December 6, 2018

Comp twin ties (one of Eric's birthday requests)

Light the world!

750 calories of the best chocolate milk ever + beach

Beach

Beach

Francisca's birthday

Fam, 


Unfortunately my phone has been struggling recently and didn't save my letter. I'll rewrite some. 

We drove out to Holland this morning and spent a few hours on the beach. Despite the low temperatures and the high winds, it was pleasant. We sat on our beach chairs that some older missionaries must have bought and I wrote my letter that has since been deleted. Clouds blanketed the horizon and we watched storm clouds head our way. Across the horizon we could see three different zones of the incoming front with rain falling a few miles off shore. 

We had another lesson with Tomas(ito) . He is the Puerto Rican whose vernacular is so different we struggle to understand him. We taught a pretty great lesson on the Plan of Salvation with him this week. Recently he had his entire arm amputated. We don't know why but we know it nearly killed him. People who have physical ailments are fun to teach the Plan of Salvation to because the atonement of Jesus provides us with a few important gifts. One I'll mention is an unconditional salvation from Physical Death which is the promised Resurrection to a perfected and immortal physical body. Alma 11 is such an awesome chapter and contains the clearest presentation of the doctrine of Resurrection in scripture. We read verses 42-45. They are pretty powerful verses.

We are also teaching a part member family. Cassie has recently been able to get her non-member husband to start coming to church and he has been progressing really well. The only problem is Sunday is his only day off work so it's hard to meet with him but Cassie really has been a huge help for us. 

-eric