The Griffin Family: From Elder Griffin: A Rough Week With Tender Mercies

Monday, April 16, 2012

From Elder Griffin: A Rough Week With Tender Mercies

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAM!!! LOVE YOU!!! You are the best! See you in a year!
Woo hoo! We had a baptism in Castagñet! (our area). We had a super rough week.. but, the Lord loves us and blessed us with an awesome baptism this weekend. His name is Oscar and he is such a good man. Super quiet and timid, but an amazing convert. I love being a missionary! Yesterday it rained a ton, and Uruguayans are infamous for having lock downs if it sprinkles for ten minutes, so, not many people came to church. But we had two investigators there so that was cool!

Yesterday we got a text from one of our old investigators that had stopped wanting to talk to us, saying that they want to start going to church again and get baptized!!! (huge miracle) So, after church we went to their house, had a lesson with them, and gave the mom and her two kids a baptismal date for the 28th of April. Woohoooo!! We are so happy haha. I love tender mercies of the Lord. Especially when we had such a rough week! The zone is doing well, it's stressful but I love being where I am with my comp. We are enjoying our time here. Melo has always been famous in the mission for being so awesome! And I always wanted to come here, so it's a privilege to be a zone leader here. We had our last interviews with our mission president this last week: (In June they leave and new ones come in. Weird!! I looovvvve president and the hermana DaSilva so much haha. I don't want them to leave. I'm excited though. During the interviews the whole zone was there, and it starting raining soo much that water was filling up and coming in the church! So my comp and I ran out like crazy with squeegees and tried in vain to push out trillions of gallons of water out to the road so it wouldn't come in. But it was too much haha. We were SOAKED. All the other missionaries were just laughing at us haha it was funny.

That is awesome that Austin is leaving! I'm proud of him. And I cant believe Josh is getting his papers in, that is so cool. I'm SO EXCITED for him!!! Haha yes! Thanks for the pics! I saved em:) That is awesome you all went to St George. I miss that soo much haha geez. The mail hasn't come for a couple weeks, so I haven't gotten the card yet, when it comes I'll let you know, we're going to see if the box is here today so it might be there. You never know. Elder Gardenier is doing well, he's sitting next to me writing his family haha. I gave him some stamps so he could write his family today. He's lovin it out here! He's a stud.
So, I'm already heading down hill, one year down, one more to go. It's crazy how much time goes by. I love the mission so much. This next year´ll be even better.

VAMOS` ARRIBA! Love you all!

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Little Bits of Wisdom

"Coop, we're really lucky we love each other so much. Not everybody in this world has a best buddy like we do."--Caden

Cooper--"Mom, can I watch a movie in my room tonight?"

Mom--"No, it's a school night, you need to go straight to sleep."

Cooper--"Well, what if I just open one eye and keep the other one closed?"

"Mom, since you're already married, I guess I'll marry Princess Jasmine."--Cooper

"Mom, you're a lot sweet and a lot beautiful!"--Cooper

"Mom, can I help with the laundry? I can take the clothes out of the wetter and put them in the dryer for you."--Cooper

"Mom, I'm so lucky that I can burp really loud!"--Cooper

"Mom, before you play a game, you always have to read the destructions."--Cooper

Caden--"Mom, why does Santa carry so much soap in his sleigh?"

Mom--"What do you mean?"

Caden--"You know, one horse, soap, and sleigh."

"Cooper, one day you're going to grow up and be even taller than mom. It's okay, though, she'll still love you."--Caden

"Mom, you're my BEST girl!"--Cooper

"Mom, does Jesus happy-cry whenever a new baby comes down from heaven?"--Caden

Mom--"Caden, what did you learn at your first day of kindergarten?"

Caden--"We did our ABCs and learned about respect."

Mom--"Oh good, so, what does respect mean?"

Caden--"Well, it mostly means you just try not to act like a butt, and you try not to say "butt" either."

"Mom, will you please stop going to clubs every night? Last night you went to book club, and now you're going to Sam's Club!"--Caden

"Mom, can you hand me the phone? I'm going to call Tyson."

--Caden (On his mission in Uruguay)

"Coop, next to Jesus, you're the best brother ever!" --Caden

"Cooper, you're my whole heart. I just LOVE you!"--Caden

Caden (very calmly)--"Cooper, don't be an ***."
Mom--"Did you just say what I think you said?"
Caden--"Yup"
Mom--"Why would you say THAT?"
Caden--"It's OK mom, I'm just practicing my swear words!"

"Mom, have you noticed that Tyson seems to be forgetting some of his apostrophies lately?"--Kamryn, while reading a missionary email from Ty

Mom--"Do you want me to help you with that, or not?"
Cooper---"Umm..........or not."

"Mom, do you know that I have a crush on you?"--Caden

Mom-"Caden, how did you know that music was from the Harry Potter movie?"
Caden-"I guess I just rememberized it!"

"Mom, don't you think you should take the Special K challenge? YOU could loose up to three inches!"--Kamryn

"Mom, how many pounds do you love Cooper?"--Caden

Mom, it's already been a minute. When I want something, why don't you just say, "Just an hour?"--Caden

"Mom, aren't you glad that after we die we can still snuggle together in heaven?"--Caden

"Cooper, if you ever see a girl crying, you need to run over and see if you can help her feel better."--Caden

"Kamryn, why do you always have to be so anoising?" (annyoing)--Caden

"Buddy, if you ever need anything, just call me and I'll come running!"--Caden, to Cooper

"Mom, did you know that Dad's the biggest, Cooper's the littlest, and I'm the mediumest?"--Caden

"Mom, maybe you should slow down a little. I think you might be going a few inches too fast."--Caden, my little back-seat driver

"Mom, who decided to make red lights and stop signs? All they do is waste our time!"--Caden

Kamryn, while helping me make Halloween Mummy Hotdogs for dinner the other night: "Oh, I just LOVE it when life is fun and yummy!"

The other day, the little kids were getting buckled into the car, and I said, "OK, is everybody ready?" Caden said yes, and Kamryn looked at him and said, "Caden...that was a HISTORICAL question! That means mom already knew the answer, but she just asked the question anyway." That girl keeps me laughing, for sure!

After Tyson left for college, Kamryn was looking through his things and said "You know, Tyson isn't a very interesting person, but he sure did leave some interesting stuff behind!" Sorry Ty, but I thought that was pretty funny.

Yesterday I was sick with a cold, and I asked Caden for a hug. He said "OK, but it has to be quick, or you'll make me sick, and I'll make you just fine."

The other day I overheard Caden telling Cooper "Come over here and I'll teach you how to run real fast so mom can't catch you."

A few weeks ago I went into the boy's room to get Cooper out of his crib in the morning. Caden was still in bed and I asked if he wanted to come down. He said "I'm just laying here waiting for you to tuck me out!"

"Mom, when am I gonna turn five? I have WAY to much energy for a four year old!"--Caden

"Mom, I know you really love me, but I'm jumping off the dresser anyway."--Caden

Kamryn-"Mom, Caden just flipped me off!"
Mom-"It was an accident. Caden doesn't even know what that means."
Kamryn-"Well, that's the SECOND time I've been flipped off this week!"
Mom-"Who else flipped you off?"
Kamryn-"Cooper!"

The other day I was outside pulling weeds, and I said to Kamryn and Caden, "Look guys, here's a little roly-poly!" Kamryn looked at me and said, "Actually mom, it's not REALLY called a roly-poly. These little guys are REALLY called Tomato Bugs!" Ahh, it's always refreshing to have a good laugh while weeding the garden!