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