Well this week has been a very fun and exciting week. i have gotten up every day exactly at 6.30 and have tried to do exercise. Thing has resulted in me mostly on the couch doing some kind of arm stretch next to our room heater hahaha. Then during most of our studies i have wonder of mentally wondering what an American Pizza would taste like...hahaha. no but really the week has been really good and i have seen many miracles. about a week and a half ago we received two families to teach and they have been progressing fabulously. We have taught most of them the first 3 lessons and have even placed a few baptismal dates with them. Overall it was really cool, but like all the other missionaries we were a little worried if there investigators would go to church, after all if they don't go we can't baptize them. So we invited or reminded them every 3 days or so to go. Then Sunday morning we literally ran house to house to get these people in a taxi and head to the chapel. The end result was freaking amazing. For the first time in my mission I had 11 investigators in the church. in short it was another Sunday miracle and Of course, being the over enthusiastic missionaries that we are, we have made a goal to get 20 investigators to church by the 14th. hahaha yeah crazy but i bet we can do it...if we work and pray really hard hahaha.
Aside from this our week was normal. We found people, we taught them, and we are hoping as usual that they can come. We will just have to see. however, I have a lot of faith that we will have some baptisms here in the next few weeks and I am really excited to see how many.
Oh something petty funny that me and my companion talked about is what would have happened if Jesus was black. My companion commented that we would be eat brownies and fruit punch for the sacrament hahaha freaking caute!
Anyway i love you all and I hope that you have a great week.
hey guys guess what i will have six months here in 11 days! that's sooooooo weird. I still can't speak Spanish if you are wondering and the work here is as usual a little on the hard side. I have also been training for the past week and as usual this is a little weird as well. My companion is pretty cool he is just a little nervous about things that are a little stupid. Yet he is a good guy and I think he will be a great missionary... if he learns to chill a little. hahaha no but really things here are good as usual. I haven't been super sick in a little while and the work has been going well. In fact I actually hope for a few baptism in the near future. However we will have to see about those I just have a lot of Hope haha.
Also I saw a small miracle this Sunday that made me cry (freaking panzi). We had been working really hard this week passing for less actives and our investigators, but we had just received a call that one of our most progressed investigators wouldn't be able to go to church. in short I was pretty upset. We had one other that we could pass for but this investigator hadn't attended church in a year and a half and we were about to drop here like a rock. Then when we passed her family told us we had to wait. I personally thought she wasn't going to come out...but after 15 minutes of waiting she came. For the first time in a year and a half this investigator went to church and she liked it! plus to boot our chapel was almost full this week of all the less actives that we had passed for. So when the sacrament was passed I kinda cried a little to be honest. After all this ward hasn't seen more than 65 people attending since i arrived... and this Sunday they had more than 100. So yea I was a little happy.
So if any of you are wondering yes I am a little bit of a panzi but hey it was a coll event and it made me happy so you guys can't say anything. Anyway, I am still in the same area and I am hoping that I can see something happen here in the near future. A baptism another small miracle I don't know all I know is that i will work really hard to get one if I can. Yep, that's about all I have to say. I hope all of you are doing well that you are eating pizza every day like I want to and that things in general are going well. anyway I have to go peace out fam love you all tons.
So the interesting part of this week have been the fact that i am still in my area...but I am now training! It was pretty crazy to get the call that told me that I would be training a new elder. My new companion arrived yesterday and he is pretty awesome to be honest. His name is Elder Gomez. He is from Michoacan which is a state about 6 hours west from here. He is pretty excited to preach and work so i am hoping for a lot of success with him. Plus his actual mission is New York North..,.so he can speak English pretty well. I hope this will help me learn Spanish better..but we will see haha. overall its pretty dang exciting. I just hope that I can be a good trainer and that we can have more success than i have had recently.
Funny story: when my companion arrived yesterday we told him that we were going to pass for the house of investigators that supposedly had a lot of problems. However, in reality we past for the house of a member and his family. They played along with us and my new companion look freak out hahaha. It was pretty funny in truth and while some people might have felt bad I didn't because he will experience more interesting things here soon so.... yea haha.
