Cowgirl family 2-26-18

We ate with the cowgirl family last week (cool name, right?) and we offered to wash their dishes.

Elder Rosales, the Zone leader, took the lead and carried all the plates up to the washingboard and began to wash plates. When he got to the glasses, he broke EVERY SINGLE ONE. Don't ask me how. Then he grabbed a towel that was hanging up on a rope attached to the wall by a nail and the nail fell out and all of their clean clothes fell on the floor. So he picked it all up and and then with a board, tried to nail the nail back into the concrete wall. And when he did that, the power went out. I don't think the power was his fault but it was so fun and I'm pretty sure they won't invite us to eat again. 

This week was almost awesome. Jhadys didn't show up to be confirmed :/ 

But it's good she will come next week. Ana and Elias need some prayers cause they are gonna get baptized next week!! I am super excited. Antonia and Diana came to church and loved it. It's cool seeing how people naturally accept the Gospel!! 

This lady told me she was gonna give us lunch money this week. So we showed up at the time and place where she would meet us and a huge storm blew in out of nowhere and we just waited there for her in the rain, and she never showed up. Positive side: I counted 78 lightning strikes in less than a minute while we were getting drenched out in the rain

This week we were learning more about Christ and His ministry in Jerusalem. He is so cool. Really. Study what He does in the New Testament. It will change your life. 

Elder Rosales: "There is no salvation in believing false things." We believe in the One True God, and in his Son, Jesus Christ, whom He has sent. Period. No hay mas.

Well it's a short email this week cause we are going to celebrate my companions birthday today by going back to my old area and going to an ice cream fair. Woo!! 

Mini donuts 3-19-18

Well, my saturday live ukulele performance was moved back to Sunday, with the hopes that Erick, Jhady's brother, could receive the priesthood at church and then baptize his sister later that day. SO we prepared Erick, taught him the prayer, how to baptize, and explained the blueprints of trajectories and the water-solid physics transitions necessary for a perfect immersion in exactly 3.2 feet of water. They agreed.

I will never forget how it happened. 3:56 PM, 4 minutes away from starting our baptismal program when Jhady's and her family arrive. They quickly walked towards me and the mom said "Oh, I have some bad news for you". Casually thinking that it was a joke, I responded with a smile. My smile quickly faded as she told me they hadn't gotten any white clothing for Erick. (Side note: WHY WOULDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE THE BAPTISM?) Stress levels were high, tears were shed, and I had to kill my companion. Nah, we just ran around until we found a jumpsuit that only fit my companion. I felt bad, but I gave the responsibility of baptizing to Elder Eastmond! He was a boss and memorized the baptismal prayer in spanish in less than 5 minutes. I also, due to the insane amount of stress from my almost-wrecked baptism, screwed up on my live performance. What garbage, right? It's fine, at least she got baptized, right??!!

I'm almost positive I ate lunch today with a narco. (look up that word if you don't know what it means)

We were walking towards our house to eat on a beautiful Friday. The air was grey and contaminated, my feet hurt and someone had just insulted me in Spanish because I'm white. A black, very nice SUV pulled up next to me. "....... my car?" he asked. I didn't understand what he said in the beginning, so I said yes, and he sped around the corner I'm not kidding he was going like 45 miles an hour. He parked at a taco shop and got out, inviting us to lunch. I raised my suspiciones when he wasn't a member. He talked about the Elders from Santo Domingo, who I know personally because I was their District Leader 2 transfers ago. The missionaries he said don't exist in this mission. Hmm, right? He was very kind, made fun of us a little in the beginning and offered us whatever we wanted. Thinking ahead, I was humble and only got 2 tongue tacos. When he asked for the check he pulled out a wad of cash so freaking big that I think my jaw dropped in front of him. I've never seen so much money in one place (and mind you, this was in pesos, not dollars). He said thank you, got in his car and left. he was totally a narco. 

My stomach has been destroyed this week cause I bought some mini donuts and holy cow they wrecked me so hard. I've spent more time in the bathroom than I have with my companion, and we are together 24/7. So that means a lot. 

Fani doesn't want to be baptized, Edith and Cristopher are breeding annoying and don't come to church. We are holding out for Ana and Elias. I think they will be baptized in April. We will see. 

