ok. first off. Abster. dude. you gotta stop sending me forwards i dont read them anyways. ok?? thanks :D second. Alcalá is super awesome!!!!!! here is out address.
C/ avena 7
Alcalá de Guadaira (sevilla)
41500
its super pretty. we have our own chapel! there are a lot of hills! im going to get in shape here haha. especially when we get the work to be to the point where we have to run every where. we have already started doing that a little bit but we have a little bit of a ways to go. we are super happy though. the only problem is that the ward is a little negative. ive noticed that a lot here but we are just going crazy. on saturday we set a baptismal date with this lady . we are excited for here. we have 3 dates for baptism now andddd we got this kid who didnt want anything to do with the church to accept going on a mission. so we will see where that goes as well.
umm today we are in sevilla we are pretty excited .. no hills. haha andddd super pretty lots of things to see and we are going to play soccer on grass. its a rare opportunity. to play on grass. haha. so yeah some elders have talked me up to the members about being goalie and stuff. people i dont know have brought it up its an exciting thing. so today at 330 its going down!!! haha we are so pumped and there are kids in my zone that played soccer in utah with me. ok well against me. i dont really remember them but they remembered me from provo and stuff so i guess its kind of cool. we are going with some of the hermanas to plaza de españa .. its kind of a big deal around these parts im excited to finally see it. haha.
Alcala is cool my comp is awesome we are going to have sucha great time together there is so much potential here and we are just going onward and upward i guess the quote of the week is.
you seldom come accross anything more enjoyable than a happy person.
keep that in mind. we are good. we are happy we are going to change this place. haha love you all thanks for all you do!!!!!!!!!!!! MMUUUAAHHHH
Monday, March 12, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Day 457
so i was in madrid last week and i didnt have time to do emails so i just told mom i was alive so that you all wouldnt worry. so i got to go to the temple and it was so amazing. it was just what i needed right now i miss the temple so much. i did it all in spanish and the person i had to talk to was french haha so... not going into details it was hard and frustrating haha. i feel like its been WAY TOO LONG since ive gone. . . dont let yourselves get that way.
we had to go to madrid cause mendoza had some paperworks to get done. spain is weird. when you have a kid you have to look in their dictionary of names to put the name. sooo his name is jhonny and in the dictionary they have johnny so he had to change it so he didnt have any more problems. kind of frustrating but its ok anyways.
i have some news for everyone. im ... leaving cartagena. i dont know how i feel about it. i love this place so much . buttttt such is life i guess. im going to a pueblo or a little city in the "state" if you can call it that .. the region of sevilla. its called alcalá de .... something. i dont know haha president told me alcalá but everyone around here says something else so ill get more info next week . lets see.
thats about all the exciting stuff. it was a suprise to me to be leaving buttt like i said . oh well. im going on wednesday i leave at 915 in the morning i get there at 630 at night. a long bus ride im not too excited. but oh well.
my new companion is the first on that i know before im with him he is a cool dude so im not worried im actually really really excited to be with him and i have only heard good things about hte area. president told me im going to a house not an apartment and its pretty much a mansion. its the biggest house in the mission for the missionaries so its about time a get treated like a king haha. anyways life is good im happy its weird that its march already time is flying by cartagena feels like a dream haha but anyways im good. ill talk to you guys next weeek! love you!
we had to go to madrid cause mendoza had some paperworks to get done. spain is weird. when you have a kid you have to look in their dictionary of names to put the name. sooo his name is jhonny and in the dictionary they have johnny so he had to change it so he didnt have any more problems. kind of frustrating but its ok anyways.
i have some news for everyone. im ... leaving cartagena. i dont know how i feel about it. i love this place so much . buttttt such is life i guess. im going to a pueblo or a little city in the "state" if you can call it that .. the region of sevilla. its called alcalá de .... something. i dont know haha president told me alcalá but everyone around here says something else so ill get more info next week . lets see.
thats about all the exciting stuff. it was a suprise to me to be leaving buttt like i said . oh well. im going on wednesday i leave at 915 in the morning i get there at 630 at night. a long bus ride im not too excited. but oh well.
