7-8-13
Hey Dad! I can't
believe I've been almost out for 5 months. It makes me realize that two years
will go by in no time. This week was good. Elder Hall and I get a long good.
The heat is killer! I sweat so bad. It has cooled off though. I realized I just
make stupid mistakes all the time. It is frustrating. We will plan to go
by somebody and I forget to write down their address. So when we are out and
about and we're like oh lets go to so and so. Oh wait I don't know where they
live!
Bishop Andrews seems
like a cool guy. I met a lady that lives in Michigan near the Detroit
Temple.
Something President
Chambers told us:
If you ever feel
feelings of inadequacy or lack of confidence, then do the following:
-Be Worthy: If you
hold a current temple recommend, then you are worthy.
-Prepare Yourself: Effective
studies
-Be prayerful
-Go out, face the
world, and go to work.
Love you!
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:34
PM, Tom Alpin wrote:
Hello Son,
I have been thinking
alot about what you are up to everyday, trying to picture what you might be
doing at any particular moment as I pause. As you enter your 5th month it
seems like you might be past the newness of a mission and working hard.
Many have said that the first 3 months are the hardest and by the time you make
it to your 6 month point it seems like things are moving fast. So, how
has it been for you? I am sure with each transfer everything seems to
change, but surely there must be things that are so much the same. With
each new companionship, the dynamics must certainly change. If you have
not yet found yourself in the leader role, don't worry you will soon
enough. Being the one who is the starter, getting things going and keeping
them on track is what you do, now add the spirit of God with you and there is
no end to what can happen.
Wow, with the heat you
have had how have you been holding up? I know you are drinking lots of
water and keeping cool, but what about the sweating? I cannot even keep
in under control in the near 90 degree weather we have had and the very high
humidy. Your heat has been so much hotter, but the humidity is very low
for you, so I really hope you are doing well in the heat!
Not much going on
around here, the Old Testament is so much harder to listen to and read than any
of the other scriptures so far. Up to chapter 13 in
Deuteronomy and there has been so much interesting and unusual things in
Leviticus, Numbers and now in Deuteronomy,
it is hard to stay with it, but so interesting at the same time.
We had the 3 grandkids from Friday to Saturday, it was a
blast...went to the show, the mall, played, first trip to the pool, which is
not heated...cold! We took them home and spent about 2.5 hours a the
Martinez's, there were alot of people that we did not know, but I spent most of
the time talking with Bishop Andrews, he is such a sweat heart of a man
struggling with an aging body...I have such a love for hime because he was the
one who brought through my repentance process when I returned to church at age
28 and he guided my progress of receiving the ordination of the Priesthood and
my guide as we went to the temple and received my personal endowments, he was
also the one who married your Mom and I in Bay City in 1989. He is a
great example to me and his wife is such a wonderful person too, she is his
rock for sure! It was a true highlight for me for I have such a strong
love for him, a love like that of a son to a father and a brother to a brother,
a love of respect that is always rekindled when we meet...it was a happy day
for me!
Back to work on Monday with a meeting on Wednesday and several of
our work teams are gathering at the Comcast suite in Comerica Park for a Tigers
game, it will be a blast for sure!
Love Dad
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