Hey
Family!!
Thank
you all for writing. I love your letters. Really Kasey...you broke my heart with that
Steve Nash news but I am happy that he is going to be going to a team where he
can win a championship. It will be fun to watch him play in LA. Sounds like you boys are having a great time
up in Utah camping and stuff. Sounds like a plan maggie...I will have to try
those enchiladas and your pozole dad ;) Hahaha. Thank you Mom and Grandma for the money.
Tomorrow I will be buying my leather scripture cases. Tomorrow we have a leadership training meeting
in Puebla. Hahaha, we are traveling alot. I am not a fan of the Zone Leader thing...I
miss being a Branch President, hahahaha.
Well
the work has been good here. We got to go to the new mission home on Friday for
the Zone Leader conference. It’s really
nice. The new president lives in the
nicest neighborhood in Puebla. It looks like an American neighborhood but more
modern. There is a golf course and everything there. We got to eat breakfast. Sister Christensen made us eggs, juice, and
pancakes with whip cream!! I have not had whip cream for 20 months hahahaha. We
had a great conference. I learned ALOT
about A LOT, hahahahaha. Everything I learned really I can see how to apply it
in my life after the mission and that is what President Christensen said that
he wants. Just so that you know the
president a little more:
He
served a mission in California Spanish speaking.
He
was the Vice President of Hallmark Cards (he is rich).
He
quit his job because the First Presidency asked him to work as the Head
Director of Finances of the Church (he is even more rich).
He
had monthly meetings with the Twelve and the First Presidency.
That
is just a little background info about my new Mission President. I guess that I
will have to have alot of money to be a Mission President someday, hahahaha. In the conference he told us that Elder
Bednar´s favorite scripture is 2 Nephi 2:14. Hahahahaha, all of us Zone Leaders just looked
at each other like...wow...he knows the favorite scripture of an Apostle,
hahahaha. He is very spiritual but he says things how they really are. On
Friday we did something that I never thought that we would do. We started
making the "culture" of this new Mission. We started talking about
the Purpose, Processes, and Actions. We talked about how we could make sure
that our Actions or Practices in the Mission are aligned with the Processes and
the Purpose and throw out the bad Actions and Practices that have nothing to do
with our Purpose. It was very cool. Hahaha,
then I think that I received revelation for my personal life in that moment.
That formula is a great one to be able to start and better businesses (just a
comment since you all know that I like business). Hahaha it was a great
conference. I really felt the spirit and learned alot.
Here
in our area we have been working our tails off. It has been raining like crazy and literally
the rain has been up to our shins. We keep working hahaha. The other day we
were working in the rain and it was just coming down and some members saw us
and asked why we weren’t home since it was raining so hard. My comp just
laughed and said...the work goes on. It’s true what he said. The work goes on.
God keeps working and doesn’t rest if it’s raining.
Today
we played like 2-3 hours of basketball at the church with a team of a brother
in our ward. They are real good. I had a great time but I have just lost all of
my condition hahaha. I would just run up and down the court dying. It was
really the best basketball that I have played in the Mission.
Well
I gotta go! I love you all and hope that you have a great week! Kasey I hope
that you enjoy EFY! Miss you all tons!! OH!! Hahaha before I go I have some
good news for you all. My date changed for going home. I was supposed to go
home the 28th of November but President Christensen wants me to be home for
Thanksgiving, so I will be going home the 20th of November, so you will all
have me home a week early hahahaha. Love ya!!
Elder
Lester
Puebla Time