August 6, 2012

Dear Mom,
I read a good part of your lesson. It is excellent. I'm going to study it tomorrow. You always do a great job. Happy Anniversary, and Happy Birthday this week.

Thank you for your email last week. You always have wonderful insights. Have you read "In the Middle"? It was in the Ensign last month, I think. It reminded me of Zen a bit. It's hard to change thinking patterns. It has been hard for me to discard my negative and critical patterns. God is shaping me, though. I am becoming molded by every experience I have. The thing I have to remember is that God loves me and He is good. I'm glad that you made right choices. I'm glad that you have used your agency for good. I want you to know that I love you.

Javier has been one of the best examples of using agency for good. He saw people shot brutally in Mexico as a child, but he has overcome his challenges. He is one of the best examples of charity I have ever observed. It is all possible for him because he remembers Christ.

I'm sorry that you didn't get anything from me last week. I sent a letter, but it didn't get there, I guess.
I'm glad that you got those books back.

I'm sorry that it took so long for me to send them. Relying on a bike for transportation isn't too fun, sometimes. I asked a lady named Sister Wilson to mail it. We are related to her husband Craig. He is from Hurricane. I probably already told you, ha ha. My mind is always occupied with one missionary thing or another. It is good, though. I feel like I am doing my job when I can't remember other things.

It sounds like you had a wonderful time. It is powerful to think that you are helping to fulfill prophesies. I want to do work for our ansestors too. After I come home I want to become full of the Spirit of Elijah.

I know that you can endure to the end. The Sacrament is the only way that any one can. Weekly reminders are so important. The people who are inactive in the ward feel hopeless sometimes because they don't remember that. I'm grateful that you took me to church, even when dad was gone.

We have a few people who are going to be baptized this month. I'll tell you how they go after it happens, ha ha. It is rocky for some of these people sometimes.

Channa, one of the ladies that we teach came to church yesterday and brought her husband and baby Noah, too. I was so elated to see them walk into the chapel.

I love you Mom. Thank you for your emails and letters. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Love,
Elder Williams