Email 11/26/12

Hello all,

Well OLLLOO. Happy Thanksgiving to all. I hope that you had a week full of lots of food and fun games and visiting with the family. I sure did have an interesting week more in the sense of things that I got done and things I couldn´t get done. So we found out on Wednesday that the medications that Elder Martinez was taking really weren´t doing anything for him and he needed to take stronger medications and rest even longer. When the doctor told me that he would have to rest for even more time, I was like. O no..........

It’s been a real struggle for me to really learn how to serve and love a companion. I really just wanted to get out and work and not have to worry about my companion. I think that the Lord has really given me a kick in the pants this last week in realizing that I need to treat all people as I would treat Him.

I was sitting there reading a book and I started to think about trying to picture as if Christ was lying on the bed and was suffering, what would I do to help Him? I had to answer myself that I would do anything that He asked me to do.

Then I started reading in the Bible about being called of God and I was reading in John 14 or 15 and it says that we should love each other as He has loved us. Wow. It was practically like a spear into my heart that I need to change my attitude and that I need to learn to just serve others out of the joy in knowing it would be what Christ would do.

I know that now is the time to learn to be humbled and work in the vineyard of the Lord. I love you all and I’m grateful for your prayers and for your love.  
Elder Beatty

Email 11/19/12

Hello everyone,

Really there is little to report this week that went by. There was a bit of an adventure that we had on Thursday. So Elder Martinez and I had to go to a religious convention while our Mission President was talking. We were going to act something like the APs so that he could have some help if he needed anything done. We got to the school and we set up a cool table with some materials about the church with lots of pictures about the family. It was actually looking to turn out super awesome. The main portion of the convention had just ended and now came the time when the people could go where they wanted to go and listen about a few of the presentations. There was us, One about the Coran, One about the Toran, One about the Bible, and another crazy set of scriptures that I had never even heard of. It was like some sort of flower child group that was based on God and the Nature of the earth. It was really weird. hahaha but when all the people started coming our way my comp just couldn’t take it anymore. He had had a slight fever with diarrhea and nausea. When all the people started walking our way my companion just started throwing up. He looked totally miserable. So what happened after that was that the president and I took my companion to a doctor’s office and we started figuring out what was wrong with him. To find out that he has Bronchitis. Well dang. The doctors said that he would have to rest for up to 4 days without any activity at all. Well that really isn´t what I as a missionary was wanting to hear. For the last 4 or 5 days I have been in the house reading my scriptures and Preach My Gospel, while taking care of Elder Martinez. A few days ago I was thinking that the Lord probably got him sick so that I would learn to love more and to give more service because right now my comp doesn´t even have the strength to get out of bed. It was a little rough for me at first because I am trying to make sure that our investigators can still keep progressing even though I am not visiting them and that they don´t lose their excitement to get baptized as well as I was trying to keep the Zone running by myself and make sure that we finish the month out strong with lots of baptisms. It was very very taxing on me emotionally. I learned that I can´t do it all by myself. I have to do all I can and then learn to rely on the Lord. So that’s what I did. I make phone calls to all our recent coverts and investigators to make sure that they went to church. We got 3 people in church and all of our recent converts went as well. Wow it was a huge miracle. I offered a very very long prayer of gratitude after hearing that they had gone. I know that it was a blessing of the Lord and that I needed to continue to show my faith through the small actions that I can do. I know that its the Lords work and that He will make up for what we can´t do physically if we have the faith to believe. Other than that I am doing good. Just lots of meditating and receiving of revelation as to what we can do to find more “news”. I love you all and hope you have a super awesome fantastic week.

rohaihu che familia

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Elder Beatty

Email 11/12/12

Hello all,

Wow it just seems like the other day I was writing a letter and it seems like there is nothing new to talk about. Really we are just continuing in the work of the Lord and we are baptizing and teaching everyone we talk to. This week really was a huge test for us but we saw so many miracles. First off we came back from Asuncion on Monday night and we got home super super late because of traffic in Asuncion. We still had to get up the next day and do miracle diviones with our new district leader but we were both dead. I went to an area called barrio 4 that is super close to Franco, where I first started. We had an awesome day. We found 7 new people and we put them all with a baptismal date. Really and they were all pumped to go to church and to know if what we were sharing was true. It was a very very long day but it was full of miracles. The next day we went to a member’s house and we made some burritos. Wow those were so good. The member bought the pork that we were going to use and then during studies we slow cooked it in a sweet sauce that we made and then we took it to his house and ate it later. It tasted just like those burritos from Cafe Rio. The Barbecue Pork ones. It was lucky for us that the Paraguayans don´t really like sweet meat and so they didn´t want to eat much more and we got to take a ton home. AHHhh it was super nice hahaha

