Six More Weeks

First, I sure am glad that somebody found a good use for those tumble weeds and the turf HAHAHAHA!!!!! That was funny!

 

This week was hectic. I have been here 7.5 months! WOO!! Elder Monibidor and I will be staying for another 6 weeks!!! WOOO!!! Crazy. I didn't expect that, but he told us that we are needed down here and I am willing and ready to keep working to find out why.

 

We want to get a gym membership, it's $10 a month and no contract. It's the only way we can get up to work out we don't have any weights and I am sick of push-ups.

 

I just want to bare you the most sincere testimony I can of the Atonement. It gives us such power! It was explained to me once like a mother who pays for piano lessons for her son, (I'll be darned if that one didn't hit home). The Mother, lovingly and hoping for the future of her child, pays for the piano lessons. The son, as I see it, is now sitting on the piano bench with a choice to make. He can either use what he has been given or not, but either way it has been payed for. What the Mother did was to open up a door, to give a gift and an opportunity for her son to become great. What she did gives her son POWER to become GREAT, if he will accept this power and use it. I have such a strong testimony that all we need to do in this life is to accept what has already been given to us. God, our Eternal Father, has given us the gift of the Atonement through the suffering and death of His son. He has enrolled us in the eternal school of progression, applied to us a plan of salvation, and now we are sitting at the bench. If we practice, we will become great. The plan isn't easy to live but we can do it, I know we can. The atonement gives us the power to be great. SO LET'S BE GREAT!!!!! :)

 

We weren't getting through to Margie so we called the sisters in and they cleaned house. WOW I don't know how they do it. She was crying and she is back on track and knows that the spirit is in our church. Still not making to many steps forward but hey, she knows it's true. I am trying always to be patient. Claire told me to be patient with people... I do listen :)

 

Kim is doing well.....

I don't know, all of my weeks are running together right now. Days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days sometimes. Today we were at Eastern Shore again fishing. I caught two tiny fish and as a group we caught like 31 fish. I am not lucky at fishing right now.

 

I love you all and I hope you know that God loves you and that the Gospel is the only true Joy in this life. I looked a lot for fun before my mission, and I found it, but I know now that fun isn't the goal here. It's eternal life, it's joy and peace and Love and every other fruit of the spirit. Jacob is a great book.

LOVE,

 

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Elder Skyler Mark Andreasen

p.s. I choose Christ