Last night I baptised someone for the 1st time. His name was Robert. He's 10, also, my comp. baptised his cousin, Stephanie. She's 18. The Spirit was real strong there. It was awesome. I'll send pictures soon.
Elder Lewis
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
New Email 2- reminiscin'
Hey!
We have two baptisms lined up for the 22nd. They're awesome. We had 5 investigators at church Sunday! Like wow ik.
I just bought like 300 note cards and filled 'em out with words I don't know. I already know like more than half of ‘em. I think I’m gonna keep doin that. It really helps build my vocab.
Right now I’m having a hard time learning like how to use reflexive verbs. Like se, te, nos all that junk. But it is coming. The note cards really help though, I’m gonna keep doin that. Then, with the ones I’ve learned. I'm gonna send ‘em to my buddies here who don't know as much Spanish yet here.
We played bball on the beach this morning. Uberawesome. They took the volleyball nets down :-/ 'cause the tide is coming up really close. O well.
There’s always too much to do on P-days. I don't like it. Someday I just want to relax and be lazy on a p-day. Oh well. I never take naps. I'm not a nap person. My comp takes naps sometimes, every p-day he does. I can't. I feel like I’m wasting my time. So I’m always the only one awake sometimes, reading, or studying or writing letters.
Thanks for the I-pod. I've been using it a lot. There are a ton of songs I want on it though. From other elder's cd's. O well, I think I’ll just try and burn those cd's. --Like motab singing lion king and lord of the rings and stuff like that. "Oklahoma" by motab is an awesome song. I never watched the movie. But that songs pretty cool.
That football game sounds awesome. I remember when Dad and I went to one. But it got thundered-out. Everyone wears Carolina blue. The whole stadium is light blue. I'm wearin' my NC soccer shirt that Brooke gave me right now.
Now that I look back on life and stuff, I'm glad for all I’ve been through and junk. Like Bro. Wayne Nier said: "kids these days aren't learning the meaning of hard work" it's so true. I think of him a lot. He's the man. Patrick Mitchell too. You know he got like a bunch of promotions right? And now he's a manager at that bank he works at across from Ithaca bakery. Remember doing food pantry? mmm.
Remember cutting down all those pine tree branches and dragging them everywhere and making huge piles of sticks and junk. I hated that. But, it made me stronger. Remember living in Grandma’s house for like a week, waking up @ like 7am, then going across to our house in NY--and just cleaning everything out of it? I'd never worked so much in my life up to then. We'd work from like sun up to sun down. Then we made it a pretty nice house.
Yeah this is a really long email. But I’m just writing my thoughts as they come.
I'm glad for all the hard coaches I had. Jack Reid was crazy ha-ha. We ran so much with him. He just yelled at us all the time ha-ha.
He said once: "I know I don't coach the best way, I don't even coach the right way, but I coach the way I coach." Then he also said once.
"These are the priorities is your life right now":
1st: Religion and Family, those went hand and hand
2nd: School, education
3rd: Basketball
4th: job
ha-ha he yelled so much. I didn't like him then. But I sure learned how to work my hardest and try my best and run as fast as a can. Ha-ha
all these experiences have sculpted me bit my bit. Looking back, yea I guess there were things I wish I would have, or hadn't of done. But I don't care about them anymore. I'm happy with who I am. They seem like "but a small moment" to me. All these experiences will be for my good, and if I endure them well. I’ll be exalted on high. It goes something like that in D&C 121.
People don't realize the effect they have on others. I really really looked up to my coaches. And most of my teachers. Especially you, mom, dad, and Evelyn. I hope people have looked up to me. Especially as a member of the church before and now a missionary.
Anyways this is a humongous email. I jabbered a lot. I'm pretty hyper right now. From running around on the sunny beach. :-p ha-ha.
Love Elder Lewis
bye
We have two baptisms lined up for the 22nd. They're awesome. We had 5 investigators at church Sunday! Like wow ik.
