Hey old fart! happy birthday and congrats on making it another year, i had a few baptisms on saturday, 3 actually and i guess that is your present so you better be happy, what we as missionaries need to remember is that we are representatives of jesus christ, and a promise we give under the direction of the spirit is directly from the mouth of the lord and he is bound to keep his end. preach my gospel was composed in heaven and writen on earth, and in there it says to invite people to be baptized in the first time you meet with them. I have 3 investigators that i invited to be baptized within the first 5 minutes of the first lesson and all of them said yes. if we as members of the church dont invite people to do things, than we are taking away their agency by not giving them that choice to chose right from wrong and damning them, and that is why it is so importent to always invite. invite invite invite. by inviting people to choose the right, you are inviting them to repent. anyways so that is my little chastise for the day, haha so ya anyway consider that, the ward up there is a great word, the missionaies are amazing and its good to hear that they are doing good! i knew that they would get the ball rolling. I got to comfirm a 10 year old boy a member of the church yesterday and gave him the holy ghost. that was awesome! I love giving blessings and getting to use my priesthood, it feels amazing! so i was thinking about commercial fishing yesterday in church and had an apiphany, remember when we would get to the boat and it was so foggy that we couldnt hardly see the front of the boat? Ya well i stood up in sacrament meeting and said this... All of us as humans are in a fog like we were when we are on the boat. the first thing that we do is start the boat and turn on all the electronics and radar and gps, than when the boat is warm, we head out in that narrow little channel with barely any water. we drive off the gps with faith that it will guide us in the right direction. and as we stick to it, we always make it out there to the end goal which is fish. than i related this to gospel of jesus christ, its faith in christ, repentance, baptism, holy ghost and enduring to the end. so all of our boats are off when we come to this earth, we have faith that our boat is still tied up and waiting for us when we get to the dock, when we are baptized, we just started that boat up and its getting warm, when we get the holy ghost we just turned on all of our electronics, the gps and radio and lights and are ready to go and warmed up and we are starting to leave towards our goal, now as we have the faith once again to follow our gps, or the scriptures, prophets, families, pray, commandments ect, than we can navigate the waters of life and safely get to the ultimate goal of catching fish (returning to live with our heavenly father). thats pretty sweet huh? im not sure the concept stuch with the people of utah because they have no idea what its like but you do, you can share that in sacrament if you want, but ya i love you guys, i better get back to work, love ya dad, your the best dad in the world! keep being that great example and go ride your machine, it needs you, make the time :) love you dad! peace!
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Hey mom!! How is it going? tell the old fart happy birthday for me! haha i totally fojrgot but i baptized 3 people this week so tell him his birthday present from me is 3 souls! :) haha that better make his crusty butt happy :) ok so i am only allowed to email imediate family, so can you tell grandmas to send me mail so i can respond? Joe was more prepaed before i left than i was, he will be amazing as long as he doesnt let the disapointments of people failing the lord get to him. i would love to see him, maybe he can take me to lunch? is his family coming down with him? and that letter i sent with the temples got sent back because i had to much stuff in the letter, so i need to send you a box, and i have a bunch of other things that i need to send back, like one of my suits, but ya i will explain that all letter, the bottom line is that i need a box to send it in haha, but ya i will get it there soon. I had some amazing things happen this week and a huge disapointment, but as long as you turn to the lord the problems you have and the burdens you bare are lifted from your shoulders. please tell dad to smile, o and as you do the BOM challenge, i challenge you to find the word "feller" and see how many dragon references there are :) haha its pretty awesome how many there are that talk about dragons :) anyway, i love you momma!! thank you for the emails and i cant wait to see you guys in 2 years, this time has already gone so fast that its not even funny, sometimes i want it to slow down, but i am happy none the less :) I love you momma!! keep being awesome and o matter what you do you are always the best momma in the world, just look at how hayden and i turned out, because of you i am able to be here and be a great example to the people in utah. mom i know you said i would say this and i know your probably happy but it is true, i miss you and love you a lot, sorry for the wrinkles i put on you face but i couldn't have ever asked for a better mom, i love you!!! have a great time at work! ill talk to you next week!! i love you!! Peace!!
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