I just thought I would send the email to you first, Kari.


   I love this part of the mission. I recieved so much experience and love for the work. I understand the people and I am able to communicate with them. It is such a privilege to be here in this time. I am happy to serve here. I will use the rest of my time becoming the best I can become.

   I heard a really cool talk from President Eyring when he was visiting BYU. He talked about how his father always fulfilled his duty.  His father, near the end of his life, had a bone cancer that made it hard to do anything. He felt such a great pain that, regardless of  what he was doing... sitting, standing, or kneeling. The father of President Eyring also was very active in the church. He always fulfilled his callings and assignments. Even if he had to bare such great of pain to complete it.
   His ward had the assigned to take care of an farm. And He was assigned to weed a couple rows of the onions. I inmagine that the task would be for those that could bare the heat of the sun and quite a bit of labor. The members were astonished at the determination as this same afflicted man was working to fulfill his duty. The pain became so great that he started crawling. With much amazement, he completed the task. And not only did he show that he would go and do what what commanded of him, he even was happy to do it. One of the members said, as he finished, that the weeds he pulled had been sprayed by a chemical and would have died in a couple days anyways. Now, he was not sure if that was true or not but, instead of becoming angry with his sacrifice that was "wasted". He just thought it was the funniest thing. He died soon after. He was a man who loved God and always served others and enjoyed life................. I think we can all learn a lesson from this and it really does apply with us.
I hope all is well. I know that sometimes we may not want to do are duty, but what else can make us so happy? I for one, know that there is nothing in this world or out of it that can give us true joy.

"Do your duty your best and the Lord will do the rest"
                    "Faith means to trust in God more then one´s self"
                                     "Show love for God by showing love to others"       
   os quiero
      Elder Cory N. Grisham   

The flower is a fruit called m´burucuyá and when you eat it (the fruit) it makes you sleepy.

Hello,
   I just barely recieved the "trunky papers", or rather the 6 months left mark. I am surprised that the time is passing so fast.
My companion also recieved his papers. He has the same time as I do.
   Yesterday I gave a talk on the influence of the Holy Ghost in our daily lives. It went kinda well. I certainly have learned a lot of the how much I now rely on the spirit. I would be  I just didn´t have time to prepare it really good. But I felt the spirit and some people cried, and that is what counts, right?
  I recieved your email on time Mom. Thank you for sending one. Oh... and last week I was in Asunción and I didn´t
 have a lot of time to write. Everything went well there.

    I literally cannot think of other things now. I just have my mind set in the work. Even if I wanted to right a poem or a song, or whatever... I just would´t recieve ideas. I would go blank. It is actually really weird but I am truly grateful.

OTHERS THINGS THAT HAS HAPPENED...
I learn the rubix cube
I am translating my patriarchal blessing into spanish.
I understand a lot of portugues
I understand a quite a bit of italian
I still loving the mission. It is still shaping me and molding me into a true disciple of Christ

    I love you all. I hope this week is especially great and full of awesomeness.

p.s. I need my debit card for emergencies. It would be really good to have with me. Plus I need to buy some things, for example a flashdrive to preserve my photos. I don´t want to lose my photos.

   First things first... How is Dad? I was kinda surprised that I didn´t recieve a letter from Mom this week, but that´s okay. That just means that I get a long letter next week right? Oh, Oh will be recieving a package next week too. And also changes are coming up again on the 31th of October.
   And speaking of Halloween, What are you all going to do? I would hope you take pictures and send them. That would be great. Especially of my niece and nephew. I will try to send some more pictures next week.
                    Mom, I need you to send me my debit card. If it has already expired, can you please get me a new one. (you can just email the pin number to me.) Thank you, Mom!
     Well, this past Saturday Elder Bednar came to our mission. It was really awesome. I learned a lot about how I personally need to gain my our revelation. Also the people I am teaching, They too need to find their own revelation to be able to have true conversion and testimony. He also talked of how we (in the church) are treating people like objects and not free agents. We play the game of, ´Guess what is in my head´. I now understand that the commitments the the investigators are the only way they can ´find the truth for themselves. We cannot always give the answers to them because they will become dependent on us and will become as objects and not agents. They must choose to come unto Christ.
     One of the things that caught me off guard was that Elder Bednar said he can´t give us the solutions to the problems that we have in the mission. But rather we need to find revelation for ourselves so that we may be free agents.
    
     I will be recieving my trunky papers soon. maybe next week. And it will be officially 6 months until I am at home. But I am not trunky right now. On the contrary, I never had such a strong desire to do the work as I have right now. I am kinda sad that today is Monday because we don´t have a lot of time to workm but oh well. It´s all good in the hood.
    
Thank you Spencer for your letters and you too Kari and Jackie and Jolene and Mom and Uncle Noel and all of the rest of you guys. => If I haven´t written a response it is because I am just so busy I really do not have the time, especially recently. If I could I would. (Also I don´t have extra money to send hand written letters.)

