Semana of San Valentines Day

Ok well this was a very interesting week. well i already told you all about what we did lunes. When i got done writing we ran off to the city where my Distict leader is because tuesday we had to leave at 5 to go to vreacruz. In veracruz the whole mission was called to a surprise mission  conference where we learned that the mission will now be divided. as of July 1 2012 there will be mission mexico veracruz and mission mexico xalapa. they are dividind the mission directly in half. I wont be here to see any of that happen }. But its pretty intense to think that they are going to divide the mission. Maybe Jacob will come to one of them. So we were in that conference all day. It was a good conference, lots of good spirt there. And i also ran into Elder Daniel Slade, from our stake. He lives over by the Kings. He is going to start his mision overn in good old Ciudad aleman where i just came from. He is going to love it there. then we came back. slept in the dl house again and got back here in the morning. worked wednesday. Erika in the night finally accepted to get baptized after a pretty sweet lesson, that was very un planned. then thursday we had our zone class metting, or a zone pep talk where the zone leaders talked to us. it was pretty sweet. our zone leaders are form my mission generation. There are 4 of us in all in the zone that go home together. Then i had to go on divisiones in vega again while Elder carmona our district leader came here to do the entrevista for erika. while we were there we decided that we were finally going to get up early and go run to the beach that is about 5km away. That was fun took some sweet pics. ill send some. BUt dang those were long kilometers. We were runnng a little behind se we ended up hitchng a ride back to town haha. then friday we just worked. Saturday morning we had the baptism of Erika . and in the afternoon we had a ward activity where we allplit up into companionships and went off and visited about all of the inactive members. I was út with Hermano Nefi, the 2nd counselor of the bish rick. It was fun we taught some sweet inspired lessons and gave some blessings in hopes of re aniumating them and re kindling thier fires. So we will se what happens with that. then sunday, yesterday, we had 5 nvestigators in church. Man i was stoaked for that. a youth braught 2 friends that wanna meet with us. Hopefully we wo0nt hav eproblems with thier parents. And an investigator Marina came. THe members were surprised about how much she knew aobut the restoration of the church. (what they dont know is that we left here the restoration dv as homework since she can barley ready and she saw it like 5 times.) so she participated alot. And old anitiguo investigators came to church. so that was sweet. The branch looks like its increasing in its energy or animo or howerver you say that in english. and things are looking up. Im really greatfull for this progress that we have seen latley. God really does love us and being obedient alwyas and workng hard are really paying off.  BUt that the week in a wrap. today the only thing we have done his studied and cleaned the house. in a little while we are gonna go and wash clothes and thats why we had to write earlier thatn normal. But i hope all is well at home. I promis that i hardley ever let my self think about home or anything liek that. Just plugging awya and enjoying what i can. I love you all, thanks for all of your prayers and support i certainly couldnt do it without you guys. Keep up the good wark and take care!

At the beach in Vega, February 2012

Rainy Week

Ok well this week the sun only came out for a total of 2 hour. It hs been none stop rain all week. SO its been great to enjoy a little bit of cold. But its hant been helping my coagh howerver you freaking spell it!!! BLAH! But its been fun. There hastn been a whole lot of peopel to contact in the rain. ITs almost become like a ghost town. WHen it gets a little cold almost every buisness int he world closes here. But we did manage to adquire 9 new investigators. Basically 3 new families. We are stoaked for them because they dont feel like the others. THey feel like they have a lot more potentioal to progress. SO iether i have changed or they are alot more preepared. We had 3 investigators i church this week. ANd thats a milagro for this area. We are still trying to get Erika to just get baptized already. she will in time, pacience Elder Nelson pacience. And a member braught her frind so wel will see where that goes. BUt even though things have been pretty difficult we havent let down at all. If anything we are goin at it even harder. Today wasanother pretty sweet Pday. like you guys saw in the pics we went and checked out some local ruins. I had a pretty strong impression that they were somehow connected with Moroni. Maybe im crazy but there were a few pyramids and alot of  series if walls. they were pretty long. Imagine it was more of abarracks. and it had two rivers going down each side. YOu will get to see all of the fotos soon. BUt it was a fun expereince. I felt like Indiana Jones. And yes mom i was the first one up every one.  but thats was sweet i really enjoyed it. Tomorrow we have to go to veracruz for a preach my gospel trining thing so that will be fun. Lots of time in the bus. But im happy even though things arnt as i hoped they wouldbe when i first got here i know they are happening how the Lord wants the, to happen. His way his time. I just greatfull enough to even be here doing what im doing and participating they way that i am. I love you all an i hope you have splended weeks. Take care !

