The missed week before this one---

January 14, 2008

Hey mom

WOw what a week! This week was hard, really hard, but to be honest that is ok.

I think i worked harder this week than ever before, and in the heat of things i wasnt seeing too much success, but thankfully in hindsight we can see a lot of things that we missed, and i am just begining to notice the many blessings i am given daily. I am really learning that prayers come true, whether we really mean for them to or not... and they never come how we expect them.

To start it off, wow, my companion is great. He is a hard worker, and he speaks great spanish. He is very very Peter Priesthood though and sometimes he comes off too strong. I have moments where my pride gets in the way, dont get me wrong, i never voice any opinions until i make sure my pride is in check. But one very frustrating day last week i prayed that i could just be humbled. THat wasnt the best idea. ha. WEll it happened. Yesterday, i had to give a talk in sacrament meeting... my first in spanish. I struggled in writing it. It was hard, nothing was coming to me. I based the talk off of David Bednar's "learning by faith" or "buscando el conocimiento por la fe" lol, but when i had to give the talk, i was lost. It wasnt good at all, and i hit my heigth of frustration right after that talk. I was absolutely humbled. It hurt, because i very much realized that i cant do any of this on my own. But it was a learning experience, one that i can pull a lot of info from. But my spanish is coming... i guess. lol the problem now is that i can understand the people, but i stil cannot comminicate what i want.

But we are going to have success. WE have a part member family we met a while ago. It is a younger couple with a baby. They live with a fairly strong member, and come to find out, the dad is a member too. But yesterday we went to their house and the mom, Bernice said she wanted to be baptized. So obviously we are going to follow up with that. But i guess that means we will have to get them married! lol

But i am doing great mom. It is so hard, but it is so worth it. I cannot stress that enough. Just so you know you arent alone, about half the time i sing the alto parts, just so i can think about you.

Please be happy, love each other and PRAY. I am happy, i am learning, and i love being on a mission.

I love you, have a great week

Elder Kenck