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Well the day has finally come it is my last Lunes PDAY. Im soo exited and sad to leave the mission but im soo exited to se all of you guys again. THese last two years have been by a lllooonnngggg shot th hardest two years of my lif. Mission Mexico Veracruz< has kicked my buttt... and i loved it! It has reallyhelped me to see what im made of and how much GOd really does know me and lvoe me. I wouldnt trade these two years for anything. I learned that the most important thing is just to maintain a good happy positive attitude, maintain the faith and just keep pressing on. I have never worked so hard in my life. Nothing i did before compares to these last two years, or even a day of the mission. I am infinitley greatfull for the opportunity that i hvae had to be here among my brethren here in Mexico. I wouldnt trade it for the world or anything. I cant beleive the End has come. But i wlak away knowing i gave it my 150% and knowing that i couldnt have done naything any better than i did. My biggest desire coming to the end of the mission is to ask and apply for another one. I done care where they would send me im not done yet i wanna keep on going. I love the mission soo much. I cant beleive how much my testimony has grown in the time. THe CHurhc of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints truly is the Church of God here in the earth. Nothing even compares to what th}is organization has. Just a 12 year old decan has more power than any church leader for other relegions. I have truly come to recognize and respect and know of the truthfulness of the power of the priesthood. i recognize that it is a tru priveledge gifts, blessing and honor to have been givin this to help and serve others. God has worked miracles through this authority in these last two years. I know that without a soubt that the gospel f justus Christ can heal anything. Any family and heart any person can be touched and changed an healped by the pwoer of the priesthood, the holy Ghost and the true gospel of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon with now doubt is a book of God, puly divinly isnpíred for us in these latter days. I know God loves each and every one on us and that we are all in his hands. How knows us and hase lives an blessings specifically plannned for us. THe expiacion of Jesus CHrist is without a doubt the greatest sacrifice of them all and it makes everything possible. Even thugh i have tried to give as much as i could to God these last two years i know that its not ven the smallest of fractions compared to what he has given me. I lvoe yu all and i am infinitly gratefull for thee support i have recieved from all of you. I fell my heart tear in two as i slowly coem to the realization that life will never be the same and that even when i come back to Mexico it wont be the same. But i know its just part of life to move on and keep on workign and keep on pregressing. I lvoe you all and i look forward to seeing you all very soon! Takce care and ill see you guys real soon!

Ohhh Man!

ohh man this letter is probably gonna be a little shorter because im am tired. Today we went and hasd a sweet zona activity. We went to the biggest aquiological zone int he mission El Tajin to see some sweet pyramids. It was a qhole city. Dont worry i took like a million pictures, so when i get home we can make a little slide show out of it and ill share them with you. Neet expereice, but i still like seeing that kinde of stuff fromthe comfefort of my couch at home when the put it on tv, we wernt allowed to climb up them so it was cool sieng them but you couldnt touch anything. IT would be cool to get my hands on a good documentary video of the place. The were sopme pretty big pyramids and there was alot of details put into each and every little thing. Really enjoyed it.
   Well as for the work goes. We had a pretty sweet leader conference last tusday, but htey threw a pretty sour surprise at us. Those of us that are gonna kick the bucket here soon (3 weeks) had to give our
whole goodbye testimony. Man that was a stinger. They putup the videa clips of when we first got off the airplane and everything. Good stuff. thent he rest of the wee was just workign as nirmoal. Rodolfo and his family are people we have been teaching for a while. IO dont know what i have told youa bout them. BUt have been a great family that we have been teaching for a while now. They are great people THey went to General conference and really enjoyed it adn then the accompanied us again to church this week. They have progressed alot int he almost month. But we gotta start talking to them about baptism now. Im not really all tha sure about how the are gonna respond, but its time to talk about that. ANd we also have andres for the 28th of april. We arer really hoping just to baptize this month and we are workign so hard this month, so we wills e that happens. But love you all and take care! --

