We had a Elder De Hoya, of the 70 come in and talk to us, him and his wife and pres Call and wife. It was mostly in spanish, the quourom of 70 is spanish and Hna. Call did her best to hablar la idioma. it was fun. There´s 3 of us from my mtc district in our zone, Elder Willmore, Elder Cook, and I so i got to see them. Elder Cook is in our District so I talk to him at least once a week at meetings.
Ya, we finally had our baptisms on Tuesday and they were confirmed yesterday. I baptized an 11 yr old boy Claudio Aldair Charles Lara and my compa baptized the prima que tiene 9 anos... it was great haha I wish you all could have seen it... I kind of thrusted him with the left hand and then had to scoop him out and dang near baptized myself in the process!! It was great. His name was almost harder to remember than the baptismal prayer and is almost the same amount of words. The two kids live with their grandma and she decided a little while ago she wanted them baptized so got a hold of the missionaries who were before us in the area and they started teaching and we got to reap the harvest... We have 4 fechas for the oct. 9. 3 from our first family we found and taught the first day we arrived and 1 other we´ve taught a few times.
When you serve a mission you end up meeting all kinds of people, one really old lady we´ve taught told us when we taught the first lesson that she remembers what happened to the apostles of Jesus... That those bad people that drive around shot every last one of the Apostles after la muerte de Jesucristo.. Another visit she told us she believes everything we say.. She´s about to the point were she´s losing it, poor Maria de Jesus....We taught a normal guy and a 92 yr old guy a few weeks ago, it was hillarious. we would teach and the old guy would ramble off something the whole time, like ´"cuando tenía 40 anos, tuvé un maestro...me enseñó cada cosa sobre Jesucristo´"....Alright Paco,....Great insights haha
idk, we got to do something about transportation, it costs too much money.. you could ship me my truck with the next package , it would be great help down here!!!
From Tuesday to i think Saturday Elder Cook and I are going to be comps cuz his comp and mine are going to Tampico for something haahah a two gringos that have 3 or 4 weeks in the field toghether!!! its going to be fun.. fun to see how it works out and to be comps again for a few days hahaha we have alot of citas for those days in my area tooo haha How is Tucker, and Austin and Chase and whoever else. Maybe you could get me the email of Tucker since he´s my family idk thanks for the love, bye
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
No hurricane
So you asked about the hurricane, I'm closer to Monterey than Veracruz, but ya its been raining alot lately. like alot. every day. its really wet.
Things are okay, I´m pretty used to Mexico. We get alot of first lessons in and sometimes the time that they say to come back they're not there or sometimes the tv is on and you can hear people in the house and they don't come out.
We´ve been on huge rations lately,, weve spent alot of money on investigators for buses and what not to get them to church and stuff and have had to use our food money for that stuff. It's all worth it in the end if end up bringing people to Christ.
I haven't eaten chips and salsa once, it would be nice. Most of the meals are rice, beans, maybe meat mixture if were lucky or potatoes on a plate and then a stack of tortillas and put the stuff in the tortillas in little buritos or roll up the tortillas and eat it weird, i dont know its about the same every day. Usually they have salsa which to them is like tobasco sauce , not any chunks of tomato, its either red or green sauce about as spicy as Betos or the taco venders in town and looks about the same and if the food looks funny I just cover it in the sauce so I don't taste anything but the hot sauce and I figure its so dang hot that it kills the bugs or whatever it is that make s you sick. Occasionally I'll have a coke to kill the bad stuff too. You just learn to eat as much as possible at the meals cuz theres not much at night to eat. i have 'A' bowl of cereal and cut up banana every morning then the comida at 2 and maybe an apple when were back at the house at night.
I'm baptizing an 11yr old tomorrow night, why Tuesday? I dont know the dad is weird. Their family is inactive the dad is a return missionary but really inactive. The kid lives with his grandma and she decided a while ago she wants her grandkids baptized and so the missionaries in the area before us worked with them, and we have as well since we´ve been here but now we get to reap the harvest.
Our investigators that have been the best, we´ve figured out a little better their concerns, we have 2 fechas for Oct 2... but one hasn't been to church so idk.