I just bought like 300 note cards and filled 'em out with words I don't know. I already know like more than half of ‘em. I think I’m gonna keep doin that. It really helps build my vocab.
Right now I’m having a hard time learning like how to use reflexive verbs. Like se, te, nos all that junk. But it is coming. The note cards really help though, I’m gonna keep doin that. Then, with the ones I’ve learned. I'm gonna send ‘em to my buddies here who don't know as much Spanish yet here.
We played bball on the beach this morning. Uberawesome. They took the volleyball nets down :-/ 'cause the tide is coming up really close. O well.
There’s always too much to do on P-days. I don't like it. Someday I just want to relax and be lazy on a p-day. Oh well. I never take naps. I'm not a nap person. My comp takes naps sometimes, every p-day he does. I can't. I feel like I’m wasting my time. So I’m always the only one awake sometimes, reading, or studying or writing letters.
Thanks for the I-pod. I've been using it a lot. There are a ton of songs I want on it though. From other elder's cd's. O well, I think I’ll just try and burn those cd's. --Like motab singing lion king and lord of the rings and stuff like that. "Oklahoma" by motab is an awesome song. I never watched the movie. But that songs pretty cool.
That football game sounds awesome. I remember when Dad and I went to one. But it got thundered-out. Everyone wears Carolina blue. The whole stadium is light blue. I'm wearin' my NC soccer shirt that Brooke gave me right now.
Now that I look back on life and stuff, I'm glad for all I’ve been through and junk. Like Bro. Wayne Nier said: "kids these days aren't learning the meaning of hard work" it's so true. I think of him a lot. He's the man. Patrick Mitchell too. You know he got like a bunch of promotions right? And now he's a manager at that bank he works at across from Ithaca bakery. Remember doing food pantry? mmm.
Remember cutting down all those pine tree branches and dragging them everywhere and making huge piles of sticks and junk. I hated that. But, it made me stronger. Remember living in Grandma’s house for like a week, waking up @ like 7am, then going across to our house in NY--and just cleaning everything out of it? I'd never worked so much in my life up to then. We'd work from like sun up to sun down. Then we made it a pretty nice house.
Yeah this is a really long email. But I’m just writing my thoughts as they come.
I'm glad for all the hard coaches I had. Jack Reid was crazy ha-ha. We ran so much with him. He just yelled at us all the time ha-ha.
He said once: "I know I don't coach the best way, I don't even coach the right way, but I coach the way I coach." Then he also said once.
"These are the priorities is your life right now":
1st: Religion and Family, those went hand and hand
2nd: School, education
3rd: Basketball
4th: job
ha-ha he yelled so much. I didn't like him then. But I sure learned how to work my hardest and try my best and run as fast as a can. Ha-ha
all these experiences have sculpted me bit my bit. Looking back, yea I guess there were things I wish I would have, or hadn't of done. But I don't care about them anymore. I'm happy with who I am. They seem like "but a small moment" to me. All these experiences will be for my good, and if I endure them well. I’ll be exalted on high. It goes something like that in D&C 121.
People don't realize the effect they have on others. I really really looked up to my coaches. And most of my teachers. Especially you, mom, dad, and Evelyn. I hope people have looked up to me. Especially as a member of the church before and now a missionary.
Anyways this is a humongous email. I jabbered a lot. I'm pretty hyper right now. From running around on the sunny beach. :-p ha-ha.
