sorry gonna be short

hey guys so here is what is up this week i slammed my finger in a lock and it basically ripped the tip of my finger off (fair warning for those who look at the pictures today so i am not typing as much today as i usally do due to the fact i dont want it to rip open again. so here is the spiritual thought yesterday there was a baptism for a little 8 year old girl (not mine) but it was incredible it was from another ward but yet most of the ward made the 30 min commute to be there for the little girl and it astonishd me the fact that they where willing to make that sacrifice i guess that is the true meaning of friendship when we are willing to do whatever to support those we love and i want all of you to know that i miss and love you all.

Elder Whiting,

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happy thanksgiving! well not yet but hey by the time that some of you read this it might be so yay for planning ahead if you want you can open this at thanksgiving again just for the experience but hey remember what the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result so it is up to you if you are insane or not... anyway i think that i am insane or i thought i was. 

this week i have a weird experience me and my comp, or my comp and i for those who like to criticize grammar, where out tracting and for those of you who dont know that term tracting is going door to door knocking to see if anyone is interested in your message and missionarys have been doing that for well since the begining i guess but i decided to change that... instead of doing the same thing every day all day because well we now have 6 people who are interested in the church and well other than that we have time to find. i plan to do service instead. me and my companion/ my companion and i plan to go to the hospital in the area and work there as service but turns out missionarys have been doing that for ever in this area so there it goes 

I  AM INSANE!!!

other than that we had a nice week and as for the spiritual side there was a kid that we are teaching that told us that he is no longer interested but i sat next to him on the taxi ride to stake confrence and i think that i figured out why so i was talking to him and suddenly he told me that he wants to be baptized again i asked him why and he said that it was because someone was willing to reach out. the lord works in mysterious ways i didnt intend to do that but it worked out also fun fact his sisters birthday is the same as yours grandma call the day after mine!!! how exciting we are going to have a party!!! that is if i am still here hopefully i will be

Elder Whiting,

hey

hey guys sorry about last week when i was emailing there was a freak storm and the internet kept cutting in and out and eventually i just gave up on it but hey i am still alive!!!! so here is what has happened in a nutshell. you all know about my companion elder ruben he is cool he is from the fiji islands has a small family all boys 5 of them to be exact and he loves the ocean as for myself i had an incredible experience i am currently teaching a hearing and speach impared lady and so she is using what she can to try to teach me sighn language and with some help of a chalk board i am learning it is so cool to be able to speak with your hands other than on a keyboard... anyway recently there was a event in indian culture called diwali it is the celebration of the return of the rightfull heir to the throne and there is a lot of food and a lot of fireworks... it was a fun celebration and we celebrated with the members that live above us they had one firecracker called the daddy bomb and on the side it read "who's your daddy?" for those of you who watched master of disguise and anyway it was about an inch and a half in diamater and about 5 inches long it really looked like a stick of dinamite and anyway they let me light it off as they didnt want their 12 year old to light it off so i lit it and ran like well a borebull for those of you who read my previous emails and when it whent off i found out what the lable ment it sent out a literal shock wave that you could feal my ears didnt register the boom till about 3 seconds later it was awesome!!! anyway spiritual side

my spiritual side this week is learning just how powerfull this area is there is 10 investigators that the ward found and out of those 10  i think that maby 5 will be baptized before the end of the year and of those 5 there where 4 who told the bishop that they wanted to be baptized it was incredible this area is blessed. 

Elder Whiting,