cow stomach

yep. i ate that.

i guess i spoke too soon last week when i said that i wasnt eating a lot of strange food. yeah i ate cow stomach this week.

it tastes like chiken, chews like bubble gum, and i actually wouldnt mind eating it again.

from what i can tell you are all having a fun time with winter and all. still pretty hot here, but i am enjoying it.

para que sepan i can now video call my familiy on mondays if i want. this is pretty cool change and it makes a lot of sense too. i feel like this will haelp a lot of missionaries stay in the field, what with more access to your family, feelings opf home sickness will be less.

opretty good week this week. i will send a picture of my new friend

por que les voy a mentir? si o si esta es dificile.

so this week i recieved a package. it was a box full of glasses. not like cups, but for reading and seeing better. those kind of glasses. 25 to be exact. at first i was confused, but then i remembered someone telling me they might send me 25 pairs of reading glasses, and then it was chill.

there were a bunch of letters from my old ward too. it was pretty cool to read those. thank all of you who wrote something. it was really neat to be reminded that there are people back home who havent forgotten about me.

just so you know i am doing well, my stomach is holding up to the rice and chicken that i eat most days, and sorry that there arent any weird food stories. i guess i could bring up the bones in my soup, but i dont eat those and i dont think i am supposed to, so i will just leave it at that.

hope you are are having a blast with winter. it is most definitely summer here and i dont think it will change for at least 2 years. it might not even after that, but i think i will be back in utah by thenn and so im not too worried about that.

i know this church is truly the only true church of Jesus Christ on the earth today. that isnt some magic idea that popped into my head one day, that is a choice i have made and will keepmaking for the rest of my life. joseph smith is a prophet of God and he really did see our heavently father and His son Jesus Christ. more than any thing i know that our father in heaven loves each and every one of us and he desperately wants us to come home to him.

i also know that the only way we can is by following his commandments. also by following his commandments we will truly be happy. MOSIAH 2:41   love you all hope you have a great week 

elder arkoudas

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How you respond when I tell you I just want to see a picture of you! Funny not funny!

i met a member of the general authorities!!

and shook his hand too!!

so this week we had a good time. we worked hard, had fun, ate food that was healthy (dont worry mom i am no longer eating hotdogs every day.)  ate food that tasted good (and it didnt make me sick!!!). and we had an all around good time. now that i think about it i dont know why i was using the word we... i guess i could go back and change it to i... nah it is too late now.  to fix it would mean erasing it and going back and writing parts of it again and i´m not very good at typing so i will just leave it. 

so  i am going to start with the food. this week we found a little food truck stand pace, for these sandwiches called lomitos. it is basically an egg a thin slice of steak, onion, tomatoe, on french bread.  but oh is it good. i used to be a ittle scared of cooking, but look how easy it can be. just a sandwich made me smile. and i can unabashedly admit we went back to that food truck stand place again. the first time i was a little scared i would get sick. but no i was fine. and the second time too! so i wil probably go there again. it is only a $1.80   too. and it comes with fries.

so this week we had a multi zone conference, and elde Alonzo de the 70´s came. but it gets better. i got to shake his hand, but it gets better. he said my name, but it gets better. he mispronounced it and i corrected him, but it gets better. then he said it correct! but it gets better, then i sang infront of him! momma you would be so proud of us. we sang a prophets first prayer, but then after the second verse we had these two changos sing the first verse of come thou fount of every blessing. and then we sang the last verse of a profets first prayer to the tune of come thou fount of every blesing. and we slowly added more people until the end. and the power of that song was glorious. i could feel it like a wave spread through that whole room. and  as i was singing i felt the truth of those songs too and the spirit bore witness to me that this gospel and the story of the restoration is not some cunningly devised fable. it is proof of god´s love for us his children.

And Elder and sister Alonzo de the 70´s were there!!! i sang in front of a man who has given general conference talks!!!  

oooh momma i hope you are proud. because i am so freaking happy. i cant believe i did that. i dont normally do things like that. so that was crazy.

then Elder Alonzo gave a talk that was awesome. he started out by saying that he  is a special witness of jesus christ and that he knows he lives. he doesnt believe he lives. he KNOWS he lives. except for the way he said it was perfect. it was a little louder than a whisper. just a simple "yo sé". but that whisper hit me like a freight train. this man hasnt given his live for something he hopes is true. he knows without a doubt that everything he is a representative of is true.

i hope  one day i can have a testimony lik that. and really i kno that i can. you can too. realy the first step is to want it. faith isnt some magic gift bestowed on the general authorites, it is a choice. a choice to trust that he is there. and that trust and faith grows with time and study until you know.

elder bednar gave a talk about the brother of jared. he said that the brother of jared had faith and knowledge. and he asked the lord to touch these simpe rocks with his finger and they would glow. then as the lord touched each rock he came to understand that the lord had a finger, because that is what he asked for and as each rock one by one began to glow, his faith and understaning grew until it no longer was faith it was knowledge. and then nothing could be hid from him.

sorry there arent anymore spider stories. 

elder arkoudas