Week 65 (Nov. 17, 2014)

Familia,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KADEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you had a wonderful day!!

All is going super well down here. We had another great week. This Tuesday we had a zone conference with President. It was nice to have him come back and help us a little. We talked a lot about contacting and we pretty much practiced for about half the time. He also helped us improve our teaching of lesson 1, the restoration. We literally practiced for half an hour teaching. It was really cool though. My companion and I are teaching very well together. He is super cool. The transfers are coming this week and it is like the only time that I haven’t wanted to transfer. But oh well. I just realized that I really miss the food back home. We have a cool eternal investigator that invites us to eat every Saturday and Sunday night. He has a fun little game called, Give as much food to the missionaries as possible, it sounds like a fun game right? NOT hahaha he is a really good guy but I always leave sick from his house haha. I am really going to miss this area.

This week we have continued working with David’s family. They are super cool. They are progressing very nicely and love the things that we are teaching them. They love to have us in their home. I am sad because I probably won’t be here in this area when they all get baptized, but I hope they can get there one day. David went to a YSA activity this week and is loving it! He has a desire to go on a mission. I am a proud papa!!! hahaha. We are also working with another big family, they are progressing a little bit slower but are still very great people. 

Yes we did paint our wall, the only problem is that the mold grew back haha. So we are going to try something different and hope that works better. hahah The house does look a little better though. :)

That was my week. Love you all a ton!

Elder

 

Week 64 (Nov. 10, 2014)

He kinda looks like he is in Prison!! (but smiling)

Family,

Another Happy Week!!!

This week was another normalish week. We contacted so many people this week! And we found 2 new families. One of them is a street salesman that we found one night helping him cross a muddy street. So we went to his house and found him and like 5 teenagers that work with him. We started teaching them on Monday and returned to teach them another lesson on Wednesday. When we taught the second time we asked them if they wanted to get baptized and they said yes, the only problem is that they are planning on moving to another house and so they might not be here for too long. 

We have also been working hard with David’s family. David is the young man that we baptized last week. He is so excited about all that is happening in the church. Right now we are getting him ready because he wants to go on a mission as well!!! He is a super special convert. We are also working with his family because they are all pretty excited as well! We are working hard with David’s sister because he said that she wants to be baptized as well. Sorry today is going to be a little short as well. Really nothing new happened, just working like normal. 

The APs came this week and studied with us. It was kind of cool. We also found mold growing on our wall thanks to all the humidity and rain down here. But ya today we cleaned it off and we are going to paint our house this week. 

That’s the what’s up from here in Mexico. Hope you all have a wonderful week!!!

Hunter

Week 63 (Nov. 3, 2014)

Family,
I just want to you to know that I am super jealous of your Vegas trip. Yes mom that little village part in Vegas is probably exactly the same as it is down here.

This was a very good week. First off WE HAD A BAPTISM! David. He was a golden investigators. Ever since we met him he wanted to know more about the church. We had his baptism planned for the next week, but while we were in a lesson with him, one of the members reminded us that the Ward temple trip was next week and that if we baptized him that week not many people would be able to go. So the member commented, ´´Just do it this week.´´ David was excited and accepted. So we went with the member that same day to do the interview. Also Davids family showed up to his baptism. So after we talked to them. They were very excited. They also came to church that Sunday. We were able to talk to them, the dad said that he has a few promises he has to keep with another church but in January he will finish them. They want to be baptized as well. We are going to work on getting the rest of his family baptized before January though. They are a very special family.

 

 

Also this week we went to do contacting in the cemetery for day of the dead. } We really didn't have to much luck there because it is a very small cemetery and well not many people showed up. With a few we were able to show a video and explain the plan of salvation with them. The only problem is that they live in barrankas and I don't know what area that is a part of. We did fight with a die hard catholic family though haha. We stayed there for a few hours but then left to get ready for the baptism.
That was our week. We are still working with a few other investigators that are progressing very well. We hope to have another 2 baptismal dates by the end of this week.

Also this week a missionary came home in the other ward. We were here with the other elders when she showed up. it was cool to see a missionary return but it was also weird because I started to think about what I is going to be like when I get home. 

 

That was our week. I love you all a ton!!!

Week 62 (October 27, 2014)

Family,

This week was SUPER good!!! It has been raining a ton down here!!! A tropical storm passed through this week and drenched us haha. Also another young man opened his mission call this week! It is so cool to see the youth down here open up their calls.

We had a super good week this week. We actually had some very special experiences. Like we had planned we were able to put a date with Minerva. After a little bit of time and a lot of patients, we were able to help her overcome her doubts and finally put a date. 15 Nov.

Sunday one of our new investigators came to church. David. We were also able to pull him aside and teach him a lesson. We started teaching him Lesson 3. We left him with homework to read 3 Nephi 11 when we asked him about it he started explaining in depth the chapter. He got to the part where he said Nephi was called forth and given the power to baptize. Our investigator really liked that part. So we decided to talk more about the baptism. Long story short he really enjoyed the lesson and when we asked him to be baptized he got really excited and said yes.  We now have him set for the 8th of November. 

This week in our companion practices we focused our efforts on trying to solve a problem that one of our investigators is having. Edwin is a young man that has been assisting the church for about 1 year now, but hasn’t yet been baptized. He never wanted to tell us why either. So we decided to focus on him this week in our studies and practices. Yesterday we were able to pull him aside after church and talk with him.  We started by teaching him about baptism and after a while of talking with him we started asking him all kinds of questions. We started using what we learned in the District class about helping them with their doubts. We were able to have a wonderful lesson with him. Using many instances from the life of Jesus Christ. It was a very spiritual lesson. I am so thankful for the time we took to focus on him this week. We still don’t have a date but WE KNOW that he will have the desire to be baptized. He told us that no other missionary has explained to him baptism like that and was very thankful.

I feel really blessed this week for all that has happened. I know that the Lord helps us as long as we do the things he or his servants ask. We hope to have Edwins baptism date this week

I added some photos with Edwin in here. And also some other youth from the ward. Things are going so well down here. 

The other photo is a huge fruit that some member bought down here. Ha-ha It was so big!

Talk to you next week

Week 61 (October 20, 2015)

Family,
First off I would just like to state that my gun was found present in Zacks photo therefore I claim part of the luck Zack used to get that deer! hahaha CONGRATS ZACKY!!!!!!! I am super proud to be the big brother of such a stealthful killer. I don’t doubt his skill with all the neighbors birds dead thanks to their practicing in the back yard hahah ;)
This was a terrible week haha. We could not find a soul in their house this week. And to make everything better a cold front swept in this week leaving us soaking wet everyday hahaha. So much walking that I now have another ingrown toenail ugh!!!!!! But hey next week will be better :)
My new companion is great! He is a new elder that is here in his 2nd area. I am his first American companion. We get along so well!!! He is another Mexican elder. “Mexican elders left and 2 more came hahaha so we are in the same situation again.
My favorite part about this transfer is that this new elder has the new missionary spark! He is very excited to work, that has helped me a lot!!  We have been working a lot with the inactives this week. We were able to find a whole bunch of new people to teach. I like working with the less actives because at one point in their lives they have felt the spirit and it is super cool to help them feel the spirit once again. So this week we focused on helping the less active. We hope to have a better week this week.

Take care! I love you all a ton.
Elder Hunter