Candy Withdrawals

hey mom and family.

How is everyone? doing good i hope. im doing good here. it is getting colder and im loving it. i love the cold.

so my week has been kind of interesting. wed. i went on exchange with elder taylor. (this was fun. everytime i introduced my self i wanted to call myself taylor.) but anyway it was all english. we talked with evreyone when we were biking. we stopped and talked to alot of nice people. one lived in utah for five years. he said he loved it. especially temple square. he loved the feeling that was there. so we asked if he wanted to do a church tour. the church tours are things we take investigators on and walk thourgh the church and use the paintings of christ and the chapel to teach the first lesson about christs life, and we use the baptismal font to teach about baptism then we do the joseph smith story and bam baptismal commitment. haha. but he rejected. i asked if he would ever pass an opportunity to feel the spirit he felt at temple square. he said no. then i said it is the same feeling. the same joy he felt there. .......he still said no. we talked to one lady who got mad at us. she thought solicitation of gospel is wrong. she was catholic. so much for proclaiming the gospel to all the world like the bible says huh. we talked with a few other people who kindly accpeted a book of mormon and others who invited us back. it felt good doing this seeing a different side of missionary work. we dont get alot of opportunities to do this when we are in a car.

the next day back with my companion. we realized we didnt have a lot of miles left on our car ( we are only allowed so many amonth just so we dont drive all over and over use the cars.) we did the math and we realized we had about 80 for 4 days.) we usually drive about 40 a day. so we planned alittle better and tried to hit one area where we had people who wanted to talk. the next day we tried hard to get a member team up but having only like 15 men in the ward who can help and 7 of them have cars. no one could help. so we had the other elders drop us off and we walked. everywhere. it wouldnt have been a big deal if we were going from door to door knocking and teaching. we had to walk 45 minutes from appointment to appointment because the spanish speakers dont always live in the same area. yea and it was raining hard. and i dont have a jacket for rain haha. missionary life is fun......most of the time.

sunday (yesterday) the branch mission leader got up to speak and called all four missionaries up. yeah i had to speak. in spanish. on anything i wanted. i had nothing prepared and i didnt have my scriptures on the stand with me. i left them on the bench down below. We were supposed to sing in church the four of us. and i thought that was what we were doing. we walked up he said sit down you are next. haha it was fun. i think i did ok. i just talked about christ what he did for us and what we need to do to follow him. my companion said i did good but i think he has to say that. haha.

we sang after the four of us spoke. we sang lead kindly light. (in spanish divina luz) i like singing. i would rather do that then speak.

we still dont have word on our visas which isnt that big of a deal. i dont mind it here at all. so what ever happens happens. plus when i get home from where ever we can come back here and meet people i taught. i love the people here alot. i cant understand everything they say but i love them and can feel the love from them. it is incredible what the spirit can convey. we dont even have to talk to know that they are struggling. there is a member family going through a rough time and my companion and i didnt know until we walked in talked for a bit and could just tell something was wrong. we are visiting them more often to see what we can do to help.

i love you all so much. How is the book of mormon reading coming? good i hope. read everyday. it makes a difference in your day i promise that. i love you so much be safe.

Love you brother and son

oh last thing. i hope everything was fun for halloween. i had to stay indoors all night. we arent allowed to drive the car or go anywhere with out a member so we sat with the elders next door and talked for a little while. we couldnt get members to go with us anywhere and we didnt have any appointments. they saw a picture of kait and started saying she wasnt going to wait. it hurt alot. im just starting to not miss home and have everything fine then they went and salted the wound. oh well. what can you do. ill ljust ignore it and keep going. anyway. im sad i didnt get to eat out of the candy bowl this year. i wanted to eat candy last night so bad. i miss moms extra supply we get every year. anyway i love you lots.

love elder paskett