mi querida familia,
what is up mi familia? 1st off thanks for my hoodie and for the cookies and for the kettle corn ... i ate it all and thought about how much mom loves popcorn ... and i'm still enjoying the Cookies, thanks grandma, all the Elders in my apartment are very grateful for your cooking skills haha. and it's good to have the skyview hoodie again, and no i don't need a newer one, this one works just fine, and the stains are kinda small, thanks for washing it so much haha it smells clean. sooooooo the MAC can't handle all the pictures eh? haha just kidding, soooo you're getting a 500GIG in your comp in addition to the 1000 GIG external ... and what happens when you fill those up? haha pictures sure take up alot of room, i was gonna send my card home today but i think you want pics of my Birthday so i'll send it next week, sorry it's been so long since you've had pics from me. and i thought you already had the new OS for MAC? did they make a new one? hahaha and Dad's comp has been saying that it needed space for a few years now, dad you really need to switch over into a new comp or HD or something haha. it's crazy how much i've forgotten about comps ... really crazy. i'm glad that someone went to Brian's Farewell, i hope you took pics and kicked brent for me, brian and me and austin and lorrin will all be able to speak spanish when we get back haha that is going to be cool. and yes i remember Bro Vongermeten ... i don't think he likes us still. Maria Vongermeten is from Guatemala??? that is awesome! i love peeps from there, i remember you saying (when i was younger) how she was always fun and made you laugh and stuff, makes sense cause all the people from Guatamala are like that! We will have to talk when i get home, is she still married to Bro Vongermeten? i remember her daughter ... that is too bad ... not a good idea to leave the church ... we must never give up hope nor give up on anyone, perservierence. i'm glad the surgery went well without any complications, no more finger nail ... how come he sewed it??? make sure and take pics and send them to me cause "a Elder Larsen le encantan las fotos" yeah at the MTC i took some super vitamin thingy of Elder Stewarts one morning and i didnt' know you were supposed to take it with food and soooooo i came about this close [ ] to puking in class ... not a good idea. who won the homecoming game? i remember getting invited to be part of the "Order of the Arrow" buttt i was too lazy. the Utah State fair sounded cool, i don't think i've ever gone to it, a bear show eh? cool. and no i actually dont' have a movie to watch list cause i don't know what movies have come out haha, i don't watch or read the news. i know i have to watch Xmen 4 and Transformers and Harry Potter 5 ... and other than that i dont' know what to watch ... i do know however that i will be very behind when i get home haha. Lagoon sounds fun, tell me about it. when do bishop webb and susan webb leave? it sounds pretty exciting, i'm sure they will do great, learning another language isn't a very easy thing to do, and i'm still set on mom and dad going to Armania. AHHHH you saw Whooly? ahh i miss that guy, i'm glad he's doing good, wow, that was a long time ago i knew him. and i don't remember who Leah Johnson is ... sorry ... but at least they know that death isn't the end of life, really i don't know how people get along with out that knowledge...
i'm using the knee wrap and the magnets everynight, it's my right knee that i think may be behaving badly, we talked the zone into playing soccer instead of basketball today so i'm gonna play and we'll see how it holds up. i'm looking forward to General Conference, and my B-day, two awesome things on the same day! i recieved a package from Rich and Kim and Grandma M last saturday and i have to wait to open it till the 3rd, so says the box. and i always thought i was born on a Wednesday ... figure out and tell me when you write me next ... the internet has some sites that say what day of the week stuff happened.
soooo cool story of the week, we have an investigator named Ramona, she is an Elderly woman in her 60's and she is like a grandma and always feeds us when we go over there. we had taught her like 3 times and we invited her to be baptized, and she said that she needed to think about it cause she had already been baptized as a child (story of my life) so we had her pray about it and read some chapters in the BOM. soooooo we went on Exchanges on Friday and i went into my zone leader's, Elder Hunter's area and Elder Cortez went with Elder Durrant into my area. they went over to Ramonas and she told them that she didn't want to get baptized cause she didn't want to offend God and commit a sacriligious (thats how they say it....) sooo Elder Cortez and Durrant shared some scriptures with her about the importance of baptizm and the necessity of authority and she decided to pray about it. soooo we went over their yesterday and we had a prayer and the first thing she said was ... i have some news to tell you. we thought she was going to tell us she still didn't want to get baptized. buttttt she said "I'm going to get baptized" needless to say we were a bit taken back. she said that the night before she had been praying to God and promised him that she would get baptized if he would allow her to keep her beliefs and virgin statues and pictures ... and she said that she had this great warm feeling spread throughout her body and she felt good about it. now as far as i was able to understand she just wants to keep the statues and pics because it really has been her life for her entire life. we're pretty sure that she understands that we shouldn't pray or worship these statues and pics ... however we are going to work with her and make sure we teach her clearly and correctly. i have faith that she will get baptized, if not by us then by someone else. so we are very exctied about her ... thennnnn her friend that was there also, who is catholic, went off on the Catholic church and started bashing catholicism and the priests and pretty much everything ... she is about the same age as Ramona, so just imagine a little old lady walking around the house, ranting and raving and throwing her hands up in the air bashing the catholic church ... it was pretty interesting ... she was quite adament.
so we got a senior couple from Logan called Elder and Sister Benson, they are way cool. so i would have a cool scripture for you ... but i've been in the Isaiah chapters of 2nd nephi all week ... and yeah i found some cool ones but my brain is still trying to recover so i can't remember where they are. time is running out, thank you so much for all your love and care, i feel it every time i get a letter or package from you guys. Elder Durrant says thanks, his own family didn't even send him a letter ... he didn't expect one either ... kinda sad, makes me grateful to have a family like you guys! i hope all is well, next time you hear from me i will be 2 decades old! weird huh??? i love you all, and continue to pray and hope for your continued happiness, remember to look for the good in life and to start each day, no matter what, with a smile. we have a reason to be joyful, D&C 29:4-5. We are working on the attribute of Joy this transfer. enjoy general conference, take notes ... i'm gonna do my best. Hasta la proxima semana!
Elder Larsen
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Ya estamos en la tercera semana....ay caray
Hey bestest/beastliest family in the world,
what's up guys? another week come and gone here in Oxnard, i'm doing good minus my knee, started acting up on saturday and i haven't been able to twist my lower leg much, but it's much better today, Elder Jenkins says it's a stress fracture but i don't think so cause it's almost all better. anywho, other than that i'm dandy, loving the weather as it continues to get colder here. that's cool that you're in charge of the yearbook again, they sure picked the right person for the job. i miss rainstorms alot, i can count the number of rainstorms i've had on my mission on one hand ... buuuuttttttt according to Elder Jenkins during the winter season last year it rained for 4 straight days, so we'll see what happens, i plan on staying here for 2 more transfers which would mean i'd leave Oxnard like the 1st week in January. "the Punt pass and Kick" thing sounds fun ... what exactly is it? haha that Old Lawn Mower of grandma's finally died eh? or did dad and BHL fix it back to it's regular crooked state? i remember doing some pretty funny stuff on that lawn mower, haha me and Brent used to race ... crop circles ... wonder how that looks? i remember the salsa you used to make mom, it was good, i've had some pretty spicy stuff since i've been out here, i've got a few recepies for salsa that, if i can make them right, are really really good and fairly spicy ... yum yum. that's too bad that TRL lost by one point, i remember when that happened to us a few times ... like the worst feeling in the world ... but you just have to continue to get better and improve your skills and before you know it you are playing more and winning more and all the hard work pays off. i think the hardest thing about reading the scriptures, regardless of how much or when you read them, is being consistent ... at least for me, i'm not good at being consistent about anything really haha, i've done the math and if i keep fairly consistent with my reading i'll have the BOM done just after 2010 starts. then when i finish that i'm going to start studying the scriptures in spanish instead of english ... honestly the scriptures in spanish are sometimes alot easier to understand ... oh and if you are going to look into getting me a new spanish bible (i actually have to get one regardless cause mission president wants us too, so if you aren't going to get one don't feel bad cause i'll just save up the little $$ that i get and buy it with mission funds, it's only $26) i was kinda thinking the Red one would be cool, cause all the spanish people have red bibles for some reason ... not sure why ... but i want to be like them. i think you can go to ldscatalog.org to look at them ... i think ... sorry if i sound pushy or whiny ... i'm trying really hard not to be ... but sometimes when you try really hard not to be or do something ... you end up making it worse or doing it or being it anyway ...
