Tuesday, April 14, 2009

April 13, 2009

i don´t have a bunch of time this week like normal. heres what i sent to mom and dad! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR LETTERS!!! i printed off 13 pages of reading matterial. let me tell you that was the best bathroom reading matterial ever. WAY better than any coldwater creek/ readers digest that this world has ever seen! please, please i beg you with all my heart to keep up that good work! i loved to hear all the missionary experiences that everybody had this week, kirk way to talk about the meaning of life with that guy, that is one of our things that we try to do in the mission, is ask people the questions of the soul and then testify testify testify like you said. that is all we can do, get people thinking and then testify with the spirit and then its up to them to deny the spirit or not. i wrote a short story below about that very thing, kinda sad, come to think about it i dón´t think i wrote anything really exciting from this week. it really was a good week! just a bummer letter i guess... sorry for that. something i´m super excited about is that we´re going to the temple this week!!! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO i´ve been praying for that for the past couple of weeks cuz i miss it a ton and lo and behold! an answer to my prayers! Prayer is the key!!! alright gotta jet, love you all!
elder little brother livingstone
I really have begun to love the mission, not that i didn´t before but i am going to miss this place a lot when i have to leave. I´m sure that i won´t leave without a fight!!! This week has been another tough one. We really struggle to find people to teach in this sector. Part of the problem is that the people don´t really care to listen to us, the other part is that we aren´t doing enough to help them reckognize that they need this message in their life. I´ve written this phrase on the front of my planner so that i always see it ¨Love each and every one of them (chileans). Don´t let anyone walk away without feeling the love of Christ because that is the true power of conversion¨. Its a good goal for me to have but sometimes i get a little down on myself. Its tough to be Christ like when people laugh at your spanish or just sit there and yell obsenities at you for no good reason. This past week we were flipped off and i remember the talk that elder holland gave to the mission presidents( we got a copy from pres. Moran) he said ¨remember when you are rejeceted cast out, spit upon, made a hiss and a by word that you are standing shoulder to shoulder with the greatest life this earth has ever seen.¨ that quote cuts to my core every single time i read it. Wow. I loved his talk in conference, he´s such a smart man. So i felt a little bit of what he was talking about when those events happened this week. For one of the first times i really felt hated when these teenagers were throwing rocks at us. It wasn´t scary at all, i just realized how ignorant that Satan has made the world.

Last night we had another one of those moments where you realize how numb satan makes people. We were knocking and I made the question of the soul ¨have you ever wondered what Christ expects of you in this life?¨the guy came out and was really cool, we were talking about his time of easter and how we need to focus on Christ more and then his mom came out and was super lame. She was just shaking her finger saying were´roman catholics and not going to change a thing. It was really unfortunate to be driven off by an old lady who didn´t even listen to a word we have to say. WE PREACH OF CHRIST LADY!!! Do you read the bible!!! ¨By their fruits you shall know them¨ i´m not gonna say we did it perfectly but i know if that lady lived by what the bible teaches, love and charity and not turning away a single soul she would have realized and for that matter the whole world would realize that our message is true and that God has so much more for them than what they can provide for themselves in this world. Wow that was a weird tangent we just went on...

Cool story, its a little belated cuz it happened two weeks ago but two weeks ago i was eating these cookies that i had kept in my bag for a while. I bought the cookies like a month ago but didn´t open them until 3 weeks ago so i thought for sure they were gonna be good still. I ate one of the cookies without even looking at it and then as i was pulling the second one out of the bag guess what i saw!!! If you guessed worms you´re RIGHT!!! Hahaha yeah so i´m pretty sure i´m feeding a family of worms in my stomach right now and i´m almost positive that that is the case seeing as how my trips to the restroom have become more frequent with less time inbetween each one! So yeah, i don´t know what i´m gonna do. The doc has been outta town for a while but he got back this past weekend cuz he was having surgery himself. He´s a funny guy, there are tons of stories that go throughout the mission of his infamously dirty mouth, my comp claims to have heard him drop the S word but i don´t know if i believe it. Anyhow i´m prob gonna go see him sometime this week to get ¨bombed¨ as other missionaries have called the series of pills that kill off worms in your stomach... thats my fun story for this week!

Well time is running short, i´d better get outta here so that i can keep in line with the rules! I love you bunches and remember that always!!

Elder livingstone

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