But ya, things are busy, its just another day in Mexico.
We live above a the business of a member in the upstairs of the building. It's a busy main road out in front with a beer station across the streets. Some nights things are loud over there but its just another day in the neighborgood. and there is a guy that lives next to the beer station that lived in the states for a while and knows english, not great but good and he likes to talk to me in english. Then the beer owner yells at us no entendi entendi hable en espanol.... haha
well have fun, good luck with football Heston and Jake, tear er' up
Love all
Things are okay, I´m pretty used to Mexico. We get alot of first lessons in and sometimes the time that they say to come back they're not there or sometimes the tv is on and you can hear people in the house and they don't come out.
We´ve been on huge rations lately,, weve spent alot of money on investigators for buses and what not to get them to church and stuff and have had to use our food money for that stuff. It's all worth it in the end if end up bringing people to Christ.
I haven't eaten chips and salsa once, it would be nice. Most of the meals are rice, beans, maybe meat mixture if were lucky or potatoes on a plate and then a stack of tortillas and put the stuff in the tortillas in little buritos or roll up the tortillas and eat it weird, i dont know its about the same every day. Usually they have salsa which to them is like tobasco sauce , not any chunks of tomato, its either red or green sauce about as spicy as Betos or the taco venders in town and looks about the same and if the food looks funny I just cover it in the sauce so I don't taste anything but the hot sauce and I figure its so dang hot that it kills the bugs or whatever it is that make s you sick. Occasionally I'll have a coke to kill the bad stuff too. You just learn to eat as much as possible at the meals cuz theres not much at night to eat. i have 'A' bowl of cereal and cut up banana every morning then the comida at 2 and maybe an apple when were back at the house at night.
I'm baptizing an 11yr old tomorrow night, why Tuesday? I dont know the dad is weird. Their family is inactive the dad is a return missionary but really inactive. The kid lives with his grandma and she decided a while ago she wants her grandkids baptized and so the missionaries in the area before us worked with them, and we have as well since we´ve been here but now we get to reap the harvest.
Our investigators that have been the best, we´ve figured out a little better their concerns, we have 2 fechas for Oct 2... but one hasn't been to church so idk.
But ya, things are busy, its just another day in Mexico.
We live above a the business of a member in the upstairs of the building. It's a busy main road out in front with a beer station across the streets. Some nights things are loud over there but its just another day in the neighborgood. and there is a guy that lives next to the beer station that lived in the states for a while and knows english, not great but good and he likes to talk to me in english. Then the beer owner yells at us no entendi entendi hable en espanol.... haha
well have fun, good luck with football Heston and Jake, tear er' up
Love all
Monday, September 13, 2010
Well hi
Ya, I´m in Mexico. Sometimes I forget and don´t believe it too, THAT IS, until we talk with someone and I don't understand the conversation, ride on one of buses, when i´m the only white person around and someone hollers ´´Gringo blah blah blah something´´ at me, when i think it seems about right to have a Mtn. Dew or some real food like some steak and double mashed potatos, or when its 150 degrees outside. so yep, i´m in Mexico. but its alright, i like it down here i like the food Mama Galletas make us and if I don´t then I cover it in hot sauce and then all I have to worry about is my mouth catching on fire. haha
Happy to hear the news from home, it all seems so foreign to this life.Too bad I´m not around for all the highschooler´s drama ahahaa i can´t believe your kids are all grown up big teenagers now! and The dog dont got nobody to follow around the neighborhood that is why he don't roam freely ´na moh´ haha. As much hatred as I had towards him, All the ugly nasty mutts down here would make me appreciate to see ole Walker otra vez.
We have a few ward members that are awesome, we don´t know many ahora but the one´s we know are great, and have helped out with driving our investigators to and from church, activities, etc. We have two progressing families with 5+ in each, I´m not so sure on the numbers, one of them has some kids one is 8 and the others are younger, they love us its fun when we go over there, we showed them the Testaments movie last time and they all loved it. Ward members kids and Investigator's kids like to talk to us and I never know what they say so I just smile and say sí. We get alot of first leccions in but few people on the return even though it is a scheduled day that they can make it, a lot of times they have ´´something going on´´.
