Its just about the final countdown for Saren, I´ll have to send her a message. This week was extraordinary. It started out slow, and then Tuesday in the morning I got bit by a dog at the house of a investigator, the dog was asleep and we didn’t see it until it woke up and started barking at us and my comp ran away and I was holding my ground and wasn’t going to back down to it cuz it appeared to look like a blue heeler and it bit me right below the knee cap and then the lady was all sad and felt bad and took the dog away and got out alcohol and cotton she cleaned the wound for me, It was just teeth marks, it barely broke the skin and it didn’t pierce my pants so I´ll be fine - hopefully she´ll be baptized
Then Wednesday was one of the best days that I’ve had in Tampico, we found a couple that is ready to find the truth and will be baptized, and it was a great day, and when we got home at night I called Hermana Call to tell her I got bit by a dog, just got over the cold I had over the weekend and that I have a nasty ingrown toenail (on the other foot than the one I originally had before the mission) and what I should do, she told me to mark the assigned doctor and go in and get it taken care of but I told her I would rather operate on it than someone else and she gave me some instructions of what I could do to help it so I’m following that right now.
And then Thursday in the morning while we were studying President Call called me and told me I was getting re-assigned immediately the same day to go to Mante so I packed my bags, he came by and picked me up I hung out with him for a little while in the day, I ate subway with him and his wife and he dropped me off at the bus station and sent me up here. It was fun! I guess there had been problems with a missionary that was training a greeny so he took him out of there and switched him with me and put the missionary with my old comp Elder Palestino. So now I’m here in Mante, walking around in what feels like an oven. It seems alright, the area is alright and the people seem great, there´s 4 of us in the ward Elder Young and his comp Elder Alvarez, my new comp Elder Ortega and I, Elder Young is the district leader, He´s from pleasant Grove and is a wrestler, actually he wrestled Trae Bennett one year at the state tournament, and his comp and my comp are new and just completing 2 months in the mission. Its great, we’re all getting along well and the changes are today, Elder Goff is coming in to Mante to be our Zone Leader so maybe I´ll see hím around, and Elder Cook is out in a Pueblito and is in our district so I´ll start seeing him on Mondays again, that’s been funny that we´ve basically been seeing each other all of our mission and were comps in the MTC.
So time is going by fast, I hope Saren is fine and does well, I was just thinking about Dan Atkinson the other day and figured he´d be home, tell him hi from me and write me a note.
Have fun and be good at home and read your scriptures and visit people that don’t go to church bye
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Duck Hunting
I’ve realized that the mission is alot like duck hunting, that you have to wade in the water and walk alot to find the hot spot to blast them ducks, but alot of times it seems that we’re in the muck up to our knees and you can barely move and the a miracle comes and all of a sudden your walking on dry land and then it turns to muck again. The life of the mission! We need a good air boat so we don’t have to walk to find the hot spot to find the escogidos and maybe the book of mormon could be the Beneli super black eagle 2 with camoflauge.
We went to the temple on Saturday, it was different with the temple and in Spanish, but I liked it alot, it was nice. Later that day I got sick, and had been sneezing and a runny nose 24/7 until today, I just feel weird and slightly tired, but its life. Sounds like life to me.
Last night we were contacting a reference and a borracho pulled in with his truck and started calling us ninos and saying a lot of bad words and then told us to come in and told all his family members in the house that we are missionaries from God and if they don’t want to listen to us, then it means they’re listening to the devil instead of God, and he wants us to come by his meat shop today so were going to see what happens. tenía mucho razón.
I just really hope your all trying to help others at home, the less active members and people that aren’t so they can come unto Christ and be saved. They`re real people that need the gospel just as much as you all do so be the instruments in Gods hands to provide the way for them to come unto Christ and be humilde and amorosos and tenga caridad, sed uno, y si no sois uno, no son de Dios, y tampoco si no tengan caridad, no podais ser de Dios entonces haced lo que Dios nos ha mandado. oh hermanos,
adios pues adios
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We went to the temple on Saturday, it was different with the temple and in Spanish, but I liked it alot, it was nice. Later that day I got sick, and had been sneezing and a runny nose 24/7 until today, I just feel weird and slightly tired, but its life. Sounds like life to me.
