you know the song when semptember ends..... ya well semptember is ending. thats weird. i only have three months left......................
so this week was pretty crzy. hahah we had like two days that we walked atound all day long and teh only house we got into wsa the food. i also fell into a river this week. hahahahaha hahhaha there is the river that just like crosses the road like no big deal, and we had to cross it and so as i jog across the river thats like ancle deep, my notebook falls in and upon crossing the river my comp tells me about my fallen notebook, i drop my jbackpack adn go to the notebooks rescue and step in the river and instead of a bottom firm my leg dropped till like till my thigh. hhahahaha ya. that was pretty nuts. had to take my shoes off and wash tehm out and i walked around for the next two hours with dirty wet sheos and socks and pants. hahahahahahaha
success´ well... we found a couple new less active families thats always exciting for well at least me. haha one is a mother daughter and then they stood us up when we traveled 30 + mins out to visit them, the crappy thing is that even though they stood us up, we couldnt keep workin out there cause the last bus back to texcoco passes at like 730. the other family is an entire family i think that got baptised and as we talked they mentioned idk what adn she took us out to the work shop they have in the back yard that was like a pottery- wood working- paper mache workshop they even have some sort of pottery wheel............................................ i was pretty stoked. i hope to help them come back. the mom was pretty tough and the father lives in like another state now for his work...... but they have an 18 year old son. who was like ya i want to come back to church. but he´s in some intensive high school agricultural program that takes the classes to travel like every week end.................. so he cant come to church for like 2 solid weeks. but he was cool.
idk. what else really happened this week. im always tired.. ahhahaha my companions name is elder choc he´s from yucatan hes cool.
lots of the poeople in the pueblos mom go to the city to work, or there are a lot of farms, tons of people here are teachers cause theres a bunch of high schools and like two or three universities.
i asked dad but if mom can do it that´d be nice too, can you send me the lemon bar recipe adn the quiche recipe, i was talkign with a sister with holiday traditions adn she wants to try adnd make it. and i think it´ll be fun. hahaha.
idk
love you guys tons!
Elder Blotter
Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Week 87
awww we lost to ucla? they used to be horrible when i was home are they better now or is byu playing lousy?
we only have two inv. i think. one is cool and everything but she runs like a lumber store- carpintry place- and by like runs i mean she owns the business..... and she`s getting divorced, but she`s cool and her secretary is a member of the church a 19 year old girl thats putting her papers in for the mission. but the member hasnt reallized yet, i think she will when she getson her mission that we would like to visit morethan once a week and weneed her to come to church. the memebrs like she`s super busy and cant see you tpdya but you guys can come by on.... well next wednesday......... guh........ she`,ll learn pretty fast once she`s on her mission.
and the other one is some dude thats costarican, he was a contact and its a slow process with him we`ve not been in his house yet and he also only has us come by every thursday afternoon. ugh. we teach him outside standing up in the sun.... i was sweating hard last time. hahaha but i felt the spirit testify sooo thats all good.
we had found/visited two less actives- or recent converts whose husbands aren`t members both said they`d bring their husbands and we`d see them at church on sunday.... that was saturday..... on sunday they both cancelled on church. ugh.......
but some lady had invited 4 of her friends to church and they live in my area and we put an appt. to visit them and we chatted with them for a minute inbetween classes, gave them books of mormons and restauration pamphlets. so we`ve got hope in those guys.
the one hard thing about openin an area, and not having a washing machine..... is that you dont know the members well enough to ask to borrow theirs,.... so i havent washed my clothes in like two weeks. my garment bottoms i wash by hadn in the wash basin sink thing thatevery mexican home has, i dont know how in the world i ended up with 20 garment shirts, and only 7 bottoms........ and i have quite a few shirts so i havent been missing clean clothes its just piling up in my dirty clothes bag..... hahahaha
i know my area pretty miuch now, i can get around adn im never lost, and i can find people from the ward list. so thats improvement. it helps here that in pueblos everyone knows everyone and you ask for the person and tehy tell you were they live........... hahahaha but im excited to hopefully help some less actigves get active.
idk what else do you want to hear about?
sorry about not sending photos, haveent taken a ton and teh internets not that trustworthy to plug in my memory card............ ill see about in future weeks.