I understand the law of the fast now and actually have a small miracle. Carlos has been trying to stop smoking, so we decided to fast for him and we did and he was able to not smoke for 3 whole days ... then he smoked one on sunday ... :/... but he is slowly starting to make progress, we're not quite sure what to do with him because he damaged his brain doing drugs when he was younger so he is mentally not really able to focus or remember things really well, but he is slowly progressing and we are now teaching his sister, so we are hoping she will stay interested and then she will be able to help him keep strong, it seems as if it is a constant tug of war with satan out here, it's really exhausting sometimes but we can't give up because of the consequence that would take place, so we do our best and ask for God's help. Taylor is a priest, Jordan a teacher and soon to be deacon derek ... awesome, pretty soon we'll have one of everything, that will be cool, it's crazy how we're all getting older, i'll be sending my card home soon i think, there are some pretty funny pics on there i think. that's great for dana and judy, i'm sure he's way happy to be able to drive again, what does Judy do at USU? yeah filling out all the paperwork for a mission isn't fun haha, good luck, my prediction for BHL is somewhere in South America cause he's "tough" and healthy. AHHHh that's crazy about Brian, i'm so excited for him, someone needs to kick brent in the butt for me. BHL tell me about the farewell if you went, is brian still the crazy kid he was when i was there? Kenidee, i hope your surgery goes well on Thursday ... or last Thursday i hope it went well. and i don't forget to clip my toe nails don't worry, i take care of my feet ... cause i use them alot! ya know the #1 surgery among missonaries is ingrown toenail surgery??? pretty nasty huh? and for that reason i take care of my feet ....... Homecoming season was fun, i don't know the tongan girl but she sounds cool, it's awesome to do stuff out of the ordinary, hey can you send me my Skyview Hoody if that's possible? i need something to be cozy in. hahah good for taylor haha keep that attitude until you get home from your mission, you'll thank me really. haha but dances aren't bad, you have to come down from the "jock" platform every now and then to be normal taylor haha. =] un dia te vas a ser un ladron de corazones hermano mio.
this week wasn't really all that eventful, we found 6 new investigators this week, some really solid ones too so we're excited. haha, we have zone conference on Wednesday so i'm excited for that, we got a new greeny sister missionary from mexico, she is pretty cool and likes to correct our gringo spanish haha, i've decided that i must slow down my spanish speaking in order to speak clearly and more correctly, i mumble and stutter ... want to know how to say stutter ... it's quite a word to stutter on ... Tartamudiar ... pretty certain that is how it's spelled, quite a mouthful. hey ya know what picture would be cool for the stationary idea, that pic of me and those red glasses haha i think i look like cyclops off of X-men, pretty ridiculous but funny, dunno, just bouncin ideas around .... tryin not to be pushy. forgot to write a scripture to share with you guys down ... it's in 2nd Nephi 9 ... excellent chapter, my most favorite so far in my reading, pretty much the whole plan of salvation packed into an awesome chapter.
i hope you guys have an excellent week, work hard in school and you'll be grateful later in life, although i can't seem to remember anything i learned in high school at the moment ... but i have a firm hope that it will come back to me one day ... i'm really really hoping haha. i love you all a whole bunch and pray for your success in all aspects of life. remember that Christ loves you no matter what, our happiness is based on our obediance, more applied to a missionary life but it works in the real world too, faith is one of the most basic and important principles of the gosple, never give up, there is always a way to conquer the evils and obstacles that satan throws at us. remember someone in Oxnard loves you a bunch! until next week,
Love, Elder Larsen
what's up guys? another week come and gone here in Oxnard, i'm doing good minus my knee, started acting up on saturday and i haven't been able to twist my lower leg much, but it's much better today, Elder Jenkins says it's a stress fracture but i don't think so cause it's almost all better. anywho, other than that i'm dandy, loving the weather as it continues to get colder here. that's cool that you're in charge of the yearbook again, they sure picked the right person for the job. i miss rainstorms alot, i can count the number of rainstorms i've had on my mission on one hand ... buuuuttttttt according to Elder Jenkins during the winter season last year it rained for 4 straight days, so we'll see what happens, i plan on staying here for 2 more transfers which would mean i'd leave Oxnard like the 1st week in January. "the Punt pass and Kick" thing sounds fun ... what exactly is it? haha that Old Lawn Mower of grandma's finally died eh? or did dad and BHL fix it back to it's regular crooked state? i remember doing some pretty funny stuff on that lawn mower, haha me and Brent used to race ... crop circles ... wonder how that looks? i remember the salsa you used to make mom, it was good, i've had some pretty spicy stuff since i've been out here, i've got a few recepies for salsa that, if i can make them right, are really really good and fairly spicy ... yum yum. that's too bad that TRL lost by one point, i remember when that happened to us a few times ... like the worst feeling in the world ... but you just have to continue to get better and improve your skills and before you know it you are playing more and winning more and all the hard work pays off. i think the hardest thing about reading the scriptures, regardless of how much or when you read them, is being consistent ... at least for me, i'm not good at being consistent about anything really haha, i've done the math and if i keep fairly consistent with my reading i'll have the BOM done just after 2010 starts. then when i finish that i'm going to start studying the scriptures in spanish instead of english ... honestly the scriptures in spanish are sometimes alot easier to understand ... oh and if you are going to look into getting me a new spanish bible (i actually have to get one regardless cause mission president wants us too, so if you aren't going to get one don't feel bad cause i'll just save up the little $$ that i get and buy it with mission funds, it's only $26) i was kinda thinking the Red one would be cool, cause all the spanish people have red bibles for some reason ... not sure why ... but i want to be like them. i think you can go to ldscatalog.org to look at them ... i think ... sorry if i sound pushy or whiny ... i'm trying really hard not to be ... but sometimes when you try really hard not to be or do something ... you end up making it worse or doing it or being it anyway ...
I understand the law of the fast now and actually have a small miracle. Carlos has been trying to stop smoking, so we decided to fast for him and we did and he was able to not smoke for 3 whole days ... then he smoked one on sunday ... :/... but he is slowly starting to make progress, we're not quite sure what to do with him because he damaged his brain doing drugs when he was younger so he is mentally not really able to focus or remember things really well, but he is slowly progressing and we are now teaching his sister, so we are hoping she will stay interested and then she will be able to help him keep strong, it seems as if it is a constant tug of war with satan out here, it's really exhausting sometimes but we can't give up because of the consequence that would take place, so we do our best and ask for God's help. Taylor is a priest, Jordan a teacher and soon to be deacon derek ... awesome, pretty soon we'll have one of everything, that will be cool, it's crazy how we're all getting older, i'll be sending my card home soon i think, there are some pretty funny pics on there i think. that's great for dana and judy, i'm sure he's way happy to be able to drive again, what does Judy do at USU? yeah filling out all the paperwork for a mission isn't fun haha, good luck, my prediction for BHL is somewhere in South America cause he's "tough" and healthy. AHHHh that's crazy about Brian, i'm so excited for him, someone needs to kick brent in the butt for me. BHL tell me about the farewell if you went, is brian still the crazy kid he was when i was there? Kenidee, i hope your surgery goes well on Thursday ... or last Thursday i hope it went well. and i don't forget to clip my toe nails don't worry, i take care of my feet ... cause i use them alot! ya know the #1 surgery among missonaries is ingrown toenail surgery??? pretty nasty huh? and for that reason i take care of my feet ....... Homecoming season was fun, i don't know the tongan girl but she sounds cool, it's awesome to do stuff out of the ordinary, hey can you send me my Skyview Hoody if that's possible? i need something to be cozy in. hahah good for taylor haha keep that attitude until you get home from your mission, you'll thank me really. haha but dances aren't bad, you have to come down from the "jock" platform every now and then to be normal taylor haha. =] un dia te vas a ser un ladron de corazones hermano mio.
this week wasn't really all that eventful, we found 6 new investigators this week, some really solid ones too so we're excited. haha, we have zone conference on Wednesday so i'm excited for that, we got a new greeny sister missionary from mexico, she is pretty cool and likes to correct our gringo spanish haha, i've decided that i must slow down my spanish speaking in order to speak clearly and more correctly, i mumble and stutter ... want to know how to say stutter ... it's quite a word to stutter on ... Tartamudiar ... pretty certain that is how it's spelled, quite a mouthful. hey ya know what picture would be cool for the stationary idea, that pic of me and those red glasses haha i think i look like cyclops off of X-men, pretty ridiculous but funny, dunno, just bouncin ideas around .... tryin not to be pushy. forgot to write a scripture to share with you guys down ... it's in 2nd Nephi 9 ... excellent chapter, my most favorite so far in my reading, pretty much the whole plan of salvation packed into an awesome chapter.
i hope you guys have an excellent week, work hard in school and you'll be grateful later in life, although i can't seem to remember anything i learned in high school at the moment ... but i have a firm hope that it will come back to me one day ... i'm really really hoping haha. i love you all a whole bunch and pray for your success in all aspects of life. remember that Christ loves you no matter what, our happiness is based on our obediance, more applied to a missionary life but it works in the real world too, faith is one of the most basic and important principles of the gosple, never give up, there is always a way to conquer the evils and obstacles that satan throws at us. remember someone in Oxnard loves you a bunch! until next week,
Love, Elder Larsen
Monday, September 14, 2009
Que Transita por tus veinas?
Que Transita por tus veinas?