Also this week we will have a world wide missionary conference which will be pretty exciting. I bet we will learn about how we can become more effective and active in our area...but who know. Anyway I love you all and I promise to write more next week its just been a little crazy here recently and we don't have a lot of time for anyway thing hahaha peace out!
hey everyone! The week here has been both fun and a little bit hard in truth. I have been getting better in Spanish even though I am still just one step above a white person still. Plus I am still always nervous when talking to people... so that doesn´t help me at all haha. However, its okay I know I will get it one day! I just hope that day comes quickly hahahaha.
This week was a little slow to be honest. We had divisions and I went with one of my zone leaders for the day. It was pretty cool. We talked to a bunch of people and ended the day completely exhausted. The funny part about the day was the fact that both of us were these tall white guys and everyone tried to speak English to us haha. Some times Mexicans came be so weird. Anyway that was fun and listening to my zone leader speak Spanish with a Utah accent was pretty funny too.
Also this week we past for the house of a member that was celebrating his birthday. We ate dinner with his family and it was delicious. I ate a ton and then one of the family started a small food fight. I joined in of course and laughed the entire time. Luckily for me I didn´t stain my tie haha so all was well. After this we got to push the birthday boys face into a tiny cake... i actually really like that tradition and think we should institute it back home haha.
Overall this week has been good if slow. Anyway I hope that each of you have been doing well and I can´t wait to talk to you next week. Peace out fam!
Hey guys the week has been good here and even crazier tomorrow I will finish 5 months in the field. in two weeks I will probably get my first transfer and begin training some squirt from Chihuahua. However, who knows right? I don`t. At any rate all is well here in the great country of Mexico. I do wish however, that you guys could have been here for the new year. To say that it was crazy would be putting it lightly. Every the people were setting off fire works and partying. SO consequently we had to be in our apartment by 9:00 without exception. Hahaha that was okay though because we could see all the fireworks from the top of our house. The whole city during this time sounded like a battlefield and looked a little like one in truth. Anyway that was pretty cool to watch and it was good to have the chance to talk and be with the family next door to us.
A really cool experience that we had this week was the chance that we had to pass for a less active family. They hadn't past for the church for 8 months because they had lost there father/husband/grandfather. In short this family was experiencing a lot of pain in their lives especially his wife who is now a widow. This was my first time passing for this house and family but this time something had change because of a lesson we had given the week before. They had attended the church and told us that they could feel the pain of the death starting to be taken from their lives. They then said it was because of our actions as missionaries that they had felt this change in them. They said without us they wouldn't have gone back to church. In that moment I gave thanks in my heart to my savior for his effort on behalf of this family and my ability to serve them.
Aside from that experience we did another round of candy runs. We visited the houses of less actives and members to wish them a happy new year to to impress upon them the importance of Christ in our lives. So in short the week was in general the same as those of before. It past by quickly and was meet with some success. Will we are still having trouble with our investigators and ward I have high hopes for the future of the work here in this area. For I know, and understand that through Christ all is possible if we but act upon that faith that is inside us.
So I hope that all of you are having a great new year and are trying a little harder to put a little more room in your life for christ. After all I am and kinda have to hahaha. I love you all and hope that all goes well for you this week.
i unfortunately don't have very much time to write as both me and my companion are using the same computer to write and i need to try to end my emails by 5:00 or earlier so that he can have a chance to write as well. This week was a very fun experience here in Mexico. While nobody was home for the most par the experience we had with the few families that were sweet. I have really come to love a lot of the members here and I am going to be sad when I have cambios on the 19th. however, I know its just part of the mission and I will have the chance to see them again at some point in time.
Anyway the coolest part of this week was the chance my companion and I had to pass many of our investigators and members in our ward to give them small bags of candy. It was a great experience to see all the expressions they had. I am very grateful for this chance and for my companion for coming up with the idea.
The other really cool experience we had was to eat Christmas dinner with the family next door. The food was pretty great and of course we goofed off a lot so that was pretty good feeling too. True many of those jokes were about me because I was the only white guy present but that was okay.
The last fun experience I had was cooking many of the goodies I received for Christmas. Many of the people here haven't experience American food so cooking all the goodies and see how much they liked them was really cool. Plus I love cooking so that was an awesome experiencing too.
