Focused

Well, this week was pretty uneventful.  Yesterday was P-day and we spent a lot of the day at the dentist to get my companion's tooth fixed (it's chipped) and then looking around at the mall by the dentist's office.  I'm not impressed with the stores that you find in the mall now.  I don't like the styles.  I might sound like I'm an old person, but the people that wear skater clothes or the clothes that are in style right now don't look smart and it feels like if I buy something at those stores, that I should go put on the clothes that I just bought and go smoke pot with my other pot-head friends.  After we were done there, Elder Winters (a missionary in my district) threw up a couple times on the car ride home and thenwe went to go play basketball/volleyball where he threw up a couple more times.  He was pretty sick.  I felt bad for him.  He doesn't really like me very much because I'm not a "cool" missionary and I wasn't born in the upper middle class and can't afford the "nice" things that he has or something...  I don't really know and I don't care really.  Sometimes I feel like I'm in High School again with my companion and the other missionaries that he is friends with.  They put missionaries in classes and I feel like I'm stuck out of my class.  I just hope they don't rub off on me.  But anyway I felt pretty bad for him.  He was not having fun on P-day.

I got some cool talks on my ipod the other day at a member's house.  I love talks, especially when you don't want to do companionship study.  It's "the easy way" to be obedient and do comp. study.

There is a girl I know that is having a pretty tough time right now.  Her parent's are split up because her Dad was unfaithful.  They are (one of the few, haha) an active Catholic family, but I guess her Dad just doesn't get it.  I've been praying for her and in what ways I can point her and her family to the savior.  I'm seeing more and more how living the gospel is the only way that you can have happiness in this life as well as in eternity.  It is so clear to me now, but as a teenager, your vision is clouded or something.  I wish I could just make people understand that wickedness never brings happiness.  "Anti-Christ is a term for people who try to find happiness outside the Plan of Salvation or the 'Plan of Happiness'." -John Bytheway 

I don't know why my vision is in focus now and it wasn't as clear earlier, but it is.  It makes my heart ache for those people who have it in front of them, like this girls family, and then choose to disregard it and try going about their lives their own way, without the help of their Heavenly Father and their Savior.  I know that everything that the Savior touches, he heals and I hope so much that this girl can show her family how to come to the Savior and have him heal her family.

Well, that's good for the preaching portion of my letter.  I love all of you.  I hope Everybody is doing well in their lives and I hope that you all have a good week.  I love you.
-elder Blakemore