Dear Mom and Dad,
Let me answer your question yi
xia xia. I recieved my mail in ballot today. Hurray! I'm going to
take it to the post office today. Let me tell you about who I voted
for! I voted for Barack Obama for President. Suprised? I almosted
voted for "Rocky", but I decided against it. (Just Kidding.) Suprising
turn of events, I voted for Orrin G. Hatch for senate and Gary R.
Herbert for governor. Honestly, I have no idea who Scott Howell is, and
you didn't have much good to say about Peter S. Cooke. I figure Orrin
can stay in office until he's ready to run for office in the spirit
world. And the fact that the UEA is supporting Herbert made up my
mind. I guess he's doing okay. I did vote for Jay Seegmiller, I like
what I can recall of him. He's been trying to run for office for quite a
while, I'd like to see him win.
Enough about that, we had stake
conference last sunday. It was good, Pres. Bishop was invited to
speak. It was fun hearing him speak, the man served his mission here 35
years ago, but he's been able to pick a lot of it up again. I fear my
Chinese will likely decrease in quality, but I hope to find
opportunities to continue learning and practicing.
I've set some goals for what I'd
like to do for the last four weeks of my mission. Its something Elder
Chen has asked me about, I was glad to think about it. I set a goal of
learning how to control all of my bad habits at the beginning of my
mission, I'd like to polish that up before I go home. Other than that, I
just want to focus on being dilligent, 100% obedient, and worthy of the
Spirit. I hope to leave on a good note, I guess you could say.
I was reading about Gentiles in
the Bible Dictionary, it pointed out that Paul was called the "apostle
of the Gentiles." While Peter opened the ministry to the Gentiles, it
was Paul who established the church among the Gentiles. He was
responsible for establishing the church in Europe and Asia Minor. I had
always wondered why we have so many of Paul's writings in our canonized
scriptures. Some apostles were proselyting in areas around Israel,
some were proselyting in far away places, such as Ethiopia and even as
far away as India. Some were busy with other responsibilities. The
Epistle of James is addressed to the "twelve tribes scattered abroad,"
and John and Matthew were working on their respective Gospels, recording
the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. But Paul was addressing the
people in Europe and Asia Minor, the people who took Christianity and
adopted it as the religion and heritage that we celebrate in the Western
Hemisphere today. The European Christians loved Paul because he was
addressing THEM. The Epistles of Paul,
translated correctly, should be as significant to the European
descendants as the Book of Mormon is to the American Indian descendants
of Lehi. Anyways, that's what it made me feel like. I would like to
study the Epistles of Paul more dilligently in the future. it also made
me wonder about all the records addressed to other people that we
haven't recieved in this dispensation yet. It's exciting.
I'll try not to worry about
dating or work. :) I've thought a little bit about work, thanks for
asking around for me. I think there's a lot of opportunities that I'll
have when I get home. Who do you want to set me up with when I get
home? Haha! I guess it doesn't matter right now, I'm just curious.
Well, I love you. Have a good one.
-Elder Travis Leatham
PS You can send Nick my emails
if you'd like. I sent him a letter last week, it should be there in a
week or so. I love you Nick, hang in there bro!
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