Called to Serve

26 May 2010

HEY EVERONE!!!!!!
Once again another week has come and gone. Crazy how fast they go. Before you know it I will be back and nothing about me will be too special..... Just the "special"things. :)
Anyway. All of you failed at the riddle because I have not received a single answer for that. Not a single one!!!!!!!! I will give you one more week. Then you tell me. It's in my entry two weeks ago. I will answer it next week though. So there.

Ok. So I had this thing happen to me this week. That lets me know that the Lord really does look over his children. Ok So Saturday morning I received a call from the Zone leaders saying I have a talk on the morrow about missionary work. Now if it was in English one day is a ton of time to prepare for me. Now in spanish...Not so much. So....That night I started working opn my talk. Finding quotes and scriptures from my small missionary library. But now I had to put everything I found in a talk in Spanish......JOY..... ;0. Just like that. SO at 11 30 I go to bed with my talk a quarter done...Expecting to finish it in the morning in the two hours I have before church.

So when I got to bed.I wake up about a halff hour later freazing.. SO I turn off my fan....In about another 15 or 20 minutes I was burning hot. So all through the night I was like that. My body started hurtng also. I was groaning and ugh. It was a horrible night. My head was also killing me. The 6 30 alarm went off and I got up. but really to no avail.... my head was killing me I felt ready to throw up my body hurt and everything was just a no go... So I went back to bed or went back to resting. Cause now I knew I was sick. My comp. still had us go to church. So I still had to finish my talk. In church....Sick....With a headache......It was a horrible. I was freaking out cause of my situation. I calmed down and prayed to th lord ffor help. I managed in church to finish the majority of my talk. Then when I got up to talk my senses cleared just enough to think clearly. And I did everything. I gave my talk. In pretty decent spanish. I gave it how I wanted to. I even added more when I was finished with what I had written. I finished my talk went and sat down. And my head was just killing me again. Throughout the rest of church I was practically sleeping. I was so dead. BUt I know the Lord does help when we need it. I am feeling loads better.

Also I burnt my tongue recently so....Yeah you guys know. So many things happening. Anywho. I love ya guys tons!!!! Thanks for catching up and THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!
We actually have a date of marriage and baptism for one of our investigators which is awesome. So. We are still woorking hard. Send mail. Cause you want to be cool. Send packages cause you want to be awesome!!
Thank you to the cool people who have sent mail and the awesome people for the packages....SEND more.

Have a cosmic week!!!!

Elder Gordon

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2nd Nephi 31:20

19 May 2010

Well...... Do you seriously expect something awesome every week??? Man. You people. ARe so Demanding. Its ok I love some of you still anyway the rest I only like. Sorry. But. The only big thing I have to talk about is about Sunsets.

We saw one of the coolest sunsets ever the other day. We decided to climb to the top of this apartment building and watch the sun set. All the way. There were clouds and the sky and the sun. But the sky changed from Yellow to red to orange to yellow to red. The clouds shifted from white to blue to purple to red to orange to yellow back to purple then blue then this bueish white. But it was soooooooo amazing.

We have some good investigators at the moment. We are also searching for more. for the most part we only have these people and none more. As President Lee would put it. We are searching for new cheese. This area is so big its easy to fins new areas to contact. Just difficult to find people whom are willing to listen.

This transfer is going to be a good transfer though, We have lots of work to do. We are trying to make this transfer go by as fast as the last one. It is so interesting I think if you take The Best Two years and how those Elders act. Thats the same with us here. Its rather funny. Anyway. We are trying to do a lot here. Always working and what not.

Prayers as always are appreciated. The missionaries NEED a lot of help. Only with the help of the Lord could this work move like it does. So always keep a prayer in my direction. I think I need quite a bit of help. Especially in reading the BOM in spanish. That is tough. Anyway. Thanks for tuning in. I would have put pictures on. But like ya know. Serving the Lord is always a lot of work an fun. Stay Awesome people.

Love or Like depending on who you are.
Elder Gordon

PS Sorry Loree I found another Bad computer with no import for the camera. CAIO!!!!

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2nd Nephi 31:20

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12 May 2010

So time for all the updating. There are Some new stuff today. As my family knows there was a Transfer coming up this week. Well today to be exact. We learned on monday What was changing and what was staying the same. Really.....NOTHING CHANGED!!!! So..I now have 3 transfers with all the same Elders. At this moment it seems as if it will never change. I will always be here with these same 4 elders.....FOR EV ER. We might be changing houses. Might not. So we will see what's up.

So There will be a change of the address for the letters. The company that you send the letters too are moving to a different site in Florida. That should be updated soon. Just remember it's only for the letters!!! The pakages are staying the same. This week, we have been blessed with random car rides. It's really nice. We had this one night when we were standing out in the rain at about 9:30 at night waiting for a Ruta. When this car passed slowed down backed up and stopped. The guy opened up his back door and asked us where we were going. Then he told us to get in. It was really cool. Then we have just received other random c ar rides from people we know. It's been nice.

I HAD THE COOLEST THING HAPPEN this week. Thats right I got to call home!!!!! It was almost perfect I was only missing My Brother Jake and his Family. It was awesome though. I really had no clue what to say to anyone. I was just there. I had no clue what to say I was just happy to hear my family. It was so cool!!! I answered when someone asked me a question but for the most part the time went by extremely fast. I was excited. It left yoiu in a high for quite a few hours. But yeah.

I have a riddle for you all.
It's not the moon it's not the sun but it's infinite and beyond. What is it?

Anyway, Thats all I got for the week. Stay awesome! See ya all later!!!
Oh and the two pics my sister Posted One is Elder Westerguard and Me the other adds an Elder Smith. We are all from AZ.ANYWHO!!! CAIO!!!!

05 May 2010

A Couple More Pics

Melissa here. Please note that there are lots of new posts for today. Mike posted a ton of pictures, three or four at a time. His mom forwarded us a couple of pictures taken at the last Zone Conference which were emailed to her from the Mission Secretary. For those who haven't already seen them, here ya go. (The lighting wasn't the greatest, so I lightened them a little and quickly fixed the color a little.)

05 May 2010 - Part 7

YIKES!!! WATCH OUT!!!!

Yes the EYE is GONE!!! No...Just closed!!!

LLAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY THis is my district including the ZOne leaders!!!!

Oh....This one probably should have been first. Oh well!!!!!

05 May 2010 - Part 6

Worlds largest pig!!!! this pig was easily five maybe six feet long!!!

This chickens have some crazy hairdoos

The two lions Yeffri and Lala. Yeah pretty cool.

Here is the reindeer.

05 May 2010 - Part 5

HEY!!! This is your picture of the fried frog in our Breaker box....

Isn't that a cute monkey??

They are kinda simliar. No? Ok maybe not.

This is a demon monkey. It was hissing and stuff at us.

05 May 2010 - Part 4

Ok Heres two seious pictures.

Also this is just one of the major sound speakers Playing in our area. There are probably about another 4 or 5 large speakers like that that play and then the 40 50 smaller ones.