Real Intent.......

Hey mom thank you so much for the pictures and stuff, i cannot watch the videos but i bet they are great! dad actually got some gold? it doesnt surprise me because he usually finds a way to get what he wants. But good for him, he is an awesome guy, the best dad in the world. Thats cool that fish made it to state, that doesnt surprise me either, he is a little beast just dont let him know because his head is already too big. but i am really glad that you got to feel it be hot. I am kinda adjusting a little bit but it is still really terrible to be in the heat, but i am trying to send some your way. another reason i hate the heat is because nobody wears any clothes. I feel like I have to repent every second because the girls here are so immodest. but I will live with it for the next little while than live in a place where it is too cold to be immodest :) I have a new comp from north carolina, He is a really cool guy, a convert to the church, he became like my best friend the second that i heard him talk, he is almost exactly like i am. haha and we work and teach well together. I am training and he got here on wednsday. All is well, i went from one accent to another but it was what the lord wanted,  my new comp is a very spiritual guy and we are already starting to see results from our diligence, remember that diligence is the key to everything in life, it helps you develop faith and charity, hope, determination, work habit, and everything that life requires.. Hey mom I love you so much!! you are awesome!! I love you! have a great week and remember that the lord always wants to hear from you and bless you! :) Ill talk to you later! 

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Hey dad thank you so much for the email i always love hearing from you, the things you write help me and my trestimony. so i know that your work is throwing all of these stupid rules at you but there is a quote that comes to mind when i read that. its obedience brings blessings, exact obedience bring miracles. we have a lot of rules that we have to follow. but all of them have a purpose that we might not now so all we can do is to be EXACTLY obedient. so if you try that work might go by easier and faster.

So I hear that you found a little bit of gold? that is cool, i want to com home and do that with you. I am really going to miss fishing to. That is going to be hard on me but i will live. This week we have had some prayers answered. prayers are answred through our real intent. Real intent means to intend to act on the answer that you recieve. as you pray this week try that, pray expecting an answer, and than have the real intent to act on what the answer is. try it with the grebe selling. if you do that than heavenly father will answer your prayer and than if you act on it than he will allow a miracle to happen. That is really cool about the guy down the road. he needs the gospel, my new comp is great, you would like him, he actually reminds me of gpa steve because he says things that are really funny all the time. I really like him and i can tell that we will work really well together, i went from a poopy english accent to a southern accent. haha it is rediculouse but whatever, i actually like the southern accent because it reminds me of a hick. but ya keep on keeping on dad, you are awesome and you are a great example, before you know it the entire family will be going through the temple together. I love you dad, have a great week.

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I Am Staying......

umm nothing to much is up today, i did find out about transfers today though! I am staying here and i will be training a new missionary straight from the mtc! isnt that cool? I am pretty excited! but really hope that he is somewhat normal? but we will see? It was so nice to here your voice again! i think that it gave me a boost and refilled my desire to work really hard again. You always have that effect on me :) I love you mom!! 

Hey i jsut barely got your email :) but holy cow mom the fork was so perfect! I laughed so hard and it sits on my study desk so that i see it every day! haha it was amazing! but ya i hope the kings dont come so that dad has to suffer like i do. haha jk he needs to catch a big fish so i hope he does, and ya i would be fine with him selling the boat and doing whatever he wants for an ocean boat as long as we can keep getting to the rivers. But ya thank you so much momma!! i love you!! have a great week mom!! I love you!

-peace from elders Summers 2- 

thank you so much dad! i love getting mail from you and the family, i really enjoyed talking to you guys yesterday, i was hesitent to call because i felt like i was going to be disobedient. haha but its alright cuz i was allowed to! but ya it was nice! i love teaching people and it gets better every time i do. I have really grown to love the scriptures and preach my gospel especially! it is the best tool in the world. it was writen in the temple, so i heard that it was gathered and composed in heaven and was writen down here on the earth. so use it whenever you can. I am staying in this area for at least another 6 weeks then we will see from there but i am going to be training a new missionary which i think is pretty sweet! In missionary lingo i will have a son and be a dad. so ya i think it is sweet. but ya i will pray that your boat sells and that we can all eventually bo on the ocean again together. that would be awesome! Thank you for all that you do for me!! your the best dad in the world! love you you old fart!

peace -Elder Summers 2-

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Exercising Faith........