Elder Blotter
we only have two inv. i think. one is cool and everything but she runs like a lumber store- carpintry place- and by like runs i mean she owns the business..... and she`s getting divorced, but she`s cool and her secretary is a member of the church a 19 year old girl thats putting her papers in for the mission. but the member hasnt reallized yet, i think she will when she getson her mission that we would like to visit morethan once a week and weneed her to come to church. the memebrs like she`s super busy and cant see you tpdya but you guys can come by on.... well next wednesday......... guh........ she`,ll learn pretty fast once she`s on her mission.
and the other one is some dude thats costarican, he was a contact and its a slow process with him we`ve not been in his house yet and he also only has us come by every thursday afternoon. ugh. we teach him outside standing up in the sun.... i was sweating hard last time. hahaha but i felt the spirit testify sooo thats all good.
we had found/visited two less actives- or recent converts whose husbands aren`t members both said they`d bring their husbands and we`d see them at church on sunday.... that was saturday..... on sunday they both cancelled on church. ugh.......
but some lady had invited 4 of her friends to church and they live in my area and we put an appt. to visit them and we chatted with them for a minute inbetween classes, gave them books of mormons and restauration pamphlets. so we`ve got hope in those guys.
the one hard thing about openin an area, and not having a washing machine..... is that you dont know the members well enough to ask to borrow theirs,.... so i havent washed my clothes in like two weeks. my garment bottoms i wash by hadn in the wash basin sink thing thatevery mexican home has, i dont know how in the world i ended up with 20 garment shirts, and only 7 bottoms........ and i have quite a few shirts so i havent been missing clean clothes its just piling up in my dirty clothes bag..... hahahaha
i know my area pretty miuch now, i can get around adn im never lost, and i can find people from the ward list. so thats improvement. it helps here that in pueblos everyone knows everyone and you ask for the person and tehy tell you were they live........... hahahaha but im excited to hopefully help some less actigves get active.
idk what else do you want to hear about?
sorry about not sending photos, haveent taken a ton and teh internets not that trustworthy to plug in my memory card............ ill see about in future weeks.
Elder Blotter
Monday, September 14, 2015
Week 86
So.. this week was well, numbers wise it sucked hahaha we had like 15 lessons and there were all practically with active members of the church or like an activity at the church, But i really enjoyed myself. hahaha
first we got to know like all of the pueblos, and by all i mean like 4 of them hahaha there are like 10. but still huge progress. but we´d go to a pueblo in the morning and then contact for like 3 hours and walk around then go to the food, then well...... if we ate in the center we´d go to a different pueblo and contact for like the afternoon. hahahaha feel like i got a mission change to like the united states of america, all we´ve been doing is contacting.
hahaha but my area is straight gorgeous. literally it´s what like you´d think of when you pciutre mexico cobble stone streets like old colonial style houses big town squares trees lots of dogs and horses nad donkeys
not a lot happened in the are with inv. which isnt so fun, we taught our chosen inv. and met her husband taught him and then on saturday stood us up and pretty much dropped us. telling us she´d call us when we could visit her................ dang. but we found another woman who is the boss of some member of the church in a branch in this stake she´s already reading the book of mormon and has had answers to prayers she´s been fasting i think for the last three months too..... hahaha but she´s going through a divorce process and is super stressed and busy, AND no one could-inv- go to church cause th etemple rededication.
Well we went to the cultural thingy, well at least to the broadcast fo it. it was really good just sometimes it made me uncomfortable. like culty. but it was good non the less. pretty dancing a good message, smiling people. overall very good.
Then on sunday we decided why not go and listen to all the sessions i dont want to miss out on the prophets words, president eyring and elder holland kent f richards the presidency or the area. all gave wonderful wonderful talks. hollands talks killed it, he talked about the temple buildign commandment, that it litterally came sooo soon after thechurch was established, and then they lost that temple adn started building the navuoo temple announced other temples over there and lost those too..... then after crossign the plains 4 days after arriving announced the construction of the new temple. holland supposes there were people who said ya enough we tried and now we´re tired. and brigham young says something awesome. he says ive been asked already if i think we´ll finish this temple, the answer is i do not know, nor do i care. the only thing that matters is how is our standing with god, today.
he also talked about elijah and jews and the promises really really really great.
And we kind of got shafted here, with a stake thingy, gave us little less than a great oppurtunities to get to know members and ask for help and make appointments with them......
but the work will continue.
love you tons! sounds like you guys had a blast in north carolina and stuff like that. hahaha idk.
Elder Blotter
first we got to know like all of the pueblos, and by all i mean like 4 of them hahaha there are like 10. but still huge progress. but we´d go to a pueblo in the morning and then contact for like 3 hours and walk around then go to the food, then well...... if we ate in the center we´d go to a different pueblo and contact for like the afternoon. hahahaha feel like i got a mission change to like the united states of america, all we´ve been doing is contacting.
hahaha but my area is straight gorgeous. literally it´s what like you´d think of when you pciutre mexico cobble stone streets like old colonial style houses big town squares trees lots of dogs and horses nad donkeys
not a lot happened in the are with inv. which isnt so fun, we taught our chosen inv. and met her husband taught him and then on saturday stood us up and pretty much dropped us. telling us she´d call us when we could visit her................ dang. but we found another woman who is the boss of some member of the church in a branch in this stake she´s already reading the book of mormon and has had answers to prayers she´s been fasting i think for the last three months too..... hahaha but she´s going through a divorce process and is super stressed and busy, AND no one could-inv- go to church cause th etemple rededication.
