tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9625647261808883082024-02-02T12:05:10.146-08:00Elder Bryton LiljenquistCalled to serve in the Mexico, Villahermosa Mission.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How was the 4th of July?? Well here most people have no idea about what tha date even is! Haha so there was not much that happend here! But it was a good week this past week! We are really trying to get this area up and running again! We need more investigators! But we have been doing our best working through the ward members and trying to find some more less active members who have family who are not members of the church! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our mission and our President has been really focusing on the way that we contact and making sure that we have 2 contacts that turn into new investigators daily! So my comp and I who do not have much experience in contacting have been putting goals so that we can make this happen each week! So we have not done any corner of the street contacting but we have been doing our best in between appointments to find people that maybe are like cleaning or doing something that in some way or another we can help them get introduced to the gospel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a pretty disappointing Sunday!! We did have our investigators in church! it was pretty upsetting! When you try so hard all week so that they will go and they don't show up!! haha something that will never be easy to handle! Only imagine how Heavenly Father feels when they don't go! haha. But it was a really good fast Sunday! I bore my testimony and talked about the power of fasting! I shared with them that I really did not understand fasting before my mission. Really and sadly the first time that I think I truly had fasted for something was here in the mission! But I have come to love fasting. It helps me focus on the things that I am doing and really helps me see that the Lord is in control, it helps me to be a little bit more humbled each time that I do it. As hard as it is walking around in this dang hot weather and not being able to eat or drink it is something that it is really important to our Heavenly Father and I know that through the power of a true monthly fast we can be that much closer to our Heavenly Father!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well for the 4th of July here we were not just gonna let it pass us by, we set up a soccer game with some of the members and had them bring some investigators if they could play and we could get to know them. But us 3 Americans against 3 Mexicans haha pretty much representing the Country! Don't worry haha I have gotten pretty good haha!! It was tough but we did come out on top! haha! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love all of you guys! I am having the best time here right now! The ward it great and the area is awesome! The Zone is doing really well as well as our district! I hope that you all had a good weekend! haha all we could talk about here was the things that our families do on the 4th! haha made us all home sick a little! But everything is good here! Love you guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How is everyone doing? Man it was a good week this past week! But it was a burner!!! It was a really hot week! We are all nice and farmer tanned up! haha but the work was really good this past week!. We had our baptism on Saturday! It went really good! Aaron was really happy and really excited! And his dad was really happy and nervous when he did the baptism, but all in all it went really good! I have felt really grateful for the success that we have been seeing here in our area and the success that I have seen in my past areas, There is just something that that tells me that I can do more! I feel like I need to talk to every single person that I see! And this week its now my goal to take every opportunity that I get to help someone new understand how the Gospel has been restored here in the earth again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week and especially today and I'm not sure why but I have just felt really grateful to be here and to be a missionary to be able to represent our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. We have been working really well this past week. We started to go through our area book and look at ou rinvestigators that we have progressing and the next ones that are preparing for baptism. After cleaing up some of the old investigators that were not progressing really well we ended up with 3 or 4 progressing investigators and that can be ready to make baptismal covenants. But we need more! We have been working alot with Paulina whos aunt is in active and we are still waiting for her to come to church with us! We have been visiting then like 3 or 4 times a week, but we need to be able to see them in church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a really good conference with our mission President on Saturday also. He talked a lot about how important it is that we contact each and everyday. He put a goal with us that we have 14 new investigators each day! At the end of the conference we watched a video of when the Prophet announced The Work of Salvation last year. It was really cool, I saw faces there in the MTC that I recognized and to hear that we are a part of the most important work that there is made me feel really blessed to be here right now. I hope you all know that I love you so much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well it was another great week here in Coatza! The people and the ward here are great! We have been trying to get this ward that we have here turned around and working again! We have people with a lot of experience here in this ward. I guess that it was the first ward established here in Coatza. So there are a lot of members but there are a lot of less actives that have not been to church in years! We have been teaching a lot of less actives in this past week! But it has also helped us find new invesatigators to begin teaching. Through the less actives in the ward they usually have members of he family that are not members of the church yet. SO this past week we found some new investigators and helped lots of less actives get back and goin again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have been workin a lot with a family whose dad was just baptized. His son Aaron is 14 and we have been working with him alot this past week and he is preparing to be baptized for this Saturday! He is really excited! The only little problem is that his mom is what they call here Catholic to the bone, haha so she was kind of against it at first but seeing the change that it had in her husband she decided to let her son be baptized! We are really excited for them! The mom is a really nice lady but haha you can </span>definitely<span style="font-family: inherit;"> see who wears the pants in the family because she makes all of the decisions! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have also been working with an other part family investigator Paulina, her aunt is taking care of her because her mom passed away and her Dad left her. Her aunt is a member but is less active, so we are trying to reactivate the aunt so we can baptise Paulina. She is a really nice girl, shes 14. Her story is really sad, We want to be able to help her so bad but we have to get the aunt back and active in the Church so that she will be able to go every Sunday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week a family got here from Nicaragua, they say that there are making there way up to the United States. But on there way they things got robbed and now they are left with nothing. They got here claming that they were members of the church, so the ward started to help them while they were trying to figure out if they were members or not. We got a call from the Stake President and he wanted us to go and meet them and ask them some questions and see if we felt like they were members of the church or only looking for money. So we went to get to know them a little and from what the mom had said to us we know for a fact that she is not a member of the church. We kept asking and asking questions and finally she came out and said that she was not a member of the Church but her son was. We met the son and started talking to him about some things and he seems like he knows what he ius talking about. The Stake got back to us and said that they had called the stake president there and he told them that they are not members of the church. So as of now we have been told to teach them and helo them in the ways that we can. They both seem really willing to be baptized we just need to be careful and make sure it is for the right reasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a ward party for fathers day this past week, it was way fun! They asked me to lead it! It was reallly funny! Made me miss my family a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today for P day we went to the beach and then we went to a all you can eat seafood restaurant!! and it just so happend that the owner of the place was a memeber of the church and let us eat for free!!! We were all so pumped!! haha it was going to be soo expensive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything here is going so good! Miss you all so much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well it was a really good first week here
in Coatza! The area here in beautiful and like 2 minutes from the
beach! I can see the ocean in all parts of my area! haha makes it hard
to remember that I cant go there!! haha its alright though. But we have
had a really good week just getting to know the members and all of the
investigators that are here in this area! My comp is Elder Gonzales from
Mexico, he is a really cool kid and we have been getting along pretty
good! He has around 13 months in the mission. We share the house that we
live in with 2 other Elders from Utah. Elder Jeppson and Elder Layton.
