Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thanksgiving!
Well it is great to hear about West Weber and home. I had an orange for my Thanksgiving dinner. Yep me and Elder Cook both ate one orange a piece, it was a celebration. Elder Bante went to Tampico for another training thing and I was with Elder Cook and his new comp Elder Hernandez for two days. It was fun. It was fun to joke about our marvelous Thanksgiving dinner we had at his appt. hahah. la verdad I really don’t eat dinner at nights cuz the lunch is at 2 and I always eat alot there and sometimes I have problems sleeping if I eat at night.
Enrique is changing alot, he can’t wait when we come by now, hes´reading the BOM more and more and has told his family he wants to be a prophet. His changing has really worked on his mom and now she´s been seeing him and wants the change in her life and has mentioned she wants to be baptized before the new year.
Last Tuesday we were contacting in the night and came across a guy and he didn’t want anything to do with us and said he had to leave and then we asked him if we could do anything for him and he wanted us to come in and pray for his friend that got injured during the week...that was the worst move he could have made, he set him self up for a trap. That’s about what it is, sometimes people set themselves up for traps for misioneros like sitting outside or replying back buenas dias when we say it to them ..ahaha - but after Bante said a prayer I stood up and sat on his couch and started preaching to him without allowing him to say no and we ended up giving the lesson to him and we’re going to go back to check out his reading. I love doing random stuff like the time we were waiting for the bus and I wasn’t thinking and just started playing soccer with random ninos and now everytime we walk by they want me to play with them.
Well have fun love you all.
Bye
Enrique is changing alot, he can’t wait when we come by now, hes´reading the BOM more and more and has told his family he wants to be a prophet. His changing has really worked on his mom and now she´s been seeing him and wants the change in her life and has mentioned she wants to be baptized before the new year.
Last Tuesday we were contacting in the night and came across a guy and he didn’t want anything to do with us and said he had to leave and then we asked him if we could do anything for him and he wanted us to come in and pray for his friend that got injured during the week...that was the worst move he could have made, he set him self up for a trap. That’s about what it is, sometimes people set themselves up for traps for misioneros like sitting outside or replying back buenas dias when we say it to them ..ahaha - but after Bante said a prayer I stood up and sat on his couch and started preaching to him without allowing him to say no and we ended up giving the lesson to him and we’re going to go back to check out his reading. I love doing random stuff like the time we were waiting for the bus and I wasn’t thinking and just started playing soccer with random ninos and now everytime we walk by they want me to play with them.
Well have fun love you all.
Bye
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
November 22
So this is how it goes....our changes are that we don’t have changes. But my comp is going to be District leader so I guess you could call me the assistant regional manger district leader...haha.,, We just had 3 baptisms this weekend, Ericka is 18 and her family was baptized 9 de Octubre con nuestra familia Sara y Rosario, but Ericka wasn’t baptized, her and her family have had all the lessons and they live on the other side of barrio 5 that wasn’t originally our area until Elder Castillo se fue... so we started this week to teach her and told her to be baptized and she first was hesitant and her reason was literally cuz she´s afraid of water. But she’s a member now. The family is vecinos and amigos del obispo and he baptized her. I baptized Miguel Angel De Leon Carbajal, he´s 11. The mom has been a member for some time and was menos activo but been going to church for two months now and she´s wanted to have her boy baptized so we taught him all the lessons in two visits and baptized him. In the mission kids like him are called niños magicos. And Jorge Enrique is 15 and is nieto de Sara, our family that we´ve adopted as our own. He´s really shy and timid with people he doesn’t know and told us only 5 people could be at his baptism and when he complained that all the people at the church would see him be confirmed Bante le dijó that all the people will have to close their eyes for the prayer so they won’t see anything ahahah. We almost lost hope with him, but he pulled through. He´s changed a lot, he talks more now and is happier.
Well love you all have fun and be good.
Well love you all have fun and be good.