(Ask cody if he recogizes this phrase for "whats up?" he probably won't, but ask anyway)
Que paso mi familia?Hey guys how is it going? i'm still alive and kicking in here in Oxnard, the first week of the transfer is over and done with haha jeezz. anywho, so Elder Pulham (the famous roper) got a new companion called Elder Beck, he is from Toole Utah (spelling?) and is a bit odd, but seems to be a good guy. k so i'll respond to mom's letter and then tell a bit about my week here in paradise. no mom i didn't do anything unusual for 9/9/09, i didn't even realize it was that until like half way through the day haha. i hope everything with Veronica turned out ok, i haven't gotten an Email or letter from her as of yet so i'm hoping everything turned out ok. the wedding looked and sounded cool, Kent and Theresa are going to be busy for a while. Susan and Alan's mission sounds crazy, do they go to the MTC for anything? i miss being in band, being able to watch the band at half time makes football games bearable (haha ;]] ) Kenidee would love marching band, the first two years are the hardest but when you are an upperclassman it is soooo much more fun and better. I hope the Petersons are doing ok, probably quite a shock and adjustment, we must confide in God that all will be ok when stuff happens in life that we don't like. You'll have to send me a copy of one of the TECS class pics so i can see it. ahhhhh shucking corn, haha i kinda miss that ... and at the same time i don't ... although i never really did it alot. but that's great that you got 52 bags, if my math still works, of corn. home grown corn is always the best, now we just have to figure out how Rudy's makes their cream corn and we'll be set for life, all we will need to eat is cream corn! and i don't really eat vegetables anymore ... i don't know how to buy them/cook them. i eat Eggs, Bread, spaghetti, tomato sauce (ohh tomatoes are healthy! Elder Durrant says tomatoes are a fruit though so that doesn't count as a vegetable), mush(oatmeal), and water. basically anything that takes under 2 mins to prepare for breakfast and anything under like 15 mins for lunch ... and at dinner we usually get some kind of cooked meat, tortillas, beans, or a certain kind of soup. HA guess what i ate the other day, cooked cow stomach! it's called Menudo and is a delicacy in Mexico, people usually eat it on Sundays after Mass. i've heard horror stories about it my whole mission but i've never had the opportunity to try it ... it's good, the texture is kinda weird, Elder Durrant explained it like (forgive me) chewing on boogers ... anywho, it's good. tounge meat is good too, i've eated some weird stuff that i didn't know was edible ... some of it probably isn't ... or shouldn't be. i hope everything comes out well with Kenidee's Finger, just cut the finger nail off, that way you don't have to trim it! i hate trimming finger nails cause i always seem to forget to do it. and awesome job kenidee scoring all 4 touchdowns in flag football, you should play tackle football, it's more fun. and yes i don't know anyone who can give a high 4 1/2 so you're pretty special, well you're speacial anyway but you get me ... send jordan to live with me, he'll want to go back to mom in a few hours, white people are so rude here. I'm doing good with my reading, remember all of you, if you don't read you won't get the blessings for it. 2 Nephi 1:21-23 I think ... it says "be Men" and "put on the armour of righteousness" awesome scripture, so alllll my brothers, BE MEN and read your scriptures. i'm glad i get to serve in the great US of A too cause i like mail and packages and stuff like that. that's cool about Megan and Shaeli why was Megan going up to Idaho? just to visit or back to school? glad they seem to be doing alright.
so this week was short, on Saturday we, as a ward, went to the homeless shelter and gave out lunch. there was a ton of food, i mean a ton, we probably fed 500+ people. we had meat with carrots, corn, celery, green beans and something orange in it, mexican style beans, rice, bread, and lemonade. alll the sisters in the ward cooked a big like 2 1/2 feet x 1 1/2 feet tin pan of food ... mexicans know how to cook in large quantities. it was fun serving the needy, we organized everything and served the food to everyone, the food was really really good, better than i eat cause it had colorful things in it. and i got out of translating for bishop and made Elder Durrant do it haha it was funny cause Bishop didn't say a sentence then stop and have Elder Durrant translate, he said about 5 or 6 sentences and then asked Elder Durrant to translate ... so i'm glad i didn't do that. we also had stake conference for the stake of Camarillo yesterday, it was good, lots of good things said for the part i was able to watch. you see the translated session was at 9 and so the 2 spanish wards and we got some investigators to go all went at 9. But the stake has these ancient transmitter thingys with a range of about 5 feet ... so we were trying to get the translation ready for about 45 mins ... finally ended up taking the old antenna off and putting a much larger one on and it worked good enough for the people to understand what the translator was saying. but it was good and our investigators liked it. we also had a miracle on sunday. the whole week we had been trying to find new investigators, but had been meeting a lot of resistance, our days always seemed to get messed up somehow, we would have to play chauffeur for the bike elders or someone needed help, or so and so decided to talk for 2 hours durring a lesson, so we were not going to meet our goal for new investigators, so we decided to fast on sunday, which we did, and our day still got messed up ... but we were able to find sufficient investigators to meet our goal and we got 5 lessons in to meet the goal of 20 lessons. so FASTING WORKS when you do it right, accompanied with prayer, fasting is a very powerful helpmeet that we have as children of a loving father in heaven. did you know that a fast is supposed to be 24 hours and two meals??? i had no idea until i came out here ... we start saturday night after dinner and end with dinner on sunday. i thought it was, wake up, start fast, don't eat breakfast or lunch and then eat dinner ... at like 3 or 4 ... and sometimes i didn't even do that ... basically not really a sacrifice at all ... and we are out walking all day long haha you should have seen us yesterday we had no energy whatsoever all the afternoon haha. anywho, fasting is healthy and powerful and a good thing to do, it can produce miracles.
ok family i have to go, no more time on the computer. i love you all and am grearful for your letters and love, Elder Triana wrote me and says thanks for your letters, he really liked getting to know you all a bit better, he is a ZONE LEADER now! isn't that cool!? the church is true, do what you're told and everything will turn out good! love you!!
Elder Larsen
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Week 1 otravez
Hey family!
i'm still here in Oxnard, nothing happened with Elder Durrant or me, Elder Williams left for a little town called Oji, and Elder Pulham's follow-up trainer is called Elder Beck. he seems cool. so the comp is slow today i hope everything works well ... it already kicked me out once ... i bout punched it. ok so i will first respond to the questions mom asked me cause i think they are important, dad's letter and all the kids letters i will write respond to tonight and mail tomorrow. mom didn't recieve your letter yet, we had to leave before mail came so if their are any questions in it i will respond to them with the letter i write tonight. Elder Durrant is from Meza Arizona, and likes to remind me often haha. my apartment is alot better than when i first got here, our doornob works so we are all safe now (i guess some old investigator broke in one night a while back) but yeah, Oxnard is very nice now, last week it was a bit humid and muggy and nasty, nothing in heat compared with bakersfield and nothing in humidity compared with San Antonio but still a bit too hot and humid for my likings. but it has cooled back down to 70-ish with an oceanly breeze and it is beautiful weather here in Oxnard.
Favorite thing about Oxnard ... i don't know, probably the weather, yeah the weather. and there are very few homeless people where i am serving, but yes there are a few. we continue to teach 20 to 23 lessons a week, it was a bit hard last week cause Elder WIlliams was sick and we had to help them cover their area so Elder Pulham went out with us into his area and we helped them out. but we still got over 20 lessons. right now we are only teaching 1 full family, i can't remember their last name cause it's weird but they are Marilu, Jose, Calvin, and 2 other little kids. they were doing great but recently they have been very difficult to find at home. we are teaching a guy named Carlos and his sister who are in their late 20's, he is trying to stop smoking and we are trying to help him. they are good. we are also teaching another Carlos, he is a music recorder in LA so he's super hard to find, but he supposedly stopped working yesterday so it should be easier to find him now, he's great. and there are a bunch more but those are the ones that are progressing the most.
so yeah, this week has been good, we worked hard, now we have 6 more weeks together so i can get ready to be senior ... very scary, i'm kind of hoping that i don't get called senior in 6 weeks cause i don't think i'm ready, but i'm gonna do my best to prepare myself just in case. Elder Durrants birthday is the 26th, you guys should send him a card, he would like that. i hope that school is still going good for you guys. so i finished 1 Nephi a few days ago, probably wayyyy behind mom and whoever else is reading, but i have found and recorded some wayyy cool scriptures that i will hopefully be able to use in lessons if not for talks and whenever i need something from the scriptures. one that i found today is in 2 Nephi 1:near the end. Lehi is exorting Laman and Lemuel to quit being stubborn and so hard hearted and he says "arise from the dust my sons and be men" or something to that extent, and really all the verses around that one are really great, we have a great example of how a parent should teach their children from Lehi, which is good for spanish work because the family is something really important to the hispanic people as well as one of the most important things in the church.
a fellow missionary wrote me a letter the other week and he explained something very cool that i would like to share with you. he was reading a verse in 3rd Nephi and it struck him that in 4 or 5 pages (can't remember exactly) the Nephites went from being in complete peace to a wicked and perverse nation. then he thought about how laman and lemuel always whined and murmured. and he didn't understand how someone could be so forgetful, and then he realized that laman and lemuel, whenever asked to do anything or whenever taught something, always, in some form or another, asked "why?" why should i do this, why should i believe that. that rebelious streak in them led to their downfall, that is why in 2 Nephi 1 lehi exorts them with all the "feelings of a tender parent" (something like that) to repent and to not be so stiff necked and hard hearted. we can take counsel from this, that's what the scriptures are for ya know. many times in the mission i've been faced with a rule or something that maybe was a bit hard for me to follow, or some advice given to me or something, and if i asked why and was a bit rebelious, i never really grasped the rule or recieved the blessings from following the rule, i halted myself in my progression. and it's like that with all of us from time to time, we ask why and want to be a bit difficult for the lord, we(I) need to have sufficient faith to follow whatever, through our leaders, the Lord tells us. we shouldn't follow blindly but we should have the faith to accept what is being told to us and to follow it. it is true that we may not always understand why we are being asked to do it, but i don't think we're ever going to understand certain things in this life. i don't think Nephi understood exaclty at the time why he was commanded to write and basically tell the same story that his father wrote in the book of lehi. nephi himself said "I know not why i do this save the lord commanded me" (that's quoted really bad but you get what i'm saying) not until today do we know that that was very important because the book of Lehi was lost. anywho, sorry i just thought that that was really cool, so i'm trying to not ask "why?" so much if i don't understand it and just do it, with good judgement involved of course.
ok that's all the time i have for today, i hope you are all doing well in school and that you are all healthy and having fun in life. remember that i love you and apprieciate very much your letters and support that you give me. until next week!
