1 Corinthians 13:13 
Faith and hope are both things we have to have on
this earth because this is where we don't know beforehand that we lived with God.  That we will return to know, after this life, which is what Paul is meaning, by then I know and then I will know.  Meaning then as in the past tense, and then as in the future tense.  Like then this will happen, which also explains  what he is saying by now I know in part, meaning on this earth.   Or knowledge isn't fully received through a glass darkly, but then face-to-face.  Faith and hope are what we need to have to conquer all the problems that we occur throughout this life.  But after this life we will know.  So we won't need to have faith or hot, but we WILL need to have charity.  We will need charity forever.   So I drew up a little kind of equation for it.  


If our eternal journey is represented in the line form, left to right.  Now if you were to graph infinity next to that 100 year lifespan, the graph would have to increasingly get bigger as a result.  100 years would eventually get so small you can't see it, which goes back to the scriptures, Life is but a blink of an eye, to our Father in Heaven.  We go though a lot of challenges on earth which is why we have our faith or hope.  As we learn, from Nephi, we will never get a trial or a problem or a test that we will not be able to achieve or overcome.  as represented by the equation y is greater than or equal to X.   

You asked about the following: 

My companion, Elder Mikels is one of my favorite missionaries that I've had so far.  But, Elder Crabb, my zone leader, asked how I would feel about being a leader.  I have been a leader most of my life in the church since I was 12.  I was the Deacon's Quorum President, the Teacher's Quorum President, then the Bishop's First Assistant in London.  So, on my mission I have been learning how to be a follower.  This is a skill, up until my mission, I have not learned.  I was either in charge, or I was being a nuisance in the back with everyone else.  Now I know how to follow.  How be to be an example, and to lead by example.  

Note, I tell people that the two things I want them to learn from me is to first know that I love and care for them, "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."  And then second, that I'm a hard worker in all things.  

So I know I haven't written much in a while.  Now that we're on iPads, i can't really send audio files like I used to.  So I will try to write a longer letters starting this week.  This has been one of my worst weeks on my mission.  I have never been so stressed, and it's effecting me physically.  And that's the biggest problem is my health.  It's been restricting me from my mission work and that stresses me out more.  As a result, we got a crazy cycle of irritation, so I will be going to the Doctor tomorrow. 


Outside it is rainy and wet and damp and cloudy. So if you're to take the clouds and drop them here about 20 feet off the
ground and make all the walls gray it would feel like England but warmer.  I like warm rain alright, cold rain is a pain.  

One thing I've really been learning lately is that my prayers have been lacking.  How can I expect God to help when I don't put forth the effort or time or patience or thought into praying.  I should be doing this with all diligence.  How can I expect God to help when I am not pleading my case before Him and how can I expect relief when I don't search for it.  So I truly have been praying more and better and longer and with more sincerity.  And it's made a difference.  

Today will be cool, we are going to the Pahrump racetrack.  Apparently one of the missionaries in the zone's bishop is in charge of it.  I really like it out here Pahrump.  It's super fun, and cool.  We do quite a bit of service out here.  In fact, last P-day we did a service project for this lady in our ward whose husband died in a motorcycle accident in his late 30s.  He had a young family, we helped out with the funeral.  It's set up and take down.  It's a scary thought though.  The only consolation I have is that it would've killed someone in a car as well.  So the whole ward showed up for a service project on Monday.  And there was a lot of work for everyone to do.  There's a greenhouse filled with weeds almost to the roof.  My companion and I cleared it out pretty quick.  The roots were shallow.  The only problem was it was all this dust everywhere.  It was hard to breathe.  It was so much fun.  They filled a trailer, I was up on top of it jumping on it to compress it down.  That was great until I went home and realized that I was allergic to it.  But don't regret it for a minute though.  It was a great project.  

I know if I ride motorcycles and that happens to me, the whole ward will show up to help my family.

Thank you for listening/reading.  

Things have been difficult.  To be honest I have had some health problems.  For the most part, I'm fine.  But then, I'll feel sick for a couple of minutes.  Then it goes away.  For example:  When I wake up for about an hour and a half I'm more tired than when I went to bed.  Also, when I wake up my stomach's been hurting me for about 30 minutes.  After we study, when we go out, I'm normally pretty good.  But about every 30 minutes something random happens.  Like my head, will hurt, then my stomach, and I've been dealing with some allergies.  My eyes will be itchy and my face will feel congested, then it'll go away!  Then I'm good as ever.  It's just so frustrating and weird.  

But I'm still working hard, it's just been really hard lately.  I will get through it though.  I have a great companion who likes to work and we make each other laugh a lot.  

Thanks for your time and support.  

Check this out: there's this less active member who is a firefighter.  And She competes in these firefighter games.  She let me give it a try.  It's pretty funny!

My week was awesome!
And thanks for the package, I loved everything in it!!!