Love Elder Lewis
bye
New email 1
Hey all,
I met a Puerto Rican at church today. He's from Vieques. Cool huh. He was in the Marines. So like half his family likes the army and stuff, and the other half don’t. haha. 'Cause of the bombing and the protest and stuff of Vieques. Also, some of his family live on Culebra! He was pretty cool. We joked around a bit. I've been in this area...since Sep. 2nd or so. Sep 2nd was my first real day I think. This is my 2nd transfer here. One transfer is 6 weeks. Transfer meeting is on the 24th I think. So in like a few days we'll see if I’m staying here or not. I think I’m staying here. However, because people here like to gossip and junk--we might be losing our car. So....I might need some $$$$$$$$$ for a bike. I'll let you know though. K? Cross your fingers I don't. Ha-ha, although it'd be fun. But our area would kinda stink---because we'd have everything west of Beyer Blvd. to the beach...which is mostly all English...hmm, idk… all rumors. I don't like gossipers. But my companion is a gossiper. lol---transfers, who's gonna be assistants to the pres., zone leaders, district leaders, trainers---people try and find out what’s going to happen b4 they're supposed to know. Kinda annoying. But...yeah.
Brother Allan and Brother Watson were at our church Saturday for a baptism. They are the big dogs in the church---in terms of missionary work. Look 'em up ha-ha. They are literally the head of missionary work in the whole world. They’re pretty cool guys though.
The cameras leave tomorrow!! :( I'm def in the film ha-ha I hope. We were filmed a lot. But we aren’t the main characters or anything. :-s it's nerve-racking having a camera in your face. The movie is gonna be really really cool though.
You should see if you can buy it. The old one that is. If you want to see what missionary work is like. Will can tell you about it. It's pretty cool. The last one was really good.
Thanks for the encouragement mom. That’s what we really need to do. Sometimes we forget and just start teaching and junk. But we have to think, "What are this person's needs?" and teach and stuff to their needs. It says in my Patriarchal blessing that "I will be a great teacher" something like that.
I'm trying. But it'd help if I knew Spanish. Ha-ha, I’m getting better every day. I've re-doubled my efforts. ‘Cause I was kinda lax with it b4.
Thanks for the story mom. Keep them coming. I'll send some too. Those are really nice. Plus, I’ll be able to use them in lessons. Cause, I don't have a testimony or experience about everything.
Love Elder Lewis
I met a Puerto Rican at church today. He's from Vieques. Cool huh. He was in the Marines. So like half his family likes the army and stuff, and the other half don’t. haha. 'Cause of the bombing and the protest and stuff of Vieques. Also, some of his family live on Culebra! He was pretty cool. We joked around a bit. I've been in this area...since Sep. 2nd or so. Sep 2nd was my first real day I think. This is my 2nd transfer here. One transfer is 6 weeks. Transfer meeting is on the 24th I think. So in like a few days we'll see if I’m staying here or not. I think I’m staying here. However, because people here like to gossip and junk--we might be losing our car. So....I might need some $$$$$$$$$ for a bike. I'll let you know though. K? Cross your fingers I don't. Ha-ha, although it'd be fun. But our area would kinda stink---because we'd have everything west of Beyer Blvd. to the beach...which is mostly all English...hmm, idk… all rumors. I don't like gossipers. But my companion is a gossiper. lol---transfers, who's gonna be assistants to the pres., zone leaders, district leaders, trainers---people try and find out what’s going to happen b4 they're supposed to know. Kinda annoying. But...yeah.
Brother Allan and Brother Watson were at our church Saturday for a baptism. They are the big dogs in the church---in terms of missionary work. Look 'em up ha-ha. They are literally the head of missionary work in the whole world. They’re pretty cool guys though.
The cameras leave tomorrow!! :( I'm def in the film ha-ha I hope. We were filmed a lot. But we aren’t the main characters or anything. :-s it's nerve-racking having a camera in your face. The movie is gonna be really really cool though.
You should see if you can buy it. The old one that is. If you want to see what missionary work is like. Will can tell you about it. It's pretty cool. The last one was really good.
Thanks for the encouragement mom. That’s what we really need to do. Sometimes we forget and just start teaching and junk. But we have to think, "What are this person's needs?" and teach and stuff to their needs. It says in my Patriarchal blessing that "I will be a great teacher" something like that.
I'm trying. But it'd help if I knew Spanish. Ha-ha, I’m getting better every day. I've re-doubled my efforts. ‘Cause I was kinda lax with it b4.
