Monday, July 13, 2009

July 13th E-mail

Well that's really lame I just wrote you this nice long email and then hit some key on accident (which i cant even figure out which one..) and the whole thing just disappeared.. weird.. Well anyways I will go for round 2.. :D Well It sounds like you guys have been having a really good time! A very busy time in fact.. But that is really good.. I do here though that when you get OLD you always think you will have more time but really you have less?.. i dunno maybe you could tell me if that's true :D Well I am glad that you guys got to go to youth conference.. that's awesome! Well good job on getting in with the Danielsons! That is so cool! Did you get on their doorstep and say "DANIELSON! ROOK EYE!" lol! I'm just kidding but i am excited for that! Some advice that i would give you is to Pray for them! And pray for their specific needs! Especially when you are in their home and you are about to have a prayer ask them if it is ok if you say the prayer.. and then when they say ya sure then say what are some things that i could pray for for you guys? and then when they tell you some things pray for them! and pray for them sincerely and then do everything in your power to help make it happen whatever it is! And i promise you that you will see a huge change in everything! Once you hear someone prayer for your specific needs you know that that person loves you! Try it out! I promise you it will work! Its great to hear that the ward back home is doing missionary work! You should get in on that! :D Have the missionaries over and tell them you want to teach someone in our house! And hopefully they will take you up on that! :D Well this week was a big turn around for us i believe We met the new missions President (which by the way he is awesome!) and then we were able to find 2 new investigators and start a less-active guy on the stop smoking workshop with goals to take his wife to the temple! Woot! So we are excited for that! Tonight we are meeting with a new fam of 3 and tomorrow we are meeting with a new fam of 8 so i hope all goes well! Things are really looking up! President Palmer is so cool though he is just a very spiritual guy and a very humble guy! I am looking forward to working with him that's for sure! Oh dad i was going to tell you.. Everyone up here loves the movie "Forever Strong" And whenever it gets mentioned i tell them that that's where you coach football and they are like REALLY?!?! :D its pretty cool! I told them i saw the movie being filmed... But anyhow.. Things are going good here and i hope things are going great at home! There are a lot of people in our ward that are being hit with loss of job and such.. last week we nearly talked to a new family in the ward everyday who was scraping at the bottom of the barrel and in desperate need of some help.. Its a crazy time that we live in! The only thing that we can do is live the gospel 100 percent! not 99 or 98 but 100 percent! That is what will keep our heads above water! I love you guys so much! Thank you for all of your prayers! Take care!

Elder Penman