December 20th, 2014

December 29th, 2014 - Christmas

Hey! It was so great to talk to you!! i love you so much! it was so great to see all your shining faces!! The time goes by so fast, but i think if we got more time, I would probably get homesick! So I know that the 40 minutes are really the best for us!! It was good seeing you all though!! So this Christmas what we did, was we talked to the family, on Christmas the buses go really slow, so we took a taxi and they are super expensieve!! but we were late so we took one!! So we could talk to our families that much faster!! It was good though!! After we went to the stake center and had food and had activities! We played volleyball and watched How to Train Your Dragon 2, such a great movie! We watched it in Spanish!! Yes I understook most of it!! ha It was a goood movie!! We played volleyball again and then did a tie exchange thing! It was cool! I got a cool tie! Things ended and we got back to our area! This is the best part of the whole Christmas... a Christmas I will never forget! I was praying for an oppurtinity that I could serve my Heavenly Father and do something more! I was praying super hard and on Christmas Eve, we saw a member in our ward named Hermano Cecillio! He is about 70 years old and he lives alone! He's a convert and when he converted his wife left him! It was about 10 years ago!! So we saw him in the street and said hi and what not!! We had the impression to go see him on Christmas so we did!! We got all of our things ready and what not!! We got the new ties and the shoe polish and bought dinner for him and took it to him on Christmas night!! He was all alone and he loved it!! We were going to share a message with him, but he was just talking and talking!! I wondered why and then the spirit hit me!! He just wants to be heard!! So we just listened and we were loving the spirit!! It was an amazing experience...so hard to put into words!!! It was a huge testimony builder that we don't need a huge Christmas to be happy!! My comp has been sick the past couple days, so not much else happened!! Just tons of studying and praying for all you guys!! Love you tons!! Love Ky

December 16th, 2014 - Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Hey! I first want to say thanks to everyone that sent me an email this week!! This email might be a little short because you all sent so many!! Thank you so much! It was a super-fast week here in Victoria! We had three divisions and on one of them I went with the x assistant! He was so great! I learned so much!! The spirit was so strong with him in everything!! I realized how much I can grow and strengthen my testimony because of the Holy Ghost in my life! He helped me to change my studies a little bit so now I’m just going to kill this mission thing!! Maybe! :) It was a good week! Yes it was the first time in my life that it was hot on my birthday!! It was a different birthday for sure!! Serving others on your birthday is exactly what the Lord would want me to be doing on my birthday… I believe! We had changes!!! I’m staying here in my area!! Libertad 2!! My new comp is!!! Elder Cammack! He is from Arizona and was a zone leader last change! He’s a great leader and comp! Ha yes we have the chance to speak English... do we... no!! We hardly ever speak English! Ha but when I have a question or don’t know a word he will tell me! He’s great! He teaches with the Holy Ghost and we already work really well together in the lessons! It will be a good change! For some reason the president is putting the gringos with the gringos!! I’m not sure why but it’s a little bit risky!! Ha we make sure we don’t carry much money!! It will be great to talk to you on Christmas mi familiar!! Thanks again for all of the birthday wishes!! Love you all so much and am praying for you!! Love Ky!!

Missionaries - October 30th, 2014

December 7th, 2014 - Finally got a package!

Hola!!

 

Happy Birthday Dad!! I love you tons!! The big 48!! Got it right this time!! This week was super-fast and pretty great! We went to Tampico this week for the meeting with the president! We are no longer new missionaries!! Isn’t that nice!! It goes by too fast though! It feels like yesterday that I arrived to Victoria, and next week we have changes so I might leave! So crazy! I love it here and don’t want to change! If it’s the Lord’s will, I will change though! Tampico was good! We had pizza and Subway, and the meeting was good about fully about missionary work! He expects a lot out of us so we need to step up to what he wants! The mission president is going to be a 70! (A general authority) I’m calling it!!

