June 13, 2011

This was a good week huh?
We worked way hard this week. We found some way cool people, some turned out to be kind of fake, people who accepted a baptismal date, but then said they didnt want to really commit, and others who with just a short introduction to the Book Of Mormon started crying, and felt the Spirit. <--Teresa went to Stake conference, and heard Elder Andersen, Elder Zivic, Sister Wixom, and President Boyd K Packer (who was quite poor in health and said goodbye to Argentina) speak by Satellite, and then just loved the whole thing. shes almost as much of a Spiritual barometer as you Mom. What am I saying, Im just the same, I just dont let them go free falling. Elder Zivic talked about how we are living our lives, because some day our children will be reading the scriptures and read about how wicked our generation was and hear the words of the prophets, and in the footnotes will have the years before the second coming and just be thinking as many of us do with the nephites, why wont they just repent? Sister wixom talked about reading the book of mormon at home to your children, based on a quote from Marion G Romney. Way cool what it promises. Read the book of mormon at home to your children every day and you will not lose them, pray together and prepare them to enter the temple. Elder Anderson talked about tithing (his middle name is Lindon did you know that? any relation?) Then President Packer talked about the promptings of the Spirit and how to know when its the Spirit. Overall quite good.

The ward here is awesome. The young men are 3 boys from the same family a deacon a teacher and a priest. They are so cool, they are always sharing the gospel. (They have an older sister, who married a Benjamin Hamilton from Los Angeles, ask the Hamiltons if they have a cousin/nephew who served in Cordoba.) they and the young mens leader got up for the stake talent show (they do one before every stake conference) and sang a mariachi. They came in with full mariachi gear, with cap guns and if you thought we have a warped view of mexican culture, you havent seen these guys. We dont need to stinkin badges has nothing on these kids. hahaha they took the prize. Yeah its great here, loving it, working hard, gonna baptize here soon.
gotta go, but I love you all

Con amor
Elder Ben Ludlow

ps thanks for the thoughts from stake conference Hope that the end of school isnt too crazy and that aly and aimee actually end up helping, hahaha.
Best young mens presidency ever. Dad the no nonsense gets things done, same with Evan, but just cool and a big kid in his heart, and I dont know the other brother or maybe I dont remember, but yeah Elvis does that.
bye