August 7, 2010

Hey everyone, this week was another wonderful week :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA!!!! (yesterday ) I'm almost in the 20s with ya!
It started off last Saturday with the baptismal service. The most INCREDIBLE baptismal service ever!!! The ward is soooo stoked for mission work its incredible! There were lots of investigators there too, so this month will be a great harvest ;-)
The next day was the confirmation and get this...with the 3 confirmations, the Stake President confirmed Elvis, a member of the Seventy confirmed Adriana, and I did Florencia´s. It was pretty sweet especially when the member of the 70 confirmed our convert, it was so powerful...fua. They are going to be great leaders in the church and HUGE support for the ward. The Bishop baught us a cake to celebrate too haha
This last week was changes and it was CRAZY busy. Lots of waking up early and going to bed late. I got to stay in the Hostal with the newbies for the night and they had lots of questions I felt so old heh. President Eyring's granddaughter is in the mission now. All of the sister missionarys came early because they speak spanish so good.
Elder Stevens from my same group is the new financier in the mission! It will be a blast to be together for our year mark! It's coming really quickly!!! Just a month and a half away!!!
Wow, I can't believe Karls back. I sent a letter to him and Stacy a couple weeks ago to the house address, so they oughtta get it around now. Time flies so quickly it's absolutely unreal. Tell him to send me a gmail asap and let me know what its like!!! It was weird seeing the old missionarys off to the airport. So sad and happy at the same time heh.
This week theres nothing too big or exciting coming up. Just the normal stuff. The conferences with President Arnold are getting near so we'll be focusing on getting that all organized. Should be pretty cool, this huge revamping of Preach My Gospel.
Please try and hold off a couple more days Melissa!!! You can do it!!! Just til Tuesday!!! haha
I can't believe Tresann had Ellie already holy cow time flies soooo ffaaaaassstttt!!! I bet the Van Drews are pretty excited to be granparents finally heh
Wow...the whole AZ immigration law mess sounds pretty crazy... I wonder if the Federal Government will take action against the state. That would be quite the mess. Sounds like another civil rights movement is preparing itself. Wait, I read that last sentence in english and it didn't sound right. Im sorry. Lets see what Benson had to say about the Civil Rights Movement...hahaha
I'm awful sorry to hear Ladybug will be put down. That makes me pretty sad, but its the natural course of life. It all has to end some time :( Give her an extra tight hug from me. You are all in my prayers, shes been in the family so long...dang.
Yep, its crazy cold here, but Im staying warm just fine :)
Dad, thats such an important calling here! Theres so many people out of work now, I dunno if its the same up there, but people are often suffering pretty bad down here. The employment office here helps hundreds EVERY DAY and opens a lot of doors to missionary work, so be sure to use your calling to progress the mission work!
Love you all, Im out of time but have a GREAT week and keep praying for and helping out your local missionarys. We need the members, or we're stuck knocking doors all day. Thats not how God intends it!!! Read the Ensign too its full of wisdom for today :)
Love, Elder Magnusson