And another day comes. Currently just waiting for a visa, as you know. Two of our Argentina elders, the only ones currently left, got theirs. One got his yesterday afternoon and left this morning at five. The other got his yesterday afternoon and will leave Monday. For us, I expect when we get our visas we'll likely leave the next day, because we'll be going right to our mission in Buenos Aires instead of a different one like Rosario. So it's basically just a waiting game right now. I'll get through but it's a bother just not knowing and having no control. Everything else is coming along. Language is a constant work in progress along with teaching and whatever else there is. But I'm improving.
Tuesday we heard from an Elder Craig A. Cardon, who must have been related to Brother Cardon. They just acted and looked similar, and he graduated from ASU. The weather here is wonderful right now, things blooming. But the exercise field just won't get open. So I can't practice my soccer skills before going to Argentina. I've met a bunch of people here from Mesa that I've never known before, as well as some I did know. But there are a lot of people from Mesa. But our district is getting through. Three of us wait for visas, two to Buenos Aires West and another to Rosario. We were renamed from District 48F, because another District F came in. So now we are District X. Los hombres equis (X).
Alex - Oh, sleep. Here I am constantly tired. Especially because Sunday we had to set our alarms back an hour for Daylight Savings Time. Thank you, Arizona, for rebelling against random sleep loss. Then on Tuesday we had to wake up 30-45 minutes early for service. So a double dose of less sleep. But y'know, I'll survive. Your question... Blind faith in God. Faith is things hoped for and not seen, Ether 12:6. Essentially, I could write you a long explanation that could be nice. But I think it'd be nice to send you some chapters to study. So here they are: Alma 32, Ether 12, and Moroni 7. They are wonderful chapters on faith. Faith, hope and charity. Faith really doesn't depend on sight though. My teacher demonstrated an activity that I liked. He had someone do a trust fall. So the first fall, you really don't know whether the person will catch you. You fall because you believe that they'll catch you. They probably told you that they'd catch you. So you fall and are caught. Then you do the trust fall again. The catcher steps back a little. The person falling is asked to fall again. Because he's seen the results of falling the first time - being caught- he has more trust he'll be caught. However, it's still scary. And more than that, you're caught a little further back. Repeat this, stepping back each time. For faith you have to trust and then you will see results. It'll get harder to trust in as it goes along but easier at the same time. And since God is all-powerful, you can believe he won't drop you. But that's part of it. Read the chapters too. They rock.
Grandma - It'd be interesting to talk to all the snowbirds and see where they're from and everything like that. And I think you're having more parties and get-togethers than I've ever had, that's for sure. Your letter to me where you talked about Mary Elizabeth Knight was delayed until just last night, so I finally read it. I really had no clue about that at all. Thank you for sharing the story with me. It's good that David Palmer's home. Only a few months, therefore, until Logan Groscost is also back. That's crazy.
Sam & Matt - I've never thought of evergreen leaves on plants before. Weird. Also, you should like your ground on fire before planting your plants to give it the best environment possible. How the pros do it. And I, like the Agapanthus, have adapted to survive the fynbos. I'll be waiting to hear word of a Ticket To Ride World coming out. The one that you have seems interesting. I very much like their double sided board idea. Perfect for their games. I don't know why, either, I have no clue what an orange tree looks like when it's blooming. Weird because half the neighbors have orange trees. I'm inept at basic seasonal observation, it appears. I'm sad you couldn't find the Mistborn word. I know there is one, a general one. I think it was in the newest book though. Maybe not in the actual reading, but I thought so.
Mom - San Diego will be fun. Also, thank you for avoiding the topic of poop. Nice that Alex won't be a lone fish at San Diego. Sea World could be fun. Fish and all, y'know. One of our teachers got engaged at Disneyland since we've been here. He organized it and it turned out quite well, actually. I do think Sea World would be cool, I was being sarcastic when I wrote fish and all. Hopefully you knew before I wrote this, but that might not be true. Over here, something special will happen for Easter. Possible there'll be an MTC choir at conference. But more a conjecture than a fact for now, so don't count on it. And the fact that I'll be gone by then makes it that much more unlikely that you'll really care. I did get Bryce's email address. The letter I sent right when I entered the MTC was answered. He sent it all in Spanish, not quite grammatically correct or spelled correctly. But he probably wins in actually speaking it. And the allegory of the olive tree. I'll see if I can wrangle up a thought.
Tyrel - Muchas gracias por la cancion. That needs an accent. But I've explained this once before. You just had to choose that one for the ending. Goodness. Nice to see you're in focus mode. It helps when something comes into view, into a close view to put your all into it. Concentration. But you'll do awesome. Funny you said I should read Moroni 10. I'm almost done with the Book of Mormon. Read to Moroni 8 today. The end of the Book of Mormon really is awesome. I need to notice more the doctrines I can learn from these last chapters. Especially 10, as it's the last one. Then it'll be el Libro de Mormon and New Testament for studying. I remembered just now I didn't reply to your old mail because it arrived the day I sent off my email. But I don't have it nor do I remember what it says, very much. But it was good. I'm out of time, but I really do enjoy your letters. They are wondrous.
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