Anyway this was my week and I am so glad to have had the chance to talk to all of you and hear that you are all doing well. Anyway take care and remember to always remember Christ in your lives. Love you all. Peace out.
hey everyone, stuff here has been fun recently. We haven't had a very successful week but its been interesting. First here in mexico they had the celebration of all the catholic virgin Santa's. Apparently their Santa's don't mind if they drink and party to celebrate their work toward Christ. Also its been really sucky trying to contact people that automatically say that they have this or that saint. Freaking fritos. So yea those celebrations lasted for two days and we didn't get many opportunities to talk to people.
In honesty not much else happened this week. I got to see the dedication of the temple in Tijuana, which was pretty cool, and play more soccer. In short its been pretty boring. Oh and I got to visit the temple lights here in Mexico city. They reminded me of home which kinda suck haha. However they were very pretty and I am glad I got to go. Plus its also a very easy way to get investigators to visit the visitors center here in Mexico city.
Oh yea last thing Me and my companion have been cooking food and I its been great! I love eating real food an not just bread or cereal. Anyway i hope you are all doing well. Talk to you all soon. Peace out.
So this
week has been going okay. Every week we get about ten new investigators but
more often than not they don't want to talk to us when we return. We have
received a few new ones that do have a lot of potential though. On the sadder
hand we lost some of our most progressed investigators. One needed his parents
approval to be baptized(he didn't get it) the other just hasn't been coming to
church for the past 2 weeks and she is never home. So we don't know what will
happen with them but we hope for the best.
We
don't have any baptisms planned for at least 2 weeks and with our luck right
now though will probably fall through. Yet, i should be optimistic so who
knows. All is possible. Other than that the work is usually pretty good here.
The people are happy to talk to you and invite you back....and then not be
there when you try again. Anyway its all cool.
The
story of the week is the opportunity I had to play soccer with the ward. We
played today and I made an awesome goal. I happened to break away from the
defenders and as the goalie was about to grab the ball I slid and kicked it in.
Pretty sweet if you ask me.
The
other story I would like to share is about an investigator we have. We received
an email last week about this person we needed to visit. I was tired and my
companion unfortunately had to prod me a little to get me to continue. (not
much) We came across the house and she asked us to come in. She listened to our
message and talked about how she was going through some physical illness that
was making her really sad. (might have actually been depression she was facing
but she really didn't talk much about it). She then said as we finished that
she had been crying when we arrived, but because of our message she now felt
happy and able to continue with her day. This experience was special to me
because I shared at least half of our lesson and she understood me. So it was a
great experience.
Anyway
I am glad that you are all doing well. I happy that the babies are strong and
healthy and are usually good to you guys. I wish I could write more to you guys
but my time is very short and we have an appointment. So I love you all and
please keep writing even though I can't respond to each of your emails.
So this week has been going okay. Every week we get about ten new investigators but more often than not they don't want to talk to us when we return. We have received a few new ones that do have a lot of potential though. On the sadder hand we lost some of our most progressed investigators. One need his parents approve to be baptized(he did get it) the other just hasn't been coming to church for the past 2 weeks and she is never home. So we don't know what will happen with them but we hope for the best.
We don't have any baptism planned for at least 2 weeks and with our luck right now though will probably fall through. Yet, i should be optimistic so who knows. All is possible. Other than that the work is usually pretty good here. The people are happy to talk to you and invite you back....and then not be there when you try again. Anyway its all cool.
The story of the week is the opportunity i had to play soccer with the ward. We played today and I made an awesome goal. I happened to brake away from the defenders and as the goalie was about to grab the ball I slid and kicked it in. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
The other story I would like to share is about an investigator we have. We received an email last week about this person we needed to visit. I was tired and my companion unfortunately had to prod me a little to get me to continue. (not much) We came across the house and she asked us to come in. She listen to our message and talked about how she was going through some physical illness that was making her really sad. (might have actually been depression she was facing but she really didn't talk much about it). She then said as we finished that she had been crying when we had arrive, but because of our message she now felt happy and able to continue with here day. This experience was special to me because i shared at least half of our lesson and she understood me. So it was a great experience.
