Lovin my Bike!

I've come to really enjoying putting my Presidents letters in here. I don't have a song for this week, but Dierks Bently was hard to get out of my head after you guys told me you were going to see him in concert.....at a race. jealous kuhtuh sriksrik. but I would like to give a shoutout to my bro Aaron who's about to leave on his mission to Mexico. Much love my brother, it's been sweet reflectin on the good times. Godspeed.

 

 

 

President Dowdle,
I really enjoy this opportunity to be back in....I'm not sure why I just used the terminology "Back in" but I meant to say that I really enjoy that I can work in and focus on Utwe. I suppose I said "Back in" because I literally feel refreshed after being briefed on this new missionary program. I'm looking forward to two hours of companion study and the applications that are designed to push both of us. Back to basics, I guess you could say. The most essential and most important. I'm also really loving my bike. It took a lot of headache to finally get it but its well worth it. I was a big fan of mountain biking back home, as well as riding through the city on one so this feels more natural to me than a car. I also get exercise, and the opportunity to travel through the village without the isolating barriers of windows. Good things are ahead President and I'm looking forward to them. In fact. A referral I've been needing to contact came to church yesterday with three inactive teenage or slightly older than teenage boys. He expressed a desire to be baptized and said he was free all the time. Satan's hold is weakening, and I say it's time we mute those ol' bells of Hell.
I hope that Sister Dowdle and yourself can enjoy your time left in Micronesia. I really appreciate your work President, take care.
-Elder Lapeyrouse

 

 

So anyways, I got my bike this week. Its a GT Agressor 1.0 if you want to look that up. Mine is mostly white, with blue and yellow. Its sick and I love it. Elder Andrew isn't too big on it now. He fell yesterday and scraped his knee pretty bad. but spirits are high, the works picking up, The exercise will make me hungier so I can eat more rice. haha  And the mission field has introduced a brand new program. Its supposed to be for new missionaries and their trainers who recieved the same training I did in the MTC. Apparently they are field testing it before they make it final. Its a 12 week course of basically Preach My Gospel boot camp designed to push, strengthen, and fine tune new missionaries. With the hopes that they can train after their third transfer. We get an extra hour for companion study each day and a syllabus/study guide thing with topics, goals, activities, and so on. I'm loving it so far because it's everything I learned in the MTC put into action. Everyone in the mission field knows what the "8 lessons) are and this is what the program is centered around. The Essentials of Preach My Gospel. It's a sweet deal. I look forward to being able to study more. As for a box, I like mac and cheese, the chicken helper, the fruit, and other food items, not really anything sweet, and no more potatoes because I have enough of them. Apparently there are also Italian sides, so thats an interest of mine. I would also request Taco bell sauce packets. a good number of each flavor. Elders Sturms family did that and I'm jealous. however my time is up, and I must go. I love you guys, take it easy.

-Elder Lapeyrouse