 

We had a couple good days once we returned from Tampico! I went on divisions and it went alright! One divisions my companion asked a new investigator to be baptized and it scared them! It was so funny!! I saved it... well only one! The other one didn’t want anything! We talked a lot of English, he was American!! He was the one that wanted to talk in English! Not me! I don’t like to speak English because it makes my Spanish a little bit worse every time that I speak English!

 

We have here a new video for the church! It’s called El as la Dad via! Super great!! Look it up!! We street contact with it! They gave us a ton of cards to give out!! It’s such a spiritual video! Every time you watch it you can feel the spirit! Our investigators are great!! We are working harder than ever!! That means Satan is also!! He works hard also so they don’t make the baptismal covenants also! We have a couple that are struggling to go to church! It seems like every week we have quite a few that go, but they are just random times! To be baptized here they need to have 5 time that they go and only miss once!! It’s hard! They can do it though! I would love to say that this week was super exciting but it wasn’t really too crazy!

 

It sounds like you all had a good week though! Strat you looked good in the video! Ha Trev watch out for your teeth! They are almost perfect! Houst give a hug to mom for me!! Yes I read the emails!! Ha I loved the Christmas devo! You have it so great there!! Next week I will give you all the details for the skype! I will make one today and then next week times for the skype and the info you need so we can do it!! Dad I love you tons!! When you get a year older so do I! You’re the best ever! Love you guys so much!

 

Love Ky

I got the Halloween package and the Christmas box...just not my birthday one! They are great! I didn't open the presents though!! not yet!

First Baptisms - November 29th, 2014

Most Beautiful Baptism Picture

Elder Facer is definitely the minority

Baptism of Orlando and Angelica Limas

Blurry picture of Ky

December 1st, 2014 - First Baptisms!!

Hey! It was a hard working week this week!! We had a lot of family nights with the members so it was a little difficult to do some of the things we wanted!! It was a good week though! We have a couple new family investigators and they are coming along really quickly!! It's great to see there progression! I'm finally starting to have a relationship with the members! The bad part is, we have transfers in two weeks! Yes on my bday! I'm just praying I don't leave the area!! It was a hard but such a rewarding week here!

We had the baptisms! We had two! Angelica Limas and her son Orlando! They were baptized by the husband, and well the dad!! It was time consuming but so worth it!! So Friday we got everything ready and Saturday we had the service! First went Orlando, then Angelica! After they had a huge hug in the font, Orlando was standing right there and he joined in! It was an amazing spiritual part for me! It kinda reminded me of Joseph Smith and his dad in the river!! It was great!! They are such a great family! I love them tons!!

I was asked about Thanksgiving! We didn't do anything here for Thanksgiving!! It made it easy though, because I forgot what day it was on, and it's hot here so it was just a normal week! I was asked about thanksgiving here, and I told them what we do.. They said, we don't do that here.... maybe because they live meal to meal and don't think about things like that!! Maybe dream but it's not possible for them!! I feel bad from some of them, so I had some elders buy the Idahoan potatoes at Walmart, and in this next week I'm going to give them to some of the families that we are close with and that I know that are struggling!! I love them all so much!!

The Spanish is coming along alright! I push through what I want to say in the bad Spanish that I have, but for the most part they understand! It may take me like 5 times but by the end they have the meaning! This next week we are going to Tampico for a meeting with president again! It's great here and I love serving the Lord!

Hope you all have a great next week!

Love Ky

November 24th, 2014 - 19 Investigators at Church

Hey!

 

It was one week that I will never forget!! It was such an amazing week!! So first! We have a baptism this coming week!! We have worked super hard with the family and made the dad reactivated and stop smoking and drinking, and now he holds the priesthood! So he can baptize his wife and his son!! So great!! This week, so hopefully this next week they keep strong and make it to Saturday!! It has been such a blessing to see the change in them over this period of 6 weeks and see how their lives are in harmony with the gospel now!! It was not us that changed them though!! It was the spirit that has testified to them!!

