Adele,
A quick note today, since I'm late. Last night I watched hours of Ace of Cakes and a ridiculous Biography special on Johnny Depp, who himself is a brilliant actor of course. I woke up this morning at 5 to help a friend named Catherine pack a truck and say hello to a lovely and awesome woman, Liz Whittaker, they being roommates at the time, though no more because Catherine's gone! Anyway it's been a slow week with lots of good things going on. I've finally met my home teaching companion and we went crazy visiting our cool people in the Branch. I'm still Gospel Doctrine teacher and Young Men's President,
the latter of which I've no clue what to do with. There's a guy there named Chris Shumate who is cool and was in my C.S. Lewis class and reminds me of one of my mission companions. Somehow, slowly, that branch is becoming less and less irritating and more and more entertaining. We shall see how things progress.
Spiritual thought: D&C 127:2 "And as for the perils which I am called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me, as the envy and wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my life; and for what cause it seems mysterious, unless I was ordained from before the foundation of the world for some good end, or bad, as you may choose to call it. Judge ye for yourselves. God knoweth all these things, whether it be good or bad. But nevertheless, deep water is what I am wont to swim in. It all has become a second nature to me; and I feel, like Paul, to glory in tribulation; for to this day has the God of my fathers delivered me out of them all, and will deliver me from
henceforth; for behold, and lo, I shall triumph over all my enemies, for the Lord God hath spoken it."
Discovered that yesterday while preparing to talk about the Nauvoo temple and baptisms for the dead. D&C 127-128 is AMAZING! READ IT or DIE!!!
love ya tons like a load of flowers,
Jacob
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