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

First trip to Walmart/6 weeks in Mexico - November 10th, 2014

Hola!! It was a great week here in Victoria!! It was a cold one also!! We had a couple days here where it got super cold!! It’s a little different than in the states also! You don’t have a nice warm house to go to!! It’s all cold!! I bundle up and made it through! It will be a cold winter when it hits though! Today I called president and asked for permission to go to Walmart and buy the various things, so we did!! It was nice to go there!! They have it all!! Cold showers are that much harder when you have weather that’s cold also!! Ha especially in the mornings!! I love it here though! We had the changes this week and I’m still with my comp and I love it!! He was made district leader and we have 10 elders in our district! Yah it’s a big district! We have some amazing elders! One that was the assistant!! So it will be good and I will learn a ton!! My comp! Mom you said I don’t say much about him, ha so here I go!! So he is from Vera Cruz Mexico... he’s Mexican... but acts likes his from America!! He is great!! We have our hard days with each other, but we always seem to talk it out and figure out how we can make it better!! He loves to talk in the lessons, so I’m trying to simmer that down a little and have me talk a little bit more!! Just to help my Spanish out!! Ha I know what I say is wrong most of the time... but I need to try at least to get better! He loves to cook!! Ha so he is always making something Mexican!! I always make my American things! Pancakes!! They are my favorite!! I was terrible at first... but now they are looking pretty good and tasting great! I just eat things like that... and this week... Idahoan!! YES I bought them!! I saw them and had to buy them at Walmart!! Ha-ha it’s great!! I took pictures for you Dad!! Baby reds aren’t there... work on that... because they are my favorite!! Ha-ha they should be great! It seemed like our investigators were having problems this week!! With all sorts of things!! It was good to work through things with them, but it was hard and hopefully they keep all of then commitments they have made! My comp is really good at loving the people and helping them!! I don’t know any of the Spanish words they say because they aren’t the gospel... so he does it! I just come in when I can!! Not very often! But it was good!! To help them out!! I love serving the Lord! Spanish is coming slowly but everyday un poco mejor! ha I love you guys so much and hope you have a great next week!! Good luck at tryouts Strat!! You’re going to kill it! Love Elder Facer

November 3rd, 2014 - Crazy Halloween!

Hey!!

It was a crazy week here in Victoria!! We had a church event on Tuesday and it went by super fast. We had some investigators go so it was great to have them there! They loved it!! On Wednesday we traveled to Tampico for a meeting with president!! All of the new missionaries all went so it was pretty good!! We went Wednesday and got there late, so we had pizza waiting for us, and we just went to a house and ate with a ton of missionaries and went to bed!! ha the pizza was pretty great!! On Thursday we had the meeting and it wasn't really too crazy! We just talked with president about life in Mexico! It was good to talk to him and the others because we are all going thru the same things! It lasted about 4 hours and we finished! We had subway for lunch!! It was great!! ha so many American things!! We missed our bus back to Victoria so we had to wait a couple hours and got back late so we couldn't do any tracking! 

Friday was Halloween!! Happy Halloween! ha well past!! Here.... it's real life!! ha all of the kids rather than dressing up, just gang up with each other and fight other kids!! ha it was kinda scary! A couple times we had to walk past them, so we just looked down and walked super fast!! They all started yelling at us, but we just booked it!! It was fun to see the various kids costumes, but not much trick or treating goes on!! Just the dressing up part!! The big holiday here is day of the dead!! It lasted Saturday and Sunday!! So they make food!! tamales, and have there little worshiping thing and say there catholic prayers all night!! 

This week was kinda hard with all of that going on, because when we would go over they would be busy!! Our investigators wouldn't participate in these activities, but the families live together, so the grandparents would be doing it and we couldn't come over!! They didn't want us!!

It was a good/ hard week!! The two families that are perfect just don't have the money for marriage so they can get baptized. They got a little help from the church!! The church is paying for them so we might have a baptism in 2 weeks!! Family Eguia!! There are three that can be baptized!! I so pray from them!! They have a little bit of trials, but hopefully they can make it through and be baptized!! They are great! I love them!! 

It was a great week here even though hard!! My comp is hard working!! I sent letters home!! You might get them when I get home from my mission, haha hopefully not, but I did send them!! ha I love you guys!! I haven't gotten anything yet!! but hopefully soon!! I love you all!! 

Elder Facer

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People I Love! - October 27th, 2014

Hey!! 

This week was pretty great!! It seemed like we were always going out of our area which means we weren't doing missionary work!! ha We had to go do different things, but the week was still pretty great!

We have a couple different areas in this area, cause its huge, but one is super dangerous at night! My Comp even was scared, so we grabbed rocks and such and were ready for battle!! ha but nothing happened! We have the Lord on our side and we were kept safe!

We have a couple new investigators that I think are pretty amazing!! They are ready for baptism!! Well not quite, but getting ready!! We are just teaching the gospel lessons to them and answering there questions!! They are wonderful!! They went to church, remember we met them this week, and they loved it!! One just broke down because she felt the spirit and it was a great moment!! I love bringing this happiness to people, even when they aren't looking for it!! We have this family that is kinda stagnit and doesn't really want to go to church! so I made a deal with them!! They have this super hot pepper here!! ha so I said to them, if you go to church I will eat it, but if you don't(4 of them) then you all have to eat it!! They said ok, but didn't come to church!! So they will pay the price and come to church next week with a new deal I make up!! haha It's fun! ha but in the end they will feel the spirit!!

The gift of tongues is so real!! We were teaching one of the sisters, and once we finished a guy called us over to come talk to him!! He just broke down and told us all of his problems and was asking for our help!! So we helped him out and got everything figured out!! It was great, but at the end my comp asked me to the say the prayer!! We asked what he wanted in the prayer, so I was like oh crap!! but I started the prayer and it was such a weird feeling!! I felt like I was out of my body saying the prayer!! The words just came and I said the prayer!! My comp said after that my prayer was perfect Spanish and I can't remember the way I put the words and such!! It was weird but amazing at the same time!! It's hard to explain but such a great moment in my life with one of the gifts of the spirit!! I love serving the Lord!! He is our savior and Redeemer of the world!! We need to rely on him every day and deepen our conversions everyday!! It was a wonderful week and I love you guys!!

You are all in my prayers and hope you have a great next week!! I love you all!

Te Amo,

Elder Facer (Ky)