E aí família e paceiros? Como vocês tão ai? Eu tou bem triste agora depois lendo suas cartas da semana. Ela me fazem trunky de mais. Tou tem saudades quando eu recebo coisas tipo...a gente tava pescando....e .....a gente tá indo pra Alaska....e ....nos estamos indo pra o Clark fork aqui em pouco tempo. Ta bem difícil pra ouvir essas coisas mas eu tou grato que tudo ta bem ai e vocês tão bom! So, i love you all so much. It sounds like everything is going well! Actually amazing there! That is an answer to my prayers! I love to hear that your all doing good and that your all happy and making it. I am really blessing you all being on a mission huh? Ha ha. I guess it is about time I do something positive in my life huh? I was always such a pest, and a burden and I feel so bad for it. You guys have to forgive me sometime for it though. I am learning so much here. Much of it is about myself, and how imperfect I am and how I need to rely on the lord always and he will direct me for good. So I also want to take dads advice and not be so hard on you all for not writing me anymore. I guess you guys are busy and have other things to do in life. You all have families and work, and everything on top of that. I am sorry. I am just glad that I get time each week to get a letter out to you guys and let you know that I am okay! Using the internet is such a blessing. So ya I look forward to writing and reading each week. By the time it is Wednesday, it feels like it has been for forever since I had talked or heard anything from you all. It feel like you all are a dream. Like it’s so weird feeling. Seriously. It is unexplainable. I will leave it at that. I still love ya all so much though. Never doubt that.
Mom and dad headed with the grand kids and the Jim lee family to the big hole I heard! That is totally awesome! It sounds like it was really nice there. The weather was not freezing and snowing like some years. Also the water was a little high but that did not stop mom from racking in the fish. She caught the most of everyone.! I CAN believe it. I remember times when we would fish on the Clark fork and she caught a lot. It is nothing new. She just never really wanted to go much cause she did not want to make us feel bad. Ha ha. I remember one time she hooked dad in the face with the lure. Then like 5 minutes later she almost did again. Ha. Good memories. How was Scotty there? Was he sick or what? That is awesome that he was able to get out there. Nikell caught the biggest fish too. It sounds like that is always the story. That’s not the first time that I remember. Dad was just the tour guide it sounded like. He was the navigator and let Wyatt catch a lot of the fish he got. So.. another year at the big hole and a success in the book. Congrats! Oh ya I cannot forget that you guys went to church! You guys loved It I heard. There were some good talks and testimonies shared! That is awesome. I remember going there and after having food. I always enjoyed going to the small branches because there is just a different spirit there. I loved it.
Forward pressing forward….here we come Clark for k river 2008 baby! The river is high and the hopes too! Everyone is heading there this week to have a blast baby! 4th of July and craziness is where it is at. I am sure that you guys are going to have a awesome time! Dusty is bring some of his friends from endo, and your taking a couple of rick´s kids also. That will be tight! Lots of people are going that I heard of so I know that it will be pretty rowdy and fun! The water high will make it a lot more fun also. Dusty how many years do you have? I was thinking of walking in your and tims footsteps as for my career but I do not want to be to old to start. Who knows? But anyways. Where are you guys going to end up staying there? The big pine or what? I know that you guys will have problems if you pack everyone in that camp ground at fish creek. It is getting harder as the years come because we have so many people and there are not many places that can accommodate this number of people. What are you guys p0lanning on doing for the fireworks there? Head in to the st. Regis and go there? That will be fun there. They are crazy! I know that we almost died there a couple times .from the people around us to the firemen blowing up some on the ground…it is a rush! I will be missing you all there, so you all have to make it extra fun and have fun for me too. Promise? Ha! Be safe. And I will do as brynne asked and pray for you guys there cause I know that it is going to be a miracle if everything works out and everyone makes it back in one piece. Ha. I’m praying!