We baptized the most amazing lady that we actually taught with haydens ap when he was on a mission. it was the best baptism I have had so far. so as i was studying this week it was all about being pursicuted for the lord. I learned that we get blessings for standing up for ourselves and the church. Tell the deacons that if they are afraid of talking to people than they can never get anywhere. The purpose of the aaronic priesthood is to prepare younge men to recieve the melkezidek priesthood. being a usher is preparing them to serve a mission and talk to members and nonmembers. please tell the deacons that they are awesome and i miss them a lot. I wish that i could still teach them. They are great and i was blessed to be able to get to know them.. I am trying to grow those little egg things you gave me but it is taking forever. i will continue to exercize patience till it grows.  So the more i think about it, I have decided that we got ourselves into some really dumb situations when we all lived in alaska. but i think it happened for a reason and we needed to grow our faith. In every lesson this week I taught about faith. faith is the key to the gate and the path to eternal life. we all have questions that we dont get answered but that is where we need to excersize faith. faith is as simple as making a phone call. you dial a number with faith that a person will pick up. Gage your faith this week and see what you can do to increase it.  so ya study on faith a little and see how you can improve it. I love you Dad! have a great week and keep going. But ya ill talk you on sunday! love you guys!

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Hey mom!  Thank you so much for writing me!! I really love it! If you ever need anything to say to people let me know and i will let you know. If you ever want a spiritual thought then go to a missionary. that is the closest you get to the best answer ever! :) So this transfer is on the 16 and I have a feeling that I will get a new comp and be training. we are getting 30 new missionaries. but i might be in the same area which is ok :) the big transfer is the next one on june 27th and that is where we will know if we are getting reasigned or not :) Fischman is a beast. i am doing a pushup workout every other day with the perfect pushups and it is really showing. i have also lost 10 pounds and weigh 215 pounds of pure muscle with some little bit of fat :) tell him i will always be able to kick his butt. But hey mom i love you! I love you momma!! Have a great week!!

How Cool Is That?......

Hey momma!!! how has your week been? Well i think i have bragged about you everyday of my mission so you and dad must have done something right :) haha jk you guys are the best parents in the world! But i am gonn dissagree that you have had 4 blessings. I talked to my mission presidet abotu miss-caradges and he told me something interesting. it is not found in the scriptures but an apostle told him that they are still part of our family, either so valient that they didnt need to be tried, or the birth of them would have been terrible for your health. but he tol that i have 4 siblings waiting for me in the celestial kindom, mom that means that you have 4 children that you will live with in the celestial kindon that are waiting for you to come. so our family has 7 kids :) how cool is that! :) but ya i felt like sharing that. now its not doctrine, but it made me feel the spirit so i liked it.  I love you mom!! have a great week!! Ill talk to you later!! tranfers are next week so i could be anywhere :) I LOVE YOU!!!