Anyway I am glad that you are all doing well. I happy that the babies are strong and healthy and are usually good to you guys. I wish I could write more to you guys but my time is very short and we have an appointment. So I love you all and please keep writing even though I can't respond to each of your emails.
I don`t have much time left to write so this email will have to be my last for the day and yet again my memory card is broken and I haven`t found a way to fix it so I don`t have any pictures. This is pretty frustrating. Anyway, It was pretty awesome to see and hear about the new family member. Caden welcome to the family and good luck. you will learn soon enough what you got yourself into. Until then just know we are happy to have you.
This week has passed a little longer than most. We have had some difficulties with some families surrounding the Santa Muerte. Its interesting stuff and a little scary. However, we gave the family a blessing and all has been going well since then.
Other than that most things around here are pretty normal. I only have one month left of my training and then I might have to train another Elder. This is pretty scary as I still have a hard time sharing the lessons with others. However, it is what it is and I will do my best as I always have.
Story: Today me, my companion, my district leader and his companion, went bowling! I won of course scoring 132 points but the others were close behind with 72, 71 and 53. Hahah yea I kicked their trash! I did it humbly too with moon walking and singing haha. Anyway it was fun and I was glad for the chance to take a break and have fun.
Story 2: We had the opportunity to have a zone activity. This was awesome because we got to play soccer and eat food. So of course it was sweet. Unfortunately, during this zone activity we manage to lose the two soccer balls that we brought. We tried to get them back from the people who’s houses they fell in, but… they were pretty unhappy and wouldn`t give us our soccer balls back. So we ended up playing dodgeball with bunch of plastic balls filed with a tiny bit of water. They hurt but it was awesome.
Having fun in a museumChilling with the zone leaderFirst BaptismsHalf the zone at our houseMaking Swedish pancakes for the neighborsBehold ye the tie collectionThug lifeCompanion cutting his own hair for the first time
Well that’s basically all haha. I hope to have some more fun stories for you soon.
Well it hasn’t been a very long time since we last talked so, I really don’t have much to say. The weeks here are moving pretty fast. I hardly remember many of my previous weeks here. Plus, I find it hard to tell them apart. Anyway they are still good weeks, hard but good. We have begun to double our work here. We are constantly trying to find more people to teach and we often find that we miss those that we have at times. However, we are continuously improving.
This week we visited with many people including a man who was having a hard time with alcohol. We were talking to a store owner when he asked us for a pamphlet. He was behind us with his liter bottle of corona and he had tears running down his face. We sat down next to him and asked him how he was and what he wanted to talk to us about. He then began to talk about how he had lost his girlfriend and that his job was going poorly. We asked him why he thought these things had happened and he explained that because of his drinking and drunken tendencies he had lost his girlfriend and his job had begun to deteriorate. My companion began to talk to him about Christ and his love for us. He later went on to give him our number and get his in return. He told him we were here for him and to call us as if he felt the desire to go back to drinking. I then gave him a pamphlet about the plan of salvation and explained that through the plan of our Father in Heaven we all had the opportunity to improve our lives and change. We then hugged him and left. I don’t know if he will call or if he will change. I do know though that because of our Heavenly Father and his plan we have that chance. It isn’t easy at times but through the Son of God our Savior all is possible if we but believe and press forward with faith and hope.
This week was pretty awesome! I had the opportunity to go to a couple museums and work with our zone leader. He is a really cool guy and is very hard worker. Every time he works with us our numbers increase a lot. Also, he is a funny guy so, the day goes by a lot faster. I also had the chance to baptize two people this week. It was a very special experience for me because its the first time I have ever baptized a person and it was in Spanish so, it was a very interesting experience. Luckily their names weren’t very hard to say so it went well.