I got my haircut today, I think it looks alright, she was razoring my neck and cut me and waited to the end to tell me, like I didn't feel it. One of my shirts now has a nasty stain on it But yeah all is well down here, I cant wait to hear conference to go in the special room for the gringos and listen to it in English. We´re working every day, I´m glad my comp is good. , Sometimes things feel like an eternity and sometimes it seems like I blinked my eyes and i just got off the airplane. But yea, take care and talk with you next week. Love
Happy to hear the news from home, it all seems so foreign to this life.Too bad I´m not around for all the highschooler´s drama ahahaa i can´t believe your kids are all grown up big teenagers now! and The dog dont got nobody to follow around the neighborhood that is why he don't roam freely ´na moh´ haha. As much hatred as I had towards him, All the ugly nasty mutts down here would make me appreciate to see ole Walker otra vez.
We have a few ward members that are awesome, we don´t know many ahora but the one´s we know are great, and have helped out with driving our investigators to and from church, activities, etc. We have two progressing families with 5+ in each, I´m not so sure on the numbers, one of them has some kids one is 8 and the others are younger, they love us its fun when we go over there, we showed them the Testaments movie last time and they all loved it. Ward members kids and Investigator's kids like to talk to us and I never know what they say so I just smile and say sí. We get alot of first leccions in but few people on the return even though it is a scheduled day that they can make it, a lot of times they have ´´something going on´´.
I got my haircut today, I think it looks alright, she was razoring my neck and cut me and waited to the end to tell me, like I didn't feel it. One of my shirts now has a nasty stain on it But yeah all is well down here, I cant wait to hear conference to go in the special room for the gringos and listen to it in English. We´re working every day, I´m glad my comp is good. , Sometimes things feel like an eternity and sometimes it seems like I blinked my eyes and i just got off the airplane. But yea, take care and talk with you next week. Love
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
First P-Day
This is crazy!! haha its crazy hot hard and fun. Senior sol pounds on you all day. its hot!!
Todos sit out on the side walks, roads, sidewalks, or porch depending on what they have but hay siempre someone sitting out especially after seven at night when it cools down just a little bit so they basically set themselves up for missionaries! First contact, first night, pretty close to our house, we came across a grandma,Sera, a mom,Neli, and few kids and started talking and teaching the first lesson, then the mom´s sister,Maria,and Maria´s husband Martin showed up half way through and by the end you just know they were feeling it, even the kids were intently listening to it, it was awesome. We gave them a Libro de Mormon and a folleta and the mom, Neli prayed at the end. The next visit another one of the sisters, Fransesca, came and She talked alot and had a concerened look the whole time and all I could pick up was a few words and i thought she was contending with Elder Bante the whole time, then it started raining so we went inside and talked a while they were tearing up a bit, it was another powerful lesson and at the end we gave a book to each of the sisters so they could read it. We invited them to come to stake conference Saturday cuz Neli works sundays. Despues I asked my comp if they kept the commitments and what was going on with this fransesca what her concerns were and he said no because Fransesca stole the book from Neli to read it cuz she´s been wanting to find a change in her life and after hearing that we taught them before wanted to read the book. He was laughing at me cuz it was going completely opposite of what I thought it was!! And he said Neli told him that she´s always thought the missionaries were handsome but they never stopped and talked with them.
They came to stake conference session with us saturday night all 8 or nine of them however many there is, and enjoyed it. Then sunday session The grandma Sera was there with two kids, We were so excited for them. We have another lesson tonight with them all.
After we ate at the ward misson leaders house and had hamburgers, first time i had eaten something besides tortillas, bannanas and apples in a week. Then we went contacting and came across a wome who first denied us then Bante kept askin stuff and she let us in and we were there like an hour and she wants us back to know more.