Elder Larsen
PS: my new Zone Leader is Elder Cortez from our stake in San Antonio, supposedly his little sister knows me but i think she probably just knows Brandon and therefore knows who i am.
i'm still here in Oxnard, nothing happened with Elder Durrant or me, Elder Williams left for a little town called Oji, and Elder Pulham's follow-up trainer is called Elder Beck. he seems cool. so the comp is slow today i hope everything works well ... it already kicked me out once ... i bout punched it. ok so i will first respond to the questions mom asked me cause i think they are important, dad's letter and all the kids letters i will write respond to tonight and mail tomorrow. mom didn't recieve your letter yet, we had to leave before mail came so if their are any questions in it i will respond to them with the letter i write tonight. Elder Durrant is from Meza Arizona, and likes to remind me often haha. my apartment is alot better than when i first got here, our doornob works so we are all safe now (i guess some old investigator broke in one night a while back) but yeah, Oxnard is very nice now, last week it was a bit humid and muggy and nasty, nothing in heat compared with bakersfield and nothing in humidity compared with San Antonio but still a bit too hot and humid for my likings. but it has cooled back down to 70-ish with an oceanly breeze and it is beautiful weather here in Oxnard.
Favorite thing about Oxnard ... i don't know, probably the weather, yeah the weather. and there are very few homeless people where i am serving, but yes there are a few. we continue to teach 20 to 23 lessons a week, it was a bit hard last week cause Elder WIlliams was sick and we had to help them cover their area so Elder Pulham went out with us into his area and we helped them out. but we still got over 20 lessons. right now we are only teaching 1 full family, i can't remember their last name cause it's weird but they are Marilu, Jose, Calvin, and 2 other little kids. they were doing great but recently they have been very difficult to find at home. we are teaching a guy named Carlos and his sister who are in their late 20's, he is trying to stop smoking and we are trying to help him. they are good. we are also teaching another Carlos, he is a music recorder in LA so he's super hard to find, but he supposedly stopped working yesterday so it should be easier to find him now, he's great. and there are a bunch more but those are the ones that are progressing the most.
so yeah, this week has been good, we worked hard, now we have 6 more weeks together so i can get ready to be senior ... very scary, i'm kind of hoping that i don't get called senior in 6 weeks cause i don't think i'm ready, but i'm gonna do my best to prepare myself just in case. Elder Durrants birthday is the 26th, you guys should send him a card, he would like that. i hope that school is still going good for you guys. so i finished 1 Nephi a few days ago, probably wayyyy behind mom and whoever else is reading, but i have found and recorded some wayyy cool scriptures that i will hopefully be able to use in lessons if not for talks and whenever i need something from the scriptures. one that i found today is in 2 Nephi 1:near the end. Lehi is exorting Laman and Lemuel to quit being stubborn and so hard hearted and he says "arise from the dust my sons and be men" or something to that extent, and really all the verses around that one are really great, we have a great example of how a parent should teach their children from Lehi, which is good for spanish work because the family is something really important to the hispanic people as well as one of the most important things in the church.
a fellow missionary wrote me a letter the other week and he explained something very cool that i would like to share with you. he was reading a verse in 3rd Nephi and it struck him that in 4 or 5 pages (can't remember exactly) the Nephites went from being in complete peace to a wicked and perverse nation. then he thought about how laman and lemuel always whined and murmured. and he didn't understand how someone could be so forgetful, and then he realized that laman and lemuel, whenever asked to do anything or whenever taught something, always, in some form or another, asked "why?" why should i do this, why should i believe that. that rebelious streak in them led to their downfall, that is why in 2 Nephi 1 lehi exorts them with all the "feelings of a tender parent" (something like that) to repent and to not be so stiff necked and hard hearted. we can take counsel from this, that's what the scriptures are for ya know. many times in the mission i've been faced with a rule or something that maybe was a bit hard for me to follow, or some advice given to me or something, and if i asked why and was a bit rebelious, i never really grasped the rule or recieved the blessings from following the rule, i halted myself in my progression. and it's like that with all of us from time to time, we ask why and want to be a bit difficult for the lord, we(I) need to have sufficient faith to follow whatever, through our leaders, the Lord tells us. we shouldn't follow blindly but we should have the faith to accept what is being told to us and to follow it. it is true that we may not always understand why we are being asked to do it, but i don't think we're ever going to understand certain things in this life. i don't think Nephi understood exaclty at the time why he was commanded to write and basically tell the same story that his father wrote in the book of lehi. nephi himself said "I know not why i do this save the lord commanded me" (that's quoted really bad but you get what i'm saying) not until today do we know that that was very important because the book of Lehi was lost. anywho, sorry i just thought that that was really cool, so i'm trying to not ask "why?" so much if i don't understand it and just do it, with good judgement involved of course.
ok that's all the time i have for today, i hope you are all doing well in school and that you are all healthy and having fun in life. remember that i love you and apprieciate very much your letters and support that you give me. until next week!
Elder Larsen
PS: my new Zone Leader is Elder Cortez from our stake in San Antonio, supposedly his little sister knows me but i think she probably just knows Brandon and therefore knows who i am.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Week 6, another transfer.......terminado....from the verb terminar which means to be finished or to terminate
Hi guys!
ok first to respond to mom's letter, thanks btw, i loved reading it, made me laugh and smile. haha doug is a nickname that my first zone leader called me and my whole first apartment called me. because supposedly i look like the character "doug" on the old cartoon "Doug". i dunno, it hasn't followed me here, here people call me "Chicken Little" cause supposedly i look like the little chicken off of chicken little....i duunnooooo. i hope Casy does well, i'm sure he will have alot of success on his mission, the africans are great i hear. thanks for printing pics for Elder Triana, i'm sure he will apprieciate it. i like the pics in the little book, or having you send me some, i only print pics when i want to send them to someone, i don't print them anymore for myself. but what i was thinking is that i could just get 2 big picture albums, 1 for my first year and 1 for my second year. i love the little books, and how they are split up and everything, they are just a bit difficult to haul around/pack. your welcome for the B-day list. so we are getting a new spanish bible in september, it's awesome, you can read about it in this months Ensign i think, i'm going to ask president murri if we get them free or if we have to purchase them, if we have to purchase them then if you want you can add that to my b-day list at the very top, cause it's a way awesome thing to have our own bible ... i don't like the catholic Spanish one very much, very hard to understand and it's very old grammar that most members don't even understand ..... yay for BHL and being excited to go on a mission to mongolia! he'd better start studying mongolian cause i hear it's a super hard language full of clicks and whistles. there were a few kids who turned 19 in the MTC so i know it's possible to go a bit early. ya know, college wouldn't be so expensive if the books didn't cost so much, kind of ridiculous really, i'm glad you found a cheaper deal. the cowboy laughs and said "HOWDY" back. i think all spanish wards/branches don't like their bishops, people just get offended too easily, our bishop is a bit frank some times, but hey it's not an easy job, i'd rather have him be frank than be all easy going, he gets stuff done. it's funny cause his name is franko castrejon, and franko means frank, the name as well as the way of speaking, spanish people say that alot. "i'm going to be frank with you..."
you said you posted a bunch of pics on my "web site" ..... my facebook or what were you referring too? Jordan, so you rode all the way around bear lake? haha that's awesome, it's a cool ride huh? me and lorrin did that, we almost hit a cow moose and her calf coming out of the mountains hahah funny experience. thanks for the pic at the temple dedication, mom's not crazy she just loves me! i'm not going to be able to finish the BOM by the end of the year cause i'm going very slow through 2 chapters a day and kind of making my own topical guide with my own subjects ... it's a very slow and tedious process but i'm learning alot, we have some pretty awesome examples in the scriptures. thanks for the scripture references mom, they are some really good ones, i will try to remember to bring a few of my favs to the library next week and share them with you. my english and spelling and remembering abilities are going down, and spanish is getting a bit better, i have days when i feel like i'm on top of the world and can say anything and i have days when i feel stuck with tons of stuff to learn regarding spanish. and mom i'm sure that your "mac" has upside down exclamation points cause i know that microsoft does .... and welll yeah if mac is better that mic then it had better have upside down exclamation points ... still haven't given up on microsoft! hhahah Derek wants a baby brother hahaha, i remember that when mom and dad brought home the sonogram or whatever they are called that showed whether derek was a boy or girl, we watched it and i was hoping the whole time that it was a girl and when mom and dad told us it was a boy i think i might have started crying, but i know i was upset cause i wanted a baby sister haha. but now we have derek and i wouldn't have him any other way, derek is going to be the smartest one of us all one day. mother you shouldn't hit deer, its not nice. jeezz i'm guessing you hit it in the Yukon cause otherwise it would have probably caused more damage. and which younger sibling of mine backed into the versa?!?! i'm thinking taylor cause BHL is just wayyyyyy to goooood of a driver. Taylor, use your mirrors....maybe you could get kenidee or derek to back you out of the drive way very very slowly.....hahah ;} us as missionaries have to back each other up whenever we are backing. anywho, ok
so this week we had an awesome week. we finally got our family to come to church ... then they left after sacrament cause they were hungry the bums ... but we'll get them next week. they have been receiving alot of opposicion so it's been hard to get them to come. they kind of fell off for a while but we're really hoping and praying that we can get them more excited, pray for them they are Marilu and Jose and family. talked to alot of people and just worked hard. remind me if i told you about the lady that we helped move out last monday and her Boyfriend who is abusive showed up. we have one more week in the transfer and then next monday we will receive calls telling us if we are staying or moving, i'll be staying and we're pretty sure that Elder Durrant will stay. oh and i probably won't be able to email on monday cause of Labor day so i'll email on Wednesday around noonish. also i'm doing my best to be frugal with my debit card, i decided to buy a $35 electric braun shaver cause my shower time is ridiculous, Elder Durrant says my face will toughen up or he will make it toughen up. we'll see what happens. thank you for the continued pictures and weekly letters, reallly makes me feel loved, which is a very good feeling i might add. ok times just about up, lots of stuff to do on crazy P-day. remember that i love you all a whole ton, my appreciation level for my family has grown almost as much as my testimony .... they're probably at the same level actually ;} i wish you all the best week ever in school. write me and tell me about all your classes and school stuff and friend and subects you're taking, BHL you too, you are not excluded from this haha. love you mom, thanks for the weekly letters and pics. love you dad, i learn a whole bunch about attitude from your example, keep on keeping on, i pray for you daily. brandon/roommate for my whole life minus when i was born and a month when the family moved out of the house in texas, love you. taylor, don't ruin the vehicles, love you. Jordan, stay healthy and don't fight with mom about diabetes, she is always right, love you. Kendiee(queen of england), you're probably closer to perfect than any of your brothers, i love you. Derek my youngest and most innocent brother (yes taylor more innocent than you) stay creative, look for ways to express your creativity and always read. Grandma, love you a whole bunch, your kindness and humility have been an example to me my entire life, since i can remember you've always been helping people, thank you.
