Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The Lord Prepares His People - May 18th, 2015
Hola!
Sounds like you all had a good week here in IF and also in the DR!! Dad you can come down here to Mexico and be my comp! Sounds good to me!.) It was a super quick week but super great and full of experiences!! Too bad we only have an hour so I can just tell you a couple!!
So we are starting to get the confidence of the members here in the area and we went to sister Montolongos house and were going to see if she could go with us to a lesson but she said... elders!! Enter Enter!! So we went into here little garage thing because there wasn’t a man over 18 so we couldn’t enter the house, but we had chairs what not so we sat there and she told us that she had someone that wanted to talk to us!! We said alright and were a little confused because it’s all member that live there!! As we were waiting she came out with the helper at the house!! She has been helping them for over 15 years and has never listened to the missionaries!! Remember this family is super strong in the church!! All the sons went on missions and the dad is in the bishopric and everything!! She hasn’t listened to them once!!! I’m not sure how but it happened!! The lord really does prepare the people for us!!! He’s doing the work and touching their hearts to hear the message of the restoration! We had the lesson and it was super powerful!! We didn’t want to push here super hard because it could turn everything upside down with her help and the family... so we are taking things slowly and this week we will return and see if she really did the commitment on reading and praying to see if it’s true!!! She is pretty great!! Ha by the way her name is Mari!
We also had a lesson last night with a part member family Family Rios! Three families live in one house and the kids are all members and live with their families in the house!!! The house is tiny!!!! The son is less actives but know everything is true and his wife isn’t a member!! We showed and told them we had a very specific lesson just for them!! Ha we sat down and started talking!!! We started talking about random things and then my comp asked him what was his favorite movie... he told us Fast and Furious!!! Ha so funny!!! He got all into it and what not!! It just clicked!! Thanks to my comp!! We are best friends with them now!) We then shared a message with them about the Book of Mormon so that the wife can know if it’s true and we tied it in with families can live together forever!! We testified super strongly that the Book of Mormon holds it all together and that she can know if it’s true!! We had a moment of silence and the husband started to talk!!! He bore his testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and that one day, in the near future she will know it’s true and that they will have a family that can live forever only through the temple!! It was so powerful because he was testifying these things to her!! It was amazing because with the love that they have and the trust in a marriage makes it a lot more powerful than us missionaries could ever do it!! We ran home because we were a little late in awe!!! Made it home on time and both sat there saying how amazing it was!! I am sure your experience was just has great as mine dad and I know how strong the spirit is when you testify of the gospel!! Love you guys tons and hope you have a great week!!! Know that you’re always in my prayers!! Especially Grandpa Facer!!!!
Love Ky!!!
We have a baptism coming up on the 30th!!!!! Family Moctazuma Loreda!!!! Pray for them!!!!: Love you all!!!
Mother's Day - May 11th, 2015
Hey,
It was great to see you all this Mother’s Day!! Like what the Lundberg family would say... it was a tender mercy from the Lord!;) ha I haven’t laughed so hard from that for a long time! HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AGAIN! I love you Mom and I am so grateful that I have the best mom ever.. You can’t beat her!!! Dad I also told the Lundbergs that you will be giving them some potatoes!!!!
We had a great week here in Modelo! We are continuing to work hard and see the progress in the area! The members are continuing to work more with us and also see the vision that we have for the area! Family Moctazuma is a part member family that should be baptized in the coming weeks!! They are super great! The wife isn’t a member and one of the kids isn’t also!! They are progressing way quickly! The husband is a less active and he is all for the church!! The ward is also having a couple activities and the kids are participating in them also!! They are basically like members!!
Well I’m not sure what more to say because you guys all know everything!! It was great to talk to you! Love you guys so much and am grateful to have an amazing family! You are always in my prayers!! Have a great week mom and dad in the D.R.!! You deserve the little trip!!
Love KY Elder FACER
We had a great week here in Modelo! We are continuing to work hard and see the progress in the area! The members are continuing to work more with us and also see the vision that we have for the area! Family Moctazuma is a part member family that should be baptized in the coming weeks!! They are super great! The wife isn’t a member and one of the kids isn’t also!! They are progressing way quickly! The husband is a less active and he is all for the church!! The ward is also having a couple activities and the kids are participating in them also!! They are basically like members!!