Haha they are Hilarious!! We have been messing with each other
every single night of the week! haha it has been a good time and only the
first week here. Some crazy things have happened to me this past week,
well we live in a house with 2 rooms and we all have to sleep in one
room and in the other we have all of our study things, but one night I
woke up and started feeling my lip and it felt like I had a dang golf
ball in my lip!! I don't know what happened but something must have bit me
or maybe something I ate! Who knows what happened but its all gone now!
haha! And the other night our neighbors that are crazy started hitting us
with water balloons when we got home from working! haha so we ran into
our apartment and can out with buckets of water and started fighting
back! haha it was way fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't worry we did some working too! haha when I got
here there wasn't much and there was not any baptismal dates but this
past week we were able to work with some of the recent converts and find
family members that are not member and we started to teach them. One of
them is Arron, he is 15 and his dad was just baptized and he told us
this past week that he wants to be baptized! so we put a date with him
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is 13 and her aunt is a member but less active! so we are working on
getting her aunt back to church and Paulina says that she wants to be
baptized also! It was really cool. She has loved the church but its
really sad that her aunt wont take her, but we brought her a Book of
Mormon the other day and we made her close her eyes before giving it to
her and she got really happy and excited when we gave it to her!
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it was another pretty good week here in Grijalva, and it was my last! Today I have transfers! There sending me to the other end of the mission in Coatzacoalcos Veracruz. I did not see that one coming at all! I thought for sure that they were going to leave me there for a little bit longer! I feel like I just got there. But I guess that the Lord needs me somewhere else! My new comp will be Elder Gonzales. This area was great! When I first got here it was really struggling, and they had not had a baptism for almost a year! We were able to get the area back up and going again and have some baptisms!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That night around 6 I got a call telling me that I had transfers! so I went around and said bye to everyone and we went back to the house and I started packing my things. Around 9 I got a call from a family that has been pretty close to me ever since I got here. Haha they saw me in my Sunday shoes which I had brought from my house and now are completely trashed! But they're the only shoes that I can wear with my suit, and they had called to ask me what shoe size I was because they had gone out to buy me a new pair of shoes! Haha So they came over to my house like at 10 at night and took some pictures with me and drop me off a brand new pair of Sunday shoes! They are the best family! I love them so much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Packing my stuff wasn't too bad, I left my little suitcase there actually and just took the medium and the big suit case. Slowly leaving stuff behind that I just don't use or that just doesn't work anymore! I left my first pair of shoes haha they lasted me 17 months! Everything is good here! coming up on 18 months in the mission! It has gone by soo fast! I don't know how it has flown by! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it was another good week! The weather here has been out of control! We have had lots of heat and pouring rain all week! haha but all in all it was a good week! My comp Elder Chajon has been suffering with a lot of back pain this past week and feeling like he is going to throw up! So we have been trying to help the best that we can. Wednesday he could not get up from his bed from the pain that he has in his back! So we called the President and he sent us to the hospital. We got some test don't on his back and they said that he has a bladder infection! and that he might get kidney stones! Freak! He has been dying in pain all week! I feel really bad for him! So they gave him some meds and told him to take it easy! But the medicine has not been doing much for him and he has gotten kind of depresed about the situation! I have been trying to help him out the best that I can! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have had a kind slow week for the same reason, his back pain doesn't let him walk very much before it starts to bother him. But we were able to get some things done! We have our 3 investigators that are progressing pretty well! Laura has her baptismal date for the 21st of June. She is doing good, we just need to her to get rid of her boyfriend that is living in the same house with her and then she will be ready for baptism. Jorge has a baptismal date for the 14th of June. He is doing pretty good, we have had some trouble seeing him this past week just becuase of my comp and his back! But we got to see him on Saturday and he has been reading and keeping his commitments! The only bad thing is that he did not come to church on Sunday!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miguel...haha well we found out that his mom is about as catholic as you can get..so yesterday we went to his house to take him to church and he didn't answer the door, so we went to church and then after we went back to his house to see him. His mom answered the door and started off on how we are bothering her son and how everything that we do is a lie and she has never heard anything like that before haha. So we started to explain everything to her to try and find a point that caught her attention the most. We started on the Book Of Mormon and she had a ton of questions! So we put and appointment with her and we will be seeing her this week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So every Tuesday we have a district class and we have to travel in what they call a convie, imagine a van with welded bleacher seats around the the whole inside. Haha so we had to take one of those to the class and one back to our area. In the class they gave us 10 Books of Mormon each to go and pass out and use to contact and for our investigators. So on the way home there was 6 missionaries in the convie and that means 60 Books of Mormon haha it was awesome to see the looks on the other peoples faces when we all got in! Haha but they all got interested about why we had all these Books. So all these missionaries started contact all of the passengers, it was pretty cool! I sat in the front seat with the Driver, I was able to give him a Book and set up an appoinment for the missionaries to pass by his house. Contacting in the begining was something that was really hard for me to do! Just cause I think I was scared! But I feel pretty good about it now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So mango season is back!! there are so many mangos here!! its crazy! we walk around all day and eat mangos off of the tree! haha there definitely my new favorite fruit! