Nothing is impossible!

Hola fam from villa sur. I was so excited to get the pics of my new neice. She is so so so cute!!! I am excited to get to know her in a little while. Lyndz, as always you picked a weird name but so far i like the names that you have picked so we will have to see. I dont even know how to say her name zharaa...? haha but she looks so cute and sounds like she is really loved. I am proud of ya lindz for being awesome. Mom told me bout your missionary work that you are doing with this lady that lived by you and thats so awesome. Keep it up and help out thoes missionaries in utah. They need as much help as they can get. 

So this has been a pretty boring week here in chile. Nothing really exciting happened here so i dont really know what i am going to write about. One really cool thing that happened. This week we had a conference with the mission. We have one every change and they are always awesome. It was sweet cause they always talk about what i need to hear and this one wasnt an exception. 

This past change i have been really down and not had very much energy. I have had to push and push myself to help my comp and keep me going and it has been really hard. So i havent had very much excitement. But that is exactly what they talked about. Also they talked about how nothing is imposible. They showed this movie of a guy who had done the ironman, where you swim, bike and run. He had done it a bunch of times and it is extremely hard to do even for the most fit and strong people in the world. Well, he had a son and he wanted his son to do this ironman just like him, but there was a problem. His son had a spinal disease and he couldnt even walk. But that didnt stop his dad, it made him want to do it more. And by the way, his son wasnt 4 or 5 he was 20 years old.

So the dad ends up tying his son, who is in a small boat, to his back and swimming the full lenght. He made a seat for his son and strapped it on his bike and went the full lenght of that. And ran with his son in a special wheel chair for this ridiculous distance and finished the race. It was incredible to see it, at the end i was in tears. They interview the dad at the end and he looks right into the camera and says, “Nothing is impossible!” that really hit me hard. He is true, nothing in the world is imposible. If we want to do it we just have to work and work to acomplish it. This guy was in his late 50s when he did that and i am sure it nearly killed him. But he had the goal that his son was going to do this ironman and he did it.

Many times in life things dont go how we want them to go. But what are we going to do? Are we going to roll over and die or bite the bullet and do it. I am sure that tons of people told this man that there was no way he could accompish this imposible race with all that extra weight but he did it anyway. What are we going to do when we hit bumps in life? We can make excuses, “its way too hard” “its imposible, we are never going to be able to do it”. Or we can stand up tall and go. Give it our all and then if we cant do it at least we did all that we could to try. 

Life is hard. I am not going to deny that. But we just need to live every day, try our hardest and when we hit the pillow at night make sure we didnt leave anything out on the playing field. I know this church is true. I know it! Please dont forget it. Every single one of you know it as well. You have had spiritual witnesses. Dont forget thoes feelings when it gets tuff. I have seen it so many times here on the mission. People know its true but they forget or just dont want to do it. This church is not for the weak. We are the strongest there are. What other church askes for 2 years of your life? 10 percent of your money? To give up every single thing that the world says in right and good? You are stronger than you know. I love you all tons. I am so happy to have such a loving family. You guys are my joy and i am always bragging about you to every one here. My favorite part of the week is when i get to hear from you guys. I love it so much. You guys are awesome. I cant wait for conference and i hope that you guys just soak up every single word that our savior says through the mouths of his chosen servents. Have an awesome week!!!

Love

Elder hall