Family, and friends.. and trends?

hey all! well im still having a blast its impossible to avoid having a good time while on a mission! so i don't have a ton of time right now cause yeah we have zone conference today.. and honestly i only got to read some of my emails i had to skip a few so i could write but i will read them! so, some cool things.. we have this investigator named david and he rocks i love him, elder jones, my companion, was teaching him with his comp before i came in, but since i've been here the Lord has been been able to use me in helping him gain a strong testimony.. or at least a stronger one.. david is definitely prepared, he is set to be baptized this weekend so well see what happens.. something really cool happened the other night.. after we had helped him rake some leaves we talked a little bit and before we left.. (it was late at night and we were outside) i felt prompted to promise him that he would receive an answer that night after praying and tell hing the Lord how he felt about things in his life.. and well the next day he told us that he had a vision, a vision of himself floating above the world.. and being the type of guy he is, he interpreted it to mean that he would rise above his problems. and it was awesome to hear.. it was so cool to think that the Lord wanted him to have this promise and used me to deliver it! Hes i think in his late 30s and has a wife and 2 or 5 kids or something, its kind of confusing, but hes was cool! that's really the highlight of the mission right now! ive met some awesome people in parking lots and stuff too.. its crazy how nice people are, but sometimes just to be nice.. and that stinks.. umm matt, that's sweet about the jet engine do it. also i did the cinnamon challenge.. and yeah its totally impossible to swallow a spoonful of Cinnamon! there is a video of it, but its on my elder jones camera so we'll have to figure that out another time.. also sorry no pictures yet.. i will try to try to get them next week! now! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! i hope it went way good! and you had some cool key lime cake or something! i really miss everyone! so dad are you 50 now? or 49? sarah thanks for the email! i hope you and the baby are doing way good.. love you guys!! tell jon match i said that his mission call is way cool and im excited for him, also tell him that when he gets to the MTC to do his very best to be different from all of the rowdy missionaries.. if there is one word of advice i could give to all future missionaries it would be this.. DONT BE A ROWDY MISSIONARY AT THE MTC!.. they are annoying and dont seem to follow all of the rules.. and there are many of them..mom thanks for your email like always! i was thinking the other day about the 2000 stripling warriors, how they learned from their mothers.. and i have learned so much from you and am so grateful for the impact that you and dad have had on my life! im sorry this letter is not as long as the last one, but i really wish it could be, but they kind of stole our p-day from us today so we could just hear from a general 70.. i guess thats important.. (kidding).. i did shake his hand last night at a special investigator fireside last night.. that was awesome, he and his wife are British, they are way cool, he gave an amazing talk and of course so did president mcconkie!.. oh and elder jones and i had to give talks in church yesterday.. they went really well we got a lot of compliments! so that was cool... well we have at least 2 scheduled baptisms for this coming weekend.. hopefully we will get them both! one of them has schizophrenia (not david, the other one).. oh and also.. like i said how there are only 4 missionaries in my district, the other two missionaries baptized a cool lady just on saturday and stuff, and she has 12 fingers.. yup.. 6 on each hand,.. it was really weird to shake her hand.. i bet rachel would think that was funny.. and weird and kind of cool, shes cool like that.. whelp! i love you guys so way much and am still of course so excited to be here.. my hardest thing to do right now is to just randomly contact people.. so really to knock doors.. its actually tough to do, but once its done its easy heh.. we also go to parking lots some times and just contact random people.. we have to get 20 contacts per companionship a day.. so 10 for me and 10 for elder jones.. its effective.. we meet way cool people.. and we meet kinda rude people and whatnot.. oh i wanted to tell g-mom and pop thanks so much for their letters! and also thanks to everyone else.. its really awesome... but hey guess what if you are feeling like it.. you can mail me actual letters too! i still havnt gotten any, but thats fine.. and as far as packages go all i can say is.. candy is really awesome, ties are really awesome, and pictures are really awesome.. the mail here is fine as far as i know.. just use the address on blog to the mission home!.. oh man i still have "some" time i wish i knew of some cool stuff i could write.. oh! if you are not in my family get my family to mail me your addresses!! so then i can write you an actual letter! cause i can only write family on the email stuff.. and yes its ok to get emails from family and friends but i can only email back to family.. but i can write actual letters to you if i have your address! oh and again to you guys at the UPS store.. wooo! whats up! i hope you guys are doing way stinking awesome, i know these letters might be confusing and uninteresting but, to bad.. read them anyway! Maybe ill ship you guys a package someday.. gum for all the gum i ate of peters, and suckers so max can quit smoking.. heh.. miss you guys! anyway all is well in south carolina... its a confusing state.. the weather is weird, but really nice.. and sumter (the city/area im in) is really really poor.. peoples houses are almost third wold.. its crazy and really sad.. people have it super super rough here! Well my testimony of our Savior's gospel is increasing day by day and I am always learning! I had a cool thought come to me in church yesterday as we were talking about families being the central unit for learning and this was my thought.. "Who we become later in life, is who we learned to be earlier in youth.." i thought that was kinda cool, and really its pretty stinking true.. we learn by example and.. yup! i had another way cool thought that came to me at the MTC one night while I was praying.. it went something like this.. "Our ability to teach is dead without the Spirit, which Spirit bares witness of the truth of all things, and carries the message we share to those whom will hear.." now thats not exact but i have my exact thought written down in my journal.. you have to write down your thoughts and feelings, i wrote it down right after i prayed, and yup, just as the Prophet President Monson taught.. "knowledge carefully recorded, is knowledge ready in time of need".. and also thats not exact either, but hey maybe you get my point! ANYWAY! I love you all and really do miss you all so much! I am so stoked for the rest of my mission and for the rest of my future! I want to teach, i know that more than ever that what i want to do with my time and my life is to teach.. i stinking fall in love with everyone i meet and i want them to have and know what I KNOW to be true.. but i can only share my testimony.. to find out the truthfulness of the gospel you must find out for yourself.. through prayer, scripture study, and honestly a weird one, attending church.. im starting to see how necessary church attendance is now that i'm here especially for those who truly want to know for THEMSELVES! anyway enough of that.. well there can never be enough of that honestly.. but thats good for right now.. i love you all.. have a way awesome week and remember who you are and who you WANT to be.. and be it.. remember.. "If you plan to be better later, you will never be.. If you plan to be better NOW, you will begin to be, and in that very moment, you will become!" heh i love these quotes! but truth of the matter is that the credit doesnt go to me, but to the Lord, who helped me to see what i already knew! AGAIN! i love you guys! fairly well! -elder andrew mcmurry!