Full Bloom, Full Blown: From Elder Jordan

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

From Elder Jordan

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From: Jordan
Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM

My most dearest loved ones,

Why is life so wonderful. Me and Coty or Elder Palmer were just talking about how we as missionaries really have the best lives in the world. We don´t have any worries in the world, assosiated to needs we always have food, a good house, wonderful friends, we help people to change their lives for the beter. To have the life of a missionary is a blessing and an oportunity that most people only could dream of, yeah sure there are hard times but if there wern´t life would be boring. If life was just always perfect and there were no struggles there would be nothing to work toward and no chance of progression.

Thank you every week for your letters they just remind me of the paradise I have waiting for me back at home as well as well. Today we celebrated three birthdays that were super close together. We had a small bbq and then played some american football on a turf field, and to end it off we are going to a FHE tonight that is going to be super wonderful. Abe that is a sa weet rock you found, was it just down by the cannal sitting there in plain sight. Mikayla that is so tight that you got to play in something like that and get third, right on sista you will have to send me some photos from the photo shoot. Lil and Foff your letters should be there pretty soon I am so glad that you had a good birthday. Mom what an awesome experience to go see Mikayla do you miss those collage days? Dad I don´t know if there are any traditions here for 21, but I am pretty much chilean now so I will definantly start something.

Hey I love you guys so much

Elder ...

P.S. When you see Luke give him a huge hug for me, I heard that he just got home.

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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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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

From Elder Jordan

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