Week 31

    Wow...This literally was the craziest week of my life, I'm going to try and do it in order, but there is so much that I want to say so fast, that it might come out like the Book of Mormon, where random time periods are thrown in throughout the book and I might even ramble on a bit like all of second nephi....naw just joking. 

But we started the week off with 9 People in church. That's the most I've ever had here in Contreras. I've been learning spanish all week like a power house. I have a book and I write the word the instant I hear it and learn it before the day is done, which is hard because days fly by super fast. We have been teaching this super catholic that really just doesn't understand the restoration, like I said, people refuse to understand the apostasy. It came down to me having to use dolls to explain it. We visited her 8 times this week teaching her and preparing her for her baptism. As well with that, we are teaching a super Christian, that is soo easy. He accepts everything we say and is going to get baptized in 6 days. 

     The chicken pox has been spreading like apostasy here in Mexico. I know 5 people that have it and I'm super glad that I've been given the shot.. Elder Chronister and I now are like best friends. Even though I have to do all the work and be super humble to makes the spirit there, We've made it work for these 6 weeks and indeed we do have transfers, but I'll get to that later. Thursday came and all of a sudden during a lesson I got sick, like never before. For the last two weeks we have had heavy rains and thunder and lighting ever day in the evening. Hot during the day and rain and thunder all evening and night. I got sick like no other and we ran home. I jumped in bed and had the worst night of sleep ever,  but in the morning I felt a bit better. Luckily we had water, because some days, like today, there is no water for anyone in like 1 square mile. Who knows why, but we had 4 interviews with 3 from one family and 1 youngster. They all passed!!!. I felt terrible so we went home and I bought super expensive Gatorade to see if something american would help me. I slept and woke up saturday feeling like a God. Nothing was wrong with me. I now have just as strong a testimonio (Testimony) of Gatorade and ibuprofen (thanks mom) as I do the atonement.. no joke. 

   Saturday was Dia de los Niños or children's day. I thought that's funny that here in Mexico they look for excuses to have parties every other day, ever 13 and 28 of the month, there is  parties, like yesterday fireworks all night long. Every saturday and every 15 años people were so drunk and kids drunk too because they can just do whatever they want, it's children's day. We had 4 baptisms,and all  of our investigators chose me to baptize them. I was so happy. I  feel like my relationship with these people is unbreakable awesome.  Elder Chronister was going to baptized 1 but when we got to church, there was no clothes, there was 3 xl suits and 4 tiny tiny people. Elder Chronister just gave his clothes to one of them and they all had huge suits . It was an awesome baptism. 4 is the perfect way to end a month and end a change. Afterwords, we celebrated and ate hamburgers mexican style, which is basically the same, but they put liquid cheese, pineapple and chillies, is soooo good, I love it twice as much as Wendy's burgers,...maybe ... I'm listening to a sweet Spanish song that I knew the words to in one of my spanish classes. Every single word but I didn't know what it meant,  but now I understand it all, it feels so weird to listen to it. 

    Church was good and Elder Chronister spilled the sacrament water all over him and his suit haha. The investigators arrived late but still received the Holy Ghost. This work is awesome and I was so happy. We took pictures with a couple people and with Elder Jones who has been my dad in the mission. He's my zl leader that's been in my ward for 5 months. He always tells me when I'm not being perfect and corrects me  and a hermana (Sister) here is sowing me a tie and it's going to be awesome one, the only thing is though that we received our transfers...Elder Ordway se va a San pedro 2 ( Elder Ordway is going to San Pedro 2) or in other words I'm leaving to tlalpan san pedro 2 with Elder Perez from Argentina. I'm going to be in a house with 4 elders, my area is going to be twice as big and even more in the middle of nowhere than Contreras, but I've heard that is super nice, but I could be totally wrong and Elder Chronister is leaving too!!!!! My frito comp is going to be ZL in Iztapalapa. He was so happy when we got the call that he wouldn't let me sleep. He literally packed until 1:30 in the morning. When I finally decided to go sleep on our moth eaten couch which only has 2 of the three cushions. 