Last night we were contacting a reference and a borracho pulled in with his truck and started calling us ninos and saying a lot of bad words and then told us to come in and told all his family members in the house that we are missionaries from God and if they don’t want to listen to us, then it means they’re listening to the devil instead of God, and he wants us to come by his meat shop today so were going to see what happens. tenía mucho razón.
I just really hope your all trying to help others at home, the less active members and people that aren’t so they can come unto Christ and be saved. They`re real people that need the gospel just as much as you all do so be the instruments in Gods hands to provide the way for them to come unto Christ and be humilde and amorosos and tenga caridad, sed uno, y si no sois uno, no son de Dios, y tampoco si no tengan caridad, no podais ser de Dios entonces haced lo que Dios nos ha mandado. oh hermanos,
adios pues adios
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Monday, March 14, 2011
March 14
That's too bad about Tucker, I have nightmares that kind of stuff could happen to me in the mission, and even if it isn't something entirely serious it could result in something wrong, you never know, and with it being out of country is a little more scary, but its Mexico, its almost like the USA, just not as clean and they all speak spanish. But the Presidents of the Missions know what they´re doing and where people should go for medical help and he´s a missionary and the Lord needs him so it will all be fine, he´s in better hands then Allstate insurance.
The week was a little better, with some people we found and taught, and yesterday the attendance was 89 people instead of the 60 people average, I feel like things are picking up and they finally started putting in mutuals for the jovenes so I think the people are starting to be a little more excited with the church and the Work. And yes President Call knows the standings here, and the Stake President is watching over things more now in the ward.
Elder Palestino bought me a Mexican Soccer shirt for my birthday, its authentic. I was excited, he´s a good missionary we get along well.
I dont know if I've expressed how much I do not like looking at all the abominations down here from the Santos to the Santa Muerte people and their ridiculous beliefs. We've had encounters this week with less actives that believe in the Santa Muerte, the belief is basically if you pray to the devil and give up things of valor to him, he gives you what you want, its horrible, its exactly what John the Beloved talks about in Revelations about Satan working miracles in the last days and people believing and following.
but ya thats Mexico, the people are really supersticious, really really supersticious and are crazy with their crazy creencias so thats my crazy week
and Jake needs to change his baseball form on the mound, and use more his legs hahaha
have a good one
The week was a little better, with some people we found and taught, and yesterday the attendance was 89 people instead of the 60 people average, I feel like things are picking up and they finally started putting in mutuals for the jovenes so I think the people are starting to be a little more excited with the church and the Work. And yes President Call knows the standings here, and the Stake President is watching over things more now in the ward.
Elder Palestino bought me a Mexican Soccer shirt for my birthday, its authentic. I was excited, he´s a good missionary we get along well.
I dont know if I've expressed how much I do not like looking at all the abominations down here from the Santos to the Santa Muerte people and their ridiculous beliefs. We've had encounters this week with less actives that believe in the Santa Muerte, the belief is basically if you pray to the devil and give up things of valor to him, he gives you what you want, its horrible, its exactly what John the Beloved talks about in Revelations about Satan working miracles in the last days and people believing and following.
but ya thats Mexico, the people are really supersticious, really really supersticious and are crazy with their crazy creencias so thats my crazy week
and Jake needs to change his baseball form on the mound, and use more his legs hahaha
have a good one
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
March 7
Well this week on paper didn't seem so great, but it was one of the better weeks here. Except Oswaldo was taken away Monday, his uncles came in and took him to live for a little while until he gets all the paper work figured out to go live in the US of A, I was really upset. But we've had more meetings with ward leaders to help figure out what we can do to conquer satan in barrio Tancol. I really hope that all you up there are humble, don't offend people, don't talk bad about your leaders or other ward members and follow the order of the church, love one another, and magnify your callings and actually be members of the church of The Lamb. Why dont you all study Mosiah 3 :19 and think and ponder about it and describe every atritbute that it talks about and then what the opposite would be for example humble submissive meek loving etc.and look up in preach my gospel the christlike atributes and share it in family home eveing. and study 1 Nefi 22 and focus in everything going on and then how we can compare ourselves, being members in the church, to verse 26.
