Hey famy fam!
How's your week going, hope it's been spectacular! Pics are my fav, keep sending them periodically if you would! Well how's life? How's alpine? Camping eh? Nuts o! Sounds like you're all doing very well with soccer and life and such, diez puntos para ustedes! have you been following the world cup at all? I heard portugal lost to soommeone... I forgot who. Well that's irrelevant, I wish you the best, hope you're all doing well, and keep having fun! Thanks for everything, thanks for helping me get here!
Pues pues pues, la CCM is awesome! This is my four week mark, which seemed a little quick! It's going by quickly already! I'm really excited for Eric to get here next week, should be nifty! Soccer here's been lots of fun, I named our team Hogwarts, and we're pretty good, "non-competitevley" of course. We went to the temple this morning, as we do every pday, had some fun, ate the food, etc. I was going to bring my journal in to write some stuff but I forgot it, that's ok i remember most of what happened. Our investigators are really progressing, Ricardo and Margherita, that's by far the most constructive thing we do here, is teach. Yesterday we taught Margherita about faith and baptism, our lessons are a little incoherent, and go by super fast, we always talk too much and don't appropriate enough time for the lesson, or for the climax of the lesson. We're getting better though, and really progressing, as are our investigadores. The most important things, for them, are to get them into the LDM, be reading and praying daily, and to feel and recognize the spirit. Oh ya, today at the temple I bought this orange- so awesome! Massive. And orange. Well our zone is doing awesome, we didn't get a new distirct this week, but should next week. The Elders/sisters are all doing awesome, and are all progressing, it's awesome to be able to get to know all these classy dudes. Three cheers for them! Oh ya, and every night me and elder watson ask them a question, so if you have any ideas, feel free to shoot away. For example, -"If you could be any fantasy character, who?" or "If you could have ONE muscle be massive, which one?", such profound questions as those. It's dandy.
Well for the tuesday devotional we had quite a plethora of noteworthy church leadership in attendence, none of the 1st presidency was there, but all but 2 of the quorum of the 12. Hales and Packer were absent. Big ol' L. Tom Perry spoke, it was quite an exiciting event. His remarks actually weren't doctrinal, but were about how socially beneficial mormonism is- a slide show type presentation. For example, those who fast once a month are 40% less likely to have cholestrol disease or something or other. Also lds people who keep the world of wisdom live longer- males on average live 10 years longer, and females 5, than the average amercian. Also interestingly enough, as LDS people recieve more education, they become more active in the church, whereas in general, the more educated people become, the less active in relgion they become. Interesting huh? Kind of makes sense.
The best by far though was the fireside/film on sunday night, we watched a recording of a christmas talk given here by Elder David a Bednar on the character of Christ- it was amazing. How He turns outward, when we would surely turn inward, and how we can improve ourselves. he's a funny guy.
Well, I enjoy going to the loo with my companion, elder watson, what an inspiration he is to me in there! It's terrific here. I really love it. The people are awesome, the teachers are the cats meow, and the food is very average, ha. I've gained 19 pounds, cualqueira. But today I go the the little gym so I'll have to work a bit of that off.
Also one the maestro's here, hermano Gillon, served in Santiago north. He gave us a slight briefing on the awesomeness of the work there, and I'm so excited! Sounds like there's loads of work to do, crazy huge spiders, lots of dogs (albeit a little less lovable than ralphie ralph) and much more. I"m so excited to go serve there, thanks for the bit about Elder Call, I hadn't heard anything from him yet! I'm glad he's killin' it!
Thanks for all you all do, go out and have a great time while I'm gone! Love you tyler! Love you dad, mom, anna banana, stevey weevie, benny chinny, hyrum lyrum, and ralphie dog! Give him a bark for me!
Well I ate some delicious quich this morning at the temple, I love you all, get out there and kill it! This gospel is so awesome! Oh ya, one more tangent, I've been reading our search for happiness, and ya know what? I really haven't LEARNED anything in the book, but it really has reaffirmed my testimony of the gospel, it really all does make soo much sense. But whether we have the answers or not, I know this gospel is true. i really do feel it. My job is to invite others to come unto christ, for the next 2 years, even after that as well. The gospel is so awesome, don't be scared or shy about what you belive! Be bold you can be an example and help others around you so much! I know this gospel is true, it makes me want to be a better person and come closer to christ, i'm grateful for the testimony I have, and feel the spirit every time we teach mar. and ric., as do they.
Love ya all!
Elder Tasso!
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