August 25, 2010

Dear family,

Well I hope that all is well with everyone. All is well with me and I just love hearing from you every week. It is so much fun to hear all of the incredible events and activities that you do. I am glad that you are busy and happy.

Elder Gomez and I are also busy and happy. Today we woke up and 5:55 to get ready and be at the temple at 8 o clock. We made it perfectly and were able to be in there with a few other missionaries and a sister in our ward. It was a great session and I felt so much peace in the Celestial room. I really do love the temple and am so blessed to have one so close, where I can attend during my mission. It really helps me feel the Spirit and receive answers to my questions. I received a few answers today, to questions that I have had for a little while. So I hope that you are able to go to the temple to. Today while we were in the endowment session, while I was standing up I hit my head on the chair in front of me, I am not sure how still, and my glasses fell off and it left a 1 inch mark on my forehead. It was way embarrassing, but after session Elder Gomez and I shared a few laughs. I have been quite clumsy recently and so we laughed while jogging the memory of that moment. It was rather embarrassing. Haha.

Mom, I am so sorry that you can´t see any pictures for that DVD. It was supposed to be a DVD and not a CD, but I paid 8 euros for that, because there was a ton of pictures. I would love to make another one and send it to you. I am sorry that you can´t see any. I will do that as fast as possible. Pictures from you would also be fantastic. I really do apologize though, that you have had to wait so long to see more pictures of me. I will surely get them to you ASAP. Hopefully this time you will be able to see them.

Thank you so much for sending me another package. You are soooo nice and I love the things that you send me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Also, thank you for sending the driver´s license. Hopefully there were no problems in getting that.

In the future I will try to write more information about the investigators that we are teaching. I am sorry that sometimes I don´t put as much detail as I should. Please tell me if there are things that you want to hear about or no. I am open to all ideas and want you to enjoy my mission as much as possible. So if you have any questions, ask me and I will do my best to respond. Please forgive me for not being so clear in the past, or for not writing so much as to what is happening with us in the work. The miracles that we see everyday should be the main topic of conversation.

I am not sure what the return address was for the letter that I wrote Callie. I wrote that letter a long time ago and the address of the mission has changed recently. So, just so you know the address for the mission office is the one in Calle Fuerteventura. I have given you that address in a past email. That is the one that you should use to send things to me. Whichever the one you used, it should get to me.

I am so glad that Mark is going to receive his patriarchal blessing. I vividly remember when I received my patriarchal blessing and, of course, I still read it fairly often. It has definitely been a source of personal guidance for me and I treasure it, knowing and trusting that the promises within can be received if I am obedient and worthy. So Mark, good luck, and please, do all that you can to prepare for that special day.

That was way sweet to hear about the genealogy that you have done Dad. There is a genealogy center in our church building and hopefully when I get back, and when I am a little older, I can dedicate myself to do that sacred work. That is way exciting and please keep me posted on what you hear and find out about our families origin.

Please do me a favor and congratulate Heather and Ryan for their new baby Austin. How exciting and....weird at the same time that the next generation is starting. Time sure does fly. Life come at you fast. I have always liked the quote that was on our fridge,.I think, for the longest time: Tough Times don´t Last, Tough People do!!!

I am so proud of Cami and all of her hard work this last year. I am glad that she is going to start school again at Timpview and I am confident that she is going to exceed. Go Cami. This Friday, just imagine Cami, that I am there cheering you on. I can´t be there in person but I can in Spirit. I love you and hope that you have a great first couple of weeks at Timpview. Just one thing so important. Never, never stop reading the scriptures every day, even when you are sooo busy or sooo tired. It will make the biggest difference every day and I am sure that you have already found that out.

¨Well, now I have to go. I love you all and hope that you keep working hard and enjoying the lives you lead. It sounds like fun and I assure you that I am very,very happy too. I am even more happy when I receive the letters on Wednesday and they tell me that my family is safe and well, and that they are striving to be faithful to the commandments of God. May the Lord bless you, yet another week.


Love,

Élder Driggs.....Rob J

Corinthians 13:4-8

May we strive every day a little bit more to have more charity. For Charity NEVER Faileth.

Next week I will update you more on the little miracles, spiritual experiences, and the investigators that we have. Thank you for your patience. Love, Rob