September 9th, 2010

Vaca Santa!
I hope you all enjoyed that good ol´american holiday! Ya know, we´re going to be celebrating 200 years of pure Mexico down here the 15. I think ill be sleeping, but isn´t that neat!
Anywhom
Crazy, sorry for all of this nonsense of late!
Im just now finding the time to write (though i shouldn´t be...) its ok, its a rule that we write home and i was throwing up all monday morning! who knows why, but i humbled myself and took some of the pink stuff for the stomach, you know that pink stuff with the jingle, and im ok again! and the week before, we had changes, and i got a new companion! Hooray! When he pulled up in the bus station with all his luggage he had like a big wooden ship model with a paper mache bird perched atop, and a teddy bear. and i was like, shyeah! Im afraid thats the coolest thing about him...
no! He´s cool, though in my evilness i always find a way to be just annoyed to all heck with my companions, i was hoping it was just with my first, but it appearsas if it is going to be a trial that i have to overcome.
no, all is well, i just have to learn more patience or something.
Other than that, not much is happening.Almost all of the people that we have been helping of late are starting to slip away. when sacrifices enter the scene, or when someone has to make a change in their life, in order to come closer to christ, you find out if they really do belive.
its a bummer, but i guess we just have to find other ones, which isn´t a bummer. entonces, tally ho!

PENSAMIENTO ESPIRITUAL!!!
the spiritual thought today is a quickie (yeah i know, shocker) but a good one!
Why? because nobody wants to talk to us! I first stumbled upon this scripture like a year or two ago, and found great solace in the righteous justification that it brought to the attitude i had had about schooling ( which i don´t expect anyone to understand, because im that smart or something)
but i heard applied again one day when i was on splits with another elder, when a lady told us she was too busy to talk about God.
Lucas 10
María and Marta! because i don´t have my english scriptures!
We find Jesus with these two in their house, Marta busy as all getup and mary sitting listening to the words of the Savior.
Marta, as one of those busy people would do, complains to Christ, desiring to have her sister help sweep or something super important like that,
and Christ says to her
Marta, Marta, afanada y turbada estás con muchas cosas. Pero sólo una cosa es necesaria; y María ha escogido la buena parte, la cual no le será quitada.
Basically (forgive my translation skills)
Martha, you a worried about many things, but only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good part, the which will not be taken her.

Weve got alot of junk to do, as people in this world stricken with unnecessary junkpiles, but we should never get caught up in it. Sift the junk, and find the good.
Its all too easy to get caught up in things ya know? no, its hard to know, but know it! even as a missionary, especially as a missionary! but it goes the same for everyone(forgive the deathly general wordage, its with purpose no doubt!)
Real things, lasting things, truth.
I like it.
but have to say goodbye. I LOVE YOU! forgive me!

goodbye!

o yeah! i got the letter! yeah!!!!!
sunday i believe! from July 11th
It was so cool you shouldve been there!
ok thanks mom, and dad, and everyone! ok bye!