me encanta kfc..

 sooo, i went to kfc last week, yeah, its not very good here.  yall should feel blessed, and say a prayer of gratitude because you have a kfc that doesnt make you sick and tastes good, but other then that downer my week was pretty good!!!

     the fact that i only have a few weeks left with elder sumano just hit me in the face... that poor kid, ill bet he will miss me!!! lol, no but for real its been a good time with him, ive learned a lot, and weve made some good memories together and for that i am soo soo grateful! kinda scary to think that two weeks from now president is gonna call out a name and whether i like him or not were stuck together for atleast a month and a half... pray for my next comp that he will be a good one please :)

    so, i played basketball today... that was very interesting, i think a mix between the fact that i havnt touched a basketball in 4 monthes, the ghettoness of the court and the fact that none of the mexican elder actually knew how to play basketball made it a game for the ages... lol.  they suck so bad.

    so my investigators are doing pretty good, although we had to drop someof them... oh well.  if they want it they want it, if they dont they dont, simple enough!!

    were working super hard tho, elder sumano and i have a goal to teach 60 lessons next week, ahhh its going to be so so so awesome, walking like 5 miles a day just doing work, im so grateful to be out here serving, its so satisfying, theres not much else that anyone could do thats better lol, so if yall wanna do something worthwile go on a mission, yes, you brandon ward. you.

     so as much as i want to report on the week i cant, theres stuff more important out there...  my prayers go out to the loerchster and culley families this week.   as a missionary one thing that i have learned is that i dont have all of the answeres... and it kills me, because i want to be able to help and answer and do all of that stuff so bad.  but what i can say is god loves each and every single one of us, and that it will all workout in the end, i know that and i testify of that every single day and i wont ever stop, because its too easy for us to forget... so my words and my prayers are that you all rest easy people, god left us in good hands when he sent his son to die for us!  please please dont ever forget it, because in a life as imperfect as this one, and the world we live in today, there isnt anything in the world i could tell you that is more comforting then the fact that you have a father in heaven who loves you, who cares for you, and who has a plan for each and every single one of you.   why do i know that?  because i see it every single day, in my life and in the lives of those i teach and i feel it every single night as i kneel to pray, and now without a shout of a doubt i know it.       family, friends if you do not know for yourself that god loves you, open your eyes, and see.  open your ears and hear, and last of all, open your heart and feel and i promise you in one way or another, god will let you know that hes there, that hes listening, and that hes looking out for you.  

stay up and smile everyone

-elda hicks