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ward that we are in right now is trying to get up and running again, we have our baptism was the first in almost 9 months!! Here in Mexico that is terrible! we have been trying to get our Bishop excited again about workin and starting to have ward counsel again but he says that its a wast of time! So what we have been doing to having our own counsel with all of the members of counsel! This area and all these members have so much potential but we just have to help them get up and going again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it was a really good week this past week! We have had some pretty crappy weather here. It has been raining all week and the streets were all flooded! I walked around in soaking wet shoes all week and in some spots the water came up to my knees! But we still had a pretty good week of work here. And the best part was that Ruth and her son Juan were baptized on Saturday! It was such a cool experience for them! I t was a great service, but it was really fast! That night was the first session of stake conference for us so we had to really hurry with the service! I had the chance to baptize the mom Ruth. Haha with all respect to the her and the family she is not the smallest lady haha and it didn't help that the water in the font had be slowly draining during the service so when we got in to the water it was about mid thigh, high knee on me! So after 3 times she finally came out clean! It was awesome, and the same thing happened to Juan and my comp, he had to do it 3 times as well. But in all the best part was to see how happy everyone was, and I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to be apart of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday we had stake conference. It was really good! We had a area Seventy there and he spoke, also our Mission President and his family were there. It went really well. The best part was haha is that all of them talked about the Work of Salvation and missionary work. I think that it really helped the members to understand what there role is in the work of the Lord. All of the talks were really good. We had our investigators there and it was really good to have them hear from our mission President and the Area Seventy. After the conference we had a chance to see all the Elders and Sisters from the zones. Some of my old comps were there and some of my other friends from the mission! But the best part was that the other daughter of Ruth that did not get baptized after the conference came up to us and said that she does want to take the step and be baptized!! So we are planning a service for her not for this week but for the next Saturday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well this past week was a pretty good one! We have been seeing more and more succes here in our area! And the best part is that I am feeling alot better! Here in Grijalva we have been working really well with the famlies that we are teaching and have been trying to find more investigators! The heat wave past through and pretty much all this past week it has been raining or overcast, so it has been pretty nice to have a break from the heat! The only bad thing is that when it rains haha the streets here flood! The part of the city that were in is really low, and all of the water rushes in when it rains pretty hard or for a long time! But it felt really good not to be dying of heat at night! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been doing really good with our families that we have! Rut and her family are doing really well! They are a family of 3 and have a babtizm date for the 17 of May! We are really excited for them and the best part is, is that they are just excited! This past week we had a Famliy night with them and the family of our Bishop, it went really well! We watched a Mormon message about the Atonement and at the end President Uchtdorf gives a invitation to all to join the church and pray to see if it is true. It went really well! Who better to give the invatation then an Apostol! But this family really has opend up to us and shared things that lets me know that they are really ready to take this step! I have had experiances with them that I will never forget! The daughter of the family has had problems for a long time with feelings of a bad presence and has suffered with depression and sickness, my comp and I have always felt weird walking into the house and especially when we leave. Something I didnt share from out first visits with them is the first time that we went to that house we knew from the moment that we walked in that there was something wrong, We didnt give just one blessing but she has asked us for multiple blessings, its crazy the differencet that we have seen in her! We blessed the house and she says that she feels it every now and then but she just reads int eh Book Of Mormon and the feeling goes away! They say that a few years ago an old lady that lived a above them practiced like witch craft stuff...pretty crazy!</span></div>
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Well this past week was a pretty good one! We have been seeing more and more success here in our area! And the best part is that I am feeling a lot better! Her in Grijalva, we have been working really well with the families that we are teaching and have been trying to find more investigators! The heat wave passed through and pretty much all this past week it has been raining or overcast. So it has been pretty nice to have a break from the heat! The only bad thing is that when it rains... haha the streets here flood! The part of the city that we are in is really low and all of the water rushes in when it rains pretty hard or for a long time! But it felt really good not to be dying of heat at night!</span><br />
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We have been doing really good with our families that we have! Rut and her family are doing really well! They are a family of 3 and have a baptism date for the 17 of May! We are really excited for them and the best part is, is that they are just as excited! This past week we had a Family Night with them and the family of our Bishop. It went really well! We watched a Mormon Message about the Atonement and at the end President Uchtdorf gives an invitation to all to join the church and pray to see if it is true. It went really well! Who better to give the invitation than an Apostle! But this family really has opened up to to us and shared things that let me know that they are really ready to take this step! I have had experiences with them that I will never forget! The daughter of the family has had problems for a long time with feelings of a bad presence and has suffered with depression and sickness. My comp and I have always felt weird walking into the house and especially when we leave. Something I didn't share from our first visits with them, is the first time that we went to that house we knew from the moment that we walked in that there was something wrong. We didn't give just one blessing, but she asked us for multiple blessings. It's crazy the difference that we have seen in her! We blessed the house and she says that she feels it every now and then but she just reads in the Book of Mormon and it goes away! They say that a few years ago, an old lady that lived above them practiced like witch craft stuff...pretty crazy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry I wasn't able to get off a letter to you guys last week! I'm not sure if my mom wrote something for me or not! But remember how a couple months ago I wasnt feelin too good...well it came back again last week and it hit me pretty hard! So we didnt have that exciting of a week here! haha. Well it kinda sucked, I was hit with a fever and throwing up all of my food. We went to the Doctors on Friday and she told me that I have Gastritis, the same that all the other doctors have been telling me! Well the doctor of the mission gave me a prescription for 2 weeks worth of injections! So each day I have been going into a public doctor and gettin poked in the butt!! It's awesome!! haha.. and yesterday all of the doctors were closed! So last night, I spent around 15 minutes in the bathroom trying to convince myself to just do it! haha.. Ffter 3 or 4 bad attempts I finally got it done! Man I just hope I can finally get rid of this stupid thing! I really just want to get better! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Besides being sick and not working very much, it has been an alright week haha. The gates of Hell were opened up and Villa was hit with its flames of heat!! Holy cow, It has been out of control! The heat down here is crazy! We were at 43 degress cellcius. That's 110 degrees!! and that was at 11 in the morning!! You can only imagine what the afternoon was like! and thats not the best part, We only have 1 freaking floor fan!!! Our house is ground level and there is another house above us and it's sourrounded by both sides so it is naturaly a cool house, but it's terrible at night!! I dont even bother drying off after I shower. I just put my clothes on and go to sleep! It's the only way to stay cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So this past weekend I got a call from the assistants of the President and they said they needed our help with something. I guess some missionaries had some problems and 1 of them was taken out of his area, and the other was left there alone so we had to go with him and sit and his house and wait for his companion to come back! So Saturday we were planning everything for the baptism of Roberto and we had another Elder tagging along with us. It was around 4 o clock and we still had not heared anything for Roberto, so we started to call him and finally he answered me. He then told me that he was not going to be babtized this day and that he does not feel prepared. He then hung up on me. It was one of the worst feelings that I have felt in a long time. I knew that there was more to it! We then went to where he was working and found him there selling his things! I started to talk to him and it was like he had never talked to us before. He told me a lot of things that I never knew about. He and his family were baptized in the Jehova Witnesses church and I guess made plans to return to this church as a family. I said to him that there was not much more that we could do for him, I then shared a scripture with him and my testimony and let him know that we are here to help with whatever he needs. It sucked really bad! But I know one day he will understand and really see!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I had the chance to do alot of thinking in the past week, really refelct on the time that I have in the mission and all of the good and bad things that have happened, all that I have learned, and so many unbelievable people that I have met. I am so greatful for the opportunity that I have to be here, I will do everything that I can in these next months to be the absolute best missionary for my Heavenly Father. I miss and Love all of you soo much!</span></div>
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it was a interesting week here in Grijalva, We had a pretty good week
here. Tuesday we had a special conference with our mission President, it
was really good! We learned a lot more things that I think everyone
needed to hear. Something interesting happened after the conference, my
President wanted to talk to my companion so he pulled him off to the
side and told him that he was going to have special transfers this next
week and was going to be put into another area! Haha of course that
would happen..right! So Wednesday night we got the call to where he was
going and who was coming here with me! So my new comp is Elder Chajon, he
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So with the 3 weeks that I have in this area me and my new comp
this past week pretty much went around and got to know the area a little
bit better! We have gotten to know our investigators pretty well and we
put 2 more baptismal dates this past week! Miguel that I have talked
about with you guys is doing really well, he has found a lot of friends
in the church and is coming to all of the activities every week! We have
another investigator Jorge who went to the church when he was younger
but stopped going, he has always had the desire to be baptized but just
has never come back to church! So we went and taught him for the first
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As you all know I said that we were going to be baptizing this
past week. There were a lot of things that happened this past week! Haha
first this family you guys need to understand they don't even have money
to eat, he goes around all day selling remotes for tv.s and other little
electronics like that. And every night he goes to the bridge and sets up
his public stand to sell. His wife has diabetes and she got really
sick this past week and he needs to send her to another state so she can
get taken care of! And he has been getting himself in some pretty bad
debt! he keeps going to the bank and loan companies to take out money
but just keeps falling more and more behind! I have been praying so hard
for him and his family, the other night he asked me for money so that
he could go and eat...so me and my comp went and bought him some food
from the gas station that was close by. He says they have no gas in his
house so all the money he makes he has to buy food that's already made
and that is always more expensive. And he always tells me, don't worry
everything is going to turn around! Its so crazy the faith that this man
has! So we are gong to continue to work with him and help in any way
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this all happen and being apart of it has made me see just how blessed
we all are! I miss all of you sooo much! I have been baking here in the
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Well it was another good week here in
Grijalva!! We have had some success with our investigators! And the best
news is that this weekend Roberto is going to be baptized! We are
really excited for him! We have been working with him a lot and have seen
such a big change in this guy! He has a pretty ruff situation right now
and its so cool to see him trust so much in our Heavenly Father! Him
and his family do not have very much money! but he is confident that the
blessings will come! It has really been a faith building experience to
see him work through! He has asked me and my comp for money for gas for
his house so they can cook a lot of times, but he has been really
acceptable with trusting in the lord and praying for the help that he
needs. He told us what happened to him yesterday when he went out to
work, he got assaulted by some punk kid, and he started to talk about it
with us and he says he knows why it happened, haha because were not
supposed to work on Sundays!! haha it was the coolest thing! He is so
ready and I am so happy that he will be able to take this step and be
able to receive the blessings that are waiting for him.</div>
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During the Hottest week of my life! haha we have also been working
with another investigator named Jorge, he has been doing really well!