Really the whole week, we were working super super hard to just find some “news”. It’s starting to get really really hot here in Paraguay. Like it’s the kind of hot that makes you wonder what you’re doing in the sun. We kept diligent and asked references from everyone, we changed the way we were doing contacts, we asked references from the members, we used tons of new ways to try and find “news” but really nothing worked. We were super discouraged during the whole week because no matter what we did not even one person would let us in their house. I guess right now in CDE there is a huge crisis in the sense that there is no money. Before, what would happen was that all the Brazilians would come into CDE and spend all their money buying cheap goods and the Paraguayans would get the benefit. But now I guess that Brazil has put some huge strict border control and that the people have to pay a teriff on the goods that they bring into Brazil now so pretty much the whole city is becoming deserted and no one is working. I would think that this would allow a great opportunity to come for us in that it would wake up people´s thoughts about what is going to happen to their family in the future or what could they do to control what’s going on. Perfect pitch for the gospel right? But really this whole week I think we talked to over 1 thousand people just in the street and clapping their houses with no luck at all. We did have miracles when we found a few people though. When we found those people, really I would say a prayer of thanks to God for giving us that one person to teach.

After finding that one person I learned a lesson that really I don´t find the people, neither does my companion. It’s the Lord that guides us and He is the one that leads us to those people that are prepared. It took me a whole week of suffering in the sun and on my feet to come to realize that this isn´t my work. I could go for the rest of my mission not finding one single person because I would be trying to do it my way instead of the Lord´s way. I made a promise that I would have more faith in what the Lord can do in HIS work as long as I put in all of my part and try will all my might, mind, and strength to find people to share the gospel. I am truly grateful that I was able to learn this valuable lesson.

The whole week we were teaching our two diamond investigators Liz and Fulgencio. They were just sooooo awesome. The whole week we were calling members every single day and reminding them of the baptisms that we were going to have and trying to let the members all know Liz and Fulgencio. Saturday came and they both got baptized. Our ward mission leader who is a stud set up an awesome dvd presentation with a projector about baptism and had some videos about when Christ was baptized. While we were changing our clothes he had a talk going on by Elder Bednar about how really the journey is only beginning and that we need to continue on the path. We ended up having maybe about 35 members there. It was an awesome baptism and Fulgencio and Liz were sooooo happy. I baptized Fulgencio and another Member Baptized Liz. I am so grateful for the blessing that I have had to come to know them. Really they have shown me that all we need to have is a desire to become closer to Christ so that he can effect a great change within us. On Sunday they both got up and bore their testimonies. Fulgencio couldn´t even talk because he was so astounded by the spirit. After church he received the Priesthood and is going to receive a calling in the Sunday school presidency. Liz is going to receive a calling in the Primary. Wow, Isn´t being a missionary awesome. Just saving souls and making people happy. What could be better?

I know that Christ lives. We don´t have to see Him to know Him. All we have to do is take those little baby steps of obedience that will help us to come to know Him how He really is and really what His purpose is for us. I invite you all to try and be a little bit more obedient this week and see if you can tell the difference in your life. I promise you will be able to come to know our Savior more and that you will be able to feel peace that comes by the spirit. I love you all and hope you have a super awesome week.

Elder Beatty

Email 11/5/12

Wow it seems like just the other day I was writing an email about the same things that I have planned to write about but we will see how it goes. I know that sometimes these messages just get repetative but what can I do. It’s the mission hahaha. So I don´t think that I told you guys about changes really because we didn´t end up getting them till later on Monday. Elder Martinez and I ended up staying together here in CDE. Ya I’m alright with it. I guess that there must be something that I still have to learn from him so that I continue with my personal progression here in the mission and continue to prepare me to be the son of God that He wants me to be. Really in the whole zone there was only 1 change so it was super boring. It wasn´t anything special so we just kept working and kept trying to find new people. On Thursday we traveled out to a place called Santa Rita. It is a small city were pretty much everyone that is there speaks Portuguese. We went there so that we could do diviiones with the elders that are there. They are struggling really bad and so we wanted to go and see if there was anything that we could do to help them find some people to teach and have a little more progression in their area. Our diviiones went ok. We got a lot done and we taught lots of new people. But was a little sad to get the report at the end of the week and find out that really they didn´t teach much more after we left or find anyone else. Its moments like that when I have to ask myself what is really going on with those missionaries and what can I do to help them have the desire to just work and help others come unto Christ. Well we are going to keep praying and trying to receive revelation.