Monday, November 15, 2010
November 15
We had zone conference on Friday so I just barely got a hundred
dear elders from home, mostly copies of Tucker’s mission in the
MTC I am glad that he made it to our land! I got some ward
missionary updates, that was the best, thank Stephanie Storey
for that. It was great to hear about the others in the field, Chase
Austin Loren and Paul.
The life has been a lot better. We had a good district meeting last
week sobre two discursos de Elder Bednar about the Fè and we´ve
been changing some things to be more faithful and demonstrating
the faith and what not. Then Friday we had zone conference and
saw President and Sister Call and I got my money back for the
water bill I had to pay a month ago and things seem to be going great.
Ya, I’ve kind of missed the concept of going skiing, but it
is still pretty nice not to worry about being cold, in the nights it
gets chilly and I have to use blankets. The sun starts to go down at
six here and by 6:30 it is dark. That is good for Levi being the ward
mission leader. I would want to be that when I get home. Hopefully
he works a bit better there than what goes down here. We have
Juan Perro who always tells us that they are working hard and
have this new system to work in the ward and there are members
willing to work with us and what not but en verdad we haven’t
seen much of his talk happen.
Sister Call said that they´re going to have mission dinners in
Tampico for Navidad. and this is the last week of this transfer,
Elder Bante or I will be leaving. I met Elder Goff from Nevada
somewhere by Mesquite, he said that you talked with his
family or something like that.. he´s pretty cool. Well have fun
be good love you all thanks
for writing me
bye
dear elders from home, mostly copies of Tucker’s mission in the
MTC I am glad that he made it to our land! I got some ward
missionary updates, that was the best, thank Stephanie Storey
for that. It was great to hear about the others in the field, Chase
Austin Loren and Paul.
The life has been a lot better. We had a good district meeting last
week sobre two discursos de Elder Bednar about the Fè and we´ve
been changing some things to be more faithful and demonstrating
the faith and what not. Then Friday we had zone conference and
saw President and Sister Call and I got my money back for the
water bill I had to pay a month ago and things seem to be going great.
Ya, I’ve kind of missed the concept of going skiing, but it
is still pretty nice not to worry about being cold, in the nights it
gets chilly and I have to use blankets. The sun starts to go down at
six here and by 6:30 it is dark. That is good for Levi being the ward
mission leader. I would want to be that when I get home. Hopefully
he works a bit better there than what goes down here. We have
Juan Perro who always tells us that they are working hard and
have this new system to work in the ward and there are members
willing to work with us and what not but en verdad we haven’t
seen much of his talk happen.
Sister Call said that they´re going to have mission dinners in
Tampico for Navidad. and this is the last week of this transfer,
Elder Bante or I will be leaving. I met Elder Goff from Nevada
somewhere by Mesquite, he said that you talked with his
family or something like that.. he´s pretty cool. Well have fun
be good love you all thanks
for writing me
bye
Monday, November 8, 2010
Another Great Week!
Ya things do seem to go by quicker every week. We have this week
and one more until the exchanges. More than likely one of us is
going to go and one is going to stay. It would be nice to change
and start fresh in an area but I don’t want to leave some of the
people like our little grandma Sara and her family, I want to see
them all change. Its a toss up, I´m really not worried about it
I´m down fo whateva, I got my berreta and bought a new sweater.
It’s been pretty cold in the mornings and chills down a little in
the nights. Some days are worse than others but overall its still
hot during the day.
I kind of really stick out like a sore thumb. And I´m pretty famous
by now, particularly in this one street. Something to know is that
there´s always kids in the streets running around and in this one
street, at one end the kids call me John Cena so I make the hand
gestures of John Cena and the kids eat it up. At the other
end of the street the kids call me English teacher cuz when we wait
for their parents to come out of the house they ask me to teach them.
Thursday nights some ward members get to together and play
volleyball and missionaries can go if they bring investigators, so
we usually try. But this week we showed up with some earlier and
played thoccer before volleyball started and I dominated on them.
