Elder Mortimer update #3

June 13, 2011
Lakeside Ward/Tucson Arizona

Hey all,

I love you all :) To mom, Yes I got my bike and it runs well. I haven't received 
my package yet. No I'm not by fires. Don't forget to tell people to write on my 
face book thanks :) I love letters. Oh, the weather here is soooooooo hot. But 
its oklol.

So here has been my week
I wake up at 6:15am
Work out till 6:45
Pray till 7:15
Personal study till 8:15
Breakfast till 9:00
Companionship study till 11:00am then out the door we go.

I have never been so tired in my life. When I come home I just want to crash and 
die lol. But, then we still have to plan our next lessons. But I absolutely love 
it! We had a baptism on Sat. YYYEEESSSSSSSS. It was so cool. It was our ward 
mission leaders sons girlfriend and the son is actually on his mission right now 
in GA. She had such a sweet spirt about her. We are also teaching a Mexican 
family and they just dropped the baptism date on us :(  but they want us to 
still teach them. They dropped the date because the father didn't feel ready and 
he says he doesn't feel the spirit in church. Its kinda hard to explain and he 
is a smoker so we will work with him.
  
This was a cool experience. So we went to this apartment complex to find some 
former investigators. We walked by this group of kids and just kept walking. The 
whole time we were walking by I kept feeling GO BACK! GO BACK! GO BACK!  I was 
thinking... they will make fun of us and all that stuff. So we kept walking... 
then it shouted at me GO BACK! So I looked at my companion and said we need to 
go back and talk to them. He was about to say no but felt that we should go back 
too. So we did. We stated talking to them for about 15 min and we were like Dan
Jones in Wales. We were on top of a hill preaching the word of God, man I loved 
it. People were even walking behind us mocking us and we also had people stop 
and listen. It was so sweet. 

Everyone this gospel is true. This is the Lords work. Without him I am nothing. 
We are here in the last days, and I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to 
preach his word. My goal is in this transfer to read the Book of Mormon. So 
every transfer I will read one book either Old Testament, New Testament, The 
Book of Mormon and The Doctrine of Covenants. I know I can do it! I love this 
gospel with all my heart. I bear my testimony about 10 times a day. It is so 
wonderful. I love this area and I love these people. I just wanna stand on the 
rooftop and shout hosanna the Lord is King. This is his gospel we are his 
servants. I love it soooo much. I'm so glad I've been called to the work because 
i have the desire to do the work. my challenge to everyone is memorize doctrines 
and convents section 4. we have to hear and recite it everyday. i love it. truly 
we are called to the work. i love his work. i love these people.

With much love

Elder Mortimer