It was a dissapointing week here, well, more accurately I got one piece of dissapointing news and the rest was normal. I had been told that my departure date was the 2nd of february, however, we went to the travel office yesterday to confirm this and found out that we don't actually leave till the 9th. I went to the store and got some chips and salsa to take the pain away.
In our Large Group Meeting this week the speaker shared a story that Bednar gave at a devotional here a few years ago. He talked about to missionaries that came to his house on saturday, played with his children and had breakfast for about an hour. As they were leaving they asked the Bednars if they had any referalls for them. He replied "Boys, I love you, but I would never give you any referalls. You spent alot of time at my house playing with my children and watching T.V. when you could have been out looking for people. You have wasted an hour of the Lords time, and I now its time for you to go." That has scared me into wanting to use my time wisely.
Spanish is going better, my comp and I have signed up for as many lessons at the T.E. (teaching evaluation) as we can, but the spanish teachers are always booked. We have ended up reserving about five fifteen minute lessons this week, better than nothing.
For devotional yesterday someone from the seventy came, I think his name was Evans. Anywho, he talked on the Book of Mormon and ended up going a half hour over the scheduled time. It was a really good talk, I'm pretty sure the last half hour was him just wingin' it. He was stressing the neccesity of us utilizing the BoM in our lessons, because as Hinckley said, "If we want to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon, read it." Action brings about knowledge.
Switching topics, thats great about Colin, passing the sacrament was always fun. I feel like I am just now learning the true potential of my Priesthood, its an amazing blessing to have.
Now thats its warming up here (I think we hit 35) the students from BYU have been riding their bikes up here for work. *sigh* I miss my baby, which reminds me, I hope you brought her inside Madre.
Well, I'm runnin out of time and ideas. Thanks to everyone for your letters, love y'all.
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