Ello poppits!
Its a beautiful day for some sweet, delicious, Zachy updates! (you know you love it.)
Elder Van Pelt has a new little church job that he is doing 3 times a week on the computer. There is a program that is basically a huge database of all the members in his mission. His job is to correct any mis-spelled names and to enter their addresses into the database. They have their work cut out for them because there are 16 missionaries working on this database of about 15,000 people. Holy smokes!
Zachs Spanish is getting increasingly more awesome. He can understand exponentially more than when he arrived (obviously), and has been able to carry on full conversations with some Chileans.
Rosemary is still scheduled to be baptized, which is such a great thing to hear! She still needs to quit gambling though so that she can make that commitment to the church, so hopefully she can keep her money in her pockets :) Zach has built quite a bond with Rosemary as we have had similar experiences in our family, with our cousin Scott recieving a scary diagnosis of a brain tumor and about two years ago, losing our very close cousin Jake. This month 2 years ago he took his own life, and Zach gave a very beautiful tribute to him in this letter as he sent words of comfort to Jakes mother, Kim. He testified of the power of the atonement and the covenants we make in the temple.
Zach was having some more questions of why he was out in the mission field and how he was helping. He prayed to recieve inspiration in one way or another. One morning as he was opening his scriptures a picture of Jesus Christ fell out of it and on the back read this quote From Elder Bruce R. McConkie:
"My Missionary Commission: I am called of God. My authority is above that of the kings of the Earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and he has chosen me to represent him. To stand in his place, to say and do what he himself would say and do if he personally were ministering to the very people to whom he has sent me. My voice is his voice, and my acts are his acts; my words are his words and my doctrine is his doctrine. My commission is to do what he wants done. To say what he wants said. To be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous latter day work."
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