Week of Nov. 1st

Dear Mom,

I can not believe either how time is flying! And don't beat yourself up about Halloween because you need to make sure you decorate for Christmas now! :) Shane is still being stubborn about the WOW, he is definitely an alcoholic but we will still work with him! We have some new investigators like a kid named Damien who is a football player for Odessa High School and he is really legit, we are also starting to teach a 9 year old girl who wants to be baptized. She bore her testimony of prophets and the Book of mormon yesterday and that blew my mind that a non-member went and bore her testimony before a lot of people did. The district is doing better, just one more elder to work on and we will have it all under control in due time :) What Dallin told me is that, Gods only care about the future and Lucifer only cares about the past because he has no future, so he tries to make us do the same, Gods on the other hand are able to comtemplate a glorious future and thus don't care about your past if you choose to move forward. Tell Jesse and Kason and Hayden and Hyrum that I love them so much and am glad to see all of them growing. Love is the strongest emotion that we can feel for someone, another word for pure love is called Charity. Charity is the most beautiful thing in the world and the reason we are all here living in this world. Once we obtain charity, we can move on to Celestial Glory. Haha I love Caden so much, and I always tell my companions that throughout all of our time together, I will say many things. But the sentence that will never ever come out of my mouth will be "I have common sense" So I am sure the same is true for Caden.

So this is the story of my week. Marlee Satterthwaite told me that she just got engaged which blows my mind! I also got invited to have my honeymoon in Mozambique by a member that is moving there because he will host anyone who comes and he said that if I wanted to go hunting there just to give him a call. He told me that it is much cheaper to get a hunting license in the country so I might take him up on his offer in a couple of years. I learned in Galatians chapter 5 about how just a little leaven can leaven the whole lump. Which means that only the slightest degree of disobedience can lead to whole disobedience in the future, so we need to keep ourselves clean and pure to have fun in this life. We have been going on a lot of exchanges! With every elder in the zone! Hard work indeed! I bought a water bottle that keeps the temperature of the water the exact same the entire day and it has blessed me a ton! We also had a great Trunk or Treat with the ward and we wore moustaches since that was the only "costume" we could have... We had a mission Tour with Elder Foster about how we need to use agency with care and how it allows us to grow if we let it change us for the good. I found out that my last companion has gotten worse and has pretty much reverted back to Catholicism which is not good. We had a great Halloween and we have received 30 lbs of candy from Brother Kelly haha. That is pretty much my week :) I love you guys and pray for you guys continually in my heart. Thanks for the pictures! Love you

Elder Farley