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November 12, 2012

 

Hey family!!! I must admit I love seeing pics of all yall!! YAll look so good hahahahah! <3

As I emailed last week we went to the Smithsonian air and space museum! It was really cool. Everything in there is the real one and not a replica. For those who have seen transformers 2 that’s where it was filmed!! Really cool. The "Discovery" space shuttle is the real one that has been to space, it has enough hours in space to have been there a year straight! Included are some pics, also a pic with me and Bro Drawsbeck who took us, I think he's fond of me haha :)

So no changes here! Me and Ochoa stayed again! It’s pretty rare to stay 3 transfers with the same elder! But we don't mind, we get a long really good! We are also hoping that we stay for the holidays because the next transfer ends Dec 20...no one likes moving and getting adjusted just in time for Christmas..but whatever is God's will.

Also this past week we had the Spanish Forum! Its where all the spanish missionaries get together and have our own meeting, It was pretty long but really good. President was there even though he didn't understand much haha. Our Spanish pres, Pres Burton is a really cool fireball hahah pretty crazy, but so awesome. He had previously worked very closely with Mitt so it was a huge sacrifice for him to come that forum instead of being with Mitt and helping out with all that stuff because it was held on election day. I'm guessing he's really wealthy! He said he's been to a ton of cities traveling with Mitt!! whoa...

So today for P-day Raymond is taking us to DC today! I'm really excited as this will be my first time. He's going to show us around and take us to some museums. I sure do love him hah he's a good man. Also his kid Jelani, who is cousins to Ajani, got really excited to get baptized after watching Ajani get baptized and asked us to teach him so he can get baptized. Previously he didn't have much interest in it but now he's so excited!!! ITs wonderful.

With tranfers this past week, Elder Calvert who has celiac too gave me a ton of GF food. Me and Ochoa did the math and it’s probably over $100 of food!!! Pretty crazy...mostly just a lot of pancake mix, but the mix he gave me is super pricey. For a little one its $7 but he gave us 2 of the very big sizes!!! plus a couple of the little ones. Just a lot of snacks. I'm very grateful.

The temperature has been getting colder, but Ii have my different layers so it’s not too bad. Elder Ochoa has been sick lately with a cold thing, he's had a bad cough. Poor guy, I've been good! :D

It’s pretty crazy how many changes are happening to the mission. Not a whole lot of missionaries who left but they got 12 new missionaries which meant that every spanish sister is training!!! Super crazy, but I'm proud of the hermanas I came out with, one is in my district training. Looks like fun ha.

But this past week we have been working soooo hard! Lots of effort this week. It’s really felt great to work this hard. Since we aren't going up to Leesburg much to teach Jorge every day we have a lot of free time to find!! It’s been super fun, I don't want this to sound bad but I'm starting to think of the mission kind of like a war game hahah! We are like generals rallying our troops and planning how to destroy the enemy (satan) and then executing. It’s like a giant board game yet we are the actual players. Plus with learning spanish I don't it’s just really fun what’s happening. I truly enjoy it haha. Hope that makes since. Don't think I'm taking this "game" lightly, I'm taking it very serious, I'm truly trying to grow each day and improve myself each day!!

This past week we went over to visit with Erick and the fam. NAtalie's been seek and was pretty sick when we got there, we asked her if she wanted a blessing so Ochoa annointed and I sealed. And by the time we left she was practically perfect!! Amazing to see the power of the Priesthood in action. Also Erick wanted a blessing to help with his problems and temptations! What a great guy, the kids love us so much! Erick was telling us that every time the door knocks the kids get all excited because they think it’s us hahah it touches my heart to see how many people love us!

Something cool we found out with Jorge, the same day he got baptized his 2 sisters in texas got baptized too!!!!! ANd they didn't know anything about that! Wow right! I thought that was super cool!!

So tomorrow is my 5 month mark haha not too much time out haha, also my half b-day is coming like mom said hahah pretty crazy!!! Has anyone else from the ward got a mission call? Jordan Cooper?? Anything new?

This week is Diego's baptism!! Another one! So this is going to be another super busy week to make sure it happens, he's so awesome! YEsterday at church the teacher at the gospel principle's class made a big announcement that he'll be getting baptized in front of everybody (at this point we weren't sure if it would happen the 18 and plus diego is pretty shy in public) so me and ochoa both cringed when the teacher said that but he responded like yeah I'm for sure getting baptized I'm ready. We were super nervous haha but it was good! Hope that made sense??

Well that’s all for now, I'm glad dad won the election ;) too bad about the other people. A lot of people over here said they voted for Obama because he doesn't do anything and Romney does. Kinda funny ha. Hmm it'll be interesting to see how everything works out!

Well I love you all so much, hope and pray all is well, I hope you like the new car!! That’s good everything worked out with that!!! Sorry everything is so messy we were in a hurry to get done and leave for DC!

Love you all

Con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth

PS yesterday we visited a recent convert and it was truly an amazing experience