until next week
Elder "chido, doug" Larsen :]
ok first to respond to mom's letter, thanks btw, i loved reading it, made me laugh and smile. haha doug is a nickname that my first zone leader called me and my whole first apartment called me. because supposedly i look like the character "doug" on the old cartoon "Doug". i dunno, it hasn't followed me here, here people call me "Chicken Little" cause supposedly i look like the little chicken off of chicken little....i duunnooooo. i hope Casy does well, i'm sure he will have alot of success on his mission, the africans are great i hear. thanks for printing pics for Elder Triana, i'm sure he will apprieciate it. i like the pics in the little book, or having you send me some, i only print pics when i want to send them to someone, i don't print them anymore for myself. but what i was thinking is that i could just get 2 big picture albums, 1 for my first year and 1 for my second year. i love the little books, and how they are split up and everything, they are just a bit difficult to haul around/pack. your welcome for the B-day list. so we are getting a new spanish bible in september, it's awesome, you can read about it in this months Ensign i think, i'm going to ask president murri if we get them free or if we have to purchase them, if we have to purchase them then if you want you can add that to my b-day list at the very top, cause it's a way awesome thing to have our own bible ... i don't like the catholic Spanish one very much, very hard to understand and it's very old grammar that most members don't even understand ..... yay for BHL and being excited to go on a mission to mongolia! he'd better start studying mongolian cause i hear it's a super hard language full of clicks and whistles. there were a few kids who turned 19 in the MTC so i know it's possible to go a bit early. ya know, college wouldn't be so expensive if the books didn't cost so much, kind of ridiculous really, i'm glad you found a cheaper deal. the cowboy laughs and said "HOWDY" back. i think all spanish wards/branches don't like their bishops, people just get offended too easily, our bishop is a bit frank some times, but hey it's not an easy job, i'd rather have him be frank than be all easy going, he gets stuff done. it's funny cause his name is franko castrejon, and franko means frank, the name as well as the way of speaking, spanish people say that alot. "i'm going to be frank with you..."
you said you posted a bunch of pics on my "web site" ..... my facebook or what were you referring too? Jordan, so you rode all the way around bear lake? haha that's awesome, it's a cool ride huh? me and lorrin did that, we almost hit a cow moose and her calf coming out of the mountains hahah funny experience. thanks for the pic at the temple dedication, mom's not crazy she just loves me! i'm not going to be able to finish the BOM by the end of the year cause i'm going very slow through 2 chapters a day and kind of making my own topical guide with my own subjects ... it's a very slow and tedious process but i'm learning alot, we have some pretty awesome examples in the scriptures. thanks for the scripture references mom, they are some really good ones, i will try to remember to bring a few of my favs to the library next week and share them with you. my english and spelling and remembering abilities are going down, and spanish is getting a bit better, i have days when i feel like i'm on top of the world and can say anything and i have days when i feel stuck with tons of stuff to learn regarding spanish. and mom i'm sure that your "mac" has upside down exclamation points cause i know that microsoft does .... and welll yeah if mac is better that mic then it had better have upside down exclamation points ... still haven't given up on microsoft! hhahah Derek wants a baby brother hahaha, i remember that when mom and dad brought home the sonogram or whatever they are called that showed whether derek was a boy or girl, we watched it and i was hoping the whole time that it was a girl and when mom and dad told us it was a boy i think i might have started crying, but i know i was upset cause i wanted a baby sister haha. but now we have derek and i wouldn't have him any other way, derek is going to be the smartest one of us all one day. mother you shouldn't hit deer, its not nice. jeezz i'm guessing you hit it in the Yukon cause otherwise it would have probably caused more damage. and which younger sibling of mine backed into the versa?!?! i'm thinking taylor cause BHL is just wayyyyyy to goooood of a driver. Taylor, use your mirrors....maybe you could get kenidee or derek to back you out of the drive way very very slowly.....hahah ;} us as missionaries have to back each other up whenever we are backing. anywho, ok
so this week we had an awesome week. we finally got our family to come to church ... then they left after sacrament cause they were hungry the bums ... but we'll get them next week. they have been receiving alot of opposicion so it's been hard to get them to come. they kind of fell off for a while but we're really hoping and praying that we can get them more excited, pray for them they are Marilu and Jose and family. talked to alot of people and just worked hard. remind me if i told you about the lady that we helped move out last monday and her Boyfriend who is abusive showed up. we have one more week in the transfer and then next monday we will receive calls telling us if we are staying or moving, i'll be staying and we're pretty sure that Elder Durrant will stay. oh and i probably won't be able to email on monday cause of Labor day so i'll email on Wednesday around noonish. also i'm doing my best to be frugal with my debit card, i decided to buy a $35 electric braun shaver cause my shower time is ridiculous, Elder Durrant says my face will toughen up or he will make it toughen up. we'll see what happens. thank you for the continued pictures and weekly letters, reallly makes me feel loved, which is a very good feeling i might add. ok times just about up, lots of stuff to do on crazy P-day. remember that i love you all a whole ton, my appreciation level for my family has grown almost as much as my testimony .... they're probably at the same level actually ;} i wish you all the best week ever in school. write me and tell me about all your classes and school stuff and friend and subects you're taking, BHL you too, you are not excluded from this haha. love you mom, thanks for the weekly letters and pics. love you dad, i learn a whole bunch about attitude from your example, keep on keeping on, i pray for you daily. brandon/roommate for my whole life minus when i was born and a month when the family moved out of the house in texas, love you. taylor, don't ruin the vehicles, love you. Jordan, stay healthy and don't fight with mom about diabetes, she is always right, love you. Kendiee(queen of england), you're probably closer to perfect than any of your brothers, i love you. Derek my youngest and most innocent brother (yes taylor more innocent than you) stay creative, look for ways to express your creativity and always read. Grandma, love you a whole bunch, your kindness and humility have been an example to me my entire life, since i can remember you've always been helping people, thank you.
until next week
Elder "chido, doug" Larsen :]
Monday, August 24, 2009
NEW PICTURES !!!
Okay, so I have finally posted the new pictures from Christopher's camera card he sent home. They are of his last little while in Bakersfield with Elder Triana and a few from his new place in Oxnard with Elder Durrant. I have now just listed ONE link to his photo web site - then from there you can look at each month's pictures. Check out July and August. ENJOY!
The computadoras aren't tonto and despacio today!
Hey family!
thanks for the letter and pics mom and BHL (BTW i wouldn't quit your day job just quite yet .... chlorine smells better than dog poo, speaking of which i have grown to loath dogs on my misson, just a little side note) and Whitney. I really do love getting mail from you all, especially the pics, makes me feel as if i haven't missed anything in any of your lifes. haha Elder Durrant and I thought it was funny that you think we look like those two Elders on the Church Bulletin thingy haha, he laughed, i'm going to keep it and use it to decorate something. i have quite an extensive collection of pics and stuff from old church magazines and stuff to decorate planners and binders and stuff, derek you would be so proud of me haha. ok so to respond to your inquiries. i think Elder Triana would love some pics from when we were together cause i think he lost his whole camera card at walmart and all his pics .... really sad .... i hope he found it but i dunno, he hasn't written me back yet. okkk mom, spanish lesson, Lorrin ha sido liberado de la carcel. Lorrin means Mr. Lorrin F. Campbell ;] "ha" is the 1st person singular form of the verb haber which means "to have" so "ha" means "he/she/it has". "sido" is the past participle of the verb "ser" or "to be" so "sido" means "been". Liberado is also a past participle, of the verb liberar which means "to free" so Liberado means "freed". "de" is "of" and "la Carcel" means "the jail" and "The Jail" means the MTC ... good place but it's oh so good to get out to the field. so there ya have it. hahaha i loved your translation though mom, i laughed real hard for a while, love you mom! you're still a ton smarter than me, i have alot of catching up to do haha. when you and dad go on your misson to armenia you can teach me armenian haha ;} .
