Happy Day after Christmas 12/26/16

Hey Mom!  I love you!  I loved doing slype with you guys!  It was awesome to talk to you all!  Christmas was great!  I am very excited to come back next Christmas, but with you guys!  I am glad that God has blessed the family!  I can also see it, and am very grateful for what God has done!  I am excited to hear that they want to leave as well.  I am sure KJ wont leave before I get home, because I get home like a week after his availability date.  I think that there will be a cambio.  However you never know!  I am excited for Ashley and KJ and hope that they all have safe fun!  For Christmas we sang to a couple of members and future investigators and then went to eat dinner at a very nice members house.  We talked with them and ate food until 11.  Then we went home and slept.  It was fun to sing and we enjoyed it!  Dont worry it was legal to be out at 11.  Thanks for sending all the packages!  I really need those shirts, because mine are gross!  I am good with those shirts!  Thanks for the money!  I dont need to much!  Thanks for your prayers and love!  I love you guys and pray for the family as well!  Please tell the McMillan family that I love them!  Spanish is coming, God has truly helped me.  Love you mom!  

Christmas 12/19/16

Hey guys!  I love you all!  I am so happy to hear and feel he Love of God that he has had for you all!  He is truly merciful!  Please keep on doing your best!  This week instead of going day for day I am going to try and write like normal.  God has truly blessed us this week!  I would say looking back on this week that God taught me alot and is helping me to progress. 

First talking about Manuel, on monday we had a good lesson with him.  In the end we asked him about his desires for getting baptized.  Throughout almost all of the lessons we have taught him so far he has said that he feels good.  Or in other words the light of Christ.  So he told us that he wanted to get baptized mainly to satisfy his wife and to not feel guilty ever time the missionaries invite him.  So that really got us thinking.  Those arent bad desires, but we should follow the Gospel mainly to follow God and do his will because we love him.  So we would pray and think about it and the thing is, he cant read and doesnt understand us a lot.  Therefore we felt that we should explain the articles of Faith in order for him to understand why we have faith and what it is.  It is important for him to understand why!  It is hard because he doesnt have a huge religious background, so he just says stuff that he truly doesnt understand.  Like when we ask him what the Holy Ghost is he would say Faith and Ressurection.  So we felt that we should go over things very simply with him.  So Thursday we went and taught him the first 3 articules of Faith and he understood!  We feel he truly feels the importance of being baptized, but doesnt understand.  It was a tender mercy to see Gods loving hand guide us and the lesson to where he could understand.  That is what has happened with the investigators this week.  

This week we were also able to find some pretty cool future investigators.  They seem to be really cool people!  Also we ere also able to serve some of the members with choping wood!  It was pretty fun.  I imagine there is snow on the ground there, but here it is really sunny and I am wearing a lot of sunblock!  I was also able to learn a lot of things from some drunk guys that we talked to on the street!  God truly works sometimes through some cool ways!  As well God truly protected us this week in situations that could of been really dangerous!  That has been my week!  Next week we should know transfers by Monday at least.  So we will see what happens!  We will see what God wants.  Love you guys!

Hello Family 12/12/16

Hey I am sorry if I couldnt include everyone in this email.  Hey just wanted to tell you all that I love you guys!  Please forgive me for any offense against you guys.  Some members here told me to send you guys there love.  So just to let you know theere are members here that love you guys!  I have been feeling good!  I have honestly been feeling good.  There have been some ups this week.  I have really been impacted spiritualy.  Something happened this week that really helped me feel love towards others.  Also the Lord has really lifted me up, and I am very grateful for his blessings he has given me this week.  There are some things that happened this week that will truly be with me throughout my life.  I love you all and am grateful for all the blessings God has been giving us.   

Lunes:

This day we got a call during P day from an investigator Boris.  We had just finished buying and were just about to enter the house to rest a little bit and he called us, and told us that he wanted us to visit him in that moment.  At first we were really hesitant, however thinking it over twice we went.  In that lesson the spirit could really help him keep going in order to stop smoking.  He is really determined.  We also had a lesson with Manuel and he is doing a lot better with the Word of Wisdom.

Martes:

This day me and Elder Johnson had a really good talk and were able to see what we can change, the Lord really opened our eyes.  We also could serve a member with her yard.

Miercoles:

Haha the funniest thing that happened this day was that an old lady ( member) spanked me when I was walking out her door!  It was weird.  We were able to do some service for a family in need.  We did it really stealthy, but we left bags of bread on there fence, without them seeing.  We felt good about it, we also felt like spies.  We also were able to meet a future investigator that came to the ping pong activity.  It was cool, he is a nice guy.  We also saw how much the Lord was blessing Boris to stop smoking.  It has been cool so far.  

Jueves:

This day was good.  We had a corelacion with our mision leader and the spirit was there.  I felt more love for him.  We also were able to meet the rest of the family of the kid who is the only member of his family.

Viernes:

We had an interchange with the Zone leaders in our district and it was a pretty succesful day!  We had a lesson with a part member family, and our zone leader Elder Thomas had been feeling to share about forgiveness and they were super mad because of something another member had done or said.  The member there had no desire to forgive this person.  Elder Thomas gave his testimony and a personal experience and the spirit was very strong.  