The other day he asked us when we could plan his baptismal date!! haha
just out of no where! it was kinda of weird, but he is progressing
pretty well, he did not come to conference but he has a date for the end
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We are also working with another investigator named Miguel, he is a
great investigator, he is like 22 and loves to listen to us! He has
come to church and even goes to all other activities during the week! and
the best is that he goes to institute alone every week! We are working
with him to get him a baptismal date!</div>
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Conference was unreal! I hope that all of you were able to see it!
All of the sessions were sooo good! I loved the talk from our Prophet,
The true love of our Savior is what is going to take us back in the
presence of our Heavenly Father. It was such a good talk, especially
because I can do so much better at having more charity for everyone.</div>
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I miss all of you soo much! Time is flying here though! The weeks
just get faster and faster I could really relate the talk about the 4
minutes that we have here! It really made me see that this time that I
have here in the mission is so short and I have heard more than once
that its an 1 time thing, that's want to do it the best that I can! I
hope all of you can do things to the fullest and make the best of our 4
minutes here! I love all of you!!</div>
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How is everyone doing?? Things here are
going pretty good! We have been working pretty good here! I have been
getting to know the area! But the ward and the investigators are really
good! We still need to find some more, but we have 2 or 3 that are
progressing really well! This past week was the beginning of the heat
wave that's going to come in! Holy cow! I know that I complain to you
guys about the heat all of the time, but if any of you need to lose some
weight, come
down here to Villa and just walk! haha …You'll be in unreal shape in a
week!!! The heat really is not that bad. It's the humidity that kills
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Our investigator Roberto, is doing really well. He is
having some struggles with work. He and his family do not have very much.
For work, he buys and resells T.V remotes and little electronic things
and goes out to the streets and sells them. There is a big river that
divides Villa and Gaviotas (my area) and he is always up on the bridge
selling. He is a really cool guy and has a lot of faith! He knows that
all the blessings will come if he just keeps working hard! We explained
to him about prayer and how he can be sure about his answer. We talked
about the fruits of the spirit and how he would feel when he receives
his answer. He did not end up attending church this week, but that night
we went up to the bridge to see him and it turns out that he was sick
and to top it off, he and his
wife had not eaten since the day before because they did not have any
money to buy food. It was weird because like 5 minutes later, a lady and
some guy walked passed us and she dropped an envelope all wadded up. I
did not think anything of it. But something told me to go and get it. So
I went and got it and opened it up and there inside there was two 500
peso bills!! I thought for a second that this could help Roberto out soo
much! But it just wouldn't be right, so me and my comp went bookin it
after this lady! We finally caught her and at first, haha.. I think that
we scared her because she started to like run away from us!! haha.. But
then I asked her if the envelope was hers and then she actually got
really mad and grabbed it right out of my hand and didn't even say thank
you!! haha. Well at least I know I did it right! </div>
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The family
that we have been teaching is doing pretty good. There are just some
problems. The husband likes to
drink....a lot!! And they got kicked out of there house this week so
they have been looking for another place to live, The wife is pretty
tired of the husband coming home drunk all of the time. She says she
wants to get away from him for her kids. She is really great, just its
hard with her husband! We are going to focus in more on him! </div>
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am really excited to be able to see conference this week! I can't
believe its time again! The clock is flying by! I miss all of you soo
much!!</div>
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The
first week down here in my new area, Grijalva! The area is pretty nice
and the ward seems to be pretty good! Not as good as the last ward that I
was in, but it's up there! My comp, Elder Nevitt is a pretty cool guy
and we seem to get along pretty well! Haha.. They didn't send me far at
all from my area in Parrilla, like 5 minutes down the road! The day of
the transfer, I went to the
bus station to meet the leaders and they told me to go back where I
came from just stop before you get to Parrilla and you'll be in your
area! Haha. So me and my comp got my things and went to the house. Umm..
when we got to the house, you guys need to understand that it's not a
house. It's a room. And well, if any of you have seen the size of my
mom's closet, that's about the size of the dang place! Our dang suit
cases don't even fit in the house. I sleep in my hammok across the room
and my comp sleeps in a bed in the corner of the room. Luckily the
President told me before I got there to find a new house! Pray that I'm
only there for the next week! Oh and we only have 1 fan that works!!
haha! It sucks so bad at night!! It has been so hot here! We have been
in the high 90s and 100s all week! sS you can only imagine how hot it is
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In the area the work seems to be pretty
good. They had some investigators that they had just found and that were
progressing, but there was not much movement in the area. We have some
investigators that are pretty good! A family that they had just found
before I had gotten there is really great. It's a family of 6 people and
4 of them can be baptized. We get along great with the family, The only
problem is that the couple are not married and we will have to marry
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There
is another investigator named Roberto, I guess he found the
missionaries and told them that he wanted to be taught. He has a good
desire to progress. We
invited him to be baptized this past week and he accepted! We put a
date with him for the 12 of April. He came to church on Sunday and said
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Everything
is going good here. We are going to start soccer tournaments here in
the ward to start to try and find more investigators, and we are going
to get these members to work! I am excited to be working here! I love
and miss all of you!!</div>
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Well it has been another week here in
Parrilla... and sadly my last!! I have transfers! But the good thing is
that they are not sending me very far! They are sending me to Grijalva!
