Last Letter

Well, One week left, we should have 3 bap. this week, to end my mission well. This week was fun. I went to Tij on monday, it was good to go up there again, I miss tij. Well that night we went out to eat with like 15 other missionaries. It was pretty cool. We went to Pampas which is like tuacanos or rodillio it was super good food. We got the bill and it was 5000 pesos. Wow. haha. Then the day after that we had the conference. it also went super well. I be glad though I dont have to go again. while we were there the Pres asked me if I could write about my ward though, and send it to him in a email, so he could send it to the area presedency. Every so often the pres. needs to give a report about the success the mission is having. and the pres decided to use my letter and my ward for that report. So that was a high honor. After the conference, we got to go to the other side. It was a crazy experience to cross. one elder was from panama and so he needed to fill out a bunch of stuff to be able to cross. But we finally made it. We drove up to the temple. Not without first passing by the 7 elevn to by a slurpee. as we got to the temple. It was absolutly incredeble. It really is an amazion beautiful temple. it had a bunch of christmas lights and everything, and it was super beautiful. Well we got there in time to go to the 7 o clock session. The new temple film is super enlighting and a lot clearer then the old film. It was amazing all that I learned there, more then anything it just gave me renewed strenght and determinacion. it was super special. After we left. we took some pic and then drove to in and out..... what up. it was a super good night. it was me and 5 other missionaries. we crossed the border at like 11 at night. so yeah we may have got home pretty dang late haha. I got on a bus wed. morning to come home. I worked till sat. and sat. we went back to tij. but this time with all the ward  councils of the whole stake. we had 3 buses and a 70 talked to us. Elder antuniano. Well that got out late and our bus stopped to eat some tacos so we got home at 11 again. haha all in all im super tired. but it has been super fun. Hey by the way. I think the 20th Im going to a wedding. oh and I decided Ill be getting a job, to afford a new car. God wants me to get married, and driving the green, im super calm relaxed and have no pride mercury is not going to help me in that dep. and my civic puts in work in the snow going up the canyon but I will proly die in the mercury.  But  I am super glad and thankfull you guys help me out.

Anyways. I love you all.

Peace, and love.

Oh I cant find presents or gifts or anything so yeah.... I will be coming home empty handed. 

Baja

Hey fam. So life is super good. This week we went to the baja 1000. Can I say dope..... super dope. Honestly those trucks are pimped out to the teeth...... some of them really did have teeth. We went and looked at all the clase 1 and trophy trucks. I would send you pics but I think my camera is infected with mexican internet beatles so thatll be a project for when I get home.... just the chip can only be read by the camera.... anyways. after that we went to one of the places that the cars were going to pass. It was a dirt jump that they had made in the middle of a water spill way. There was people up and down the banks and in the bottom, up in the trees. Basically they were everywhere. There was aton of guys. so that was cool The trophies  would come by doing 60 miles an hour and hit the jump then land and smash into a gaint puddle at was tight. Then they had a short stretch of sand before they went under the tunnel. Basically it was insane. and super tight. in between cars people would start crossing the track and everyone would start cheering for  them saying they were idiots haha. and then the police came and took the people out of the track and then everyone cheered even more. It was dope. Def. the highlight of my week. Weve got 4 or 5 bap. this week. and the work is going super well right now. I really do love you all aton even though I dont write much. and well yeah pops if I need to give a talk the 18 I can do it. Just tell me before hand what Im going to talk about.

Peace, and love.

He'll be coming around the corner when he comes! Toot! Toot!

So this week was tranfers. Thank goodness Im staying here for my last 5 weeks. Last night was kinda interesting. We have one sector which they are closing down, so we went and talked to the owners and all that jazz. Then after that we went to the bus center because we needed to pick up a missionary and drop him off at his new sector Well he got in around 9 15. And When we got to his house it was like 9:30 well the Elders on sunday need to be in the house by 8:30 at the latest. We show up there and right as we show up the Elders are getting home. We unpack the car and put his stuff inside. Then one of the Elder goes to leave the house again. He wanted to go back to some party that they were at. He goes home with me and he now thinks that the mission rules dont apply to him. I told him to get back in side and he basically told me to go to ....... and that he wasnt going to go back in. So I sent the other two missionaries to their house. And then me and my comp repremended the member for letting the missionary be obediente, and then the missionary and well we left in the car. and came back and the missionary was trying to leave with the member again. So we tore into them again. And well..... yeah. So i was not happy last night. But now its all good. He is no longer in the zone and I told the Pres that he needs to put him in a threesome with ZL so we will see what goes down.

