Hey guys! Well I can’t believe its P-day again cuz it just felt like I had P-day yesterday!! This week flew by! Me and Elder Eliason have been teaching a bunch of lessons and we got a new investigator to teach and he is actually a real investigator! His name is Alan and he is from New York! We asked him what’s most important to him in life and he said chicas haha. He is a super cool guy but it’s hard to get him to talk cuz he had a rough life cuz his brother died and he doesn’t know his dad and a bunch of other stuff! But we have been having a good time teaching him and getting to know him!
For the Sunday Devotional we had some dude who is like a famous
piano player and when he was playing some songs for us I was wishing I had
stuck with piano. Looks like Mom was right about that one haha!:) The Tuesday
Devotional Elder Anderson came and spoke and that was cool. He talked about the
Gift of the Holy Ghost and it was cool cuz he talked about how blessed we are
to have a member of the Godhead with us at all times and I really liked that.
It’s cool here cuz you feel the Spirit so much and the times you don’t feel it
or don’t have it with you, then you kinda feel weird but it was a way good
talk!
The rest of the week was just normal though. The Temple is still
closed so we have a lot of free time. This morning we helped with a service
project and that was fun even though it was at 6 in the morning haha. We just
cleaned classrooms in the MTC.
So Kolby are you a Cavalier’s fan now? I’m guessing you don’t
like the heat anymore now that LeBron left, haha you bandwagon. I heard k-love
might go to the cavs too and maybe Durant?? Ah dude I wish I could see them
play. Now all the cavs fans have to go buy new jerseys cuz they burned them all
when LeBron left haha. I’m surprised they have enough cap space for all those
guys but if they get them that’s gonna be scary.
So Elder Romer, one of the other Elders in our district, was
teaching a lesson the other day about the Restoration to a real investigator
and tried to say José Smith pedio which is Joseph Smith asked, but he
accidently said José Smith pedo, which is Joseph Smith farted, haha the
investigator started cracking up and he didn’t know what he said until after so
that is freakin hilarious! Some other
Elders were teaching the Restoration too and said Jesucristo ordeñar sus
apostoles, which is Jesus milked his apostles, instead of saying Jesucristo
ordenar sus apostoles, which is Jesus ordained his apostles. Hahahahaha, the
investigators here are probably just thinking what the crap are these kids
saying to me???!!!!
It definitely has been a fun week and I have 16 days left and
then I’m off to Argentina!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they play in the world cup tomorrow
but I don’t think they are gonna beat Germany sadly, but maybe!!
Haha it’s so funny, so Hunter emails me and is all like dude, I
hope you are enjoying the MTC. The MTC is so awesome and the food is the best.
And then Taylor emails me and is like duuuuuude the MTC sucked. Haha, and then
Hunter sends me a picture of him cooking a burrito on his iron..... I got the
best brothers ever haha!
Hey Mom, so I got a letter from Brother Hansen and I never have
time on P-day to write him one back, but I will write him one back before I
leave so let him know for me. Also don’t send me any packages when I’m in Argentina
cuz apparently they are not letting any packages get sent down there and they
open all up and that’s a lot of wasted money if you send one and it gets
stolen. Also one of my suitcases is gonna be overweight cuz I have that heating
blanket now and 10 pounds of books that I got here.
When I leave the MTC I get to call you guys when I’m at the
airport for a couple hours. I don’t know the exact schedule yet for my flights
and where my layover will be, but I know most Missionaries have a layover in Atlanta
for a few hours and they get to talk to their family, so I get to call you guys
in a couple weeks!!!!:) Oh and I wrote Juli and told her about that and said go
over to the house when I call you guys so I can talk to her too, so hopefully
she will.:) Mom I put you in charge of kidnapping her for a few hours that day
when I call home so I can talk to her haha.
Other than that this week has been awesome!! For gym time
everyday we play volleyball with one of the new districts and it is a blast! I haven’t
gotten chosen to say a talk yet in Sacrament, which is a bummer, but maybe
tomorrow. Sundays here are cool. I love Sacrament meeting cuz it kinda makes
you feel like a normal person again haha, but it makes you miss home. After Sacrament
the rest of Sunday we just have Zone Leader meetings which I think most of them
are pointless cuz we talk about the same stuff in every one and it takes away
from our personal study time which is a bummer. And all day Sunday after every
meeting, the Branch Presidency feels the need to give us a braso. I’m sick and
tired of hugging dudes haha cuz they want a hug like every five seconds. I’m
just like dudes... a handshake is fine haha!
This past week during personal study I learned a whole bunch and
one thing I really enjoyed studying was Forgiveness. I, and we, all need to
forgive those who have wronged us and forgive those who have wronged those we
love. Remember when Christ was on the cross and asked the Father to forgive the
men that crucified Him. We all need to follow Christ’s example. Or the story in
John 8:1-11, the women taken into adultery. We all sin but we all need to
forgive and not judge because when we do so then we are denying the power of
the Atonement in the life of others. Another thing I liked that I read in Jesus
The Christ it said " The need of a Redeemer lies in the inability of men
to raise himself from the temporal plane to the spiritual plane, from the lower
kingdom to the higher." I really liked that because it really helped me to
rely on the Atonement a lot this week because I have been trying to love more
deeply and care more for others, and I have a really hard time doing that with
people I don’t know. But this week I have noticed that the Atonement gives us
the capacity to become better. I have noticed that is has increased my capacity
to love more deeply which is a blessing cuz before I could have never done
that.
Oh ya I almost forgot!!! So since me and Elder Eliason are Zone
Leaders, we can give blessings to the people in our zone if they are sick or
need comfort, and a Hermana asked for one because she had some allergic
reaction in her eye and it got all swollen and we gave her a blessing and it
was a cool experience this week. I felt bad for her cuz I know how much it
sucks to have problems with your eyes, but she is all better now so that is
good!:)
So Austin now has his license Kolby says, haha and Kolby is
getting scuba certified?!!! When he told me that I was like yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Haha I’m so excited for him!!!!! Seriously it’s the coolest thing in the world
besides the Gospel and mangos.
Ok there’s a lot more things than that but seriously its the
best! Just don’t pee in your wetsuit... Well, I hope all is well at home!! I miss you all and am praying for you all! Mom I love you so much keep writing me Dear Elders
cuz that is the best part of my day!!!!!!:) I hope your Sunday School lessons
are going good and good luck on your talk tomorrow Brady!
Love
Elder Lester
Time in Salta
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