I would hope that you are all more worried about serving God than the world and visiting less actives and those that don't go to church and need help. It all starts with a smile and love, our love for God, the Love He gives us, and our desire to reflect His love and share it with others.
I would hope that you are all more worried about serving God than the world and visiting less actives and those that don't go to church and need help. It all starts with a smile and love, our love for God, the Love He gives us, and our desire to reflect His love and share it with others.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Well isn't that alot of fun up there in Utah and yes the time does seem to go by fairly quickly that sometimes I wish it would slow down for a second so I can breathe. It's cool its my birthday this week, I do have a lot of mixed emotions, I'm already starting to get old like "somepeople" at home. I think being a missionary confuses me about my age, if im really 19 or 20 or am I older? cuz sometimes I feel too mature and stuff like that and we blend in with the older people. I dont know how to describe it, it´s weird. But yes I did recieve my birthday package. Saturday we had a zone conference with President Call and his wife and they brought mail and packages. And I got a package from the Parslows, filled with a whole bunch of food and everything, I was so excited, make sure you tell them thanks from ole Slambo. So I got two packages, one full of food, and one full of great things, the dvds, shirts ties and just great things, I was super excited about it all and I'm thinking of asking a sister to help me make the cake and have a quick cake celebration at their house friday.
To top it off we finally had a baptism Saturday, with Oswaldo Josué de la Cruz Gamez, but nobody else showed up except whats in the picture atached. I called president to see if we could do it, cuz the family wanted to and he said ok so elder palestino and I were the witnesses and the Uncle Hno. Leonel baptized him, he´s the lider de la obra misional del barrio so he acted as representante del obispado so we did it. Everyone else that we invited must not of wanted to go or forgot. Read in Acts chapter 8 about Philip and the Eunech, it reminded me alot of the baptism there was water filled so what were we waiting for.
He´s the kid that got electrocuted the end of December or first of January time period and the picture is his foot right now in the healing process or where the electricity left his body and burned a hole in his foot. It grosses me out when I see it. I'm pretty confident his foot is going to be healed now that he´s baptised, its what Jesus always told the lame to do, go down in the water and be healed, so now Oswaldo's foot can heal.
One picture is elder Villanueva and I with my grey grandpa looking sweater another, is him when I cut his hair one day, the other is la hna. Vicenta, Hno. Leonel, Oswaldo Elder Palestino and I, the entire congregation at baptism of Oswaldo. And the picture with the indian is at my old house in Victoria, pretty magestic, How would you judge it on a scale of 1-10 of magesticness, huh my friend Cole Quartuccio?
Well have fun and all with the spring,Ii´ll be here sweating in the heat of Tampico Mexico and loving every minute of it, I'm going to get my tan on! and read your scriptures and be productive helping people come to church, neighbors and everything bye, tell Karma, Max n Gerry, Linda, Burt and Cara hi for me - bye
To top it off we finally had a baptism Saturday, with Oswaldo Josué de la Cruz Gamez, but nobody else showed up except whats in the picture atached. I called president to see if we could do it, cuz the family wanted to and he said ok so elder palestino and I were the witnesses and the Uncle Hno. Leonel baptized him, he´s the lider de la obra misional del barrio so he acted as representante del obispado so we did it. Everyone else that we invited must not of wanted to go or forgot. Read in Acts chapter 8 about Philip and the Eunech, it reminded me alot of the baptism there was water filled so what were we waiting for.
He´s the kid that got electrocuted the end of December or first of January time period and the picture is his foot right now in the healing process or where the electricity left his body and burned a hole in his foot. It grosses me out when I see it. I'm pretty confident his foot is going to be healed now that he´s baptised, its what Jesus always told the lame to do, go down in the water and be healed, so now Oswaldo's foot can heal.
One picture is elder Villanueva and I with my grey grandpa looking sweater another, is him when I cut his hair one day, the other is la hna. Vicenta, Hno. Leonel, Oswaldo Elder Palestino and I, the entire congregation at baptism of Oswaldo. And the picture with the indian is at my old house in Victoria, pretty magestic, How would you judge it on a scale of 1-10 of magesticness, huh my friend Cole Quartuccio?
