Dear Family,
Well this has been a weird week. I have a new companion named elder Taylor, and he his from Layton, Utah. He is short and nice. I like him, and I think that dad would too. We both like corn on the cob, think that Chapstick is a load of garbage, lotion is a vice and that suntan lotion is a hoax. We both enjoy working out, and we plan to eat really well ( as in healthy). The only problem is that I keep on receiving candy from the girlfriend and cake from every person I seem to talk to.... home, the Flynns, and the Poulitos. puese. I guess just 3 people, but still, it is cake. Elder Taylor has served in this area before but in English speaking, so all the English people want to feed him=me too.. so I am afraid for my diet. I only buy healthy foods and I am off sugar, except the sugar I get from my sugar mama(Liza). Thank heavens for a English member that likes me. She got me quinoa for my birthday.
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| Elder Pinegar overlooking the Wenatchee River - Feb 2012 Wenatchee, WA |
I am getting closer than ever to my goals of self discipline. Sometimes I feel like my mind is a puppy, and if I get too excited, I can't keep it in check. I have a hard time controlling it when I eat and that makes me ADD worse, so I am trying to get a better control of my ADD by disciplining myself in more ways than just one.
Well this week, me and Elder Taylor found a ton of people who said that they would come to church and Saturday we had 10+ people and Sunday came and not a one was there. I need someone to explain to people that it is nice to have me over, but makes me way more ticked when you lie to my face on a weekly basis. I kinda feel like Satan a bit. I want to just run around in a large van and use my large muscles to throw people into the van and make them stay for a full three hours.... then I would take them all out for ice creams after. I am a bit frustrated with agency and how people use it. I wish I could show them the effects of good agency, how it can bless their lives both temporally and spiritually. I have read that scripture with people so much. I don't see how they miss what I am saying. I pretty much feel like Elder Holland pleading for someone to go to church with him because it will make their lives so much better.......
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| Elder Pinegar re-enacting the First Vision - Feb 2012 Wenatchee - Taken by Elder Metcalf |
But it's OK because I go back out, and they tell me the same thing again. I feel bad that I did that to Fred and my dad for so long. I can kinda understand how the Lord sees me. How every time I make a mistake he is like no no no NO! (said like Elder Metcalf). Dang it Elder Pinegar, you know better. I know you know better. I guess we have to have another conversation about this then. Then I get to relearn a concept that I forgot... that is no fun. I hope that I can keep progressing at a rate that will allow the lord to bless me. I know it's hard to teach someone who learns so slowly... but I know that Christ has patience and hope in me, and in everyone. We can all improve as we grow to be closer to Him.
Christ has already payed for us, we just have to fulfill our potential. He will never be fed up with us. He will patiently walk with us until we work off the fat that keeps us from running as He does.
Your son,
Elder Pinegar