10-10-2011

Alrighty then Family!!
So this week was a really long week.... but to make my really long week short. My companion and I are finally making progress. I think i said that a couple of weeks ago so again we will find out in the very near future if things really are getting better. I feel like it is always just one big fight, then we have a few days of peace, and then it is back to the fight. Now i know this wont sound believable to some of you, but most of the time i dont even know what we are fighting about!! All i am doing is arguing that i am trying to do my best as a companion. It is really confusing sometimes, not going to lie. I do have one bit of good news that i have found that has helped our companionship get better. It is one of those games you sent me mom in the very beginning of the mission... it is the basketball game... we just play ten games of that before we go to bed. You know me, i like to talk to my fake players when playing good and bad.. so my companion gets a kick out of that. I like playing the game so all is well at that point in time. haha In other news this week, i was reading more of 1 Nephi and i have been relating the scriptures to different kinds of things. It was really weird when i was reading a scripture and it really had nothing to do with missionary work, and all of a sudden i was thinking of how that scripture could relate to anything and everything.. haha it would be a lot cooler if i had written down the scripture to write on here but hey i'm not perfect.... all i am going to say is if you read the scriptures one night to try and help you in a certain situation, don't just read the words but really try and think about what the Lord is trying to tell you in between the lines. Because i know that i have had those opportunities before the mission and i dont think i understood what he was trying to tell me. So what i am offering is that you can really read and think of how those verses could relate to your situation and all of a sudden you won't be able to stop. You will just keep on keepin on loving what you read..
On another note this week we had an awesome baptism for the hna isabel mendoza. Her brother who has been a member for some 30 years baptized her and it was just really cool because one day we found her, and then one month later she got baptized. Also this week were able to talk with another hna that was coming to church. We didn't know she lived inside the ward boundaries, anyway turns out she just has a story.. i think i told you about avila but if not... she is an hna she has a little four year old and then also a little 6 month old baby... well this baby she has was with a member return missionary that has 3 kids with his wife and they are sealed in the temple... and he confessed his sin and he didnt get excommunicated, but he has goals to fix his marriage. Then this hna came to church and she wants to be baptized. She has real desires and she tells us that he had told her that his divorce was a sure thing.. So there was all of this stuff and interviews and she told us she doesn't want to be baptized for him but for her faith in Christ. She told the stake president the intentions of the guy and so we are waiting to see what happens there.. haha But she is ready to be baptized in two weeks..
well family i hope all is well and that all of you are in super health these days. i know this church is true and i am so happy to be here in the Lords work.. i hope you have an awesome week and i will do what i can to make mine just as awesome!!
Love Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+Future Waite=Awesome.