Hello!
I just had a stressful dream last night about mowing lawns. For some reason I thought I was responsible for mowing the Tebbs' lawn and that I hadn't cut it for a really really long time. Which would make sense. Anway in my dream I decided to hurry back to mow the Tebbs' lawn before they noticed that I'd neglected it.
I'm glad Hannah liked the Buddhist music box thing. I have another one for me that plays the same song but slower and with a choir of creepy voices.
Dad that's good to hear you're seeing some results from your exercising. Sister Chun and Elder Rada both agree that the trick is to not give up. People who go at weight-loss inconsistantly never see the desired results. Elder Rada says that a good idea is to run a lot in the morning and then not to eat anything for half an hour after the run. Of course drink water though. My weight had been everywhere between 140 and 145 lately. I think it's because I'm inconsistant myself.
We have a new investigator named Hyemi Choi. She's the brother of an amazing convert in the ward named Doug Choi. Doug was tuaght the lessons by Sister Ashton and Sister Choi last winter. He'd read the Book of Mormon twice and had studied tons of stuff about the church for two years before he decided to be baptized. The Choi siblings are very smart people. Hopefully Hyemi will decide to be baptized. We're pretty sure she will someday. We've already tried to invite her of course but she wasn't ready to commit to a date.
Beatrice Allen is still doing amazing. She came to church all by herself on Sunday (the Gonzalez family didn't come with her for some reason. Probably slept in or didn't feel well.) The Piceno family's doing alright too. All three of the Piceno kids came to church on Sunday! We've decided to push Raquel's baptism to August 8th. She was sad that we had to push it back but she's fine now. Whenever she prays she says "Please bless that I may be baptized on the 8th." She's been to church twice and we want to see her come three times before we baptize her since she's young and her mom hasn't been coming to support her. A member from the ward brings the three kids to church and visits them pretty often. It's sad but Elder Rada and I have decided that Anabel, the 15-yr-old sister, is a lot more responsible than her mother. That's all I'll say about that. Anabel supports her siblings and Raquel's really excited to be baptized.
Oh I forgot to tell you last week. During my interview with President Sexton I asked him how Elder Kemp's doing. He said he's doing great and his new companion's Elder Bliss! That's pretty funny. Elder Kemp and I have the same follow-up trainer.
By the way my shirt size is definitely 15.
This week we knocked a lot and walked a lot and it was pretty hot. I've been drinking LOTS of water. Well, sounds like thing are more or less fine and dandy back in the top of the mountains. Things are pretty good here too. Have a great week and talk to you soon!
Love,Elder Tyler Lewis
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
July 21st, 2009 (Email)
Hello again!
Great news! Beatrice Collette Allen was baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday! Elder Rada baptized her and I confirmed her. I had to help with the baptism because she was worried about being completely immersed. So all three of us were dressed in white! I'll send you a picture soon.
I don't know if I've told you Beatrice's complete story. Beatrice is 65 years old and she's Samantha Gonzalez's grandmother. She's met with the missionaries before (Elders Anderson and Slade) but she wasn't prepared to be baptized because she was stuck with her Word of Wisdom problems. We started meeting with her a few weeks ago and before we knew it she decided to quit smoking after over 52 years of being a heavy smoking. The consequence of her determined decision was that she caught pneumonia and had to stay in the hospital for several days last week. Bishop Driggs visited her in the hospital and gave her a priesthood blessing and before she knew it she was out of the hospital and feeling relatively fine. She was deadset on being baptized Saturday July 18th and that's what happened. We taught her all 4 of the lessons and she passed the baptismal interview on Friday and then everything went according to plan. It was a great experience. Also over the weekend Sister Gonzalez sold her car and now they have enough money to move to Las Vegas as they've been planning for a little while now. Beatrice lives with them so she'll be moving to Las Vegas with the whole family. I'm glad I got to work with that family.
