We did as Sam requested, we were able to get in contact with Elder Ortega's family and we met them at temple square right before the priesthood session began. We had an amazing visit!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
SLC Visit with Elder Victor Ortega's family
We did as Sam requested, we were able to get in contact with Elder Ortega's family and we met them at temple square right before the priesthood session began. We had an amazing visit!
New P-day Sept. 28th
I have 15 months in the mission. That's 9 months away from West Weber. You all look about the same, Jake a little taller, and Maisie not such the little girl she was. I think I've sent more fotos to you guys then you send me, but good thing that you finally sent me a picture of the family, I'm going to print it off even though jake and heston are in their scout uniforms but its been about 15 months that everyone and their dog asks to see a picture of my family , but Elder Hobbs doesnt have any, and the pictures on the camara that I have that Maisie took at the last minute before I left the house don't include Saren or mom. Levi is crazy, the ward missionary leader with long hair, maybe he was a little more worried about looking like Christ instead of becoming like Christ ha ha PLANCHA. West Weber seems like far away but not really, and I think when I get home its going to be like I never went away, the same little town, same people, same house, same cows.
This week was alright we found more people, we have a ward missionary leader that is excited and were teaching him how to do the missionary work some other members are getting excited to work and serve. This week is the General Conference, we are all excited, but we have to travel two hours to get to the transmission and were going to be there all day Saturday and come home Sunday after the afternoon session. it will almost be two days without working in our area, its going to affect a little bit of some progress, but its life.
I dont know if I ever told you all about our new study program in the mission, we have dvd players with dvds that are additional lessons to Preach my Gospel and we can watch the videos for our training and practicing to be better teachers, its so crazy how the advancement in technology can be used in the Gospel, its been about a month that every companionship in the mission has a set of these training videos and dvd players.
We go to gym everyone morning, its cool and this city is all hills, its hard cuz you have to go up and down all day, they're like hills like the 12th street 1900 hill , but steeper and when you go down one you have to go up another, I think im going to lose some weight here and have steel thighs.
Well love you all have a great week and watch general conference. Elder Ortegas family is going to go to conference this weekend you should meet each other, I'm going to send you the email address of their family or someone and you guys could go down to Salt Lake and meet them or go to dinner or something.
Watch conference and put in practice the teaching of the Prophet and his Apostles and you will be blessed!
Elder Hobbs
This week was alright we found more people, we have a ward missionary leader that is excited and were teaching him how to do the missionary work some other members are getting excited to work and serve. This week is the General Conference, we are all excited, but we have to travel two hours to get to the transmission and were going to be there all day Saturday and come home Sunday after the afternoon session. it will almost be two days without working in our area, its going to affect a little bit of some progress, but its life.
I dont know if I ever told you all about our new study program in the mission, we have dvd players with dvds that are additional lessons to Preach my Gospel and we can watch the videos for our training and practicing to be better teachers, its so crazy how the advancement in technology can be used in the Gospel, its been about a month that every companionship in the mission has a set of these training videos and dvd players.
We go to gym everyone morning, its cool and this city is all hills, its hard cuz you have to go up and down all day, they're like hills like the 12th street 1900 hill , but steeper and when you go down one you have to go up another, I think im going to lose some weight here and have steel thighs.
Well love you all have a great week and watch general conference. Elder Ortegas family is going to go to conference this weekend you should meet each other, I'm going to send you the email address of their family or someone and you guys could go down to Salt Lake and meet them or go to dinner or something.
Watch conference and put in practice the teaching of the Prophet and his Apostles and you will be blessed!
Elder Hobbs
Thursday, September 22, 2011
September 19
Im here in Tantoyuka, Veracruz. This city is small, and there s alot of ranches outside of the city. The people here are more indiginous, they're more native and there´s alot more native sculptures, leather work and basketry stuff. All the other places I've gone is basically new modernization, but here is still a little more authentic. Theres alot of hills, hills hills hills you go up one to go down to the other to go up again, there is no flat area. and it makes life a little bit harder. Its been pretty fun to be back together, weve been reminiscing about the good ole times in el Mante the people the area the good times. I think it has helped me to go with Elder Ortega, so I haven't been so homesick of my ward and families in Mante. President Call wrote us both this week that he doesn't know why he put us together but he felt good about it, that we were together. we live in a building on the third floor and above us is a gym, and its the only area in the mission that its permitted to go to gym, so I might be able to huge again, lifting weights, we went this morning and it was weird being in a gym after 15 months without going. I didnt quite know what to do.
Mexico celebrated their independencia day, it was cool, there was a ward activity in the church, alot of food and actually a good number of people showed up. an hna. in Mante sewed Elder Ortega and I a tie of the Mexican flag before I left, they re good loooking. There were fire works in the noche and we live right by the main plaza of the city so they were blowing off in our house and i figured out that there arent laws about fireworks and firesafety. They were launched where everyone was at.
