July 6, 2015

PRESIDENT MORGAN IS SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!

Him and his wife and daughter are soo sweet! he is the exact opposite of President Wright, well in the aspects of he is just really loving, and president wright was more cold ahahah but it is a change that this mission really needs!!:) On thursday our zone and 3 others were the first to have the meeting to get to know them and it was stellar! and afterwards my comp Elder Tomaz had a feeling he needed to talk to President(he is still struggeling a lot), so he went and had an interview and during that hour i was just with Sister Morgan and their daughter Katie and the Assistents. We talked about everything and just was sooo chill to talk to them about the culture and talk about the states and really get to know them on a personal level! it was soooo good!! Im soo excited to see what happens in the future in this mission:)

Talking about reading the scriptures and loving them, i started like 7 months ago from the begingng of the Book of Mormon(in spanish obviously) and now im practically done but i have seen in myself a change, when i started i did it as a "chore" and didnt understand it and just did it to do it but little by little i have gotten to the point that i LOVE THE SCRIPTURES! really though, once i start reading i cant stop, there is just EVERYTHING in them! I find that even in my Lecture of it i find the answers to my prayers and the prayers to others everytime is study!! truly is a miracle and a testimony builder in its self that its true and there is no way it isnt. i have seen the way it blesses the lifes of others and also my own life sooo much. ALL ANSWERS OF THE SOUL ARE IN THE SCRIPTURES!!!!!!!!

I Love that story about the Zions Camp, about Mason Wimmer. I remember feeling that same way, i remember always looking at people like Jared Hanson and thinking how is he so smart in the gospel and so much more spiritual if he is the same age as me?! it bugged me! but the difference is i didnt do anythign to try better myself, i failed in that aspect, and i hope that mason and whichever youth pass for the same feelings that they can do something about it! starts studdying the scriptures, or pray more intently, or at the end of each day ask yourself what is it that i could have done better today and what it is that i did to bless another person or follow the spirit that day. Its something that i have applied in the mission, it came to my mind one day in i think november (wheni was with elder silva still) and until today everynight when we finish our planning i ask myself personally first and then i ask my compañion what we could have done better and what is it that we did to show the love of christ for someone else. By applying this i have seen the hand of the lord soo much more in my life and can see the blessings he has "poured out upon me". It is a pracitce i plan on doing the rest of my life and hopefully everyone can do somehting similar:)

Thank you sooo much for all that you guys have done for me throughout my life. I love you and am eternally grateful:)

Elder Collins

the final party with President wright! i and a few sister missionaries may have had the idea to egg president:)

our zone with president wright and sister wright,

​COPA AMERICA!!! we are the champiions! Rosa gifted us these jerseys:)

and elder Templemann from Washington, he is family to some people in alpine that were my buds haha