As I don’t have much more time to write I just want to share one experience. This week close to the time we needed to return to our house, my companion got a call from a recently returned missionary that was having a hard time. Up to this point he was doing great. He had a girlfriend and knew what he wanted to do with his life. Then we came to his house and learned that his girlfriend had broken up with him after he had proposed and that his family was going through a hard time. He told us that he didn’t know what to do. He said he was thinking of leaving the church and trying to find a new path for his life. My companion proceed to talk and give some great scriptures but even after this I could feel that he wasn’t doing well. It was written in his face. So, we offered to give him a priesthood blessing of comfort. As we placed a chair for him to sit my companion ask me if I would give the blessing. I responded that I hadn’t ever given a blessing of comfort in English let alone in Spanish. He just looked at me and kept asking if I wanted to give the blessing. I finally said yes. I remember as I placed my hands on the returned missionaries head all the fear that was going through my mind. I had so much that could not remember the words to start the blessing and my companion had to help me. However, when I began the real part of the blessing, a single clear thought came to my mind. What would Christ tell you if you where in this same spot, indeed what has he told you. Then the words came. Truthfully, I can’t remember what I said. All I can remember is that after the blessing was done something changed in the returned missionary. He got up and hug me and I saw the change in his face. I knew in that moment he wasn’t going to leave the church, that his work was just beginning. Then we went and got tacos. So the moral of the story is tacos are awesome especially after a blessing ;) Love you all. I know the lord is looking out for all of you and for me. Have a great week talk to you soon.
This week has been pretty chill to be honest. Not much really changes here. We work, we work, and then I go to bed! haha. Anyway, there have been a lot of cool things that have happened this week. I cooked some Swedish pancakes for the members that live across from us and they like them. I also had the awesome opportunity buy even more ties! hahaha. I love my ties even though they try to kill me everyday. Also getting up has been a tiny bit more easy. True I wish I could kill someone every time that alarm goes off and the lights are turned on… but who’s perfect right? I know I am not haha.
Anyway I also got my watch fixed this week. It broke in the MTC but luckily I found a member here that knew how to fix relojes so all was well.
Anyway I don`t have much time left to write so I will tell one more quick story then send some pictures. This week I got to play soccer, well it was today but that’s okay. I started of at defense, did okay, then went to offense, almost scored a goal then finally went to goalie. That when I had 10 saves. I was on fire. I stopped everything that came my way. Unfortunately I missed one shot and we lost. So yea that how my week went. Oh yea almost forgot. A family of members celebrated the end of my first full month here at mexico! It was pretty sweet because they bought me pizza! I love pizza! Especially when it’s pizza or chicken stomach. Yes I have had chicken stomach….its not to bad really. A little chewy that’s all ;) Anyway I love you all and will send a longer email next week I promise.
Wow week 10 has come and gone. In two more I will have 3 months on the mission! that’s 1/8 of a mission….weird. haha anyway I really do love it. That’s not saying it isn´t hard and that every day I feel like falling on my face and sleeping. Or possibly screaming my head off because its past 7:00 and my spanish mind has completely died. Haha but really its been good. We don´t have very many investigators right now. Plus the few that we do have are a little hard to teach. At anyway rate we hope for a baptism before this month is out.
To be honest not much has happened this week. We had a lot of meetings and talked to a lot of people. We had few more borrachos come talk to us which of course was great. After all if I could baptize every drunk person I meet I could establish a new ward here in no time.
Also I learned this week that I really don´t like to eat cactus. Its slimy and has a really odd flavor. I did learn that I like basically soup they have here. So far. this could change.
Oh yeah I have a really funny story to tell. Here in Mexico city they have what are called Tianguis. These are basically a bunch of tents in a row where people sell stuff out in the middle of the street. Every week me and my companion go to these to buy ties. One time as we were walking through these shops a women passed by me who had a beard! it was very big but I was stunned for a moment and stared a little. Thankfully my companion got me moving again before things got to weird. haha.
I also want to note that in one month I have been able to go from having only 5 ties too having 18. I think this is pretty impressive and can´t wait to see how many I get at the peak of my mission.
Anyway I am happy that you are all doing well and wish I had more to write about. Maybe next week! haha
Well this week wasn´t nearly as strange as the past couple. We did have a number of people come up to us and ask for visits. I thought that was pretty cool especially because I don´t think it would happen in the states too much. Right now we don´t have a ton of investigators and haven´t yet had a baptism. Every time we try to contact or get in touch with our references they are often “not home”. Also, our church starts at 8. This means about half of the regular members don´t show up. It’s a ton of fun trying to get them to come. Luckily that’s not really our job. We just talk about it when they have us come over to eat haha.