Other than that we have just been trying to find a whole bunch of “news” so that we can have more and more people to baptized. We have had two investigators and we have been working with them a ton to make sure that they get baptized. With them they are diamond investigators who come to church all by themselves and just love learning about the gospel and I know that they are going to make some awesome converts. We have their baptism all figured out for this weekend that is coming. We are going to try and get the whole church to come so that they can feel the support that the ward members have for them and that they are super pumped for their decision to get baptized. Really it’s so cool to see the difference that there is between someone who really wants to accept the gospel in their lives and people who really aren´t interested. The people who really want to come unto Christ and repent are like a sponge. they just seem to suck up every single little bit of information that they give you about how to get closer to Christ and how to repent while the people who really aren´t interested just kind of want you to convince them and show them new stuff but aren´t interested in changing anything.

Right now we are in Asuncion because we came to have a leadership meeting with President Agazzani. Really right now he is focused on changing a lot of the mission culture and so really we just sit and he tells us all the stuff he wants us to change and so we really haven´t had any super spiritual moments with the President in our meetings yet like how it was with President Callan, but I know that it’s ok. Change is good and you got to start somewhere if you want a change to come around. I´m just really tired because we had to stay up all night to catch our bus and we didn´t sleep and now I have to head back to CDE with a 7 hour bus ride that feels like a boat. It’s going to be loads of fun.

Really this last week I have had a huge change in my mission. I have really felt the powers of repentance working through me as I decided to more fully commit myself to becoming and doing what my Heavenly Father wants. I know that really it’s the change for the best that we can have and it’s the change that will allow us come unto Him someday and He will tell us good work and that our mission is done. I love you all and hope you have a super fantastic week. Sometimes there are some things that one should be the best at. I want to be the best at repenting.

Elder Beatty

Email 10/29/12

2012.Oct.29

Wow,

Really this week was incredible. We had a conference with Elder Bednar. We had to travel from Cuidad Del Este. We left at 11 o’clock at night and we got into Asuncion at like 3 in the morning and the conference would start at 7:30 so we had a good little sit down time that we waited and were able to get in. It was pretty cool because we waited for like 4 hours but we were able to sit on the very very front row and see the balls of sweat trickling down his face. Really it was such a huge and powerful meeting. He truly is an Apostle of the Lord. We met there with the entire mission and the other mission in Paraguay to listen to him and to be guided by his words. One thing that he talked about was the little silly Mormon culture that we have. That we have a lot of stupid, yes an apostle said stupid, ideas and ways of living that really make no sense at all. It was very very real to us that he knows us. He can relate to us and that he knows really what’s in our head instead of trying to pretend to be above us he really came down to our level to get into our hearts and our brains that really he knows us and that the Lord knows us.

First he started talking about how that we aren’t the teachers. That a person isn’t going to be converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ by some 19 year old that can barely speak the language and that doesn’t even have a family. We are not the reason why. The spirit is what converts people to the Lord. He says that if we think that we are the teachers we are truly mistaken and must repent. He talked about that we need to change the culture of the church. That there are lots of games that we try to play that don’t make any sense. Like when we are teaching we try to play... guess what’s in my head..... or try to confuse with knowledge.... These are habits and cultures that must be corrected. It was very impressive the way that he taught us. He said that he wasn’t going to stand up and talk to us for 4 hours like we had planned on him doing. That we would be conversing with him and showing him what we are learning and feeling. He said that if we read a scripture or said something it should be what the spirit tells us to do or say that we shouldn’t try to guess what he wanted us to say. He talked about faith. He talked about how we as people need to be agents and not objects. We have been blessed with the divine gift of agency and so we have become agents. Instead of learning by being objects and letting people give us all the answers and then not doing anything, we need to be agents and act. Use our faith and our ability to choose to act on those impressions that we receive from the spirit. He talked about how we as missionaries need to invite people to act. We can’t be the ones that just talk and talk and talk. We invite and allow the people to use what they know and feel and put it into action instead of us trying to force things upon them. Really it was a great conference in helping us learn the importance of trying to allow the spirit to be the teacher through using our agency to act with faith.