thanks for the letter and pics mom and BHL (BTW i wouldn't quit your day job just quite yet .... chlorine smells better than dog poo, speaking of which i have grown to loath dogs on my misson, just a little side note) and Whitney. I really do love getting mail from you all, especially the pics, makes me feel as if i haven't missed anything in any of your lifes. haha Elder Durrant and I thought it was funny that you think we look like those two Elders on the Church Bulletin thingy haha, he laughed, i'm going to keep it and use it to decorate something. i have quite an extensive collection of pics and stuff from old church magazines and stuff to decorate planners and binders and stuff, derek you would be so proud of me haha. ok so to respond to your inquiries. i think Elder Triana would love some pics from when we were together cause i think he lost his whole camera card at walmart and all his pics .... really sad .... i hope he found it but i dunno, he hasn't written me back yet. okkk mom, spanish lesson, Lorrin ha sido liberado de la carcel. Lorrin means Mr. Lorrin F. Campbell ;] "ha" is the 1st person singular form of the verb haber which means "to have" so "ha" means "he/she/it has". "sido" is the past participle of the verb "ser" or "to be" so "sido" means "been". Liberado is also a past participle, of the verb liberar which means "to free" so Liberado means "freed". "de" is "of" and "la Carcel" means "the jail" and "The Jail" means the MTC ... good place but it's oh so good to get out to the field. so there ya have it. hahaha i loved your translation though mom, i laughed real hard for a while, love you mom! you're still a ton smarter than me, i have alot of catching up to do haha. when you and dad go on your misson to armenia you can teach me armenian haha ;} .
ok so i live with 2 other english elders, Elder Williams and Elder Pulham. Elder Pulham is being trained, this is his 2nd transfer in the field, he is way cool, a tall cowboy (very southern accent) from Payson Utah. he was 3rd or so in the nation at team roping, he is very very good. we have alot of fun, he's my workout buddy in the morning. Elder Williams is his trainer, he is from some small dincky town in Idaho ... bluff .... maybe i dunno, i forget. anywho, he's pretty cool, a little wierd at times, drinks 4 gallons of milk a week .... seriously .... we keep telling him that he's gonna get kidney stones, but he doesn't believe us .... pooor pooor elder .... anywho, he has done his best to erase his "hick" accent cause he wants people to not make fun of him and be able to understand him .... sooo he sounds really funny when he talks cause its not his real voice ... he has also changed his personallity alot so we don't really know who "he" is, we just know Elder Williams, still a cool guy though, but a bit weird. my apartment is kinda trashy and old, but HALLELUA!!!!!! we got our water heater replaced this week so we can have hot water now for showering!!!! it's wonderful. we can also take showers at the same time and still have super hot water! which is good cause before the 1st person to shower had like 5 mins of hot water then lukewarmness .... and the other 3 had like 2 mins of hot water if they waited a little inbetween the showers for the water heater to heat some more water up. and we could only take one shower at a time or both were really cold .... hence it interfered with getting to studies on time and everything ........ soooo we're very happy.
and you can print out emails from casey and send them by mail every now and then, i really enjoyed seeing all those letters from all my buds, doing that every month or so would be great, just to keep me informed and all. soooo Ryan is engaged huh? cool, we're not sure but his fiance might be related to Elder Durrant cause Elder Durrant is also a Great great great grandson of Wilford Woodruff. Elder Bradley Durrant from Mesa. maybe she knows or recognizes his name i dunno, he didn't recognize her face.
the area is cool, weather and people wise, it's alot harder than bakersfield that is for sure, but no area is any worse or less productive than the other, only missionaries are. the majority is spanish so it's not a problem, the thing we struggle with is finding people that actually want to talk to us, it's very liberal here for some reason, probably cause its on the coast. and most of the mexicans are really poor, cause its so stinkin expensive here. but we work hard and do our best, only 2 weeks left in this transfer, crazy how time flys .... jeezz... anywho, so the ward is cool, no one likes the bishop or the bishops wife though so unity is a bit of an issue, mexicans unfortunatly judge and hold grudges a whole bunch ... don't know why .... must be a culture thing. The bishop is a good man, a little bit blunt at times (that's why people don't like him) but he gets things done, the ward here is more organized than the ward in bakersfield, but there isn't the unity we had in bakes ... still a good ward though. i had to give a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday about how can we develope/strengthen a testimony. i thought it went well, i talked for about 13 mins or so. Elder Durrant tells me i did good but he was out waiting for our investigator family that was supposed to come but didn't cause they got lost on the way to the chapel ........ they are receiving alot of resistance from just normal stuff. they were supposed to come last night to an activity we had in the church, we watched the testaments in the chapel, and they told us that they would for sure come to that, and they didn't ...... soooooo very frustrating but we have to have patience with everything and everyone, they really are great investigators, they read and are interested, they just find trouble actually doing things like coming to stuff. but yeah, the ward is cool, we meet in a stake center sized building but it's not a stake center, there are 2 spanish wards here in oxnard we are the 6th ward and the other one is the 5th ward, everyone likes 5th ward better cause there bishop is way cool ... but we work hard and do our best. so on Saturday we had a lesson in a McDonalds haha it was way weird/fun/awkward haha this guy told us to meet him there so we did and we walked in sat down in a booth and had a regular lesson about the restoration. it was really cool cause he totally believes the restoration, he was really excited that we have a prophet today and he was just all around interested. we'll see what happens with him, but he seems really great.
oh, so two things that could be added onto the "B-day List" a California Flag (not a little one, a regular sized one) and a map of Mexico and Guatemala. out of all the latin countries Guatemala has to be my favorite, haven't met anyone from there who isn't hillarious and way cool. i'll send some notes from my talk that i gave and my homework home today. i love you all alot! thanks for your continued love and support, i pray for you daily, keep the faith and fight a good fight, Satan never stops working .... neither should we. que sean fieles en el evangelio.
recuerden que les amo!
Elder Larsen "Chido" "Doug"
recuerden que les amo!
Elder Larsen "Chido" "Doug"
Monday, August 17, 2009
week 4 y lorrin ha sido librado de la carcel!
Hey family!
the computers here at the library are being dumb and slow today, had to switch computers and everything.....bleh. anywho, so i had a good week, i hope that you got my letter thingy with the pics and the list that mom wanted. i guess you can give that list to Kim and Rich cause they emailed me asking me for it as well. i dunno. Chido means cool. and yeah i'm trying to learn some organization skills. i'm doing my best to write everything down, cause before i'd just let the senior companion do all the writing. and yes i agree 100%, you can and will learn something from every companion that you have. yeah it's cool that veronica has my address, i just prefer the mission one cause then i don't have to remember who to tell if my address gets changed. the whole Baker and Fair experiance sounded like alot of fun! i enjoyed seeing the pictures. Baker got big, thats cool, i'm glad that it all turned out well and that kenidee placed so high! way to go! Bien Hecho! soooo Pigs next year eh? sounds fun and dirty haha. no i don't remember the Eliasons that you are talking about, but they sound cool. i'm sure i have seen them before....but my memory is not very good at the moment. so you went to a rodeo eh? sounds fun, i only remember going to one rodeo in my whole life. an Elder who i live with, Elder Pulham from Payson utah, (he's been out for 2 1/2 transfers) got like 3rd in the nation for team roping or something like that. he's got a way thick accent and is extremely good at roping stuff....like me....anywho, he's way cool we get along great. Taylor.....you look like someone from California who is very....we'll say liberal....hahaha. sounds like brandon had fun with sean, kyle, and dennis.....hahaha mom that is just what boys do haha. is the purple pimp still alive and kicking? so yeah we are back up to normal, getting at least 20 lessons a week, haha and i'm not sure i'll ever be able to get up to 41 lessons again, i'll probably just leave that as a mission high. Elder Durrant is a hard worker, we walk a whole bunch so my feet are hurting a bit this week, but they are getting used to it. the weather is always really nice here, it's awesome. yeah i only have like a bit more than a month to be a teenager...kinda weird....3rd decade...yes...i feel a bit old....kinda....and i'm totally going to look for that mars thing...i still haven't seen it but i'll look. the sun was a really cool blood red the other day..i tried to get a pic but it didn't come out all that great. oh and that pic of the speedometer at 120...isnt' real, we changed the car to Kilometers....haha...sorry forgot to explain that in the letter i think. haha, and mom you don't need to more brief, i love details, they help me know what you guys are doing, the more the better! .....anywho....so we have 3 investigators with a date right now. we had to drop a crazy lady taht had a date cause she was just going around to all the different churches looking for money cause she didn't have any and supposedly if you are a christian church it is mandatory that you give money away freely....i dunno, she was crazy, she talked to her dolls and stuff....kinda sad too though cause she was really smart and really understood what we were teaching her....oh well, maybe later. not really any out of the ordinary experiances this week, had a few people yell at us and stuff, i have to give a talk in church next week about how to increase your testimony...should be fairly easy. sooo Elder Durrant and Pulham and I are going on a diet(that Elder eaton taught me)/excersice program haha its awesome! cause Elder Durrant needs to lose some weight and Elder Pulham and I have some pudge that needs to be erased...sooo we are running every morning and doing some really cool expercise routines that Elder Hawes taught me.