Hey dad! that is so awesome that lacy got baptized!! i am very happy for her, once i got to the mtc i knew that she would be dunked. the spirit of revelation is strong there :) fish is a beast, he ha so much natural talent that its not even funny. i expect him to baptize maddi, do great in football, serve a mission and be an amazing college athlete, but he will only be a good athlete if he serves a mission. i had a dream last night that i was fishing the deshka with you and hayden and we were doing well, the only false part of the dream was that you caught the bigest one. we all know  that that wouldnt happen. :) I think that will be the hardest thing in the world.  I am gonna need to fish with you like the summer i go back. I didnt realize but ithink the most fun that i have ever had is when me and you would go fishing. you taught me a lot of life lessons just by standing on a river.  I  tell people stories about alaska and now i have a bunch of utards that want to come up and go fishing. haha, well the work is going great here, this month has been slow but we are gonna have a rocking month in may. Can you believe that its may already? what the heck is happening to time? the more i submerge myself in the work the faster it goes. i think today is day 90 that i have been serving the lord. wow  it is really booking along. yesterday we felt prompted to knock on a door and we did, a man answered and i said hi my name is elder summers whats yours, how  are you? he said not to good, i asked if we could come in to talk and as i asked i promply walked in without a yes. we sat on his couch and he just started to cry. he was born in the church and baptized, he is 26 and messed his life up pretty good. he got a dui yesterday trying to get to church and was a mess. we taught him about the atonement and jesus christ, how he has suffered for everyting that we have and through him he can find comfort and support. he said that he was praying for help or a sign, than a few mintes later we knocked on the door. He wants to stop using drugs, so i gave him a blessing that he would have no desire to anymore, him and his girlfriend are going to start taking lessons from us and hopefully we will re-activate them. Dad all of us are entitled to recieve inspiration. God helps us the second that we ask. but if we get a prompting, and dont act on it, than the spirit will give us less promptings. the more we act on our promptings the more he will give us promtings and inspiration alowing us to bless more peoples lives. I have watched you recieve prompting and act on them, because of that we are all still here today, you,  me hayden grandpa and quinn would not be here if you hadn't recieved promptings that day on the boat.  God plans and expects us to be worthy to bless others lives. as we live rightously than we all will be instruments in the lords hands. I love you dad! thanks for the update and for the support. have a great week! love ya!  

Be A Little Bolder.....

Hey momma!! how is it going? is bishop holbrook the ney stake prez? haha that would be really funny!! I have been teaching a lady who is personal friends with elder dallin h oaks! and she is getting baptized ony 5th and she invited him to attend her service. Elder oaks said that he would love to be there so he might come to one of our baptisms. he has also been looking for a pair of missionaries to teach his mother in law and he asked her for our names so that he can get to know us!! crazy huh!? i am beside myself cuz i want to meet him really bad! anyways, i love you mom! i am trying to send some heat to you to but i dont think its working. i am sweating off weight and it is killing me but it will be a fast summer than it will be cold again. i hope! I love you momma!! your the best!. i had a lady ask about me and than she said you must have a great mom, and i said my mom is not great, she is the best most incredibe-est mom in the world!! :)  I love you!!

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Wow that is awesome!! the part that hit me most is that the way elder malm spoke to maddie and to fish is exactly the way that i speak to people. our mission president gave me a little river rock my first day in the field and told me that it is a little boulder. and than he said that we all need to be a little bolder in everything that we do. I walked into a house the other week and talked to a man and his wife. their kids are falling off the wagon and i wanted to get them back on. I looked at them and said, are you having family home evening and teaching your family, he said no. if that is not bold than i dont know what is. so the next monday night we went over and said well lets have family home evening. and we sat down and had a great meeting with the family. ha and yesterday there was a girl that came to church that i never had seen before but she sat with a less active family, so i walked up and didnt even say hi i just said, have you been baptized a member of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints? she was scared form the question and eventually said yes she has been, so i said great well who do you know that we can prepare to live with our heavenly father again? If we are not bold than we get nowhere. I am very proud of fischer and maddie. they are awesome. fish's number one goal should be to baptize her. he needs to ask the missionaries to come over for dinner and have maddie there.  than from there she will take the lessons and enter into the gateway to eteral life. That is an amazing experience! good for you guys! we can all be like Elder malm if we just have the eye to see, the faith to speak and the power of a pure testimony. it promises in the scriptures that we must first seek to obtain his word, than when we speak, the lord will pull out of you well of knowledge and bring to your heart what you need to say. the lord cannot draw from your well to bless others if our well is empty! well i am really glad that you had a spiritual weekend. there is nothing better than feeling the spirit. it is the ultimate warm fuzzy. thank you for the stories that you tell, it helps me. I talked in sacrament meeting and told to story of when our boat sunk in seward. the people here love alaska stories! but ya you guys are awesome! i love you dad, have a great week! i love hearing about the work back home, ill talk to you next week!

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