helllllllo family. what´s up? lots of news. let´s get started.
scripture: Mosiah 5: 13, 15
alright so i don´t know who to trust about this earthquake business.
dad said 6.8, morgan said 6.9, mom said 7.2, and i am gunna throw my guess out at a solid 9.0. so which was it? that doesn´t matter. as long as you are safe and morgan´s mixer didn´t break, we are good. i bet it didn´t hit our house because it was too smelly. it somehow protected the house. but morgan and stuart: what are you guys going to do now? because what happens when another earthquake hits and you guys aren´t in the house? and then everything falls?! think about it...s´all i´m saying. oh and morgan....you think you got enough talks about motherhood and parenthood? i would say yeah.
conference!!!! was spectacular. amazing. splendid. inspiring. anyone have any other suggestions? or did i get it covered? i can´t even choose a favorite talk. they were amazing. elder holland blew me away again. and i am pretty sure he indirectly burned tiger woods. elder anderson´s talk where he talked about the atonement and the forrest family was crazy. the theme that was way powerful to me was the atonement. and of course, families and raising the youth. elder uchtdorf gave several awesome talks as well. like i said, i can´t choose just one. they were amazing. the first session on sunday was amazing. the opening prayer (i can´t remember who gave it) was so spiritual and then they sang "This is the Christ" and i felt the spirit stronger than basically any other moment that i can remember in my life. there is no way that i could doubt that the propeht and apostles and church leaders are called of God. it is just impossible to imagine. my testimony was strengthened so much and i received answers to some things that i have been seriously wondering about and considering. amazing. i was able to work my magic, too. i watched all the sessions (saturday and sunday) in english. the only one i didn´t see in english was the priesthood session. but i was still able to understand almost 100 percent. we had one investigator go on saturday. his name is cleverson. he is way cool. he was there for saturday and when one of the seventy was giving a talk, he started praying. afterwards, he told us that he felt something different when that seventy was giving his talk and that it reminded him of his own life. he believes what we have taught him and now we just have to teach him a little more...word of wisdom will be hard and law of chastity, too. but he has a testimony in prophets and apostles now. and in the church. which is cool. what else. um we are just working our butts off to get people to go to church and fulfill commitments. we have a good set of investigators. i don´t want to get too far ahead of myself, but if everything went well, there are about 15 or 16 that have already said that they want to be baptized. so we will just have to see if they are willing to take the necessary steps. anywho. back tracking a little bit to coference...dad, i am sorry that mom only makes waffles for the kids. but i bet that granola bar was tastier than my breakfast on conference morning...i was fasting. ha!
how is tiger doing in the masters? that sucks that the spurs made playoffs. when do the suns play and who? that is cool that the baseball season started. remember when i left? and the yankees had won the world series? now a new season is starting. crazy. dbacks won? congrats. i don´t know how many times i will be saying that during this season.
it is starting to cool off big time. it went from 45 degrees celsius to 31 today. and i think it was in the low 20´s last night. too bad i didn´t bring any kind of sweater to wear. i don´t know if i can use my sweatshirt while proselyting. probably not. um president leal will be leaving in july. i don´t know much about the new president. just that he is brazilian.
transfer ended today. i will be staying one more with elder da silva and killing him. he goes home after this transfer, so that is why i am staying with him. president leal wants him to stay focused and working the last transfer. i am not too thrilled about staying here, to be honest. but what can ya do? god knows better than i do, so i just gotta trust him on this one. it will be tough to go 6 more weeks with da silva. so i have been in ourinhos for one transfer plus an extra 2 and a half weeks because i was transferred in the middle of the third transfer. now i will be here for this transfer and then i will have to stay AT LEAST one more because i will have to stay to train the next elder in the area. staying with da silva also means that i don´t become senior, but i might be training next transfer. speaking of training, elder yuma got called to train! he called me last night because he was just a little nervous, lol. so he will be training a brazilian. but yeah, i am not thrilled about staying in ourinhos. but i am working. that is all i can do. i got here on february 18, 2010. i don´t know when i will leave. probably in june sometime.
um i have 2 more ingrown nails. not because i am tearing them off. in fact, i stopped doing that. but somehow i have one more on my right foot. and on my freaking thumb on my right hand! an ingrown nail on the THUMB of my right HAND! what? does that even happen? but it makes...everything hurt. showering, dressing, buttoning buttons, tieing ties, tieing shoelaces, writing, taking notes at conference, typing, you get the point. it´s like the achilles heel...but it is the "ingrown nail" that destroyed the missionary. but on a bright side, i got a flu shot. the H1N1 vaccine. so i am safe from the flu...hopefully.
mom that package got here safely. they didn´t open it. and i will write sister skousen a thank you letter.
anything else? um lauren, i have an interesting story for you. but i don´t really have time. i have to go like, now. so when you write next week, remind me to tell you my interesting story :) as for your hair...i would probably just say whichever you feel looks better :) lol but if you send a picture, i will give my honest opinion, yes.
and morgan...i would avoid bees if i were you. especially if they are THAT determined to sting you.
um well nothing else that i can think of. i hope you are all awesome.
and healthy. and safe. and that you are on a spiritual high because of conference. i love you all. you are all beautiful, words can´t bring you down (thanks Mariah Carey). LOVE YOU ALL! i hope you have a great week and i miss you all!
elder scott ghormley
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