Third Companion for a few days - Elder Pack (9/3/12 Letter)

Hello Friends and Family,

How are you all doing?

This is the week in which my sister grows 1 year older in life…oh, how old she is getting.  But that also means that I should be having a birthday right?  It’s amazing to think that it’s here again.

So this week has been busy with walking and more walking.  I have recognized the spirit more in the last few lessons than others that I have been having.  Feeling this helps me to understand why some people do and some don’t have a feeling or desire to find out whether the Book of Mormon is true or not.  Some of the people that we are teaching at the moment have a hard time praying.  It makes me sad that they don’t always have the desire.  So this will be the focus of my studies this week, in how can I help them pray.

Other than that I saw a great missionary go home this week.  It has made me sad.  The last few days I have been in a triple with a new American, Elder Grossen.  He is from Sandy, UT.  It has been fun trying to help him learn Spanish because it takes me back to my first weeks in the mission when i couldn’t speak Spanish worth anything.  We had to go to 2 different wards and it was interesting to compare and contrast the differences and see all the different people and their level of faith.  Elder Grossen is waiting until his companion gets here and then he will be going off with him so that they can work.  I know that his new trainer is a great one, and is lucky that the president thought everything through.

So this is all that I can really remember at the moment.  I hope that you all have a great day, and I hope that your weeks go great.}

LOVE ELDER PACK