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It
has been a good week, We have been in a dry spot for a couple of weeks
here! We have been working so hard to try and figure out what we can do
to lift us up from this low that we are in. We
have been working a lot with the members in the ward and they have been
taking us to there friends and neighbors that they know and it has
really helped us a lot! We had a really good lesson with Shabata and her
family. We taught about the Book of Mormon. It went really well and she
and her sons took the teaching really well! And at the end of the
lesson we invited them to be baptized, and they accepted! We invited
them to pray about the things that we have taught them so they could
know for themselves that all of this is true! </div>
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This has been
one of the best areas that I have had in my mission. I have loved the
members, It sucks so bad to have to leave here! It feels like I'm
leaving home again. haha. I feel like I am leaving family that I have
here! So many things that I have learned in these 6 months that I have
been here and so many people that I have had the opportunity to know and
love. I am so grateful to have served in this
area! I hope so bad that it can continue to grow! </div>
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It kinda
sucks to say that I am leaving but there is nothing that I can do about
it! I have realized that the work is not about where you are, how you
feel, or what you do. Because the work is not ours. It is the Lords. I
want more than anything to do the best that I can while I can. Time is
flying by, and the last thing I want to do is leave behind something
that I could have done!</div>
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Sunday in Church, we had 5
investigators that came with us! It was really good! Of that 5, one of
them should be ready to be baptized in the next week! Too bad that I am
not going to be there, but that's not what matters! Today in the
morning, we had an activity in the church with all of the ward and
investigators. We played soccer and basketball, and I taught them how to
play football!! haha. It was way fun! A really good way to end the time
here in the area and to be able to say bye to
everyone! That part sucked pretty bad! Haha.. The sisters started to
cry! They all wanted to hug. But as bad as I wanted to give them a
hug back, we cant! haha! I am going to miss it here! But really excited
to get to my new area. My new comp with be Elder Nevitt. I hope that we
have a ton of success in the next transfer!</div>
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I love you all! I
think about all of you all the time. I have heard that all my brothers
age guys are heading out on their missions, So crazy! Good luck to all
of you and Just know that you are doing the best thing that you could be
doing in this part of your life! I love you all!!</div>
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it has been another week. I can not believe how fast the weeks are
going. I feel like every time that I blink, it's a new month! Well it has
been a better week here in Parrilla! I feel like so much has turned
around for us here! The weather just keeps getting hotter and hotter! We
were in the high 90s all week this week! It was so hot! And they say
that this heat was nothing
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We
have been working a lot better with our ward members and with the
references that they have given us. It has made all of the difference in
the world! It has made me realize that we can not do this work by
ourselves! We need the help of the members here to be able to push this
work along! We have been able to find some new investigators this week.
We found a new family that is really great! I have gotten along awesome
with them, It's a family of 5 with all boys. So that's probably why I
get along really well with them! They don't belong to any church and
they say that they are looking for one to go to! </div>
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This
past Thursday, we had a Seventy
come and give us a conference. It was really good. Elder Vansuela came
and spoke to us about the work and all the new things that the 12 and
the first Presidency want to be changed! They told us that the baptisms
for this mission are super low. And that the Lord expects more from us!
It's really got me motivated to start working so much harder than I am!
He spoke a lot about knowing the scriptures and that we should use them
in every single one of our lessons. They really want us to grow more in
the scriptures and to always have them memorized and to use them always!
He also spoke that us as missionaries need to go and teach the members
of our wards!</div>
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has been a much better week! The roller coaster keeps moving! It's
going to so fast! I miss all of you so much! And I love You all!!!</div>
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Hey family!<br />
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Well it has been a pretty good week this
week. We have been up and down all week! We have been trying really
hard to see progression in our investigators and help them move forward!
But it has been hard to see the change in them! You know that it would
be so easy for them just to say yes! But you can really see the
adversary is working so hard to see that this work doesn't move forward!
In the end, we all know how it will end up!</div>
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It has been
blazing hot
here all week long! I got my awesome tan lines back! Haha.. It really
has been burning here! It's really nice though. I forget sometimes where
I am, and I look around and see all the palm trees and all the green
that's all around! It's unreal! The best part too is that April and May
are coming up! And there will be millions of mangos and all of the other
fruits!!</div>
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Well the work like I said, has been really up and
down all week. We need to find new investigators! It has been hard
spending time with all of these people that have so much potential and
could be so great but they don't follow through! It's also very
frustrating!! haha. I just have to keep reminding myself that there is a
reason for everything and to keep forcing myself and not let myself
fall! Having a good mind set is key in anything that you want to do!
That is definitely something that I have learned here in the mission!
During the week, we had some really great lessons and
some that felt pretty hard, but what has helped me move forward is
knowing that when the hard times come to let it be in the name of the
Lord. Our President has talked about that in his letters, That we need
to remember that this his not our work so when we succeed or when we
fail, that it is in His name. </div>
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Sunday we had a new couple
that we are teaching show up at church with us and Mayra came as well!
