Title: (Really) Quick Update

So, it's been a while since I wrote a blog, and things have still been going pretty well. It took a little while to get adjusted to my new area, but things are really starting to turn out awesome. I happen to live near some of the nicer trailer parks, so I'm running into more and more snowbirds. It seems like every other day I see a North Dakota license plate, which makes me a little homesick, but it's fun to see. It's starting to warm up and everybody keeps warning me about the summer. "You're from North Dakota?! You'll go home by June!" I keep telling them that it gets hot in North Dakota too, but I guess I'll find out how bad it is in a few months. But I've been enjoying the weather and the citrus. I just made homemade lemonade out of lemons I picked myself the other day. It actually wasn't that great, but it was homemade.

Things are really, really good. Really hard, but really good. I think that most of the reason that I'm enjoying my mission so much is the satisfaction of knowing that God is giving me the opportunity to work harder than I ever have, and be more than I have ever been. I've never had to put in the kind of effort into anything else in my life that I've put into my mission. In placing me in difficult and uncomfortable situations, God has helped me love his children more and see more in them and myself than I ever have.

I'll just share this scripture quickly before I finish up:

"But Ammon said unto him: I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God. Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things." (Alma 26:11-12)