Success! This is my first pday and everything is going well aside from me forgetting to have a clean tshirt to wear today(wearing a regular collared white shirt) So how is everyone? I am feeling absolutely tophole! the food here is amazing (and fattening i think) the gym is fun too with volleyball, basketball, and four square on the first level and some exercising equipment on the top floor. I must say that my companion elder penrod is one of the nicest guys around and is a solid worker and studier. We taught a real investigator and everything just went superbly with that! I have a great district and i have finished genesis and am half way through exodus (rereading it all once through and marking the best scriptures with my new pen. Thanks Grandma i am the envy of all the other missionaries. ^-^)
Hmmmm...thinking thinking.....
well we've had two devotionals and gotten to practice teaching our teacher who is playing as a jamaican professor. (too bad he doesnt have a bob marley hat with some fake dreads.) i am prayerfully studying up as i said before and must say that the best thing i've learned so far is that the law of tithing has gone back all the way to the book of genesis.
OH! Dad show Shad a video called "The Character of Christ" its a great lesson and its half an hour and i think it will be fun to watch.
Too lyssa i've got to say if you come here you will not run short on friends, all the sisters here are friendly and will help you grow to become even closer to god. Also the food is delicious. :3 Soooo if you still haven't found college interesting or military, or even gotten a cool job i would highly suggest coming here, it is a BLAST!
Well what else, i've got to say thanks to all of you for believing in me and supporting me in this great calling and too my parents i love ou all the more for trusting me out here and letting me go.
(p.s. yes i am just typing what i think at the time its really a good way to get the most out of your time here.)
Soooo shadrach you having fun at home lazing around? :P just kidding, i hope you have fun while your out there learning to drive and riding your bike. The most dissapointing thing here is really the fact i haven't gotten to wear my stylish trenchcoat and the fact that i am a bit bored walking between gym and the residence hall.(our room) the showers are indeed good too, just grow to be comfortable with toweling off in there and having some garments ready to change into. also remember that in the top of the ceiling if there are panels missionaries love to leave toys up there forfuture missionaries like an etch a sketch or a football(harmless stuff really nothing souldamaging or stupid). If you come here expecting a bad time you'll be right, but if you come here wanting to learn and have a great time you'll be even closer to what you get here, which is love for the gospel and your fellow man.
Well mom i think that this will be fun to get an answer to, i sent a letter home to you guys but i don't know if you'll receive it before i leave. ^-^ The guys who got packages here shared with me and i looove it hearing messages and mail from their family and friends.
and to christopher(my dad) I love you for preparing me to go out here and sharing with me your testimony on a daily basis. I have grown to love the scriptures and how to become an even better man while im here. I bet you wish you could come here and spend a day laughing and crying a little remembering the practicing, the lessons, and all the fun you had. I know i am(laughing, crying, pondering, etc.) Its really nice here although its a little warm. perhaps in due time we will get to see each other again, maybe even sooner then we need too. you never know the mysteries of christ until you step back and look at the whole picture.
See you later!
(p.p.s. Penrods dad served in the buenos aires mission, did you serve in that or another one? im sorry i forgot my leaky memory isnt what it should be.)
