Yeah because of the change with email its not letting me in or it goes suuuuper slow. Good things it forwards here.¡Feliz Cumpleaños Padre! Yeah I am doing fine. It got the other two in the pension later this week, it was something to do with the heat apparently. This week was good. We worked really hard and we have nothing to show for it. =P Its not as bad as it sounds, we went member hunting all week and found some great less actives. Yeah they didnt come, but it was the fact that all the hard work felt like hard work when we were working with the members. We had appointments with investigators, really cool and likely to progress investigators, but we didn´t get to meet with hardly any of them. Its funny how that works. I also had my first of many mistakes in front of a member. We had a FHE and I got to share a thought, completely unprepared. Ouch. It was not good, and I shared something without explaining hardly at all. I felt like crap afterwards, but it just is an example of Keeping It Simple. I am doing well here and I am with my new companion Elder Loader from Mapleton, UT. Hes cool considering I have only known him for 4 hours. Im still here in Villa dolores and working hard to get this Branch out of the pit its been in. I love you all but I am running low on time so I just ask that anyone who reads this sends me an email, with their favorite scripture and why. It should be fun, go for it.
Con Amor
Elder Ludlow
PERSONAL STUFF: First things first: my razor broke. It fell off my bedside table and the shaver foil is busted and inner blade foils are dented. I could use it, but I dont want to have to regrow my face along with my beard.
**insert long, boring description of replacement parts. blah blah blah**
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
February 8, 2010
Ben's letters tend to be in direct response to whatever Mom sent him the day before, so I apologize if any of you readers feel a bit lost...
That twit. =) Good girl Alyson. Wheres my letter in Spanish? maybe when you are done with this semester? Sad day. Oh well Ruby Sue was a beast(just like the Beast) and we have a couple of fun memories. Hello Zoo Car/windup toy. Yay money... Thats cool. Thats the thing about craigslist and ebay, its an electronic garage sale. Only people looking for a 4 dollar deal on a 200 dollar item come to check them out. Elder Robison said he didnt get his MTC forwards until his 3rd transfer. WOOH!!! dont worry I´m sure they will come eventually, but for now they havent. The Last Olympian is with Victor Fralof and I need to write him an email about that and when he is getting his butt on his mission. Him and Adam. =P I can take care of it Madame Librarian. This gumshoe is on the case. Sad Colts. Thats a cool win though. I guess... the problem with them winning is that everyone will attribute it to Obamas supernatural powers. =P(woops that can be edited out if its truly offensive, but it gets annoying to hear from all the silly latins "Hows the Negro doing?" )Yeah so this week we got in trouble. We werent keeping the wake-up go to bed rules 100% and an elder called President. awkward. But its good we needed to get in trouble, because we knew it and had been trying to keep things, and had gotten lax. Its unfortunate it came the way it did, but well things happen for a reason. I know its not what you want to hear mom, but really I am disappointed in myself too. It was fixed too, and then I got sick on Friday(not sure what but it was body aches and dizzy and just overall bad) and then Elder Robison and I were both sick Saturday with Food Poisoning. WOOH. So much fun. But if you can believe it I have been in Argentina for almost a transfer. Its been raining alot during the night and getting really humid and hot during the day now. Its like thunder lightning wind and rain at about 2am and then its about 96 degrees with 70%+ humidity during the day. Its definitely weird. oh well the work goes on and I have one more week this transfer. We shall see what happens next week, I could be writing to you from a different area or not at all(that would mean I was travelling all day)Well I leave you with a quote from President Hinckley that I found the other day. "Let us as Latter Day Saints cultivate a Spirit of Brotherhood in all of our associations. Let us be more charitable in our judgements, more sympathetic and understanding of those who err, more willing to forgive those who trespass against us. Let us not add to the measure of hatred that periodically sweps across the world. Let us reach out in kindness to all men, even toward those who speak evil of us and who would if they could, harm us."Love you all and miss you
Con Amor
Elder Ludlow
¡El Reino de Dios or Nada!
