dear anyone who enjoys crepes, dinosaurs, or miscellaneous nature noises played at nighttime,
i would just like to start this letter with a really positive sounding statement such as GOOD !!! in capital letters followed by exclamation points and maybe something else fun like a winking emoticon with his tongue sticking out ;-p. anywhays we had a fantastic slash hectic week this last week as the mission and the area that i'm serving in undergoes some changes. side note i just noticed that the period of the sentence two sentences ago looks like a mole. . . . sort of. so let’s start by talking about the investigators we have currently in our area. the man who asked for the book of mormon last week, who's name is henry, is doing fantastic. we were able to teach him for the last time a few days ago and it was pretty much astounding. for example we started the lesson, as we usually do, by asking him what his expectations were for meeting with us. his response was that he really wanted to become a member of our church and he wanted to know what he could do to join. (at this point my companion actually imploded in on himself and became a miniature black hole which was a little bit weird but it turned out to be a temporary condition) needless to say were very happy to be working with henry. he's a little bit busy with schooling right now but he's still really excited to learn and wants to become a member as soon as possible. we also picked up a new investigator named sundi this last week as well. it's kind of an interesting situation with sundi because he works full time at a laundry mat that is usually empty so we've been teaching him there, in between customers. he loves learning about the gospel though and really looks forward to our visits. now we also had a pretty cool experience with yolanda yesterday. yolanda has been wanting to come to church since we met her but she lives about an hour’s travel (by bus) away from the chapel so we've been trying to organize a ride for her. the last two weeks things never worked out and by a series of different circumstances she wasn't able to come. so this week we set up what we thought was a fool proof plan to get her to church only to find out, about a half an hour into sacrament meeting, that the member who was getting her there wasn't able to come to church. we were devastated. and then ten minutes later we were surprised to see yolanda walk into sacrament meeting and take a seat near the front. she explained to us afterward that when her ride didn't show up she decided that she was going to get herself there and so figured out the multiple bus transfers and took the hour travel, got lost twice and still somehow made it into church!!!! and she loved the service and loved the people and she can't wait to come back! she loved relief society so much that she's actually already made plans to start coming to the relief society activities during the week!!! (insert a WHOOOOOOOT!!!! about right here)
i also would like to share a brief(ish) experience i had this week about the power of the temple. we don't get to go to the temple often as missionaries so when we do it's always a treasured experience. this last wednesday we had the last conference with president shamo as he is flying out at the end of this week so he invited all the missionaries to do one last session with him. so in order to get the most out of our temple experience my district all decided to go to the temple with a specific question that we wanted an answer to. i had a hard time deciding on one question (i didn't finalize it until i was actual inside the temple) but i got the answer in an incredibly powerful way before the session even began. it was just a testimony building experience to me that god hears and answers our prayers and if we need help or if we need a question answered he's given us ways we can find answers. through prayer, scripture study, and church attendance we can grow in our understanding and can draw closer to god. he loves us very much and wants each of us to do well.
i love you guys and i'm grateful for all of your support. i love being a missionary and this gospel more than i could ever describe with a bunch of squiggly lines on a computer screen. but i try anyways :)
with love
Elder Jarman
ps. the best way to deal with awkward situations such as a surprise discovery of a chinese family in your bathroom is just to state things clearly and communicate effectively, in this way most crisis’s can be averted.
pps. is it possible to cook pot stickers in a pan?. . . would they then be called pan stickers? who even thought of microwaving them anyways?
ppps. in case anyone is still confused the use of the expression "ps." is an abbreviated version of the term "post script" thus the use of "pps" would mean post-post script. in this way the use of the expression "pss." would mean post script script which would make no sense. . . just a thought
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