Pues...Last monday President and Hermana Call came to our district
meeting and brought the package and the letter Levi sent when I was in the MTC. It felt like Christmas to see all the granola bars and smashed pop tarts and a real jar of peanut butter, all you can find down here are the size of those small nutella jars. Oh and those homeade cookies were awesome, I shared some with our members we rent from and my JW friend across the street. And it was nice to read Levi´s note sin embargo I think he tried to write in spanish cuz it aint english. haha . You know I love my family with all my heart, but it’s kind of nice to hear from other people also. You know mix things up, variety is the spice of life as Pres. Craig Allen Saunders says.
But ya President y Hermana Call are awesome. District meeting was
awesome and the next day president had interviews at the stake center. Hermana Call bought a bunch of us that were there pillows because all of ours are nasty yellow colors, and she bought me some creme stuff for my rash that I’ve had on my arm for a while. And I’ve talked with her a few more times this week cuz Elder Bante got stung on his knuckles by a wasp that is twice the size of the ones in Utah and the next day his hand swelled up and he couldn’t close his fist so I had talk with her and describe the situations to see what medicine and stuff he needed, but he’s ok now.
Thats great about Tucker, so is his comp a gringo, and if Mark took my Vince Neil outfit he better rock it hard!! haha
The week wasn’t any easier, but we did teach more so it felt better,
But we’ve got some good lessons in, basically all our baptisms dates and investigators fell, all. It was weird every person had a differnt reason and we´ll try to help them out but its like a huge sign to drop some and find new people that are ready to harvest.
oh and we didn’t pay the water bill a while back so they cut our water this week and we´ve had to walk to the other missionary house every morning to do the 3 S´s and return home at night to no water. But we paid the bill Friday and their suppose to put it in today.
Well all is well we´re carrying on, and working better togther and
stuff. I feel the language is getting a little better so all is fun.
We were graced with the opportunity to listen to the borrachos play
their drums across the street last night for the 5th week in a row
ahaha bye
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
A fast week!
Well hey there
This week seemed pretty fast, and not looking so promising, we had a
bunch of appt.s fall through, appts that were with some of our key
investigators we´ve been working with. It was frustrating but we move
onward ever onward.
The other companionship split last week and the mexican companero is
going to be a trainer and is waiting for his Gringo verde to show up
and has been with us the past week. we're in a threesome until his comp
makes it into Mexico. It's been hard with that concept as well as
having a threesome and then plus all his investigators and finding
someone in the ward to go on splits with him.
There´s a Jehova Witness guy that lives across the street from us that
has lived in the states a while ago and knows ingles pretty well that
always waves and talks to me when he see´s us or when we wait for the
bus and we´ve been friends the past 5 weeks, every morning he´ll wave
or yell "good morning brother¨ at me... he´s in his later 20´s of
age, about like Brock and started to tell me this past weekend about
girl problems he has and then the next morning we went running with
him at 6:30. We taught him the first lesson at 11:30. It actually
went pretty well, we broke one oath of the Gadianton Robbers-J.W.
edition and we started the lesson with a prayer and ended it with him
saying the prayer according to the true steps of saying it. But what is
funny about that is when we were talking about prophets and stuff and
he wasn´t quite giving in to it he gave me a J.W. handbook called
¨Reasoning with the Scriptures¨ and it has definitions about whatever
topic and he showed me definitions of prophets and then above it was
information about prayer that says don't say prayers with others, all
over the place and we broke that for him. He showed interest in
the libro de mormon so we´ll see, it was interestiing since then we´ve
been discussing ways of combat the bible with him if he gives us grief
ahaha but ya
We´re alive, doing well and I got my haircut to day and I'm feeling fresh!
This week seemed pretty fast, and not looking so promising, we had a
bunch of appt.s fall through, appts that were with some of our key
investigators we´ve been working with. It was frustrating but we move
onward ever onward.
