...
some of my favorite memories are from that time...but before i tell you about my
week i was not able to download the file that you sent me dad... but this week
was another crappy week... they just don't really seem to end where i am... we
are not finding many people to teach... the area is extremely difficult and the
people are teaching do not find the importance of their salvation or reading the
scriptures or going to church... the catholic church has really twisted a lot of
minds down here... its hard because everyone else seems to be doing good and
finding people to teach and that missionary work is easy for them but for me it
feels the complete opposite...and it doesn't really help when my companion is
trying to teach little kids and wasting precious time trying to make the focused
and give them a lesson when i would rather waste time knocking on doors and
doing other things...he only has a few weeks left and you know how that is dad
when missionaries get close to leaving and that is the majority of what they
think about... personally i just want a knew companion, one that wants to bust
his butt every second that we have... because i know how precious the lords time
is and i just want to do some good here in Peru and for my actions to have some
results... i have definitely learned to have patience and have come to realize
that is probably what heavenly father wants me to learn... i love the verses in
the scriptures about patience and if you endure patiently with your afflictions,
the lord will help you. something that is keeping my hope up for the area that
i am in... i mean we even had a blitz here which means we had all the elder in
our district contacting in our area to try to find new persons to teach that is
how hard it is... i know the lord knows how strong willed i am but man is he
testing me to its maximum... not to mention the bishop of our ward has not been
to church in the past 2 weeks because of work.... talk about setting a good
example for the ward members and being a leader... the ward is terrible and we
are going to have a ward counselor and we are going to train them on how to be
better because we had a training meeting with the area 70 for all the leaders of
the church and not one from our ward went... there is seriously problems with
our ward and i don't know why... this problem only makes missionary work that
much harder on us when the ward is struggling.... however on the bright side of
things... one day we were prosolyting and some of the locals asked me to play
volleyball with them... me and elder Benites thought it could be a good idea to
make some new investigators... anyways they were really good and we had some
pretty intense back and forth games and there was a crowd because of me and they
kept saying... matalo gringo... which means kill it gringo on the spikes...
that all happened on Thursday which made me feel better on thanksgiving...now
every time i pass by they are always asking me to play... the other day we went
to the beach and it reminded me of Pounders and there was actually some waves
breaking about 2 or 3 feet... awesome! how is the family doing! i loved the
pictures! everyone is getting so old it is crazy! Kyle is looking good and
grandma still looks like she hasn't aged! hahahaha... hows work? how is Brad
doing? can you give a hug to everyone for me? well that is kind of how my week
went this week... a bunch of crap, crap, and more crap but all i can do is be
positive right? anyways dad... you are missed sorely by your son... i love you
forever dad!!!
