September 10, 2012

My good 'ol family!!! :)

I love you all so much! Thanks for taking time to write me and get that package shipped for me, sorry it cost almost $30...but I greatly appreciate it! But yeah just get the meds sent off when you can!

That’s good to hear everyone is doing so good, well besides Stephen's knee, little punker! :) jk, Ha that’s funny about the BYU game how last time we went was when I had that rough concussion, which so far is doing really good. Remember how I would get little snippets of memories, well now I'm getting a lot from my childhood, and they are coming really vivid. It’s really cool ha, not sure how it works but I'm not complaining! :) It kinda makes me miss you more, because I'll remember different stuff with all the fam, but I enjoy it ha-ha.

So pops is in Orlando huh? Wasn't everyone supposed to go? I might have seen his plane, I see like 20 a day! One of the elders on p-day was like "Elder Lifferth, how far do you think that plane is from you" ha-ha, I was like –“a couple miles”. Then he's like “nope... for you about 21 months, and for me about 16” ha-ha little joker. But he's really nice to me, he's in the english program and after his mission he has an offer to play football at the U, he's about 6'4" and just massive, he's a qb and is fast too.

Mom it’s good to hear how your calling brings the Spirit so strong to your life!!! That’s what it’s all about. IT’s a great feeling, I love feeling it every day.

I'm glad dad had a good b-day, I was thinking about him a lot ha. How young is he now like 25? Mas o menos? :) ha-ha

A new family dog?? I can't remember if I've ever seen Chopper before? Hmmm, maybe send a pic or something?

But I'm really loving this barrio (ward) the people here are so wonderful, and el obispo is really great! In ward council yesterday he announced all of my food allergies, and the word has spread fast! Pretty much everyone knows them now ha-ha, so that should give you all comfort how God is taking good care of me! Everyone is so friendly, and I feel like this past week God has really blessed me with a lot more charity! IT really motivates me to want to learn Spanish more so I can communicate with them all better!

Last p-day we went to the Reston Towne Center, it’s like the new one in SLC, City Creek?? But it’s really nice and expensive ha-ha in fact one of the elders we went with bought a $125 tie O_o I was like whaaaat??!!! Ha-ha crazy stuff huh! But it was fun.

There was this really big rain storm that hit the other day! In Herndon where I live everything was ok, just a lot of rain. But other places it looked like a hurricane hit, trees everywhere and a lot of the members' cars got smashed from falling trees, just real crazy how it was that bad! Some lady here just said there was a little tornado in Fairfax, talking religion now actually. She's pentocastal?? Not sure, kinda reminds me of Grandma Shirley a talker ha-ha but black :)

But yeah I wrote Elder Moodie, and also emailed him. He's doing really good, and would love to hear from you all! He's really loving it and he said his trainer is great!

The other day for lunch we went to the english elders' place (the ones we hang out with on p-day) They are in a trio because one is serving in INdia but is here waiting for his visa, he actually just left today. But he (the one serving in India) decided to make us an Indian meal. From the picture it was really good but sooo spicy!!! Spicy hershey squirts the next day ;) ha-ha

Yesterday at church, Edwin, the one who got baptized a little bit a go, just received the Aaronic Priesthood! And I got to stand in on the circle! ha IT was so cool, he is really awesome, he's the one who works at Robeks (the smoothie place) We love him. He's so Christ like!!!

At Church we had 3 'gators show up!! I can't explain how much joy and happiness I felt when they walked in!!!! Alis and his girlfriend showed up with their baby (he's the one who has cancer, and was praying to know what church he should join then a member called and said we should visit him, miracle) and also Alex, he's 22. It was cool.  

Then after church and after a dinner, we got a call from the hermanas saying someone needed a blessing. It’s good because I've been studying how to say the annointing in spanish, because before E. Ochoa would whisper in my ear. But I finally got it down thanks to the Spirit helping me. The family, from Argentina, thought I was latino. They were like “so where are you from?” I'm like “just Utah”, they were like “oh..well what about your parents?”, “just there”. They were like “they aren't latino either??” “Nope..” then they were like “well you sound like it.” Kinda funny because I know that I'm not good ha-ha don't get why they said that ha-ha? But just funny :) Which reminds me, can you do some research and see which country speaks the best spanish, because I'm hearing all sorts of different stuff? And I just want to know. :)

Everything is really good. A lot of the less active members are starting to show up and even lots of 'gators are showing up. It’s getting crowded, they are saying they might need to split it? But hopefully not for a little bit. This really is such a great ward, so many people want to feed us ha-ha. You should be safe to know that this is a great place and everyone is taking care of me!

But I'm way excited for General Conference! I'll probably watch in spanish with a member so I might not get a lot out of it but it'll still be great no matter what!!!!

Today our apartment is getting sprayed, so we've been living out of bags for the past couple days because they gave us a check list of everything we had to do before they showed up...lots of cleaning!! Also today we are going golfing with a recent convert. It should be really fun and beautiful, I’ll be sure to take some pics for ya'll!!!

Well family I love you all, I hope to hear from all of you! Enjoy these 3 pics! You are all amazing, take good care of yourselves

Con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth

PS I've really been liking Alma 5. It’s really good, I recommend you all read it.

Dad, how long on your mission until you felt you could really talk with people?? Weeks?? Months?? Years??? :)

I love you all so much

Oh yeah this week I have "Return and Report" it’s where all the new missionaries go back to the mission home and just tell different experiences etc. Should be fun, but I would rather be out finding and working!!