March 19, 2018

this week was good, a miracle is that ricardo came back to tuxpan, so thats sweet. last week was sweet, it paid off.  i am going to make cinnamon rolls tomorrow night i think, we just got the ingredients today. i made banana pancakes this week with mnms because i couldnt find chocolate chips. i am studying matthew and acts and 2 nephi these days. I still havent gotten my package yet, but its in the offices, i should get it in a few days because someone is going to guadalajara. happy birthday, im glad everything is going good up north.

March 12, 2018

Hey momma, things are good here. diana still lives here, and ricardo is going to church in guzman, i think elder stubbs, My trainer, is teaching him. the work has been slow but we have been working really hard so its picking up. its getting so hot again, im getting a nice tan. this week we did some service i dont remember if it was this week or last, but we swept a giant bridge. elder vfelazquez is kinda sick so we didnt do anyhting today, there is nothing to do here in tuxpan, its so boring. im pretty happy, i dont think anything frustrating happened this week. Thanks for the email. I love you 

March 5, 2018

Hey momma, im stoked for the package, ill get it in april probly when i go to the offices for mission council. I dont like it that youre calling me fat. He has support from home, they dont have tons of money but they send him sometimes, and they write him. We have an oven, so i made apple bread in the oven from an recipe i saw on the sugar bag. It was good, i made it for an elders birthday. in trials, you can talk about the jaredites and how the same wind that beat them up is the one that took them to the promised land, i think thats a decent analogy, read ether to find the scriptures. biggest trial this week...i am soo tired always, it doesnt make sense. also, ricardo moved to ciudad guzman, which is like...far away. i am feeling better now. Best thing...mission council was super sweet.  I love you momma.

February 26, 2018

Hey momma, Ricardo and diana still arent married which is a bummer, but we havent had ward counsel to see if we could help them with the moneys. He (Elder Anderson) told us we need to make connections with people and be there friends, which is good because sometimes i am really rushed and just want to teach people, but we have to be their friends first. He told us we have to know 50 people between 15 and 25 that arent members and 50 that are. were getting there. The beans we pick are frijoles azufrados. Elder Velazquez has decent english, i need to work with him on it more, but we do work on it a lot. We cooked some vietnameze rice today, and i made some apple bread. My advice for someone preparing for a mission....make sacrifices? idk. read the book of mormon? dont be annoying. dont come to the mission to have fun, come to work and it will be fun. I did get the snowball fight, i opened it and was throwing them at everyone and me and elder velazquez and martinez had fun but eveyrone else thought we were idiots. You should definitely put food in the package, on the customs sheet just write missionary supplies, nothing else. and it should get here, i would be happy if you sent some sourpatch kids, and nutella :) This last week i learned to realize the importance of your calling, i was thinking about as a missionary you are always a representative of Christ, always, so you can never really relax, you are always dignified and worried about your investigators and people and its exhausting.