TWO MONTH MARK!!

Well Can you believe it, I have already been out for two months. Crazy. But I survived my first transfers. We got the call last night and I am staying with my companion in the same area we are in. YES!! I wanted to stay here for at least one more moves. I really like my companion and my area so it is good, so I will at least be here for another six weeks. The Zone leaders are moving so that is kind of sad they were really cool guys, and we did a lot with them. Also, my companion is District Leader so that good, I guess.

Well, it has been another good week. One thing that I forgot to tell you that was really funny a week or two ago. We were at the baptism of an African named Moses and a recent convert Sammy Ajisafe (who we are working with, and we see every week) gave the talk about baptism. And being a recent convert sometimes you still don't know what is and isn't appropriate. Well, he was giving his talk and he said, "before I was baptized I did a lot of Bull Shit" Me and Elder Greer and the Other Elders just looked at each other and we were like oh so inappropriate but at the same time it was so funny! He continued to give a very good talk. But he was talking to us about bearing his testimony on fast Sunday and how he was going to go up there first and sing a song and then share his conversion story. We told him that it probably wasn't appropriate to sing and then we chastised him for cussing at the baptism and told him he couldn't do that in church. But it was a good crack.
This week we had Stake Conference, so we drove with the zone leaders up there to that it was really good. There are two stakes and a district in Ireland.
Well on Monday we went over to a less actives house we kind of just stopped by because we were in the area, and she let us in and we read a couple of chapters with her in the Book of Mormon. Then as we were getting done, she told us about some of the trials that she was going through in her life and asked us to pray for her. Then she went on to tell about how much faith she had in the prayers of missionaries. She said before when she moved to Ireland from Guana she couldn't find the church (she was baptized in Guana) and she was praying and then the next day she found the missionaries and she was so happy, she couldn't find a job and she asked the missionaries to pray for her and like 3 days later she found a job. She told a few more stories like that and I couldn't believe how much faith she had in us I think it really hit me hard that I need to live up to how the members and others see us because there is always someone watching.
Another thing this week is we are helping a Lithuanian man quit smoking. It's a really good program that was invented by an LDS missionary who came in the early 80's and saw the problems with the Irish and there smoking and he set up a program that involves a lot of prayer and Grapefruit juice. Vitamin C is something that will clean out all the bad out of your system almost better than anything else. Nicotine could stay in the blood stream for a month after quitting but by taking a lot of Vitamin C it can be out in less than a week. Anyways we went over there on Friday and asked him Thomas, do you really want to stop smoking, and he told us that he did. So, we took his cigarettes away that he had and started this program with him, and it has been 5 days and not a cigarette yet. So hopefully he will stay strong. But it is amazing to me how I am helping change somebody's life so much.  So, I guess those are my two "highlights" this week.
We did get an invitation for Sunday dinner so mom I know you were praying for that. So that was nice also this week we went  over to the Bishops house (note: his wife is from Arizona from Scottsdale so we kind of have a connection from home.) we are teaching his niece, also from Arizona, who is living with him the lessons kind of undercover we go and teach the family home evening lessons and we are really just teaching the lessons for her so hopefully something will come from that. But anyways my story there little boy prayed at the beginning of FHE prayed and he prayed very sincerely for the missionaries and tears filled my eyes because I knew that halfway around the world my own nieces and nephews were praying for me too.
Well I was in Mosiah I think when I came out in the BofM and I finished it this week so that was good. It gives me strength everyday. I am starting the Old Testament. It's going to be an endurance but I've really have a desire to read it since I read something by Spencer W. Kimball he told a story about he was a teenager he was in a fireside and the speaker was talking about the power of the scriptures and she asked how many of them had read the bible all the way through. He said 6 out of about 1000 people raised their hand. And he said the spirit told him in his mind " You Spencer, You haven't read that Holy Book"?! "You Wacey, You haven't read that Holy Book" So hopefully I will get through it before too long. I have read the New Testament all the way through but not the old. So that is a new goal.
Well, this week I have had a longing to be in the Temple I wish I could go that is what I have been missing most this week. I hope at least someone from the family is going every week for me. Because I have a long time till I will be able to go again. I have a little poem here that kind of helps me think about the temple a little different,

If I could go to Galilee
And walk where Jesus walked
And sit in tender grasses
On the hillside where he taught

If I could feel the gentle breeze
That lifted from the seas
Where he chose the humble fisherman
how full my heart would be

If I could sit and ponder
On a rock that knew his hand
Or walk along the seashore
Where his feet had touched the sand

His spirit yearns within me
But it doesn't seem my fate
I'll never walk where Jesus walked
I'll never see..... But Wait!

I've worshipped in his temple
Where I know he's walked before
Have his feet been down this hallway
Have his fingers touched this door

Has he stood here in this very room
and looked at what I see
In the beauty of this temple
I can feel his love for me

I close my eyes and picture him
My worries melt away
I don't need to go to Galilee
Or travel Far Away

For my tender heart is filled
With what he wants me to be taught
And my Testimony burns within
I've walked where Jesus walked


Well Thanks this past week for letters from Mom and Dad, Jamie, Grandma, Jennie G. , Jeanette and The Kids. Also, thanks so much for the little package Rinda and the Girls. Tyree looked so pretty in her baptism picture.  Thanks for the emails Jamie, Aunt Carla, and My Big Sister Kim Brimhall.
I hope you guys all have a great week. I miss you I love you. But I think for the very first time I can say I LOVE TO BE A MISSIONARY. I think I'm finally there.
I Love you all
Wacey Ray
P.S. Mom I remembered I think I put the scripture case and hymn book in a box so if you don't want to look for them that's fine but please send the other things. Lemonade would be nice but that's really the only thing that I can think of. I Love You and Thank You.