OK so shoot i havent got to email for a while. P-days are super crazy and so we never have enough times. so sorry for not writing in a while!! Man i don't even know what to write about because plenty things have happened. but okay okay lets see...I'll just let you know what's up from yesterday, so yesterday was sick, we live like a couple blocks away from the naval base and basically the only thing cool and important about that is the Comissary! oh we were so stoked when we found out we could go there so we went yesterday and spent like 3 hours shopping there, going through every aile (i dont know how to spell) and we got a ton of food. oh that was pretty much the highlight of the day until dinner which was the best becuase we got to eat what we bought. so pretty much things are good. haha. oh and so yesterday too we had another appointment with Margarita and her family, but we thought hey they have those crazy kids who are like little crazy looney tunes so we had our lesson in the park and the kids ran around while we talked with her, which was way good! a good idea, and so we asked her how she felt about everything and this is pretty much where she is at: so when we asked her to be baptized she was yeah, but i need to ask my husband. her husband said that it wouldn't be good because she was already baptized, which is retarded! so yeah she was like yeah, i am not too sure, i dont really want to and then we asked her to read Together Forever and she loved it! score: 1 for God, 0 for husband & Satan. and so she liked it so much. when mario her husband came home, she ran to the TV and put the DVD in and started playing it, because she wanted to watch with him and usually he won't watch stuff like that, so she tricked him into watching it and he did it. Score: 3 for God, 0 for satan. So now she knows baptism is important and she wants to do it, she wants to come to church too but she said she doesnt want to be in heaven without her family so she doesnt want to do this without him and wants him to be baptized kus if he does, she will. So me and my companion are just like oh my gosh freaky dude why? The Husband is nice but he doesnt want to talk with us and works a lot, he works *(wait - drum roll please) each day from 8 AM to 9:30 PM. now that is just inhuman. like if i were him, i would ask myself, "Self, what am i doing?" but so its tough and we just, ahhh, it's just so hard to share the gospel, something so important and so nice and just hard. but, oh well, we are trying all we can and we are like constantly thinking about people and trying to find ways we can help them. some nights i cant sleep even because i am trying to find answers or read in the scriptures, looking for something, anything, that can help them.
Oh something i found when i was reading was this. That in a couple places in first and second Nephi, Nephi talks about the things that he is writing on the gold plates, and he says that the things he writes are pleasing not to the world, but they are pleasing unto God. That sums it up. he didnt write to please the world to write things that made people happy. if he wanted to do that he could just sketch surf boards or waves or the latest fashion back in the day. but he sticks to the things of God, the things that are the most important and the things that will help us and lead us to happiness and safety. because tons of people here say oh, your church is boring or reading the scriptures or following God is boring. sure we don't have a full on rock concert at church and sacrament meeting, but so what? it's still interesting if you look at it with an open heart and with an eye single to God's. but yeah, so we have been working hard. things are good here though.
Ok, i will think of a funny story lets see...oh so these people were calling us squares when we were passing the skate park and, oh yeah, hail satan and all that poop. so dumb, so we just kept walking then i turn around and my companion was walking back towards them, haha i was actually getting excited i was like yes, i get to knock out some of these kids, finally. but we ended up just talking to them about Jesus Christ and how we teach about him and then they started talking about weed. and then they go with their stupid defense, oh how can it be bad if it's natural? I was like, oh man sign number 1, why you shouldn't smoke weed, you say stupid stuff like that, haha. but i just wanted to say like "BRO go eat some stinking poisonous plant then retard. it's natural." man i tell you. some people. but anyways, i got to get going but bye!
Love Elder Thomas
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