As far as investigators go. 6 months ago 2 little girls got bap. and there parents werent married yet so they couldnt get bap. Well we aranged their marriage for the 22nd of this month and also there bap. will be for that day also. So that is tight. We should have like another 6 bap. before I go home. So thats super cool. Im excited about that. The only prob. is that no one wants to go to church. We only had 1 of our investigators that went to church this week. Super lame. But the good thing is is they are all still on track for their bap. dates. 

Saturday we were headed to our food appointment and we were alittle late so we were headed super fast. Well I passed by a street that had a party going on. Ducked under the rope that they had hung to keep the cars from going by and kept riding at full speed. Alittle bit farther down the road me and my comp stopped and looked back to find our other comp. Elder Mccracken. After a good 20 seconds he showed up and we kept going. He seemed pretty mad and I was thinking whats wrong with this kid. Well it didnt all make sense to me until we showed up to the house and I saw that his whole back and side sere covered in dirt. haha. Apparently he hadnt actually seen the rope so while riding at full speed, right before he got to the rope he noticed it and he felt like his best choice was to put his bike down on its side..... haha he was not happy....

Other then that the week was pretty normal. Did I ever say I really like the bible. That book is tight. More the new testement. But I've been studying it for a while now... like 6 months, and I really like paul. That guy is quite the writer.

Anyways, I love you all and I hope you have a great week. Thanks for the letters and for all the love.

Peace, Love and she'll be coming around the corner when she comes.

Pretty dang good

So this week was pretty dang good. As far a investigators go. Well I can´t say that we had a ton of success. We did get 6 to go to church this week and 4 of them have bap. dates for next week. So we will see how that goes. I hope we can pullit off to have all 4 bap. Its gonna be hard but Itll be good. This week we went on thursday to Tij. We rented out a bus and took all the Elders up to Tij. It was sweet. Once we got there we had a meeting with Elder Walker of the 70. The guy is super white with blue eyes. and pretty tall. His wife is also super white and like 5 10 so I was thinking they werent going to be able to speak spanish very well. Turns out they are both from Argentina so they speak it perfectly... with an accent but its aight. The meeting went super well. the talks were very generel. Speaking about the holy ghost and obedience and bap. But they were good. I honestly was just trying to stay awake. But then on Saturday. We went back to Tij. this time just for a meeting with him and the ZLs It was super good. His wife talked about Cap. Moroni and the way he lead his troops. The reasons why he had so much success. It was a super inspirational talk as a leader. She talked about Moroni and who he looked out for not only the temporal well being but also the spritual well being of his soldiers and that he always trusted in the lord. Turning to Alma or the prophet at this time before he went to war. It was a very good talk. Her Husband Elder Walker talked about Alma and Amulek and how he didnt have success in the town of amoniha (something like that) until he went back for the second time with Amulek ( a less active member of the church) as a companion to help him out. When The preaching power of Alma and the friend base that Amulek had, they were able to actually have converts in that city. Anyways. The talks were all super good and the spirit was super strong.

     On the bus we got to watch battleship and the start of batman. Battleship is decent. alittle wierd but its not a bad mission movie. I thik today we are just going to go shopping, I want to buy stuff for when I go home, but its all super hevy so I think I will wait till I come back to get it all. That way we can cook beans in a clay pot and have a bowl to grind the salsa and yeah there is aton of mexican stuff we need to be honest. Basically there culture revolves around food. And well most people dont actually know how to make it but there are acouple that are super good at it though. And if you make it with the right stuff. It tastes amazing. Like drinking water out of clay pitchers (amazing) beans out of a clay pot (amazing) better then any crocpot, Anyways, they do alright with the food down here haha. Im learning alittle bit. Its honestly pretty easy to do it all, so we shouldnt have to many problems cooking it at home. Plus my comp from michigan lives up there and cooks way good mexican food so we will have him show us.

     But yeah, we will be doing alot of carne asada when I get home, some chiliquiles, huaraches, flautas, picadas, sopes, frijoles puercos, carnitas, siete mares, unas almejas o jaivas...... no manches bien sabroso todo. Itll be fun.

Oh hey sorry that last week I said that about my plane ticket. I didnt think youd take it serious. If we didnt fill that out they would just call you guys and get the info that way. They just needed the numbers to be able to talk to the stake pres to makade sure everything is alright for when I get home. That I still have a home and family and all that jazz. But anyways thatnks for geting it to them.

Anyways I hope You all know I love you all tons. As far as stuff for my B day. Just give it to me when I get back, It would be feckless to actuallly send me something and as far as christmas, Well I like skiing and camping, and women. So if it has something to do with the first 2 I think youll make good choices. Ill take care of the 3 one on my own.