Well I’m not sure what more to say because you guys all know everything!! It was great to talk to you! Love you guys so much and am grateful to have an amazing family! You are always in my prayers!! Have a great week mom and dad in the D.R.!! You deserve the little trip!!
Love KY Elder FACER
It's True!! - May 4th, 2015
Hey!!
Well to finish the little story of last week we went to the house of Hna Pati and Hno Salvador!! Well... it’s true!! It was an amazing lesson and the Holy Ghost was so powerful! We asked him to read 3 Nephi 11 and he did!! We asked him how it went and he then just went off on the whole chapter telling us everything!! It was so great!! He told us how Jesus called to Nephi and told him to baptize the city and everything it was such a great experience that words can’t do it justice in this letter!! We then asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he said yes and his wife, didn’t read, so we invited her to read also and then ask our Heavenly Father if it’s true and if she gets the answer that it’s a yes will she be baptized also!! She agreed but while we listened they just talked to each other and she asked him [do you really know its true?] with the Book of Mormon in his hand and shaking his hand, said yes... it’s true!! It was an experience that was a testament that our Heavenly Father does answer our prayers and it’s not just to see if the Book of Mormon is true but it’s for everything! If we ask him directly, we will receive! He lives and he loves us and wants to help us out in our lives! As we do our part we will receive... we just have to knock!
We also have a family that is progressing super quickly and they seem like members in the church already! We just have to help them continue to attend church and at the end of this month they will be able to be baptized!!
It was a good week and I learned this week that I have to think before I talk! Have maybe a little silent moment and think what’s best out of the many options! This week we had a meeting with Elder Johnson! He is a president of the area or something like that in the 70!! The main message of the story was to repent!:) It’s true because we have to continue to do it every day! It doesn’t just have to be with little sins but there are ways we could change our good actions into great actions!!
We heard all about the fight here in Mexico!! They all told us how terrible and boring it was and basically how it was just a show!!.) They both won a ton of money though!:) Might become a fight now!;) ha
We are having fun and continuing to work hard every day!! Hope to see all your... white faces this Sunday!! Especially yours mom!! :) On the great mother’s day!! I really do have the best mom!! Sounds like you all had a great week this last week!! Strat continue to work hard on bball and Trev get better quickly!! Houst.. didn’t hear from yah but I know you’re doing great!! Love you mom and dad! Love you guys tons!! Have a great week this week and we will talk shortly this Sunday!!
Love, Ky
Well to finish the little story of last week we went to the house of Hna Pati and Hno Salvador!! Well... it’s true!! It was an amazing lesson and the Holy Ghost was so powerful! We asked him to read 3 Nephi 11 and he did!! We asked him how it went and he then just went off on the whole chapter telling us everything!! It was so great!! He told us how Jesus called to Nephi and told him to baptize the city and everything it was such a great experience that words can’t do it justice in this letter!! We then asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he said yes and his wife, didn’t read, so we invited her to read also and then ask our Heavenly Father if it’s true and if she gets the answer that it’s a yes will she be baptized also!! She agreed but while we listened they just talked to each other and she asked him [do you really know its true?] with the Book of Mormon in his hand and shaking his hand, said yes... it’s true!! It was an experience that was a testament that our Heavenly Father does answer our prayers and it’s not just to see if the Book of Mormon is true but it’s for everything! If we ask him directly, we will receive! He lives and he loves us and wants to help us out in our lives! As we do our part we will receive... we just have to knock!
We also have a family that is progressing super quickly and they seem like members in the church already! We just have to help them continue to attend church and at the end of this month they will be able to be baptized!!
It was a good week and I learned this week that I have to think before I talk! Have maybe a little silent moment and think what’s best out of the many options! This week we had a meeting with Elder Johnson! He is a president of the area or something like that in the 70!! The main message of the story was to repent!:) It’s true because we have to continue to do it every day! It doesn’t just have to be with little sins but there are ways we could change our good actions into great actions!!
We heard all about the fight here in Mexico!! They all told us how terrible and boring it was and basically how it was just a show!!.) They both won a ton of money though!:) Might become a fight now!;) ha
We are having fun and continuing to work hard every day!! Hope to see all your... white faces this Sunday!! Especially yours mom!! :) On the great mother’s day!! I really do have the best mom!! Sounds like you all had a great week this last week!! Strat continue to work hard on bball and Trev get better quickly!! Houst.. didn’t hear from yah but I know you’re doing great!! Love you mom and dad! Love you guys tons!! Have a great week this week and we will talk shortly this Sunday!!
