kamusta pamilya! oh man what another great week out here in the mission field! i think we have to be one of the most blessed missionaries in the mtc because for tuesday night devotional we had another general authority come! Elder M. Russel Ballard came and addressed us! it was amazing! i love hearing from the apostles. he said so many great things and a lot of my prayers were answered. this week i was really struggling with the language and it seemed i had it a wall. i was super frusturated and was doubting i was ever going to be able to speak the language and had been praying really hard for help. well tuesday night it had come and Elder Ballard seemed to address all the questions i had been pondering. what a wonderful blessing from the Lord! ive learned alot here already alot about the gospel and alot about myself, its amazed me, i was truly blessed this week. one of the hardest things about this is not being able to physically talk to you guys, cause at home whenever i had a rough day i could talk to you guys about it and it would help...well i cant do that here hahaha so one thing i have really learned is how to pray and let the lord listen to me and take some of my burdens away. let me tell you its been hard sometimes but it has truly blessed my life and i know he listens and answers our prayers! lets see what else happend. its been a really up and down week and its sometimes hard to stay postivie but i try my best! i have great guys in my district and we all get along really well, elder day and i study language cause hes awesome at it and weve become really good friends. him elder moore and elder tapusoa are like brothers haha. oh something neat happened last night. so since we got here i started in our district ugly tie thursday haha casue i have a lot. well yesturday a elder in our district elder calinog asked if he could wear one of my ties, i was more than happy to let him wear one. well elder calinog is philippino and he is a recent convert to the church. he is amazing and a very hard worker! well he loved the tie and when we came home after the day was over he came to give me the tie back and i just said keep it! its yours. i want you to have it! he was overwhelmed with gratitude. i never thought as something as little as giving a tie away would effect someone as much as it did. he was so thankful and really excited about it. none of his family is lds and so hes out here without much background support and i have so much respect for that elder. so that was really cool. kaleb is good! i saw him and talked with him for a little bit he brought me some sweet slim ties haha im repin the slim ties out here hahah. the language is tough i feel like i kinda hit a wall and im just trying to break through but im trying! Elder moore is good ever since Elder Holland came and spoke he has been both feet in! its really great! the food is still bad haha i could use another care package hahahaha. those pics of karter are awesome my whole district was like what a stud!!!! elder moore who plays at utah state was like that kid is a freakin stud haha everybody was impressed and i was one proud older brother haha! i dont remember how much i weighed when i got here but im now 175 but im not fat haha me day and moore wake up early bought twice a week and go running around the mtc, so thats helped and we've started doing ab work outs and other things so its been good. so i dont think i have gained any weight. kaleb said i looked skinnier but who knows haha im not to worried about it. hows everybody doing back at home? im sure there great but tell them hi for me! i love them! um the oldest district right now only has one week left so after that we will be the oldest district haha and we get a ton new philipinno elders so that will be good! i getting good at tie trading not going to lie haha. im really shootin for the slims and paselys now haha. but i really do love it here and im really starting to learn whats truly important in life and how blessed we are! i love you guys so much and appreciate you more then you will ever know. after doing sealings today the sealer said to us that we should really thank our parents for living their lives righteously and allowing us to be born into the covenent and how blessed we are because of that and i realized how true that was. so i want to thank you ma and pa for allowing me to be born into the covenent and recieving those wonderful blessings that the lord has bestowed upon us. love you guys!
