#20 Sandstorm..live today

 Hey Everyone! 

Great week! Made Texas sheet cake and banana bread for Easter Sunday church service (36 total loafs made so far). Mongolian is improving slowly but surely! Also we had a crazy sand storm!! 

The other day we were at a members house eating dinner and they cooked a 3 course meal. I was super full. Then they brought out a 12" diameter cake. I thought to myself... "gosh im stuffed already". The mom cuts the cake in half (I'm thinking she's going to keep slicing it)... but then she takes the half and gives it all to me. They said "Bateman, you can do it... you got this". It was like a challenge to see what I'd do. So I ate the whole thing, as they were cheering me on. Anyway I looked pregnant and felt sick but it was totally worth it. 

For fitness, I've been running 2 miles about 3-5 times a week and do about 100 pull ups a day. Hopefully that is enough to stay in shape. 

Spiritual thought 

"The past is behind - learn from it; the future is ahead - prepare for it; the present is hear - live in it" Thomas S. Monson 

I am touched by this teaching as I find myself worrying about my future. It's helped me focus on the present. 

"Take therfore no thought of tomorrow, for the marrow shall take care of itself" Matthew 6:34

With faith in God, there is no reason to worry. If we beleive in him, we have hope things will work out. 

"Ask and it shall be given unto you: seek and ye shall find: knock and it will be open unto you" Matthew 7:7

If we follow God and serve others, not only might we recieve eternal life but we can experience heaven on earth. The joy that only comes from the divine love of God.

Love,

Elder Bateman