Well we went to the cultural thingy, well at least to the broadcast fo it. it was really good just sometimes it made me uncomfortable. like culty. but it was good non the less. pretty dancing a good message, smiling people. overall very good.
Then on sunday we decided why not go and listen to all the sessions i dont want to miss out on the prophets words, president eyring and elder holland kent f richards the presidency or the area. all gave wonderful wonderful talks. hollands talks killed it, he talked about the temple buildign commandment, that it litterally came sooo soon after thechurch was established, and then they lost that temple adn started building the navuoo temple announced other temples over there and lost those too..... then after crossign the plains 4 days after arriving announced the construction of the new temple. holland supposes there were people who said ya enough we tried and now we´re tired. and brigham young says something awesome. he says ive been asked already if i think we´ll finish this temple, the answer is i do not know, nor do i care. the only thing that matters is how is our standing with god, today.
he also talked about elijah and jews and the promises really really really great.
And we kind of got shafted here, with a stake thingy, gave us little less than a great oppurtunities to get to know members and ask for help and make appointments with them......
but the work will continue.
love you tons! sounds like you guys had a blast in north carolina and stuff like that. hahaha idk.
Elder Blotter
Monday, September 7, 2015
Week 85
so last week..... hahahahaha i totally have it written in my journal but i dont have the luxury anymore to just pause and go check my journal and i forgot my journal............
what i do remember is that we went ot the temple open house twice once the guide didnt share anything and i didnt like her tour at allllll then when we came back to the temple our guide was a champ. literally i walked up to her afterwards and thanked her for her tour cause she did such a good job at focusing on teaching and sharing to the inv simple truths that the temple teaches. loved it.
then at church i said bye to everyone. i got to that ward and it was the worst ward in all of oriental. like everyone in the mission is like eww leandro valle. but by the time i left i think its likke really the best ward ive been in. not like any problems with gossip members that were actually visiting and helping and people who were coming back to activity and i dont know i really grew to love the ward, BUT now im here.
now im in texcoco 2 sooooo super different.
first off i dont have the pics. but pres´family had come to visit him like the week or so before teh changes, and brought a bunch of ties. pres got the ugliest tie he could find and wore it to the changes meeting. hahah so i mentioned it to him and he made me take a pic with him, but the sister has it.
changes were weird cause from like the position of behind the desk to normal missionary. i found my new comp then got the little van loaded. for the two wards chapingo and texcoco had changes they brought one member with a mini van. so copming was two people who had changes and their comps, so four elders....... on the way back we were 4 elders with bags to bring and to other elders........... it was a little crazy to pack everything up....
we gety to our area and one of the elders, well the only one who was in the ward from before is like....... ummm the house is a little dirty and we got kicked out this morning...........
ya. again show up to a house and have to deep clean it........ oh so i hate cleaning the messes of other humans..... 13 large bags of trash.
anyways that was tuesday cleaning and then had to go try and find a hosue..... didnt really have any luck.
then wednesday we went to go find a house. we found it and moved half of our things in, and continued to clean the old house.
thursday continuing to clean and we dont get help from anyone to move the house till litterally 830 a member shows up to the hosue wiht their truck to help us move the beds and the fridges to the new house..... it was kind of a nightmare........
but now thats over. friday we start to go find people to visit. evveryone we called pretty much was like ya we´ll see each other on sunday we can put an appt. then..... ya that was kind of annoying. we called pretty much all the phone numbers that were in the ward list. most names or families dont have numbers but still something ive never done before...hahaha
idk spent a lot of time like ummmmm what are we supposed to do now?
we got a fone call from some member in a different state who wanted us to go teach his cousin. which we did. she´s super cool her name is diana she has three kids. and she really wants to change and be a better example to her family.
saturday the ward had an activity to go to the temple open house the last day it was open, diana came with her her two sons, ones like 13 and the others like 2 it was super cool love the temple.
but she didnt come to church on sunday........ :c thats always sad. we´ll see what we can do about that this week.
i have hope this week is going to be good, we have someone who is scheduled to help us like everyday pretty much to help take us around to pueblos in places in our area. im really kinda stoked to work here in this area, its just semi overwhelming sometimes.
love you guys tons. have a great week.
some member gave me some rain boots, cause of how much it rains here.... haha
i have pics but im not so sure about the computers so.... ill send them to you next week or something.