We are looking forward to their baptisms in the following month! We are
going to focus ourselves this week in finding those investigators who
are ready to learn and hear the Gospel! </div>
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This week, a member of the Seventy
is coming to talk personally to us here in the mission! Sounds like it's
going to be pretty big! I am excited to hear what he has to say!</div>
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I love all of you sooo much. Hope you have a Great week!</div>
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<b>Elder Liljenquist's letter, especially the part where he said "In the end, we all know how it will end up!" reminded me of a great quote by Elder Holland: </b></div>
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<b>"The future of this world has long been declared; the final outcome between good and evil is already known.There is absolutely no question as to who wins because the victory has already been posted on the scoreboard. The only really strange thing in all of this is that we are still down here on the field trying to decide which team's jersey we want to wear!"</b></div>
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<i><b>D&C 58:3-4, 28 </b></i></div>
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<i>"Ye
cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design
of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the
glory which shall follow after much tribulation.</i></div>
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<i>For
after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh
that ye shall be crowned with glory; the hour is not yer, but is nigh at
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<i>For
the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And
inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward."</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05600070535862680312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962564726180888308.post-10226967713003217512014-02-18T19:18:00.003-08:002014-02-18T19:19:12.807-08:00February 17, 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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Well
it has been another fast week this week! We have been working really
hard and really trying to prepare our investigators for baptism! We have
so many that have so much potential and could be so ready! This past
week was pretty good, It was hot! They're saying that this year could be
one of the hottest years that they have had for awhile! I'm Pumped! But
overall, the week was pretty good...
Only Sunday was a pretty draggin' day!</div>
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We
started off the week working really hard! We had our district class and
they told us some new things that are going to be changing here in the
mission. They really want us to start doing a lot more contacting and
talking to people in the streets and making new ways to find, teach, and
progress. So we have been really trying to apply these things in our
area and I have personally been trying to do things right. Our
investigators are doing alright. They are progressing when it comes to
the teachings that we have given. But like always, the hardest thing is
to get them to come to church! This past Sunday we did not have a very
good turn out when it came to investigators! I was so bummed!! I wanted
so bad to see them there! What has helped me go on is to know that
everything happened for
a reason, and maybe there is something else that Heavenly Father is
wanting me to see. </div>
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We
have been visiting Claudia and her family this past week. She is doing
alright. There are just a lot of problems inside this house! We had a
really good lesson with her the other night, and she told us sorry that
she hasn't been doing very well… haha. But now I hope we will see more
progress with this family! Also we have been working with Felix a lot.
As you know, he was going to be baptized on Saturday. But he does not
feel ready and the last thing we want to do is make him feel obligated
to do it. So we have been visiting him quite a bit and working with him. </div>
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We had our Valentine's ward party on Friday! Haha! It was pretty fun!
Even though it did not get started until 8:30 at night! We only stayed
and ate, but I heard that they did not end until 1:30 in the morning!!</div>
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This
past week we have had a lot of our plans fall through and we have ended
up looking for someone to visit or contact and each time that this has
happened, it has been for a reason. We have had a lot of opportunities
to give blessings to members this past week. It has helped me know how
Heavenly Father is working with us. He has been leading us to those who
most need his help. So I have
felt that is why our appointments have been falling through. It has
made me very thankful to be able to bear this Priesthood and be able to
use it. I am very thankful to be able to help so many people!</div>
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I am so grateful for all of you! I love and miss you so much!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">"Holding grudges, judging others, hating, wanting to cause harm, withholding forgiveness, gossiping, ridiculing, ignoring others, withholding mercy, throwing stones, <span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>STOP IT</b></u></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Love</b></u></span> is the grand motive of the Plan of Salvation. As we extend our hands and hearts towards others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit."</span></span></div>
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Well it was a good first week of the
transfer! We have been working pretty hard in our area! I hope so bad
that we can see the reward for the work that we are putting into our
area! Not gonna lie, I have been exhausted the past week! Every night
when we get home, it kills me that we still have to plan for the next
day! The temperature here has turned up quite a bit! It has been nice
because the last week there was nothing but clouds and overcast skies!
But know I miss it! haha... The
sun is so hot here! Because the sun came out, that means all the dang mosquitoes are back! Freak! They were bad this week! Our president put in
his announcements that we all have to buy repellent for them!</div>
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Our
area is doing pretty good! Our president has really tried to challenge
us to talk with everyone that we see or come in contact with. I have
tried really hard in the past week to do that! Just trying to make small
conversation with the people here and it's so easy because they are all
such a talkative type of people! It has made me really try and take
away all the nerves too! haha. </div>
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We have been working a lot
with Felix this past week! He is going to be baptized this Saturday! He
is progressing really well and has been coming to church every week! He
works in maintenance of yards and things like that. He goes around and
cleans for people…. Basically what I did for the 6 or 7 months till I
left on my mission!
