July 19, 2012

July 19, 2012

Hola mi amoroso familia,

Good to hear from you all in my emails. Don't worry about not getting a handwritten one off :) That’s so fun to hear you all had a good fun time in Wyoming. I hope Charley is ok, it’s crazy but he's always on my mind here. I'm just always thinking about him. :)

Wowzers......the honda $2000????? yikes....that is awful......I feel terrible because of that. Maybe dad and Bro Jones could work on it together to lessen it.

Poor Michael and Dad haha, celiac isn't that bad though, I'm pretty sure if I didn't have it I would be way fat being here. There’s so much good sweets and good food plus it’s a buffet, so even though it’s hard it’s a blessing. I'm pretty sure I am lactose intolerant again :( haha—it’s ok. They have milk here I can eat. Last Sunday while I was enjoying my fruity pebbles ten minutes after, my stomach was killing till about 4:30 pm... it was bad but now I know. The whole district was very concerned and looked out for me. I went to the doctors and they never got the fax for my blood work. They wrote down the number but I left it in my room...whoops I'll have to mail it to you if you can't get it worked out.

I am feeling good, I'm really happy. Even on bad days. When I start to feel like I am about to have a bad day I know that it comes from satan, so what do I do you ask? Well I'll tell you, I spiritually punch him... ;) hehehehe. That’s what you need to do though. You do that by studying and praying harder and it works. Your day will feel better, you can't let him get you down.

That’s cool mom is the 2nd councilor in primary, that's fun news :) good luck, too bad we can't call you Marian the librarian.

This past week I've had an increase and desire to be better in every single thing I do, no matter how big or small. In whatever thing you do, God expects you to give your all… and this week I've been pumped!!!!

The work is coming, I'm loving reading the scriptures and studying Spanish is fun and challenging. I've been here 5 weeks and our teachers say that our district is good so they challenge us more ha, almost all of our lessons are in Spanish which can be hard to learn anything- ha- but it is coming, I can tell it’s coming.

I sleep really good here, haha thanks to my ear plugs, except every morning I wake up and they are all over the place haha- but as long as they do their job as I try to fall asleep.

This week I learned just how important church attendance is. Going every week can get boring and old, but if you go with the right attitude and perspective it will be the best day of the week.

Bro. Davis said he emailed you a recipe of this banana bread cake thing that’s soooo good, haha way yummy, I hope you all like it as much as I did. The Davis' are so nice to me.

Oh yeah....I got up to 160 lbs this week-- hahahahahah, but I've lost 3 since, so no biggie. I think the fat is going to my knees because I sit all day, I hope it goes away in the field. I'm not worried about my upper body because I do 200 push ups and a ton of ab stuff every night.

I love you all, and I can’t wait to hear from all of you. I hope all of you are doing great. I don't think you realize how much strength you all give me from Dad to Luther-- you all give me strength haha :) Anytime you find a good talk or something spiritually uplifting please send it to me.

ahhh... I just had something I was going to tell you but I forgot...sorry. Hopefully I remember in my other letter.

Well that’s all I can think of right now...I love you all, I pray for all of you. How’s the extended family doing? Health wise? Tell everyone I love them. Tell gma and gpa Porter I would like to see them but can't haha-- they can write me though ;)

con amor,

Elder Lifferth

"there are 2 types of pain:

1) the pain from hard work

2) the pain from regret."

Hermano Hardy shared that with my class. He’s one of my favorite teachers here, even though I have like 4-5 teachers I love them all. haha

 Well I gotsta go. Too much stuff to do here ;) haha love you all.