We´ve had quite a few lessons and totalled up i think we have 13 investigadores this week 8 progressin and the rest their 2nd appt is this week. Its crazy Elder Bante said his past areas have been rough that most people reject you at the door but for most part most people are open and down to listen to us and Bante does something to make them feel the spirit. I think most people wonder what the Gringos doing in mexico then end up listening to him and want more, i think, its funny.
Haha everyone stairs at me, its funny, yesterday alot of jovens and drunk guys were yelling gringo this gringo that and Bante just tells me there all bad words haha its fun.
Ya things are grody and not clean and i don't like it but have to do it and get over it, we work hard enough by the time we get home at night i don't care how grody the house and beds are I just sleep so its all good. The buses are crazy and everything is. There is no defensive driving in Mexico. The buses shoot the gaps in the road that you would think a car is driving recklous in america haha its fun.
This place is crazy dangerous with cetas crazy and fun, its awesome to get good messages in. Ward members we meet love us already and the niños all try to talk with me then when I can´t reply they get frustrated and run away, its funny. It´s all fun down here. We have 4 missionaries in the ward and our area is huge. Bante says its lots bigger then his past areas.
Todos sit out on the side walks, roads, sidewalks, or porch depending on what they have but hay siempre someone sitting out especially after seven at night when it cools down just a little bit so they basically set themselves up for missionaries! First contact, first night, pretty close to our house, we came across a grandma,Sera, a mom,Neli, and few kids and started talking and teaching the first lesson, then the mom´s sister,Maria,and Maria´s husband Martin showed up half way through and by the end you just know they were feeling it, even the kids were intently listening to it, it was awesome. We gave them a Libro de Mormon and a folleta and the mom, Neli prayed at the end. The next visit another one of the sisters, Fransesca, came and She talked alot and had a concerened look the whole time and all I could pick up was a few words and i thought she was contending with Elder Bante the whole time, then it started raining so we went inside and talked a while they were tearing up a bit, it was another powerful lesson and at the end we gave a book to each of the sisters so they could read it. We invited them to come to stake conference Saturday cuz Neli works sundays. Despues I asked my comp if they kept the commitments and what was going on with this fransesca what her concerns were and he said no because Fransesca stole the book from Neli to read it cuz she´s been wanting to find a change in her life and after hearing that we taught them before wanted to read the book. He was laughing at me cuz it was going completely opposite of what I thought it was!! And he said Neli told him that she´s always thought the missionaries were handsome but they never stopped and talked with them.
They came to stake conference session with us saturday night all 8 or nine of them however many there is, and enjoyed it. Then sunday session The grandma Sera was there with two kids, We were so excited for them. We have another lesson tonight with them all.
After we ate at the ward misson leaders house and had hamburgers, first time i had eaten something besides tortillas, bannanas and apples in a week. Then we went contacting and came across a wome who first denied us then Bante kept askin stuff and she let us in and we were there like an hour and she wants us back to know more.
We´ve had quite a few lessons and totalled up i think we have 13 investigadores this week 8 progressin and the rest their 2nd appt is this week. Its crazy Elder Bante said his past areas have been rough that most people reject you at the door but for most part most people are open and down to listen to us and Bante does something to make them feel the spirit. I think most people wonder what the Gringos doing in mexico then end up listening to him and want more, i think, its funny.
Haha everyone stairs at me, its funny, yesterday alot of jovens and drunk guys were yelling gringo this gringo that and Bante just tells me there all bad words haha its fun.
Ya things are grody and not clean and i don't like it but have to do it and get over it, we work hard enough by the time we get home at night i don't care how grody the house and beds are I just sleep so its all good. The buses are crazy and everything is. There is no defensive driving in Mexico. The buses shoot the gaps in the road that you would think a car is driving recklous in america haha its fun.
This place is crazy dangerous with cetas crazy and fun, its awesome to get good messages in. Ward members we meet love us already and the niños all try to talk with me then when I can´t reply they get frustrated and run away, its funny. It´s all fun down here. We have 4 missionaries in the ward and our area is huge. Bante says its lots bigger then his past areas.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
News from Mexico!
Hola para Mexico familia!!