my new companion is the first on that i know before im with him he is a cool dude so im not worried im actually really really excited to be with him and i have only heard good things about hte area. president told me im going to a house not an apartment and its pretty much a mansion. its the biggest house in the mission for the missionaries so its about time a get treated like a king haha. anyways life is good im happy its weird that its march already time is flying by cartagena feels like a dream haha but anyways im good. ill talk to you guys next weeek! love you!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Day 450
alright this will be short and sweet this week because i dont know what to say but as i go ill probably ramble enough to make it sufficient. this week i saw the importance of a lot of things. little things that have been making a big difference. haha . like always. its always the little things there is a talk by elder holland that is called the tongue of angels. in there he talks about how our tongues are little things compared to our body but they make the biggest difference im trying to remember because i dont have it written down but there was a scripture i want to say in peter im probably wrong its probably matthew but it talks about how the horses have a bit and the things that steer the boats are small but they make a huge difference when turning and stuff. its always the little things that affect us the most. well this week i noticed how small talking the sacrament to people is for us and the difference it makes in their lives. more for the people that cant do it for themselves or come to church and the importance of visiting those we are supposed to well our bishop came with us to this man and his wifes house. that we give them the sacrament every week. they dont ever leave the house because the husband had a motorcycle accident years ago. and is mentally handicapped. well not super bad but bad enough slow to speak and it costs him a lot to keep a conversation going. well he told us how great it is when he is able to take the sacrament and how the missionaries have helped him and his wife, the wife has been having problems taking care of her husband so long and not being able to leave and do the women things she needs in her life .. gossip and stuff haha talking basically. so we invited them to come one hour every week to sacrament meeting after some doubts they accepted and we will see them next week. we are really excited for them though he saw the importance of going to church and letting his wife have an hour a week to be among the members of the church and how he can sacrifice that for her to show his love. it was very powerful to see what really the understanding of a child does to us. so many times we talk about how young joseph smith is and all he did and how the scriptures say that we need to be like children humble meek submissive well i was thinking about that. the people that dont really throw fits about going to church are the kids. i think they understand the importance of going more than others. in the sacred reverence sense. i understand they cant pay attention as long as others and that that comes along with time but looking at the primaria kids when the sacrament is being served they really try their best to be the most reverent. it was just a cool experience. its been so long since they left and its going to be a great testimony to so many members that its possible to endure to the end.they have never given up hope in all the process since the accident its amazing.
we have some good investigators coming out of the woodworks just good people wanting to learn about jesus and how he can bless their lives. we are starting to get more support from the members and starting to see slowly the positive attitudes coming back. we are doing good we are happy i dont think i have been happier in my mission and i think that its ¨harder¨ now than it was in valdepeñas. but its different i dont know whats changed. mendoza is a boss. we are having a great time working hard and just loving the people. dont forget to do the little things decisions made today effect what happens tomorrow. you guys are awesome thanks for all the support and love have a great week!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Day 443
I'd been bugging Brad about sending me pictures. So he went a little crazy on Sis. Clegg's blog.
IM kind of really exhausted this week. it was cold in malaga like it said on the blog but it was a lot warmer than here so then i came back and just got sick its not fun. But i learned a lot there. and i am learning a lot right now about how pride precedes the fall. people are making decisions right now that i guess the affect us as far as the work goes but not to the extent of more than just feeling sorry for them not choosing the right. and i wanted to share something the pres. Clegg shared with us. the difference between simple and easy. its simple the gospel. its simple to have faith enough to repent and to be baptized and to get the spirit and to endure to the end keeping the commandments. its simple but its not always easy. for example people get in the habits of taking the lords name in vain. its simple to know that we should respect that but once caught in a habit .. how hard it is to get out of it. or keeping the sabbath day holy. sometimes its hard to sit in church for 3 hours i know for me it hasnt always been the easiest thing but its so simple to say. i mean if you think about it when you ask the youth a question what are the answers? i doubt they even pay attention to the question cause they always say read pray and go to church. its so simple to understand buy how easy is it to gut up a little bit earlier and read for 15 minutes out of the scriptures or to do home or visiting teaching? its only one time a month!! haha it seems so hard right now but im sure ill have those trials when i get home .. haha and its probably because im in the missionary mode and all im doing is making visits the only thing holding me back from having the visits is the people not letting us in. its simple to understand but its not always easy to do. Everyone has their trials that they are trying to work through we all have our weakness as it says in ether but how beautiful the atonement is that we can through jesus christ turn these weaknesses into strengths. life is really good right now. most missionaries say is hard. all we do is contact an pass by people and get rejected and repeat and repeat and trying to find different ways to do everything haha its ok though. life is good we are chugging. i dont mind it at all. at the beginning of my mission hated doing contacting but something i have learned to hate doing more is nothing. id rather go and get yelled at and laugh at them because of how funny it is than sit around in piso and do nothing haha. Life is phenomenal right now we are so good!!!!! we are progressing as a district and just overcoming our own weaknesses making it the best that we can! i love my mission i love spain its so much fun. and i love being bilinguel haha spanish is actually teaching me more about english haha its kind of cool. mendoza is amazing he is probably my favorite companion and we are just excited to go out and get people to accept us this week. HAppy valentines day!!! live it up this week! love you all!
