Our Handsome Most Wonderful Elder Carter 8/17/11
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Hey family!!!
Things sound like they are fantastic back home!!! Mom the blessing the bishop gave you sounded really really good:) I have had a chance to give 2 blessings this week. Especially since my comp. is brand new, everyone always chooses me to give the blessing haha, but I really like them. at the first of my mission I always got super nervous but they have been good lately:) The brian head job is a go!!!!!!! That is awesome! And much needed it sounds like. that will be good to get started on that. What has dustin ryan, ben and the other guys been doin with little work situation the past few weeks? My new comp is really good! We are getting along really well, and he is a super hard worker. He always tells everyone we meet that we would love to do service and that he lives for hard work. We are going to be doing alot of service together which is always good! It is really nice having the option of a car or bikes. We are still biking quite alot because we don't want to get out of shape and also we can talk to more people street contacting. We rescently picked up a couple of new investigators. Elder Dudragne and I have a goal to talk to every person we see. Dont' let anyone get by us on our bikes without us talking to them. It is amazing how much better things go if you have a good comp. that you have trust in with talking to people and leading the lessons. That is something I haven't had too much of the past 4.5 months so it is really nice that I have been blessed with elder dudragne. It is really interesting being a district leader. I now have to always be conscious that their are missionaries looking up to me to be a good example. It's amazing how each step in the mission world helps you grow and develope in different ways. It was zone conference this last tuesday and we worked on the temple this last monday for 5 hours. That's why I am emailing on wednesday. Temple service was amazing!!! I felt like I was back home kinda haha. I was doing alot of lawn mowing and taring up grass. They are re seeding all of the grass at the temple because of this crab grass like stuff that has grown in. It was awesome though, our whole zone was there so it was a blast being with the other missionaries. I am kind of at a point in my mission right now that is really awesome because I am beginning to have friends everywhere throughout the mission! It is really important to be really nice to the other missionaries because in alot of ways they are like your family out here. We all have to lean on each other for help and support. I now cart around 2 missionaries in the district i am serving in and help them out with their groceries and emailing. Zone conference was amazing on tuesday! A general authority from the 70's came and spoke to us for like 6 hours hahahaha. It was a little long, but It helped re boost me and want to go out there and knock some more doors!!! haha make those knucles bleeed:) ok not really. . . but there were three zones that were there and we all were required to write a talk about 3 minutes long that said what we are DOING to become better disciples of jesus christ. Elder Duncan recieved these talks 2 weeks prior to coming, and read all of them and chose 2 talks from all three zones. (about 100 missionaries) AND MY TALK WAS CHOSEN:) haha my talk and a sister in the mission as well. It was really awesome. I got up and shared the talk in front of elder duncan, president baker, and the 100 missionaries. I also played the piano in a homecoming sacrament meeting on sunday! I played the prayer, and elder dudragne turned my pages. He did a really good job at it too, perfect timing. But everyone rushed up to me after the meeting haha. I was like, don't you want to go talk to the missionary that just got home? haha it was a little different, but I enjoyed it. Elder Oslund was who returned home. He is actually going to be pitching at byu! He was a freshman all american and the Y. anyways, this week went really really well! Thank you for all the support and all the prayers. The power of prayer is real!
Love, Elder Carter the 5th
One last thing I forgot to mention familly. . . . .
I am FINAlly sleeping well again! And I figured out the issue. . . . . I was severly dehydrated! I have been drinnking water like crazy lately, and now I am sleeping better, my skin is better, and my enjoyment level is better haha. It is amazing how simple the solution is to alot of problems but I was praying to Heavenly father to help me know what I could do differently to enjoy my mission more and feel better, and that night we had dinner at a members house, and I asked her (she is a nurse) what the cause for light headedness is and dizzyness and she said it was most like lack of sleep, dehydration, and low salt level from sweating it all out. But anyways, prayers are answered:) Thank you for all that you do. Have a fantastic week. bye bye
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