Wow its different here. Of course you all could assume that, but its different than how different you think it should be! primero item of business, I've only ridin a few times now cuz our area is so big but I just wish all you could experience riding on the buses, its very interesting. Its a cross between how grandpa used to pull out of the fields with a load of hay crossed with a video game in real life and the air'boats skills. esta bien. It so fun riding them, the driver punches the gas hard, and whips around corners, literally does not wait for people to get on and off and just goes like a bat out of you know where... and its crammed packed with the people. Its funny i just laugh the whole time cuz its so scrappy. We have alot at home compared to this, basic things like drinkable running water, not mice, not cockRoaches, a clean house. So far the best way to describe it is simply scrappy. haha its fun. So dang hot too. Today is the first day i'm really out and about. The first day we got in at night, took some pics at some immigration place, ate dinner , did some get to know yous and off to bed. Next day was all orientation stuff, divied out compañeros and took the bus on a 4 hour trip to Victoria, the capital of the state. It was a good bus one of those big charter ones, but the ones that whip around town with no route are the fun ones. On the 4 hour bus ride i talked with some guy in mixed spanish-english we both spoke enough of one or the other to talk. he was going to montery, He said he was catolica and but had a mormon primo at first so i just decided to chat with him about whatever for the whole time on the ride to make him think missionaries are cool and not only out to get people(which we are haha) it took me most the time just talking with him about other stuff and then at the end I turned the topic into the gospel and how it could benefit him and gave him a libro de mormon that i had bought at the mtc, he accepted it and said he would read it to learn more about his cousins religion. I got his name and email and he's got my missionary one so I'm going to give it to the missionaries in Montery. my first missionary experience in the field!
Our jet to Tampico was small and clostrophobic, i think i got motion sickness after 9 weeks of mtc life not moving anywhere to going fast in an airplane killed me.
i just got fed by some familia in the barrio, i think we get fed every day at 2 oclock but don't know for sure its todavia my 2nd day or 3. Our house is scrappy as all get out, its above some business and the stairs to get there are more like ladders through a tunnel, we barely got our luggage up them last night. You know you can't expect a 5 star apartment in mexico, but ours is bad enought they might switch us somewhere else LOL its fun, i hate the ants that are everywhere and how grody the bathroom is but thats mexico, do what you can and what you cant get used to haha
My companero is a native from Ohaca, somewhere down south. Ya he doesn't speak much english but its good. I thought my skillz were ok til I got here and they speak so fast. I just have to laugh how much i can relate to Grandpas testimony about landing in Denmark, wonderin what the heck I got my self into and what language they taught me. everything is funny and fun. a big eye opener pero esta bien my comp is great he's helped me with alot. there is another companion ship that has helped us get familiar with the area and one of them is from colorado and has helped explain how things go
and wow its hot, my comp that lives in a differnt part of mexico thats hot says this area is really hot haha
My president is cool, they're taking care of us
and our visas that they got us in the country with is the new program they{re starting, they're like temporary visas for 6 months until the really permant missionary visas come through i guess thats what one of the lideres said.
but ya its mexico scrappy, yet cool and fun
we taught the niños at the house we ate at, they are members, one of them is getting baptized soon and my comp wanted us to practise the first lesson with them so we did. those kids are so friendly they were all over us and trying to talk with me i felt inferior to 9 yr olds saying ''no entiende?'' haha Yep i dont know much spanish yet haha i stick out like sore thumb everyone gazes at us its awesome! my comp told me I'm really tall, I'm defintly alot bigger than the average mexican, but it probably won{t be long until i sweat 50 lbs off here and shrivel up, haha its good. I really think God has helped me overcome the dirtiness a little bit cuz theres no way I could force myself to sleep in that nasty bed and shower in the nasty shower. I just wish you all could see it's soo scrappy haha I love it
p days will be on mondays, but pres wanted us newbs to email parents asap to assure you that were okay. soo anyways ya, have fun at home, I'm in mexico trying to handle things haah its great. We go to the temple every other transfer on pdays i think , unless our zone wins the most baptisms, then we get to go for a freeby with the pres and wife.