Elder Blotter
what i do remember is that we went ot the temple open house twice once the guide didnt share anything and i didnt like her tour at allllll then when we came back to the temple our guide was a champ. literally i walked up to her afterwards and thanked her for her tour cause she did such a good job at focusing on teaching and sharing to the inv simple truths that the temple teaches. loved it.
then at church i said bye to everyone. i got to that ward and it was the worst ward in all of oriental. like everyone in the mission is like eww leandro valle. but by the time i left i think its likke really the best ward ive been in. not like any problems with gossip members that were actually visiting and helping and people who were coming back to activity and i dont know i really grew to love the ward, BUT now im here.
now im in texcoco 2 sooooo super different.
first off i dont have the pics. but pres´family had come to visit him like the week or so before teh changes, and brought a bunch of ties. pres got the ugliest tie he could find and wore it to the changes meeting. hahah so i mentioned it to him and he made me take a pic with him, but the sister has it.
changes were weird cause from like the position of behind the desk to normal missionary. i found my new comp then got the little van loaded. for the two wards chapingo and texcoco had changes they brought one member with a mini van. so copming was two people who had changes and their comps, so four elders....... on the way back we were 4 elders with bags to bring and to other elders........... it was a little crazy to pack everything up....
we gety to our area and one of the elders, well the only one who was in the ward from before is like....... ummm the house is a little dirty and we got kicked out this morning...........
ya. again show up to a house and have to deep clean it........ oh so i hate cleaning the messes of other humans..... 13 large bags of trash.
anyways that was tuesday cleaning and then had to go try and find a hosue..... didnt really have any luck.
then wednesday we went to go find a house. we found it and moved half of our things in, and continued to clean the old house.
thursday continuing to clean and we dont get help from anyone to move the house till litterally 830 a member shows up to the hosue wiht their truck to help us move the beds and the fridges to the new house..... it was kind of a nightmare........
but now thats over. friday we start to go find people to visit. evveryone we called pretty much was like ya we´ll see each other on sunday we can put an appt. then..... ya that was kind of annoying. we called pretty much all the phone numbers that were in the ward list. most names or families dont have numbers but still something ive never done before...hahaha
idk spent a lot of time like ummmmm what are we supposed to do now?
we got a fone call from some member in a different state who wanted us to go teach his cousin. which we did. she´s super cool her name is diana she has three kids. and she really wants to change and be a better example to her family.
saturday the ward had an activity to go to the temple open house the last day it was open, diana came with her her two sons, ones like 13 and the others like 2 it was super cool love the temple.
but she didnt come to church on sunday........ :c thats always sad. we´ll see what we can do about that this week.
i have hope this week is going to be good, we have someone who is scheduled to help us like everyday pretty much to help take us around to pueblos in places in our area. im really kinda stoked to work here in this area, its just semi overwhelming sometimes.
love you guys tons. have a great week.
some member gave me some rain boots, cause of how much it rains here.... haha
i have pics but im not so sure about the computers so.... ill send them to you next week or something.
Elder Blotter
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Week 84
Hey family.
soooo sorry about the email sooo late, today is just crazy for us like way busy... all the news are here and i have like zero time to write you...... and right now theyre playing the guitar super loud behind me...........
i wrote everything in my journal. so ill write you next week about what happened this week? we had a meeting on tuesday that took all day but the night appt. wednesday we had d todd christofferson come thursday we had to go to polanco came back for the night appt. then saturday we went to the temple and baptised and went to the temple again.
crazy busy week all hard work. a little sad to leave here, and a little stoked.
love you guys tons
Elder Blotter
pics with dtodd christofferson:
This is elder brown. jewel married bj so jewel and bj are in both of our family fotos. hahahahah bj is his cousin.
thats pretty funny no? ive met a different elder that also had the knights family in their family fotos.
soooo sorry about the email sooo late, today is just crazy for us like way busy... all the news are here and i have like zero time to write you...... and right now theyre playing the guitar super loud behind me...........
i wrote everything in my journal. so ill write you next week about what happened this week? we had a meeting on tuesday that took all day but the night appt. wednesday we had d todd christofferson come thursday we had to go to polanco came back for the night appt. then saturday we went to the temple and baptised and went to the temple again.
crazy busy week all hard work. a little sad to leave here, and a little stoked.
love you guys tons
Elder Blotter
pics with dtodd christofferson:
This is elder brown. jewel married bj so jewel and bj are in both of our family fotos. hahahahah bj is his cousin.
thats pretty funny no? ive met a different elder that also had the knights family in their family fotos.
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