The other companionship split last week and the mexican companero is
going to be a trainer and is waiting for his Gringo verde to show up
and has been with us the past week. we're in a threesome until his comp
makes it into Mexico. It's been hard with that concept as well as
having a threesome and then plus all his investigators and finding
someone in the ward to go on splits with him.
There´s a Jehova Witness guy that lives across the street from us that
has lived in the states a while ago and knows ingles pretty well that
always waves and talks to me when he see´s us or when we wait for the
bus and we´ve been friends the past 5 weeks, every morning he´ll wave
or yell "good morning brother¨ at me... he´s in his later 20´s of
age, about like Brock and started to tell me this past weekend about
girl problems he has and then the next morning we went running with
him at 6:30. We taught him the first lesson at 11:30. It actually
went pretty well, we broke one oath of the Gadianton Robbers-J.W.
edition and we started the lesson with a prayer and ended it with him
saying the prayer according to the true steps of saying it. But what is
funny about that is when we were talking about prophets and stuff and
he wasn´t quite giving in to it he gave me a J.W. handbook called
¨Reasoning with the Scriptures¨ and it has definitions about whatever
topic and he showed me definitions of prophets and then above it was
information about prayer that says don't say prayers with others, all
over the place and we broke that for him. He showed interest in
the libro de mormon so we´ll see, it was interestiing since then we´ve
been discussing ways of combat the bible with him if he gives us grief
ahaha but ya
We´re alive, doing well and I got my haircut to day and I'm feeling fresh!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Mission Life is Sweet
That´s great about Tucker, he´s going to do great, I think I left the mtc a little over confident with my communication abilities cuz when I got here I knew nothing that the mexican folks were mumbling, because they mumble, in the mtc you learn proper, clear spanish and that’s not how people talk. But he´ll do great, Its a shock at first but what do you expect going into a new country. I´ve heard better things about Tucker’s mission than I´ve heard of mine and the area I´m in, I guess its cooler there in temperature than mine, but things have cooled down a bit, or I’m just getting used to it, probably both, it only seems like 110 degrees lately.
This week went by fast, we´re getting in a lot of work which is good. We had to shove all of lesson 4 "the commandments" in for Sara and Rosario in 3 lessons I do believe so they could be baptized this week. The other companionship in the ward had two baptisms as well, a couple that they´ve been working with for like 3 months so we had 4 in the barrio. It was so nice to see our first fruits that we planted to be harvested. Sara and Rosario are part of the first family that we found my first day here, Sara is awesome and has absorbed and followed everything we´ve taught the past few weeks...I grew extra love for her when I put 2 and 2 together and figured out she´s old and has the same name as my great grandmother so yeah. I baptized Sara and Bante did Rosario. The rest of that family that has been listening to the discussions we´re planning on working with alot this next change, ya ive been here for a whole change and am no longer new, still green but aint new. haha the day of the baptism after lunch some old woman hollered at us cuz her 19 yr old grandaughter that has 3 childeren was suffering some pain in her body for the past two hours and wanted us to do something. We gave her a blessing and left with her still crying and came back little while later and she was asleep, so we figured she was ok, were going to come back and kick Gaudalupe Maria out of their house and bring them unto christ.
Were working a lot better and doing good and were together for another transfer so its good were doing better. And I probably wont see any mail or package til the next transfer unless I get called to Tampico for and interview in the next 6 weeks so one or the other. Oh here we go, the dinky sewing kit I brought has come n handy for a pair of pants and a tie, I was never taught how to use it (disclaimer from mother-my son would not sit down for a minute to try!) but I´ve seen the Vet sew up a few cow´s before so I just followed his example, a pair of pants, a cows stomach, I figured the strategy of doing so is about the same, and its worked so I’m happy.
