I Need Help Now!

April 30, 2012

Dear Family,

I hope that we can find the right doctors to help cure this rash on my face. I called the dermatologist that is here in Chambersburg and they aren't accepting new patients until July so that won’t work, I need help NOW! I have a moon face from the prednisone! That stuff is bad and I heard that it can make you sterile. When I heard that I thought "Oh GREAT! I won't be able to have kids now because of this stupid rash". I better be blessed a lot for this when I get home. Haha

We have been visiting the Kramer’s a lot; probably 5 times and two of the times that we visited with them were because they called us and had a question. They are receiving a lot of grief from Kevin Kramer’s mom. She is 76 years old and apparently doesn't like Mormons but she has never actually met one so she has no room to talk. His mom had looked up a lot of stuff on the internet and so they had a lot of questions but I feel we answered them all very well. The biggest question that they had was about tithing. Kevin’s mom told them that when you join the church you have to give the church your pay check so they know how much you make and then they take ten percent out and give the rest back to you. The only thing true about that was the ten percent, everything else was false. We told them that it is a commandment that is for the building up of the kingdom on the earth and that you will only know of the blessing of tithing if you test it or test God in other words. They felt better after this discussion and they are both still on board for their baptism on the 26^th of May. It is so fun to teach them and answer their questions. I feel that this is how missions are supposed to be. The Kramer’s invited us to dinner tonight.

I feel pretty good. I am sad that transfers are here and Elder Ika will be leaving. He has been here for six months and so I have gotten to become really good friends with him. It will be weird to have him gone while I am still here. Some days it is really hard to go out and do missionary work but I keep doing it. I think I just feel like that because I have been here so long in this area but this is my home. I was called to the Pennsylvania, Chambersburg mission. I will be really sad when I have to leave here because I have grown to love it.

Spanish is driving me crazy! It is so hard to learn it here. I have a native companion and he helps me a lot but he always wants to practice his English which he needs to because all our good investigators are English so we end up speaking a lot of English. I just don't get to hear it that much and I have to speak a lot of English throughout the day with our investigators. I only speak Spanish with Elder Rivas but it still isn't enough. I need to figure out a better way to study and use what I study. The Lord will help me I just need to have faith.

Elder Rivas is good. He spent a lot of time with the missionaries in New York before his mission and he was able to see how they do things but this mission is very different from New York and he needs to learn that. I know he has been pretty frustrated with me at times because he feels I need to be more patient. He is great though and I love him. He works very hard and always works at building his testimony. I think the language barrier is the only problem. We both want to learn a different language. I feel really bad though because he doesn't have any family support and he said he probably won’t be able to call his mom on Mother’s Day.

Thanks for all your love and support that you give me. I love you!!!

Love Elder Tanner Mouritsen