Week 54

Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:48 AM

June....nam nam nam...month monster is hungry ;)

Hey family!!! 

Sounds like life is treating y'all at least relatively well.  I'm glad y'all had fun at youth conference and everything.  That's good.  So July 4th is nothing special for us...holidays don't exist on missions ;) 

The work is going great.  We'll be having 3 baptisms at the end of this month, and hopefully some more not long thereafter.  We're teaching or will soon be teaching a lot of great individuals/families :)  It's exciting. 

So, may I just say that I have the absolute best family in the entire world!!!  That's right.  Best family spot...claimed! by me :)  I received the package this week, which was ridiculously fast and amazing!  I love it!!! My journal writing has gone through the roof...honestly, I wish I had started with this recorder!  So much better.  It gets my personality.  It gets the details of the day.  My feelings more.  .... it gets ME!  and I love it.  Thank you all so much!  and for the shoes and the goodies :)  Y'all are the best!

I also got letter 53, 1 or 2 from grams, one from nelson rock.  Good stuff.

Weather has actually been not TOOOO bad thus far.  Still ridiculously humid, and Dad, you're right...rain doesn't cool anything off, it just ups the humidity to 1000%.  But I still love the rain...especially the thunder :)

Mother, yes, I am being fed...pretty much every day of the week.  Our meal coordinator here is fantastic.  She does a lot more than just pass around the calendar on Sunday.  She, as requested by our fantastic ward mission leader, is focusing on part member/less active/investigator families which is so great.  (I'm trying to send some pictures, but the stupid computer is dumb as dumb could be...I hate it)  So sorry is if this email is short...

Let's see...Elder Warren and I getting along well.  I'm learning more Spanish, which is good :)

Besides all that...I don't really know what else to say.  At this point in the game, I've realized that a lot of this missionary work stuff is completely second nature now.  It's an interesting challenge I hadn't expected in training, but it's hard for me to remember that so much of the stuff I say or do isn't simply common knowledge. 

Okay, Dad, if you want the in's to a ridiculous ward mission process look at the Alma Amulek story...our ward mission leader explained it to us last week...oh my goodness....in short, to start you off...Amulek, who was he...a less active...how many times had he been hardened against the word (I think at the beginning of Alma 8)...too many to count...he has a rich spiritual background and is prominent in the world sense too...yet why and how did he become what he became...look at the details...it wasn't because of the angel...we know that to be true as we remember the account of Laman and Lemuel...so what was it??  Someone told Amulek that he was needed to feed a very hungry servant of God.  He was needed...to feed a representative of Jesus Christ, who was away from home and his family...ringing any bells?? :)  So, what happened...Alma went into Amulek's home and sizzled Amulek's socks right of his feet.  He blessed his women, his home, he brought the spirit in power into his home.  THIS is what led to this being the time that Amulek softened his heart.  Then what did Alma do.  He requested Amulek's help again..."Hey Amulek, thank you for everything, but I really need you.  I need your help.  I'm going to go preach to the people of this city again, and I need you to be my junior home teaching companion...will you help me with that??"  Why of course!  I love being needed.  And BAM!  the rest is history.  The same will work with our brothers and sisters that we love.  Pray about it :)

Anyways,  keep up the good work. 

Until next week.


I love you all,

Elder Patty