Well have fun and all with the spring,Ii´ll be here sweating in the heat of Tampico Mexico and loving every minute of it, I'm going to get my tan on! and read your scriptures and be productive helping people come to church, neighbors and everything bye, tell Karma, Max n Gerry, Linda, Burt and Cara hi for me - bye
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
February 21, 2011
We've been thinking alot more about helping out the members, sharing mensajes and gaining more confidence in them and get them to love each other again.
this week we contacted alot,too much for to be good for your health, and had alot of rejections. The field is white already to harvest, but its a matter of finding to escogidos, not just knocking doors.
The family we ate with yesterday, the husband is a consejero del obispo and was telling us all about the relation between the book of mormon and mexico. Mexico and its history is the book of mormon. between all the arceological findings and everything. and how there is governmental agency that takes all the arceaological finds and saves them or sells them but take them away from every lugar and people because every finding supports the book of mormon and that kind of stuuf. theres been finding of baptismal fonts in a state called chapas, that in one place they found a tomb of a body that was a leader of the people, that had a huge body frame and the facial features and DNA were all different then the Mayans(aka lamanites) and that the writings and representations say that he was a the leader of them all, and that the people were hard workers and had alot and prospered in the land and that this leader had 2 counselours and then 12 "priests" that he and them met alot in a "holy building" and discussed the affairs of the people. and that archeologists are wonderin who in the world this person was, and how he got there. and the brother told it more descriptive and it fits exactly into Nefi when he established his kingdom and told us more stuff where science and discoveries fit hand in hand with the book of mormon.
And he told us about his 100s of awesome experiences in his mission including a run in with a Catholi church leader that had a library of our Church books at his house, Jesus the Christ, the triple, and that he had a testimony of the BoM and the church and has wanted to leave but knew he would be killed by the "Caballeros de Colón" im not sure the right translation in english but look it up, it sounds interesting but its the group that has permision from the pope to assasinate the high priests and leaders of the church that want to turn away.
But all that isn’t why we beleive its true, but that we've recieved and answer from the holy ghost, thats the difference between "mormonism" and everyone else, we believe in a living god that loves us and communicates with us, not just what the bible thats been handed down for 2000 years and changed to be the basics of our beliefs.
so serve God, and be good children of Him that hast created thee, my brethren and sistren.
this week we contacted alot,too much for to be good for your health, and had alot of rejections. The field is white already to harvest, but its a matter of finding to escogidos, not just knocking doors.
The family we ate with yesterday, the husband is a consejero del obispo and was telling us all about the relation between the book of mormon and mexico. Mexico and its history is the book of mormon. between all the arceological findings and everything. and how there is governmental agency that takes all the arceaological finds and saves them or sells them but take them away from every lugar and people because every finding supports the book of mormon and that kind of stuuf. theres been finding of baptismal fonts in a state called chapas, that in one place they found a tomb of a body that was a leader of the people, that had a huge body frame and the facial features and DNA were all different then the Mayans(aka lamanites) and that the writings and representations say that he was a the leader of them all, and that the people were hard workers and had alot and prospered in the land and that this leader had 2 counselours and then 12 "priests" that he and them met alot in a "holy building" and discussed the affairs of the people. and that archeologists are wonderin who in the world this person was, and how he got there. and the brother told it more descriptive and it fits exactly into Nefi when he established his kingdom and told us more stuff where science and discoveries fit hand in hand with the book of mormon.
And he told us about his 100s of awesome experiences in his mission including a run in with a Catholi church leader that had a library of our Church books at his house, Jesus the Christ, the triple, and that he had a testimony of the BoM and the church and has wanted to leave but knew he would be killed by the "Caballeros de Colón" im not sure the right translation in english but look it up, it sounds interesting but its the group that has permision from the pope to assasinate the high priests and leaders of the church that want to turn away.
But all that isn’t why we beleive its true, but that we've recieved and answer from the holy ghost, thats the difference between "mormonism" and everyone else, we believe in a living god that loves us and communicates with us, not just what the bible thats been handed down for 2000 years and changed to be the basics of our beliefs.
so serve God, and be good children of Him that hast created thee, my brethren and sistren.
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