Plan For Unplanned Opportunites

Dear Family,

Things have been goin great. We only had one baptism this past Sunday, we had to push Nate back because he'll have family in town on the 8 August and he wanted to wait, which we didn't mind. But as of right now we have 3 planned baptisms for August 8, (just the way it worked out) its lookin to be a crazy Sunday. Pretty sweet to see Ryan going on splits a lot, what about Tyler too? Tomorrow for [feeding] the Elders, you know believe it or not, we NEVER have pizza, so thats always a good back up plan, but i'd say go with my favorites. ;)

i did get my surprise package, i was way excited! Those have been great snacks for the day, i haven't eaten more than two a day, i don't want to kill them to fast. so last Saturday was so stinkin hot, i think 107 with humidity! i was drenched, of course we decide to go tract and walk all morning that day, instead of setting up appointments and be in the ac car. our air conditioning WAS broke in the beginning of the summer. it would be about 80-85 degrees with humidity inside. very sticky. we just recently got it fixed, our apartment has been a meat locker ever since lol (65-70 degrees)

so i am doing a horrible job of budgeting my money. i ate out way too much, and it burned my msf. i had to pay a $50 ticket for running a red light. ( i don't even remember doing that?!)
i was pretty mad at myself when i got the ticket in the mail. (Not the type of mail that i want lol) its pretty cool to hear about ya dad, [making detective] how sweet everything's goin. just be careful. well ill probably write some more in another email, here's this one for now, love Elder Harris

Alright so we've had a pretty good pday so far. We went to a local barber down the street so Elder Gillman could get a haircut, and we had an unplanned opportunity to teach! he taught the guy cutting his hair, and i ended up teaching the hair stylist who wasn't doin much. (slow morning) they were both very interested in what we had to share, and we have an appointment with them tomorrow during break, we'll give them a copy of the Book of Mormon, etc.. awesome. Ive just learned to plan for unplanned opportunities!

Mom's note: Most of the rest of our email is conversation back and forth because we were on at the same time so I'll just paraphrase...Corey said they don't have missionary dinner calendars like we do here so they only have dinner appointments if someone invites them over. They have a standing appointment at the bishop's house on Wednesday nights but other than that they don't have many dinner invites so they eat a lot of ramen, and frozen and canned food. Yuck. No wonder he has been asking for fast food gift cards. (Equally yuck in my opinion but easier for them I'm sure.) He's excited for his friend Chase who was called to serve in the Washington Everett Mission and reports in September. He closed with this scripture and said "i was reading a scripture this morning, Mosiah 2:20-24, King Benjamin is awesome. all we have to do is keep the commandments. not too much to ask for right? lol well gotta go now, love you guys so much, and miss you! talk to ya next week! Hasta la vista 'baby' :D"

MOSIAH 2:20-24 "I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another— I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants. And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you. And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him. And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?"