Hi Mom!
Sorry I wrote dad today and so I don't have any time left. Plus I can't find the email you sent that had all the questions in it... :( It's alright though!
Sounds like you're staying busy. Remember to focus on what matters most! There is a sweet talk by Elder Uchtdorf that talks about that on lds.org. Check it out.
I figured Elder Payton would get engaged and married soon. I know that she was waiting on him while he was on his mission. Mitch Palmer is the man, too. Elder Burr in Africa! Crazy. Tell everyone I say hello back. I appreciate all the kind words. I hit 6 months next week! That was fast... I don't want to leave this area. I don't want a new companion. Elder Thompson and I do well together and we are really good at teaching together. And we're just getting started it feels like!
I'm reading randomly in scriptures and sometimes in PMG. I am in WofMormon in the BofM haha and in the Bible I am reading 1 Corinthians. Also I read in D&C all the time.
I'm all over the place.
Check out the email I sent to dad. It was good. My p-days are great! I enjoy them. Sometimes being lazy all day at the apartment is nice. I look forward to the package you sent... I think. This weekend is going to be amazing! I cannot wait for it. I can't really think of anything else I wanted to bring up other than thanks for the letters and packages family! You're the best. I will try to write Colby back as soon as I get the time. We stay pretty busy on mondays. Plus I am slow at typing :(
I love you all! You are in my prayers each night too. Do work at home.
Love,
Tab
Hi Dad!
Thank you for your letters. I wasn't able to write back last week because I ran out of time. It seems like life is just going on... One thing I have found is that a lot of the people we teach that don't have the Gospel in their life have nothing to look forward to. They work 6-7 days a week and use the money to pay rent, feed the family, pay for a car, then buy cigarettes, drugs or alcohol with what money they have left over. Whatever time they have left is spent sleeping or meaningless activities. And they do this week after week, year after year. They have no purpose, other than to exist! It is depressing to me. So many people are stuck in this lifestyle that it is difficult for us to find people to teach, and a time to teach them. Even members of our branch have a hard time attending more than twice a month because they are working on sundays. I get frustrated with them; perhaps I don't understand fully. The uplifting part is, once some of these people accept our mesage, they see that there is a purpose to life and there is something to look forward to. They begin to find time to spend with their family and come to church, even to attend Wednesday night mutual activites. I know that it is a blessing from the Lord for those who exercise faith in Him by being obedient to His commandments. They begin to find time to do what is required of them and they find that they are just as able to put food on the table and make rent, if not more blessed than they were before. (The principle is the same with tithing, WofW, etc.) I have seen this in the lives of families in our branch and I know that it is true. "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it" - Malachi 3:10. I like that scripture.
I'll read D&C 50 this week. I have never read all of the sections, but sometimes I'll follow a cross reference and then get lost in reading the rest of the section. So I've spent some time in it... interesting scripture. I had an awesome study in Jacob 5 and 6 last week where I determined to understand, as best I could, to understand the allegory of the olive trees. There are a few scriptures that refer to missionary work in the latter days. The entire chapter 6 is awesome too.
So I have heard the term HAM before used as just working really hard. I believe it's an acronym for something but I am not sure. You could find out what it truly means on Google. Perhaps I should be careful... Anyway it means to work hard.
I am super excited for this Saturday! I have never met an apostle, and the only general authorities I have met are Elder Gong and the area seventy for New Jersey, who I met at Scotch Plains stake conference. I don't even remember his name :/ I assume I will also see Sister Nelson and Sister Boshard and another missionary (Elder Vargas) who I know from high school but only found out he was here through the President's blog.
SO MANY MISSIONARIES WOO! That new SLAB flavor sounds pretty good. Reese and Clark and I talk about Slab ideas all the time in our letters. They better have green eggs & ham on the menu before I get back :)
I love you Dad! Keep up the good work at home. Hopefully it warms up soon so that you can finish the gabien (sp.?) baskets before I get home. Haha.
Love,
Tab
Found his gem and thought I'd share it.......seems like only yesterday!
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