I am Now a Senior Companion!!! (Pray for Me!)

Hey Mom and family,                                                                                     8-23-2011

Sooo, I’ve been made senior companion.  It's a little bit scary because I'm only 5 months into the mission field, but we'll see how it goes.  My companion, Elder Madeira, is really humble and ready to work with me.  He's been here on the mission for only 3 months and so this is still his first area.  So now I’m here in area Costa E Silva, from zone Castelo.  Anyways, I just found out that our mission president is heading back for the states for several months for some medical treatment on his legs.  It looks like we will have a substitute mission president for a while.  Make sure you put President Tanner and his wife in your guys' prayers. 

It's pretty crazy how well the house is looking.  You should just leave the deck as it is.  It'd make things more interesting.  It's crazy also how strong I was in that picture you sent of me wearing some makeup.  I've gotten way fat... I was starting to lose it all but this new area has hardly any walking so I have to stop eating so much.  I also love how you guys decide to buy a wall mounted 55' flat screen TV with cable after I left.  I could have used that TV.  But anyways, I know what you mean about video games "lulling kids into a false sense of well being without any true accomplishment.  Here on the mission I’m learning the importance of time and talents.  While here on the earth we only have a small space of time to develop and perfect the talents that we were given and could be given with effort and work, and I wasted a little bit of those talents playing video games.  Right now I'm learning how to draw in my spare time, and practicing piano when I’m at church waiting for people to show up.  But that doesn't mean that you can throw the video games away, and if you do, you can consider yourself dead =].

Anyway, tell Ashlee congrats for me.  Congrats on the house, it's looking good.  Congrats on your Rameumpton, you guys have a great place now to pray for me.  And thanks for the reference to Amalikiah and Satan, I'll have to use that one.  Love you!

Elder Williams                                   

                                     P-Day and my favorite Soccer Team shirt!

                                  My Comp and a brand new member!

The new member gave us all of his "smokes" and started living the Word of Wisdom!

                       

                                  Another Baptism!