Hey
dad,
I
just want to thank you so much for the email. As mine is the high point for
you, I hope you know that this is the best part of the week for me. It is so
uplifting to read your emails and to know how you and the family are doing even
when it hasn't been the best of weeks. I am so proud of Ashley and it’s so good
to hear that she has reached all of her dreams in life. I am so very proud of
our wonderful family dad. Thanks so much for taking time to write an
email every week to me. I am sure it hasn't been the easiest thing to find time
for, but you and mom have always managed to do it.
It’s
crazy to think that I have almost a year knocked down already, I still feel
like I haven’t accomplished anything and have so much left to do. Its really
mixed emotions with it all but I hope that one day I can feel a little more on
top of the game than I do right now. I am just so glad that I am given so many
chances to learn more with everything. And right now, I am learning a whole
lot. The mission president gave us a book from the church called
"Principles of Leadership" and it is just incredible. I have been
able to learn about a lot of things and would love to apply them here in my
life, but it seems like that’s the real trick. If we could all apply things as
fast as we hear about them, the world would be Zion already.
Well
dad, this week was pretty good, stressful, and all of the above. I am so much
happier with the missionaries here in our zone. Things have changed so much
with that and I am so grateful. Our progress in our area is coming along, but
we are still working with the same people. It seems like there is never enough
time to do it all. We have been trying really hard with two families, one we
are just waiting on the marriage papers and the other we are just trying to get
them to let us in a little more and give us more time to teach. But happily,
they are all going to church and are interested in the gospel, I wish I could
just click a button and make everyone see the blessings and the happiness that
the gospel brings.
Today,
we had a big party with the zone. We had a big bbq and played basketball and
water balloon volleyball, which just turned, into a water fight. It was a lot
of fun and everyone left drenched but it felt so good with the hot sun. Yes,
today I got burnt. It feels like a hot summer day like at home and this past
Sunday I just kept thinking about a nice dive in the ol' swimming hole.
Ha-ha
we have some really fun people in our zone from the south, and one of them
lived my dreams. I discovered this week that he has hunted alligators before.
You can only imagine the size of my eyes when he said it.
Well
dad, this transfer has been a lot more relaxing and I am learning a lot more. I
sure have started to miss you a lot though, and I can’t tell if it’s the train
or just the fact that I have been out here for a year now, but dad I am so
grateful for all you do for me. I hope you can feel the big hug I am sending to
you right now. I love you dad, and I am so so grateful for you. Please have
such a safe week and transfers are every six weeks, so according to way I
looked at it, the 21st of October will be when I get back but a lot of times
they cut down a transfer or two and we end up coming home a week or so earlier.
If I were you just take the week of the 21st off and then we will get our party
on!
I love you so much dad! Have a great safe week
Elder
Paynter
Hey mom,
I am so glad to
hear that grandma came home and is doing better. She has been in my prayers for
a while now along with the rest of family as usual but I have been giving the
extra kick along with Levi.
I am just so
proud of Ashley and how much she has grown and the success that she has had.
They are such a wonderful little family. This
week was wonderful and great in all.
Just a quick
little story and then I will copy and paste a little of what I sent dad.
Last week we
gave a member a blessing to help her get more work to pay the bills and such,
and this week on Tuesday night when we got to the English class she told us that
ever since the blessing she has been having so many more opportunities to work.
She truly is such a strong and faithful person. We were also going to church
this week hoping and praying that we would have some more investigators who
would actually come this week, and when we got there, we had so many walk in
surprise investigators and along with the others showing up, even the ones we
thought would never come, came. It was such a great blessing from the lord.
One of our
investigators last week got the manual of the teachings of Lorenzo Snow. This
week when we got back to him, he said that he read it all in the week and loved
it but had a lot of questions and invited more family to come. He is just a
young 18 year old, but speaks fluent English and it was just really great to
see the gospel working in the lives of these people! It has been such a great
week. I love you so much mom, I am so sorry that this isn't the longest email
but we got to run to an appointment. I love you so much!
Love
Elder Sunsy
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