To whom it may concern,
I have received compliants from the audience, suggesting that I should "be MORE specific in everything". Thus I will attempt to correct this obvious error and give you a brief glimpse of my life.
So this week, we had the amazing opportunity to baptize a young man by the name of Rodolfo Chavez. What an INCREDIBLE thing! His life is being completely changed for the better. It is truly amazing. He also received the Aaronic priesthood that same Sunday.
I don't know if you know but I am a designated driver (seeing how I have an immaculate driving record). Regardless, we bike around quite a bit and as of late, walk.
Which brings us to the first 3 pictures that were attached to this email.
So late last night (around 7:00 pm) (it gets dark here like at 5:00, ok Miami people?!), it was raining and we were biking. We pulled along the side of the the highway (Hatch Rd). (Speaking of which... we live off of Hatch Rd. and Central - It is right next to a Walgreens, in case you're interested).
So alongside the highway runs a canal. It was dark and we road with the canal between us and the road so as not to be splashed on by every passing car, though what would happen next would completely change the outcome of my mission, and moreover, my outlook on life.
We continued, sliding around on the slick wet mud (luckily, I was wearing the Poncho/Overcoat thing that Abuelito gave me). We road for about a mile and as we neared the next... approximately 0.010356 miles from our house, we noticed that the lane that we were taking was narrowed off by a 10 foot chain-link fence, so that we could only very carefully walk upon a ledge about a foot-and-a-half wide. We carefully held onto fence with one hand, holding onto our bikes with the other (which were being held over the ledge of canal (which makes a moderate "V" shape in to a murky torrent) walking to then end). After walking about 100 feet or so in this manner, we did not notice until arriving, that the last 30-40 feet narrowed off even more (around a 4 inch ledge.) Whew!!! That was a pain in the butt, I'll tell ya hwat! (yes, I misspelled "what"). I slid my arms through the bars in the bike and held to the chain-link fence, which hurt quite a bit (as it was really cold). I reached the end after much tribulation... to find that our adventures were not quite at an end. We had to jump of this well-looking thing, walk another ledge, and climb over a fence. Yeesh!!! That was an amazing experience.
Anyway, we lived. The whole experience took about 45 minutes. Turning back would have taken about 15, but pshh... we couldn't let that defeat us!
Anyway, we ended up getting somewhat dirty... and taught a few lessons despues...
I am super happy to be here... We have been told to extend baptismal invitations to everyone we come in contact with. Honestly, I thought that would be strange...and it still is kinda... but it is much better and we are working as hard as we can to bring everyone unto Christ our Savior.
I am going to send as many letters to you as possible. The Gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives... It brings happiness to us. We are ALL on a mission, as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on a mission to save the world from the grasp of Satan. It is real.
Some of the side-affects of Satanitis are Hopelessness, Despair, and that.
The Gospel brings hope to ALL those who truly receive it and believe on his name.
I came to the realization that Joseph Smith must have had an amazingly spiritual experience when he translated the 1st Chapter of the Book of Mormon.
Anyway, I send you stuff by snail mail.
I love you all.
Elder David Ostler
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