March 4, 2007

  • From a letter dated March 20, 2007

    Dear family, friends, and xangans,

    I'm still alive and kicking in the Chino Heritage Ward with Elder Arballo. We've had some awesome experiences together. I don't have time to write them all in e-mails, so you will have to wait until I get home (181 days) when I will type them up and post them retroactively. My plans are to print out all these xanga entries and other stories I have saved up at Kinkos and have them bound into a little book. Some of these stories are short- like getting peed on by dogs. Some are long, like taking my companion to the ER. Some are just plain spiritual, like a discovery we made about what it means to be redeemed. You will just have to wait.

    Saturday was my 18 month mark. Crazy huh?

    This past week was pretty successful, other than the fact that no one came to church, thus forcing us to move the baptismal date of one of our investigators. We do have 4 new investigators from last week. Two are from Illinois. One is progressing, and will have a baptismal date by the end of the week. It is looking like we will have 2 baptisms in March. That is an accomplishment considering the area history, and I am pretty happy about it. I can see the Lord's hand in this work.

    I wish I had more time to ellaborate on some of the cool things I have been learning from the scriptures. I have learned a lot about covenants from King Benjamin in Mosiah 1-6. I have learned about how they relate to the Creation, Fall, and Atonement- essential ellements of our temple experience. It is fascinating.

    In worldly news, if you go into the xanga archives you will notice that I have been promoting Mitt Romney for President since 2003. My fervor is no less dimmned, and I am excited about the press he has been getting. Barack Obama scares the daylights out of me. He is a snake. Edwards is old news- kind of boring. There just isn't much to say about him- just a regular liberal. Hillary. Well she is like the universal x-wife everyone hates. I hope that she wins the Dem. nomination and runs against Mitt. Enough of that- I am a missionary and will save politics for August 21, when I get home.

    Jesus lives.

    Love you all and miss you,

    Elder Embree