Week 37

Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:23 AM

  

Hey family!!!!! and friends!!! and anybody that takes a peek at what Elder Thornton inscribed in cyber space!!!!

Life has been going mighty swell for me here.  Concerning the transfer...no I very highly doubt either of us will be transferred at the end of this transfer.  The training is a 12 week program and it is very unlikely that they will split that up...and I mean VERY unlikely...but then again there's always that 1% chance ;)

The mission allowance is going pretty good.  I eat every meal...it's not usually very exciting things I eat, but I eat ;)  pasta, pb&j, hamburgers, eggs, etc. 

So...I forgot to say last week, since I left my notes at home, that I also received a letter from Sis. Nelson/O'Dwyer, mom's rejoice card.  This past week I received the real 36 from mom, 2 from Grandma (because the post office decided they wanted to hold it for a while,) one of those had a goodie in it besides the normal goodie of a letter ;), I got dad's postcard.

Quick question: what 2 rivers join to make Grand Junction? My brain fails :(

NOOOOOOOOO...I haven't gotten ANY of Matt's letters :( :( :( :( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :( nor did I receive that ensign :( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :(:( :( :( that probably was devoured by the mission...you may want to send that in a separate package...who knows :(  anyways, make sure Matt is writing to the correct address...*sigh* sad day on mail being eaten mid transit...

Anyways, life is going pretty swell over all...true statement on how February is already over! Crazy stuff.  We're almost in Spring now...well, honestly, I’ve basically been in spring all winter down here minus a week :(  Elder Mickelsen and I still get along ridiculously well.  It's great.  :)  We have a lot of high hopes for this week, so that's good.  This Thursday we are going up to Kinston for a training meeting with President.  Should be fanstastic minus that part that it will eat up a ridiculous amount of our allotted miles...oh well...

We had stake conference yesterday.  It was good.  I realized that at home, whenever the mission president probably spoke in stake conference or temple presidency members, I probably just thought "oh, that's just another old guy speaking" but when it's MY mission president, I'm like "oh yeah!!!!!! This is going to be amazing.  Super exciting!!!!"  ah, perspective :)

Let's see...this morning I read Giddianhi's letter to Lachoneus regarding how the Nephites basically should just give up everything...and I'm not gonna lie...Giddianhi's letter was pretty dang eloquently written.  First he flattered Lachoneus talking about how he was a stud on the battlefield and how his intentions were sound in his twisted little mind, but it would just be better for all involved in they surrendered everything to a bunch of robbers and be pals.  You may think it would be easy to say no way, but it's a good thing it wasn't me because I probably would have been like "oh, that makes sense...hey guys, let's just give everything to our enemies, the robbers...yeah, all our land? we don't need that anymore"  Good thing Lachoneus was more studly than me...he was just like 'uh huh...like that's going to ever happen.  Who does that failure of a robber think he is?  Whatever...where was I....oh yeah...preparing to whoop* some godless robbers" Gotta love the Book of Mormon...I sure do :)

Let's see, these emails aren't very exciting...you probably should just not even read them anymore... ;)

Oh, we lost our phone last week...that stunk.  Little do you realize how reliant you are on that phone until one day poof! it's gone.  We have absolutely zero other ways of communicating with anyone and I mean zero...no internet no landline nothing...we can't confirm appointments, let our district leader know we're still alive etc.  Luckily, due to the failure of past missionaries to return the previous phone to the mission and the fact that we have an investigator that lives a couple apartments over, we made a few desperate calls to sprint Wednesday morning and got some phones swapped over.  Whew! That was an adventure...and it made us late to our meeting...I should say later...in Wilmington.  Good stuff. 

As always, I hope I'm doing what the Lord needs me to do.  Missionary work isn't easy, but it's always worth it...kind of like life :)  Thanks for all the support.  Know that I appreciate it.  And also know that I know that my Savior lives and cares about each one of us, His brothers and sisters.  I treasure dearly my testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith and of the Book of Mormon.  No one could ever take that away from me, it's sewn upon my soul in permanent stitching by the wonderful Holy Ghost.  I love what I share...and I share what I love :)

Thanks to all

Love always,

Elder Thornton