We had Zone Conference last Friday and as usual it was great. President Sexton taught us more about his ultimate message - the doctrine of Sanctification. This is something President Sexton talks about every Zone Conference but this time it was especially emphasized. He'd decided back when he became Mission President that the most important message he could share with us was about having a sanctified (sacred) mission in preparation for a sanctified life. Here's what the doctrine of sanctification is in short:
Moses 6:57-60 explains most of it. In here we are commanded that we need to teach this doctrine to our children. Every person needs to be BORN. When we are born there is water, blood and spirit. Birth makes it possible for Heavenly Father's spirit children to enter this world and progress in their bodies. In order to live in the presence of God again, every person needs to be BORN AGAIN. We need to be born again with water (baptism) spirit (the Holy Ghost) and the blood (the Atonement.) Verse 60 explains that "by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified." Or, in other words, when we are baptized we are just being obedient. When we receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost all our past sins are washed away- we are held guiltless before God or we are "justified." And when we make a conscious effort to change by continually applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ we make steps toward becoming spotless, or "sanctified." Sanctification doesn't happen quickly. It takes a long time. It's a process.
President Sexton also pointed out that even though the way to the Celestial Kingdom sounds extremely difficult there will be "many, exceedingly great many, who [will be] made pure and [enter] into the rest of the Lord their God." (Alma 13:12)
In my interview with President Sexton he shared something with me that I thought was pretty neat. He said that he was planning on calling me to be a trainer this transfer, but while he was in the temple he had a really strong impression that Elder Rada and I were supposed to be together for another transfer. He said that he didn't know whether there was someone we're supposed to find or something we're supposed to learn but that was the Lord's will for us this time. I'm glad because now we're starting to see the fruits of our labor.
The Picenos and the Bosses didn't come to church last Sunday so Raquel's and Shinelle's baptisms are being pushed back to August. And actually Elder Rada and I were discussing the possibility of us dropping Shinelle because she's not keeping her commitments. It's sad but that's what we've got to do sometimes.
It was a pretty good week and it sounds like you're all making fun plans and doing great stuff together! I'm going to want to go camping after I return, that's for sure.
I can't believe Tyson's already home! That was so fast!
I don't know what my shirt size is. I think it's a 15 or something? It's the same as when I left. I'll tell you next week. I haven't bought any eye medicine yet but maybe I'll look for it today. And I haven't been able to speak with David and Dixie at all since I left :(
Thanks for everything and talk to you again next week!
Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis
Great news! Beatrice Collette Allen was baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday! Elder Rada baptized her and I confirmed her. I had to help with the baptism because she was worried about being completely immersed. So all three of us were dressed in white! I'll send you a picture soon.
I don't know if I've told you Beatrice's complete story. Beatrice is 65 years old and she's Samantha Gonzalez's grandmother. She's met with the missionaries before (Elders Anderson and Slade) but she wasn't prepared to be baptized because she was stuck with her Word of Wisdom problems. We started meeting with her a few weeks ago and before we knew it she decided to quit smoking after over 52 years of being a heavy smoking. The consequence of her determined decision was that she caught pneumonia and had to stay in the hospital for several days last week. Bishop Driggs visited her in the hospital and gave her a priesthood blessing and before she knew it she was out of the hospital and feeling relatively fine. She was deadset on being baptized Saturday July 18th and that's what happened. We taught her all 4 of the lessons and she passed the baptismal interview on Friday and then everything went according to plan. It was a great experience. Also over the weekend Sister Gonzalez sold her car and now they have enough money to move to Las Vegas as they've been planning for a little while now. Beatrice lives with them so she'll be moving to Las Vegas with the whole family. I'm glad I got to work with that family.
We had Zone Conference last Friday and as usual it was great. President Sexton taught us more about his ultimate message - the doctrine of Sanctification. This is something President Sexton talks about every Zone Conference but this time it was especially emphasized. He'd decided back when he became Mission President that the most important message he could share with us was about having a sanctified (sacred) mission in preparation for a sanctified life. Here's what the doctrine of sanctification is in short:
Moses 6:57-60 explains most of it. In here we are commanded that we need to teach this doctrine to our children. Every person needs to be BORN. When we are born there is water, blood and spirit. Birth makes it possible for Heavenly Father's spirit children to enter this world and progress in their bodies. In order to live in the presence of God again, every person needs to be BORN AGAIN. We need to be born again with water (baptism) spirit (the Holy Ghost) and the blood (the Atonement.) Verse 60 explains that "by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified." Or, in other words, when we are baptized we are just being obedient. When we receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost all our past sins are washed away- we are held guiltless before God or we are "justified." And when we make a conscious effort to change by continually applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ we make steps toward becoming spotless, or "sanctified." Sanctification doesn't happen quickly. It takes a long time. It's a process.