At the end we got to ask questions. Wow. It was probably the only time in my entire life that I will have to be able to ask an apostle a question. He told us that we shouldn’t ask stupid questions. Like where is the sword of Laban? He answered that one for us. He doesn’t know. And he said that he didn’t care. He told us also that he was going to be picking the questions by discernment. That he wasn’t going to be picking on the missionaries that he wanted to pick but the missionaries that the Lord wanted to pick. That was sweet. AND I GOT TO ASK HIM A QUESTION........ I asked him that if really it’s so important that we have the spirit that we need to be pure vessels so that the Lord can use us. I asked him how and when can we know with certainty that the Lord has forgiven us? He told me it was a good question. It was so amazing. I was having a conversation with an apostle. He was looking at me right in my eyes and I was looking at him. He asked me if I can remember some of my sins and I said yes. He said that it wouldn’t make sense if in Doctrine and Covenants it says that the Lord ...will remember the sins no more. That was revelation that wasn’t given to me or anyone else. Yes we can remember our sins. We remember them because it helps us in staying away from the pain, suffering and tears that it brought. He then began to explain that the spirit cannot enter into unclean temples. So he asked me if I have felt the spirit. I said yes. He said well then you know that at least there is some good in you and that the Lord hasn’t given up on you yet. He said that yes we aren’t perfect, that we cannot have the spirit every millisecond of every minute of every day until the end of time. But he said that we should feel the spirit a whole lot more than when we don’t feel it.

wow...........

Really I am so grateful for the blessing that I had to be able to go and listen to a servant of the Lord and learn not from his words but from the promptings of the spirit. I could feel within my heart that really he is a special witness of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that really we all have faith and we should all be agents and USE IT. I love you and hope you have a good and awesome week, because I sure am going to...

Rohaihu

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Elder Beatty

Email 10/22/12

Wow its crazy to think that it has already been a week since the last time that I wrote the family. I can´t even believe how fast the time seems to fly. Really all I focus on now is just trying to find people and get them to church and the Sundays just start flying by and I can´t slow them down hahaha. I know that it’s because I´m trying to stay focused and trying to help as many people as I can come unto Christ through his gospel. Well let’s see what the lowdown was for this week. On Tuesday we had a capacition where all the missionaries in the zone came to our church and we talked about the things that we had learned from President Agazzani. It went really well. We talked about planning and really that it’s all about showing our faith and putting down real names of real people and helping them through their own needs to come unto Christ. After that we started using our focus on how we looked at our areas. We have a lot of missionaries that just don’t have the faith that there are people in their areas ready to be baptized and that really they are just leaving the house to come back at the end of the day and say that they worked. We talked about John 4 35. We had them picture what a field looked like, a huge corn field. How did it look when there was nothing there and it was just dirt? We had them talk about their feelings and what hopes they had as they looked at an empty field. And then we showed them a picture of a field full of cotton and it seemed like a huge cloud and there was so much work to do. We asked them who would like to have an area full of investigators like this? Everyone raised their hand. Then we talked about how really the Lord wants every person to be able to partake of His salvation and so really our areas are full of people to be baptized we just need to work and show the Lord that we want to harvest all the fruit. It went really well and all the missionaries left super pumped to go out and baptize everyone. After that I went to Minga Guazu. They were going to have 6 baptisms and so I wanted to go out and make sure that those people were real and were going to get baptized si o si. The area is HUGE. We had to take buses everywhere so that we could talk to all their investigators. We had some sweet lessons with all of their investigators. It’s funny because I would just go and tell them that I heard that they were going to get baptized and so I wanted to come and congratulate them. They get all excited and happy after that. It’s funny... We got back at the end of the day and we were super tired from running around everywhere and just trying to visit all the people. That night I slept like a baby.

Yesterday on Sunday we had some sweet trials and sweet miracles. So the guy that we found on last Sunday, his name is Fulgencio. Si o si (yes o yes) he is going to be baptized. He is already a member practically. He knows so much and he loves how everything in the gospel just makes so much sense. He has already read the triple 4 times and knows it’s true. But he came to church walking in the rain yesterday. Wow, what faith. He doesn´t smoke or drink, and lives alone. Really he is practically a member already. Also Elder Martinez and I were walking in the rain before church just trying to find more people to get to church. We didn´t really have much success so finally we got back and we met a girl that was from our area. She said that she just got up and wanted to go to our church so she got ready and then walked in the rain to get there. Wow, Huge miracle. She is super nice and really intelligent and is going to get baptized si o si. Really church was filled with miracles for us especially while it was raining. In Paraguay the rain means that everything and everyone shut down. But I know that the Lord blessed us because we were trying to be diligent and showing our faith.