Last week I dreamed a dog got into our house at midnight, so I got up to let him out and then walked all the way to the end of our cul-de-sac and opened the gate for him to get out when I woke up and realized I was really far away from my companion, still asleep, and it was 12:30AM. Cool stuff, right? It's super believable that a dog would just let himself into our house at night, right??? 

This week at church I destroyed my ward cause they told me they wanted me to speak, the night before at 10pm. So I pulled out my scriptures and gave em a doozy. James 4:17 was the opening line. That scripture is also my spiritual thought for this week. Don't sin. 

The work is going strong, and my companion is a great missionary. Jesus Christ lives, and he loves us. 

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1. Baptism

Hi 3-12-18

Well, a quick email cause I started writing pages in my letter to President and forgot to write my weekly email here.

This week we are baptizing Jhadys, and it will be awesome. I was regalado a ukelele (thanks Elder Benson) so I'll get my first live concert perfomance chance this Saturday singing in her baptism. All are welcome to come. 

We also found Edith and Christofer this week, they came out of nowhere and really want to be baptized but for moving and other reasons they never could get baptized. Until now. And they are awesome. It's like teaching someone who already knows all the answers cause they've already received the visits from the missionaries! Woo! Christofer is the best. That 10 year old has a TESTIMONY. wow. 

We are also working with Ana, I contacted her mom and we met her and she had that thing where they revert to an earlier age in their brain development or something like that but she is regaining her abliity again and she wants to be baptized. Super cool stuff honestly. She has glasses like Harry Potter haha

We are also teaching Elias, a 12 year old we found one day. His parents said he would be lazy and wouldn't want anything and this week he did the opposite. He went to the mall on saturday and bought new shoes, a suit, a shirt, tie, and even a pocket square and showed up glistening like Edward from Twilight. it was so cool. he is gonna get baptized too in March. 

Antonia and Diana said they would be baptized! but then didnt come to church so ill work on that. 

But the biggest miracle is Mireya. She is the daughter of the Relief Society President who has been a member for 6 years. For 6 years she has said no, no, no to the missionaries and to the Gospel. She was rude, angry, and a real jerk to me haha. But this time I wouldn't take no for an answer and we started teaching her over 2 months ago. And this last week she came to church, when we visited her she was smiling, she read the Book of Mormon and accepted to be baptized. She just didn't accept a specific date. But the HUGE change that I've seen in her shows how powerful the teachings of Jesus Christ are!!!! I'm so happy for her. 

We had a zone conference which was awesome too

hmm what else happened.... 

-I ate subway. That was amazing. 

-I ate tongue tacos too. They weren't that bad until I looked at them and saw the cow taste buds haha. ew. 

-I went to Santo Tomas Ajusco on comp exchanges and its like UTAH THERE ARE MOUNTAINS WOW 

-I went to a Zone Conference and had chicken salad like a true red white and blue blooded american

-I cooked carne asade on an open fire with my bare hands, and then cut a lime in half with a massive axe mid-air. im such a lumberjack

-I saw an Audi R8 just casually strolling down the street in my dirt poor neighborhood. no respect for the poor i guess 

-I got this fork, but like the two side prongs are tiny and the one in the middle is giant and its for stabbing mangos i think

-thats it

sorry for a short email but i love you all and i hope you have a great day and a great week! 

Mosiah 3:19 - 3 Nephi 9:22 - 3 Nephi 11:38. Substitute the word 'baptism' for 'sacrament', because after all, thats what the sacrament is. its a mini baptism. 

Pics

my comp with his first subway sandwich in Mexico :')

3-5-2018

Greetings from planet Earth! (Jimmy Nuetron line)

This week was rough, no one was home, no one wanted a visit, everyone lied to us or canceled and it was just awesome. I wanted a good first week for my son, but oh well. Next week will be better! The good part is that Jhadys will be getting baptized soon, and Elias too! 

Me and Eastmond are getting along great, and having fun over here! 

If we were named according to the Catholic naming system, I would be Melesio and Eastmond would be Braulio. Thank you Mom and Dad for not naming me so. 

I wish i had more time but I don't. I will say more next week, love you guys! Enjoy the pictures!!!! 

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