Life, a Few Experiences, Love, and Work

Elder Squire and Elder Cazier

1. Life
2. A Few Experiences
3. Love and What it Plays in my Life
4. Work
1. Life is really good!  We have 6 amazing investigators.  They are all loving the gospel and they all have a testimony of how true it is.  They do not like going to church because it is 30 minutes away.  Soooo, yeah, we are trying really hard to get them to develop the want to go.  They say that they will go but never show up.  I find it hard because I am used to people doing what they say.  Right now I have to adapt my actions to help them feel welcome in the church and feel loved enough to want to come every week or even come at all.  I know that once they come they will want to continue to come.  I know this because our ward is amazing!  It is just like any other ward but just with less people.  The people here are so full of love.  We had a meeting yesterday explaining how hard this month is going to be.  I guess December is a month of drinking and parties.  The members have all offered everything they have to us.  It is humbling because I have not met many people who would give all they had to two people, one of whom they don't even know yet and can't understand and who can't understand them.  It is an amazing area!  I have been told how hard this area is, but to me it is not work, it is fun to teach and learn.  This area is not hard but a pleasure to be in.  To go along the lines of how crazy this area is, I am the first person to be born (come into the mission) here in as long as any members can remember.  I have a name among the missionaries, they won't tell me but my companion has told me it is because I was born here, so I am infamous???  I have no idea, but yeah.  Oh, the member doing arm wrestling with me has never lost one match.  I almost beat him.  He wants to try it again in three weeks, when I may leave this area.

2. This week is the first week that I have eaten with a fork in a while.  The funny part is, it was in a Chinese Food Resturant.  I am dying over that :)  I never thought in a million years... I don't know why, but yeah, it kills me :)  We went to Koria the other day, it is a city here.  The only way to get to it (well, the only practical way) is to walk for about 40 minutes in an old dried up river bed.

Elder Cazier

Elder Squire

Elder Squire

Elder Squire

 3. I find that loving the people is hard but easy.  The people want me to speak and they are kinda upset with me right now because I can't.  It upsets me too.  I want to talk to them as much as they want me to.  But when I do talk to them they just look at me weird and then ignore what I said.  I love them to death though because they all love me to death.  It's hard to explain but I am working really hard to learn Spanish good enough to communicate.
4. As I said earlier, I am loving what I am doing.  There are times that I feel discouraged, but it never lasts long.  I have found that as I love what I am doing and who I am teaching it is not work but more of a want.  Not even that, it is more of a longing to teach and help them to know what I know.  We have seen so many blessings in our lives that I can't even number them.

I love and miss everyone and want everyone to know that they are loved!  -  Elder Cazier