so yeah our cool family marilu and Jose are doing cool minus they didn't come to church yesterday and they told us they would...they had better have a good excuse cause we're upset with them a bit. they are still way cool though and hopefully they continue to progress. sooo cool scripture that i found this week. 1 Cor 15:39-the end i think....:/(the last like 6 or 7 verses of the chapter)
it talkes about how grateful we must be for how christ conqured death for us and how because of that we, all of us, will recieve inmortality. some really cool scriptures that were hiding from me. cause i always use that chapter for explaining 3 kingdoms of glory, but i've never actually read it....soo yeah, we really need to read them thoroughly. we are working on gratitude this transfer and its opened my eyes to what "unworthy servants" we really are according to King Benjamin, a scripture that we are trying to memorize is Alma 7:23, it talks about being grateful for everything. cause even though the nation isn't in the best place economically and the jobs are getting fewer and fewer and it looks all depressing....we are still here as a family, we have the church, friends, food, a house, vehicles, good schools, and many other things. there are two kinds of peace in this world. a peace between nations, like no wars and stuff, and an internal peace that only comes by living all the commandments of god to the best of our ability. and if we have that internal peace, it doesn't matter what is happening in the world around us, we will be alright, christ makes up for where we fail. comp time is up, i have to go shop (healthily) haha. remember that i love you all alot, stay strong, haz lo justo and remember to be grateful for everything. love you all!
hasta la proxima semana
Elder Larsen
the computers here at the library are being dumb and slow today, had to switch computers and everything.....bleh. anywho, so i had a good week, i hope that you got my letter thingy with the pics and the list that mom wanted. i guess you can give that list to Kim and Rich cause they emailed me asking me for it as well. i dunno. Chido means cool. and yeah i'm trying to learn some organization skills. i'm doing my best to write everything down, cause before i'd just let the senior companion do all the writing. and yes i agree 100%, you can and will learn something from every companion that you have. yeah it's cool that veronica has my address, i just prefer the mission one cause then i don't have to remember who to tell if my address gets changed. the whole Baker and Fair experiance sounded like alot of fun! i enjoyed seeing the pictures. Baker got big, thats cool, i'm glad that it all turned out well and that kenidee placed so high! way to go! Bien Hecho! soooo Pigs next year eh? sounds fun and dirty haha. no i don't remember the Eliasons that you are talking about, but they sound cool. i'm sure i have seen them before....but my memory is not very good at the moment. so you went to a rodeo eh? sounds fun, i only remember going to one rodeo in my whole life. an Elder who i live with, Elder Pulham from Payson utah, (he's been out for 2 1/2 transfers) got like 3rd in the nation for team roping or something like that. he's got a way thick accent and is extremely good at roping stuff....like me....anywho, he's way cool we get along great. Taylor.....you look like someone from California who is very....we'll say liberal....hahaha. sounds like brandon had fun with sean, kyle, and dennis.....hahaha mom that is just what boys do haha. is the purple pimp still alive and kicking? so yeah we are back up to normal, getting at least 20 lessons a week, haha and i'm not sure i'll ever be able to get up to 41 lessons again, i'll probably just leave that as a mission high. Elder Durrant is a hard worker, we walk a whole bunch so my feet are hurting a bit this week, but they are getting used to it. the weather is always really nice here, it's awesome. yeah i only have like a bit more than a month to be a teenager...kinda weird....3rd decade...yes...i feel a bit old....kinda....and i'm totally going to look for that mars thing...i still haven't seen it but i'll look. the sun was a really cool blood red the other day..i tried to get a pic but it didn't come out all that great. oh and that pic of the speedometer at 120...isnt' real, we changed the car to Kilometers....haha...sorry forgot to explain that in the letter i think. haha, and mom you don't need to more brief, i love details, they help me know what you guys are doing, the more the better! .....anywho....so we have 3 investigators with a date right now. we had to drop a crazy lady taht had a date cause she was just going around to all the different churches looking for money cause she didn't have any and supposedly if you are a christian church it is mandatory that you give money away freely....i dunno, she was crazy, she talked to her dolls and stuff....kinda sad too though cause she was really smart and really understood what we were teaching her....oh well, maybe later. not really any out of the ordinary experiances this week, had a few people yell at us and stuff, i have to give a talk in church next week about how to increase your testimony...should be fairly easy. sooo Elder Durrant and Pulham and I are going on a diet(that Elder eaton taught me)/excersice program haha its awesome! cause Elder Durrant needs to lose some weight and Elder Pulham and I have some pudge that needs to be erased...sooo we are running every morning and doing some really cool expercise routines that Elder Hawes taught me.
so yeah our cool family marilu and Jose are doing cool minus they didn't come to church yesterday and they told us they would...they had better have a good excuse cause we're upset with them a bit. they are still way cool though and hopefully they continue to progress. sooo cool scripture that i found this week. 1 Cor 15:39-the end i think....:/(the last like 6 or 7 verses of the chapter)
it talkes about how grateful we must be for how christ conqured death for us and how because of that we, all of us, will recieve inmortality. some really cool scriptures that were hiding from me. cause i always use that chapter for explaining 3 kingdoms of glory, but i've never actually read it....soo yeah, we really need to read them thoroughly. we are working on gratitude this transfer and its opened my eyes to what "unworthy servants" we really are according to King Benjamin, a scripture that we are trying to memorize is Alma 7:23, it talks about being grateful for everything. cause even though the nation isn't in the best place economically and the jobs are getting fewer and fewer and it looks all depressing....we are still here as a family, we have the church, friends, food, a house, vehicles, good schools, and many other things. there are two kinds of peace in this world. a peace between nations, like no wars and stuff, and an internal peace that only comes by living all the commandments of god to the best of our ability. and if we have that internal peace, it doesn't matter what is happening in the world around us, we will be alright, christ makes up for where we fail. comp time is up, i have to go shop (healthily) haha. remember that i love you all alot, stay strong, haz lo justo and remember to be grateful for everything. love you all!
hasta la proxima semana
Elder Larsen
Monday, August 10, 2009
Week 3 esta empezando o empesando no me acuerdo
Hey family! como estan todos?
first of all i'm feeling alot better, the cough i think made it's dying kick yesterday cause it was real bad yesterday, but today i feel great, no cough. and i plan on keeping my old obediance habits, Elder Durrant isn't really disobediant or lazy he's just really relaxed on the little itty bitty rules, like i have to back him up whenever he puts the car in reverse and stuff like that. but i'm doing my best to be obedient, while at the same time trying not to be a rule nazi, cause it's not fun to live with a rule nazi. thanks for the quote mom, it's way cool, i'm going to put it in my Preach my Gosple...i have alot of cool quotes. so yeah, i'm pretty sure that Elder Durrant and I are the youngest spanish companionship in the mission. he is only 1 transfer older than me so yeah he is very young. he isn't a trainer yet because i'm not a trainee anymore haha, he is just a senior comp. but i think he'll go trainer soon. he has the organization that i lack, so i gotta brush up on my organization skills and my leadership skills so i can be prepared if President decides to entrust me with someone younger than me. i'm so excited for Brian! thats awesome, we're all going to be able to speak spanish! i actually haven't heard from lorrin at all, i got an email today from him, i'm going to write him today, some words of encouragement. please remember him in your prayers, being in the MTC all alone without any family or friends from the outside is really hard on missionaries, you have no idea how much a letter can help. for this i'm writing him so he can laugh a bit.
tell me about the fair thingy with the lamb. how much did the lamp end up costing? food, shelter and all? gotta make a profit. but a good activity, builds responsibility. Taylor i hope that you have a great birthday, i sent your card off a few days ago. no more ditching Youth Conference. Dad hang in there, sometimes what happens to us just doesn't make any sense whatsoever, we just have to keep pressing forward. in spanish you say we have to "seguir/marchar adelante teniendo un fulgor perfecto en cristo..." 2 Nefi 31:20 look it up in spanish, it's powerful, at least for me it is more powerful than english. i miss Elder Triana alot, i always seem to take things for granted...gotta stop doing that...i'll write him today and see how he is doing. you guys could write him too, he doesn't ever get mail from home, it'd be a nice surprise for him, why don't you guys write him this week instead of me (minus mom, can't live without mom's letters and pics :]]]] ). The family reunion looked fun, thats weird that it was at mack park and not at the usual park out in neuton(it's in neuton right?). Did Grandma get my card? i felt so horrible that i had not gotten it out in time...... :/ i'll send the homework that mom gave me and Kenidee's "personal typewritten letter" and probably my camera card home today. yeah having to go to a laundromat really isn't convienient for us, we already have so much stuff to do it just makes P-day more hectic. yeah i know that the missionaries in Mexico and the latin countries have maids.....it's not fair....but neither is life....but hey i am gurranteed to get my mail and packages (and it doesn't take 2 weeks to arrive) and missionaries in latin america aren't! haha
Birthday eh? yeah it's coming up...kinda weird to be honest, i'll send some ideas home with the homework. thanks for the reminder about my toenails kenidee...ya know the number 1 thing in the MTC that missionaries have to have surgery is ingrown toenails....kinda nasty huh? chale.......
yeah mom, i understand what you mean when you said "no rest for the weary" we never stop here either, but the lord will sustain us if we ask. and yeah i took alot of pics of Sister Quel's baptizm. she and her husband got married first so it's after the marriage pics. only her and her daughter are wearing white. hey do you guys know any Noall's that live in Wellsville? my zone leader is from Wellsville and he says that Margo looks really familiar, dunno, figured i'd ask.
so this week we worked hard and got 23 lessons and found some new investigators that are really cool. we have 2 families that are pretty solid, Marilu her husband and their 2 kids, and Baudelio and Aufelia (wierd names i know). they didn't accept a baptism date, but they accepted what is called a softset or they said that if they recieve an answer then they will be baptised, they didn't accept the hardset or the specific date for baptism, but that's ok, we will still work with them, they are really smart. alright, the time is long spent, 30 mins is up. remember the gospel is here for our benifit and not to make us hate life. i've decided that King Benjamin is probably one of my favorite guys in the book of mormon, he has some excellent counsil for all of us, when you all arrive at that point in your personal reading really pay attention to it. it's kinda long, but it's soooo worth it. remember i love you all demasiado. i hope this next week goes well with the preparations for school. love you all!!!!!