Thanks for the story mom. Keep them coming. I'll send some too. Those are really nice. Plus, I’ll be able to use them in lessons. Cause, I don't have a testimony or experience about everything.
Love Elder Lewis
Sunday, November 1, 2009
My Area
Hey Mom and Everybody,
Yeah, I thought I knew Elder Leavitt [from Las Vegas] was going to be [at the MTC]. I didn't really think about it though. He was there for one week I was there. He's serving in Everett, Washington mission I think. It was pretty cool to see him. I also met a couple kids there who were going to the Raleigh NC mission. I met them in the lunch line once at the MTC. I didn't meet anyone going to NY though--wait, just a couple girls who were going to Palmyra and stuff. I also met a couple Elders who were going to Puerto Rico. I told ‘em they'll love it there.
I see a lot of Puerto Rico and Filipino flags here on people's car mirrors. Most of the people here are Mexican. I don't see many African Americans; every once in a while. Lots and lots of Mexicans. And they're ALL from Tijuana. Everyone goes to Tijuana on the weekends. So...Saturdays really stink. NO one is ever home. " oh they went to T-J" we get that all the time. It's a big hindrance, because people go to Tijuana instead of coming to church.
We had a baptism last week. Trinidad Marin. I'll send some pics home eventually, hopefully next Monday, ‘cause I forgot my camera. It was real good.
Estamos ensenando una familia, se llama familia Chaidez. Son dos hermanas viviendo juntos. Son divorciado. Pero, sus hijos viven con ellas. Sus hijos y hijas son muy obediente. Y eschuchan a cada palabra que dicimos. Son muy joven, pero encantan iglesia. Especialmente la primaria y cantar. El mas mayor hijo, se llama Julio, tiene, creo que el tiene 16 o 17 anos. El es amigos con dos de los juventudes de nuestro rama. Vamos a jugar "pool" con ellos a las 5 hoy. Pienso que ellos se gustan la iglesia. Pero, no se si estan dispuestos a dejar algunas cosas y sacrificar su tiempo por la iglesia. Y dejar Tijuana en los Domingos jaja. Pues, vamos a sigiur adelante con ellos de todas maneras
The area we are in is pretty big. It takes like 20 min. to get from one end to the other. But if you wanna google it--it goes from the ocean east to Beyer blvd and dairy mart road, down to the border. And north our boundaries end at like a little north of Palm St. yeah...
I haven’t gotten the mail yet here today. But I hope I get your packages today! whooo!
te quiero mucho mama adios
Yeah, I thought I knew Elder Leavitt [from Las Vegas] was going to be [at the MTC]. I didn't really think about it though. He was there for one week I was there. He's serving in Everett, Washington mission I think. It was pretty cool to see him. I also met a couple kids there who were going to the Raleigh NC mission. I met them in the lunch line once at the MTC. I didn't meet anyone going to NY though--wait, just a couple girls who were going to Palmyra and stuff. I also met a couple Elders who were going to Puerto Rico. I told ‘em they'll love it there.
I see a lot of Puerto Rico and Filipino flags here on people's car mirrors. Most of the people here are Mexican. I don't see many African Americans; every once in a while. Lots and lots of Mexicans. And they're ALL from Tijuana. Everyone goes to Tijuana on the weekends. So...Saturdays really stink. NO one is ever home. " oh they went to T-J" we get that all the time. It's a big hindrance, because people go to Tijuana instead of coming to church.
We had a baptism last week. Trinidad Marin. I'll send some pics home eventually, hopefully next Monday, ‘cause I forgot my camera. It was real good.
