December 4, 2017

Light the World!!

Here is a picture of me on the roof overlooking the city from our apartment 

MOMMA!!!

I'm doing really well! This past week has been pretty normal, actually it wasn't the greatest week, we had all of our lessons cancel on us which is a bummer, but we got some new referrals from a member that sound super promising so I'm really excited about that! Thanks for the prayers, I for sure need them in every department haha. We just really haven't had any luck these past two weeks with finding or lessons, our area is supposed to be more Latino, but when we knock on doors it's just uninterested English speaking people. I'm really hoping that this referral from the member, which is a family, will be the "reward" for all the work we have put in so far. I'll try and be better about writing paper letters, I'll need to send some more soon here for christmas!

So before we went over to Juan's today for breakfast we wen't up on our appartment building's roof and took a quick pic, I hope it works for the Christmas card if not let me know. We took two I hope one of them isn't blurry! 

Haha you're counting the days until facetime not even till Christmas, that's funny. That's fun for Ammon, I've gotta write that boy a birthday email, We might be at Betty's for Christmas day but we might be here in the fam history center, because these computers have camaras and other people might need to go to Betty's, but we'll see. Love you so much, I'll send the pictures in just a second!

--Juan just sent some pics from when he took us to red lobster, first time eating lobster!

Here's a couple pics of Brig, mid-bite, eating lobster, haha

November 27, 2017

Busy, Busy, Busy...

so I think the only photos I have are from the wedding, ignore my weird face, he's tickling me haha

MOMMA!!!

So this past week was crazy and super fast too! We had Thanksgiving and meetings and lots of crazy stuff going on. We had a really great lesson with the 2 investigators of ours who are 11 and 13, they always seem to enjoy when we are there and they committed to coming to church, but they didn't make it:( it's sad but there's only so much we can do to help people make it. We've also been struggling in finding, luckily the church has the Light the World initiative going so hopefully with the holiday season we will be able to reach some of these people. I know people's hearts can be softened as the focus moves from them to Christ and I think Christmas is a pretty good way for people to start thinking about Him.

The wedding for Orlando went really well, he was sad you didn't make it haha. But it's really cool to see how much his life has changed from the first time that I knew him until now. 

Oh and seeing all the pictures of you in St George looks so fun! I miss all of you a ton and wish I could be there but I'm happy I'm here training Elder Call and serving the Lord back in my first area. The shirts fit pretty good thanks! And I grabbed a few more pairs of garments from the distribution center when we were in Oakland last week. 

It's so crazy how everyone is heading out or are already out on missions! Time just keeps flying by me! Before I know it I'll be back and moving on to the next thing which is so crazy, I guess I need to do all I can while I'm here. 2 years really is just a short time compared to the rest. I'm excited for the Christmas face time too! Where will you be? at Grammy and Grandad's? I love you so much, and I'll send a few pics in just a second!

and here's one with Betty

November 20,2017

Thanksgiving Week

Here are some pics from the baptism!

MOMMA!!!

I'm doing pretty good, the baptism went super well! Usually big problems happen haha, but this time almost everything went very smoothly which was nice and she was not dunked forward, just twice haha. 

So last week went we were looking around Nordstrom there was a super expensive suit I probably told you about, so I just had one of the senior couple sisters patch up the old one again and we'll see how long it lasts this time, maybe i just need to go on a diet or something! As for the shirts, yes please send them to Betty's house that would be perfect, and if you can get the shirts with a size 16 collar because mine have been just a little tight for like the whole time, not just because my neck is getting bigger ha.

But it's good to hear about youth conference, the pictures were super cool, glad everything worked like you wanted it to! And I hope you all have fun up in St George for Thanksgiving together thats so cool, tell the fam I say hi! 

And I found out the language learning stuff for portuguese, you just search mtc language books in google, then go to deseret book and there are a bunch there and you just click on one and find the right language haha, and don't worry we are allowed to go on deseret book here. I'm keeping it short because i'll also be talking on Thursday sometime in the afternoon right now I'm gonna go play some basketball! Love you!!!

so the baptism was super early in the morning and we started filling the font at like 7:30 in the morning

November 13, 2017

Time Flies.. When your looking for investigators

And here's a pic of the leadership in our zone after a meeting

MOMMA!!!

I'm doing good, this week has been pretty average, we weren't able to find a new investigator but we were able to see the one we met last week, and we are still working with our investigator who is progressing towards baptism and will be baptized this Saturday!!! 

So I don't know where people go to buy suits, no one ever talks about that really, but yes there is a Nordstrom Rack so maybe I can find another supa cheap one that fits me perfectly. On the new shirts, maybe just 4 of each short and long, and then I can get rid of the nastier ones haha. And ya next time we end up at the mission home I'll just buy some more G's. And if you can't find that language learning book, thats ok, I'll ask Elder Tackett where his mom found it and then let you know. 

So something cool that happened this week was we had something called a mission tour, where one of the 70, Elder Whiting, came and addressed us in Oakland for a long while, it was pretty cool to hear from him and his wife and their experiences of their missions, they both served in Tokyo at the same time but didn't meet each other till after the mission ha. He really stressed the importance of our time we have to study and how that will increase our testimonies and make us better teachers. And he talked a lot about how it's super critical to have the power of the Holy Ghost with us as we teach. 

I haven't written Kyle Mac in a while! He's only got 5 weeks on me in the mission, I saw him in the MTC remember! Maybe that means i've been out for a while too haha, It's so weird because it does and it doesn't feel like it. But I also look back on all of the experiences I've had and so much has gone on and changed, life is so weird haha.

Love you so much! Pictures will come soon!!!

so at the Mission tour I got to see Elder Kaitoku after more than 5 months

November 6, 2017

November!

Brig at church...  this member is always good at sending me pics mid week!! YAY!

MOMMA!!!!

Ya it's pretty crazy how the months keep going by faster and faster! We are doing really well here and we were finally able to find a new investiagator last night which is super exciting because it's been pretty tough out here. I kind of forgot about that haha. So we are still working with those we have on date, we are waiting for one of our investigators to get married first and then we will baptize her for sure and we are still working with the kids, they are doing better than the first visit but still need some time.

The weather here has actually been super good, I am still using those sweaters though because it's starting to get a little cold out. So my blue suit that we got for so cheap has a tear right in the middle seam, it's been sewed up once and patched up and the hole is back, so I think that suits about done. The dark grey one is still doing pretty good but I might need a new one to replace the blue one. I like my ties a lot because I have acquired a lot of new ones, hehe. But ya new ties would be greatly appreciated. So ideas for gifts, maybe some sun glasses, cheap aviators or something, and all of my white shirts are getting pretty nasty, I was wondering if I could get a bunch of new ones and throw out the old ones, same thing with my garments, but I guess I can just buy garments over here. Oh and maybe one more bottle of the hair gel stuff would be good to get me through the rest of my mission. Ya we will be at hna Betty's for Thanksgiving, and another member, Marcelo, he's going to take us to a buffet for lunch that day too so it'll be a crazy day! 

Ya Brinley emailed all of us to let us know she's been called to serve in Romania, thats so cool!!! Ya I don't really email them though. Not much else is new around here, just trying to find new investigators in a place where not a lot of people want to listen haha, but they're out there! Well I love you so much! I'll send pictures in a bit!

I told Brig I need to be better at taking pictures to send him and he said:

Thats ok, we can be bad at taking pics together becasue this is the only pic i took haha