Last weeks post! (4/16/2012)

Hey how’s it going?  This week has been really good.  For Easter bishop
Pauline gave a really good talk about removing the stones that are
blocking our progression in the gospel.  He connected that with the
importance of "the family: a proclamation to the world" he said that
each family should work on the following principles to help them grow
more in the gospel and also there bond for each other.
1.faith
2.repentance
3.forgiveness

4.respect
5.love
6.compassion
7.work
8.prayer
9.FUN

He asked the families in my ward to work on at least one principle for
the month and so I want you do to the same thing for our family.

I’m 20!!!!!!!!! years old!!!!!!!! geez i feel soooooo old. I had a
really good birthday yesterday. In the evening I went to sister Archers
house for cookies, then I went to the Leon's house for cupcakes and
then I went to the Delvin's house for an apple, cinnamon, caramel dessert
thingy.  It was really good.  They also got me some ties and sea
shells from the beach. I took some pictures of it and I will attach it
to this email.

Other than that, this week has been sweet.  I was able to shake another
Apostle's hand.  D. Todd Christofferson, came last Saturday and
he did a "question and answer" message.  We got to ask him a good
amount of questions but one thing that he told us was that he and the
1st presidency of the church are really thankful for all the
missionaries and they wish sometimes they could just preach the gospel
instead of working on big projects for the Church and solving problems
around the world.  He also said us as missionaries won’t have another
chance in life to study the scriptures every morning for 2 hours and
as you get older it will be harder to do so.

Thank you again for the gift and I’m glad to hear everyone got my
letter. Talk to you later.

Love,
Elder DeMarco
The pictures with a lot of missionaries in it, that’s in our house and
we usually have them over every Wednesday for lunch haha