January 20, 2014

Lacey wrote:

Elder Kelsey! :) happy martin luther king week! how are you this week? :) I just got back from tus padres casa, it was good to see them, they make me happy :) We might be going to lunch tomorrow too, so that will be fun. Kolten got a jeep like yours! except it's blue, but when i pulled up to your house, my heart sank a little. It reminded me of your good ole jeep. It was really good to see kolten and wanda, haven't seen them in a while, they are still in love very much so that's good :)

I have a question for ya. So a couple weeks ago you said that you didn't have a whole lot of happiness but you had joy. What did you mean by that? It confused me... cause I'm glad that you have a lot of joy... but i want you to be happy too, and it makes me sad that you aren't happy.. :( Just tell me how I can help and what is making you unhappy :) cause that's what I'm here for. And I want to help you... be your help meet :) So if you are struggling with something, if you are having a hard time tell me, and talk to me about it, cause i want to know, i truly do :)

I'm glad that you and your companion are buddies and that you do work. That is good. Keep working and having faith and people will start progressing. I know that it must be frustrating, the people that know the commandments but don't follow them.. just have patience. I know that describes me sometimes, and you, and everyone. We all know what is right, but sometimes we have selective obedience and we only follow the commandments that we think are important. Well all the commandments are important, we just don't understand them fully to know of their importance. Like for example the dating before you are 16 rule... I always thought that rule was soo stupid. I couldn't understand why it was such a big deal, so i didn't follow it. I thought I was so mature for my age and that rule didn't apply to me. And now I see, how I have gone through so much pain and guilt because I didn't follow that rule, and I started dating too early, so I got into bad stuff, because I wasn't as mature as I thought. Another example, the stupid coffee thing. ugh. So many people think it's not a big deal so they just drink it... and they can't get over it, and they make up a zillion excuses to keep drinking it. And honestly I don't see the problem with it, but I know it's a commandment, so I don't drink it. Well one day we will see why it is part of the word of wisdom... I think it's kind of like tobacco. In Joseph Smiths time, they didn't think that tobacco was bad, they were chewing it in the temple for heavens sake, and they didn't understand, when the word of wisdom came out, why it was bad, but now we know that there are serious health issues with tobacco and alcohol. So stuff like that, I guess you just have to wait for it to click in their heads, that the commandments are there for a reason, and we need to follow all of them, no matter how silly or unrelated to us they might seem. I like how you always say that commandments aren't restrictions, they are pure love from God. It is so true. He is only trying to help us get back to him.

I love you Klay, I'm so happy with you, and with your family, and everything :) It just seems so perfect to me and I think I am very blessed to have you be such a big part in my life, it overwhelms me with joy :) and the day that you are back home with me will be one of the best, most relieving days of my life :) so proud of you! Keep going!!! :)

Love Lou Lou

Klay:

Hola my little lou bug!!! i was happy this week!!! haha its just hard some weeks and its something that happens in the mission that is just part of it all. you follow in your faith and hold on to the promises that have been made. those sacred covenants. and though the wind blows really hard and the rain pours down, that little house upon a rock stays strong as ever delighting itself in Christ. We had nine in the church this sunday!!!!!! investigators!!!! that is the most i have ever had!!!! and God did it all  . .. i swear there are weeks where we plan everything out super perfectly and everyone is going to go to the church and nothing happens cuz we did it with our own strengths. .  .then God humbles us. i finally got your stamps!!!!! yeah!!!! dont be sad if you dont get a lot of letters please. . .read the other ones when letters dont come. . .im trying but its very hard to get all of that done here in little argentina. i have to bring the mail to the offices and we barely ever have time to go . . .thank you for all that you do my little help meet :) um . .. do you like the name Galilea ? haha think about it :) pray about it, meditate it :) tell me next week haha keep repenting when you fall, running when you are tired, studying when you cant see straight, and loving the Savior and me. LuYaGuts!!!!