November 14, 2011

Hey Dad! I am doing great, and I'm glad that it sounds like you are too! Hey, tell the Bullocks hi for me please. I was just thinking of em and how I didn't get to see them before I left, so I'll just have to make up to em and go home teach them with you when I get back! :) Deal? How's being a Bishop still going for you? Does the ward feel your love that you have for em? I know it's hard work, and that you're getting old haha, but always strive to let them feel the Waters' love for others! 

I've seen here that there are missionaries that are great missionaries, they know it all; they know the Gospel, the language, the rules, and they know how to teach all the lessons. But I've seen that there's also got to be more than the knowledge, the mind part of the work. There must be the heart and soul put into the work too. You have to love the people, even when they're the mean ones. Then even if you don't know the language well, or don't know the lessons as well, you show that you know the Gospel through your actions, and they will feel your love. Through you, they'll feel Christ's love, which will change lives, and help them desire to have that in their lives always! I've seen that the purpose of church(before the mission and after) is not just to get all the girls to like you and to be the coolest one there, it's about coming to an environment that allows you to grow spiritually and helping others not just the popular/cute ones develop friendships with me and others. That means taking time out of your conversations with your friends and goofing around in the halls, and reaching out to the others. The lost sheep or the ones that our trying to grow and helping them feel and learn about Christlike love-Charity. I wish I would have done that more sometimes, along with sharing the Gospel and my testimony with all my other nonmember friends more. I can't change the past, but I can change what I do right now!

I love my mission Dad! This week was great! I learned so much from my investigators! And we're having great success! We had 36 investigators at church on Sunday, even with 5 of our previous investigators getting baptized the day before. 

I love my area, my comp, my family, my mission, my Heavenly Father, my Jesus Christ, and my love and other things that have grown during the mission. Love, love, love, love, love everything that comes into your life and everyone, including getting old. There are things to learn and blessings that will come from everything that happens in our life, if we endure well! And I'll try hard to do the same!
Love you dad for eternity,

Elder Waters
God be with you till we meet again