Aside from all that we have a really good family lined up for our lessons. We contacted this family the first week I came here and so far they have come to church and watch almost all the general conference sessions with us. This is particularly amazing since they had to come all the way to the stake center to watch general conference. This particular family a mother and her two sons. They are pretty poor but always are happy to talk to us. I really enjoy the youngest son. He was really shy when I first met him, but after I gave him a couple of my cookies I had in my bag he was more than happy to mess around with me. I really hope that we are able to continue to teach this family and eventually baptize them. They may be poor in the things of this world, but they are great in the in the worth of souls.
Besides conference I had the amazing chance to go on division with my zone leaders. The best part is that these guys are super funny, but also really good at teaching and getting the work done. During, divisions we didn´t have the opportunity to teach much. We mostly set a few dates and went on our way. However, we did go to the house of that one TJ that I told you guys about last week. The funny part was this fantastic man ask two of his fellow TJ to join in on the conversation on whether Jesus was Jehovah of God. Luckily for me I had to go with the other zone leader to an English teaching class before the battle began. I did hear later though that my companion did a rocking job and that the TJ didn´t know how to respond to his questions hahaha. Anyway, I went to teach some investigators English and that was tons of fun since I barely know Spanish and they know jack squat about English. The brother I ended up teaching thought I was a great teacher though and that made me really happy.
Another funny story or two:
We had this one pretty crazy guy come up to us and ask if he could make an appointment with us. We said yes and asked for his number and address. The man proceed to tell us but when we got confused because he was talking in a way that has hard to hear, he took my companions agenda ripped a page out of it and wrote his address for us. He then walked away with my companions pen. haha.
Last story, we had a recent convert come to our house a few days ago and we started playing hand ball in our apartment. The kid was a complete tramposo but fun to play with. He won every time, so in the end I tossed him on our couch and sat on him. freaking tramposo. haha
Anyway I am glad that you are all doing well and are having a great time. I am glad that you all enjoyed conference. I unfortunately only understood maybe half of what they were saying, but that half . entonces, I love you all and will talk more to you next week.
p.s mom. I kinda canceled my facebook account before taking off all the email that I had for people I wanted my emails to be sent too. i don´t know if you can re-activate it, but if you could try that would be great! haha Tell Dad that the language is slowly starting to come. I can understand basic conversations and all the lessons we teach but other everyday questions are still hard for me. At any rate tell dad that I love him and promise to write a letter directly to him next week. Also, I have pictures for you this week!
Zone leadersDinner at !ChilisElder Black with his Zone leadersLocal MuseumCompanion Elder HaysNearby ruinsAnother picture of a CathedralCentroSelfie in front of the cathedral
Thanks a lot for that spiritual message it was pretty awesome. It is true though, things out here can be pretty hard at times. This week me and my companion didn´t get the numbers we wanted.. again. Plus, many of the pèople we have been teaching and are close to baptism weren´t home this week. Lastly one boy who is eight years old was supposed to be baptized this past Sunday but he refused 3 days before hand. That sucked. We still manage to get him to church and hope that he will be willing to be baptized this Saturday. The last hard thing about this week is the fact that I got sick. It happened this past Tuesday. I woke up around 2:30 an threw up. Than another time at 5:30. Finally I had major diarrhea. This sucked because it was so bad that I could barely leave the house….plus I pooped my pants while I was sleeping. I mean who poops this pants will they are sleeping. Oh I almost forgot , I also had the amazing opportunity to teach J-dubs this week. They were excepting of almost all our message until we got into a fun conversation on whether or not Jesus christ was Jehovah. Needless to say they were very stubborn and didn´t want to listen after that. The man we were teach kept telling us to show him a scripture that said Jesus was Jehovah and then saying that we couldn´t because there weren´t any. haha fun guy.