This last week I have been reading my journal from a year ago. It’s nice to see that I was writing in my journal every day. I really like being able to go back. But to me it is amazing the progress that I have seen. I knew that I really wasn´t that great of a missionary back last year but now I can see that I have taken the gospel and not only taught it correctly, but I have put it into my heart and applied it in my life so that I can be the missionary that the Lord wants me to be. I have been reading a lot of how my attitude was and I realize that my faith has grown a ton and now I have more love and hope for the people of Paraguay. I love them with all my heart. They have taught me so much and are going to continue to teach me a mountain of things.

This last week we were with a family and we were talking about faith and prayer. I couldn´t really think of an example of faith and prayer but later this week I was just walking in the hot sun and thinking about it. Then came to my mind that one time when mom took us to Snowflake and we got caught on Jacobs Lake in a huge snow storm. I remember that the car hit the guard rail because mom had lost control of the car. I remember that all of us as little kids we were super scared and didn’t know what to do. I remember that we said a prayer and then mom acted. She got out of the car to look for help. Then that one guy in his jeep stopped and helped us get to the top of the mountain. I know that the Lord sent us that divine help. He knew that we had showed our faith by praying and then acting on what we knew we could do. I know that the Lord is listening, but also that He doesn´t just expect us to sit and wait for the blessings of our prayers. I know that He expects us to act. To pray and then go out and do what we had prayed about. To show the Lord our confidence in Him and I know that He will guide our steps and place the people in our paths that will help us overcome our challenges and doubts.

We have been teaching another family called the Britas family. It’s been super hard for my companion because he wants to baptize them so bad. They are a super nice family and really are super humble. We know that they have felt the spirit when we are with them and that they are feeling the spirit when we are reading with them. The only problem is that they have gone through so many churches and so many religions that they just kinda mesh all of their teachings into one and kinda make their own religion. Ahhhh its super frustrating because they don´t really understand Spanish too well and I don´t speak Guaraní enough. Finally we got down to the point where we had to ask them who established their church that they go to. They said that really they didn´t know who did. Then we helped them understand why it would be important to know. We had read the scripture in 3 Nephi 27 about the church carrying the name of Christ, and then they said that their church was called Alpha and Omega another name of Christ. So we had to help them resolve that doubt and realize that it has to teach the gospel of Christ. So we asked them what was the doctrine of Christ according to their church and they didn’t know. Sometimes it’s a little frustrating here in Paraguay because people really don´t care about what the doctrine is in the church or what church they go to as long as they feel good while they go. Wow that is a huge sign that it’s the “true church”. It’s been a struggle for me to help people understand how important the doctrine is. But on the flipside it’s helped me not only to learn the doctrine but to really internalize it and to bare my testimony of it.

Well I’ve got to go. I know that this is the church of Christ, the same church that existed about 2000 years ago. Christ is driving this bus and we are all going to get into the celestial kingdom if we live the gospel and follow the basic principles taught by living prophets. I love you all, and I love the mission. Peace!

Rohaihu
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Elder Beatty

Email 10/15/12

Como estan todos? Tranquilopa hahaha Well another week another day and another hour. The time just seems to keep clicking by slowly but surely. I have come to agree with Elder Nate Northcott in the sense that I’m super excited to come on P-day and write the family but then I get here and sit down and I find that I really don’t have anything to say or I don’t know where to begin. It’s quite the problem but I’m hoping that the Spirit will guide me so that I can say the things that I need to say in order to have a edifying letter of hope and faith to you all. This week we have had continued trials as a companionship. We did discover an area that has produced some great results. We are super excited to start working in that area to hopefully find someone who is ready to progress and accept the gospel in their lives.

