Fisher of Men (and fish)

11-4-13

Yes, I got my Halloween package.  Thank you so much for that!  I loved it!!!!!!!!  I've pretty much eaten all of the goodies in it, and I forgot to take a picture before, sorry!  Got a little too excited I guess. I can still take a picture of the wrappers and box if you want.  Haha.  Also, thanks for sending the Ipod with the music and the videos.  I showed Elder Lott those videos and he thought they were really funny!  Especially the one of Cody falling into the lake.  I don't know what I could use for Christmas other than church related material like some books or articles.  I don't know.  I don't really want you to send that much because it will cost to ship stuff.
It sounds like a fun weekend in Utah and I hope that Dad is still doing well.  I'm not surprised to hear that Uncle Ben didn't appreciate that trick you played on him.  It sounds like he takes his ice cream very seriously.
That is also a great experience about tithing.  I'm pretty sure that the explanation for that blessing is laid out in D & C 82:10 and 130:20-21.  You had asked me if you need to send money for some more food-but I'm ok.  The dinner thing is not a punishment.  Our mission Pres. just wants us to be more effective with the time that we have because a lot of missionaries will just go to members' homes and sit there and do nothing for hours, so he is trying to stop things like that.  Anyway, I'm fine.  I've been able to live off of $5 for the past two weeks by buying Ramen noodles and macaroni.  But, we get money today, so now I can actually get some groceries.  Yesterday, we got to go fishing for about 5 minutes in one of the member's backyard and have some s'mores after dinner.  I  caught two large mouth bass in about 2 minutes.  It was so fun!  I fished in my church clothes, so luckily, I didn't get them dirty.  Last night was great because after that we got to go to the CES devotional and it talked about how we can truly give our Will to the Lord.  That is so important in missionary work, because if we wanted to, we could get away with a lot of things, but it is that integrity and our willingness to be obedient that allows blessing and miracles in the work.  I love you and I hope all is going well at home!

Love,
Elder A. Whaley

Austin the fisherman.

Got one!

Thumbs up!

The two large mouth bass Austin caught.