Math Jokes

Ok well there isnt anything to say about this week. It was a grueling humiliating one. I hope my emails dont make the mission sound like its alwyas like that. but success does have its price. We continue to have the predicament of finding investigators andhaving first appointments with thembut follow up appointments are harder to finde that the 100th decimal of pie. HA yes that was a math joke, what do you expect my companion is a math major. Me and Elder Offer Hall are staying together. Tha meant si wont be training. BUt thats ok. Those kind of things arnt everything. We cut alot of investigators and have started form scratch again. this must of been a little fraction of what the pioneers expereinced. but every success story has its ups and downs. Im just in the middle of making my own. The support emails i got this wek were greatly appriciated, so thanks to those who participated in that. this week we are just going to start from scratch and keep working to establish Zion here in Misantla. I will work on taking a few good pics this week of the place so you can see what a neat village it is.  I thnk you will really enjoy the pics. BUt thats all for now. Thinks will get good soon. Oh today ffor pday we played soccer with the bransh memebers. Way fun, i am defianbly converted into a soccer fan. I just need to learn how to play. And we washed all our clothes by hand again. In the mission you learn how to get real personal with your clothes. jaja. BUt its a good should workout. Les mando mis saludos. Im happy to hear that everyone at home is enjoying life. i love you all and im more thatn greatfull for the support that i have recieved.

21 Months and Overcoming Sickness

Ok this week maybe wasnt that bad, but it sure was no walk in the park. Monday returning form writing letters, i almost passed out. that had never happened to me before. I was in bed all monday, all tuesday. Just with zero energies. Elder Mosqueda one of the zone leaders cam over adn took my place tuesday. And i just stayed with members the whole day. Juest in bed. I had no energy. But i took all the medicin and kept on eating and the sickness was overcome. Wednesday i was tired of being tired adn went and and worked teh whole day. It was very challenging working wednesday and thursday but we got it done. I had a nast caugh most of the week. But Heavenly Father was nice enough to le the sickness leave me very rapidly. THe caugh is almost 100% gone. And i feel almost normal. FOr groceries, i just buaght pancake mix, apples, bannanas, oranges and yogurt and bread. The only thing i eat in the houseanymore is what i have left form teh christmas candy and the above items. Sometimes i will buy something in te street. THe work is about the same here. But God certainly did hear our prayers and we baptized sunday. Erika didnt pass her entrivesta because of commandment problems. But there was an inactive brother that we have been working without who turned out to have no record, so we had to teach him everything and baptize him. Im very greatfull that God gave us that. But we keep busting our buts off. We had 2 investigators in church yesterday. Thats a miracle. And the real Miracle is they were new people. One was a guy that we invited to come to church in street contact. We did an idea that i have been wanting to do forever. we printed off the church derections and glued them to the pass along cards are we inveted everyone we saw to church, and the miracle of it all is that one person came to church. So maybe our new finding tequnique will just be doing that all day and the teaching the ones that come to church. We also we accompanied by the son of a Sister here. He is the last one in his family that hasnt been baptized. The family got baptizzed about a year and a half ago and entered the temple 6 months ago, now they are just waiting on hiim to accept. So we talked to him saturday and he said he would come. And he came for sacrament meeting! It was great to have new investigators in church. We see him again tommorrow. BUt thats basically the week. It feels good to be alive agian. Today for pday we just went and washed clothes at a members house. When we dont wach there we have to wash it by hand and that just sucks. Me and ELder Offerhall played card games like scum plack jack and speed and egyiptian rat screw. It was fun. Talking about all kinds of good pre misison things. Ohh and i completed 21 months saturday. Clouse goes home this transfer and Adams goes home this transfer...... what in the world! The zone leaders say i will probably trian. we will see. I think it would be fun. But whatever happens will be fun. Welp i love you all, its been fun chating at ya all. I hope you have a good week adn that all goes well!

Influenza

Well last night i came down pretty badly with the influeenza. No se preculpe. I already have talked to the Sister Treviño. THey got me taking antibiotics and everything. All of it has made me pretty tired. I thought it was a cold so i was taking some cold medicin to get rid of it, but it didnt do anythin so i succumbed to call Mama Treviño and she told me to go to a doctor and ya, i should be back on me feet really soon. I have just been absolutly exausted today. Elder offer-Hall is going to be doing divisiones with members untill i am fell better and i wil just be resting. Its kinda a bummer, but animodo.
  Well the area is really hard right now. We find people to teach daily, but we are really struggling to get the to progress. THey all feel like it would be turning thier backs on their previous religion. And when we talk about what is more importatn that or God, they just look ut us dumbfounded and dont do anything. Its a pretty tough situation. Erika still doenst want to accpet a date, she wants to wait a few MONTHS to prove to herself that she can keep the commandments, she doenst realy accept anything we say on the matter. We could possibly baptize 3 this saturday, but some pretty big miracles need to happen first. We have been praying alot for the last few days. SO we will see what HEavenly Father decides to do. It would be a bumber to go this months without baptizing. BUt there isnt anything more we could do so we just gotta be happy. Lat night we had the first people in a long time that have accepted a baptismal date in the first lesson. Its a family of 5. THey accepted a date for the 12 of february. SO cross your fingers that they can have the courage to do it. We have an appointment wiht them today at 8, so i gotta put alot of trust in elder offerhall and this member. THe people here are kinda wierd. Nobody wants comitments. THey all wnat to listen and nothing more. Its been taugh. Surprising i have had alot more pacience than nemal. Se wl will just have to wait and see if anything happens. BUt thats all for this week. Even though its taugh we still keep working really hard. We are becoming quite famos for being the only americanos. We printed out the church buildin adress and we glued it on the back of a bunch of passalong cards and in every contact we do we give it to them adn invite them to church. So wewill see what happens. Im prety exaughsted with the flu but everything will be ok. I love you guys and thanks for all your prayers, i certainly couldnt do this without all of your.

