Hows it goin!?

These pictures are from basketball in the ghetto last pday!

"Chris Farley catchin some rays..haha doesnt he look like Chris Farley! He's freakin hilarious too..."

"Swatted again!!! The kid in the gray shot it and I just smacked the crap outta it...not in my house...."

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Another day another dollar here...things are going pretty

well actually! It just seems to be clicking right now. Everything seems to

be clicking so I'm hoping to keep this momentum up and finish this rat race

off strong! Just not a lot of time. President Donaldson was telling us a

story that's kind of similar. He was telling us that he was in a meeting

before his mission with Elder Ballard and they obviously were talking about

missionary work and something that Elder Ballard said that always stood out to

him was that he told them that "We need to give our ultimate best because we

just don't have that much time." Then he said that the same night or the

next night one of the two that his grandson was killed in a motorcycle

accident if I can remember right.... The time really is short and we don't

know how many days we have left...we have no control over that, but what we

do have control over is what we do with those days that are given to us. In

the words of a wise sense from Kung Fu Panda " Yesterday is history,

tomorrow is a mystery, but the present is a gift...that's why it's called a

present." Christ himself said that 'I must work the work of my Father while

it is still day...because the night cometh where no man can work." It's

something that I think we take for granted everyday is the time that we've

been given. And if we better realize those blessings and opportunities that

cross our path it would be a lot harder to let our days just slip away.

Sometimes we have days that we wish never would've come....Sometimes our

days are filled with more things than we can carry...But always that day

will end and a new day will come but it's through the trial of our faith

that our faith will grow and with our faith growing will come a better

realization that our days that we have are blessings and it's in those days

that we will receive many more. Have an awesome week and we'll talk to ya

next week!

Love,

E.L.