I am so excited that you guys found out that brynne is pregnant! Is that not super exciting or what? I am kind of sour that I will not be there for another baby being born, but what can I do? I am in the right place. They will all just be walking by the time I get home. Weird huh?! I am so excited for her you cannot even believe it! I am really blessing my family while I am on the mission huh? Lots of awesome things are happening!So this week I have though a lot about my life. I continually find myself realizing how imperfect I am. How many imperfections I have in my life and how much I need to improve. I look at my past and I think you know what I did not really have any real goals, dreams, an eternal perspective, or anything. I did not know what my real purpose was in life. I was happy but I was just living in the moment. I did not have such a open mind with true goals and dreams. I would not say that I was lost, but more like I was totally part of the world. I focused more on myself than others, I was worried about what others thought of me, what I was wearing, and so much more. I was a waste of life I think. As I have really waded through my past, until my mission, I really am not to proud of myself. I could have been so much better, and made so much more of my life. A little more effort, a little more studying, and putting god first in my life would have made all
the difference. Now I have to live with the consequences. I never became who I could have been. I don’t have the grade to get into byu or a school of my choice, and I have left a impression on my friends and others of a worldly person: stuck up, with many imperfections. I regret so much, but I have come to realize through prayer that I cannot dwell on the past. If I do I will
just tear myself to pieces. I need to realize what I have, and take my new desire to become someone better and run with it. I need to live my life with no regrets, putting my father in heaven first, then my family, then others, then myself. If I do this I will have no regrets. I will live life looking into the future, and not the past. I will rejoice in the happiness of others, and not be seeking my own because within theirs mine lies. What a heavenly concept. Pure and true. As I have realized this my life has improved so much more. I find myself thinking of others before myself, I find myself lifting up hands and hearts that hang low, and I find myself on bended knee more often asking for the spirit to guide me to those that the lord has prepared. I find my true joy in this. This was one of the two laws that the people lived on the earth before the birth of Christ. This is what moises, Abraham, enoch,….the many old testament prophets taught. Our heavenly father reveals his will threw these men. This is how we know what we need to do to return with our families in his presence someday. We need to listen to the words of the prophets. What a blessing that we have one on the earth today. I am flabbergasted at that truth. We have the priesthood on
the earth. We have the power to baptize, and do things in the name of the father and of the son. What a blessing! I am thankful that we have the fullness of the gospel on the earth today. I am thankful for the gift of the hole ghost to guide us in our lives and to show for us the road we need to take. I love my father and heaven and our brother jesus Christ. Our savior and redeemer. I have been really worrying about what I am going to do with my life after the mission. I think it is because I have brothers and sisters who already have figured this out. I find myself wanting to grow up to early. I think about school where I will go, and I am a worry worm. I think about what profession I want to enter into. It really has been giving me like an anxiety disorder I think. So I have, like I wrote, found myself on my knees a lot this week, praying for comfort, praying for the guidance of the spirit in what I should do. I finally received an answer. I need to focus on my mission. these are two sacred years of my life where I have the OPPORTUNITY to share the doctrines and principles of Christ full time. I need to focus on how I can help others find their purpose in life, and share the message of the restoration of the church of Christ. I have faith that as I put his work before my worries I will be led to what I should do. That is a promise we receive many times in the scriptures from his holy prophets. As we put him first all other things will fall into place or drop out of our lives. His will will govern our lives, and we will find ourselves fulfilling our callings he has prepared from the foundation of time for us. How amazing. I know that we need to put him first. We need to put our scripture study time first, our prayers before our rest, our time in our calling in the church before the things in our lives…..he will bless us. We make covenants in the temple that refer closely to this. We need to build up his kingdom. Our talents are for the benefit of others, and for the building up of his kingdom and the coming to pass of his will. I know that as we do this, we put him first we will find our true happiness. We will find peace in the home and in our lives. I love you all. I know that I am mushy, but I am realizing my and your true puposes. Our eternal purposes. I love you all. I pray for you so much. You are such great people. You make me who I am today. I want to thank mom and dad for all they have done for me. They are so Christ like and I want to become like them someday. I love my savior and my father and heaven. I love the scriptures. Within we find the keys to salvation and exaltation. I know that they are true. I know that this is the true church of Christ. His is our brother and our savior. He gave his life so we could find ours. I love 2 nephi 9:26. his sacrifice make it possible to return to the presence of our father and pass the chains of hell, to live once again with the one who gave us breathe, the holy on of isreal. have an enjoyable time at the clark fork. Be safe, but have fun.
Se cuida gente,
Elder
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