okay, bye love you all be good
Wow its different here. Of course you all could assume that, but its different than how different you think it should be! primero item of business, I've only ridin a few times now cuz our area is so big but I just wish all you could experience riding on the buses, its very interesting. Its a cross between how grandpa used to pull out of the fields with a load of hay crossed with a video game in real life and the air'boats skills. esta bien. It so fun riding them, the driver punches the gas hard, and whips around corners, literally does not wait for people to get on and off and just goes like a bat out of you know where... and its crammed packed with the people. Its funny i just laugh the whole time cuz its so scrappy. We have alot at home compared to this, basic things like drinkable running water, not mice, not cockRoaches, a clean house. So far the best way to describe it is simply scrappy. haha its fun. So dang hot too. Today is the first day i'm really out and about. The first day we got in at night, took some pics at some immigration place, ate dinner , did some get to know yous and off to bed. Next day was all orientation stuff, divied out compañeros and took the bus on a 4 hour trip to Victoria, the capital of the state. It was a good bus one of those big charter ones, but the ones that whip around town with no route are the fun ones. On the 4 hour bus ride i talked with some guy in mixed spanish-english we both spoke enough of one or the other to talk. he was going to montery, He said he was catolica and but had a mormon primo at first so i just decided to chat with him about whatever for the whole time on the ride to make him think missionaries are cool and not only out to get people(which we are haha) it took me most the time just talking with him about other stuff and then at the end I turned the topic into the gospel and how it could benefit him and gave him a libro de mormon that i had bought at the mtc, he accepted it and said he would read it to learn more about his cousins religion. I got his name and email and he's got my missionary one so I'm going to give it to the missionaries in Montery. my first missionary experience in the field!
Our jet to Tampico was small and clostrophobic, i think i got motion sickness after 9 weeks of mtc life not moving anywhere to going fast in an airplane killed me.
i just got fed by some familia in the barrio, i think we get fed every day at 2 oclock but don't know for sure its todavia my 2nd day or 3. Our house is scrappy as all get out, its above some business and the stairs to get there are more like ladders through a tunnel, we barely got our luggage up them last night. You know you can't expect a 5 star apartment in mexico, but ours is bad enought they might switch us somewhere else LOL its fun, i hate the ants that are everywhere and how grody the bathroom is but thats mexico, do what you can and what you cant get used to haha
My companero is a native from Ohaca, somewhere down south. Ya he doesn't speak much english but its good. I thought my skillz were ok til I got here and they speak so fast. I just have to laugh how much i can relate to Grandpas testimony about landing in Denmark, wonderin what the heck I got my self into and what language they taught me. everything is funny and fun. a big eye opener pero esta bien my comp is great he's helped me with alot. there is another companion ship that has helped us get familiar with the area and one of them is from colorado and has helped explain how things go
and wow its hot, my comp that lives in a differnt part of mexico thats hot says this area is really hot haha
My president is cool, they're taking care of us
and our visas that they got us in the country with is the new program they{re starting, they're like temporary visas for 6 months until the really permant missionary visas come through i guess thats what one of the lideres said.
but ya its mexico scrappy, yet cool and fun
we taught the niños at the house we ate at, they are members, one of them is getting baptized soon and my comp wanted us to practise the first lesson with them so we did. those kids are so friendly they were all over us and trying to talk with me i felt inferior to 9 yr olds saying ''no entiende?'' haha Yep i dont know much spanish yet haha i stick out like sore thumb everyone gazes at us its awesome! my comp told me I'm really tall, I'm defintly alot bigger than the average mexican, but it probably won{t be long until i sweat 50 lbs off here and shrivel up, haha its good. I really think God has helped me overcome the dirtiness a little bit cuz theres no way I could force myself to sleep in that nasty bed and shower in the nasty shower. I just wish you all could see it's soo scrappy haha I love it
p days will be on mondays, but pres wanted us newbs to email parents asap to assure you that were okay. soo anyways ya, have fun at home, I'm in mexico trying to handle things haah its great. We go to the temple every other transfer on pdays i think , unless our zone wins the most baptisms, then we get to go for a freeby with the pres and wife.
okay, bye love you all be good
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