Just Google It

Conferene wa a blast, as always we set up the English room and banned al spanish speaking from it, jaja one of the best parts was any time somebody messed up and started speaking english we kicked them out.  Ha it was fun, there were about 8 uof us greengoes, not to mention we are a pretty rowdy group, and 3 of us go home in a month.  By far my favorite conference expereince so far, i am laughing as a write this down.  By the way mom, we did indeed get the package, i got it wednsady.  ANd during conference we made them in the church kitchen, we made three bozes at one time.  To be honest it looked like we just got a big scoop of mud and pt it in one of this big tinfoil cake dishes.  THey were very rich chocolate.  BUt all in all a very great uplifting spirit, a combination of the conference spirit with a good twist of a mexico veracruzno missionary, this place sure has been blessed with alot of good missionaries.
    Most of saturday morning made us viejo missionaries a little tryunky with all of that family talk, we might have rubbed off a little on the young ones as well. Saturday afternoon was great as well, all of these talks applied could help the church geatly progress in all corners of the world, we have really been blessed with such marvelouse leaders to follow. I wrote down the basics of what each talk talked aobut and my own personl inspirations now that i have more understandng of the scripture the spirit tends to work with me more than before. I look forward as alwayws to recienveing the ensighn so that i can really tresure up and fest on the Words of Christ that have been found inside these carfully prepared lifesavers. Id also realized that general conferences in the mission make good milestone markres, in every one you somewhat realixze just how far you have gone since the last one, the alos humbly remide just how far you gotta go. Most of the conferences were really awesome before i learned lots of great things to apply to myself. THis conference ws a little more different.  I couldnt help but think about how much everyone outside of that building is missing out. Especially as the Pope is coming here to mexico and the celebrations of Christs last week here in Mexico take place. i just look around and feel what Alma described in the end of Alma chapter 13. Someday we will ust hack to hack every satalite tv and computer to put conference on in all corners thought all the world so these people can come to thiers sences and see whats good for them. Whaat a blessing ti would be foer teh whole world to follow a living prophet in unison. And the second new observation that took place in my minde is there were constanly red flags going off im my minds throught the talkes of how this investigatos needs to here this talk that investigator should read that talk, he needs that she needs this, just all sorts of realizing the needs of many of my investigators, and finally finding the way to put that need into words. That was what was going on in alot fo the talks. Sunday morning was a great session as well. We had a huge miracle hapen for the second half of that one... we had investigators take the hour drive form misantla to martinez(the stake center) to watch conference, they just a had a 45 yer old son die in january, so president Minsons talk was a just what they needed ememdy, i will never forget they joy i felt at the end when i saw them at the end and for the first time in the last two months i saw that whole family glowing with light. THat was a powerfull moment for me i was more that happy that they had kept thier commitment and came and heared a profets voices. We wont be able to see them untill wednesday, but i hope and pray and trust that that was more than enough to convince them and to convert them, the spirit of that moment was incredible, they had to have felt it as well.  THen Sunday afternoon was beautiful as well, i love teh churches agressive stand on the beleifes and how they can though so mony docrtinal principles in one short period of time to get us from one point a to point b and they do it with such clarity and power.  They are ejemplar examples of what a missionary can and shouldbe. I have really grown to appreciate the example of these men called of God.  An interesting observation i made (correct me if im wrong eh?!) is thier ability to live happy well balanced lives, most of them had pretty high profile jobs, doctors, most were lawyers, and buisnesmen.  THey were able to have sucess in both aspects of life they found the way to balance it all out and continue to convert to the gospel. THey found teh strength to do it all. I dont know if im expressing right. BUt maybe you will understand what im saying. I really like that example they have given to us and im very eager to follow it. I imagine that its well contributed to the habits they each us to form here in the mision like daily scripture study, companionship unity, christlike attributes, positive attitudes and lte and ltos of good hard wrk, a get it done attitude. ANd much more im sure that i will only learn in time. Im geratfull for the lights that they are to me and that i have this privledge to stnd in thier shadows for a time. What a neat time to live in. Imgreatfull for it all. We pray more than once daily for baptisms this April, the furut is unpredictable, but we keep workign away, doing what we can to be a good influence to those around us. I let oyu know how those prayers end up getting answered as they are continued to be answered. I love you all and im VERY gratefull to know you and im VERY gratefull for the support you are for me, your words of encouragement and your prayers and infint blessings for sure. Thnaks for it all! See ya soon!