   Two Elders are coming here that are not going to know it at all!!!. In the morning we said goodbye to our investigators and every single one of them was crying...balling...I felt like I was betraying everyone for leaving. I've never been so close to these people. I was and still am trying to hold in my tears, because it hit me really hard when one of them ran up and gave me a hug...I feel sooo sad. I can't describe it. I love this area. I love the people. I love the ward. and all my comps. Now I'm going to have to really learn spanish if I'm going to be in a house, with 1 from Argentina, 1 from Chile, and 1 from Mexico, I'm still junior comp, but I'm not mad. The Lord has his way with everything, so I'm happy that I can be a part of it. My status here is 100 members returned more in the chapel every sunday, 11 baptism, 7 I did with my own hands. 16 less actives fully reactivated. 6 are in temple marriage class. 3 received the priesthood. This area has changed me. I will never be the same person. I love my mission, I love the Lord, I love obedience, I have a testimony that will never be broken, my friends are the perfects examples to me and my family is everything to me. 

I love you all and will write you in a week.

 Elder Ordway

Week 30!!

Hey Fam!!! 

     This week was really good...maybe....Naww just joking. Every week here is awesome. What I'm stoked more than anything for, is that we are going to have 4 baptisms this saturday. A family of three and a 13 year old girl, that's super cool. We've taught everything and made sure they don't have any problems with the commandments. Now we just have to hope and pray that they pass their interviews. We will baptize them all this saturday if they pass their interviews. 

   This saturday as well is dis de niño...which is like mothers day but for kids, they actaully have a day just for kids. They don't have to go to school and there is candy and parties everywhere and probably kids will be drinking and smoking...there is nothing worse than to see like 6 -12 year olds get on a bus and there all smoking. Sick....it makes me soo glad that I'm a misisonary fighting Satan and his triste tempatation (Sad temptations). I don't know how kids can be soo weak, all my life I always thought I was weak for not being able to play on sundays and do worldly stuff; but being a missionary has opened my eyes to what the world really is like. 

   Things were a little better this week with my comp Elder Chronister. We have transfers in 1 week, so here's hoping. He's changed a ton, when he got here he didn't have faith or a testimony in anything. Now he's a little bit more obedient and is still really selfish and pride full but I can't complain, that's what so cool about being a missionary too, is that not only do you have to work with investigators, you have to work with your comp. It's a constant battle to raise his testimony. Sometimes I have to call him out in english in the lessons when he's yelling or teaching apostasy. triste (sad)  apostasy, he accidentally teaches false doctrine and I feel guilty if I don't say [se lo que mi compañero dijo es verdadero) or I know what my comp said is true. Things are better though. We have our on and off days, like at church he didn't want to share his hymn book with our investigators...uggg....but I've learned so much patience too. Things like this I feel the Lord is testing me. If I can be the one to be obedient when my comp won't be...like there was a family watching a movie and we arrived and he just started watching, I started too. I knew my senior comp wouldn't stop so I had to suck it up tell them that we had to go, but I'm soo hoping that the changes are cool. I'm literally happy with whatever happens. Even if I'm junior comp again, or if a stay, or if I go, if I stay we are going to have at least two more baptisms the next week. 
The Jehovas witness is softening his heart but it's still so hard. He came to church with us and was out thinking and talking everyone in the church because he knows the bible inside and out. He's a super smart, but nothing compared to the power of the spirit. I showed him my priesthood line of authority and explained what it means to be ordained by God. It hit him hard, but we still have to planch him the next lesson. Planch is like chew out, because people here are soo flaky and if the missionaries didn't do everything, everything would fall apart here, but I love doing the dirty work. For example there is a lot and way too much chesmeando (gossip) aqui or ummmmmmm what do you call it......talking bad.. or spreading rumors, I can't think of the word and the Relief Society Presidenta (President) was mad at the missionaries because we are baptizing too much and the people  are staying for all three hours. Our mission leader is a boss though and fought her off with her apostasy. No one here in mexico is going to be the perfect baptism. They're super flaky and you just have to learn how to work around all that. Even though their flaky and super catholics, they are awesome. I had such a bad idea of mexicans before my mission. I was probably a bit racist.....but now I freaking love them all. I have never wanted to give more hugs to people before in my life. I would be sad if I left  contreras  in the cambiso(changes) because I have a ton of time here. 

