Hey family how is everything going?! Well I have had an awesome week!! Sunday, we had a devotional and a lady named Janice Kapp Perry spoke to us. She has composed hymns and stuff like that and she had us sing a whole bunch of primary songs. When we started singing the Army of Helaman song, all the missionaries in the building stood up and it was amazing. I was crying so much that I couldn’t even sing anymore because no words would come out of my mouth, haha.
So all the Mission Presidents are
here and I got to meet mine on Monday and they are soooooooooo cool!!!! President and Hermana Chaparro are their
names. They told us some cool things about Salta. They are both from Buenos
Aires and they both served in Salta. Apparently it gets like over 100 degrees
with 90 percent humidity during the summer..... I don’t want to believe them.
They say you can sweat when you shower! That’s gross dude. But I guess it’s ok
because the A/C in our classroom here and our rooms don’t work so it’s hotter
than corn, so we are gonna be used to it, haha. I’m just not used to the
humidity so we shall see how that goes.
Tuesday, we had another devotional
and D. Todd Christofferson spoke to us. It was soooo cool. He talked about the
worth of souls and he said "the worth of a soul is the capacity to become
like God," and I really liked that because I never thought of it that way.
It really helped me realize I need to love more deeply because we are all
potential heirs of God. Nobody is normal.
My companion is from Delta Utah and
he is a great guy and the other two Elders we room with are Elder Romer, he is
from Texas, and Elder Hales he is from Aurora, Utah. We have gym time everyday
for an hour and we usually play volleyball or basketball. We always work out in
the morning and night in our rooms too because we all wanna come back looking
like Thor or Captain America..... HA ya right.
Saturday, we go to the Temple in the
morning and then we go to a place called Brigham’s Landing right up the road
from campus to get some real food. They have Jamba Juice and a burger place and
some sandwich place. We love pday haha.
Every Sunday they serve chicken
cordon bleu in the cafeteria and that is the only thing I really like here,
haha. I had five last Sunday and me and another Elder in my zone, his name is
Elder Sandberg, are gonna see who can eat the most. I said I’m gonna eat ten
and he doesn’t think I can. Psshh, Oh ye of little faith. They kind of remind
me of jack in the crack tacos because they are insanely disgusting but really
good at the same time. So after tomorrow I will either have gained 20 pounds or
I will die.... So I will let you know how that goes! I actually probably wont
gain a pound. I have actually lost 3 pounds:/ Ya I’m upset, haha. It’s probably
because me and my companion work out on all our free time, but it’s whatever.
So last Sunday our Branch President
asked me and Elder Eliason to be Zone Leaders. Uh, I’ve only been here four
days and your already asking me that, haha. We start tomorrow and I’m really
excited but I feel kinda weird because there are Elders in our zone that are
older than me and Elder Eliason and I would feel weird being a Zone Leader over
everyone, but it should be ok!:D
So how is chimi doing?...... is he
dead yet?:P I’m just kidding haha. By the way I hope you have an awesome
birthday on Monday Shelby!!!
Oh ya, I also saw president Bloothe
and his wife and said hi to them! Is that how you spell their name? Bluthe?
Blewth? I don’t know haha.
Hey Mom can you ask Edog or Jemesa or
the priests in the ward and see how Brother Cutler is doing? I was thinking
about him the other day and I miss seeing him, and I know he wasn’t doing too
well when I left so I hope he has been getting better.
One thing I really liked this week
during some of my study time is John 16:33. Christ is our only hope for peace.
TRUST Him. It doesn’t matter what it is. He can restore harmony in your life
because "He has overcome the world." The word atone means to restore
harmony and I thought that was pretty cool. His love can pierce all darkness,
just remember that. It was humbling for me because I realized that I need to
apply this in my own life more because I have a hard time trusting and
admitting that I am hurting or in pain. But He is there to listen and He will
give us comfort and the strength to overcome anything. Haha, it’s funny because
I used to hate reading but I love it soo much now, haha. Ya, I’m a nerd now!
But it’s like food for the brain and the heart. Its cool:D
I met an Elder going to Gilbert on
his mission and he is from Brazil and he is 30 minutes away from Piricicaba
where Dallin is going and he said it’s such a cool place, so I know Dallin is
gonna have a great time!!
Last Saturday after the Temple we
went to get burgers at the Brigham’s Landing place and the Argentina game was
on so we were all like watching it but not watching it, haha. So I kinda know what’s going on with all the
world cup stuff.
Soooo I have only taken one picture
and that was at the Temple this morning and it was just all us Elders all doing
some gay pose haha, so I promise again that I will take more pictures this week
and I will get them emailed next Saturday. I figure you don’t just want one
picture of me and a bunch of other missionaries acting weird. Cuz you will just
be like "so this is what my son does at the MTC?..."
I got Cameron’s dear elder letter and
when I opened it and saw it was in Spanish, I was like oh crap. So it took me
like an hour to figure out what he said, but I think he was saying to listen to
the Spirit and teach people and not lessons. Listening is more important than
talking and that has been something I have been trying to work on when me and
Elder Eliason teach our investigator, so thank you Cameron for the good advice.
We LOVE getting mail because it
totally makes our day, haha. We are like the missionaries on the Best Two Years
movie and we are all freaking out and going crazy when there is letters in the
mailbox, haha, so keep sending them!!!!
Anyways I think that is it! Does
Brady have a new job yet? Better question. Does Brady have a girlfriend yet? I’m
just kidding haha! Sort of:D
Wow I just looked at the screen and
everything is underlined in red because I don’t capitalize and spell things
right. It’s hard to hit the shift button or add an apostrophe. The struggle.
Dude Mom, can you send me a ginormously
huge bag of dried mango because I miss mango stuff so much! They have a little
BYU creamery here that we can go to and they have simply orange juice but not
simply orange with mango. They have mango jumex and that is ok but I am having
mango withdrawls, haha. Oh and can you order or buy an Argentina flag and send
it to me because I wanna have all my companions sign it on my Mission!
Anyways, I hope all is well. I miss
you and love you all.
Love,
Elder Lester
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