I am being safe here, but you should planch those missionaries for telling stories about dangerous stuff. We aren't supposed to do stuff like that. (I told him about some scary experiences that missionaries from our ward have had recently. I'm guessing that he is having some experiences that he might not be telling us about!) I have seen posters for that Lego movie, and it sounds totally awesome.
I really like your missionary story. That is good. It is awesome when people see the temples. I love being in this area close to the temple, because it gives a lot of opportunities to talk about unique doctrine. From temples, we can get into eternal families and the restoration and the priesthood and a lot of other important things. I did get the cookies, and I haven't received this package of which you are talking yet.
If you will recall S and N the super problematic interesting story, it got more interesting. It turns out that the abuelito (grandpa) of S and the papa (dad) of N are brothers. So N and S's mom would be cousins, primos. No idea how to spell that in English, and they aren't actually able to get married anyway. So it is a bummer, because they won't be able to keep the law of chastity together. Still figuring out what we are going to to about all that. And E and M say that they are super pumped to get married in 6 months or something like that. So we will have to see what's up with that, because they still haven't worked up the ganas (desires) to get to church.
But, we did find this cool couple named F and N. They are cool, and we met F last Saturday when we were carrying cinder blocks up the mountain, but we stopped by his house Thursday, and they are super awesome. They were sort of interested in everything, and then my companion shared a scripture in the Book of Mormon. Ironically it is a scripture found in the Bible too, but they sort of flipped out and wanted to know what the heck 3 Nefi was. So we explained it a bit and now they are a lot more interested. And yesterday they came to church with us! And we all listened to Bishop Davies from the presiding bishopric speak. And they liked it a lot, and later we went over to the temple and talked about it a little, and they were interested in all that, too. And they said that they are excited to come next week, too. Even though I thought the meeting wasn't one of the best. I don't know why I found it like that.
We figure maybe it was because we saw Elder Oaks the day before, and that was super awesome. Did you know that he was called to be an apostle only 12 hours before being sustained? And that at the time he was serving as a gospel doctrines teacher? So we always need to be ready for the callings that may come to us. He shared that because he had a missionary named Elder Moran translate for him on short notice because their professional translator was sick, and they sent him back to the hotel to rest for a while. He also talked a lot about the hymn "Brightly Beams Our Fathers Mercy" or lighthouse or something like that. I really don't remember what it is in English, but it talks about how the gospel is like a light house, but we need to be little lights along the shore that the people can use to guide themselves through the coral reefs and not crash and die. It was really cool, and I learned a lot.
I look forward to telling you more about these people next week or maybe whole new people. Who knows, but you will all probably find out next Monday!!!!!! I love you all and thank you all for writing me!!!!!!!
Text to the Hymn referenced above:
Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy, no. 335
1. Brightly beams our Father's mercy
From his lighthouse evermore,
But to us he gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
[Chorus]
Let the lower lights be burning;
Send a gleam across the wave.
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.
2. Dark the night of sin has settled;
Loud the angry billows roar.
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.
Text and music: Philip Paul Bliss, 1838-1876
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