March 23, 2010

Hello Family!

I'm glad that you are handling it well. haha. i was quite afraid that you would freak out when i told you. I made sure to keep all the gorey details out! ;) haha. And they had an epi pen and used that. So i didnt even have to use mine, and then at the dr he prescribed me two more. So i have two more epi pens now. So I'm all good. Also i dont know if i told you, but he actually put me on a steroid prescription after the incident. It was a 6 day prescription. And it was just to make sure that nothing flared up. Cuz, (i guess i can tell you this without freaking out) when i woke up the next morning my chest hurt, and i have never had an experience where my chest hurt the next day. So the steriod pills took care of that. I'm doing great!!

And i do remember the father's blessing that dad gave me, however i didnt remember it at the time. I just thought wow, how blessed am i to have my life spared multiple times. But dad sent me a letter and let me know. So thank you for that. I'm glad you shared that with Bishop Gardner and Whetten. It's a weird feeling being up here. And thinking about what is happening at home. I have already began to see some of the fruits of my labor, the blessings of other people by me being out here. I never thought that so many blessings would come to me and others while i was out here. Its an incredible experience.

So nothing super exciting happened this past week. We lost our first district that i was actually really close with on tuesday. It was sad, i love those guys. But were moving on and getting a group of nuevos today. And im excited cuz when we got here the first night all the elder's played this huge trick on us. We are planning to that to the Nuevos tonight. I cant wait. haha. It's gonna be a little bit weird not being the younger ones anymore. I have been up here for 3 weeks. 1/3 of the way done. Pretty crazy.

I guess one last thing i will share is an experience My companions and I had yesterday. We do mock teaching, but make it as real as possible. And so we were teaching yesterday to a man named Napoleon. He is this older mexican man, he is super nice i love him. But we were teaching and just trying to follow the spirit on what we should teach him. The lesson ended and we thought it went really well and just left. And then a little later we had a teacher come up and say, "you elders taught Napoleon right?" and we were just like ya. And then he said i just wanted to let you know that he came and talked to me and said how much he felt the spirit when we taught him. He said it was incredible and he was asking how long we have been here and he told him 3 weeks, and he said, no there is no way that's possible. And then he said that Napoleon said he felt like he was reconverted again.

It was crazy. Because i thought it went well, but i had no idea it affected him that much. And so i thought about it and thought about how we can apply to everything. We never know how we are gonna affect someone's life. So that's why we need to strive to always be that example of Christ in anyone's life. Because you never know who you could affect. Idk. It was just a really cool experience.

Spanish is going well, getting frustrated and times. But i tend to catch on eventually. Hopefully by the time i leave i will be pretty decent. But ya. I guess thats all. Thank you for all your support. I love you all. Keep writing. Im doing terrific. Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Kingsley