Saturday:

This was the day that probably had the most impact on me from the whole week.  I heard something that was really hard for me to take in and accept, however instead of anger, the Lord was able to help me have love and hope for others.  It had nothing to do with my comp, but it is something I cant talk about.  We were also able to finish our interchange with the zone leaders and have a district meeting and the spirit really guided us and was really strong.  After that me and Elder Johnson were able to plan for the next week and we felt the spirit really strong and had a great experience.  I am grateful for how God works and his mercy.  I was able to ask myself some questions this day.  first What does a loving father do?  I am glad I have two great examples of that.  

Domingo:

I have to go, but this was also a great day!  

Buena Semana 12/5/16

Well first off this week was really good!  I hope you all had a great time in San Diego!  It was a great thanksgiving here.  Emily keep killing it in soccer!  Hailey keep dancing!  Ashley keep being a Leader, and KJ as well!  Aja keep studying and seeking revelation.  Mom and Dad, thank you for everything you guys do!  You have truly helped me out in my life!  I love you guys!  

Monday:

Well this day we had a lesson with Victor Vera.  He is a member that has to stay in his bed, he has a tube connected to his throat to breath.  Sometimes he can put a different one in to talk.  He hasnt been able to for a while now, and this day he did!  It was really cool!  Also on the way home this dog that always follows us (rocky)  attacked a small dog and knocked him down a ledge right next to the river, so I jumped down and saved the little guy!  It was fun!  I didnt get in the river though!  Dont worry!  Also we found a guy named Luis, and we shared the Gospel with him!  It was really cool!  I enjoyed it a lot!

Tuesday:

We were able to do some service for a member and his soon to be wife.  It was cool.  We were also able to leave with a member of the Bishopric of Holzaphel ( the other ward) and we visited some less actives and members of the ward!  It was fun!  It was a good opportunity to get to know the guy.  He is a great man.

Wednesday:  

Earlier yesterday we had visited with a kid named Abner.  He is the only member of his family.  In the evening we walked and did some contacts when we felt that we should contact someone, so we did.  Turns out that he is Abners dad!  We were able to set up a lesson with him, it was a blessing to see.  We also found a lady named Graciela.  We shared with her the Plan of Salvation.  It was good.  

Thursday:

THANKSGIVING!!!  Well it was a great thanksgiving!  In the begining of the day we had a correlacion with our ward mission leader.  He is doing good.  He put a bunch of videos to share with people the new iniciative of Iluminate the World!  It will be very useful!  We later had a lesson with a man who had been sharing with the sisters for a long time.  So we were able to teach him the Restoration very simply and at the end we invited him to Baptism.  He accepted!  He would like to be baptized in January!  That will be really cool!  Later on we had thanksgiving dinner with a couple of other Elders, it was very feeling!  We actually had a whole turkey. 

Friday:

Well we played a little bit of arco arco with some kids that invited us to play.  It was fun!  And I feel like we lightend there days.  Also we had a Zone counsel and it was very Spiritual and we were all edified from it.  Also this is when we got the pass along cards for Iluminate the World.  They are really cool! It will help alot!

Saturday:

This day was a little harder.  We had a lesson with Andres and basically he is still looking for an anwser about the Book of Mormon, however feels he needs to finish some things in his other church first, and organize his life a little bit more.  Then we had a lesson with this man who right as we got to the first vision, he absoulutly shut us down.  Responding to his reaction the spirit took over, however in the end he still refused to listen and accept any more.  We learned a lot from this day!  Therefore it was good!

Sunday:

Today was a great day!  I truly felt the spirit a lot!  We were also able to give the Sacrament to Victor Vera and show him the video for Christmas.  I could also feel Charity for the people in the street this day it was a good feeling!  

Love you all!  Have a great week!

Spectacular Week 12/5/2016

Well there is a lot to write.  I love you all and thank you for all your prayers and love towards me, and most importantly the Gospel.  This email will be a little short.  Sorry..  Also can you send me a list of all the uncle, aunts, cousins, and grandparents in order to include them in these emails?

Monday:

Well we have been working with this guy named Manuel.  So we had last week taught him the Restoration.  He said that he would be baptized, and everything!  So this day we put him with a Baptisimal Date of the 14 of January!  We are really excited for him.  He had been taught a lot before and has been prepared. 

Tuesday:

This day Manuel and his wife Karen (member)  cant read.  So we got them a pin drive with the scriptures so that they can listen to the scriptures and feel the spirit.  We also had a lesson with a man named Andres.  He is nice and we taught the Restoration and the spirit guided us.  It was a good feeling.  

Wednesday:

So I weighed myself this day, and I dropped down to 175 pounds!  Wow!  Thats new!  This day we were walking on the way to a place and saw a old lady in very poor conditions.  She gave us some bread and we went on our way.  It was a heart toucher. 

Thursday:

Hey please follow the new program for this Christmas!  It is awesome!  The service we did this day was have a lesson with Manuel and Karen.  Basically we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the Word of Wisdom.  Lets just say God had prepared them so much that we were able to leave with all the Tea and Cofee and give them ecco and mate.  Haha it was awesome and the sprit truly taught.  Also I was fed up having to make a decision about college so I found the anwser of UVU until told otherwise by God.

Friday:

We helped the Bishops wife with some service this day, it was good!  We also had a lesson with a investiagator Boris and we taught the Gospel and the Word of Wisdom.  In the end he promised to stop smoking.  It was another tender mercy.  

Saturday:

This day was a day of just service!  I will tell you more about it later but lets just finish up by saying that it was a solid week!  I truly learned a lot!  Thanks for all your love!  I love you all and I am happy for the blessings that God has given you all!