Yesterday was my second time this month talking in church, i talked about a few experiences that growing up on the farm alongside grandpa helped us know and understand grandpa more than others could have and how its the same with our Father in Heaven, that in his service is the only way to come as close as you can to Him and to understand His plan and our true purpose. We went to the house of an investigator this week, but she wasn't home and we taugth her 17 yr old kid that supposedly has had problems being rebelious and put a fecha with him and the next day we came back to check the compromiso and he had read it really well and liked it and when we ended the lesson the mom showed up and the grandma and they had made us food thats called ´´mole´´ its a food that everyone makes and is supposedly for special ocasions and when we asked why they made us the food the grandma told us that her grandkid has rebelled but now hes changed and is listening to us. it was funny. But I know that God wants His children to come unto Him and that he is the Master of everything going on, He just works according to our faith as His children.
We had some other really good experiences this week, as well as bad ones, but I'm excited and know we can do alot here in Tantoyuka. Pday is going to be on Wednesday instead of Monday starting the next week so dont call Pres. Call if you dont get an email until Wednesday haha. Supposedly there's going to be alot of new changes in the mission, but the zone leaders havent told us all of them. We're living here 4 in the house again and there is an elder here from Arizona named elder Merril and has a I don't know how many greats grandfather and maybe its great grandma Sarah´s dad who knows, he knows the name of the guy, its like Filemon or some f name.
well have a great week and love life, and serve God
Mexico celebrated their independencia day, it was cool, there was a ward activity in the church, alot of food and actually a good number of people showed up. an hna. in Mante sewed Elder Ortega and I a tie of the Mexican flag before I left, they re good loooking. There were fire works in the noche and we live right by the main plaza of the city so they were blowing off in our house and i figured out that there arent laws about fireworks and firesafety. They were launched where everyone was at.
Yesterday was my second time this month talking in church, i talked about a few experiences that growing up on the farm alongside grandpa helped us know and understand grandpa more than others could have and how its the same with our Father in Heaven, that in his service is the only way to come as close as you can to Him and to understand His plan and our true purpose. We went to the house of an investigator this week, but she wasn't home and we taugth her 17 yr old kid that supposedly has had problems being rebelious and put a fecha with him and the next day we came back to check the compromiso and he had read it really well and liked it and when we ended the lesson the mom showed up and the grandma and they had made us food thats called ´´mole´´ its a food that everyone makes and is supposedly for special ocasions and when we asked why they made us the food the grandma told us that her grandkid has rebelled but now hes changed and is listening to us. it was funny. But I know that God wants His children to come unto Him and that he is the Master of everything going on, He just works according to our faith as His children.
We had some other really good experiences this week, as well as bad ones, but I'm excited and know we can do alot here in Tantoyuka. Pday is going to be on Wednesday instead of Monday starting the next week so dont call Pres. Call if you dont get an email until Wednesday haha. Supposedly there's going to be alot of new changes in the mission, but the zone leaders havent told us all of them. We're living here 4 in the house again and there is an elder here from Arizona named elder Merril and has a I don't know how many greats grandfather and maybe its great grandma Sarah´s dad who knows, he knows the name of the guy, its like Filemon or some f name.
well have a great week and love life, and serve God
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
September 12
I changed areas, after 4 changes in ciudad Mante. I'm in Tantoyuka, Veracruz, which might be part of Big John Nuttal's mission, who knows? It's really beautiful here, with lots of hills and lots of hills. I left Mante at 10am and got to Tampico at 1;40sh pm and the next bus didnt leave til 3:20pm so I was with the financial secretary that is from Lehi and we ate McDonalds and left to Tantoyuka but didnt arrive until 6:40sh and had a few minutes to buy food and then go to a cita and ya, thats why I didn't write yesterday. Today we had the district meeting in the morning and we ate and went to the doctor because Elder Murga gave me his throat infection he had last week and I'm on some medications right now, but I'm good, I'm not too bad off.
I'm district leader again here, and guess who my companion is? Elder Ortega. I was stunned when they told me the changes on Saturday that after two changes I'm going back with him. Aint no mountain high enough that kept us from being apart, haha. But its cool, we got along really well and we already know each other really well and were both really excited for it. This is a rama here, it sounds pretty good.
I got the package, thanks alot. And the letters that I wrote almost a year ago in Victoria were never sent off so I just gave them to the Hna. Call a little while ago to send them off through the connection they have, and she must have sent them home with Elder Remund when he left, because hes from Missouri. I dont write letters, I don't quite find the time to do it. I loved my time in Mante, to tell the truth i felt like a King there, we owned Mante on our bikes, I knew hundreds of people there and saw some miracles and was part of alot there. in 4 changes we baptized more people in that time frame than all of last year put together. I have felt like I have become closer with our Saviour and alot better person and alot was due to experiences there in Mante. I know that God is preparing His children to come unto him, its his desire mas grande like it says in moises 1:39. The time is going by fast, Mante seems like it was a dream that already went away and I don't even have a day here and thats how it seems. We have a short time here in this life and not to much time to waste it doing things that dont tiene chiste. Alot of members and converts thanked me alot and said alot of cool things with changes in the ward and their life, it was really cool to know I was part of it.
