Monday,
December 17, 2012
Mom,
Happy Birthday!!!
I sure love you mom,
and hope that you had a great birthday. I hope that you accept this email
as a worth present, lol. I will send some pics for you because I know
that you like them. Sorry that I have been bad about taking and sending
pics. I will tell Tony to be better ( : I did want to wish you a
happy birthday though. I have been thinking a lot lately about how
blessed I am to have you as my mom. I was even talking to President Reber
Saturday morning about how involved my parents were in my life and how grateful
I am for that. Speaking of talking with Pres Reber Saturday, it is
because he came with me to my house to announce to Will that his calling came
and that he will serve in the São Paulo East mission and that he is will leave
on Jan. 3. It was awesome getting to hear the news with him. Will
promised me in Sinop that he would open his call with me present, even if he
had to travel, and I must admit that I did not believe it, but the Lord works
in many ways to answer his prayers of his worthy children. It was
awesome. Anyways, I was reading a talk from a general authority, I think
that it was Dallin H Oaks who was talking about the great plan of happiness,
and he said that in our premortal life we progressed as far as we could without
having received a physical body and a mortal experience and that the decision
that we made there affect who we are here. Mom, I know that you made
great decisions there and that I must have done something really good to
deserve you as my mom, or on the other hand, something really wrong and God
thought that I would need all the help that I could get if I were to have a
chance. At any rate, thank you for being such a wonderful mom. I
have also been studying a lot about the nature of the calling of motherhood.
It is the most elevated and sacred calling that I daughter of God can receive.
It requires more work and patience than any other position. It
carries eternal consequences of most impotence. |It is so important that
it was reserved exclusively for women. Mom, you magnify this calling
better than any other. You are a perfect example of every attribute that
motherhood requires. Patience, temperance, meekness, love unfeigned,
courage, strength, internal beauty (external as well ;) eternal perspective, gentleness,
longsuffering, selflessness, humility, careful hands, a firm mind, virtue,
benevolence, knowledge, integrity, hope, faith, and among and above all
charity. I know that this is a short list, and I know that you have many
more attributes and characteristics. Thank you so much for being the mom
that God wanted of you. I hope that I have been the son that you wanted
of me and I promise that I will continue to get better. I sure love you
mom, and I think that world of you, and I know that it is not just me that
thinks that. Every ward and branch that I have passed in in Brazil, you
have come up in a sacrament talk. That is really true. You give
hope, strength, and courage to people around the world. You are a perfect
example of being a light to the world. You have a great light, and you
let it shine forth. Thank you for always being engaged in a good cause.
Thank you for being engaged in raising and teaching me. How blessed
that I am. I love you mom, and wish you a great birthday!!!
You of all people deserve it!!!! Love you grateful and always
indebted son,
Elder Shane Lee
Will is going to stay until almost the end of
the year. He has been waiting for a long time to go, so he is all ready.
Really, they called Pres Reber and told him that Will would only leave in
March, but Pres Reber moved it closer because he knows that Will was just
waiting to leave. President Reber is awesome. I still do not know
what I am going to do for Skype, but I think that I will spend Christmas night
at Joaquim's house, Aryane's family. He and his wife are marked to get
baptized on the 23rd. I am super excited!!! Anyways, they have a
computer and internet, but I do not know if they have a web cam. I will
investigate and see. If so, I think that I will Skype from there.
If not, I will have to use a lan house. The problem is that on Monday
I do not think that I will be able to email you, so if I do not email you, call
me Monday at this number, 065 9236 5199, (my cell) and we can plan it out on
the phone.
Thanks for the chirstmas package and mama-mia PJ's! I loved it!!!!!
Baptism of Lucas, getting Will's calling, the young man who baptized Lucas is from Cuiaba and was doing a 24 hour division with us. he has a year in the church, is 16, and we thought it would be cool if he got some baptizing practice. It was awesome!!!
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