The holidays are here!

Subject: The holidays are here!
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:50

Hey yall!

The holidays have many surprises to offer and usually they are good ones. I am happy to hear that Annette and you are getting along like a mother and daughter should. How crazy, Brandon is a junior! That’s what two years away from home does, we all grow 2 years older and yet we don’t see it happen!

Girls, we can’t live with them and we live without them. What is a man to do?! I doubt things with Justin will pan out as he hopes because what he feels isn’t love and that’s something I know from experience. The best thing he can do is enjoy her presence while it lasts because things will change a whole lot when he goes into the military. His life really won’t be his and he will grow up and want different things out of life. Honestly I think they should part ways while they still can be friends and really if through the course of his life he finds his way back to her that’s cool.
It sounds like June 2010 will be a memorable one for all of us just about! I am happy that Annette got her condo and that it’s a nice one. I am thrilled to hear that Brandon is chilling out, maybe he is growing up.

I haven’t received the envelope or my package but there probably saving it for Christmas if they have arrived. I too look forward to the Christmas call, to be able to talk to the family once again. I really hope that before I get home we can get the family going to church. It would be a huge blessing for them and it would help a lot in the thing we lack as a family and that is UNITY.

We need to stop holding grudges, being prideful, hard hearted and really breaks the false traditions of our family apart, and start anew. Life is short and the things of the world will pass but the family CAN be eternal! When I get home I will be able to talk more intelligently about the gospel and what living it really can do for us. I will not lecture or force my religion on anyone but I will share with them what I have learned during these two years because I have learned so much and yet there is so much more to learn. I have learned that were here not on vacation but to be tried so that we can progress. It’s not easy to admit that we are the problem when in reality usually we are. These past 2 changes have been really tough for me and the next one seems to be equal because I will be staying here in Lima until January. Sadly it doesn’t look like I will be going back to the jungle but it is what it is, God knows why I am here even if I don’t. If you could do me a favor and send one of those chocolate oranges that they have for the holidays. The ones when you tap it on the table it breaks into slices like an orange I would really appreciate it. Please send it to: Consuelo del Rosario Garcia Quiroz, Jr. Piedraluna, 2515 3ero PisoUrb. San Carlos San Juan de Lurigancho Lima, Perú.

Thanks mom you’re the bomb! I hope you are all well, sticking in there as I am persevering till the end. I hope you remember that your heavenly father loves you and wants the best for you. If you pray, go to church, read your scriptures daily, work hard, build the business and keep the Sabbath day holy you will be blessed in every way you are in need. My testimony of the church has grown immensely and with that I have more joy and security in life and I want that for my family as well. Keep on keepin on! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Morton