President Sexton also pointed out that even though the way to the Celestial Kingdom sounds extremely difficult there will be "many, exceedingly great many, who [will be] made pure and [enter] into the rest of the Lord their God." (Alma 13:12)
In my interview with President Sexton he shared something with me that I thought was pretty neat. He said that he was planning on calling me to be a trainer this transfer, but while he was in the temple he had a really strong impression that Elder Rada and I were supposed to be together for another transfer. He said that he didn't know whether there was someone we're supposed to find or something we're supposed to learn but that was the Lord's will for us this time. I'm glad because now we're starting to see the fruits of our labor.
The Picenos and the Bosses didn't come to church last Sunday so Raquel's and Shinelle's baptisms are being pushed back to August. And actually Elder Rada and I were discussing the possibility of us dropping Shinelle because she's not keeping her commitments. It's sad but that's what we've got to do sometimes.
It was a pretty good week and it sounds like you're all making fun plans and doing great stuff together! I'm going to want to go camping after I return, that's for sure.
I can't believe Tyson's already home! That was so fast!
I don't know what my shirt size is. I think it's a 15 or something? It's the same as when I left. I'll tell you next week. I haven't bought any eye medicine yet but maybe I'll look for it today. And I haven't been able to speak with David and Dixie at all since I left :(
Thanks for everything and talk to you again next week!
Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis
July 14th, 2009 (Email)
Hey!
DAVID AND DIXIE GUTIERREZ WERE BAPTIZED LAST WEEKEND!!! I just read their names on the mission announcements. I'm so happy! I'm going to write them a letter this afternoon to congratulate them.
Some things have been happening around here too. Bad news - Beatrice Allen, the person we have scheduled to be baptized on Saturday, is in the hospital. She hasn't smoked for almost 2 weeks now, but the side effects are getting to her. She caught pneumonia so that's why she's been in the hospital for a few days. We call her every day to check up on her. Good news - she's still going strong and she still wants to be baptized. She may be getting released from the hospital today so we'll see whether or not we postpone the baptism.
We've been teaching a part-member family named the Piceno family for a few weeks now. I don't know if I've told you about them yet- but there's Sandra the mom, Anabel the 15-yr-old, Jose the 12-yr-old, and Raquel the 10-yr-old. They're a cool family. They've been less-active for a while but the kids are progressing towards reactivation. The mom is a nice lady but she's flaky sometimes. But we expect to see her come to church with her kids real soon. Raquel hasn't been baptized yet but guess what?!?! She said she'll prepare herself to be baptized on the 25th! And the family supports her. That's awesome. She came to church with Anabel on Sunday and the family already has a lot of fellowship with the ward so they're doing great.
Shinelle and Daniel Bosse are doing good. They didn't come to church on Sunday :( but they did meet with Bishop Driggs a couple times. They're set to be married on the 25th. So hopefully Shinelle will be baptized on August 1st!
Oh, so if you haven't noticed by now I didn't get transferred. I'm still here in Cerritos with Elder Rada and Sister Chun. Our District is getting switched up a lot though so that's good. Elder Rada and I both thought that our last District was pretty deadbeat. We'll see how the new one goes.
I played "Come Follow Me" at church on Sunday. I wanted to play something reverent and my versions of "How Great Thou Art" and definitely "If You Could Hie To Kolob" just weren't quite sacrament appropriate. I wanted to play "I Believe In Christ" but the men's choir sang that. "Come Follow Me" went well though. I'll play it for you when I get home if I remember it. I probably will cuz it was pretty simple.
Yeah I got my stuff back from the Pummells a couple months ago. Sorry I forgot to tell you. I don't know what happened but the important thing is that I've got it now.
Thanks for finding out about my eyedrop stuff! I don't think we have Walgreen's out here but they'll probably have it at CVS. It's not an urgent thing it's just something I think I should get back to doing to save my eyes from all the dryness. So if you're sending it I can wait.
So things are going well here. I'll send you some words again next week!
Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis
DAVID AND DIXIE GUTIERREZ WERE BAPTIZED LAST WEEKEND!!! I just read their names on the mission announcements. I'm so happy! I'm going to write them a letter this afternoon to congratulate them.
Some things have been happening around here too. Bad news - Beatrice Allen, the person we have scheduled to be baptized on Saturday, is in the hospital. She hasn't smoked for almost 2 weeks now, but the side effects are getting to her. She caught pneumonia so that's why she's been in the hospital for a few days. We call her every day to check up on her. Good news - she's still going strong and she still wants to be baptized. She may be getting released from the hospital today so we'll see whether or not we postpone the baptism.
