Full Bloom, Full Blown: From Elder Jordan

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

From Elder Jordan

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Jordan--Mon, Sept. 3, 2012 at 1:51 PM

Dearest family, I am so excited to pummel you into the ground, let me explain, you know when you see a puppy or a baby and you just have the urge to pinch their cheek or pat their head or squeeze them till they start drooling, well its the same urge but 690 times worse. When I see your pictures I just want to hug you till you pop. I hope you wont mind too much.
This week has been great, pure sunny weather, we have been walking around in short sleeve shirts all week. Delishious and scrumptios. I am so excited for the month of September, we have programed a baptism for every Sunday. They are all so excited as well.

We stopped off at a birthday party of a little girl in our ward, I gave her one of the braclets that yall made for me. Only two remain. She is so cute she just compleated three. She say my name Blumskersh. I love when little kids speak spanish, they sound so smart, because I am always like hey I am 21 and have been studing spanish for two years and this little 3 year old that doesn´t study at all is making me look like a fool. : )

So Mikayla I was wondering what is ILP it sounds super awesome does it stand for Interesting Lolypops for the Poor just a guess, but I have a feeling I am very close. Or Illiterate Lumps of Pork, it has got to be one of those two.

How is school going for everyone, intersting cultural note the grading system here is not with letters but numbers from 1 to 7, 7 being perfect. Entonces espero que todos estan sacando puro sietes.

I love you so super much.
Elder ...

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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, September 4, 2012

From Elder Jordan

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