I'm sorry to inform you that I have taken Elder Holland's inspired counsel and I won't be returning from my mission. It's just too great!!!!!
I can't remember what the website was to get that family history chart. Elder Narramore showed me that. Try searching for family history fan chart or something. If I remember correctly, that was it's original name.
I have never met Hermana George but I will definately say hello and give her a warm welcome when I do!!! We have Tidewater Mission Conference this month so if she is on my side of the mission I will see her and meet her. If not she is on the Richmond side and it might take a while. They call this side of the mission the tidewater trap. As you can see, it's proved true haha.
About the pictures, I don't know what to have you do. I would love to have an album or something but seriously I couldn't carry it around with all of the pictures I have. I don't necessarily want the flash drive either, because I don't have a computer to look at them on. I don't know if I need a picture frame either, but I need to figure out a small portable durable way to have all of my pictures so I could view them. Or maybe you just send me an empty drive and I fill it up and send it home and I can see them later. I can just see them after the mission. :/ haha I'm stumped. Maybe if you can find a small frame that I can take really really good care of that would work. DON'T CARE! Whatever works, I'm over it.
Conference.... It was a pleasure to hear from our current prophets and apostles on the building up of ZION!! I can't tell you how much personal relevance the talks by Elder Oaks and Elder Holland had. The whole time I was just sitting there watching thinking that my family was probably doing the same, feeling the same spirit. I felt very unified with the whole church as a whole. I feel like the Prophet let us in on the workings of the brethren in this conference, telling us that missionary work and gaining our own personal whitness of the truthfulness of the Gospel as it has been restored should be the primary concern of every member. Then, "when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren" and help them to be the best they can be. Be commited to the Gospel and it will always pull through. No matter how tough life gets know that GOD is the way, that Jesus is the light. ALL THINGS shall work together for your benefit. I am very excited that every member of the church is bound together by the promise to take upon us the name of Christ and to do things his way. Do you feel the power that we have when we are unified this way? WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD. One person, one child, one friend, one sibling, one stranger, one individual at a time we can build Zion and gather Israel. If we will break free from Babylon and be in the world but not of the world we will be the lower light for others to do the same, and to guide them to eternal life and salvation, that when they are converted they can strengthen their brethren, and so on. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true and I need to know that is true for myself, and then I need to run and tell every person I see, that's what I got from conference.
I have loved this week. Elder Monibidor has taught me so much. We talked a lot about after the mission and set some goals for who we want to be. Elder Monibidor's girlfriend in Idaho just decided to go on a mission haha! (He went to BYU I for 2 years before the mission so you will probably meet him) I have grown very close to him and I have learned to cherish his counsel. He is wise, and has a stern obedient attitude, but when you open him up and ask him to help you he turns into a spirit machine that just pumps out perfect solutions to every situation. I love serving with him. We came upon something that will help me after I return from missionary service, and ironically enough it happened upon us Saturday morning. Elder Monibidor and I were discussing the fact that we have changed, and I was expressing the feeling that I don't really know who I used to be before. I mean, I'm sure I'm the same, and laugh the same, and I look the same, (except for the 33 pounds I've gained), but my nature is changed. My biggest fear is that I will go back home and sit down in my room and just start being the same me that I was before. I don't want to do that. I made too many bad decisions and foolish mistakes. So, Elder Monibidor piped in "Peter, when Jesus left, just went back to fishing. You don't want to go back to fishing. If you want to know what I think, you should get rid of all of the fishing nets hanging up in your room." I just thought "I have a mannequinn, a spedo, a board from vegas that says wazoo, and a bunch of other stupid stuff" Mom, Dad, I give you permission to CHUCK IT. I don't want it. All I want to see is a bed, a closet, and a dresser. And my skis. But no longboard. If you can, maybe even paint the room the same as the rest of the house. I'm not in high school anymore. :)
I love this
Love,
Elder Skyler M. Andreasen
P.S. I choose Christ
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