Funny and crazy things that happened this week:
This week me and my companion had an awesome time talking to two drunk guys(not at the same time though). The first randomly walked up to us will we were walking and then we left a few minutes later because we couldn´t understand him. The second was in the middle of the street simply sitting down. He was bike taxi driver, so his bike was next to him. we first tried talking to him to get out of the road, but he wouldn´t listen. Entonces, my companion asked me to move his bike. So I did. The man got up really fast with his hands raised. I thought that he was going to punch me, but he didn´t just started mumbling in spanish. So we left him to and continued on. Some pretty weird people here if I do say so myself. Also that same day we had a little that started following us for no reason. He followed us for about an hour until we give a cookie and ran off. We named him Elder Blanco because of his white hair and my last name. Pretty funny day.
Anyway,
The day before leaving the CCM
First mission apartment
Bro. Juerez is a CCM teacherElders Black & Bidstrup
it has been great hearing from all of you and hope you have a great general conference. We will be watching it at our local stake center in spanish haha. Love all of you very much, talk to you next week.
For mom:
Hey mom that picture that you saw was of an investigator. She was the same one that walked into our church building two weeks ago and continued to come this week. We took her to the temple after church yesterday and she is probably the best investigator we have right now. She has been going through a hard time recently in her home with her husband who is an inactive. She really enjoyed the temple and I had the opportunity to pay to get her there. So really mom you payed to get her their. Entonces, your work is paying off because it’s helping me get people to places they need to be. Thank you a bunch for that work mom. Love you tons.
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Well I honestly can't believe that i am still kicking to honest. This week was probably the longest I have ever experienced. I worked hard, my companion worked hard, and then we feel asleep really fast haha. Yeah it was a good week even though it was pretty crazy. We had 48 lessons, 4 new investigators, 6 people attended church, placed 2 dates for baptism, and we walked a lotttt. haha yea I can't even remember that much about this week to be honest. Anyway i think one of the cool things that happened this week was the chance we had to eat with a less active family. They invites us over for breakfast and we ate a bunch of pancakes that were absolutely awesome! i honestly miss pancakes at times hahaha. then we also had divisions with our bishop and a member from the ward and it went pretty well to be honest. Even though my companion complained afterward that the member did some stupid stuff during the lesson...i kinda knew that was going to happen though. :P Other than that it was really a normal week that was simply full of hard work and returning home at 9:00 every night. So yea good week and i hope for many more like it!
This week was a little slow to be honest. We had divisions and I went with one of my zone leaders for the day. It was pretty cool. We talked to a bunch of people and ended the day completely exhausted. The funny part about the day was the fact that both of us were these tall white guys and everyone tried to speak English to us haha. Some times Mexicans came be so weird. Anyway that was fun and listening to my zone leader speak Spanish with a Utah accent was pretty funny too.
Overall this week has been good if slow. Anyway I hope that each of you have been doing well and I can´t wait to talk to you next week. Peace out fam!
hey everyone, stuff here has been fun recently. We haven't had a very successful week but its been interesting. First here in mexico they had the celebration of all the catholic virgin Santa's. Apparently their Santa's don't mind if they drink and party to celebrate their work toward Christ. Also its been really sucky trying to contact people that automatically say that they have this or that saint. Freaking fritos. So yea those celebrations lasted for two days and we didn't get many opportunities to talk to people. 
In honesty not much else happened this week. I got to see the dedication of the temple in Tijuana, which was pretty cool, and play more soccer. In short its been pretty boring. Oh and I got to visit the temple lights here in Mexico city. They reminded me of home which kinda suck haha. However they were very pretty and I am glad I got to go. Plus its also a very easy way to get investigators to visit the visitors center here in Mexico city. 
The
other story I would like to share is about an investigator we have. We received
an email last week about this person we needed to visit. I was tired and my
companion unfortunately had to prod me a little to get me to continue. (not
much) We came across the house and she asked us to come in. She listened to our
message and talked about how she was going through some physical illness that
was making her really sad. (might have actually been depression she was facing
but she really didn't talk much about it). She then said as we finished that
she had been crying when we arrived, but because of our message she now felt
happy and able to continue with her day. This experience was special to me
because I shared at least half of our lesson and she understood me. So it was a
great experience.
. entonces, I love you all and will talk more to you next week.
it has been great hearing from all of you and hope you have a great general conference. We will be watching it at our local stake center in spanish haha. Love all of you very much, talk to you next week.