This is Joy

Jenny and I at the Wailing wall!!

It's day four in this Beautiful city and I am already deeply in love with the culture and the people. I've been out in the city everyday, every minute I can. The people around the old city know the mormons, we will walk by the shops and they will say "MORMONS???" and we will smile and say yes then they will invite us in the store and show us their merchandise, telling us they give good price to the mormons' because they are honest good people.

Today we went on our "Geography" field trip. We went all over the place always pointing out the things on the North, South, East, and West as it states in Genesis 13 where it's promised to Abraham that he will be given the lands round about from everywhere. We have been learning so much about the Abrahamic Covenant. We've already learned so much and I don't feel my brain is large enough to contain it all. Our professors, INCREDIBLE and so renown archeologists that just are so brilliant. Oh and let me tell you about the food, only one word, AMAZING. I will be gaining so much weight. It's a joke around here that we came with baggy clothes but may go home with tight ones.DELICIOUS

I feel like there is so much to say but I can't even express everything I have learned. Like today we looked over the hill to Bethlahem and saw where Christ was born, We've seen the desert where he wandered for 40 days and the tower of his ascension. We went to the palace of Samuel where David came to play his hard, we stood on the ACTUAL stone of the palace. Oh just so much and in one day, this is such a rich cultured city. I don't think I will be able to leave. Every night I go out side to sit and look over the whole city, sometimes I try to make it out there to listen to the call to prayer. (which comes on 5 times a day including 4:00 am.) It's wonderful, it is such a beautiful thing to listen to.

OH and we went to the wailing wall the other day, so reverent, so peaceful, these Jewish people are so devote and my heart yearns for them to come unto the truth but I know that it won't happen. We also went to Gethsemane on our Sabbath (Sunday) which is on Saturday, I was just filled with the spirit I can't even describe it.

This is what REAL joy is