The Last Transfer

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Ok well there is alot to say in little time. The transfer ends tomorrow. Elder Offerhall Goes and im going to be with another greeen missionary, fun stuff! We baptized Yaneth this last saturday. It was another Miracle Baptisims. EERY BAPTISM IS A MIRACLE! It was a great service ill work on getting pics home real soon. BUt we just keep working really hard here. Still working with the same people as before, just really trying to help them open thier minds and thier hearts so that the savior can come in and heal them. THe spirit and the Book of mormon are the real misisonaries in this im justhappy to be participating at all. BUt im exited, lots of emotions building up but just gotta stay focused. I love you all and hope all is well at home! Thanks for your support and prayers, i couldnt do this without you guys!

Carry On My Wayward Son

Carry on my wayward son, ther´ll be rest when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest, dont you cry no more.  
  
  Well her in misantla we keep un carring on. This week was not the most pretty week dats wise, but we did manage to make the best of it!  Yanth and Marina as soo freaking close to accepting baptism dates, they are both just at the point of saying yes, i could see it in thier mouths, but freaking triste satanas, just jumps in at the last moment and takes it from them.  Im a bit frustrated with that. BUt we aer gonna get them, we are gonna win for sure.  We are really pushing to get them baptized this saturday. 
   Other than that we are really struggling to get a good teaching pool here.  Our proselizing efforts arnt really leading up to much, very frustrating. Yesterday when we had to pass data to the zone leaders they wernt very happy with our report. We are trying really hard to work with out branch mission leader to get a good plan figured out to get all of the members activated. Its hard to work with him sometimes because he has like 5 other calling witht he stake as wel. But im greatfull to have a ward mission leader, its the first time i have had one in more than a year.  Working wiht branches is hard. I cant beleive i have only been in branches for more than a year. There must be something i gotta learn or develope from these. I feel like a littel more unity and devotion form all of the members could help out. Thats almost always the biggest impediment for branches, the lack of unity and EVERYBODY being devoted. so we will see what we can do. Dad when you wrote me that letter wayyyy back about how my misison was going to teach me about pacience you wernt kidding. What i have started to do to finally be at least a little more Christ like is i make i poster of pictures form the teaching pamphlets and in the middle of all the pictures of Christ i write the Preach my Gospel definition and then i put it somewhere where ill see it alot so i can read the attribut definition alot through the day. Write now i have only doen Humility and Pacience, it really helps me to realize alot more quickly my need to change my reaction to certain situations. I would really like to make little cars of them to carry around throught out the day so that as we are walking around i can have it out and memorize the definition alot faster. BUt i feel like it helps me wiht my spiritual growth alot faster.
   Can you beleive that next transfer is my last transfer???!!! I still dont acknoeledge that yet.  I cant even imagine speaking english again, Elder Offerhall says my english is pretty rusty. We only talk in spanish together. We will see what happens. This week is the last week of transfers. I think alot of the zone is going to get transfered.  It will be sad to see alot of these guys leave. We played football again today.  This time my team finally one. But mom i dont know when im gonna get my tavel plans, dont be so trunky they will come, there is stil alot of work to do.  Im not allowed to leave this branch untill we get up to 50 in attendance at sacrament meeting. we got 48 to go! Ok its not that bad, but we can do it. Its more likely that Elder Offerhall will get transfered, but then again when it comes to transfers with me the most unlikley thing is always what happens, so i highly doubt that we will be separated. BUt yea just trying to be really paciente and really humble about life, its really the only thing i can do, and just hope that my work will somehow serve for something here.  So we will see what happens with all of this, you never know what is going to happen in the Lords plan, ya just gotta be ready to recieve whatever comes whenever it comes, weather it be a blessing or another test to accompany the millions that we go through just gotta be ready and willing to accept it.  BUt i think that a big enough window into my life for this week, hopefully yall enjoyed it and it benefits you somehow.  THe life of a missionary is like living in a fish tank, we have to find a way to somehow benefit everybody, fun stuff. But i love you all, thansk for the support i have recieved. Btwdid you guys remember to Shake BROTHER Jakes hand for me? Im sure hes has been over to go swimming by now. Well i love all of you guys, take care and make good choices!