That twit. =) Good girl Alyson. Wheres my letter in Spanish? maybe when you are done with this semester? Sad day. Oh well Ruby Sue was a beast(just like the Beast) and we have a couple of fun memories. Hello Zoo Car/windup toy. Yay money... Thats cool. Thats the thing about craigslist and ebay, its an electronic garage sale. Only people looking for a 4 dollar deal on a 200 dollar item come to check them out. Elder Robison said he didnt get his MTC forwards until his 3rd transfer. WOOH!!! dont worry I´m sure they will come eventually, but for now they havent. The Last Olympian is with Victor Fralof and I need to write him an email about that and when he is getting his butt on his mission. Him and Adam. =P I can take care of it Madame Librarian. This gumshoe is on the case. Sad Colts. Thats a cool win though. I guess... the problem with them winning is that everyone will attribute it to Obamas supernatural powers. =P(woops that can be edited out if its truly offensive, but it gets annoying to hear from all the silly latins "Hows the Negro doing?" )Yeah so this week we got in trouble. We werent keeping the wake-up go to bed rules 100% and an elder called President. awkward. But its good we needed to get in trouble, because we knew it and had been trying to keep things, and had gotten lax. Its unfortunate it came the way it did, but well things happen for a reason. I know its not what you want to hear mom, but really I am disappointed in myself too. It was fixed too, and then I got sick on Friday(not sure what but it was body aches and dizzy and just overall bad) and then Elder Robison and I were both sick Saturday with Food Poisoning. WOOH. So much fun. But if you can believe it I have been in Argentina for almost a transfer. Its been raining alot during the night and getting really humid and hot during the day now. Its like thunder lightning wind and rain at about 2am and then its about 96 degrees with 70%+ humidity during the day. Its definitely weird. oh well the work goes on and I have one more week this transfer. We shall see what happens next week, I could be writing to you from a different area or not at all(that would mean I was travelling all day)Well I leave you with a quote from President Hinckley that I found the other day. "Let us as Latter Day Saints cultivate a Spirit of Brotherhood in all of our associations. Let us be more charitable in our judgements, more sympathetic and understanding of those who err, more willing to forgive those who trespass against us. Let us not add to the measure of hatred that periodically sweps across the world. Let us reach out in kindness to all men, even toward those who speak evil of us and who would if they could, harm us."Love you all and miss you
Con Amor
Elder Ludlow
¡El Reino de Dios or Nada!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
February 1, 2010
Dear Family and Friends: Ben's most recent letter was in "pigeon" Spanish and very hard to read, even for the Spanish speakers in our house. He does seem to be learning but needs more time to get so that he thinks in Spanish as well as he writes and speaks. It was mainly answering my questions and commenting on news (he said to congratulate Kristyn and Russell on the birth of Baby Steven).
Yup I know. JAJAJAJAJAJA. Hoppefully Sarah translated even if it was painfully incorrect gramatically, I basically talked about how weird things go on here and answered your questions. Well this week I have alot more to say about things happening. We didnt baptize our investigator. He just kind of disappeared. We hadnt seen him in at church and he was very hard to get ahold of and generally evasive. We talked about it with him after finally getting ahold of him, and he has been reading in the Book of Mormon. He found a part in Moroni(I dont remember where. I should find out shouldnt I? =P ) and it was talking about how we need to forgive others before we can ourselves be forgiven. Turns out that he has someone that he just cannot forgive. We challenged him to try really hard to do so, and to think really hard about it, if he can or even wants to be forgiven for the things he has done, he has to forgive this person. I don´t know about you but I thought about it and I realized how I never had it quite that bad, but that is something that can stop us from feeling the Spirit. We had a visit from President this week. He visited when the crazy Elders Quorum president and the branch president spoke. It was great because he dropped cane(when someone gets in trouble) on them in his talk. He then talked to us afterwards and was like yeah, so I noticed you dont have alot of numbers. I can see why. You are to work with the members and combat all the gossip and mistakes of others and build up this branch, and then you will find people. The missionaries are not supposed to be finding, the members are supposed to do that and we teach. So yeah thats basically all thats gone on. We will see how things like that work, because we have to see the effects of our work, and the work of getting this branch to a 50 person or more branch will be alot. I will have more to say on the subject later, but yeah Mom you should get Preach My Gospel out and read it a little. Ch 9 maybe.
(Mom told him that she has more opportunities to talk to people about the Church these days and maybe she should study the missionary manual.)
Bye Bye for now I love you all tons.
Yup I know. JAJAJAJAJAJA. Hoppefully Sarah translated even if it was painfully incorrect gramatically, I basically talked about how weird things go on here and answered your questions. Well this week I have alot more to say about things happening. We didnt baptize our investigator. He just kind of disappeared. We hadnt seen him in at church and he was very hard to get ahold of and generally evasive. We talked about it with him after finally getting ahold of him, and he has been reading in the Book of Mormon. He found a part in Moroni(I dont remember where. I should find out shouldnt I? =P ) and it was talking about how we need to forgive others before we can ourselves be forgiven. Turns out that he has someone that he just cannot forgive. We challenged him to try really hard to do so, and to think really hard about it, if he can or even wants to be forgiven for the things he has done, he has to forgive this person. I don´t know about you but I thought about it and I realized how I never had it quite that bad, but that is something that can stop us from feeling the Spirit. We had a visit from President this week. He visited when the crazy Elders Quorum president and the branch president spoke. It was great because he dropped cane(when someone gets in trouble) on them in his talk. He then talked to us afterwards and was like yeah, so I noticed you dont have alot of numbers. I can see why. You are to work with the members and combat all the gossip and mistakes of others and build up this branch, and then you will find people. The missionaries are not supposed to be finding, the members are supposed to do that and we teach. So yeah thats basically all thats gone on. We will see how things like that work, because we have to see the effects of our work, and the work of getting this branch to a 50 person or more branch will be alot. I will have more to say on the subject later, but yeah Mom you should get Preach My Gospel out and read it a little. Ch 9 maybe.
(Mom told him that she has more opportunities to talk to people about the Church these days and maybe she should study the missionary manual.)
Bye Bye for now I love you all tons.
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