Full Bloom, Full Blown: From Jordan

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

From Jordan

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From: Jordan Bloomquist
Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:26 PM

Bloomsqueekers,

How have you been this week, I am sorry it is still cold over there, its starting to get cold over here as well so I have no idea where all this warm stuff is going to. FOME, or lame in english. My week has been wonderful other than the part that I looked on the scale this week and I weigh 202 lbs now. Last Monday we had a devotional with president and then watched the Other side of Heaven

with Elder Grobergs brother visiting with us and watching as well. That movie motivated me to work harder and have a stronger love for the people. I am just so greatful for modern day technology and all the privaleges that we have been blessed with. This week I went on divisions with Elder Turner who only has 5 weeks in the mission and barley knows any spanish. Lately I have been talking to Elder Mcneil about being scared to be a senior companion because I still feel like I am really weak at spanish. But he was like don´t worry dude Heavenly Father always blesses his children to help them do whatever needs getting done. I experinced it first hand when I was with Elder Turner many times he asked what people were saying and I had understood perfectly almost not realizing that they were speaking a different language. I do have a testimony that God is a God of pure love and mercy. And we are the only ones that get in the way of God helping us is our own selves, the commandmants are simply laws of Nature and God if we do not compleat with these laws it is not that he does not want to help us but he simply can´t it is impossible.

Today was changes and I had the privalage of staying and am now in a threesome with Elder Erickson and Elder Lopez who is actually from Chile but can speak almost perfect spanish. I have a feeling that he is a hard worker and that we will have a lot of fun together.

Hey I love you guy just sent big airmail huggs should slap you in the face any second now.

LOVE,

Elder Bloomquist

P.S.

Dad could you please send me my priesthood line of authority. Thanks

P.P.S. The pictures are of Elder Mcneil, Jeffery a member and I having a Family Home Evening with Fabi

and the othe is me and Elder Afeiki he is samoan and does the whole smell thing like Feki on The other side of Heaven.

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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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