Letter to Mom

Everyone is curious about your living arrangements if you want to share that with us.So I have a video tour I did of my apartment that I will send in a while stuff takes forever to upload here, but it is small haha. Also it is on the top floor so it gets super hot.

How are you and elder Lowder getting along? Sometimes a week isn't really enough to say. Maybe two weeks is a better picture of how it's really going to be.We get along great on everything but food and budgeting haha.. Those are kind of big things to not get along on. But oh well it all works out. He is a good missionary though and knows a lot more than me so it is good to have someone to teach me and that I can learn from.

Let's hear about the Dutch. Is it getting better now that you are emerged in it?I know that I am improving and that it is getting better. But some days I feel like I know nothing and am not leanring or progressing at all. But I have noticed that I understand people waaaaaay more now that I did before
Did you meet any of the other investigators this week? Tell me about them. Should we be praying for any of them?So I met Richard, he is like almost 70 and has a baptism date. He only started coming to church because he had a crush on this mormon lady from Mongolia that lives down the hall from him. But now he is actually intersted and wants to be baptised. Then there is This guyNamed Miguel who´s "wife" is a member but he isn´t and she is illegal here so they can´t get married and they live together. Soooo otherwise he would get baptized but they need to be married first. Also his house is like sinking into the ground so he got giant rachet straps and tightened them up in his crawlspace to hold it up haha. I dont know how well that will work. Also there is Abel, he just became an investigator this week. He is from some country by Ethiopia and has had a crazy life as a refugee. And then we have been meeting with Qira a lot because we have a lot more lessons she needs to get before she gets baptized on the 15th. 

How are you doing spiritually?  I feel like I came off this big spiritual high after girls camp and it feels like a lot of work to keep the spirit with me now. I need to step up my game a little. I wondered if that happened to you after leaving the MTC and entering back into the real world.

Pretty good I think haha. It has helped my testimony a lot to see god answering my prayers so much. Everytime I have prayed to find someone or that an appointment will work out or just something I get some form of an answer. So that has been really cool. It is hard though when we knock 30 or so doors in a row and maybe 5 people talk to us more than to just say not interested and out of those five all of them have their own religion or are atheist. But ya things are good here. 

Let's hear a spiritual experience from the week and just another crazy story too.So Spiritual experience, We found Abel last week and then followed up on him this week. He is a refugee and told us this story about how he was in an underground prison for 2 years with no sun ever and he tried to cross the meddteranian sea 2 times in a rubber boat but it got a hole in it and he thought he was gpoing to die so he prayed and someone saved them and thenthe third time he made it over. But we gave him the restoration message and explained joseph smith and the book of mormon. He seemed super interested and I know he could feel the spirit super strong because I for sure could haha. 

Do you need anything? I figured out the amazon thing and can ship you things. A pillow? Toiletries? Food? What would you like?Ummm no I am pretty good on things I think I can only get packages at zone conferences once every six weeks so that is kind of a bummer but we have one on wednesday so I will get my b-day package then. If you want to send me more cokes that would be super awesome. Or like chips and stuff.

I'm sad your package didn't make it for your birthday. I hope you had a good day. What did you do on your birthday? I also hope you get it soon and enjoy your gift.

Ehh haha My birthday was kind of lame actually. We didn´t do anything cool just shopping and cleaned the apartment and emails so ya... That actually sucked but oh well. I did get a cake at district meeting the next day that one of the sisters made so that was nice. But wednesday I should get your package and that will be super nice. Did you ever get the other camera and stuff I send home?

The weather has been hot. Also Humid. I have been dying of heat actually. The past few days have been better though. It rained one day when we were knocking and that was super nice.Some lady did tell us to take a break and go get some beers though haha. I guess I can legally do that here, So that was funny. 

I am missing being able to do good workouts and long runs and swimming a ton. I wish I could go do a triatholon or a marathon again. It is cool to see your guys acomplishments. Also to hear about everything that has been happening I Love to hear about it. Also that is way nice about cliff. Hopefully he is on the better end of it now.