  I LOVE YOU ALL AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR WEEK   ( ;

 I remember a mormon message that said "I hope you know I had a hard time". It is from a talk from Elder Cook. I remember how he was saying that every person person has problems, difficulties, afflictions, etc. I think of the people that go through life feeling that they are being dragged in life instead of walking it. I also think of those who have these feelings and do not know how to be healed from them. I then remember what Elder Bednar said in his talk. Something along the lines of "There is no physical pain, no anguish of soul, no suffering of spirit, no infirmity or weakness that you or I ever experience during our mortal journey that the Savior did not experience first." I know That whatever is passing in our lives is for our experinces.
           I love you all and hope that you help others know their importance as children of God. The way you can be healed is to help others be healed the Atonement of the perfect Son of God. Our Savior and Redeemer, even Jesus Christ.

I sang in church with my companion Elder Sevy. We sang Loor al Profeta (Praise to the Man). We did pretty good for the duet. I got a little nervious and sang a little higher then I should have. And my companion had to sing higher too. But in the end it went well.
MISSION BLOG:
   And there we were... in a state of hunger and bewilderment, when we came across the Prophetic Spy. As we saw him talk in to his highly advanced one-way radio with antenna and everything. He boldly anounced our presence to his radio and we knew instantly that we were from the U.S. With amazement, we knew we needed to communicate with him. We approached him with ease, because spies are unpredictable. He then declared with audacity that he was a prophet and that he was also commisioned by the King (intel tells us that that is a code name) to be a spy for Paraguay. I will tell more information when we have more details.
   Good news we have found the Yeza Family. And the bad news is that they are still in enemy territory. We are making plans for the rescue from the land of the hostile. As of five days ago they were found in Zone 11. We are going to need to bring in backup if we are get these people bring them back safely home.
                 (we found the this family and the man cried when he saw us. He thought of a scripture that was about "when you recieve my disciples you recieve me" something like that. And after teaching the Restoration, I asked the son how he was feeling. He said that he felt the presence of God. We All felt the spirit really strongly and I know that God what this man to be happy with his family forever. Let´s do this thing!)
     Love all of you Bye (:

  I feel the darkness all around me. It seeks for the blinding light that live in the Spirit Warriors of God. I feel the damp creepy coldness of its vile breath. It is looking for me and it will never, no, not ever quit to have me. And ever so slightly, it makes its ways in my paths. It creeps upon me as like unto a sly spider decieving his prey to step in his entangling trap. Patiently... ever so patiently, waiting for me to touch the brim of the web. But I know better not to play around the cobwebs of deception. I keep myself away from the things that steal the light from me. I stay away from the black holes of sin.
   For I walk in lighted pathways and in His holy places. I walk uprighty before my Maker and with my eyes looking forward. I am traveling toward my Creator with determination and hope in my soul. I am on the path that leads me to the place which is the purest. I am on the path where Christ set before men when he said, Come Follow me. As I take this journey step by step, I do not dwell too much on what has past and done, rather I am looking up ahead for the lonely travelers who once followed the Son. I seek out the weary peddler who feels like he cannot go on. And give him the joy once again of the only Begotten One. As I make this jouney though, the filthy begger is made clean and pure, becoming more like me and you. The poor in heart become rich in spirit. The deaf begin to hear the truth and the crippled who have be broken down begin to live it though. The blind begin see the miracles that the the once unbelievers work among the children of men.
    I am a Warrior of God and a sheep of His fold. I know who He is my shepherd and to him I will give my all. To Him I praise and seek each day, because I know, there is no other way.
        Here is my poem for today (:

     I was taking a lot of notes during the 5 sessions of conference. I was shocked about the change with those who can now leave on missions. I think it is really good because the young women wouldn´t serve as if it is a ´last resort´(like if there not married, then they will serve.)
     I really liked the talks. I got the feeling of "we all need to be better. We need to the best parents, children, priesthood holders. And that we need to do our best in our careers and in education. Always putting forth an our best effort to be worthy at all times, to be examples at all times, to develop the attributes of Christ at all times. To be humble as little children and be submissive, meek, full of love and willing to do ALL that the lord asks us, come what may. We cannot stop and we cannot go back. We have recieved the true through the power of the Holy Ghost and we must always be converted to the Lord. We must go, do and be what the Lord has commanded us to do, go and become. I now see how the Lord has been so loving and so kind to those who keep His commandments. I do not fear that God will not fufill His promises. Because He has already shown that He will  fulfill them and has fufilled them. God has been answering your prays and mine. We are His. And I do know that He loves us.
    We are truly in the last days. Even though there is so much evil, there is so much good. I plead that all of us to DO THE BEST AND BE OUR BEST. I mean to say, we can live to our potencial and help as much people as we can. If they are not part of our religion, they are still sons and daughters of God. And everyone is invited to partipate of salvation. We choose to be happy, but we must to be willing to do the things that gives us true happiness or we will never obtain it.
    I testify that the truth of God is upon the Earth once again. And that this is the true living Church of our Savior and Redeemer even Jesus Christ. He has the power the free us from that which binds us. I now understand the frase. "Israel will shortly be free". I love Gods children and I know that He wants all of them to return home. So let us go and do the work and become who God wants us to be.
   I love all of you.

p.s.Thanks for your email Jessica H.