it was great to hear from you all. It sounds like you are all getting warmed up for a fun larson summer, sounds great. Mom as a response to your question i think kalan doesnt need any boyfriends, also i feel that taylor is a girls name. Dad maybe you could make the fence colombian style like i told you about a while back, lots of sticks on end with a wire holding them together, im sure the neighbors would enjoy it. this week went well with my compa E diaz. he is getting used to being exposed to all the problems of our investigadores that he didnt have to deal with at home (something that happens to all misioneros at first) so i get to cheer him up alot, in my cheery way. the family Jimenez Gomez (laureano y ana) are doing really well, they both have had really tough lives and are excited to have things forgotten thanks to Christs atoning power. Ana has given up cafe like a champ and Laureano hasnt drunk since his birthday 3 weeks ago so we are making progress. Next comes marriage which is going to be an excellent opurtunity to`promise blessings. Ive come to find out here in the good ol Mision colombia Barr. that with anything but especially marriages it seems its alot better to prevent things from going bad as opposed to letting them go bad and then trying to fix them. Some things are just better left unsaid and not done then ask forgivness. I think this is what you were trying to teach me about school mom, its better to start out on top rather than dig yourself out of the hole (although i was never sure how i could dig myself out of a hole, i always thought climbing out made more sense). ohh funny story that only happens teaching in colombia....
so we were teaching our invest. about the word of wisdom and the best thing is that he is living 100% YAYY! when we got to the part about drugs he said he totally agreed and that it is way important to stay away from drugs. Well he said it in such a way that we thought he might have had a problem with drugs which means we need to know if he has or not so we can prevent him from using drugs again. he told us he never used drugs but just when he was a teenager he lived on his family farm in the country and they grew marijuana for a few years!! he said that in the 80´s some guys from bogota came and talked his family into growing marijuana and after they grew it a bunch of gringos came in planes and shipped it all to we know were.... (california for sure). but after a few years they stopped growing it because it was alot harder than growing the normal stuff they grow here and they didnt want any problems with the kind of problems that happen in colombia when you grow drugs. exciting stuff right.
well thanks for all your letter and love, im doing good working away and focusing on the time that i have left to do something that i wont ever be able to do again in the same way. its a gift and thanks for letting me live it.
Love
Elder Larson
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