We've been teaching a part-member family named the Piceno family for a few weeks now. I don't know if I've told you about them yet- but there's Sandra the mom, Anabel the 15-yr-old, Jose the 12-yr-old, and Raquel the 10-yr-old. They're a cool family. They've been less-active for a while but the kids are progressing towards reactivation. The mom is a nice lady but she's flaky sometimes. But we expect to see her come to church with her kids real soon. Raquel hasn't been baptized yet but guess what?!?! She said she'll prepare herself to be baptized on the 25th! And the family supports her. That's awesome. She came to church with Anabel on Sunday and the family already has a lot of fellowship with the ward so they're doing great.
Shinelle and Daniel Bosse are doing good. They didn't come to church on Sunday :( but they did meet with Bishop Driggs a couple times. They're set to be married on the 25th. So hopefully Shinelle will be baptized on August 1st!
Oh, so if you haven't noticed by now I didn't get transferred. I'm still here in Cerritos with Elder Rada and Sister Chun. Our District is getting switched up a lot though so that's good. Elder Rada and I both thought that our last District was pretty deadbeat. We'll see how the new one goes.
I played "Come Follow Me" at church on Sunday. I wanted to play something reverent and my versions of "How Great Thou Art" and definitely "If You Could Hie To Kolob" just weren't quite sacrament appropriate. I wanted to play "I Believe In Christ" but the men's choir sang that. "Come Follow Me" went well though. I'll play it for you when I get home if I remember it. I probably will cuz it was pretty simple.
Yeah I got my stuff back from the Pummells a couple months ago. Sorry I forgot to tell you. I don't know what happened but the important thing is that I've got it now.
Thanks for finding out about my eyedrop stuff! I don't think we have Walgreen's out here but they'll probably have it at CVS. It's not an urgent thing it's just something I think I should get back to doing to save my eyes from all the dryness. So if you're sending it I can wait.
So things are going well here. I'll send you some words again next week!
Love,
Elder Tyler Lewis
Friday, July 10, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
July 7th, 2009 (Email)
Hello again!
Last week a few miracles happened. Remember the Gonzalez family? They're a partially less-active family and last transfer Samantha, the eight-year old daughter, was baptized and she had me confirm her. Sister Gonzalez's mom, Beatrice, isn't a member. We started reading the Book of Mormon with her and Sister Gonzalez a few weeks ago. Beatrice says the same thing about the doctrine whenever we read from the scriptures or teach her- "I know that" or "I believe that," she replies. So last week Elder Rada, Sister Gonzalez and I decided to ask her why she hasn't decided to be baptized if she already believes the doctrine. She said, "Well, back when I first started visiting with missionaries a while ago I decided I didn't want to be a Mormon." Then Sister Gonzalez said, "But mom, if you believe in the Book of Mormon then why won't you be baptized with someone with the priesthood?!" Beatrice answered, "Well, back then I didn't want to." We started catching on, so Sister Gonzalez then asked her- "So are you saying that you weren't ready then but you're willing to be baptized now?" Beatrice said she thinks she's ready to be a Mormon now. She committed to be baptized July 18th! That was the first miracle.
The second miracle has to do with Beatrice as well. You see, Beatrice has been a smoker for about 52 years. She had Elder Rada and I take her cigarettes away from her about 5 days ago and she hasn't smoked ever since. She took the rest of her packs of cigarettes to the store and got her money back and she's just gone cold turkey! It's amazing! She's definitely prepared.
The third miracle is that Beatrice and Shinelle Bosse both came to church yesterday. We haven't seen an investigator at church all transfer so we were really really happy to see some success. Beatrice was awesome in Sunday School. She had something to say about everything. It was kind of funny.
Elder Rada and I are curious about what will happen next week. The next transfer starts a week from today. 17 new missionaries are coming into the field- that means 17 missionaries are going to be training- and that means that a LOT of crazy changes could happen. We think that this area's going to be split in half like it was a while back. We'll see. I hope I don't get transferred because we should be having some baptisms here this month.
Wow Tyson's already coming home next week?! That went by fast. I remember him opening his call like it was last month.
