Full Bloom, Full Blown: From Jordan

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

From Jordan

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From: Jordan Bloomquist
Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM

Dear Family,

Isn´t it that so cool that we have 3 Christmases a year. Wow what a blessing to have a prophet in our day, someone who can speak face to face with a being that has more glory and greatness than we can imagine, a being that has created everything that the human has ever seen and not seen and has more love for every single person on this earth that our minds can not even begin to wrap our mind around the concept. I felt a little bit of guilt during Elder Scotts talk for not telling those I love how much I am grateful for them and how much I love them often, so I am saying it right now. My family is the most important thing to me ever Mom, Dad, Mikayla Eden Abe Sophie and Lily you are more important to me than food, than shelter , than Fun, I love you guys and I am so happy that we can live together forever. I think my favorite conference talk was the one about pain and how sometimes we think it is just hurting us but if we understand the deeper meaning, it only hurts so we can become stronger.

Some days out here all of our appointments have fallen through and it is in the middle of the day frying out side so everyone is sleeping and doesn´t want to come out of their houses and it would be so much eaisier and less PAINfull to go back to the house and just rest up using the excuse that if we rest we will be more strengthened when night comes. But every single time and I mean everytime that we have stuck with it I have learned so much about my self weather self control, perseverence, or we find someone to teach and we are filled with strenghth happiness joy and everything else wonderful. I know that this is the work of our God and when we do it in HIS way he will bless us with HIS blessings which far out weigh any riches of the world.

One of my new favorite scriptures is 1 Nephi 17:50 because he has such great faith despite everyone else murmuring, geting beat, almost killed, numberous times by his enemys and by his own family and having to leave his home to live in the middle of the desert, and to follow a ball that apeared out side one day. Through pain we learn. another one is in Hebrews 11:40 JST.

Today was changes and Elder Lyman left, I am still in my sector but I have a new companion his name is Elder Erickson, he seems like such a great guy and I am excited to work with him for the next 8 weeks.

My favorite person in the book of mormon is Nephi or Moroni.

My favorite snack Food

My favorite song He is risen or um I can´t remember what it is called in english but in spanish Tengo gozo en mi alma hoy

My Favorite color Maroon

Hobbies Music, I love to play the guitar and sing and also draw

Well it seems that time again but I just want you to know I love you all so very much.

LOve

Son and Brother

Elder Bloomquist

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"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." (Marjorie Pay Hinckley)

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human being s should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." (Howard Zinn)

“God made the world for the delight of human beings--if we would see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us--you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.” (Mother Teresa)

“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing the things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” (C.S. Lewis)

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