IM kind of really exhausted this week. it was cold in malaga like it said on the blog but it was a lot warmer than here so then i came back and just got sick its not fun. But i learned a lot there. and i am learning a lot right now about how pride precedes the fall. people are making decisions right now that i guess the affect us as far as the work goes but not to the extent of more than just feeling sorry for them not choosing the right. and i wanted to share something the pres. Clegg shared with us. the difference between simple and easy. its simple the gospel. its simple to have faith enough to repent and to be baptized and to get the spirit and to endure to the end keeping the commandments. its simple but its not always easy. for example people get in the habits of taking the lords name in vain. its simple to know that we should respect that but once caught in a habit .. how hard it is to get out of it. or keeping the sabbath day holy. sometimes its hard to sit in church for 3 hours i know for me it hasnt always been the easiest thing but its so simple to say. i mean if you think about it when you ask the youth a question what are the answers? i doubt they even pay attention to the question cause they always say read pray and go to church. its so simple to understand buy how easy is it to gut up a little bit earlier and read for 15 minutes out of the scriptures or to do home or visiting teaching? its only one time a month!! haha it seems so hard right now but im sure ill have those trials when i get home .. haha and its probably because im in the missionary mode and all im doing is making visits the only thing holding me back from having the visits is the people not letting us in. its simple to understand but its not always easy to do. Everyone has their trials that they are trying to work through we all have our weakness as it says in ether but how beautiful the atonement is that we can through jesus christ turn these weaknesses into strengths. life is really good right now. most missionaries say is hard. all we do is contact an pass by people and get rejected and repeat and repeat and trying to find different ways to do everything haha its ok though. life is good we are chugging. i dont mind it at all. at the beginning of my mission hated doing contacting but something i have learned to hate doing more is nothing. id rather go and get yelled at and laugh at them because of how funny it is than sit around in piso and do nothing haha. Life is phenomenal right now we are so good!!!!! we are progressing as a district and just overcoming our own weaknesses making it the best that we can! i love my mission i love spain its so much fun. and i love being bilinguel haha spanish is actually teaching me more about english haha its kind of cool. mendoza is amazing he is probably my favorite companion and we are just excited to go out and get people to accept us this week. HAppy valentines day!!! live it up this week! love you all!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Day 436
this week has been the coldest week of my life. i hate humidity mixed with super hot and super cold. i dont know why the world cant just find a happy medium. but we are doing better than other places. we heard that in russia or something it was like minus 30 degrees C. and that inside this houses with the chimineys and stuff it was 0 degrees C ... id ont know farenheit anymore but that is really cold haha and i am glad that we are only at 3 outside and its a lot warmer inside i dont really know what though. this week is supposed to get warmer but its sitll cold like 7 degrees or something.