21 months...what?!

well this week was well long and fast. Erika is soo close to accepting a bauptismal date, she is just soo close we just gotta polish up a few things and ya! SHe will get baptized! We are going to go and see her right after this. Oracis and catolina are still waiting on getting a dovorce fro ex spouses so they can get marries and baptized. But we are getting really close to having my first baptizm here. THe lord is really wokring with Erika alot, she mae a ton of progress this week. I left her my Gospel prnciples book in hopes of getting her more exited. BUt thats the only investigator progress we have had so far. Nobody else is making any progress. We finde lots of ew people but most of them just want to liten to us and nothing more.  Too afraind to leave what they have and feel something new. ITs too bad, but we have te respect thier agency. Thtast about all really, we are working really hard to get things goin in the area, we are working right along with the branch counsil to get things up and moving. MAn my mind has alos been pretty heavy with all kinds of thoughts. I cant beleive im gonn complete 21 months this months. I dont know what im gonna do with myself. Every time i here a little bit about home it sem slike an atomic bomb has gone off and everything i once knew is now gone. So slowly getting nervouse about that! BUt i lve you and i sure am gratefull that in all of this my family will always be there! Long live eternal families woo hoo!

Christmas, a Transfer and Happy New Year!

DECEMBER 26, 2012


Well christmas went buy stupendously, i couldnt have asked for anything more. We christmas eve day we worked as normal, found some decent new investigators. THen in the afternoonwe went and had the baptismal service of Gustavo. Everything went perfectly for that. It took two aattempts to get him all the way done, but on the second one we gotterdon! he was freaking heavy! almost all of the water splashed out of the font! my mouth got filled, and it looked like we got baptized Alma style! then for the night we ate with a nearby member family. We ate a version of ham, it was really good, with spaguetti and basically funeral potatos. It was allr eally good. THen in the night me and elder Peña played Monopoly untill about 2 in the morning. THen we woke up at 630 as usual and went to church. It was just sactament meeting. We even had an investigator there, not bad for bing on CHRISTMAS day! so that was really sweet. the after we came back and continued playing monopoly untill it was time for elder peña to call. I fell asleep during the call. ANd then he finished and thats when i called you guys ad you hung up on the first attempt! MAn but i cant beleive how hard it was to speak english at first. Thats basically how all of us speak english to echother here. haha TOday we cleaned the house good and got clothes washed, then in the night im gonna get everything packed up nicely. My next comp is gonna be Elder Offer-hall.  Like i said yesterda i will be his second companion, so that means my load just got ALOT heavyier, well relly soon it will be. But im exited for the challenge of the area and everything it will be funand it will be good hard work! I lvoe you all. I hope everyone had a great christmas and i hope you all have fantastic new years. Take care and please keep praying for me i surly do need them! ANd Family, have problems? Try reading the scriptures together! 




JANUARY 2, 2012


Freak its 2012, Shouldnt we be living on the moon by now and have colonis on mars?? 

Ok so this week a good missionary week. I got te the are at about midnight Tuesday. Its actually farly big. ANythings bigger than ciudad Aleman anyways. But its really cold here when its cold, i can see my breath right now. ITs been raining for the last 24 hours and that makes it really cold. THis week has been alot of working really hard. We hvae been contacting alot and knocking alot. Im still working on getting  a hang of the new area. Its alot bigger than ciudad aleman. THere are actually people ahere and there ae even traffic lights. THe people so far have been pretty nice. It has been the holidays. BUt its beeen fun. Here we wil be able to work alot faster the in ciuadad aleman. Meaning we sould be able to more easily find more investigators and process them adn decide who are the ones that are reasy and who need a litle more time to ripen.  Elder Hoffer-Hall is from Las Vegas. He is a really smart kid. He was studing Spanish at byu before the mission. He got a million grants to study there i guess they even paid him a little. SO maybe a little of that can rub off on me seems that im gonna need it way to soon jajaja. THe branch is really small. There are a million inactive peopl here and only about 30 go to church regularly. SO that could be a little bit of an impedament. SO lots of working to do. Im not really sure how im goin gto do everything that needs to be done. I really hope to be able to raise branch strength and attendance. It all just starts one bite at a time. I really hope we can be blessed to baptized lts of good strong converts here so that they will stay and be good strength to the branch. I really hope everything goes good here. Seems that its goin to be my last area. The members that i hvae met so far are pretty sweet. I just keep praying that we will see the progress that i hope to see. So please keep praying for me and supporting me, i cant do any of this without you help! THanks for everything i love you guys! Take care!