First Week of March

Well this week was  an interesting one. Lots of little pot holes...
   Well The first one was wednesday, at about 130pm i get a call from the Secretary to the President.... he asked me what airport i wanna arrive at when i get home..... my tickit for going home has been baught.... what an ugly feeling. It was like a knife in the heart that one. I cant beleive it. ( speaking of home, someone shake Elder Adams Hand for mewhat ya get a chance, im sure he will be over to go swimming real soon.)
 Um then i sepent all wednesday night throwing up, that was fun, the doctor thursday morning said that it was because of eating too much chile and gresees, go figure thats every meal! so i have been trying to calm everything down since. I have to be very carfull with what i eat for the next little while. BUt i worked it out with the mission mom Hna Treviño and the doctor, they gave me some anti gastritis pills. (i dont know wha the thing is called inn english sorry) My insestines felt like those long party baloons for most of the week.
    Last night we had a counsiul of district leaders with the zone leaders and we talked about all the zone goals and fun stuff. Then we just stayed the night there because misantla is a good two hours away. Our zls are both in my generation so it was fun talking about the mission. one is actually form arizona as well, he is from payson, but spent the last year or two in chandler befor the mish, so that was fun to talk about. then in the morning we all got together  for Pday we wen twith alot of the zone to play sports. I played American Football for the first time in i think my whole mission. It was fun, me and another missionary switched off as quaterbacks. it was fun. We ended up winningthe last game but the other team one most. More than anything it was fun.
  Coming back from playing i almost lost the cell phone. THe bus ride bask is really bumpy. We got to the house and i realized that i didnt have the cell phone, and i remembered that it probably stayed in the bus and fell out of my pocket. so we rean back to wherer teh bus passses to go back to the zls area and waited for the bus, and whan it came i got on and found the cell phone tucked away in the seat with 2 pesos... that was a huge releive, BUt i think i lost my origonal name tag that i got wayy back in the mtc. If i did im gonna be sad. Maybe when i check through ym stuff again ill find it. but thats was basically the week
   THe area has been a littel more difficult. the people here are a little slpwer to let things penetrate. but even with the work being a little slower we keep really trying. Working in branches is always really hard because most of the members dont even go to church. BUt we have 3 people that could get baptized this next saturday, Marina, Edwardo and Yaneth. THey just need a few more priniples and they will be good. They are all three ready they just have to stop thinking that they arnt. They just gotta go for it and make that leap of faith. Just a little more pacience adn they will get thier, pacience and THe Book of Mormon will do the trick.
  THis week on thrusday we have a zone conference with one of the area presidents. Benjamin de Hoyos. We have to study The docrine of Christ, The Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Talk by Joseph Waddel before we go. Last years conference by the area 70 was pretty sweet so i imagine this will be likwise.
    BUt thats about everything we have right now. thansk for you help and support, hope all is well!

