Dear Mom,
Thank you for the package of cookies, they were good. I am trying to use the gloves and the itch eraser really works. Thank you for the gift card.
I have learned how to count to 10 in french this week. Plus a ward member gave us a cd. That is really cool because there is this one band called Inside Out or Outside In, but they are a Mormon Band and they do a cool version of Book of Mormon Stories. They have The song the Spirit of God. When I listen to it, it just hits me for some reason. I really enjoyed it. The song was done by the BYU Men's Choir.
MOM NEVER SUGGEST RIMINGTON TO ANYONE, EVER, unless you hate them. I discovered there are holes in 2 of my pant pockets. One pair of pants has a small hole at the bottom of the pocket and the other has a giant hole, the a size that you can stick you whole hand throw without ripping it, more at the top of the pocket where it is attached to the pants. I am not sure how to even fix that hole. I do use the shoe shine kit once a month, plus, on one of my ties, you know the one with thick stripes of blue and black and a think strip of gold, the little thing on the back of the tie that keeps the thin part of the tie behind the thick part is broken. Some of the sheets have this weird burn mark on them. One of the suit pants has a really loose button, like so loose it hangs down. Sorry about telling you all this, but it is just annoying.
I had to do the grossest thing this week. I had to help Mike clean his porch. He has stored stuff outside for years, so everything was moldy, wet, dusty and there were bugs everywhere. I made it through without throwing up, but I wanted to.
We finally gave a lesson to Mike Gunn. Throughout the whole thing I wanted to bang my head against the wall. We read Alma chapter 32, a great chapter on faith, but he told us that he believes you don't need to pay 10 percent in tithing. If your neighbor is in need, you should give them that (10%). Elder Packard tried to set him straight by saying, "Well, that's good, but try paying 10% AND give your neighbor some money." It didn't sink in, darn it. I was fighting myself not to scream out, "No a full ten percent, no less!" I didn't.
This is the one I had the real problem with. Mike believes that you can drink, as long as you don't get drunk. Again, so wrong, but I couldn't put that nicely, so I didn't say anything. It is just that Mike is so far from a bcd (baptism and confirmation date). His father John Gunn is coming along quite nicely. When we doing service at his house, he asked us about baptism for the dead. We got to tell him about it.
The good new is we did get more dinner appointments. In PEC, the Bishop asked us how many are we getting each week. We said two or three. The the first counselor, Brother Smith, said that he would talk to the Relief Society about that. When we got the calender back, we had all but one day filled.
So that is pretty much my week
Elder Forsberg