I had a dream that I entered a fight tournament back home and I seen alot of kids from high school wrestling and the tournament was at UVU and I fought Mike Tyson and knocked him out in 8 seconds so I advanced the next round, and I was worried about making weight and then when I saw the brackets I was feeling sick because the tournament was every weekend until championships at the end of the month and I knew the week I would be in Mexico so I was going to have to quit the tournament ahaha crazy dreams in the mission!! Love you bye
This week went by fast, we´re getting in a lot of work which is good. We had to shove all of lesson 4 "the commandments" in for Sara and Rosario in 3 lessons I do believe so they could be baptized this week. The other companionship in the ward had two baptisms as well, a couple that they´ve been working with for like 3 months so we had 4 in the barrio. It was so nice to see our first fruits that we planted to be harvested. Sara and Rosario are part of the first family that we found my first day here, Sara is awesome and has absorbed and followed everything we´ve taught the past few weeks...I grew extra love for her when I put 2 and 2 together and figured out she´s old and has the same name as my great grandmother so yeah. I baptized Sara and Bante did Rosario. The rest of that family that has been listening to the discussions we´re planning on working with alot this next change, ya ive been here for a whole change and am no longer new, still green but aint new. haha the day of the baptism after lunch some old woman hollered at us cuz her 19 yr old grandaughter that has 3 childeren was suffering some pain in her body for the past two hours and wanted us to do something. We gave her a blessing and left with her still crying and came back little while later and she was asleep, so we figured she was ok, were going to come back and kick Gaudalupe Maria out of their house and bring them unto christ.
Were working a lot better and doing good and were together for another transfer so its good were doing better. And I probably wont see any mail or package til the next transfer unless I get called to Tampico for and interview in the next 6 weeks so one or the other. Oh here we go, the dinky sewing kit I brought has come n handy for a pair of pants and a tie, I was never taught how to use it (disclaimer from mother-my son would not sit down for a minute to try!) but I´ve seen the Vet sew up a few cow´s before so I just followed his example, a pair of pants, a cows stomach, I figured the strategy of doing so is about the same, and its worked so I’m happy.
I had a dream that I entered a fight tournament back home and I seen alot of kids from high school wrestling and the tournament was at UVU and I fought Mike Tyson and knocked him out in 8 seconds so I advanced the next round, and I was worried about making weight and then when I saw the brackets I was feeling sick because the tournament was every weekend until championships at the end of the month and I knew the week I would be in Mexico so I was going to have to quit the tournament ahaha crazy dreams in the mission!! Love you bye
Monday, October 4, 2010
Time los tres Gringocomapneros were juntos
Well I´m an official legal immigrant in the Country of Mexico.. Tuesday we got up at 5 and ran out the door without food to the bus station cuz my comp was going to a learning thing for the week in Tampico and all except a few of the missionaries of my generation went to Tampico and finished the documents to legalize us to be here. The visas we recieved to get here were only like six month ones and so with this past Tuesday we have more time to be here amongst the lamanitas. After we got the papers done the assitants took us to Little Caesars and I dont think I have ever been as excited to feast on the 5 dollar pizzas in my life, with un buen de coke. It was great and then we came back and Elder Cook and I were teamed up with another Gringo that has one change more than us, Elder Gonsalves(he´s tall skinny and white, his grandpa or someone is part portugese and thats why his name seems mexican) and long story short we had a good ole` time. We walked alot, talked alot in English and some how pulled it off what I think on top... one day we walked nonstop for a menos two hours up and down hills in Elder Cooks area because between not being able to find his appts. and come to find out they really didnt have appts in the first place... it was fun. But it's good that our comps came back Friday night so we can really get back to work.. this week seemed slow cuz between traveling places and then the conference and what not.
I just got a dear elder and a card from mom that Maisie and Valorie wrote on. When my comp returned from Tamp. Friday night, it was nice to hear from the 3. I especially loved hearing about Austins first week in Peru, in jail.hahaha thats awesome.