It's the end of February

SOB SOB SOB, the letter i was almost done with for writign you guys this week just got completly erased sob sob... ok so here we go again....
  Um this week was a normal week for once in my life. Just a good week of working. We finally broke 20 lesons this week wich was 23 woo hoo, i have bood trying soo hard to do that daggumit! we finally do it. Now what would be cool is if we could manage to baptize every week. Thats basically a commandmet here in the mission, and i really want to do it it would be sweet. BUt i guess alot of it depends on weather its part of Gods plan or not.  Maybe thats what causes me frustation in my mission sometimes, maybe i just need to be more acceptign to what God wants than what i want. sigh. I just want to baptized every week nothign more, if God wants more obedience ill give it too hime if he wnats more work ill give it to him, whatever hee wnats i just wanna get these people baptized....
   Well the people we are workign with this week are:....
   Edwardo, he is the youth that was invited to go to church last week by his friend. HE accepted a date for this next saturday, that means we have to teach him, L2 L4 word chasity and tithing and bap interview by thursday.... al things are possible. ANd we have to get permisison from his parents. But he really likes everything. He loves church. We are alos workign on getting his whole family involved witht he lessons. That would be sweet and i feel like they could really help out the branch here. They need all the baptism they can get here.
  THen we have Janth and her family. She last week came to churhc because she was invited by the same kid as above. SHe also reqally likes it. SHe tends to be a little more clingy to catholic. but the Book of mormon can fix that. THe only problemis that almost the whole mission has run out of books of mormon. We bring the world his truths! I feel like if we work really hard and are really stong witht he spirit and get htem a book of mormon thell be baptized a little later on end of marchish.
  We are also working with Marina, SHe could get baptized this saturday, but she lacks a few more lessons and also needs a testimony of these things. I feel like she could get baptized the 10th. right now she is studing Alma 32 with How to find Faith in Jesus CHrist dvd. Lots of spirit is what she needs. THe spirit is the true missionary in this anyways. thats way we have riules, without the spirit we are necios! BUt she is a little more slow, but it can happen. The members are gonna pich in with visiting her. Yester day i had to let her in on the truthabout htre whole Sanits deal. I read in the Gospel principles class 1 Timothy 2 1-ish, i know the chapter is right. I always feell bad doing that, its like trying to convince someone that thier mother really isnt thier mother ya know what i mean. BUt if she accepts that and gets over it with Her prayer, doen right, she will be a great convert. SHe loves going to church. I think she is still going to the catholic church. BUt she should be noticing a difference. I may be in err, but i usually dont tell people to stop going to the churhc where thier at, my hope is that the spirit will kinda do that for me. but yea,
   those are out main people right now. Erika os progressing great. I let her borrow the Gospel principles book so she can get to know m0ore of the truth and better understand church. Yesterday she had a interview by pdt santiago. I think she is going to make a gerat membe4r. Usually the more they stuggle to get baptize the more devoted they are to the church after.
  And also the baptizm form January is doing good. Jose Cordoba, in fact he is the one that baptized Erika. Its great to see him activley participating in the branch. He blessed the sacrament last week.
  BUt that it for investigators. Im still just focusing on baptizing. i cant beleive clouse is home and soone adams. Im sure they will enjoy being home. THis week i got the call form President Treviño, I as of today am now distric leader. Thats kinda a bummer, now i have to prepare district classes, but i got my first one ready, its about work, go figure. But im exited for it, It will given me more drive to work hard. I just gotta be diligent and consistently work hard. Im just really working on being the best person that i can be in this time. Just being ym best me and my happies me. God is helping me alot. He is basically taking me by the hand as i do this. Im still working on beign humble enough for him to work with me, even after 22 months. but we are gonna get thier befor the end i promis that. IT seems like the less i worry aobut i want the easier it is. so we will see where that goes. BUt i denfinably have growna deep passion fopr teaching the godpel with the spirit and havingg the spirit. If there is anthing ih ave learned on my missionit is how important it is to have that buddy guiding me in everything. I cerntainly am greratffull for having a kind and loving Padre Celestial, who still loves me even though my head is 90% bone.
  We are alos going to start going on more splits witht he branch presidency to start workign witht he inactive emmbers. We gotta show to God that we really want this sucess. Faith with works is dead. we gotta show GOd our true desires. NA dits guaranteeded that according to our faith and our desires it will be given. I know we can do this, we will sicceed somehow. Even if my definition of succed has to change. But im stoaked. I lvoe you all and i certainly couldnt do this without any of you. I lvoe you all and pray for you every day. take care, hasta luego!