Only 6 Days Left!!!

Hello family,


How are you all doing? Thank you for your letters this week. After Tuesday it will probably take 2 - 4 weeks for me to get mail, and then another 2 weeks or so to get it back to you. But don't let that discourage you! :) Thank you Grandma Schenk for your letter. I’m sorry it didn’t send right the first time. I really appreciate your love and care.

This week has been fun. We are getting so excited to go. Here is a story with many meanings, personal revelation, stupidity, competitiveness, and fun. As a district we decided to have a competition a day for our last week here. Yesterday, being our first day, we decided to start out with a good one, who can drink the most cups of juice at dinner, followed by who can hold it in the longest and not use the C.R. (Comfort Room) or in English, the bathroom. After I had drank 8 cups I started feeling quite full. I looked over at the rest of my district. Elder Johnson, Stirland and Sister Robison were all at 10 cups. I didn't feel too bad, but they looked like they were in a lot of pain, something I didn't want to experience. I stopped at 8 cups. Sister Robison won the drinking competition with 12 cups, Elder Johnson drank 11, and Elder Stirland drank 10. Elder Seupule and I were behind with 8, but I didn't care much, there was still the second part of the competition, and I had the advantage. They were hurting bad afterwards. Elder Johnson immediately hit the bathroom, along with Elder Seupule. Aparently too much apple juice makes bad things happen to you. Latter when we tried to get Elder Seupule to move, I found out he drank 8 cups of thick chocolate milk! He couldnt move for about 45 min. He slept helplessly on the floor, not wanting to move. Soon after Sister Robison had used the CR. It was just down to Elder Stirland and I. Through a painful personal study I lasted out! He broke down and I won! 1 point for Elder Schenk! That was the stupidity, competitiveness and fun part. Now for the personal revelation. During Leadership Training latter that evening that Elder Johnson, Elder Stirland and I attended (3 out of the 6 Elders there) Brother Jensen was teaching about not yealding to the enticings of the body. He then said, I have never thought of it this way, but imagin you are at a members house and the dinner is really good. You stuff yourself so full (an appetite of the body) and then after cannot focus as well as you should, thus not allowing the spirit to dwell with you as well as it should. Then he challenged us to really ponder on that example, one he had never before thought of. The three of us got a bit of correction. It was really funny. We learned well that the Lord works through others to correct us.

I love you all. Mom and Dad, if possible could you send my electric razor so that I can shave my neck, also if I could get some pictures of what Washington looks like (I have some nice ones on my computer), and some more pictures of the family. I would also like some more razor blades for my regular razor. It is a Gillete with 5 blades and one on the back. I think it is the same one dad has. It is not the power version though.

Thank you! Love you!
Elder Schenk