we learn the same way as babies

hey family. it has been another hard but awesome week. we have been able to find a lot of people this week and we are teaching a couple families. when you work the lord really does bless you. he just wants to make sure that you are working are hard as you can. 

so this week was hard because my little friend alison lost her baptismal date. we went to teach her and she came out with her mom. we saw the dad standing in the doorway looking at us and i knew something was wrong. i looked down and alison had 3 book of mormons in her hand. she said that her dad said if she didnt give the books back to us he was going to burn them. it was so sad to see her face. she was so so excited to get baptized and her dad took that oportunity away from her. i know that she will be fine and in a few years hopefully she will have the oportuinity again to listen to the missioneros. 

but my other little friend constanca came to church with her mom and dad. it was so cool to see this family come back to the church. the dad talked to the bishop and he is going to get prepared to be able to baptize his little girl. it is such an awesome feeling to see a family that hasnt been to church together for years come back. they are so excited to change thier lives and come back. it is days like that, that make every long, hot day of walking around worth it!!!!

ok well i have officially gotten my first blisters of the mission. but the weird thing is that i didnt get them from walking... i got out of the shower with my flip flops on and i decided to leave them on even though they were wet. so now i have two great big blisters in between my big toe and my other toe... haha it stinks but asi es la mision. also i havent heard anything about amy and if she is still getting married, if there is a date or anything so if you could update me that would be awesome!!!

ok so mom here is my christmas wish list. 

1. electric shave (the green thing that you put on to shave)
2. some byu stuff (surprise me!!)
3. photos of you guys (its incredible how fast you change)
4. chocolate chips (this is one thing they dont have down here, and a recipe so i can make some chocolate chip cookies!!!)
5. 3 things of the auzzi hair gel (the hair gel here stinks)
6. some treats like snickers, twix, recess pieces...

ya well i learned a awesome lesson this week. its the ways that we learn in this life. there are 2 ways and both ways can be described by examples of babies. 

first, is we have to learn by doing. a baby will never ever learn how to walk if it doesnt try. it cant sit there and listen to its parents and watch other babies then walk. it has to get up and fall and get up and fall again. 

second, we can learn from the examples of others. our parents can tell us that the iron is hot and that we shouldnt touch it. the baby can listen to his parents or it can touch it and see if it is really hot. 

we learn the same way as these babies. God knew this also and because of this he sent us to earth so that we dont have to crawl for the rest of eternity. we can walk and run. many times we have to try to see what is going to happen. but the times when we can learn from others examples is just as important. we have parents, leaders, friends, prophets, bishops, companions and we should trust in them. not always but we can learn a lot from others. lets make sure we dont settle with crawling in this life and make sure not to get burnt. 

i love you all tons. hope you have a awesome week. mom and dad i am jealous but have a awesome time in hawaii. kids i love you all. fam, you guys are awesome. keep up the good work. love ya. 

elder hall

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