  We've been teaching and preparing people a ton this last week. We passed by 2 times a day with one lady who is super catholic and has problems understanding the restoration, like ohhh mormon wrote the book of Joseph and saw two angel moronies... NOOO how many time must I show you this video and explain that mormon doesn't have blond hair!!!...but all is good. We asked to go to the center today but we didn't get permission. Our whole district was ready and had everything with all of our money saved up...but none of us got permission. So we went back to our house and drank milk while playing nerf russian rulet. It was way fun. I freaking love my district. Although we literally have --and I have no doubt in my mind--- the strictest presidente (president) in the world. like no games, no traveling anywhere unless you need shoes or glasses or your super super super sick.....I'm literally thinking about drinking the water to give my self up on going to the doctor in the temple, so that I can do another session. I love our presidente (president)  though, but it is a bit ridiculous.......anyways. 

   I am doing good. My shoes only have two holes in them,( ONE IN EACH) and my plac is finally turning yellow from the sun.. I'm learning spanish like a boss. I have a notebook full of words and expressions and naco dichos... which is like what all the bus drivers and drunks talks. Some investigators told me that some pictures I've taken are on my facebook, that's soo cool. Keep up the fun and know that it's really heating up here in mexico. I've been burnt now for weeks and our house is always blazing hot.  We run around opening every window tin the house when we got back to cool it down. Oh and I tried some new street food. A part on a female pig that males don't have. It was gross and expensive but worth it. I'll stick to skin and meat.....I love you guys and Hope everything is going good. 

Love, Michael Ordway

Week 29

Excellent!!! What a week.. of course every day here in Mexico is awesome. I feel the power of the Lord working through me every second of every day. An apostle once said that when we are set apart, you've been set apart to a much higher level than the world, and it's never been so true. 

   First offf.... I know the gospel and the church is true. There is no doubt in my mind that I am serving the only church of God. It's perfect and even if people try to find fault in it. There just isn't any.I  know the doctrine inside and out. Like all my life I didn't understand who Joseph Smith was or what he did, but now it's like a clear cut story since the beginning. I love to hear from you guys too. 
All my letters for 5 weeks for some reason stored up until yesterday when I got them all. Tons of dear elders and letters. It took me hours to read them all, but there is a lot going on them, in good old eugene. I do love to hear from you guys...and sadley my comp receive a dear john letter....his girlfriend is getting married and didn't bother to tell him until they had a wedding date...triste muchachas!!(sad ladies!!) Hopefully that doesn't impede our work even more. 

      Things here are great though. Our area is so juicy. I could be here in Contreras my whole mission. I love the people and the trees and the marijuana and paint thinner and every other drug that gives a man a headache. No really, but this week was good especially because I got to send home my memory card. I have all the pictures and videos stored and backed up here on a hard drive, so when you guys get my card in a couple of weeks I can delete it of my usb stick thats getting full. I feel so focused. I love p-days and being able to rest, but I feel like I'm not using my full potential during the week. So I always feel like I can do more. I probably should just chill more and be more accepting that I can't always do everything. 

     We have 3 investigaters that are super close to baptism. There date is the 27 of april right before transfers, so I'm hopping that it goes thru so I can witness that miracle. We also have like 10 others that are super close, but always always always, there not married and either they don't have the money or one of them doesn't want to marry, or something like that, satan ruins my life, but it's all good, because I feel super happy in this work and also.... in like 2-8 weeks all and I mean ALL of the leaders in the mission are going home. So that means that the presidente is going to need to start calling district leaders here soon. I know I should have so much desire, but I would love to be a district leader. I'm ready too I know it. 
I've completely ¨revolutionized¨my teaching. I don't like being a robot, but preach my gospel is like liquid gold for a missionary. That and the book and mormon have all the answers. Seriously there is nothing I love more than to hear mission advice from Dad and Christopher and Jeff Robinson. What dad said about 1st think of your investigators, 2nd pray to receive revelation through the scriptures, 3rd start reading and fasting on the words of the prophets. There is no better way to receive help than that. Seriously every word in Mormon and Moroni and 3 Nefi (Nephi) is liquid gold and I've always said that they should just sell Doctrine and Covenants pre-highlighted so that way I don't have to waste pesos(money) buying highlighters pencils, because it's soo juicy. Speaking of juicy...this week we ate a lot more street food. Now it doesn't affect me as much. One day feeling like garbage ...is so worth that 5 minutes of eating pork with lime and chili. I'm sorry to all my friends, but I'll be real: I got the best mission, before I didn't want a big city, but here I'm learning so much about living in the city, ghetto and country all at the same time. 