The miracles of this week…

                      

So a few weeks ago we were in the terminal to receive a few missionaries that were coming from Asuncion where they had to go to sign some papers to stay in the country and we were there waiting at like 7 at night when a guy came up to my companion. I was off talking to another guy. I came over and realized that they were talking in English and so I joined the conversation. I guess that this guy was a member for over 30 years. He was baptized when he was a little kid and his mom and all his family were members. This guy is a super famous singer here in Paraguay and is known throughout Brazil and Argentina. We started to talk to him and he bought us some food and drinks. He was a super nice guy and spoke pretty good English. He said that he had learned English from the elders that he left with when he was a younger kid. We found out that he actually lived in our area and so we fixed some plans to go and visit him. We went and we found out that his wife is a super nice lady. She is a part Muslim but really likes the church. I guess the guy had been talking to her about the church and about the organization. We got them to come to General Conference which was a huge accomplishment because he hadn’t been to the church in 35 years and so it was good to see him overcome this obstacle. At the conference we watched a baptismal service and the women really liked it. The guy turned to us and said in English that he was going to baptized his wife hahaha it was super funny because his wife had no idea what he was saying. The wife really like the church and said that she wanted to come back every week. She wants to be baptized but she wants to know more. I thought it was pretty cool. I have never really taught a Muslim before. She is super nice and really likes the gospel of Christ. We are going to try and put a baptismal date with her this week so that she can take that step. It’s also good that we have been getting this member to come to church again. He is a good guy and all, but being famous for singing has really taken its toll on him.

Another miracle that happened yesterday... So really this week we have been struggling to find good people. We have a thing in the mission when we call people golden. In the sense that they are super awesome and are going to get baptized. I was talking to Elder Martinez about that and about how we are looking for golden people and then I was thinking, Hey I don’t want golden people. I want people that are like diamonds. hahaha So we just kinda shrugged it off and we kept looking. So what happened was that our appointments had all dropped and so we were making our way to go teach a family that we had taught a few weeks ago and I felt that we needed to go talk to a guy that I had contacted called Juan Carlos. We went and he was there. He let us in and we talked about lesson 1. Wow this guys he doesn’t look too intelligent but really he knows his stuff. We asked him how he became so smart about religious stuff and he said that he had read the bible a lot and another book called the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Wow…blew us away. So we asked him if he had it and so he brought it out. Sure enough he walked out with a triple combination. I guess that there was a girl that was living next to him and she had left to go work in Spain and left a bunch of books and he went through them and found the Triple Wow....... We started talking about the restoration of the church and gospel of Jesus Christ and you could just see in his eyes that a light went on. That he understood. We told him that the Book of Mormon was the evidence that Joseph Smith was a prophet and we asked him if he believed the Book of Mormon was true. He looked at the book and he said that he knew without a doubt in his heart that it was true. So after that we read a scripture in DC 39 v 10 and with all the strength and power and authority that I possessed,  I looked at him straight in the eye and invited him to be baptized. He said yes. It was one of the moments when you hear the opera sound in the background. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH…. I just looked at my companion and he was all smiles. The awesome thing was that he told us right before we closed that for a few weeks he had been praying and asking God about the way that he should go to be able to give his life in service to others and then what happens? We show up.... MIRACLES....... It was like we were walking on clouds after. It was a great experience for me in the sense that the Lord is preparing people and if we follow the promptings of the spirit He will guide us. I just love it when stuff like this happens. It makes all the walking and all the sweat and all the tears and prayers worth it. IT’S THE MISSION!!!!!!!!!

Another funny story to end was that on Sunday night my companion and I needed to leave Cuidad Del Este to travel to the office in Asuncion for a meeting that we would have with all the other Zone leaders and President. So we set our alarm for 1200 so that we could get up, shower, eat and be waiting at the bus stop with plenty of time to get on and find a seat with the other Zone leaders. So we hit the sack. While I was sleeping I got a phone call and didn’t recognize the number. I answered and it was the zone leaders and they said. Hey we are leaving now we will be at your bus stop in 5 minutes… AHHHHHHHHHHHHH… I practically flew out of bed and started yelling at my companion to get up and get ready that the bus would be getting here and leaving in 5 minutes. I bet it would have been a funny sight to see. We were running all over the place just getting all our stuff together and getting dressed. I bet it would have looked like we were running around without any purpose. So finally we get down the stairs of our apartment and we runnn to the bus stop. We get there and 2 minutes later the bus comes and we get on. As we sit down ,I put on my tie and my jacket and reach down to do up my shoes only to find that I had forgotten socks. How in the world did I forget socks? hahahaha Everything went well and we had a good meeting with the president.

I love the mission. Really I hope that every person in the whole world serves because really it’s the thing that helps get the training we need to tackle life and take it by the reigns.

I love you all hope you have fantastic week.

Rohaihu

Les quiero--
Elder Beatty