And Ya seeing that we as missionaries are priesthood holders..they didn´t find it expedient that we watch the relief society session.. But ya I really enjoyed all of conference. They had a special room for the Gringos in the stake center to watch the sessions in English, it was great. Ya conference reaffirmed some beliefs i have about video games being a waste of time, and I loved to hear that talk about the bloated cow that died and see those pictures... someone commented about how the guy said that she thought ´"you stupid cow" and I had to assure him that that kind of remark is very subtle compared to what is a general reply when something like that happens. It was great to listen and sing in English and absorb all of that that our leaders had to say. We needed a few our investigators to hear Dallin H Oaks spell it out the importance of the priesthood and personal prayer, i loved it.
During the Time los tres Gringocomapneros were juntos we taught mostly my investigators cuz I was the only one with appts pretty much and we have a really old lady name Josefina that reminds me of Great Grandma Sara, she cant read or see all too great, and has enjoyed listening to "la palabra de Dios" and after one appt that we committed her to pray about jose smith the next appt she told us that she got in a fight with her son thats all against mormonism and she said she wants to hear us cuz she had a spiritual experience and all her life she has pushed away this kind of stuff but now she´s accepting, we´ll see what happens.. We have this frito family weve been seeing like once a week, but the 19 yr old kid started reading the book of mormon randomly cuz he´s never been in on the lessons. He started from the begining with the introduction and testimonies and started following the precepts and changing without thinking about it, he´s read up to like nefi ch4 ish and said nefi cut off labans head and he´s eased up on drinking cuz he´s usually like laban and is kind of scared or something haha
Well things are alright, the new month started and we recieve money for food. We have a baptism this Saturday with Sara, the grandma of our first family, she´s been going to church every Sunday and is pretty determined to be baptized, she´s loved everything about us coming over and gong to church and conference and everything. and last night we put the fecha for her daughter thats closest to being able to be baptized, but for the end of the month. but ya its fun
So whats the info on Brock the 30 yr old and let me know when Tuck gets off.
Love you all
I just got a dear elder and a card from mom that Maisie and Valorie wrote on. When my comp returned from Tamp. Friday night, it was nice to hear from the 3. I especially loved hearing about Austins first week in Peru, in jail.hahaha thats awesome.
And Ya seeing that we as missionaries are priesthood holders..they didn´t find it expedient that we watch the relief society session.. But ya I really enjoyed all of conference. They had a special room for the Gringos in the stake center to watch the sessions in English, it was great. Ya conference reaffirmed some beliefs i have about video games being a waste of time, and I loved to hear that talk about the bloated cow that died and see those pictures... someone commented about how the guy said that she thought ´"you stupid cow" and I had to assure him that that kind of remark is very subtle compared to what is a general reply when something like that happens. It was great to listen and sing in English and absorb all of that that our leaders had to say. We needed a few our investigators to hear Dallin H Oaks spell it out the importance of the priesthood and personal prayer, i loved it.
During the Time los tres Gringocomapneros were juntos we taught mostly my investigators cuz I was the only one with appts pretty much and we have a really old lady name Josefina that reminds me of Great Grandma Sara, she cant read or see all too great, and has enjoyed listening to "la palabra de Dios" and after one appt that we committed her to pray about jose smith the next appt she told us that she got in a fight with her son thats all against mormonism and she said she wants to hear us cuz she had a spiritual experience and all her life she has pushed away this kind of stuff but now she´s accepting, we´ll see what happens.. We have this frito family weve been seeing like once a week, but the 19 yr old kid started reading the book of mormon randomly cuz he´s never been in on the lessons. He started from the begining with the introduction and testimonies and started following the precepts and changing without thinking about it, he´s read up to like nefi ch4 ish and said nefi cut off labans head and he´s eased up on drinking cuz he´s usually like laban and is kind of scared or something haha
Well things are alright, the new month started and we recieve money for food. We have a baptism this Saturday with Sara, the grandma of our first family, she´s been going to church every Sunday and is pretty determined to be baptized, she´s loved everything about us coming over and gong to church and conference and everything. and last night we put the fecha for her daughter thats closest to being able to be baptized, but for the end of the month. but ya its fun
So whats the info on Brock the 30 yr old and let me know when Tuck gets off.
Love you all
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