 

We had three divisions this week!! So I went with the zone leader one!! I was expecting him to be way happy and be great in the lessons, but he really wasn't!! I was surprised!! Hopefully when I get to that time in my mission I will be excited and going strong if you know what I mean!! It’s hard to put into words!! Second I went with the other district leader! Super divisions!! He was great!! I loved it! I learned so much!! He was in the rich part of the city!! Some houses are huge here!! Yes, I’m in the poorest part! The people are so much better though!! I love my area!! The third was with Elder Nautu!! He’s from Hawaii!! Great elder!! It was fun to speak English!! Ha my Spanish is coming quickly though!! This week it was grown so much!! It’s not me though!! Only through the help of the Lord am I able to do this!!

 

So it was a crazy week here with everything!! We were kind of nervous about church with our investigators, so anytime we had a visit, we invited them to church!! We had 19 go to church!!! It was awesome!! I’m not bragging... ha but it was amazing!! In all this greatness that we had, we had to give talks!! We heard about the talks Saturday!! Ha so I talked on repentance!! It is super easy in ingles... but it’s in Spanish!! Ha so I got prepared!! When I gave my talk, I never looked at my piece of paper…gift of tongues!! Who knows if they understood, but I thought I made pretty good sense!

 

I love it here! We had a great lesson this week with a guy named Caesar!! So we invited him to church and to pray and all that stuff!! We haven’t went to his house yet to ask but he was great and loved church!! The members here are awesome!! Every time they have a new person!! They jump to it!! It was an incredible week!! It sounds like you will be having a good week with Thanksgiving!! Eat a little for me!! I’m gaining weight here!! The pants are getting a little tight!! Ha well some!!

 

It was a great week! Love you tons!!

 

Love Ky

 

November 17th, 2014 - Cold Night

Hey!!

It was a good week this week!! Just a ton of missionary work!! To start off the week we had divisions and it went well!! It was cold and I didn’t bring everything... so I didn’t sleep very well but that’s ok!! With the help of the Lord I really wasn’t that tired the next day!! It’s getting super cold here though and I wanted to buy a heater but we can’t because you can’t trust Mexico and the gas problems!! So I just bundle up in the house!! It works out pretty well though! My comp tries to act like the tough guy... he’s probably going to get sick!! But hopefully he doesn’t!! He’s a great guy!!

We had the district class this week and it was amazing!! Every one of the missionaries are so amazing!! It was so spiritual!! I learned a ton!! It’s crazy how much you can learn from others! I was just taking it all in!! It will be great in the future to have those every week!! Since my comp is district leader, we will have divisions a ton!! This next week we will have it three times! It sounds kind of different, but I think it will be good! Learning from others!

We have a couple great investigators!! One has been to church 5 times, without the missionary discussions, in a different ward!! So we are teaching him now!! He just needs to go to church in our ward and he can be baptized!! It’s in 3 weeks! It was a heart breaker this week!! We were going to have a baptism this coming Sunday, but the family went to this fair to make money!! When I say make money!! It’s living day to day!! Maybe 200 pesos!! So they didn’t go to church!! It was sad! It was the first time they faulted though so they can go this coming week and in the following week they can be baptized!! We have worked hard with them because there Dad was inactive so got him activated and now he can receive the priesthood and baptize his family, it’s pretty awesome!! It’s amazing to see the changes in people’s lives!! We have some people we are teaching and it’s a total change!

The gospel is really the most amazing and true thing in the world! I love this gospel! This week we had the opportunity to have a one on one meeting with the president!! It was good to talk to him! He is like my dad in the mission!! He really does love us and you can feel it!! He is a great guy!! Mom!! He only has 6 months left!! So I will have two!! Ha I thought I would only have one!! But I guess not!! The new one will be called of God, so it’s the same! Just different people! It was really a good week here!!

I love you all so much and pray for you every personal prayer I have!! Have a great next week!!

Love Elder Facer