Estamos ensenando una familia, se llama familia Chaidez. Son dos hermanas viviendo juntos. Son divorciado. Pero, sus hijos viven con ellas. Sus hijos y hijas son muy obediente. Y eschuchan a cada palabra que dicimos. Son muy joven, pero encantan iglesia. Especialmente la primaria y cantar. El mas mayor hijo, se llama Julio, tiene, creo que el tiene 16 o 17 anos. El es amigos con dos de los juventudes de nuestro rama. Vamos a jugar "pool" con ellos a las 5 hoy. Pienso que ellos se gustan la iglesia. Pero, no se si estan dispuestos a dejar algunas cosas y sacrificar su tiempo por la iglesia. Y dejar Tijuana en los Domingos jaja. Pues, vamos a sigiur adelante con ellos de todas maneras
The area we are in is pretty big. It takes like 20 min. to get from one end to the other. But if you wanna google it--it goes from the ocean east to Beyer blvd and dairy mart road, down to the border. And north our boundaries end at like a little north of Palm St. yeah...
I haven’t gotten the mail yet here today. But I hope I get your packages today! whooo!
te quiero mucho mama adios
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Conference
Hi!
Yeah conference was purrrrty good huh?! There were a lot I really liked. Elder Hollands was intense!! Like daang yo watch out--but not. I really like his talks, he's a super good public speaker. They all are, and they all do it in their own way.
It's gettin cold here too! Last night got into the 50's burrr. I'm learning a little bit of Spanish everyday. I'm getting more confident and stuff. It's comin along. Now--I'm thankful I wasn't in the MTC for 9 weeks. Ugh that's a loong time. And I'm probably learning more out here than there anywho.
I liked Pres. Eyring's talk during priesthood. I don't remember exactly what it was about. I don't have my notes with me either. But I enjoyed how he stressed being "prepared" to answer the call. I think that's how he put it. The call to be worthy, prepared and able to give a blessing. Whenever, wherever, and any situation.
I've participated in a few blessings already. And gave one. But yesterday at the hospital, I anointed and did it all in Spanish for the first time. It was pretty neat. The nurse or the doctors might think it's silly and pointless. Even if they were right...but they're not-- I bet even the psychological effect on someone who received a blessing will help their condition. The power of the priesthood is real. How amazing it is! It's the same power help by the prophets of old. Same authority help by the apostles. The same power that they cast out devils and healed the sick. The same power that Joseph and others went around Nauvoo, healing and blessing in the name of Christ. I know the priesthood is real. And that President Monson holds the fullness of those keys. Those men and women we heard yesterday and the day b4 are called of God. And so am I. I've been specially set-apart. Set apart from the world, even from my own previous self. In a sense I do not belong to myself. Right now, I belong to the Lord. To serve the people here in San Diego, right now, Chula Vista. I'm trying to be like Jesus. I'm trying to do what he did. It's hard sometimes to be eternally minded. Sometimes I lose focus of the goal, or my investigators. I'm trying to represent what's written on my name tag the best I can. And that's all I can hope for. To do my best. No one's perfect, but if we do our best, that's when the Lord will step in. Everything is fine here. I'm in a very safe area if you were wondering. haha Keep me and the people I'm teaching in your prayers. Pray that they'll break that shell they have around them. That they'll try! that's a big problem here, people just aren't willing, or are afraid to try. They know what we're teaching them is true. They just aren't always willing to act...:-/ I love you all! Thanks for your examples. It's the people who've been around me who have shaped me to who I am today.
Love Elder Lewis
p.s. if this is on the blog--WRITE ME! i write back! ... ...in due time--i can only write on P-days though, which are Mondays. So if you send me a letter---that's best i think.
Yeah conference was purrrrty good huh?! There were a lot I really liked. Elder Hollands was intense!! Like daang yo watch out--but not. I really like his talks, he's a super good public speaker. They all are, and they all do it in their own way.
It's gettin cold here too! Last night got into the 50's burrr. I'm learning a little bit of Spanish everyday. I'm getting more confident and stuff. It's comin along. Now--I'm thankful I wasn't in the MTC for 9 weeks. Ugh that's a loong time. And I'm probably learning more out here than there anywho.
