Dearest Family!!
The first couple days down here were really hard!! It didnt actually hit me that i was on my mission in the MTC, but now that im out here it hit me hard the first couple days! for some reason i was just really worried about you guys, and started thinking about bad things that couple happen to one of you, so it made me sad and home sick! but anywho im doing great now!! it is so hot here, the humidity is killing me!! its about mid 90's here but the humidity makes it about 105-115!! OH, and ive lost 21 pounds since i left home hahaha and i thought i was gonna get fat.. but Alabama is awesome, but i have literally only seen 2 other white people here, its kinda scary haha!! but that days here are awesome, i wake up at 630 and shower and work out, then at 8 we study personally, then at 10 we have 2 hours of companionship study. i am in a trio companionship!! Im with Elder Fatiau from american Somoa, and Elder Kelley from Detroit! Elder Fatiau came to alabama weighing 270, he now weights 204, haha but he is an awesome missionary, he has helped me out a lot! he is way strong and has a great testimony, his mom died two months into his mission, but he stayed still, he's awesome. he has 8 sisters and 6 brothers haha so he has a big family. He's about 6 2, and Somoan. Elder kelley is awesome also, he is 6 2 also, about 225 pounds, and black, what do you know, i got called to the South, I've had 2 black companions, i think the lord is trying to tell me something hahaha :) but anyways, after study we go out for the day, im in a town called Selma, its pretty much the guetto of Alabama, three people we have been teaching all experienced some sort of death last week, they call my area "the projects" haha its nuts, but the LORD IS MY LIGHT, SO WHY SHOULD I FEAR, right? haha but we ride about 30-50 miles a day on our bikes, its super hard but so worth it. I have never sweat so much in my life as i do here, but it feels good when your riding, so we just keep riding and dont stop! i had a crazy experience yesteday (sunday) we were riding back from an investigators house named Sulu, she is 12. but we ride along a really busy road, where the speed limit is 65MPH, but as we were praying in the house, right as i bowed my head this though/picture played out in my head, of a missionary, riding their bike in the road, and a car coming up behind them and hitting them, as we said amen i thought nothing of it. we began to ride back to our house which was about 10 miles away, we got on this busy road, and that same image came through my head again, once again i ignored the prompting and kept going, it wasnt anymore than two more peddles, when all of the sudden in my mind, i have no idea why i thought this but i said to myself "IM YELLING AT YOU, YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN, LISTEN TO ME" so as Elder Fatiau and myself looked back to wait for Elder Kelley we slowed down, and i couldnt stop thinking of these promptings i was getting. So as he caught up we began to keep riding. (On the way back home there is a big bridge that we have to go over, and the road gets very narrow up towards this bridge, oh and its a two lane road by the way) we are getting to the bridge and Elder Fatiau is in front of me, and we both look back at the same time to see where elder kelley is, and when you look back its really hard to ride straight, so we both swerved into the lane a little, and ride as we did a car going around 70MPH came so close to hitting us, i literally could have reached my hand out and touched this car, if we would have been 20 more feet, up where the road gets narrow, we both would have been hit, no doubt in my my mind!! so moral of the story, always listen to the promptings of the holy ghost, and the other moral (MOM) dont worry about me, i have the LORD watching over me! but thats one of the loudest promptings ive ever had it was awesome! your so intune with the spirit here, that you feel promptings alot! but that also means if you arent representing chirst at ALL times, that spirit will leave and you can feel it leave, so you feel guilty for little things haha its kinda funny, things that wouldnt even matter back home! Well its going great, my ADDRESS is 3 Grove lane, Selma AL, 36701. Please post that to face book and my blog so people can write me! but i love you guys so much, i pray for you literally about 5 times a day, i hope its helping!! keep giving me encouragement it helps! i love you so much, keep reading and praying as a family, that is key to strengthening the family, and becoming more intune with the holy ghost, and heavenly fathers love for you! Dont fall into the things important to the world, have and work towards a stronger foundation at all times! Your guys are the best! and tell brock, yes i am going COD on them! I havent really eaten anything to weird yet, i actually only ate at an investigators/members house for the first time yesterday, and it was just ham and potatoes and coller greens haha those are gross. but the work out here is so hard, but its so worth it, especially the blessing i see in my own life!! PRESS FORWARD!! I love you all so much, and ill write you next monday!!
Peace and Blessings,
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