    We watched a cool movie this week: The Testaments. Which is a boss movie even in Spanish. We invited and had a ton of investigators come and less actives. The Lord is blessing this area so much and our ward is now the 3rd strongest in the mission. 200 every week...awwwww yeahhhhhhh...that's so much, no one has that much. 4 months and 100 more members. You can pretty much call me menos activo master (Less active master) ever less active I see we instantly "fall well" or get along well I think. I forced my comp to visit one more family before we left to the movie. A less active family of 13!!! I showed all their kids a couple magic tricks and gave them cards and candy..... and they came to church...that's all......I'm slowing down on the pictures I know. 

     My comp doesn't like to take too many, but we are getting along a lot better trust me. We can actually teach with the spirit again. I've learned the meaning of diligence this week. We had two days without 1 lesson and I worked hard. We had interchanges with an Elder who only has 1 month in his mission and I showed him the meaning of work. We had 1 lesson but found a ton of old investigators and less actives. That's what the work is here, returning sheep to the fold. Less actives that once went astray because 30 or 13% ( I don't remember) of the church here doesn't assist. They are too lazy to do anything about it too, until the missionaries show up and start planting people and getting them active. Officially 24 less actives returned to the ward while I (the Lord) has been here. 6 are entering in the temple. 3 received the priesthood and there are at least 30 niños (kids) under the age of 7 that can now be in line to be baptized. Seriously missionaries changes the world. I highly recommend everyone to get their act together and serve the Lord in his work. My good old Uncle Dan said that there is no better boss than Jesus. It's soo true and I loved what Dad said about how missionaries have so many rules, not only to keep them in line but with more responsibility, the Lord has more oportunidades de bendicirnos (Opportunity to bless us). 

     I know the Lord lives and I am sooo happy even though people here are super flaky and they all lie thinking that missionaries won't be able to tell. Little do they know that missionaries have been blessed with basically the ability to read minds. I feel like I can just read peoples minds, I'm not even joking, in lessons, when the spirit is super strong I feel it tells me, like ask about her family especially her last child by chance was killed last year...and I do it and it's true.!!! No one would ever understand how awesome it is to be a missionary, even when you have a rough comp, who is your senior comp just because he has more time than I do...But seriously I know I've been super pride full this letter. Way to pride full, that I need to repent. No joke, but I also realized that when I said last letter that all my besties (best friends) are on their missions. I didn't mean only my best friends. Harrison, Kevan, Chris, Geoff, Clay, Bau, Hargobind, and everyone else are the bestys. Sooo cool that they all are studying and working. The mission is easy when I think of what they are doing right now. I did write letters to Geoff and Dallas this last week and I don't know why my letter a couple weeks ago never sent. I've written one every week that I've been here. Never missed one yet. 

I love you all and I pray for every single one of you guys almost every night. I can feel your prayers and I highly appreciate everything you guys do for me. 2 more weeks before transfers. I'm so excited..........................................................Love Michael.

Week 28

Hey there Eugene Family and maybe some others!!! 

  WOW what a good week this week. First off: me and my comp are rocking this area. Seriously in the beginning we had some troubles but we're sooo cool now!!! We have 10 or 11 I can't remember with baptismal dates. A lot of the good ones are going to get baptised after this change though. So there is a chance that I'm not going to be able to see them, but we have 4 progressing super nicely!!! there's going to get baptised the 20th of abril (April) and they are super chosen. 

    I've gotten really good at contacting in the street and following the spirit in every moment.  If there is anything I've learned this week is that the spirit is real, not just with what I felt from general conference, but literally I think of every move and words I say before I say them now. My mind goes so much faster when I have the spirit with me. It gives me insight into their troubles and I can always tell when my comp is lying...which happens a lot, but I don't know if that's the spirit. As usual, here is apostasy land, things are weird. I contacted a super chosen girl who had just lost a baby. I didn't understand it though and said ¨que padre!!!¨ which means how awesome basically. I felt bad, I thought she said it was just born.....that happens a lot though. 

    We had changes for one day and I went with the most dead missionary in this mission, who is in our district. He also has the biggest area. We also had no money, so we walked for hours. I've gotten holes in my shoes now...from all the walking, but they should still last a while!!! Last week we went to Walmart and my comp made me buy more than I wanted, like Oreos and Nutella. I blew a ton of money so I was riding low all this week, but now I'm back to normal on money. They raised the price of public transportation, which is killer for missionaries especially here in my area. 

