My health is still good,
so I agree with the cancelling thing. (We
are going to cancel the appointment with the Dr. for August 19th and
just keep the appointment with the GI from the University of Indiana on Sept.
19th)
My new companion is from
Rexburg, Idaho. Biking is a beast and we share the car, one week with the car,
one week off, but we got jipped and have like no miles till Thursday sooo... we
are still biking. My legs feel like Jelly but man do I look studly on the bike
with my shiny silver nerd helmet hahaha.
I can get the video done
hopefully tonight or tomorrow. It will
be tomorrow actually because we have exchanges so I will be way busy tonight. I
hope that is enough time so it would be in the mail by Wednesday. Oh my
companion wants you to send me my baseball mitt as well, so we can play catch
for exercise. Which by the way I am now ripped!! Not really but I like to think
so.
That is great with ******,
(name
starred out for privacy) keep working with her and have dad go over
too one of these days and talk, he can be very social and friendly when he
wants to be hahaha :P
Tell Brooklyn HAPPY
B-DAY!! I still can’t sing that in Spanish
because it is oober difficult but tell her I love her and that boys still have
the plague!! She worries me with that stuff sometimes..... So a spiritual
experience... there are a lot but I am bad at telling them, one time we were going by this lady named
Goven that we had found and only taught once.
She lives with her daughter, so we go to the house and actually the
Grand-daughter answers the door her name is Celeste. I actually have talked to her once before, the
first time we came. She is very
energetic, she reminds me of an 18 year old Brooklyn. Well Goven wasn’t there and if she was, she’s
just not that interested. But Celeste made the soul saving "mistake"
of asking us "So what do you teach exactly anyway?" So we explained
kind of the restoration with a little of the Plan of Salvation in it and
she was very interested. She wants us to
come back, but before we got there, (I
think he means earlier in the conversation, before they made arrangements to
come back) she said what happens if I make it to the highest glory but
my family doesn’t it truly would not be
happy for me if that happened. And then a moment came where I actually had to
really search myself and the spirit for the answer and it came somewhat
like this. I told her that God would never cut anyone short, and we are all
given ample opportunities to get to the Celestial kingdom. I then said, you know one of the things
that I have realized as time goes on is that I wouldn’t be happy if I was
around during the Second coming and had to watch and see all of those people
die, even if they were all strangers just to have to watch them die and be able
to do nothing for them would just tear me apart... She than got quiet and said
so... I guess that is why you are out here huh...?? I paused and said yea, I
guess so, because I couldn’t stand watching someone die and suffer because
I didn’t do my best to share what I know, or because I came short or even if
they were just "evil"... So that was a very cool experience for
me. Well that is about it of that story for now. We meet with her tomorrow. Other than that our area took a hit because of
the bikes and how it takes about an hour and fifteen to get to some
investigators, but we will keep pressing forward.
Well that is about it
for new stuff, oh so I think I already told you , but they are going to start
incorporating technology in the mission within the next 6 months so
that is going to be weird... I also had
to replace a pedal on the bike and a tire.
We have ridden more than 85 miles in the last week!! Our bikes are
getting thrashed, and we are even very careful. I need you to contact Joy on Facebook and
ask if she is at that same address or if I should mail it somewhere else.
Also some letters are going to be coming for other people to you, and I need
you to contact them on Facebook when you get the letters and tell them
to come get them. Oh one last thing so I got called Cuban today because of
how I look and my Spanish!!! I was stoked!! hahaha. Well I love you all tell Brooklyn
happy birthday and she is now the age of Joseph Smith when he had the first
vision... And I love you all very much and I hope things will keep going
great. D&C 6: 32-the end. My favorite scriptures now I think. Well I love
you all and have a wonderful week! Also
let dad read this.
Love, Your son/stud muffin, Elder Paxman
Here
is the scripture reference he gave:
D&C 6:32-37
32 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, as I said unto my disciples, where two or three are
gathered together in my name, as atouching
bone
thing, behold, there will I be in the cmidst
of them—even so am I in the dmidst
of you.
33 aFear not
to do bgood,
my sons, for whatsoever ye csow,
that shall ye also reap; therefore, if ye sow dgood
ye shall also reap good for your ereward.
34 Therefore, fear not, little aflock;
do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are bbuilt
upon my rock, they cannot prevail.
35 Behold, I do not condemn you; go your ways and asin
no more; perform with soberness the work which I have commanded you.
37 aBehold
the wounds which pierced my side, and also the prints of the bnails
in my hands and feet; be faithful, keep my commandments, and ye shall cinherit
the dkingdom
of heaven. Amen.
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