May 28, 2013

Well its good that everythings squared away for the homecoming meeting I'm looking forward to it. And it seems as though death surrounds us no matter where you are. We had a death in the ward this week on monday and were expecting a couple more within the next week or so. Luckily we have joy to look forward to in the life to come. I had a strange experience yesterday we got a call from the bishop that a ladies daughter from Missouri wanted us to give her mother a blessing who was in critical care in an induced coma just kinda waiting to die. It was kinda strange to go in and wonder I guess what to give a blessing for seeing as there was nothing more the doctors could do. But in the blessing it was all about having comfort in the fact that the plan of salvation is real and that we do have something to look forward to in the life to come. It was a strange thing to do but it felt right. 

This week was interesting and had many ups and downs. Tony is kinda back where he started a few weeks ago so it was tough to go through knowing how far he had come but I guess sometimes you have to take a few steps forward and slide back to make it up the shale of a mountain. We didn't get the opportunity to see Clarissa this week due to the fact that she was in state college visiting her boyfriend but we have an appointment with her this week and it should go well. Things continue to go well and I hope to be able to have a good last few weeks crazy how it seems as though when you start you will never get through the first few weeks and now I look forward and wonder how I’ll get through the last few time flies on a mission and I don’t know why it seems we always look forward to the end when the joy truly is in the journey. 

But I will most likely send a few more things home this week.  Not sure what all it will be but in my preparing for that great and dreadful day I’m looking and seeing truly how much stuff I've acquired. So keep an eye out for some more stuff like a 40 pound box of books that should be there some time this week. I decided to just bring the vinyls home with me as carry on that way I wont have to worry about them warping or anything like that. I will most likely need some more denaro so that I can mail stuff home its more expensive then I thought but hopefully I'm nearing the end of my mailing. 

But keep up the good work as relief society president and hopefully things continue to go well for it. But love you and I’ll talk at you later.

Love

Elder 

Kartchner