Love, Ky
The Holy Ghost is Real! - April 27th, 2015
Hey!!
It was a good week here in Modelo!! It was the last week in the change and we continued to work hard!! We stayed the same so it will be good to finish out training Elder Lundberg! He is a great missionary, and even though he may be new, I still learn things from him every day!! This week we became friends!! There is a change from comps and friends... we are friends!! I’m not sure how it really happened but we kinda just started to talk and we ended up talking about our lives and what not and it really just changed our friendship!! We will be friends after the mission also! He’s doing good!! Battling with the Spanish but improving every day.. gaining more confidence and the gift of tongues is guiding him through the lessons!!
It was an interesting week!! We had a couple hard days but the lord always blessed us in that day with an experience that was super spiritual! A week or so ago we contacted this family in the street and they said that we could come back the following week, so Monday of this week we went over to their house... Big Big house!! It’s rare because usually the people that have money just reject us, but anyways, we went to their house on Monday and they weren’t there, so we just continued to work that day and passed the house and all the sudden we were a little ways off and we heard whistling and they were calling us down!! We turned around and went back to them and they told us sorry and what not that they were gone at his mom’s house and how we could come back any other day and they would make sure to be there!! So we put it down another day and went back!! We went back I think it was Friday and had an amazing lesson!! The Holy Ghost is super powerful and they accepted the Book of Mormon and said they really have been searching for something like this in their lives!! The wife Pati started to cry and really wanted to know if the Book of Mormon is true.. well to end the story we are going back tonight to see how it went and to see if they have received an answer! I have confidence in my Heavenly Father that if they have done their part and asked, they will have received an answer!! The Holy Ghost is real and touches the investigators hearts, we are just a small part in the process as missionaries!!
I love you guys tons and it sounds like your week was good!! I pray that the Lord will continue to bless you in all you do!!
Love Ky!!
It was a good week here in Modelo!! It was the last week in the change and we continued to work hard!! We stayed the same so it will be good to finish out training Elder Lundberg! He is a great missionary, and even though he may be new, I still learn things from him every day!! This week we became friends!! There is a change from comps and friends... we are friends!! I’m not sure how it really happened but we kinda just started to talk and we ended up talking about our lives and what not and it really just changed our friendship!! We will be friends after the mission also! He’s doing good!! Battling with the Spanish but improving every day.. gaining more confidence and the gift of tongues is guiding him through the lessons!!
It was an interesting week!! We had a couple hard days but the lord always blessed us in that day with an experience that was super spiritual! A week or so ago we contacted this family in the street and they said that we could come back the following week, so Monday of this week we went over to their house... Big Big house!! It’s rare because usually the people that have money just reject us, but anyways, we went to their house on Monday and they weren’t there, so we just continued to work that day and passed the house and all the sudden we were a little ways off and we heard whistling and they were calling us down!! We turned around and went back to them and they told us sorry and what not that they were gone at his mom’s house and how we could come back any other day and they would make sure to be there!! So we put it down another day and went back!! We went back I think it was Friday and had an amazing lesson!! The Holy Ghost is super powerful and they accepted the Book of Mormon and said they really have been searching for something like this in their lives!! The wife Pati started to cry and really wanted to know if the Book of Mormon is true.. well to end the story we are going back tonight to see how it went and to see if they have received an answer! I have confidence in my Heavenly Father that if they have done their part and asked, they will have received an answer!! The Holy Ghost is real and touches the investigators hearts, we are just a small part in the process as missionaries!!
I love you guys tons and it sounds like your week was good!! I pray that the Lord will continue to bless you in all you do!!
Love Ky!!
It's HOT! - April 20th, 2015
Hola!
