Saturday 6/8/2013
I finally got a bunch of letters from home, about 7, I guess they came at a good time, right before I'm done. I got Caroline's announcement and as I saw that it hit me that Caroline really graduated! That's so weird! I'm kind of in this weird little world here in Colombia where I feel like nothing at home has changed at all, even though pretty much everything has changed. It will be very interesting to see how much everything has changed and what has happened.
I was shocked by Margaret´s little note that she wrote me with all the rest that you sent me back in April, that got here a couple of days ago. She was reading the Hunger Games! She really has become a good reader. That's a great skill that she is going to use when she gets older. But I was also shocked at how well she writes and her grammer and what not. You really have gotten big sis! Yesterday we were at a house of some members and some less actives, and there was a girl there who is 11 years old, and when she said that I said, there is no WAY that you are 11, because my little sister is almost 11 and the girl looked old, well not old, but older that I what I remember Margaret as. Margaret still is 8 years old in my head more or less. And Caroline is still 16, not 18 and graduated! That will be fun to finally realize.
So yes, the friends of Ginny did find me and it was awesome! They came to the offices and we met out front in the mall there and they gave me a card from Ginny. They were a really nice family from Bogotá that are neighbors of Ginny´s and Davids. I opened the note when we got home with my comp and there was money in it! It was a really nice letter that told me how I am doing a good work on behalf of the Raines family. It was very nice and it was nice to hear from that side of the family. Please tell her thank you and that I love her.
I am going to buy the rest of the stuff that I want to buy. I pretty much have got all the things I was looking for and what not. This week we are going to Yopal and I want to bring back some stuff from there, but other than that dad, I really don't need anything else. I am good to go. I just will need stuff when I get home, some clothes, garments. Don't worry about planning anything special when I get home, it will just be a special day whether or not we have any super plans. I am excited to be back with my family. I miss you all so very much. I have tried so hard to not think about home as much as I can avoid it without getting homesick, but not its starting to become inevitable. I was feeling meloncholy last night and I asked the lord for guidance. I felt like I should go just open up my English scriptures and I did and I opened to D y C 99:7 and 8 and got a good answer from heaven about what I need to do.
This week we had the mission leadership council and I was able to give a capacitation and bear my testimony. I only remembered then that it was there in that same chapel in Tierra Linda where I gave my first testimony here as a missionary, and fittingly I gave my last one as well. My comp and I had an hour and a half to teach the missionaries, because President said he was tired from all of the interviews and wanted us to do it for him.
We talked about our purpose as missionaries, and how we need to depend on the Lord for everything we do. We really hit John 15:5, I think we were lead by the spirit to that scripture and I really like what it says. On Monday we went to Duitama and had our intercambios there with the zone leaders. This Monday in the night we are going to be headed off to Yopal and will be there all day Tuesday and will head back to Bogotá Tuesday night. President says that he is going to call the new assistant that Wednesday so that I can teach them both a bunch of things with the transfers. I go home 3 days or so before the transfers and before the arrival of all the new missionaries, so I gotta show them a couple things about how that's done and what not.
I have come to realize that the very last days of the mission of the Savior were the more important. He basically performed and fulfilled his mission in the last three days of his life. That's a good example to us at how it doesn't matter if we are at the beginning, or the very last end, we have to endure to the end, not just as a full time missionary, but as a son or daughter of God. If we don't we wont pass the test, and wont be able to make it back to his presence.
I will see you in one week from today. I love you all so much. Keep me in your prayers asI keep you in mine.
Elder Raines.
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