Mexico!!!!!

Sammuel left this morning from the MTC to head to Mexico. His is the first group to get there on schedule for about 2 months now. He was able to call us from the Houston airport and was very excited to be able to head out. His group of 10 arrived at 7:00 pm in Tampico, Mexico.

Week 8 MTC

So Elder Jeffrey R Holland just spoke last night at the fireside, it was neat. They do the firesides in the gym but the gym courts have been closed for 6 weeks cuz they've been putting in the bleachers and during the firesides they've been broadcasting it into other buildings where we have to gather to watch it and they just opened up the gym for everyone to come in yesterday so we made sure we ran to the gym to get a seat in case if someone with higher authority in the church was speaking and sure enough Holland walked in, it was awesome. He gets extremely emotional and its cool.

Anyways we got flight plans Friday, but don't know for sure if we have visas. They give flight plans whether you have visas or not and if we don't get them by this Friday then they will delay the flight plans and figure out what they're going to do with us. I'm not for sure when i'll talk to if i get them but if they delay us then we'll call home and tell you. Our flight is at 7:50 am Monday morning, we meet at the travel office here at 4 so I might be sleeping till we reach Houston airport. Supposedly when it all works out I'll call from Houston cuz we'll be stuck there for 6 hours and then suppose to arrive in Tampico at 7:45 pm. we were so excited to get those plans but we don't really know if we'll be delayed until Friday. I love you all be good read the scriptures-bye

Week #7 MTC

So the big event that happpened this week was a little trip to Salt Lake. 5 of the 7 of our district, my comps and another companerismo got called Thursday afternoon to the travel office and they said come back tomorrow your leaving at 2 to go to the consolate, so we rode up on a bus to SLC. It was weird seeing things outside of here and riding in the bus at first was almost comparable to a roller coaster ride. There were 12 of us total that went. anyways we got pictures taken and filled out permismos or whatever it was to prepare to enter the country and if all goes well our visas should come in the next little while and when we get flight plans we get to call home for 5 min so let me know what number to call when I find that out, so dearelder me today cuz rumor was we should find out Friday but it could be before next week. Then while we were gone the other two got called for the same thing and just went this Monday, things are looking bright for us. I guess they were taking 12 random mexican missionaries at a time for this. The district that was 2 weeks older than us that were mexicans just got reassigned last week while we were going to the consolate and they all left by Monday so we're closer to getting into Mexico than they are. Apparently the most likely rumor why things have been ruff gettin in is Mexico has been undergoing a new proccess of processing visas and they're trying to pick it up now 0r something i'm not entireley sure but things just seem to feel and look more promising for us than those who've gone before.

Thats cool about Jessica going to Haiti, one of my teachers went down there like a month ago for two weeks and said how bad it was and just some of the problems people go through. I think I want to do that kind of stuff after the mission, not neccessarly Haiti but service stuff, it'd be cool way to serve your fellow beings. I think I'll probably live in a spanish country for a little while after my mission too or maybe Brazil I don't know.

I love you all, be good continue to read the scriptures im on pg80 since tyou told me about it bye

Week 6 MTC

Why grace-ias for the info, I like to hear about all that is going on. The fair IS fun, but it won't be as cool for you all with out any pigs to get in for free and to watch run around and stuff. I'm hoping to go to my mission temple when I'm in Mexico, I can't wait to go through a Spanish session and understand it all, that will be awesome. Wow look at all the blessings going on in our family with Saren and I out, Mom's heart was softened and Maisie got a new cellphone! and Jake got mine ahaha.... It's hard to think that your school year is starting, or I just haven't thought about it. It seems like a never-ending summer here, until I started realizing if our visa stuff works out we got 3 weeks-ish til I can walk down the streets of Mexico and start dunking some folks and save their souls.

AAAAAAAahzhhhhh it's not bad here but I feel like a caged pitbull that is ready to go eat it up! My Spanish isn't great, but I could be ready today to be emerged in 100% Espanol for two years, we all got a pretty strong base. I really am just constantly excited about every aspect of the work, from studying, speaking and teaching. I want to go plant some seeds and watch that sucker grow and save some people from satan’s chains. I want to see their eyes light up and feel the spirit I just want to do it. But till then I'll practice and prepare for it and keep studying the language and gospel, you can never be too prepared for the work, alot of times it doesn't seem like there's enough time to get everything done in one day I want it all and I want it now. But I'll bear with patience mine afflictions alma 27:17 and run with patience I guess Hebrew 12:1..... I just want to go get r done and do some good. ... I just can't express how much I want to progress as fast as possible and leave and start preaching the gospel. I almost don't want to do anything else, I'd definitely rather feast on the words of Christ than the food here I can tell you Hwhat.

I encourage you all to read the BOM every night, I remember I never 'loved' doing that but its so essential and I feel bad now I was mopey and dragging my feet to the gospel cuz now its like I just want to run to it and burry myself in it, it's so amazing. Just like Lehi's dream of the tree of life and wanting to share it with his family, You'all should want to share that fruit with whom you love and with everyone around, k? k! I love you all, be good, keep up the good work I'm proud my family is working towards eternal life keep it up!!! Bye bye now

Week 5 MTC

Hola my Family,

I can say that I'm blessed to have grown up the way I have, to be blessed with attributes I can bring to the table with the Lord. Things seem to come easy and it's because of being raised by my Grandfathers farm with so much family and great friends around and having both sides of my family so strong in the gospel and great examples of attributes I want to develop. I also know of a surety how both sides of the veil are working hand in hand with me. I think I can almost say there's not a day goes by I don't think that and maybe that’s what encourages and influences me to become better and don't let anything get me down, so I don't. People say how hard this is and what a struggle it is but I would be lying to say it's been rough for me and I think it basically comes down to I know what I'm doing is right, and because the Lord is on my side I can do it. I've never really felt overwhelmed with learning the language or struggle with aspects like others have and it basically goes down to those points. Well that’s all in case anyone was wondering, I guess part of my testimony.

The Temple was nice to go to last week, were planning on going to eat down in the cafeteria tonight after the session so were really lookin forward to that.

Elder Priests dad is a counselor or something here and is always around, Elder Priest handles it really well I really like him, His dad brought us a fan a few weeks ago and I've been blessed to be sitting right next to it and keep cool all day in that classroom. His father came in and taught us an in depth discussion about the apostasy it was amazing how much knowledge he has and how surreal it really was with events that went on that destroyed the organized church Christ established.

Well, see ya later