Hey remember that Joshua Creek CD you sent me a while ago? That's pretty good. I have another album of church songs by them called "Sunday afternoons" or something like that. Don't worry I'm not spending too much money still. I'm actually figuring out how to save a little bit. Of course, it's easier to save money when you live with a member... but also I'm saving all of my change. It really adds up.
My 4th of July was completely different from all of my other 4th of Julys in that it was just about the same as every other day out here. I went to sleep to the sound of tons of fireworks mingled with police sirens.
Well, have a good week and have fun with the extended family! Nos vemos y les amo mucho!
Love,Elder Tyler Lewis
Last week a few miracles happened. Remember the Gonzalez family? They're a partially less-active family and last transfer Samantha, the eight-year old daughter, was baptized and she had me confirm her. Sister Gonzalez's mom, Beatrice, isn't a member. We started reading the Book of Mormon with her and Sister Gonzalez a few weeks ago. Beatrice says the same thing about the doctrine whenever we read from the scriptures or teach her- "I know that" or "I believe that," she replies. So last week Elder Rada, Sister Gonzalez and I decided to ask her why she hasn't decided to be baptized if she already believes the doctrine. She said, "Well, back when I first started visiting with missionaries a while ago I decided I didn't want to be a Mormon." Then Sister Gonzalez said, "But mom, if you believe in the Book of Mormon then why won't you be baptized with someone with the priesthood?!" Beatrice answered, "Well, back then I didn't want to." We started catching on, so Sister Gonzalez then asked her- "So are you saying that you weren't ready then but you're willing to be baptized now?" Beatrice said she thinks she's ready to be a Mormon now. She committed to be baptized July 18th! That was the first miracle.
The second miracle has to do with Beatrice as well. You see, Beatrice has been a smoker for about 52 years. She had Elder Rada and I take her cigarettes away from her about 5 days ago and she hasn't smoked ever since. She took the rest of her packs of cigarettes to the store and got her money back and she's just gone cold turkey! It's amazing! She's definitely prepared.
The third miracle is that Beatrice and Shinelle Bosse both came to church yesterday. We haven't seen an investigator at church all transfer so we were really really happy to see some success. Beatrice was awesome in Sunday School. She had something to say about everything. It was kind of funny.
Elder Rada and I are curious about what will happen next week. The next transfer starts a week from today. 17 new missionaries are coming into the field- that means 17 missionaries are going to be training- and that means that a LOT of crazy changes could happen. We think that this area's going to be split in half like it was a while back. We'll see. I hope I don't get transferred because we should be having some baptisms here this month.
Wow Tyson's already coming home next week?! That went by fast. I remember him opening his call like it was last month.
Hey remember that Joshua Creek CD you sent me a while ago? That's pretty good. I have another album of church songs by them called "Sunday afternoons" or something like that. Don't worry I'm not spending too much money still. I'm actually figuring out how to save a little bit. Of course, it's easier to save money when you live with a member... but also I'm saving all of my change. It really adds up.
My 4th of July was completely different from all of my other 4th of Julys in that it was just about the same as every other day out here. I went to sleep to the sound of tons of fireworks mingled with police sirens.
Well, have a good week and have fun with the extended family! Nos vemos y les amo mucho!
Love,Elder Tyler Lewis
June 30th, 2009 (BONUS)
by the way- David and Dixie are married now and they should be getting baptized any day now! YAY!
June 30th, 2009 (Email)
Hello there!
Sorry I took so long to get this out to you today. Elder Rada and I went on an adventure to Long Beach and Whittier. We went to Long Beach to get some medicine that Elder Rada needed and we went to Whittier to visit the Buddhist Temple. That was fun. I've got a bunch of neat pictures I'll send you someday. My memory card will be full any day now so maybe you'll be getting that in a couple weeks or so. The Buddhist Temple was so amazingly weird. I loved it. It's on top of a big hill in the middle of a huge memorial cemetary. There were a bunch of funny statues of tiny Buddha people doing a bunch of random things everywhere. You'll see.
Yesterday we met Sister Chun's family. We met her son and daughter and their families. They came over for this service Cerritos was doing for Sister Chun's late husband. They planted a tree in his name. He was very active in the community. He wasn't a member of the Church but from what I hear he was more active than a lot of the members. Not sure why he never converted but it sounds like he was a really neat man. He died of a heart attack just a couple years ago.