I beat them at their own game and afterwards my comp told me
that I´m a train. where we play is a small cement basketball court
and under the hoops is the soccer goal, its how they roll down here,
cement basketball court, soccer field, volleyball court all in one.
Our third comp got special transfers to Tampico until he receives his
gringo comp.
We have a pretty cool reference that we’re looking forward to.
We were on a micro one day that we´ve never had to go to the
comida and noticed that an Hermana in the ward was on and
began talking with her when out of no where a lady next to us
que tiene 30 anos mas o menos con un bebe that looked about
1 and a half old began slunching over and she started having a
seizure. The bus driver stopped and asked what was happening
and after 1 min he began his course through the city while the
lady was still having a seizure and people looked at her
and then went back to sitting and talking. No body was helping the
situation but the Hermana and us. Bante took the baby that was
screaming his lungs out and the Hermana was telling what to
do to help her help the woman. It was crazy. then after a while
of her having the attacks she stopped and was limp and dang
near was acting dead had it not been for stomach moving gasping
for air. Then the driver finally decided to stop and we searched for
identifications numbers and called the ambulance but only after
10 to 15 minutes of a baby screaming and woman having a seizure.
After a while she came to conscious but was lost you could see it
in her eyes and she could move more than her head. We gave her
a blessing and after a little while began coming back together in her
head and the by the time the ambulance showed up she was able
to walk and climb in and they took her and the baby. It was crazy
and it really upset us that no one else on the bus was
worried about it and the bus driver kept driving and some chavos in
the back were laughing. The Lord put the Hermana and us in the
position for that to happen that she could live. But it felt good to
use the priesthood in a time when it was needed and to be ready to
serve.
Well love you all, I just opened up some raman noodle soup
last night with peanut butter crackers and I loved it. Have fun
talk to you later!
and one more until the exchanges. More than likely one of us is
going to go and one is going to stay. It would be nice to change
and start fresh in an area but I don’t want to leave some of the
people like our little grandma Sara and her family, I want to see
them all change. Its a toss up, I´m really not worried about it
I´m down fo whateva, I got my berreta and bought a new sweater.
It’s been pretty cold in the mornings and chills down a little in
the nights. Some days are worse than others but overall its still
hot during the day.
I kind of really stick out like a sore thumb. And I´m pretty famous
by now, particularly in this one street. Something to know is that
there´s always kids in the streets running around and in this one
street, at one end the kids call me John Cena so I make the hand
gestures of John Cena and the kids eat it up. At the other
end of the street the kids call me English teacher cuz when we wait
for their parents to come out of the house they ask me to teach them.
Thursday nights some ward members get to together and play
volleyball and missionaries can go if they bring investigators, so
we usually try. But this week we showed up with some earlier and
played thoccer before volleyball started and I dominated on them.
I beat them at their own game and afterwards my comp told me
that I´m a train. where we play is a small cement basketball court
and under the hoops is the soccer goal, its how they roll down here,
cement basketball court, soccer field, volleyball court all in one.
Our third comp got special transfers to Tampico until he receives his
gringo comp.
We have a pretty cool reference that we’re looking forward to.
We were on a micro one day that we´ve never had to go to the
comida and noticed that an Hermana in the ward was on and
began talking with her when out of no where a lady next to us
que tiene 30 anos mas o menos con un bebe that looked about
1 and a half old began slunching over and she started having a
seizure. The bus driver stopped and asked what was happening
and after 1 min he began his course through the city while the
lady was still having a seizure and people looked at her
and then went back to sitting and talking. No body was helping the
situation but the Hermana and us. Bante took the baby that was
screaming his lungs out and the Hermana was telling what to
do to help her help the woman. It was crazy. then after a while
of her having the attacks she stopped and was limp and dang
near was acting dead had it not been for stomach moving gasping
for air. Then the driver finally decided to stop and we searched for
identifications numbers and called the ambulance but only after
10 to 15 minutes of a baby screaming and woman having a seizure.