Elder mendoza and i are doing great we got a lot of future investigators with 6 or 7 that told us when we could specifically come back and meet with them ... come to the meeting and like always so far here in cartagena. no show. not even 1. frustrating but it is what it is. we are trying. ha. we are having fun with the knocking and talking with people and there are a lot of weird people that we are coming in contact with but what better way to enjoy ourselves. haha. im trying to think of what cool happened this last week. i bought a harmonica and now know like 4 songs .. all hymns of course but its cool haha its a lot harder than i thought it would be but it helps pass some of the time. also for carson and abster the piano ladies. i started learning the piano out here. i know like 2 hymns now haha YEAH!!! its kind of fun i played in church once for the sacrament meeting. that was kind of stressfull but it worked i didnt mess up too bad. at least no one noticed. then yesterday we were at an eating cita and they had a viola. it was kind of hard at first to get back in the grove after almost 2 years of not touching one. butttttt i did pretty good at the end. they liked it. too bad they were already members other wise i think we could have had more investigators. ummm. tomorrow i leave early for the other side of the world. im going to malaga for a conference .. dont worry ill try and steal hermana cleggs camera and take as many pictures as i can for the blog next week. we will see how it goes buttt i will be on a bus from 8 am til 4 pm tomorrow to have the metting and on wed return .. its going to be a long 2 days but im kind of excited to get out and take a breather from this place i think its something that is needed in all parts of the life. yesterday we had a stake conference with all of spain and portugal. it was pretty cool we had pres. Uchtdorf elder Christofferson elder Zwick and Sister Dalton speak to us. they had a lot of good experiences to share and i learned a lot . a lot of what they ahve been talkin about in church and stuff lately has been tithing and to stay aways from bad things .. its amazing how the world influences so many people i dont think i could have fully known if i wasnt here on a mission. but anyways life is good there arent any complaints we are just trying to do our best and get someone to teach. just know that you are all in my prayers morning and night and that im doing good. have a great week this week! ! ! ! love you all!!
Elder mendoza and i are doing great we got a lot of future investigators with 6 or 7 that told us when we could specifically come back and meet with them ... come to the meeting and like always so far here in cartagena. no show. not even 1. frustrating but it is what it is. we are trying. ha. we are having fun with the knocking and talking with people and there are a lot of weird people that we are coming in contact with but what better way to enjoy ourselves. haha. im trying to think of what cool happened this last week. i bought a harmonica and now know like 4 songs .. all hymns of course but its cool haha its a lot harder than i thought it would be but it helps pass some of the time. also for carson and abster the piano ladies. i started learning the piano out here. i know like 2 hymns now haha YEAH!!! its kind of fun i played in church once for the sacrament meeting. that was kind of stressfull but it worked i didnt mess up too bad. at least no one noticed. then yesterday we were at an eating cita and they had a viola. it was kind of hard at first to get back in the grove after almost 2 years of not touching one. butttttt i did pretty good at the end. they liked it. too bad they were already members other wise i think we could have had more investigators. ummm. tomorrow i leave early for the other side of the world. im going to malaga for a conference .. dont worry ill try and steal hermana cleggs camera and take as many pictures as i can for the blog next week. we will see how it goes buttt i will be on a bus from 8 am til 4 pm tomorrow to have the metting and on wed return .. its going to be a long 2 days but im kind of excited to get out and take a breather from this place i think its something that is needed in all parts of the life. yesterday we had a stake conference with all of spain and portugal. it was pretty cool we had pres. Uchtdorf elder Christofferson elder Zwick and Sister Dalton speak to us. they had a lot of good experiences to share and i learned a lot . a lot of what they ahve been talkin about in church and stuff lately has been tithing and to stay aways from bad things .. its amazing how the world influences so many people i dont think i could have fully known if i wasnt here on a mission. but anyways life is good there arent any complaints we are just trying to do our best and get someone to teach. just know that you are all in my prayers morning and night and that im doing good. have a great week this week! ! ! ! love you all!!
Monday, January 30, 2012
Day 426
first off its weird that abby is babyistting hahaha and second even more that she sends kids to their room haha i remember the kind of fits that she threw when the bedroom was even mentioned hahaha ... thats funny though good story.
Elder Mendoza is from Ecuador but has lived in madrid the last 10 years. He is older than me which goes to say .. since dec 1 of 2010 when i started this adventure i have been the younger in age companion of all of my companions that i have been with in the mission. my goal is that the next ones stay older than me in age still haha so i have hope i think its funny but it works. anyways just a fun fact.
