Monday, June 4, 2012

The Last One

HEY EVERYBODY!!! :-D HOWZITGOING?!?!?!
  So this is it. :-) This is the last one.  Tomorrow it`ll be 25 months.  That's a long time.  And yet it doesn`t really feel like two years have passed by.  I still feel like I`m 19, just older :-D If that makes any sense.  So long.  So great.  You wish that everyone could have the opportunity :-D Simply awesome.
  Everyone is asking me, ´´When are you going?´´.  There`s a member that calls occasionally to tell me how many hours are left.  Fetcher.  I`ve gotten several calls from missionaries saying goodbye because everyone thought I was leaving today  Everyone wants me gone.  :-D It doesn`t feel real.  It feels just like any other week.  I`m grateful for that.  I´ve met a lot of missionaries that DIED their last week :-) Not me man.  I`m immortal. :-D
   This week we tried something different.  We basically ignored all the petty excuses we usually get until we got to the real reasons why the people don´t want to listen.  They usually say that they aren´t interested and then we respond ´´Well WHY? We´re talking about eternal life here, how men STILL are talking with God, that there are more scriptures to read and how they can bless our lives, that man after almost two millenium has the power of God to heal the sick, raise the dead, and achieve salvation AND exaltation.  I´D make the time to listen if I were you.´´  Sometimes that works, usually no.  Sad.  An Elder who I really respect once told me ´´It´s ok to be annoying if it saves souls´´ I agree.
  I´ve heard people tell me, especially here in this sector, that they know that I know and that they´re impressed by my conviction to all this, but they do nothing to find out why I know what I know and how I know it and how it can help them.  They allow their doubts and fears and base wants to lead their lives and because of that they don´t feel that witness of the truth nor the spirit that it brings.  But I take comfort in a line that an Apostle said once, ´´Someday every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ and that salvation can only come HIS way´´  Maybe not in my day but someday. 
   I AM GOOD :-) I´m excited :-D I KNOW now.  My life is before me and not just this one :-D I KNOW that God lives, that Jesus is his son, that Jesus really did pay for the sins of ALL MEN, that through obedience to the commandments and with the authority of God I WILL make it to the other side and live happily ever after and not alone either but with my family.  Joseph Smith was a Prophet of GOD.  The Book of Mormon is the word of God and contains the Fullnes of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  There are Prophets on the earth today.  These things are true not because I believe in them or because you believe in them but because THEY ARE TRUE and PERIOD.  How great is that? :-D
   Mom Dad Meri Grace and Sophie, i´ll see you around :-D We´re going to have a lot of fun together.  Eating food, watching movies, going to places, being american :-D  Elder Sam, you gotta wait but I´ll still give you a call and now I got all sorts of time to write :-D LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE EX ELDER JAMIE MCCONNELL IS COMING TO TOWN AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN!!! ¡¡¡YA TU SABES!!! :-D
  Thats it guys .-) I love you all a ton.  Stay cool, have fun, seeya soon and BE HAPPY!!!
 Sincerely
   Elder James ´´Jamie´´ Farrell McConnell the IV
aka Elder McAwesomeSauce.
  p.s. Tell Sam to shut up.. . . i´m not fat.