After a while she came to conscious but was lost you could see it
in her eyes and she could move more than her head. We gave her
a blessing and after a little while began coming back together in her
head and the by the time the ambulance showed up she was able
to walk and climb in and they took her and the baby. It was crazy
and it really upset us that no one else on the bus was
worried about it and the bus driver kept driving and some chavos in
the back were laughing. The Lord put the Hermana and us in the
position for that to happen that she could live. But it felt good to
use the priesthood in a time when it was needed and to be ready to
serve.
Well love you all, I just opened up some raman noodle soup
last night with peanut butter crackers and I loved it. Have fun
talk to you later!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Water again!
Yep tengo dos meses in mexico and 4 en la mison. My trainer Elder Bante only has around 11 meses but I´m thinking one of us is going to go this next transfer, 20 ish of November. We get along pretty well, Its just been ruff cuz we´ve had alot of appts fall through baptisms fall through and the investigators not doing their part. Our 3rd companion is suppose to train a a gringo but the batch that was suppose to arrive almost a month ago has been held back due to visa problems. We just got the call today that he´s going to be shipped off to Tampico hasta athe gringos show up. Ya things just seem down sometimes with the investigators that we think are good one´s and the appt falls or they´re doing crappy no sé.
¨But ya, Baptism with the priesthood authority is important... . ´Read 3 nefi 11:33-34 and see what it has to say about that. Speaking of which, last night in an appt. with this family we¨Ve worked alot with we were flipping through the scriptures for something and one of the girls that’s 17 with kid and married opened up to that and read that scripture instead of the alma scripture everyone else was on and we were like well ya that is very important but turn this other page. Then at the end of the lesson she told us she doesn’t know if she wants to be baptized and later she was suppose to say the prayer and after she said ´´father in heaven thank thee¨´ she burst out in tears bawling and couldn’t finish it. It was one of those moments we were pretty sure the spirit hit her.
This week was a roller coaster ride. We had some High´s and sufficient Lows. Ya I´m eating enough. I´m going to start working out again, I got into the habit of not doing it and one day I looked at a picture of my self before the mission on my camera and started coveting myself, I wonder if that is breaking the tenth commandment. We just got the water back Wednesday, we went a week with out it so now we can wash. I was thankful to have the water that’s not good to drink, but okay to shower in, okay to wash food in and ok if you mix drink packets in it to drink ahaha.
There´s 5 steps in the gospel of Jesus Christ and without one your not going to be happy with the end results. There´s a power within the Book of Mormon that changes people, I’ve already seen that with myself and the chosen investigators. But yeah Love you all, have fun and be good.
¨But ya, Baptism with the priesthood authority is important... . ´Read 3 nefi 11:33-34 and see what it has to say about that. Speaking of which, last night in an appt. with this family we¨Ve worked alot with we were flipping through the scriptures for something and one of the girls that’s 17 with kid and married opened up to that and read that scripture instead of the alma scripture everyone else was on and we were like well ya that is very important but turn this other page. Then at the end of the lesson she told us she doesn’t know if she wants to be baptized and later she was suppose to say the prayer and after she said ´´father in heaven thank thee¨´ she burst out in tears bawling and couldn’t finish it. It was one of those moments we were pretty sure the spirit hit her.
This week was a roller coaster ride. We had some High´s and sufficient Lows. Ya I´m eating enough. I´m going to start working out again, I got into the habit of not doing it and one day I looked at a picture of my self before the mission on my camera and started coveting myself, I wonder if that is breaking the tenth commandment. We just got the water back Wednesday, we went a week with out it so now we can wash. I was thankful to have the water that’s not good to drink, but okay to shower in, okay to wash food in and ok if you mix drink packets in it to drink ahaha.
There´s 5 steps in the gospel of Jesus Christ and without one your not going to be happy with the end results. There´s a power within the Book of Mormon that changes people, I’ve already seen that with myself and the chosen investigators. But yeah Love you all, have fun and be good.
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