June 1st, 2015 -Hna Georgina got baptized!

Hey! Wow it was such a busy week here in Tampico!! We really had things do every single day! Which made it be such a quick week, and the weeks are already quick enough! We had a couple meeting with President for the end of the new missionaries, because transfers are the next week, and it was super great to hear from the leaders of the mission!! They are always so powerful! We also had..... OUR BAPTISM!!!! It was super great and went super smoothly!! Hna Georgina and her son got baptized! He’s 8 so it doesn’t count as our convert, but we had to teach them everything and get them prepared, so half ours!;) It was a great experience! With my first comp, he told me it’s super hard to find someone and have them be baptized with the same comp because they have to go to church 5 times!! Well the help of the Lord somehow we did it with them!! Must have been made de oro.. or gold! We also had another experience that stuck out to us both!! We have this investigator named Ana! She’s great and she’s of a part member family also that less actives and we had no idea that she wasn’t a member!! We started asking the family who we could teach and they told us her.. we were kinda shocked and begin to teach her!! We gave her a Book of Mormon and she read 3 Nephi 11 when Christ comes to America and then she asked our Heavenly Father in a prayer if it was true, she told us that she didn’t get an answer in that moment but as the night continued she felt that someone was with her! Her husband works the night shift so she sleeps alone and as the night went one she felt that someone was with her and she felt calm and peace! She took that to be her answer and wants to continue to learn more! I’ve also seen this week that Satan is trying to stop the Lord’s work!! He can’t stop him, nor will he be able to ever! I’m so grateful for the Holy Ghost in my life and to see it bless the lives of others!! He’s real and is sent from our Heavenly Father! When we do our part we receive this help from the Holy Ghost, from our loving Heavenly Father!! So many things happened this week and this letter doesn’t do this week justice with all the things that happened!! I love you guys and sounds like you had a good week!!! Boys keep working hard on the bball!! Have a fantastic week!! Love, Ky

May 26th, 22015 - Temple Day

Where do I start! It was such a great week this last week!! It was super busy with things to do every day!! First we went to the temple today so that’s why we are writing today!! I love the temple and the special spirit that you can feel when you are there!! It’s great that we have one so close to us in Idaho!!! Well today I wanted to tell you a little bit about the last couple weeks!!! Well we have a baptism this Saturday!!!!!! Han Georgina!!! She’s going to be baptized and her son that is 8! We will see if the husband has the priesthood to see if he can baptize them but if he can’t we are going to have one of the older sons from the other marriage baptize them!! They are going to come from Mexico City and also Guadalajara!! It will be super special!! I haven’t done this family justice in my letters to you guys!! They are so wonderful!! We met them on the bus and it’s been every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at... 4:30 those days!!! They haven’t missed once!! We always get a little pop and bread after!!! It’s a little bonus!;)They are so amazing! We have been visiting them for 6 weeks!! They have only missed church once because they had the flu!! All of them, but rather than that, not once!! She passed her interview last Saturday so she will be baptized at 5 this Saturday!! It will be such a great and spiritual experience!! I’m not really sure how to put it into words!! I’m so grateful for them and really do love them!! We also had an amazing experience this last week!! Early in the week we were passing a street and a couple guys stopped us and asked us where we were going!! We told them for a lesson and they asked us what we were going to teach, so we told them and got to know them!! One just returned from his mission and the other just got baptized about three weeks ago!! They live in the area that’s right next to us so we said good bye and went on our way!! A couple days later we were passing the same street and we ran into them again!! We talked a little and out of a joke we asked them when they were going to go with us to teach a couple lessons, and then it made them think!! They told us, well I do have a friend in your area and we could go see him another day!! So he got our number and we left!! That night he sent us the address and the next day we had the lesson!! Well we went to the house and return missionary couldn’t make it in time, so we just got to know them and what not!! They are about 21!! His name his Luis and his friend is Santiago!! We put a date to return the Saturday and came with the return missionary and his friend the recent convert!! We had such an amazing experience!! We asked them to be baptized and it made them think!!! There was silence, not kidding for a couple minutes!! Think about that... just a lot of guys... friends, just silent!!! The spirit was so strong!!! I haven’t prayed so hard for the spirit to testify to someone in the moment!!! The silence broke and he said, well if I receive an answer that this is true, he will be baptized, we have the date to come back and I pray that he will receive the answer that his true!! It was such a great experience that left the 4 of us full of the Holy Ghost knowing that he was present and none of us could deny it!! It was a great week and sounds like you all had a great week with the rain!!! Love you guys tons!!! Love Ky

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

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

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'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