Hey everyone!!! I bought a lama jacket today made of real lama fur and it’s sweet. Me and Elder Frost had to go to this place called Santa Lucia today about 40 min away from our sector to get him a pair of glasses and we got permission from President to go and look around there while we were waiting for his glasses to get put together. I found a ton of cool stuff. I think I spent like 50 bucks. Ha-ha I’m gonna be so poor when I get back home. Oh well that’s what money is for right......it doesn’t do a whole lot of good if you leave it in the bank account all your life.
Dad, good luck with your surgery, I hope all goes well for you. and I know your going to be on your butt all day so I want to challenge you to study your scriptures while you have all that extra time. I have seriously grown to love the scriptures here and I treasure my study time I have in the morning. I learn so much in that little time I have to study each day. Oh and my journal.... ya I’m trying to write in it but honestly we have very little time. If I try to write in it every night I go to bed after the hour I’m supposed to and when I’m trying so hard to obey the rules its nearly impossible. But I’ll try and do better, not that you can read my hand writing anyways. Oh and ya I would love it if you sent me some vitamins. I might need some face wash if you could, but it’s not a huge deal. Ya, I did get your CD’s thanks mom, you’re the best!!!! I listen to them every day.
Its still hot as ever hear and I don’t think its going to cool off for about a month or 2 longer. But hopefully it will come soon I’m dying of heat ha-ha.
So I was thinking the other day about how never realized how much every little action really affects our salvation. That’s why its so important that we involve the lord in everything and every decision we have to make. I had a lesson this week about prayer, and we talked about how prayer in the morning is directly connected to prayer at night. They aren’t supposed to be the same but they are a continuation of what we presented to the lord when we started our day. If you read in Moses about the creation of the world, God created everything spiritually first then he created it physically. Our prayers are supposed to be done the same way. As we start our day off, we start it with a prayer, presenting our plans to the lord and pray for his help to fulfill all of our plans during the day (or in other words we create it spiritually). During the day we have a prayer in our hearts and we are out in the actual world trying to fulfill our plans and create what we presented to God to start off the day. And when we end our day (with a prayer) we present our day to him again and thank him for EVERYTHING because everything comes from him. You need to read the talk by Elder Bednar from last general conference about prayer. I think it’s called PRAY ALWAYS, I can’t remember exactly but it’s really good. The other awesome part about prayer is that prayer is not just a one way thing. It is really is a 2 way thing we just need to talk to him and live righteously and listen for an answer and prayer becomes a conversation.
So this week we have an investigator named Kata that is ready to get baptized, she knows its true and knows she wants to get baptized, but the problem is that she is living with a friend of hers that is a boy and he is a member, they say they are living the law of chastity but they still cant live together unless they are married. So were trying to help her find somewhere else to live and find her a job and when that happens she is going to be baptized.
Well I gotta run but I love you all. Thanks for your prayers. You are always in mine.
Talk to you soon.

Elder Hovey