It was a great week here in Tampico!! The weather seems nice on the iPhone, but when you get here... wow it’s so hot!! humid!! We only have one fan in the house so we are sweating a ton!! I think it evens out because I eat a ton and I sweat a ton so I just stay the same weight!:) It’s really going good here! My comp is doing great and I’m learning about the rodeo life! I’m gonna ride a bull when I get back!;) We had a couple different things happen this week!! We had divisions and I stayed in my area with an Elder Weddle! He is crazy and from Ohio!! I’ve never laughed so much from the things he says!! He’s a newer elder also and still has in him all of the funny things!! It’s like they don’t have limits yet! If you know what I mean! It’s kind of hard to explain!:)
We also had the meeting for all the new elders with president! It was super great! The spirit was so strong! We split up and all of the trainers stayed in one room and the new elders went in the other with president!! We were with the assistants! It was amazing! We had to teach the doctrine of Christ!! There are so many ways I can improve my teaching and when an elder teaches the doctrines of Christ, they are teaching the ways that he did, and he wants us to teach! I’ve got a long way to go!! We also had a different day Sunday! Church went well and we had a couple investigators go! We found a part member family and they are so wonderful!! The husband wants them all to be baptized, so we put a date with them and they came to church! We are excited for them and they seem like they will complete will all of their desires!! We had lunch and went out and worked again but the first lesson we had we got rejected and they just didn’t want anything to do with us... not something totally new but you can just feel the spirit leave! We left quickly and went to the next lesson!! We said a little prayer together on the way and taught the same lesson to the next family! We changed the lesson a little bit, but it was just amazing how you can feel the Holy Ghost influence the people in their lives! The day was starting to get better and we went to a less active that can’t go because she is super sick! Her name is Hna Trivinu! We went over to her house and gave her the sacrament and she also asked for a blessing! The spirit was there and you could feel it!! It’s amazing how the Lord blesses our lives with the Holy Ghost! The Holy Ghost is really the one that touches the people lives, we are only a mouth piece!
My thoughts have turned this week to the atonement of Jesus Christ and the blessing we have in our lives! There are many parts of the bible that have this but the parts I have read most are in Matthew 26 and 27! I’m so grateful of the atonement in my life and the opportunity I have to share with others the blessings and happiness they can have in their lives!! I love you all and seems like your weeks were good!! Trust in the lord and always come closer to him by doing the things that he wants of us!! Grow your testimony and conversion in him and you will never fall!! Feel the Holy Ghost in your life every day and see the difference that in makes!!
Love you tons! Love Ky
We also had the meeting for all the new elders with president! It was super great! The spirit was so strong! We split up and all of the trainers stayed in one room and the new elders went in the other with president!! We were with the assistants! It was amazing! We had to teach the doctrine of Christ!! There are so many ways I can improve my teaching and when an elder teaches the doctrines of Christ, they are teaching the ways that he did, and he wants us to teach! I’ve got a long way to go!! We also had a different day Sunday! Church went well and we had a couple investigators go! We found a part member family and they are so wonderful!! The husband wants them all to be baptized, so we put a date with them and they came to church! We are excited for them and they seem like they will complete will all of their desires!! We had lunch and went out and worked again but the first lesson we had we got rejected and they just didn’t want anything to do with us... not something totally new but you can just feel the spirit leave! We left quickly and went to the next lesson!! We said a little prayer together on the way and taught the same lesson to the next family! We changed the lesson a little bit, but it was just amazing how you can feel the Holy Ghost influence the people in their lives! The day was starting to get better and we went to a less active that can’t go because she is super sick! Her name is Hna Trivinu! We went over to her house and gave her the sacrament and she also asked for a blessing! The spirit was there and you could feel it!! It’s amazing how the Lord blesses our lives with the Holy Ghost! The Holy Ghost is really the one that touches the people lives, we are only a mouth piece!
My thoughts have turned this week to the atonement of Jesus Christ and the blessing we have in our lives! There are many parts of the bible that have this but the parts I have read most are in Matthew 26 and 27! I’m so grateful of the atonement in my life and the opportunity I have to share with others the blessings and happiness they can have in their lives!! I love you all and seems like your weeks were good!! Trust in the lord and always come closer to him by doing the things that he wants of us!! Grow your testimony and conversion in him and you will never fall!! Feel the Holy Ghost in your life every day and see the difference that in makes!!
Love you tons! Love Ky
The Lord is more powerful than Satan - April 13th, 2015
Hey!