Haha. So we always stop and help him when we see him working. I have
gotten pretty good with the machete! haha. It's crazy that they still
use those down here! Saturday he had a pretty big job to do and wasn't
sure if he was going to be able to go church because he had to finish
it! So we went with him and helped! We got it all finished so that he
could come to church with us! We talked with him after church and I
brought up baptism for the next week. He then said he doesn't know if he
feels like he is ready! I need your help! PLEASE Pray that he can be
ready for Saturday!!</div>
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Claudia and her family are still
progressing. The only problem is that Claudia and her daughter need to
either marry their husbands or separate themselves. They went out of
town this past weekend and were not able to come to church, So we have
to move their dates to the 1 of march! But supposedly when they get
back, their husbands will be gone! Let's hope that everything
goes well! </div>
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Mayra is doing pretty well also. She is studying
and always really tired! We have to wait until Saturdays to be able to
teach her. She should be ready to be baptized in the next week! </div>
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This
past week has really been a test of my patience. It really sucks when
you think something is going so well and then falls through and you don't
know why. You work and work and work and then you think it's all for
nothing. It is a really frustrating feeling, I though of a video from
Jeffery R Holland. When we fail or are taken down and can't get back up
and we think why?...We need to remember that someone much better than
us asked the same question..why. Let us think before we complain and see
that our trials are for our benefit and there is nothing that we can't
overcome if we do what we know is right. I know that this is true. </div>
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I love all of you and am so grateful for all of the help and
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05600070535862680312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962564726180888308.post-47288746290907914012014-02-04T19:04:00.000-08:002014-02-04T19:04:21.485-08:00February 3, 2014 - Another Transfer in Parilla!<div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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Well
looks like I will be staying here for another transfer! I am way
excited about that! I love this area in Parilla! I feel like I have good
place here. Well it was another rainy and cloudy week! All the storms
you guys should be getting are staying down here and not going up north!
It has been kind of on the chilly side in the beginning of the week, but
towards the end the sun came out again and it
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It
was another pretty good week this week! We have been working a lot with
the 7 investigators that we have on date for baptism! It's hard to find
time to meet with them all! Because pretty much all of them can only
meet in the afternoons and nights, either because of school or work! But
we seem to be doing pretty good with all of them! Claudia, Arlet, and
Emanuel are the 3 that are progressing really good! We just get along
really good with this family! They are super excited about there baptism
date! Only 1 thing happened though!, So Claudia had apparently lied to
us in the beginning about her marriage!! So her and her husband are not
married! They have been living together for over 25 years and can't get
married because the husband is married to another girl and is too lazy
to go and take care of it! I
was kind of mad! haha... But,she tells us that she really wants to be
baptized with her kids, but she is kind of living in sin! We told her she
needs to either separate or get married to him. It was kind of hard,
especially seeing that neither she or he wants to be married to one or
the other! </div>
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We
have also been working a lot with Mayras She is progressing really well!
It's kind of rough to find time to see her because she is always
studying and in school but she has been coming to church by herself for
the past 3 weeks! </div>
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Felix
the old man that we are teaching, haha... he is hilarious!! He told us
that this is the year that he makes changes in his life! Whenever we
start teaching him, he
always gets caught off track in some story or experience that he has!
But he is also doing really well! He is one date for the 15th as well!</div>
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Well, the dang internet cafe is going to close in like 10 minutes. BUT- I love you all and I will tell you more next week! </div>
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Hey Everyone!!<br />
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Well it was another really good week
here in Parrilla! We have bee seeing a lot of success here in the area
and a lot of miracles! In this past week the weather has jumped back up
and started to get warm again! Not sure if I'm ready to go through
another April and May!!! With the weather this week only being in the
80s I don't know if I can do the 110s again!! The time has gone by so
fast! So crazy that we are already done with the month of January!
Crazy! </div>
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So we have been working a lot with
the Family, Claudia Arlet and Emanuel. They are a great family that we
get along great with. They have such a strong desire to better their
lives and be better people. Especially their kids, Emanuel who is 19 and
Arlet who is 22. Which is really crazy because most people at this age
don't wont anything to do with us! But we have been visiting them a lot
this past week! The family when they are all together, are so funny!
They remind me a lot of my family when we are all together! haha.. They
joke about the same things as we do! haha... if you know my family,
you'll know what I'm talking about!! Friday night we took Emanuel to the
church for the ward activities and we played soccer with the ward and
some other guys that wanted to play! Not gonna lie, I'm gettin pretty
good, haha... but these kids that play are unreal!!</div>
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We have 7
people on date for the month of
February! I am way excited about that! But it's way stressful! Because
if they don't go to church, they lose their dates! So this past week we
have been teaching a lot about the Sabbath day trying to get everyone to
understand that they have to go to church! The last week when we got to
church there was a guy standing out by his car in normal clothes, so I
said to my comp that we should go and see who that is. So we went and
talked to him. It turns out that he and his wife had just moved here and
he wants to start going to church. He doesn't know which one but he
just wants a church in his life and in the life of his family! So we
took down his information and went and visited them this past week! They
are way cool! His name is Jair and Anna. They are a young couple that
just moved into the town. We started to ask them why they want religion
in their lives. And they both answered for their family. We didn't have
much time so we left them with the The
Restoration and put an appointment to come back with them! They are
really good! </div>
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So Sunday morning our church doesn't start until
12 so in the morning we started to make phone calls to remind
investigators to come to church! When we got there, Claudia and her
family were there and our other investigator Mayra was there! But no one
else showed up! So 4 out of the 7 got there! I was mad and happy at the
same time.. haha but I think if they all go this next week, their dates
won't fall! </div>
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We have been changing a lot of the ways we have
been teaching in the past week. We carry around our little DVD player
and watch Mormon messages with our investigators and our members. I got
all of them downloaded on a USB. It has been a good way to see a variety
in our teachings, and who better to teach them then the Prophet
himself? </div>
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Everything is going really good! Pray that I don't get transferred in
the next week! I want to see all these baptisms happen! I love and miss all of you! </div>
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Elder Liljenquist</div>
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