Week of Father's Day!

Dear Mom,

I just want to let you guys know that I love you and Dad so much! The shoes fit perfectly, the cookies were good, and I liked the cotton candy mike and ikes, the root beer not so much :) You nailed it right on the dot with Jacob 5, next assignment, Read the Nativity and tell me why it was those certain people who came to see the child and why he was born under the lineage of King David. I really liked the poem you shared! It makes a lot of sense! One way I noticed to make a good companionship and mission is living the law of consecration. It takes away so much stress and selfishness.

My favorite moment with dad was when we were eating at a Chinese Buffet and this mexican family was eating at the table behind us and they were speaking Spanish and I asked dad if people had to translate what they were saying to English in their minds and they are just good at speaking in code haha. 

Tell Bryn that I am super proud of her!(Making a premier soccer team) And tell Brie that I am really sorry for her!(chipping 3 teeth at a soccer game!) I think trek will be good for Bryson and Caden! I will pray for great grandma and grandpa. 

So what happened this week, Hayden will be baptized this weekend!

New Mexico is way too hot, I am so tired of needing water every hour because I am dehydrating! 

Ivonne is leaving for Mexico for an entire month so I might not see her again if I get transferred. 

I learned that the way we can gain respect for other religions is realize that the men who started them were inspired men but weren't exactly prophets. I personally believe that Muhammed was called of God to found Islam, I personally believe that Siddharta Gutauma was called of god to found Buddhism, I personally believe that Confucius was called of God to start Confucianism, I believe that Martin Luther was called of God to start the Reformation. These men were called of God to lead his children during times of Apostasy as forerunner "prophets" to the real deal, Joseph Smith. Without their efforts, none of our brothers and sisters would have the restored gospel. They all knew that someone greater than they was going to come, even the founder of the Baptist faith claimed that a prophet would restore the true church and that he was just a forerunner. Muhammed claimed that a holy man would prepare everyone for when Jesus comes down from heaven. Confucius and Buddha claimed that one more inspired man would give the people everything they need to know to achieve Nirvana (peace) These men were all inspired with the knowledge that they were able to handle at their time and cultures. It makes me sick when self-proclaimed christians and muslims fight eachother when Christ taught to love all of our brethren and Muuhammed taught the Christians were to be treated as spiritual brothers of Muslims. They are judging the whole based on the actions of a few misguided telestial souls. We need to stop finding the faults in other religions but find the truths that they have. 

That is what I learned this week!

I love you guys and hope all goes well! Please pray for me that i will be obedient always and be a effective tool in the Lord's hands.

Love,

Elder Farley

Week of June 7th

Dear Mom,

Jacob 5 is a little more deep but you are on the right track with the figurative meaning. Elder Ramos has been serving in the Dominican Republic for a year and is just barely in the US and I am his second companion in America. I hope all of that goes well!

So what happened to me this week was that Miah from Pampa got baptized! Some of the hottest days happened, with the hottest being 120 degrees. My Spanish is improving a ton, we have a baptsimal date for Giovanni who is the son of Jose Fransisco. Had Diarhhea in a cute less active girls bathroom so that sucks! Got pulled over because the cop thought I was texting and driving but it turns out that Ivonne called me and I wasn't sure if it was illegal or not in New Mexico to call while driving so I was giving the phone to Elder Ramos, So he let me go with no problems.

Sorry, I don't have a lot to say,  I do like letters from Brother Stirland though so give him my address, just not the ward newsletter. I promise I will write a lengthier letter next time! Love you guys a ton!

Love,

Elder Farley

Week of June 14

Dear Mom,

 

Every time I send an e-mail I accidentally type in Mom instead of Sheri for the e-mail. I hope Camping and Trek goes well for you guys! Yeah I was so excited when I found out about Miah!

Elder Ramos and I are getting along well! But we still need to find common ground on time. I have never met anyone as chill and laid back as Elder Ramos but we can work on that.

Tell Bryn I hope it goes well for her, and yes I was hit hard in Pampa with allergies but I got over them. Sugar Cookies would be nice if you have them? Yeah the weather was awful but luckily all I got was a goosebump from opening the car door to fast for my head.

 

I got pulled over this week, he thought I was texting but it was me handing the phone when someone called to Elder Ramos, he let me off without anything and he appreciated my honesty. I am also teaching French to some cute girls in the Branch and that is going really well. I am also learning Swahili and as strange as it seems it is more easy to learn than Spanish. Mimi Napenda kuongea Kiswahili is I love to speak Swahili. Jambo! Unaendeliaje is hello how are you! I want to see JURASSIC WORLD SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!  And that is what happened to me this week!

 

Did you figure out the allegory yet?

 

Love, Elder Farle

Week of June 1st

Dear Mom,

 

Guess what! I am getting a new companion! Elder Heaps and Elder Porter are both leaving and I am getting an Elder straight from the Dominican Republic! I am so excited to teach him both English and Real Spanish.

So the doctrine of Barabus and Jesus is the fact that the symbolism is us as Barabbus and Christ as himself. We are destined for execution as the consequence of sin is death and we are kept in a prison of sin. But as Jesus Christ payed the price for the sins, we as Barabus are freed from Prison and will not die permanently. Barabus ran out of the city without looking back as we are to run from our sins and never go back to them. We look back as Christ is walking up the hill and paying for the sin we have made. We then see as his body and his blood are sacrificed for us and we are thus made partakers of that gift. I am not exactly sure what happened concerning after that, but I am sure that Barabus thought to himself just what happened and realized who it was that saved his temporal life. And if we think that there is no way God will forgive us for the things that we do (with the exception of denying the holy ghost) then we need to look at the first person that Christ saved through the atonement, who was Barabus.

 

I am so confused on where the time has gone! I am already 1 year done and halfway to being a responsible adult... that's no fun! I would like a 10 size pair of shoes if you can find one. We are teaching some new people such as Jesus Hidalgo, Jesus Borracho, Carlos y Alondra, Ariana y Daniel, Laticia y Oscar, Rey y Norma, y La Familia Ibarra. They are all really cool and I am sure that some of them will take the step in the next few transfers! Our Recent Converts are super active and they love coming to church. Ivonne is going to Mexico for a month next week so I am going to e-mail her every week to stay in touch with her.

 

So I have a really funny story that I think Caden in particular would enjoy.

So we were riding our bikes down the street and Elder Porter and I started joking about Dollar General and I started talking in a raspy voice to act like a chain smoker who you would expect at a Dollar General and Elder Porter as a joke tried to hand me a water bottle and as I reached to grab it I ran into a telephone pole cable that someone put in front of me... Those things are invisible by the way. I didn't react in any bad way at all, I just sat for 10 seconds got up and told my companions "There is a cable there" and got on my scratched up bike and headed off. haha

 

So my next assignment is to find out why Jacob 5 was put there in the first place and find out what Zenos was talking about exactly. There is something called Dualism which means a literal and figurative meaning behind something.

 

Anyways I love you guys and hope the best, did you get all the letters out? Love you, be safe, be smart, and be faithful.

 

Love Elder Farley