The kids at home seem little and they shouldn't be in that stage of life of highschool they seem younger and younger every year, the highschoolers. That's awesome for them, they need to enjoy every moment of it cuz time flies and its too short to not be happy. Help others come unto Christ invite them, a small invitation isn't going to scare them or make them think less of you and tell the missionarie s you want to work with them and ask them how you can help.
I love you all and have a great week
Elder Hobbs
I'm district leader again here, and guess who my companion is? Elder Ortega. I was stunned when they told me the changes on Saturday that after two changes I'm going back with him. Aint no mountain high enough that kept us from being apart, haha. But its cool, we got along really well and we already know each other really well and were both really excited for it. This is a rama here, it sounds pretty good.
I got the package, thanks alot. And the letters that I wrote almost a year ago in Victoria were never sent off so I just gave them to the Hna. Call a little while ago to send them off through the connection they have, and she must have sent them home with Elder Remund when he left, because hes from Missouri. I dont write letters, I don't quite find the time to do it. I loved my time in Mante, to tell the truth i felt like a King there, we owned Mante on our bikes, I knew hundreds of people there and saw some miracles and was part of alot there. in 4 changes we baptized more people in that time frame than all of last year put together. I have felt like I have become closer with our Saviour and alot better person and alot was due to experiences there in Mante. I know that God is preparing His children to come unto him, its his desire mas grande like it says in moises 1:39. The time is going by fast, Mante seems like it was a dream that already went away and I don't even have a day here and thats how it seems. We have a short time here in this life and not to much time to waste it doing things that dont tiene chiste. Alot of members and converts thanked me alot and said alot of cool things with changes in the ward and their life, it was really cool to know I was part of it.
The kids at home seem little and they shouldn't be in that stage of life of highschool they seem younger and younger every year, the highschoolers. That's awesome for them, they need to enjoy every moment of it cuz time flies and its too short to not be happy. Help others come unto Christ invite them, a small invitation isn't going to scare them or make them think less of you and tell the missionarie s you want to work with them and ask them how you can help.
I love you all and have a great week
Elder Hobbs
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
September 5
The baptisms went through really well, Ana and Monica could be baptized and the other companionship had another joven that was baptized as well. The service was really good and it was a happy and great day for them. The week was alright, we were really uptight about the baptisms for Sunday. I did divisions with elders in a branch about an hour outside of the city, it was alright. this week I'll do diviisions with the zone leaders, maybe Elder Goff before he goes home.
Thats awesome about the baptisms in WW3, like the first convert baptisms I've ever known about in the ward.
I havent got the package yet, Pres. Call comes up tomorow , maybe it will be there. Im eating good, I actually started getting fat a little while ago so im trying to loose it and doing push ups every morning and listening to Acts in spanish, the regular routine.
its week 6 and its my fourth change here, is really probable I wont be here next week, but I could do another change here in Mante, i really like it and i know there is alot of work here that God wants us to do.
Have a great week, love one another and read your scripures
love Elder Hobbs
Thats awesome about the baptisms in WW3, like the first convert baptisms I've ever known about in the ward.
I havent got the package yet, Pres. Call comes up tomorow , maybe it will be there. Im eating good, I actually started getting fat a little while ago so im trying to loose it and doing push ups every morning and listening to Acts in spanish, the regular routine.
its week 6 and its my fourth change here, is really probable I wont be here next week, but I could do another change here in Mante, i really like it and i know there is alot of work here that God wants us to do.
Have a great week, love one another and read your scripures
love Elder Hobbs
Thursday, September 1, 2011
August 29
We had an alright week this week, we found some new people and have two baptisms planned for next week, a mom and her daughter, the mom sometimes as little attitudes that remind me of my own mother and little kwirks and comments and attitudes that she has, this lady, Ana, has changed alot, we found her last change and in el principio she was kind of rough on us and never opened up to express anything, her daughter is 17 and has loved everything about the church and the book of mormon but the mom has been a litttle stubborn, theyve gone to church about 5 times and the mom finally started reading in the book of mormonr 3 weeks ago and doing her prayers and God has worked miracles with her softening her heart.
I did divisiones with the other missionaries in the ward, it was cool to see what they have going on and to show a few pointers, today im going to go out to do divisions with a companionship that lives outside the city in a branch. Elder Goff only has a few weeks now, its crazy to think i knew him about a year ago and hes already going home, the mission has gone by fast , im completing 14 months tomoro so theres only 10 left. its been pressuring me sometimes the idea but also helping me work even harder to think that the time is short and i got to get as much in as i can.
have a great week love you all
Elder Hobbs
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