It was a great week here!! The area is coming along super quickly!! We worked our tails off this week and thought we were gonna get to take a nap this week, but they are doing some construction above us... so we didn’t get much!;) We had a good week though!! We had our first divisions of this change! Wasn’t something new for me but for my comp!! We had a good little divisions though!! I stayed in my area with one of the Zone leaders! His name is Elder Thalti! It was great to be with him and I learned a lot!! It’s amazing how much you can learn in a day!!
We found a lot of new investigators this week!! We found this new family! Super great!! Family licion hdz!! We taught them the first lesson and at the end of the lesson he asked us about a prayer, where you put your hands on the head and what not!! I was super confused at first then I remembered the blessing!! He asked if we could give his wife one the next time we went to his house!! We returned a couple days later and explained the blessing and gave a blessing to her!! It was a great expérience! He was all about the blessing!! Once we finished he asked her.. how do you feel? expecting her to say something huge! It was super funny!! Great family!! This Sunday was fast Sunday and it was super great!! The spirit was super strong!! The husband went to church this week!! The rest of the family couldn’t go but he went and it was a good experience for him!!
My comp is doing great!! He’s coming along super quickly!! He will be a great missionary when he can speak the language fully!! He’s starting to be more brave and go for it during the lessons, so it’s good!!
We have found some families that are progressing super quickly!! It’s crazy how to see how the closer the people are to be open to know the truth of this gospel how Satan is working hard also so that they wont’!! With the Lords help they can always know of the truth because the Lord is a lot more and will always be more powerful than anything of Satan!!
I’m doing great and mom no need to worry about my health! I’m doing good!! The Mexican food is super good!! Sometimes I eat way too much and it’s not good because we have to walk a ton after!;) Sounds like you all had a great week!! Super busy with school, sports, and work and the house!! Seems like so long ago that we were always running around to the different events!! I know that you’re all doing great and put my trust in the Lord that he will continue to make the right choices in whatever it is!! I love you guys and so grateful for the amazing family that I have!! I’m so grateful for the plan that my Father in Heaven has for us, that we can live together after this life para siempre!:) What a great blessing that is!! I know this is the only true church and when we follow the teachings of it, we will be happy!! I love you guys and pray that the Lord will strengthen and bless all of your lives in whatever you may be doing!
Love you all! Love, ELDER FACER
It was a great week here!! The area is coming along super quickly!! We worked our tails off this week and thought we were gonna get to take a nap this week, but they are doing some construction above us... so we didn’t get much!;) We had a good week though!! We had our first divisions of this change! Wasn’t something new for me but for my comp!! We had a good little divisions though!! I stayed in my area with one of the Zone leaders! His name is Elder Thalti! It was great to be with him and I learned a lot!! It’s amazing how much you can learn in a day!!
We found a lot of new investigators this week!! We found this new family! Super great!! Family licion hdz!! We taught them the first lesson and at the end of the lesson he asked us about a prayer, where you put your hands on the head and what not!! I was super confused at first then I remembered the blessing!! He asked if we could give his wife one the next time we went to his house!! We returned a couple days later and explained the blessing and gave a blessing to her!! It was a great expérience! He was all about the blessing!! Once we finished he asked her.. how do you feel? expecting her to say something huge! It was super funny!! Great family!! This Sunday was fast Sunday and it was super great!! The spirit was super strong!! The husband went to church this week!! The rest of the family couldn’t go but he went and it was a good experience for him!!
My comp is doing great!! He’s coming along super quickly!! He will be a great missionary when he can speak the language fully!! He’s starting to be more brave and go for it during the lessons, so it’s good!!
We have found some families that are progressing super quickly!! It’s crazy how to see how the closer the people are to be open to know the truth of this gospel how Satan is working hard also so that they wont’!! With the Lords help they can always know of the truth because the Lord is a lot more and will always be more powerful than anything of Satan!!
I’m doing great and mom no need to worry about my health! I’m doing good!! The Mexican food is super good!! Sometimes I eat way too much and it’s not good because we have to walk a ton after!;) Sounds like you all had a great week!! Super busy with school, sports, and work and the house!! Seems like so long ago that we were always running around to the different events!! I know that you’re all doing great and put my trust in the Lord that he will continue to make the right choices in whatever it is!! I love you guys and so grateful for the amazing family that I have!! I’m so grateful for the plan that my Father in Heaven has for us, that we can live together after this life para siempre!:) What a great blessing that is!! I know this is the only true church and when we follow the teachings of it, we will be happy!! I love you guys and pray that the Lord will strengthen and bless all of your lives in whatever you may be doing!
