September 27, 2010

Hey everyone up north how are we doing? I have been a bit under the weather these past few days. Hahaha yeah I have been a little sick with a runny nose and a headache which I never get. It´s great working when you feel like garbage. But The beginning of the week we found some people who were really interested, we basically just walked in the door it was cool. For those of you who remember Jore we taught his wife the other night and she is so great and she told us that her and Jore never trust anyone but they trust us. She started crying as she was talking to us the other night about how Jore does not have the best of friends that he hangs around and drinks a little bit. He left the other night before we got there because he was ashamed because he drank a little bit. She told us he has changed a lot for the better from what he was. She has a lady who she works with that is a member and then Jore works with a member who is a return missionary from a few months ago. But the other night we had a good lesson about the sacrament with his wife and how important it is, she really liked it. She told us to come back the next day so we could teach Jore because he would be home and she was there too on her lunch break. We watched Finding Faith in Christ. It is a really great movie, Jore lost one of his friends last week. His friend got murdered so he was a little down and so at the end of the movie we gave them a plan of salvation booklet. They committed to coming to church and you know what, they both did!!!!!!!!! It was so great. Also that the lady Nora came to church as well. The cool thing is that Maryum his wife had to work at 11 and church started at 10 but she came for almost the whole hour. They are both excited about general conference next week.

The only problem that happened on Sunday during church is that like 5 little kids decided to have exercise class during sacrament meeting and they were running laps around the whole room. It was so loud and the parents didn't seem to care and they were yelling and laughing and I just felt so embarrassed. Now I know where the line is of little kids being little kids and where the line is of to where it´s a problem, and it was way passed that line. I am grateful for my Mother that she would take me out and spank me and what not when I acted up in sacrament meeting thank you MOM. I just thought it was a funny story for everyone.

This week we had zone conference and I got to see a lot of the missionary's and a lot of my friends, it was really great. Our mission was invited by Elder Scott to read the Book of Mormon in 2 months. The mission is going to buy Books of Mormon for us to read in our own language and we have to mark it every time it is referencing Christ. I am really excited to do this and I know it will help and we will receive lots of blessings from doing this. I hope all of you are sharing the gospel with your friends who are not members because it truly is an important work and the missionaries need your help because they can´t do it alone. I Know this gospel is true and I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior and that the only way back to him is through the things that he taught and we have to do them if we want eternal life. Hope all is well and I love you all so much and love hearing from you.

Love Garrett
ps I might be on the tv when they talk about Chile during general conference so look for me