9-26-11

Hello Everyone
Being able to read and re-read my patriarchal blessing has been a huge blessing in itself. It's brought a lot of comfort to me knowing that as along as I do my part and stay faithful and worthy I'll be blessed in my mission work and become a better missionary and be able to talk to people easier.   Yup, pretty soon it'll just be those that will never leave home, home with you ;-) ha ha. How does that make you feel? That's crazy that Uncle Bob is 50! But hey, you're getting up there too ;-P ha ha. I'm sad I'm gonna miss your fiftieth, and dad's too. At least I'll be able to call. That sounds really fun going to Disney Land with them all. How come you're doing that? And how come I never got to do anything fun like that? ha ha. Well I'm glad to know that I am loved and that lot's of people asked about me. Hopefully it's not just one person asking about me everyday, that would make me feel less loved but grateful at least one person cares ha ha. And poor Tara! I'm gonna have to write her a letter. I think she'd like that.
  My week has been pretty good. We picked up a new investigator this past week. We were looking through the Area Book and found an investigator that a couple of missionaries were working with before but had to drop her cause she wasn't keeping her commitments. We went by her house and she seemed interested and she came to church yesterday with her 3 kids and one of their friends. The kids loved primary and were so happy they got to go when I was talking with them after church and Vonda, the mom, really liked church too. So I'm pretty sure she'll be a great investigator. Brother Poer is getting baptized this Saturday right before the first session of conference which is gonna be really cool! It's gonna be an awesome and very memorable day for him. Sadly his wife won't be getting baptized with him, she kind of stopped coming and listening to the lessons. But he is one solid guy. His desire to learn about the gospel is incredible. And I hope that that desire doesn't fade over time.
  I don't know if I told you this before but the average weight gain for this mission is 30-40 pounds and I think that you'll be happy to know that I've.....stayed the same weight so far :D ha ha. At least I'm happy to know that. But who knows, maybe when I get back I'll be this huge ball ha ha. I've only rode my bike a couple of times which I have mixed feelings about. There are hardly any sidewalks here so we have to share the road with the cars and I'm always terrified that I'll get hit cause the cars come zooming right past us, super close too. But I really like riding my bike, it reminds me of the times I use to spend riding up the canyon with Eric, Nate and Ricky, and I want to start doing that again when I get back. Biking is great.
 My companion is from Bountiful Utah and has been up for around 16 months.  Getting up at 6:30 doesn't get any easier over time. I don't think it would be so hard if I had one day where I could sleep in cause I could just tell myself wait til that day and then I can catch up. But unfortunately I don't get such a date. Oh well. It's not too bad. We mostly just eat at our apt but at least twice a week we eat at a members house. On Friday we are going to a less active member's house to eat Korean food, that is where the wife is from and she doesn't have any christian background. She grew up Buddhist so it's interesting to teach her cause we have to teach so simply it's weird.
Love
Elder Klingler