   I have a ton of time here, but I love it here. I feel like I actually have a complete understanding of what I'm doing in my mission now and how to help people progress to baptism. I'm not saying I'm the best but I've learned so much being with a district leader  and 2 zone leaders my whole mission. We had interviews with the presidente (president) this week and all was good. I was nervous about nothing. Our president is super strict, but super funny and everyone loves him, but he is really strict. I had the wonderful food of chicken legs, which are gross. I don't believe anyone here that says that they are good. bleaa!!! pure bone and skin, sick I hope I never eat it again, at least with stomach, nose, tongue, eye, or head its small and mixed in with onions and tomato to take away some of its bad texture, a couple investigadores (investigators) are going to baptize their child in the catholic religion. People just have to much fear and false traditions here. They can receive an answer and know 100 percent that this is the true church of God, but from years of tradition and fear because the huge numbers of catholics here, they give in and fall into apostasy. 

    We had to give an interview to some other elders' investigators. So we walked for like 2 hours.  We walked along a highway, it was terrible....in the changes for one day we had 10 bucks to buy food so we just bought bread. Tons of bread and apple soda that is sooo goood here. Then a lady gave us 5 more bucks to buy street tacos. They were soo goood,  but in  that night let me just tell you...pure liquid was my dump. Never before did I feel so bad. Now I'm back to normal, but I never regret doing stuff like that. They are soo gooooood. We had a zone meeting this week and I always feel stoked when we go to the stake center and see other elders. So far there is only one elder that has stayed in my same zone all this time. Elder Uchytil who speaks the worst spanish ever. It's all good though. We had a good amount of lessons this week and put another baptismal date. Seriously, all we did was humbly ourselves and live perfectly obedient and me and my comp are now rocking.

   Elder Mathis is now a Zone Leader, which means I have more control over my area since I'm the one that knows it, I make al ot of the calls.  (; Then of course General conference came around!!! WO what an awesome experience to be able to listen to terrible translations of the conference. To be able to listen to my favorite speaker, Elder J Holland with the emotion that he puts into it...just kidding it was good. I learned a ton and I've never took so many notes before. We had our super Jehovas witness come and listen to the prophet, which is funny because the testigos (witnesses) don't believe in prophets. Things went super well this week and just barely I got my hair cut from an investigator!! Afterwards we ate carnitas with lime and salt, which are soooo good, thanks to Crystal Ordway, I'm the only one here that likes limes with salt straight... (: I'm super stoked to hear that all my friends are basically on their missions serving the Lord, but how many is that from our ward?? like 10 or something.

    I feel super confident now in my spanish and ability to teach. I'm way good at using examples from my life and stories. It invites the spirit so strong. Sorry for all the bragging this letter. I'm seriously stoked to be a missionary. When they announced Mexico city MTC in conference was awesome, and Eric's mission and how they baptism a lot was wayyyy awesome. I'm so blessed to have my family and friends and I'm soo sorry that I don't write more personally, but I'll repent and keep it up. I love you all and will talk to you all in 1 week. 
Elder Ordway!!!

Week 27

WOW, what a wonderful week. I feel so focused in the work here. Like Eric Robinson always says; "The more you're focused on your purpose and investigators, the faster time flies and the less stories you have too". 

   First off: me and my new comp Elder Chronister are way good. I'm sorry I don't have pictures of him yet, but we are super cool. Besties. Things were rough in the beginning because he was my senior comp and was ruining everything about my life and my investigators, but now he's changed. He now doesn't pray in bed, he actually tries to teach with the spirit. He understands his calling because the president planched him hard, or ironed him, chewed him out in other words. He's way different and we are super cool. I'm sure this next week we will have our rough times, but I can actually trust him now, and he's learning our huge area really nicely.

    Our p-day was super good, and all week long too. The crazy lady was in our grills a little bit more than usual, but I've finally learned to like catcus, chocolate chiles and a lot of other things which in reality is a big feat, not a lot of elders can eat cactus. 
We didn't get shot, in fact we called our president about the threat and he told us to drop them and never return, destroy their registro de ensenanza (teaching registry?), I don't know what it would be called in english. Teaching paper maybe. so we lost 4 baptismal dates, and then we lost two more. I realized that cycling through investigators is really hard, but it's necessary. Wasting time on people who like americans but don't want anything to do with what they have to say is wasting the Lords time. We put 5 more baptismal dates. Elder Chronister complains a lot. He doesn't like our area or the fact that we have to take public transportaion a lot, but who cares. I lost 15 pounds here and I feel great. I still have never been able to stay up after 10. I'm soo tired that I fall asleep every night after planning, we are 1/3 done with this transfer and I'm hoping that I get moved, because I have so mcuh time here in Contreras. 

