Elder Andrew Sheffield: Practice for the field

Arrived July 30,2015

Love you more than...Secreta Oracion. (My favorite spanish hymn, like dad)

Looks like we are trying to escape

There's so much to talk about I can hardly think of what I want to say. It's been cool to occasionally see Elders from out in the field, I've talked to a few from Santiago who say president is great, likes the rules and doesn't know a ton of English so I'll get extra practice! We leave like august 8 I think. It's a Tuesday morning in like a week and I half.... I think. It's hard to focus on everything at once, always busy.

What our MTC/CCM looked like for a week, just about 40 of us, but now there are about 70

The pants have been great, and the shoes. It feels like I always have lots of dirty shirts and not enough clean ones haha. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB!!!! 10 IS SO OLD. My little j-dub is all grown up ;) Sounds like you had a great party! I was thinking of presents I could give you if you were here, like one of the big lizards that run around on the temple grass. That was really nice of Abbie to give you the hamster.

Fun stuff from the store: flag, soda, soap, colored pencils, and a tie

We went to the store again this week and my card worked so I got some things, really excited to buy soap and stuff haha. Proud of you guys for working on prayer. Thanks dad for your email last week, it really was amazing, meant a lot.

"On Wednesday's we wear pink"

This week we taught some amazing lessons as well as some that weren't perfect, it's good practice for the field. Tomorrow we actually go out into the field and do splits with elders for 7 hours which is exciting. I'm trying not to be nervous. Today was our last temple day in the CCM which is bitter sweet. My Spanish is getting progressively better and I'm getting more confident with how it's going. I was trying to think of a good spiritual thing this week, there are so many to choose from. I think something that touched me this week is how everything has a purpose and is part of a plan. Everyone we meet is for a purpose. "Every moment if you have eyes to see and ears to hear is a perfect missionary moment" -Holland. Though we may feel like we sometimes are just another person going with the flow, it's not random. Those I've met here have been put on my path in life for one reason or another. We should always be looking for the special ways Heavenly Father shows his hand and love through just those little moments. Some Haitian Elders just went home this week and it touched me how we'll never see them again, but the time we had together was made by eternal perspective. Everything is just perspective, don't focus on what you cannot change for the better. This life is for progression and every step along the way there are people we must meet and help as together we travel nearer to our home in heaven.