Love you all! Love, ELDER FACER
Loved Conference - April 6th, 2015
Wow!!
What a crazy week here in Tampico!! We were so busy with tons of stuff this week!! We were always running around and sweating so much!! It’s super humid here and it just makes you sweat a ton!! Especially when you are walking.... basically running from house to house! ;)
The area is coming along quickly this week! We had a good week!! On Friday we had a meeting with president and another zone where he could teach us and it went super well! He just made our visions a whole lot bigger!! ha He’s a great boss!,) The zone meeting went well and it was fun to see a lot of the other elders that I know and from my zone and from other areas that I’ve known them!! They all seems to be doing great!! We came back into our area and it was one of the busiest days that I’ve had in the mission!! We came back and ate and went on the go!! We had a couple good lessons but then we went with a family that’s progressing super well!! We got there and invited them to the conference and they told us about the day they went to a baptism there and how it was so bonita and how they want it and what not!! It was so amazing!! They are great!! The husband Martin is a less active and he went to the priesthood session and the rest Lilian, Mari, Brenda, and Alex of the family went to three out of the 4 sessions!!! How great is that?? We will have to figure out a couple things in the next couple weeks, but in the end of this month we are hoping that they will be baptized!! I love them and so excited for that day!!
My comp is doing great!! He is coming along quickly and he’s surprised how busy we are!! When we looked back on that last week... he told me... there’s nothing more we could have done... my goal is to make it like that all of the weeks of my mission!!! Just be more organized and it should be more effective!! We seem to be working with the members more closely!! We have gotten the trust of most of them and now we just need to put it into practice with them and how they could help all of our investigators!!
Sound like you all had a great week!! I hope you all listened super closely to the conference!! Some super great talks... better get off those phones!,) we watched in English with all the rest of the missionaries that speak English!! We also had a couple of ladies that were stuck here in Mexico... got converted and just got the papers to go back!! So they were watching it here with us also!! They are great!! My favorite talk was Elder Holland’s!! I just love the way he goes about it his talks, and the love he has for our savior Jesus Christ and our loving Heavenly Father!! That’s something that I want to grow here on the mission!! But it really will take years to develop!! I love you guys and trust in the Lord that you are all doing well and deepening your conversions!! Happy birthday Chad!! Congrats Brax and Alesha!!
Have a good week!! Love Ky!!
The area is coming along quickly this week! We had a good week!! On Friday we had a meeting with president and another zone where he could teach us and it went super well! He just made our visions a whole lot bigger!! ha He’s a great boss!,) The zone meeting went well and it was fun to see a lot of the other elders that I know and from my zone and from other areas that I’ve known them!! They all seems to be doing great!! We came back into our area and it was one of the busiest days that I’ve had in the mission!! We came back and ate and went on the go!! We had a couple good lessons but then we went with a family that’s progressing super well!! We got there and invited them to the conference and they told us about the day they went to a baptism there and how it was so bonita and how they want it and what not!! It was so amazing!! They are great!! The husband Martin is a less active and he went to the priesthood session and the rest Lilian, Mari, Brenda, and Alex of the family went to three out of the 4 sessions!!! How great is that?? We will have to figure out a couple things in the next couple weeks, but in the end of this month we are hoping that they will be baptized!! I love them and so excited for that day!!
My comp is doing great!! He is coming along quickly and he’s surprised how busy we are!! When we looked back on that last week... he told me... there’s nothing more we could have done... my goal is to make it like that all of the weeks of my mission!!! Just be more organized and it should be more effective!! We seem to be working with the members more closely!! We have gotten the trust of most of them and now we just need to put it into practice with them and how they could help all of our investigators!!
Sound like you all had a great week!! I hope you all listened super closely to the conference!! Some super great talks... better get off those phones!,) we watched in English with all the rest of the missionaries that speak English!! We also had a couple of ladies that were stuck here in Mexico... got converted and just got the papers to go back!! So they were watching it here with us also!! They are great!! My favorite talk was Elder Holland’s!! I just love the way he goes about it his talks, and the love he has for our savior Jesus Christ and our loving Heavenly Father!! That’s something that I want to grow here on the mission!! But it really will take years to develop!! I love you guys and trust in the Lord that you are all doing well and deepening your conversions!! Happy birthday Chad!! Congrats Brax and Alesha!!
