Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

hey pups. It´s the grilliot here. I don´t know what to say about this week. I´m feeling a little discouraged from time to time but we keep on keeping on. I think we made some progress this week. I felt really grateful at the start of this week. Like I had a few days of unusually high levels of gratitude. and then at the end of the week i felt stressed and discouraged. Today we played basketball and hung out with the zone and it made me feel a lot better. One of the things that i think causes stress for me is that i feel loonely sometimes. I prayed about that when i started with elder saico, and i received a really cool revelation about how i needed to make myself and other people laugh more.  a funny thing elder saico said this week Man we were walking around and we passed an internet cafe, and elder saico said, "man it is really weird to see women in an internet cafe, like, they´re women" and i was like "what? is that weird?" and he was like ...

hey i love you guys. It´s been a strange week. i don´t know what to say about it really. We had some new people in the church yesterday which was cool. Oh we found this one lady, tonia. She is really tender and prepared. She cries a lot when we visit her and says that she feels like God is trying to tell her something by sending us, and that she wants to be baptized for him. Those are good feelings. Elder Grilliot

New Camera! Elder Saico  My goofy smile look (Here is the gentleman that is blind that I shared in this week's letter.) okay well we have already got to go but man wasn´t it cool that i sent pictures this week? more next week probably some higlights from this week some of our friends told us some wack stories we talked with this guy who is really cool, he used so much drugs that he went blind, and then he left all the drugs and he told us that he is much happier blind than he ever was being an addict, he told us about the way that an addicts mind works and it´s really ugly. it really opened my mind. Drugs ruined his life and he has scars all up his arms because he tried to kill himslef with a razor. now he´s a really happy delightful blind man. his dad shined our shoes, his dad is ex police, he has some crazy stories too, he was almost killed a few times. like they kidnapped him ...