Week of July 19th

Dear Mom,

I am doing good really. Sometimes I get physically tired. So this week we taught Brian the Gospel of Christ by playing jump for Jesus, a game where you draw a line in the dirt and then draw a square representing Jesus Christ and they have to jump to him but it is too far away. So you draw more squares such as faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost, and enduring to the end until they reach Jesus Christ and you teach about the squares as you go along. Then we finished 1st Nephi with Mario and Alejandra and they are "in the oven" to get baptized. They always are excited to say prayer and read with us. We taught Giselle about why we read the Book of Mormon and I promised her that I would by her a little diary if she read everyday of the month. Then we are teaching the wife of a member and she is contentious. She always has something to attempt to argue with me about, whether it be homosexual marriage, the everyone needs to be baptized in the "mormon church" speal, and the correct way to pray. I just patiently hear her out and teach accordingly but she is super stuck in Catholicism. Then we are working with a Less-Active woman and re-teaching her all the lessons to get her re-familiarized with the church. We have been working with a lot of less-actives lately due to that. And that is who we taught this week.

My favorite experience this week was when I came up with a theory on the gospel which in a simple way to put it, states that everything is a form of life. If it has cells, molecules, or electricity running through it. Then it is alive, everything is connected by strands of the Light of Christ which makes a web of light. When we use something for the right purpose, respect others, and respect all life we connect ourselves with that person, object, or lifeform. Creating a bond. The more things we bond with and connect ourselves with, the brighter the web becomes until the world becomes a celestialized sphere. I call it "the Christian Nirvana complex"

The best thing I ate this week was fajitas made by a mexican. The worst was a double combo of Seviche (a shrimp cocktail in clam and tomato juice) and Papaya Juice... Funniest thing that happened was when my companion wanted to go to subway and he wouldnt stop asking me so I drove him there and on the way I was like "subway is pretty far away, would you like sonic? No. Ok would you like Church's Chicken? NO! Subway! Ok. And when we got there, we walked in and he looked at the menu for 2 minutes and turned around and said, "I don't want Subway anymore..." My patience level sky-rocketed that day. I simply didn't say anything, got in the car, and drowned my misery in Music haha. It wasn't that bad, but it was still funny. Most Spiritual was when I realized my theory. Transfers already happened and nothing changed.

I love you guys and I will try to get buff by 20 weeks from now! Love you!

Elder Farley