  I learned a new trick on the trompo and my mexican rubiks cube broke :(. it always was a piece of junk though. We are teaching a super testigo or a super Jehovah witness, but no one can resist the power of a fully armed servant of the Lord. We put a baptismal date, with him and his wife. Elder Chronister is new too, so I am learning sooo much, from experience, Spanish and how to teach good. We've taught the restoration like 8 times this week. I've never taught it so much. I've also learned that people here have absolutely no idea what the gospel is and the doctrine. They have only heard of Joseph Smith and they think he wrote the book of mormon and that mormon restored the gospel. They have no idea what the plan of salvation is or what it means when they get baptized. They just do what the spirit tells them to do. What they know is right. its actually quite amazing that people can get baptized years ago and not have a single idea what they just did, but yet they pay tithing every 1st sunday...haha... which is also a miracle because no one pays tithing here, and people always put the used sacrament cups back in the holes instead of in the big used cup hole. For those of you who have never been to church, you will have no idea what I just said. We looked for old investigators all this week and had a lot of success. It doesn't help that I am the only one that contacts people in the street. Elder chron still has yet to contact someone...anyone!!!! but it's ok, I need to be more humble. 

  My missionary tan is coming along nice and it's finally warm again here. I dont have to wear a coat. Although, at any moment it could rain and be thunder and lightning. I've never experienced anything like it. Sunny and warm in the morning and at 3 rain and lightning. We only had 4 at church this sunday, but I'm still grateful for that. The coolest / weirdest thing that happended to me all this week was the Semana Santa ( Holy Week). Here in the city on friday, every thing is closed down because everyone is Catholic here. When the sun falls huge mobs of people walk the streets banging deep drums and moaning. If anyone has every seen !the mummy! that part when there running from the zombies and there in the car driving threw the people. that's what its like. people carrying crosses and 4 people carrying a carriage for the Virgen and everyone in black and candles and spears and its weird. I've never ever seen anything like it. Apostasy gone wrong. I was going to try to video it, but if anyone saw me, i would be a dead man. this went on every night for three days. and on the first day. belive it or not, but they crucify people literally. They beat and whip them, make him carry a cross, the crown of thorns and he gets nailed to a cross, were he dies. It's an honor and respected if you sign up to do it. He gets spit on and luckily we had to go teach a lesson, but I'm not sure if I would have wanted to see it. Until sunday when Jesus gets resurrected, then the party and drink and yeah all is normal again. haha. What an Easter.

   I've heard that it's even worse in Iztapalapa. We have interviews with our President this tuesday. I'm willing to serve the Lord in any position, but I'm hoping that the Lord sees that I should be moved from contreras. We have plans to go to Walmart today which I'm super stoked. It should be like 2 hours there and 2 hours back, but I'm going to buy more peanut butter, I ran out. Things here are going super good and I feel like every move I made is guided by the spirit. I have the strongest testimony in the world of the apostacy and that the spirit can guide your every move. Which doors to knock, who to talk to in the street. I have a strong testimony of obedience. Although it's kind of hard with my comp and he would never admit it.

    Being obedient is living happy. You can know that if you do everything possible in the teaching and the spirit is there. You don't need to feel bad about anything. I am stoked to be able to call you guys here soon and talk with Maria again in spanish. This time I will be able to use the tu form. I always felt bad and stupid talking to little kids in usted because their just little kids. Tu is like talking to family and friends and dogs and stuff like that. Usted is like great respect and admiration. All elders have to use it except with little little kids but I never knew it because we don't speaks it, but know I know it and i like it way better. I always wanted to talk to my comps in tu but I know I shouldn't. This week was really good. I'm so blessed with the gift of tongues. I can understand soo much and yet soo little. I miss beach volleyball and wake boarding, but I've gotten really good at using so trials from my life and wakeboarding examples to help my investgiaters understand. I miss peach rigns and  being burnt all the time, and littles ceasers pizza. I love you all and Im sure this week will fly by as well. Elder ORdwizle