Well, Jessie Rodriguez decided to drop us a couple days ago. Not sure why. He just stopped being interested all of a sudden I guess. So that was too bad. None of our investigators have been coming to church. We've been trying really hard to get those people coming to church but they just don't know how to keep a commitment. Our only solid baptismal date at the moment is with Shinelle Bosse. She's progressing just fine. She's reading and praying and understanding the doctrine just fine. She said she's going to get married with Daniel so she'll be able to be baptized by August 1st. We think she'll be able to be baptized even before then but we'll see. We also found a part-member family named the Piceno family. They're less-active and the 10-year-old daughter Raquel isn't baptized yet. The kids (Anabel (15), Raquel and Jose(12)) all say they want to come to church but we're not sure how interested the mom is yet. They're a fun family to visit. Anabel came to church this Sunday. The other two kids didn't come because they were with their dad.
I wanted to share something with you from one of my recent personal studies. 2Nephi chapter 26 verses 23-33 says a lot about the nature of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. 2Nephi 30:1 also says something interesting. Both these scriptures highlight a truth President Sexton shared with us from our last zone conference. He said that "in the eyes of God we're all about the same," or in other words, in comparison with perfection we're all about at the same level. I believe that.
Thanks for the pictures!!!!!!!!!! That made my day. Hannah has grown so tall! It looks like you all had a lot of fun in Southern Utah. Yeah I heard about Michael Jackson. We were knocking an apartment complex in Hawaiian Gardens and everybody was watching the news and talking about it. See, we don't need to watch TV. We know what's going on. Except I had no idea Wilco was releasing a new album! Sweet. More good tunes that will be there when I come home. And I'm glad to hear Hannah doesn't have any problems. :)
I love you!
LoveElder Tyler Lewis
Sorry I took so long to get this out to you today. Elder Rada and I went on an adventure to Long Beach and Whittier. We went to Long Beach to get some medicine that Elder Rada needed and we went to Whittier to visit the Buddhist Temple. That was fun. I've got a bunch of neat pictures I'll send you someday. My memory card will be full any day now so maybe you'll be getting that in a couple weeks or so. The Buddhist Temple was so amazingly weird. I loved it. It's on top of a big hill in the middle of a huge memorial cemetary. There were a bunch of funny statues of tiny Buddha people doing a bunch of random things everywhere. You'll see.
Yesterday we met Sister Chun's family. We met her son and daughter and their families. They came over for this service Cerritos was doing for Sister Chun's late husband. They planted a tree in his name. He was very active in the community. He wasn't a member of the Church but from what I hear he was more active than a lot of the members. Not sure why he never converted but it sounds like he was a really neat man. He died of a heart attack just a couple years ago.
Well, Jessie Rodriguez decided to drop us a couple days ago. Not sure why. He just stopped being interested all of a sudden I guess. So that was too bad. None of our investigators have been coming to church. We've been trying really hard to get those people coming to church but they just don't know how to keep a commitment. Our only solid baptismal date at the moment is with Shinelle Bosse. She's progressing just fine. She's reading and praying and understanding the doctrine just fine. She said she's going to get married with Daniel so she'll be able to be baptized by August 1st. We think she'll be able to be baptized even before then but we'll see. We also found a part-member family named the Piceno family. They're less-active and the 10-year-old daughter Raquel isn't baptized yet. The kids (Anabel (15), Raquel and Jose(12)) all say they want to come to church but we're not sure how interested the mom is yet. They're a fun family to visit. Anabel came to church this Sunday. The other two kids didn't come because they were with their dad.
I wanted to share something with you from one of my recent personal studies. 2Nephi chapter 26 verses 23-33 says a lot about the nature of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. 2Nephi 30:1 also says something interesting. Both these scriptures highlight a truth President Sexton shared with us from our last zone conference. He said that "in the eyes of God we're all about the same," or in other words, in comparison with perfection we're all about at the same level. I believe that.
Thanks for the pictures!!!!!!!!!! That made my day. Hannah has grown so tall! It looks like you all had a lot of fun in Southern Utah. Yeah I heard about Michael Jackson. We were knocking an apartment complex in Hawaiian Gardens and everybody was watching the news and talking about it. See, we don't need to watch TV. We know what's going on. Except I had no idea Wilco was releasing a new album! Sweet. More good tunes that will be there when I come home. And I'm glad to hear Hannah doesn't have any problems. :)
I love you!
LoveElder Tyler Lewis
