Dear Family and Friends,
I am doing great, I honestly know why Ammon said he could live with the Lamanites until the end of his days, it's because he loved the people with all his heart.
I think being a missionary is like being a father, you love the people with all your heart and wnt them to do good. When an investigator learns for themselves gospel truths, my soul soars. When a pert-member family drops us and asks us to never see us again I am terribly saddened. Perhaps it happenes that we sometimes need space or perhaps our hearts aren't open enough to receive personal revelation, but when they are, it is such a happy and holy time.
I am reminded of a scripture and story in St Mark, I believe it is there, when Jairus' daughter was seemingly dead, but when he had faith and an open heart he was blessed to have his daughter, live again. With faith in Christ all things are possible.
My scripture study is doing well enough, I am about to finish 2 Nephi, which feels like the longest scriptures I've read in a while.
How is Shad and Lyssa? They haven't mailed, or emailed me yet. Neither Cathy nor even Eli is mailing me either. Tell brother Erb there are Erb's here in Kamiah and that they are nice.
I feel eddified most daily because of this work. I hope that all the cousins I love, Padilla and Gardner, to feel this way someday.
Elder "T" Padilla
Missionary Heart.
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