Elder Pack hits his "One Year Mark"

Hello family and friends!!!!!!

I am excited to tell you all that this Thursday 1 shirt will be ashes and maybe a crazy dance will be performed by me and my companion as it burns!!!!!!!! (SHHHHH don’t tell the president… they say it’s not permitted in the mission, but who can stop such a great tradition!!!!!!) =)

This is strange.  I don’t feel like I have been in the mission a year (more like 6 million!!!!) hahaha No really, I don’t feel this way because I haven’t learned enough of everything: Spanish (even though we speak castellano because it’s not perfect Spanish, my companion just told me no we speak Mexican who knows why I think he is a little crazy sometimes), the scriptures including all the other things that I have to study, how to help people effectively, how to run a branch, there is a list of things that I haven’t really learned and am hoping to learn.

So this week, we finally got Daira ready for the baptism, and so in this coming Saturday we will have a baptism!!!!!! yeah for baptisms.  We only hope to help her parents make the decision to get married so that they can get baptized also.  We only have to work out some of the problems with that.

As a missionary, I love hearing apostasy.  It really makes me kind of laugh.  I have been thinking of the past and trying to figure out when I had said something very wrong so that I can laugh at myself.  It’s funny when we are sitting in sacrament meeting and the person giving a talk says something very apostate and then we go to the other classes and hear messages that are part apostate.  Then we have to correct them so that the people listening don’t learn something that is very wrong.  One time my companion was sitting in a gospel doctrine class and the lady teaching was teaching about the BOM and she said that Nephi and his brothers went to go get the plates because Laban had stolen them from his family.  Hmmm that isn’t quite right.  We all know what happened.  It is true yes that Laban stole all the gold and precious things from Nephi and his brothers but didn’t steal the plates of brass.

I hope that in this week we do something that is well worth telling everyone.

So this means I have run out of ideas, so I would like to say that I love you all and hope that you have a great week.

LOVE ELDER PACK