December 13, 2008

Your new compassion for Elder Rogers is now matched by me.  i had to pray hard for him and me.  He finally isn't having more struggles that I know of.  I'm trying my hardest to make "Roge" into the man the Lord wants and needs him to be.  I actually asked the ZLs to give me another transfer with him because I feel I can help him more.  He has a lot of learning and social skills he needs to work on.  Pray for him to have the faith and strength to be more bold in opening his mouth to proclaim the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.  It's hard to teach someone not to be shy.  I have challenges I give him all the time.  I challenged him to introduce himself to every person at zone conference.  He does a pretty good job when I challenge him.  The most important thing I can do is to LET him do things.  It's tough when he doesn't want me to let him do things because of his shyness.  He is slowly getting over it, but pray that it leaves him quicker.  

So I decided that a truck wasn't way great.  I'm kind of over it now.  I think the excitement over it was just because I was able to drive and it was brand new.  I guess I just mostly want a good dependable car. It kind of now just feels like the truck I had before my mission... a waste of gas and hard to handle.  We'll see how life turns out in the future.  Don't get me wrong, I still love the truck.  We are getting it taken from us though.  They have games with the cars here in the mission  One is the cleanest car award and the other is the most under miles for the month award.  The winner either gets 100 extra miles or they get to trade a car.  Well, someone that won decided to take our new truck.  So she is being replaced by an '08 version instead.  Sad story.  You told me to listen to righteous music.  Of course. I always do.