I liked Pres. Eyring's talk during priesthood. I don't remember exactly what it was about. I don't have my notes with me either. But I enjoyed how he stressed being "prepared" to answer the call. I think that's how he put it. The call to be worthy, prepared and able to give a blessing. Whenever, wherever, and any situation.
I've participated in a few blessings already. And gave one. But yesterday at the hospital, I anointed and did it all in Spanish for the first time. It was pretty neat. The nurse or the doctors might think it's silly and pointless. Even if they were right...but they're not-- I bet even the psychological effect on someone who received a blessing will help their condition. The power of the priesthood is real. How amazing it is! It's the same power help by the prophets of old. Same authority help by the apostles. The same power that they cast out devils and healed the sick. The same power that Joseph and others went around Nauvoo, healing and blessing in the name of Christ. I know the priesthood is real. And that President Monson holds the fullness of those keys. Those men and women we heard yesterday and the day b4 are called of God. And so am I. I've been specially set-apart. Set apart from the world, even from my own previous self. In a sense I do not belong to myself. Right now, I belong to the Lord. To serve the people here in San Diego, right now, Chula Vista. I'm trying to be like Jesus. I'm trying to do what he did. It's hard sometimes to be eternally minded. Sometimes I lose focus of the goal, or my investigators. I'm trying to represent what's written on my name tag the best I can. And that's all I can hope for. To do my best. No one's perfect, but if we do our best, that's when the Lord will step in. Everything is fine here. I'm in a very safe area if you were wondering. haha Keep me and the people I'm teaching in your prayers. Pray that they'll break that shell they have around them. That they'll try! that's a big problem here, people just aren't willing, or are afraid to try. They know what we're teaching them is true. They just aren't always willing to act...:-/ I love you all! Thanks for your examples. It's the people who've been around me who have shaped me to who I am today.
Love Elder Lewis
p.s. if this is on the blog--WRITE ME! i write back! ... ...in due time--i can only write on P-days though, which are Mondays. So if you send me a letter---that's best i think.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Simple and Plain
Hi All,
My Spanish is ok. Mexicans talk funny. People say I have a Puerto Rican accent. haha. I can usually understand most the things they're saying. But usually it's hard to tell in what context they're talking about you know? I don't know all those past tense/participle/blah blah --ia aba, iaba idk--all that stuff I'm learning. I gotta remember though that I'm super new. Most missionaries have said it's taken them 4 to 5 transfers to be able to be involved and stuff in lessons. I help teach and bare testimony and stuff. But there are just words I don't know.
Baring testimony is the most powerful thing though. Especially for me, cause it has to be super simple and plain. But that's how the gospel is. Like what Nephi says "my soul delights in plainness" And in plainness is how God works, and how the Holy Ghost works in us. When my companion stops talking and it's my turn to say something..hah... sometimes I do this: most of the time I have no idea at all what I'm going to say. So I just wait. Everyone is staring at me, and I’m not saying anything. haha--if you can picture this it's really awkward and feels like forever. But it's not. It's really not that long--if we can just be patient and really wait and listen to what the Spirit wants us to say--and not necessarily what our minds and our reasoning wants to say, then, we'll say exactly what they need to hear. So that's something I'm trying to do and work on. It feels so weird to just sit and be silent for a bit. It feels like hours! but it's probably only 3-5 seconds. In those few seconds, we're receptive to the Spirit. And it's happened. I'll say something I never would've thought I'd say. And it'll be very simple and plain. But later on my companion will tell me I said everything PERFECTLY.
I'm very thankful for the Holy Ghost is my life. It had been missing in my life a ways back. It's hard to explain how it feels exactly. But I can say that I feel more complete and optimistic. Estoy muy agradecido por toda mi familia. Gracias mama por tu ejemplo en mi vida. Eres la mujer mas fuerte que conozco. Tengo gracias por todas mis experiencias, malo y bueno. Por que con los, soy lo que soy hoy dia. Estoy agradecido por mis maestros en colegio y mis entrenadores tambien. Pienso de mis entrenadores muchisimo. Gracias por todas sus oraciones.
