Mi Corazón

I've decided corazón and destruir are my favorite words in spanish.  Don't ask why.  They're just fun to say.

Anyway, It's been a great week.  Mostly because we had less classes and more General conference woot woot!  The MTC was able to broadcast it, all in english for us gringos.  Hooray.  And somehow, I managed to stay awake through every single talk in every session. You may say "that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard in my life Jayson", but it's true.  Probably because I was taking notes the whole time and not laying on a couch.  But still.  Still can't stay awake in sacrament meetings though. 

Anyway conference was great.  Yo recibí mucho revalación por los profetas y apostoles.  No idea if that spanish is correcto or not.  We're just going to hope it is.  I liked President Uchtdorf's talk the most in the Sunday morning session or whenever it was.  The one about fear and stuff.  He talked about how the motivation we receive out of fear is often temporary and shallow.  The right way to teach and influence others is through love and Christlike attributes.  Christ didn't teach with fear, he taught with love.  Which made people follow him for the right reasons.  Which is how us missionaries should teach, with christlike attributes, so people can follow Christ through faith and repentance.  Or something.  He also said something about turning our fear into faith.  Which got me thinking about why I came on a mission.

At first when I started thinking about a mission I mostly wanted to do it out of motivation from fear.  What would my family think of me if I didn't serve a mission? What would my friends think?  What would happen to me? Would I stay active in the church or become a drunk hobo or something? Who knows? I also had a fear of the mission itself, and the difficulties involved.  But as I got closer and closer to leaving, and once I got my mission call, that fear started turning into faith.  Faith that the mission would bless me in ways I couldn't imagine.  Faith that I can do everything I've been asked to do.  And faith that the heat in Bolivia wont kill me after two days.  Still not sure about that last one but I'm still excited to get there.  But I'm thankful for my savior who has let me get to this point in my life, and hope I can share that joy with others.

Oh speaking of Bolivia, I should be headed there Monday night, for all you people who don't know yet.  I might miss a pday, since pdays here are on Wednesdays, and I'll be traveling on the mission pday.  So I might be a while.  But i'm so excited to get out of here.  It feels too much like college.  I hated college.  I mean I love it here, but I'm ready to go preach to la gente, you know what I'm saying?  Anyway, I love you all.  Wish me luck with the field.  I'm terrified but also excited.

Elder Bingham

All our favorite latinos.  Elder Supayabe in the front, Elder Peña and Rivas somewhere else.  I'm not sure I cant see the pic right now.

And Elder Prince looking like a hippie.