he doesnt say much his spanish is phenomenal haha we have tried to enjoy our time together every moment so far. last night we dicided to play Risk haha i beat him in 30 minutes PLUS i had my guys on every single country and continent haha it was funny. we have a lot of high hopes for the coming weeks and all but you never know. next week i have to go to malaga for a concilio de los lideres de distrito que tengan de vez en cuando. creo que es cada 3 meses pero es mi primero y tengo la oportunidad para ir a mi primer lugar otra vez!!! haha im kind of excited for that just a little bit i know i wont see anyone but thats ok. ive almost been out here a year in the mission field thats crazy to think about. ... im getting distracted. mendoza he is a tall kid for ecuador. most of the people dont believe him when they ask haha but he is funny and he is really positive about everything . we just leave and look to have a great time enjoying ourselves in everything that we do. ummm. lets see life is good. im happy. we dont have much going on right now here in cartagena so it feels like the craziest thing is that we had transfers. right now we are still just trying to get someone to teach but we have a lot of hope with some people this week thats coming. anyways we will talk to you all the next week and i hope that you ahve the best weeks ever! haha love you!
Elder Mendoza is from Ecuador but has lived in madrid the last 10 years. He is older than me which goes to say .. since dec 1 of 2010 when i started this adventure i have been the younger in age companion of all of my companions that i have been with in the mission. my goal is that the next ones stay older than me in age still haha so i have hope i think its funny but it works. anyways just a fun fact.
he doesnt say much his spanish is phenomenal haha we have tried to enjoy our time together every moment so far. last night we dicided to play Risk haha i beat him in 30 minutes PLUS i had my guys on every single country and continent haha it was funny. we have a lot of high hopes for the coming weeks and all but you never know. next week i have to go to malaga for a concilio de los lideres de distrito que tengan de vez en cuando. creo que es cada 3 meses pero es mi primero y tengo la oportunidad para ir a mi primer lugar otra vez!!! haha im kind of excited for that just a little bit i know i wont see anyone but thats ok. ive almost been out here a year in the mission field thats crazy to think about. ... im getting distracted. mendoza he is a tall kid for ecuador. most of the people dont believe him when they ask haha but he is funny and he is really positive about everything . we just leave and look to have a great time enjoying ourselves in everything that we do. ummm. lets see life is good. im happy. we dont have much going on right now here in cartagena so it feels like the craziest thing is that we had transfers. right now we are still just trying to get someone to teach but we have a lot of hope with some people this week thats coming. anyways we will talk to you all the next week and i hope that you ahve the best weeks ever! haha love you!
Monday, January 23, 2012
Day 419
so i guess ill just start with the news. Anderson is leaving Cartagena... he is going to Granada. thats cool. i am getting a new companion.. obviously. his name is Elder Mendoza .. i dont really know where he is from President said that he is from chile or argentina or ecuador or something haha he didnt really know when he called which is fine the only thing that he really told me is that he doesnt speak english. that will be fun i wonder what missionaries have taught him already he doesnt have that much time in the mission but hopefully my spanish will get better haha. i have a lot of improving to do still. its nicer when you are forced into it its just so much easier with americans to just speak english its more sane haha.
this last week has been a good week just a lot of the normal stuff. but we have a plan for when mendoza gets here called operacion fenix. haha i wrote that in spanish. operation pheonix. i guess its still pretty similar but we are just going to go crazy haha now dont think that im going insame mentally out here im jsut excited to have fun. we are going to enjoy ourselves the next 6 to 12 weeks together haha. ummmm
lets see something crazy that happened this last week. we got offered wine more than normal. that was funny. kind of haha . we got along pretty well as a companionship.... thats good. and transfers thats about it really. things have been going alright its just hard to keep contacting and having that fire and animo when your comp just complains haha so with mendoza we will just change that right off. time is going by really well haha anyways i dont have much else to say we will have detes on the homie next week!! love you all!
this last week has been a good week just a lot of the normal stuff. but we have a plan for when mendoza gets here called operacion fenix. haha i wrote that in spanish. operation pheonix. i guess its still pretty similar but we are just going to go crazy haha now dont think that im going insame mentally out here im jsut excited to have fun. we are going to enjoy ourselves the next 6 to 12 weeks together haha. ummmm
lets see something crazy that happened this last week. we got offered wine more than normal. that was funny. kind of haha . we got along pretty well as a companionship.... thats good. and transfers thats about it really. things have been going alright its just hard to keep contacting and having that fire and animo when your comp just complains haha so with mendoza we will just change that right off. time is going by really well haha anyways i dont have much else to say we will have detes on the homie next week!! love you all!
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