Sept. 24, 2008

Hey! how are things going? i hope that everyone is well. it sounds like things are going well and i hope that they well stay that way. it sounds like my sports teams are doing well and that is awesome, but it is a bummer that i am not able to be there to see it. but oh well and it sounds like the Cowboys did some good picking in the Draft Felix Jones was the pick that i wanted them to take first and then i thought that they needed a new CB after that and well isnt that what Pacman Jones? well i think so and he is a good corner too, he has talent but he needs to keep his off the field problems straight and i am still hoping that their defense can pick it up. because that is what is going to give them the Super Bowl run. i have tons of confidence in the Cowboys during the Regular season, but the playoffs are a different story. they need to make sure that their defense picks it up and stays that way. and about BYU, that is AWESOME. i really didnt even think that they were going to be that good this year, but it sounds like they are slaughtering everyone, and that is awesome. and i also thought that their weakness was going be the Defense. but if they havent been scored on yet i guess i am wrong. but it sucks that i cant walk it. i am really bummed about that, but oh well. i well be able to watch in a year and a half. but you really dont give me much to talk about or really let me know much what is going on. i feel left out, where are the details of things. you got to let me know more of what is going on, where is juston working? where is Zech training? why doesnt steve have a job? did he quit or did he get fired? is he looking for a job? where is kaya going to school? has she been hanging out with people? what are the reasons that she wants to return to live with dad? how is the rest of the family doing? how is work? why are you liking it? you got to let me know what is going on with politics too. how are things looking? and i cant believe that you didnt tell me that Brett Favre backstabbed the Packers and is playing for the Jets now. you are my contacted to the normal world. where are the details......? what is going on in Iraq? what have the president candidates been talking about?i have a chance to vote and i think i will. but how will i know who to vote for. you got to tell me the details. not just who you are going to vote for. sorry if i sound rude. but i have no idea what is going on in america and i wanna know what is going on there. please....please.....please....please! you gotta let me know what is going on. but things here are going well. havent had anything really different happen around here. it is the last week for my companion on the mission and he is getting really excited to go home and i am pretty sure you know what happens to the missionaries when they get ready to go home. they slowly stop working and well there isnt anything different about that situation here. but we do have a baptism this weekend on Saturday. Florisvaldo is going to be baptized and my companion and i are getting super excited for that. it has taken is a long time and a lot of patience with him and he has finally received the desire to be baptized. and the cool thing is that he has changed one hundred and eighty degrees. it has been a pretty cool experience to be able to see that and to be able to help him with that. and his wife is pretty excited too, i think that she has been the larger impact on him and i am very grateful for here help with him as well. because she has been pushing him to have the desire and he has also been reading the Bible a ton and that really helped a bunch. and he has started the Book Of Mormon and he is now in second Nephi there. and it has been really good. but other than him, we really dont have any investigators. we have this one family, but i really dont know about them. we had a GREAT lesson with them on Saturday last week and the spirit was so strong. we watch the movie finding faith in Christ in the home of a member and after the movie my companion and i both bore our testimonies and then afterwards the member bore his testimony and the spirit was so strong that it brought tears to his eyes and mine, so i testified another time and oh just went really well. i know that the investigator felt the spirit, but i dont know if she will accept that feeling or not. we are going to pass by there again either tonight if we have time, or tomorrow. because she wasnt home yesterday for our marked appointment. but things are going well, i am just trying to stay patient. because last week i lost my patience and i just couldnt handle it. but i figured out why, because i lost sight of the good things that had been happening and i lost sight of the missionary that i invisioned myself being before the mission and well i decided that i cannot lose that vision again and i just need to be patient and take every difficulty and trial with a smile on my face and look at the blessings that i am receiving and not at the things that are difficult. but things are going well, today should be a good day of sitting in the house and studying. i have fallin in love with the Bible i starting reading that i love it. the stories are amazing. i just finished genesis and i am going to start Exodus today and i am going to do bit of reading in Jesus the Christ as well. that book is freaking awesome, i talk even begin to talk about it. my companion always makes fun of me because i am always reading the scriptures or some other book about the gospel. he calls me a nerd, but i dont care. i love to read them and that is all that matters to me. but things are going well, i really got nothing else to talk about. except we had a pretty funny experience yesterday while we were teaching a lesson. we were teaching a lesson and the girl that we were teaching was telling a story and then out of no where she starting screaming bloddy murder and i was thinking to myself...What the heck is you problem?...and then i saw the problem, there was a HUGE rat running aroung my feet and my companions feet and then it started jumping and it jumped on my companions feet and leg and then took off. it was hilarious. and the rat was huge, big. but things are going good. and i wanna something to kaya because i want her to understand the whole situation with moving back anf forth. so this part is to kaya so call her over if she isnt already there. but kaya........look, i dont know what you are thinking or what you reason is for moving back to Alaska. but i want to listen to what i am going to tell you. dont do what you want to do........because that isnt what you need to do. do you understand what i am trying to tell you. because i have a feeling that you want to return to Alaska because it is the easy way out. maybe because things arent perfect for you in utah. but let me ask you a question. how many times have you moved back and forth? and why did you move back and forth? i think that it was because you were running from something. i dont know what that thing was, but i know that you were running from something. but i have some advice for you, dont run! look at what alaska has to offer and also what Utah has to offer. alaska has dad and it is a great place to live and it has your friends, but utah has mom and it is also a great place to live and the education there is better and you can have friends there too. look at what i did. i moved with mom to utah i didnt have friends there but i know that that is where i would receive a better future. that is what is important, not the here and now. but what will happen in the future. utah has more boys that are members of the church and the environment is better kaya. i know that you want to live in Alaska. but as a brother, i am telling you not because i am trying to tell you what to do. but because i love you and because i know with all my heart that you well find yourself a better future and a better life with less problems in Utah. maybe you wanna go back because dad is alone and it struggling and you love him. but dad is fine and he will be fine, he is a strong man and has the Lord. he doesnt need you. but what you need to do is what you need to do. if you understand that. the Lord knows what you need to do and He will show where you need to be. you need to think a lot about what you are thinking and why you are thinking it, because every decision in life whether big or small has an effect on it. and this will case your entire life to change. dont just make an irrational decision. but think about what you are doing. i love you and i know that you will make the right decision, but dont make that decision in the blink of an eye. i love you guys both and i hope the best for you. on Sunday give matt a hug for me and tell him that i am super excited for him and Bom Trabalho!!!! you need to tell him those words, i think that he will understand, it means good work. and tell him Sede o missionário que Deus quer que você seja. Be the missionary that God wants you to be. i am so excited for him and i want you to let him know that for me. but all is well with me and i love you all. and tell steve that i said to get a job haha. but i love you all and give everyone a hug for me and give juston and kaya both a huge hug for alright. LOVE YA!!!!!! and miss you too. remember details....the word of the week.
Com Amor, Élder Jory B. SPotts