Elder "Chido" Larsen
first of all i'm feeling alot better, the cough i think made it's dying kick yesterday cause it was real bad yesterday, but today i feel great, no cough. and i plan on keeping my old obediance habits, Elder Durrant isn't really disobediant or lazy he's just really relaxed on the little itty bitty rules, like i have to back him up whenever he puts the car in reverse and stuff like that. but i'm doing my best to be obedient, while at the same time trying not to be a rule nazi, cause it's not fun to live with a rule nazi. thanks for the quote mom, it's way cool, i'm going to put it in my Preach my Gosple...i have alot of cool quotes. so yeah, i'm pretty sure that Elder Durrant and I are the youngest spanish companionship in the mission. he is only 1 transfer older than me so yeah he is very young. he isn't a trainer yet because i'm not a trainee anymore haha, he is just a senior comp. but i think he'll go trainer soon. he has the organization that i lack, so i gotta brush up on my organization skills and my leadership skills so i can be prepared if President decides to entrust me with someone younger than me. i'm so excited for Brian! thats awesome, we're all going to be able to speak spanish! i actually haven't heard from lorrin at all, i got an email today from him, i'm going to write him today, some words of encouragement. please remember him in your prayers, being in the MTC all alone without any family or friends from the outside is really hard on missionaries, you have no idea how much a letter can help. for this i'm writing him so he can laugh a bit.
tell me about the fair thingy with the lamb. how much did the lamp end up costing? food, shelter and all? gotta make a profit. but a good activity, builds responsibility. Taylor i hope that you have a great birthday, i sent your card off a few days ago. no more ditching Youth Conference. Dad hang in there, sometimes what happens to us just doesn't make any sense whatsoever, we just have to keep pressing forward. in spanish you say we have to "seguir/marchar adelante teniendo un fulgor perfecto en cristo..." 2 Nefi 31:20 look it up in spanish, it's powerful, at least for me it is more powerful than english. i miss Elder Triana alot, i always seem to take things for granted...gotta stop doing that...i'll write him today and see how he is doing. you guys could write him too, he doesn't ever get mail from home, it'd be a nice surprise for him, why don't you guys write him this week instead of me (minus mom, can't live without mom's letters and pics :]]]] ). The family reunion looked fun, thats weird that it was at mack park and not at the usual park out in neuton(it's in neuton right?). Did Grandma get my card? i felt so horrible that i had not gotten it out in time...... :/ i'll send the homework that mom gave me and Kenidee's "personal typewritten letter" and probably my camera card home today. yeah having to go to a laundromat really isn't convienient for us, we already have so much stuff to do it just makes P-day more hectic. yeah i know that the missionaries in Mexico and the latin countries have maids.....it's not fair....but neither is life....but hey i am gurranteed to get my mail and packages (and it doesn't take 2 weeks to arrive) and missionaries in latin america aren't! haha
Birthday eh? yeah it's coming up...kinda weird to be honest, i'll send some ideas home with the homework. thanks for the reminder about my toenails kenidee...ya know the number 1 thing in the MTC that missionaries have to have surgery is ingrown toenails....kinda nasty huh? chale.......
yeah mom, i understand what you mean when you said "no rest for the weary" we never stop here either, but the lord will sustain us if we ask. and yeah i took alot of pics of Sister Quel's baptizm. she and her husband got married first so it's after the marriage pics. only her and her daughter are wearing white. hey do you guys know any Noall's that live in Wellsville? my zone leader is from Wellsville and he says that Margo looks really familiar, dunno, figured i'd ask.
so this week we worked hard and got 23 lessons and found some new investigators that are really cool. we have 2 families that are pretty solid, Marilu her husband and their 2 kids, and Baudelio and Aufelia (wierd names i know). they didn't accept a baptism date, but they accepted what is called a softset or they said that if they recieve an answer then they will be baptised, they didn't accept the hardset or the specific date for baptism, but that's ok, we will still work with them, they are really smart. alright, the time is long spent, 30 mins is up. remember the gospel is here for our benifit and not to make us hate life. i've decided that King Benjamin is probably one of my favorite guys in the book of mormon, he has some excellent counsil for all of us, when you all arrive at that point in your personal reading really pay attention to it. it's kinda long, but it's soooo worth it. remember i love you all demasiado. i hope this next week goes well with the preparations for school. love you all!!!!!
Elder "Chido" Larsen
Monday, August 3, 2009
I'm in Oxnard....and it's cooooold!
Hey Family!
Sooo I'm in Oxnard and kinda sick. haha I've been having a little trouble adjusting to the weather here. Coming from 110 degree weather to 70 in the day and 60 at night and in the mornings isn't doing so good for my lungs. I was sick all last week and probably walked around for 2 days with a fever of 100 without knowing it. haha at the end of the 2nd day I realized that the dizzy spells and the headache might have been from a fever. Soooo I checked it and sure enough ..... imagine that. Anywho, so I thought I had pnemonia for a while but I think it was just a really bad chest cold, I'm still coughing stuff up, but it's getting better every day. By the end of this week I'll be all better I think.
Sooo I'm in Oxnard and kinda sick. haha I've been having a little trouble adjusting to the weather here. Coming from 110 degree weather to 70 in the day and 60 at night and in the mornings isn't doing so good for my lungs. I was sick all last week and probably walked around for 2 days with a fever of 100 without knowing it. haha at the end of the 2nd day I realized that the dizzy spells and the headache might have been from a fever. Soooo I checked it and sure enough ..... imagine that. Anywho, so I thought I had pnemonia for a while but I think it was just a really bad chest cold, I'm still coughing stuff up, but it's getting better every day. By the end of this week I'll be all better I think.
I live on Yucca Street and the street name is a good description of the apt haha. It's not the coolest place, missionaries have been living in there for like 6 years, so it's pretty trashed/ghetto. It's a clean place, just really old and ugly. And the water heater comes up to my chest, so only one person can take a shower at a time and the water only gets just barely hot for a few mins. It's kind of ridiculous, but yeah, I guess the Elders have been trying to move apts for a long time. This area is very different from the one I came from, much much harder. There are a ton of Mexicans, and since it's not hot here ... ever ... everyone walks around, so it's not hard to talk to people. Kids here are alot more rude than they are in Bakersfield, they like to tell us that we are gay or make fun of us cause we look the same. But whatever, it's ok. My companion is cool, extremely different from Elder Triana, and not so hard core on obedience, he kinda just does what he wants sometimes, so we'll see what happens. He's just so young and not all that organized about how he does missionary work, and I'm only one transfer younger than him so I can really say anything. But we'll do our best and work with what we have got. We have a few really cool investigators, I can't remember all their names, but they are cool. Two with a date right now, a guy named Octavio, he's really cool and basically teaches himself, he reads a chapter and then outlines it and then writes a summary of it so that he can learn everything in it .... it's really intense and really crazy. And then a granddaughter of a member we are teaching has a date too, she is pretty young but seems to be set on getting baptized. The ward seems cool, lots of nice members, we meet in a stake center sized building, but it's not a stake center, pretty cool. And they have the nicest copier machine I think I've ever seen in a church building .... seriously it's super nice, cause usually every copier that I've ever seen or used that the church has owned has been really temperamental and I usually ended up wanting to kick the darn thing by the time I was done with it. Anywho, most of the people in the ward speak English as well as Spanish, which makes it a little weird sometimes, but oh well. Elder Durrant has really good Spanish, but I've got him beat by a little bit. He thinks that I'm going senior after this transfer .... I hope not .... but we'll see. Ohhh so in your letter mom you said that Brian Falor was going on a mission, where is he going to? No one has told me. Camping looks like wayyyy too much fun for you guys. I haven't been to the wind caves in forever, since I was a little kid .... that's crazy ... Derek's water party looked fun and I laughed when I saw that Kenidee is now taller than Aslynn. The Lawn Mower Parade looks like a ton of fun. Wasn't it us that helped to start that or someone on our street? I forget ..... Warren is a nut, Kimi is too, I'm surprized she isn't married already. Kenidee looks great in her "pink" uniform haha that's great that she is still out there playin, I'm sure she is indispensible for her team. Tell Chris and Jamie Congrats on their baby. He looks real healthy and all so that's good. Sooooo saying goodbye to everyone was really really hard on monday night last week. Especially the Quels, they started crying and I was pushin the tears back, they are set on comin to visit us next Christmas or something like that. Thanks for the camera card, I'm gonna send my full one home today probably. So the Church is true wherever you go, it's true here just as well as in Bakersfield, I just have to adjust to everything which is kinda hard, but I'm working on it. So the Seeley family in your ward sent me a package, I'm gonna write them today and say thanks, but you guys could tell them thanks from me too. they sent me some candy a Mo-Tab CD and a cool talk by Elder Holland. I hope that you all have a great week getting ready for school. BHL it's gonna feel weird when everyone goes to school, and you don't. Thanks for all your love and support. One of my zone leaders is from Wellsville, he's pretty cool and looks and acts just like Ryan, pretty funny guy. His name is Elder Noall. Anywho, I gotta get going, we have to go to a laundromat to do laundry cause we don't have a washer and dryer in the apartment.
Love you all, hope to hear from you soon!
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