Hasta Luego bye,
--Elder Lewis
My Spanish is ok. Mexicans talk funny. People say I have a Puerto Rican accent. haha. I can usually understand most the things they're saying. But usually it's hard to tell in what context they're talking about you know? I don't know all those past tense/participle/blah blah --ia aba, iaba idk--all that stuff I'm learning. I gotta remember though that I'm super new. Most missionaries have said it's taken them 4 to 5 transfers to be able to be involved and stuff in lessons. I help teach and bare testimony and stuff. But there are just words I don't know.
Baring testimony is the most powerful thing though. Especially for me, cause it has to be super simple and plain. But that's how the gospel is. Like what Nephi says "my soul delights in plainness" And in plainness is how God works, and how the Holy Ghost works in us. When my companion stops talking and it's my turn to say something..hah... sometimes I do this: most of the time I have no idea at all what I'm going to say. So I just wait. Everyone is staring at me, and I’m not saying anything. haha--if you can picture this it's really awkward and feels like forever. But it's not. It's really not that long--if we can just be patient and really wait and listen to what the Spirit wants us to say--and not necessarily what our minds and our reasoning wants to say, then, we'll say exactly what they need to hear. So that's something I'm trying to do and work on. It feels so weird to just sit and be silent for a bit. It feels like hours! but it's probably only 3-5 seconds. In those few seconds, we're receptive to the Spirit. And it's happened. I'll say something I never would've thought I'd say. And it'll be very simple and plain. But later on my companion will tell me I said everything PERFECTLY.
I'm very thankful for the Holy Ghost is my life. It had been missing in my life a ways back. It's hard to explain how it feels exactly. But I can say that I feel more complete and optimistic. Estoy muy agradecido por toda mi familia. Gracias mama por tu ejemplo en mi vida. Eres la mujer mas fuerte que conozco. Tengo gracias por todas mis experiencias, malo y bueno. Por que con los, soy lo que soy hoy dia. Estoy agradecido por mis maestros en colegio y mis entrenadores tambien. Pienso de mis entrenadores muchisimo. Gracias por todas sus oraciones.
Hasta Luego bye,
--Elder Lewis
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Living on the Beach!
I got a postcard from Ben. He is living on Imperial Beach, San Diego. His apartment balcony literally looks out on the ocean. He takes his morning runs on the beach. His first morning there he saw a pod of dolphins swimming off shore! He is living on Seacoast Dr. not far from a long pier. Here is the link if you want to see where he lives.
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4ADBS_enUS326US326&q=imperial+beach+san+diego&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Imperial+Beach,+CA&gl=us&ei=LCG8SsniB8XR8AaFxK2SDg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1
Ben wrote:
"Tijuana is a few miles away. I can see it where ever I go. Latinos are so nice. We're not really having a hard time finding people. Missionaries always have referrals for the Spanish Elders. We're teaching a few people right now, but only a couple are progressing. I can sometimes understand most everything. But when I talk and stuff, it's usually very simple. But there's nothing wrong with that. My companion had me bearing my testimony and stuff the first day. Good thing I know some Spanish and I could do it. Yesterday at church, I blessed the sacrament in Spanish. The branch is only 3 weeks old now. Anyways, the work is good. I know this is where I'm supposed to be right now.
Ben
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Ben wrote:
"Tijuana is a few miles away. I can see it where ever I go. Latinos are so nice. We're not really having a hard time finding people. Missionaries always have referrals for the Spanish Elders. We're teaching a few people right now, but only a couple are progressing. I can sometimes understand most everything. But when I talk and stuff, it's usually very simple. But there's nothing wrong with that. My companion had me bearing my testimony and stuff the first day. Good thing I know some Spanish and I could do it. Yesterday at church, I blessed the sacrament in Spanish. The branch is only 3 weeks old now. Anyways, the work is good. I know this is where I'm supposed to be right now.
Ben
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