Hi Hi Hi Happy New Year

sorry about not emailing yall for a while i have been so caught up this festive season seeing people round the clock. it is impressive we did a flood the world activity where we wrapped book of mormons nicely i even learned how to tie a bow!!! and we gave those to people who where working on christmas security guards the people working at a pizza place even to two police officers. that was an interesting story we walked up to them and one of them whent for his gun but i put out my hand to shake his and he relaxed a little we asked if we could talk to them and they said that they had to be somewhere. so we walked with them explaining about the book of mormon and how it changed our lives and we wanted to give it a chance to change other peoples lives. they both accepted one and the next day we got calls from both of them as well as 2 other people that we had given book of mormons the day before... it was an incredible experience... sorry i wont be sending pics till next year as i cant figure out what is happening with this computer and my memory card i bought another one but i think that it is just the computer port isnt working so i am going to get a usb converter see if that works next week till then merry late Christmas if i didnt get a chance to tell it to you yet and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! make this year a good one!!!!

Elder Whiting,

update

so yea stanger round 2 i am shocked... there has been so much change and apparently i am included in said change people say that i am taller now people say that i talk more maby a little too much ugh some people well here is the thoughts. life is like a deck of cards individually each card is worthless nothing but a piece of paper. but as soon as you bring them all together you have something great that you  can do countless things with. and on a spiritual side we each have something unique about us now we might not  e able to see it now and we might not be able to see it alone but it is there and when we find it we need to use it  because what i have found is every gift that we can get from God dosent really benefit ourselves rather it benefits others so yea spread your gift and get ready for this christmas it is going to be fun

Elder Whiting,

happy birthday to me happy birthday to me happy birthday to me ee happy birthday to me

so exciting news for those of you who either a didnt know of b didnt read the sub title its my birthday today yay meee i am so importiant but i get to celebrate with someone else not far from me there is a little girl member if you remember from a cupple o weeks back her birthday is tomorrow her name is tatum and we will be celebrating together it is so exciting i am so pumped. and more exciting news try to guess..................................................................................................... ok you have had long enough i am going back to an old area i am going back to stanger my second area from what is it now almost 15 months ago!!! that is cool in my mind i will get to see all the people i was teaching i am excited and i dont have to leave this culture of indians i have a new soft spot for indians they are dope and my companion makes some pretty good curry anyway my new companion will be a brazillian i think his name is elder andrade so fun anyway still working out the picture situation will be pics next week though promise!!! love you all in different ways depending on who you are but remember you are all importiant in both my eyes and the eyes of God

Elder Whiting,

so my memory card...

um so here it is i didnt have my memory card this week i loned it to a member to pull the pictues off of it and i left it at their house so no pictures this week sadly. this week was interesting ran into a few drunk people that had interesting things to say one of them started talking to us and as soon as he saw the badges his eyes whent huge and he was like "you one of them Jesus followers!!!" at which point we said yes we belive in Christ and his responce i thought would be leave me alone instead he said "can you help me?" so we are teaching him now and he is really interesting. i love it out here and i think that the thing that has changed the most (because this was the most asked question last year about this time) would be my faith/patience in it  see things dont happen immediatly even if we want it. faith is like a tool ment to be tested by the winds of time not a one time use. we need to try it see what it can do and then we find out miricles.. well i love you all and cant wait to talk to you soon...

Elder Whiting,

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,

gobble gobble

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,