Have a good week!! Love Ky!!
Hna Teresa was baptized - March 30th, 2015
Hola!!
Tuvimos el bautismo!!!! We had the baptism!! It was a good week!! The baptism went well!! There probably won’t be a baptism in the mission that goes super smoothly!! This one didn’t but hna Teresa got in the water!;) The baptism was scheduled for 3 and it lasted until 5:30!! Because people had to come and what not!! I got to be the witness because we didn’t have priesthood sufficient!! It was a good experience!! She was so ready to be baptized!! She’s great!! She really has a great spirit about her!! I would love to say we found her and what not but a lot of time that’s not the case. We just had to make sure that she went to church and had to finish some of the lessons. We also had to activate her cousin because she wanted him to baptize her. He was less active but we got it all together and it went through. It was a good experience for my comp!! The first one!!
It’s going great with my comp!! He only gets frustrated with the language but I can remember how I was just the same because I thought I should be able to speak it! It just comes with time!! He’s great!! When he does speak, you really can feel the Holy Ghost!! I can now tell you how the gift of tongues is real for me and for him!! I know that the people understand the things that we have for them!! 2 gringos walking around!! It’s never happened before in this area so people are liking to stare! It’s pretty funny!!
It was a good week for the missionary work!! The binder for the area is missing a lot of people we found out this week!! I’m not sure how but a lot of people get lost or what not, but we found them again this week!!! Here’s a little story. On the first day of the change a man contacted us and told us that we could come over to his house whenever he wanted and that he had a daughter that lives in the United States and she is a member. We really didn’t think anything of it and kinda forgot about him but just a couple days ago a teenager contacted us and told that we should come meet with them and visit them! So we said ok, but it came to that day and we had the baptism and we were chuck full so we didn’t go!! Yesterday we went to the house and the wife came out and greeted us. She was like Elders I’m glad you’re here!! I was takin back but them we visited them!! We put it all together and how the Dad contacted us first and how his son was the second. Family Aguilar!! They are great!! They have a son named Antonio!! He’s 24 and I think he’s made of gold!! He just had a look about him that was different!! I’m not sure how to explain it!!
We found 2 families like them this week!! It was great!! The area is coming along quickly!! We are now starting to teach families!! It’s something special because really the gospel is here to bless our families and how we can live with them for all eternity!! Alanna’s birthday is this Saturday right!!! Happy bday!!! Also general conference!! I think its Jacob 4 : 6 lealo!!:) Sounds like you all had a good week with spring break!! Our spring break was real good! :) Ha love you tons!! Have a good next week!!
Love, Ky
A Blessing to be with Elder Lundberg - March 23rd, 2015
Hola!
Where do I start!! It
was such an amazing week we had here!! It’s a huge blessing to be with Elder
Lundberg!! Even though he doesn’t speak much Spanish... almost none!! Ha he has
a great spirit about him! We had so many experiences that were super spiritual!
We found some new investigators this week that are so wonderful! We had this
family named family Hernandez. They are so great! So a little bit about them!
We went on Saturday to teach her because on Friday we
contacted her in the street. We talked a little bit and she said that she had
family that was members and how that we could come back Saturday, so we
said alright and left and thought nothing of it! On Saturday we went
to her house and she wasn’t home, only the little kids. We talked to them and
asked if someone was home that we could talk to and they said yes and all the
sudden a man came out and we talked a little bit and he said he was a member
just going to a different church time. He told us lots of different things and
how he was a missionary also and what not. Then her name is Hna Lilian came
home! We talked to her also and asked if we could share a message. She said
sure so we taught her but in the middle of the lesson, her family that I was explaining,
his name is Arude, I asked him a question to tell us a little bit more about
the baptism of Jesus Christ! He changed!! It was so funny to see!! He went from
normal... to missionary mode!! It was great!! We had such a great lesson and she
accepted a baptism date with her 3 little kids!! The next day was Sunday and
they all came to church!! It’s a feeling that’s indescribable!! We also had to
give talks!! We had our talks and they went pretty well!! My comp was pretty
nervous!! He did a great job though!
This week we seemed to
also get the confidence of some of the members a lot more!! They seem to want
to work with us more closely so we are looking forward to that!! A little bit
more about the area and us... we have a baptism this Saturday!! Hna Teresa!!