Oh hey mom if you could sign up for my school that would be sweet. like 16 or 18 credit hours. Or basically what ever looks alright, I enjoyed only taking 12 last semester that was dope. Also Im guessing it will be important to go and talk to the scholarship office again, if you would so kindly do that for me. Hey Im still going to get FAFSA right? Like it would be cool if you guys just got super rich but I did really like my free cash. So just stay poor for awhile longer... till I get out of college.

Peace, and Love fam. and friends

Holy Tacos!

It was a pretty good movie thats what we watched for our zone activity today (pacific Rim) We set the projector up in the church and blacked out a room. Anyways it was fun. This week I went down to San quintin which is alwyas terrible. Basically it is a little town which is ran about the agriculture so basically everyone there works in the fields. Which makes them all look as if they were from the middle east because of their wrapped heads and covered up mouths. You can only see the tiniest slit in between the bandana on the mouth and there turbin to see there eyes. There is only 1 paved raod there and the pres. stopped sending english missionaries there because the all leave with typhoid fever. Anyways it was fun as always its like a 4 hour bus ride so we get to watch some movies. We watched the avengers and also madagascar 3. Well while I was down there they just gave us money for the lunch... the missionaries no longer eat with the members down there, because the member always cook things that are un eatable. But this time the member just siad he wanted to give us money well he gave us 30 bucks so we each ate aton. It was super fun. We had 10 tacos for lunch with a soda then after that we worked and went and bought aguas... de frutas y de cebada. mine was de cebada which may be against the word of wisdom but ill stay in my innocence and ignorance and keep drinking it. Usually its just roasted wheat but I really dont know what else they put in there. And in the night we ate another 20 tacos de adobada with 2 really hot salsas. after we started and the owner say we like salsa he brought us out habaneros to eat with the tacos... Haha, we were all crying. But they we super good. Loved em. The only bad part about those pepers is the they never stop burning, infact i think they burn more coming out then in. Well the tacos were super good. Its pork stips marinaded in chile and then put on a vertical scewer making a large top looking thing of straight meat and then a large shooting flam roast it as they cut it off onto a tortilla to give you some of the best tasting things you will ever have. I eat tacos at least 2 a week. And love them. Actually Saturday one of my best friends here in the mission who left like 5 months ago came back down.... And so I saw him for like 30 min in the night. and well haha we ate more tacos... what up. Ive heard that there is actually tacos close to temple square I will investigate later.

As far as investigators go. I would love to tell you tons of stories but basically its the same I teach them and then they say they will get baptized and go to church and well they never do. So.... the dont progress. What a bummer. But this sunday was sweet because we reactivated a less active family and we had all 9 of them in church and they took up an entire row in the sac. meeting it was super cool to think that God let me be the means for which they came back to his flock. Oh hey by the way I have no Idea about my flight info. Because when I sent you guys that email asking you to fill it out you never did and so well my ticket isnt bought yet. I just told them I had no idea any of that info and my fam doesnt love me and wouldnt help me. So they said they would just figure it out. But yeah.

Anyways. I love you all tons and am super happy your all alright I hope you have a great week. This week Im going to TJ thursday, Sat, and monday. So that will be fun. The part that wont be fun is I will be having a meeting with the 70 and am going to tell him that I didnt bap. this month and that my zone bap. 2. Thatll be fun to see his reaction. haha.ç

Peace, Love, and Well yeah

You guys can make it.

Alright. I know you all hate my letters but....... to bad its only for 2 more months... You guys can make it. So basically Im training a new ZL and a new Elder. so we are in a threesome. Anyways I think We will be back in like a couple hours to write again. So well I guess Ill write you guys in a couple minutes.

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Im back but Im still just going to write quick. This week went good. We didnt have any big success we found a couple new investigators and lost some old ones..... seems very familiar. But weve got 7 baptismal dates right now which is cool. They just need to go to church so they can progress.... which is not as easy as it sounds. Im glad the family is doing alright and that my brother crashed.... he needs to sometimes ;) love you bro. Im excited to go ski when I get home but I hope you know Im just going to take it calm... like I do with everything In life. So ive been thinking to actually sell my skis and just get me a pair of 90s under foot, so I can just go down the groomers and stuff like that........ Seems like a good idea right? Well see if I do it when I get home or not. But yeah. Life here is good. We have had a good week even though they feed us the same thing every day. Tacos dorados.... basically its what grams makes just that you fold it in half with meat inside. then you bake it to make it a hard shell. After that you put cheese and what ever you want on top. super good but super unhealthly. My comps are allright. The one from Idaho. He is a good guy. yeah he has like 2 weeks here in Mex. so he doesnt speak much spanish but he has a big heart... and the other one has a year here. He is from guatamala. Just to tell you I want to go to guatamala to hike some volcanoes and stuff like that. Its tight down there. And well Im not that fond of him you could say..... Hate is a strong word but I reallly really really dislike him. But yeah. Ill make it I figure how long could I be with him for..... 8 more weeks.... Ill make the final push.

