First Email to the Family

June 21, 2012

 Dear Family,

It’s so good to hear from you all. I got all of your letters and I loved reading them. Thanks for writing. I hope all is well. Everything here is going great. The food is good, it really touches my heart how much work goes into my personal meals. My whole district watches out for my diet. esta bien. :) ha

The language is coming, I feel like I don't know much but when we teach our investigator it’s there so it’s good. In one lesson I couldn't remember the word to come closer, we were talking about prayer, so I pointed to one of my hands and said "Dios" and pointed to the other and said "usted" then I moved them together haha, it worked though and he understood. haha It was funny to my companions and to Hector, he actually cracked a smile- haha. I really enjoy teaching Hector, even though he's just an actor, I can feel the spirit. Yesterday was actually the last day we taught him. We will be getting 2 new ones I think soon.

 I’ll be honest I didn’t like my first 2 days here haha, they went soo slow I wondered to myself what have I gotten myself into? But now I love it and its already flying, esta bien. My health is good and I’m eating really healthy. I’ve had one apple for every meal and I’m really loving veggies, weird right??

Sorry it’s all jumbled, just writing what comes to my mind haha and plus this keyboard is weird shaped. But yes, Elder Umana came to my classroom Saturday to say hi and bye, he just left Tuesday to his mission field. I took pics. I’ve run into a couple friends: Elder Cecil Jones, Elder Derek Holmstead, Elder Trey Dougher, Elder Josue Ciscneros, and Elder Dallin Ashby, I think more but that’s all I can remember now. I took pics with all but Elder Jones, totally spaced it when I talked with him.

I pray for you all everyday I love you all, hope everyone is good. The devotionals here have been great (only 2) but they have been soo good. One was by Sister Sheri Dew, and the one this last Tuesday by Elder Lynn G. Robbins and his wife from the 70. One thing that I liked was if you want to hit the ground running, when you hit the field is to be diligent and obedient. There's a quote here that goes like this, "obedience brings blessings, exact obedience brings miracles." In my district we made it a goal to be exactly obedient because we all need miracles with the language.

 I hope this all makes sense. I’ll try to get a hand written letter off to you guys today, can someone tell Justin to text some of my friends to write me? haha. This week has gone by fast its weird, its true though, days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days. I sleep really good, I feel good. El trio (that’s what we call ourselves) are all really active, so before bed we do our workouts real quick, and read out of El Libro de Mormon en espanol. We all get along real good, I’m grateful for them. Well I have a couple mins left. I love you all and miss you all. In my letter I’ll write later I’ll write some stuff I need.

Everyone is nice here, but I want to get teaching the real families in DC haha :), but 8 more weeks til then. Still lots of learning to be the best. Dad’s quote is always in my mind "What do you think the best are doing right now?"

Well gotta go, love you all so much. It’s great to hear from you.

Elder Andrew Lifferth

"crisis + time = humor" Pres. Sanchez haha