We are super excited for her and hope it goes through!! I wish I could tell you
more of the stories and experiences that we had this week but I don’t have enough
time.I’m just a slow typer!! I also need to send pics so that will take up a
little bit of time also.
Sounds like spring
break will be fun!! Keep safe and have a great time!! I’m doing great here!!
The Spanish is coming along great!! With the people and everyone else I have to
pretty much talk all the time, but with my comp we are coming little by little
with the Spanish!! We speak a little bit of English! ;) Ha I hope you are all
doing great and you are all in my prayers!!
One of my favorite
scriptures right now is John 21!! Give it a shot if you want! ;)
Love you guys!
Love Elder FacerI'm Training - March 17th, 2015
Buenas Tardes!
Wow!! I’m in a rush this week and I won’t be able to write hardly at all because we have to go work!! It’s a little late in the day I just want you to know that I’m doing great and I stayed in my area this change!! The change is that I’m training!! Elder Lundberg from RIGBY IDAHO how great is that!! I’m sure you will be able to get in contact with his family!! Tell them that he is doing great and has a special spirit about him!!
We had a great week this last week! I learned a lot from Elder Cruz but I think we will have some big changes in this area!! It has a ton of potential!! Yesterday we went to office home and received the new missionaries! We actually worked yesterday and received our new comps today!! We had a meeting with president and he sure does expect a lot out of us!! He’s such a great leader for this mission!! I’m super excited for this next week to work with Elder Lundberg and we actually have a baptism on the 28th!! Hna Teresa!! She’s great!!
I will surely write you more in the next week!! Just know that I love you tons and I’m praying for you always!! Mom remember that I’m doing great!! My health and all! No need to worry!! It will be a great next week!!
Sounds like you had a good week all together!! I will do that bracket, and if I win in the family pool, I expect the money!!! :) I will send pics next week and write a longer one next week!! Love you tons!!
Love Ky
I'm Here Doing the Lord's Work - March 9th, 2015
March 9th, 2015
Hola!!
It was a super good week here and it kinda changed the mission for me personally! We were busy the whole week with things to do!! Our area is doing well and we found some new investigators that really want to progress!! It’s always a great thing when the investigator has real intentions and actually follows through with the commitments!! We had some great lessons this week!! It was Friday and we taught a couple lessons and what not, but the Hna Lilia was sick and also an investigator named Angel was sick. So we gave them a blessing!! I gave one of the blessings and my comp gave the other!! We always switch off and on, but I gave the blessing for Hna Lilia and it was a moment that I will never forget!! It was one of those moments when you give the blessing and the words just come to you!! I’ve always heard it from Dad and what not, but it’s something really special and I now know what Dad was talking about all those years!:)
We also have a family Benite working through a divorce and are going to be married here, but here in Mexico it’s hard to do the both, but we talked to them last week about it a little and went on our way! At the first of the week, this week, they came to us and asked us more questions about it and how they are going to do it and what not!! It was great! I can’t wait for them to get it all figured out and then their baptism!!
My comp is doing great!! We get along super well! It’s crazy how fast time is going!! This is the last week of this change!! I think when you really do just focus on the work and give it your all, you kinda do lose track of the time!!
The mission changed for me this week because one day in the morning it was a little hard and what not so I read a couple of the talks that Darin gave me!! I was looking for flash cards and I founds the talks... miracle in its self right!:) ha but I grabbed the talks and sat down and read them! It’s been a super long time since I’ve read them and the spirit just hit me super hard and I just felt that really I’m not here for me!! I’m here doing the Lords work and need to focus on the people and how I could change their lives and not how this is gonna change my life!! Before I didn’t really think about me a whole ton and what not, but there’s so much that I could be and the Lord was just showing me how I could change by helping me see that!!
I know that this gospel is true and know that this is the Lord’s work and when we give him our all in the Lord’s work or in our lives normally.....we will see miracles! The blessings will come that he has waiting for us, we just have to do our part….takes a little work but we can all do it!!
Sounds like your week was fun with the trip to Utah!! Happy birthday Trevin!! Crazy how old you are!!! Don’t worry I sang to you from here!! I love you all and am always praying for you!! Have an amazing next week!!
Love Ky!
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