July 30th, 2009

Hey! How are things going? Things are going really well here, and if you think that time is flying there, you should see it here. i cant even believe that i have been away for 4 months already. next thing i know it will be a year. but things are going well and just trying to stay busy. my companion and i have been in a bit of a slow time. we have teaching, but no baptisms. and we have people that have been reading the Book of Mormon and are really interested, but they havent been church yet. we had ten or so people tell us that they were going to go to church this past sunday, but only one person showed up. it was rather sad. but to find out it was because of good reasons and hopefully they will all be able to make it next week. the work is good i love it, but right now it is a bit slow. but i am still grateful for what i have experienced, it has been good. but i am not gonna lie, i cant wait to come home and be able to do things that i havent been able to do here....like throw my toilet paper in the toilet, take a warm shower instead of a freezing one, listen to music, watch movies, hang out with some girls, and play my guitar, and be with family. but things have been going well, i gotta stop talking about this or i am going to get trunky. but it sounds like things are going better for you and that is good. has kaya found a new job yet? i sent her a letter last week so she should be getting that and i still need to know when you get thoughs photos that i sent. i really hope you do, because some of them i will not be able to get back. because they are only on the CD that i sent. but oh well if you dont. life will go on. oh and it is winter here. but that doesnt make any difference, it just means that it doesnt rain as much. but the hottest months of the year are coming up....August and September. so we will see how those months go. i am just super excited for them. but the good things is a will only have to experience them twice. and the first time will be over before i know it. and i cant believe that everyone is going and getting married and i cant be there to witness the weddings. what the heck is that? heck when i get married.....no one will be invited if they wanna all be like that. it isnt fair! i am just kidding. i am happy for them, but it would be nice to be able to witness things like that. because they only happen once. but things are good here. my companion and i had a bit of a rough lesson last night. we have teaching this family and we marked a date for the wedding of the mother and father for the 16 of August. but last night, we were teaching and the father just started hammering the church and us. about so many things and it was hard to sit there and listen to him saying all these things. the spirit ran out the door and soon as he started. we tried bringing it back in. i bore my testimony and explained to him that i know that it is hard to know that things are true, but that i do know. and i know because i searched for the truth and i prayed to know and i received an answer. and then he cooled down and we continued to try and teach and then he started again about something else. then we testified again and he calmed down. and then he would start up again later about something else. he was really heart breaking to see that. because it seemed like things were starting to go well. but then they stopped and i am starting to think that it has something to do with the Word of Wisdom, because we taught that to them a few days ago and he has a problem with a few of the things we arent supposed to use. and well he has a desire to stop some but not all. and i think now he just trying to prove the church is false and in turn the Word of Wisdom isnt of God. but i dont know. we have a few days until we go back and i hope that the Lord can help us and show us what we need to do by then. but things have been going really well. i really like my companion he is really funny and really cool even if he is a computer nerd. jk he really is awesome. and Zome conference is coming up next week and i think that i will be able to kill my companion. because the new mission president wants to keep us missionaries in our areas for more time so that we can gain and build relationships with the members and other things. but things are going well and i would like to talk about and write other things but i have to get going. i still have to write a letter to the presient and then i have to get my hair cut and go buy some groceries and then clean house and then if i have time write some letters. and i got the letters from the taylors finally. and i will send letters to them tomorrow, but i still havent heard from Jeremiah the weiner i would kinda like to know how the butt is doing. but i love and i miss ya. i hope that things get better with you and glenna. and it might help if you just dont say anything to her, let her be who she is. no one is going to change her, because she is just like grandma. and by the way i want you to give grandma a hug for me. because i guess adam moved out and didnt say anything and she is probable having a hard time being a lone. but i love you and send my love to everyone. and no need to worry about me. i am in good hands. Com Amor,Élder Jory B. Spotts