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I am super happy to get to write you guys this week. The letters were wonderful and I enjoyed every one of them. I am happy to tell you that things here are great! We are having TONS of fun and just working our tails off haha. This is already by far my favorite part in my mission. I don’t know why it’s just great. I will explain a little after I catch up on all you guys told me.
First I must apologize-- sometimes when I am writing letters I don’t know how to write what I want to say very well so it comes out very strongly and then because I don’t reread what I write I miss it. The pictures are great, I actually went back and read the last letter after reading these couple and I realized I sounded like a whining child! hahahaha please forgive me is all I can really say. I really love pictures and such but please don’t feel bad if you cannot get them to me. I know you guys are super busy! and now I sound bipolar.... hahahaha but really I just have wanted to see a couple things and I was kinda starting to wonder. But anyways I love you guys and I just like showing you off to everyone. People here in Tampa especially are always asking to see you guys. So I whip out my little booklet of every picture you have ever sent me my whole mission and the good times get rollin hahaha. Dad I loved the letter and I do have some ideas about missionary work. First off I don’t have it memorized but somewhere in D&C around 80-100 section it talks about bearing testimony to all the world that our sins may be forgiven. Also because that is what God desires of us. Then I usually go over to the story of Alma the younger and read about how they had prayed and fasted oft. Then I would recommend finding the mtc talk given by Holland about Peter and never going back in the which he uses the last chapter of John and the last couple of verses when the Lord says Peter do you love me and he responds yes you know that I love thee and this happens three times but the line after is "Then feed my sheep" I have actually used this in a couple talks I have given and it went great. The spirit is super strong as you explain that the way to show our love for the Savior is through our missionary efforts. I love talking about it. Also set up splits with the missionaries read chapter ten in preach my gospel the part about using members. It talks about using them so that First and foremost the members may have an opportunity to share their testimony and get a taste for the missionary work, and second to be a fellowshipper. Get the members a schedule have everyone going out with them as much as possible, get with the Spanish missionaries and send the men that know Spanish with them so that they will remember what it is like to serve. I love the word remember there is so much power behind it. It’s all over in the scriptures but you’ll find like over 20 uses of the word in Helaman 5 explaining the power of remembering. I also pray and hope that your business is going well and dandy. The Lord will always provide as long as our desires are to serve Him as stated in second Nephi. For some reason right now the numbers don’t come to my head but I guess if you’re going to use these things you will have to search. Sorry.
As for me things are great! We are workin and workin! and I love workin. We just had a baptism on Saturday and a guy back in Apollo Beach who I started teaching with Shields also got baptized on Saturday. So it was fun to go and see them all and also to have our own. This week was a lot of preparing and getting ready so not too many exciting things but Mario is awesome! He studies for his interview! hahaha he has already read half of the Book of Mormon and now he is giving us food. I got to try starfruit this week which is delicious by the way if you have not tried it. Oh yea Elder Jarquin baptized him and he had to do it 5 times due to his legs popping out because the other elders forgot to tell us that the water leaks so it was like 5 inches shorter than normal. haha but it was great and beautiful and we even got some other investigators there. We also got two new investigators who are pretty positive and hopefully will start coming to church with us this next week named Tomassa and Enrique. I just love being a missionary! haha
Well I love you guys and hope all is well and dandy but I must get back to work. Watch the Mormon messages and I am a Mormon movies because they are awesome and inspiring and way more important than anything else. We need to be having a spiritual experience everyday.
LOVE ELDER OLIVER
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