We had interviews with the pres. this week. I always enjoy talkin to that man. Hes a super good guy. We talked about the zone, and my comps he says he put them both with me so I could train them both.... thank you pres, thats not cool. He says that here in the next couple of weeks he is going to take me to the temple... If he does we can just go to Sea world all day. He usually just takes the assistents so I must be on his semi good list. It would be cool if one day you guys meet him. His daughter is actually at BYU right now and is going to get married to the cusin of my comp in Michigan... Def. one of my best comps ever. The pres thanked me for the work Ive down and thanked, and just told me to give it my all on the way out... I plan to. We were supposed to have a meeting with the stake pres and the miss. pres this week and I spent a couple long hours slaving away with formats and excel doc. and numbers and graphs and stuff. It turned out alright. not my best but not my worst either. I like to do it so that numbers actually make sense and that the stake pres. takes action. Its fun because the pres always shows my reports in the leadership conferences and now the whole mission does something similar. When I showed up here the missioneres didnt think much for themselves they just kinda  did what the pres said and never tried to make something there own or better it. The pres thanked me for helping the mission change in that way. All in all the interview and everything went well. Im glad Ive had some sort of effect here in the mission because honestly my converts havnt gone so well. Almost all of them are inactive and it makes me sad to think, that because the wards didnt do anything after to help them out that the converts just kinda slipped away. My last two areas Ive been able to change the wards enough to help them make plans to keep the people active. Honestly its exhausting work to always be there doing what isnt my job. But Im not about to let all my converts slip away.

Anyways Im super glad that your alright. Its good to here there is a little snow there atleast. Im excited to see snow again.

Anyways I love you all tons I hope you have a great week. Be careful bro.

Peace, Love, and have fun while Im gone.

Conference

Alright..... This letter is not going to be all that great so I hope you dont kill me

   First things first. My comp is a good guy. He is from guatemala and well we get along well. He works hard and all that so Ill have no prob. with him. Today we played soccer as a Z activity and invited the other zone. We played hard and won alot of the games. But wow does my body hurt. I wish I was in shape again..... But i guess my time will come. He if z is buying all this AT gear who is he going to go with? Ive got cash but Im not rich haha. But really what cash Ive got, well buy what you can with it if you need to so that my bro has got a partner in the snow. otherwise he will die in the avi. This week was good, Elder leir is a good kid. Super smart, went to U of Chicago. I costs 60,000 the year there.... thank goodness Im not that smart. We put acouple bap. date this week, but seeing as the conf. was super far away it was basically imposible to get inv. to go and well. We now have nothing. No one went... so that was super lame. I really enjoyed the conf. and actually watched apart in english which was nice.  dont have any problems with spanish but you dont actually here the voice of the prophets so I really did enjoy the english part I watch. Then again Elder Perry records his in spanish so thats pretty cool and a couple of the other Spanish people that talked did the same. But yeah it was super good. I really enjoyed how it was super centered in the family and also in missionary work. I enjoyed it aton. Its cool cuz after conference, time seems to go by super fast. and well seeing as I dont have much of it. It is going by even faster. This month is jam packed. Right now actually my letter is super bad cuz I still need to cut my hair, bath and get on a bus to got to TJ before the night is through. So yeah. Sorry. We do have a couple people that are cool that we are teaching right now. But as far as someone that is progressing super well. We really dont have anyone. So Ill keep working on that one.

Oh yeah, Mom youd be super jelous we ate super good this week. We aight Clam and Shrimp coctail..... Super good and super raw. Actually we slit open there shells and took out the clams and then through them in with some Shrimps.... which are actually boiled and some shrimp water, alittle bit of pico de gallo aton of ketchup and aton of chilis and boom.... super good. Oh yeah then we got out the oisters.... super ugly but we slit open the shells cut the oister free. leaving it in the shell then would drench it in lime and chili. throw back the head and let it all slide off the shell and into your mouth... it feels about like raw egg but it tastes really good. One day when we are on the beach we can do.

Hey I thought I sent this one monday.... sorry about that here it is half finished