Well this week was really good!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
August 5, 2013
so real quick sorry we had transfers and i have my first
native campanion and... he has less time than me hahah i got assigned
senior campanion so theres a lil more pressure haha.. But no elder Aragon
ya jake his name is from the lord of the rings i thought it was so cool i
call myself elder legalis hahah but no he is a really good kid and has a big desire to work so im excited!
Last week was incredible i was really on cloud nine! in one day i
contacted 20 people and that week we had 43 contacts it was really cool i
touched the pacific ocean hahah so navolato is almost on the beach
altata a little town is to the west which is the beach and ya we had a
lesson to teach over there so we went and took pictures haha it was cool
but now im in culiacan, a colonia called cañadas... its 1,000 ° in
canada i know right hahaah but no it was really good i got very
emotional leaving a few families yesterday especially our most recent convert, he started crying when we were talking to him telling him i was leaving then for
about ten minutes he thanked me and bore me his testimony and told me to
tell the family if he knew you he would love every one of you and it
was the best 10 minutes of my life then we gave each other a very firm
hug and i left. Then i had to leave the familia who we lived
with their sons wrote me these super sweet letters and it
broke my heart leaving!!!!
I threw up i think from
how much i worry it randomly comes i think i might have the startings of
ulcers i have no clue quite honestly its only every once in a while but
that was a good impression during my first meal here with the hermana
haha ya your food was so good i barfed five times hahaha no she was
understanding and very sweet she gave me three pills to take to help.
I have come so much closer to the lord through prayer it really is
the key to the heaven. I am excited i
was very excited for the changes and my new district leader is from west
jordan he reminds me a lot of randy hes a poly and super funny and
riiiiiiipppped hes 6 foot 225 and all rock haha but im excited to work
with him. but i dont have much time so ive got to go but ill send more
next week i love you all dearly and pray for each of you individually y
think about you all often.
Love Elder Drew
No Empty seats
We can do hard things
July 30, 2013
Dear family,
right on so basically i was sick all week, but today I am suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPYYY:DDDDDDDDDDDD today I'm off the walls singing called to serve.
That's the one thing Ive learned through out my mission is that
sometimes we've done all we can like Obinidi and we still end up
suffering the will of the lord to show our loyalty. He was obedient I
mean he was the prophet, he was totally obedient and
he got burned!!!! HE DIED!!! Lots of the pioneers died they gave up
everything to die from hunger sickness or the weather but the lord knows
their minds and sacrifice and literally like it says in dc that not one
hair shall faltamos.... no se como se dice en englais everything will
be restored every jot and tittle... i love that word tittle haha but it
really is like that sometimes the lord doesn't give us the answer to the
test cuz he knows we can answer the question we just gotta struggle in
the test even when we say "I've done everything help me!" But rather when
we ask in patience he gives us what we cant do for ourselves and so
much more as long as we know despite what happens 1 Nefi 3:7 the lord
doesn't give us anything we cant overcome. Man this was a tough week
being sick all week with my bacteria so you have to have a 1:80 ratio to
qualify for the bacteria as positive.... my results came out 1:160
hahaha suffice to say I didn't feel good that day.right on so basically i was sick all week, but today I am suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPYYY:DDDDDDDDDDDD today I'm off the walls singing called to serve.
I love you all so much.
Elder Drew
July 15th, 2013
k I'm barely starting on my letter now haha I loved the letters so much! But this week was awesome!!!! First! An amazing man got baptized and I feel absolutely blessed to know him let alone be able to baptize him and bring him into the pathway of the arms of our loving Heavenly Father! He has throat problems and he has really bad eye sight but he can barely read but it hurts his eyes. But we started visiting him as a reference from a member and we visited him for the first time my second day in the mission. I have been with three comps since we have been teaching him. We visited him a lot and now he got baptized! He is a stalwart whose looking for the truth we just had to go the extra mile to get a ride for him every Sunday and be patient lovingly while he learned, But he started waking up every morning at 5 to read so the sun didn't hurt his eyes worse than they already hurt and he started progressing last week he payed his fast offering and fasted which was incredibly humbling to hear a man say pues claro que si! like duh! When we asked if he'd pay a fast offering when he literally doeds not have much money. They are the family of those super cute little girls I sent you the picture of but he said he'd get some money He did it without the slightest hesitation thinking it was a sacrifice. I was excited to show his faith and get blessings! So last Sunday he fasted and we helped him fill out his fast offering he paid it with out thinking it was a sacrifice! The widow's mite) And then we were visiting him this week getting him ready for his baptism on Saturday he broke down into tears and told us how the book of Mormon has changed his life and how he is better because of it as a person and that he knows it will change his family! it was sooooo special! And then we had his baptism. After his confirmation it was so wonderful seeing him stand up from the chair and shake every one on the stands hand and sit down with a big smile. And then we were in gospel principles and the teacher asked him at the end if he had any questions or comments and he said "I just feel incredibly grateful right now for them and he started choking up and pointed at us and paused and said for all the time they spent to help me understand our Heavenly Fathers gospel little by little and for helping me start on the path to getting back to him. I just feel absolutely grateful! It was absolutely worth every cita that fell through to bring one soul earnestly searching for our father I know that man will make it to the Celestial Kingdom he is one of the most pure people I have ever met!
Some favorite ties, mango smoothies.CANDY and Jesus getting baptized
July 9th, 2013
Hey everyone,
The trip to Europe sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cooool I'm so jealous that all sounds absolutely awesome!!!!! I'm so glad you all got to go and your experiences in the temple too were all super cool to read!!!Here are pic..
Missionaries being crazy, I love the little kids they are so happy, and me with Jesus.
The trip to Europe sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cooool I'm so jealous that all sounds absolutely awesome!!!!! I'm so glad you all got to go and your experiences in the temple too were all super cool to read!!!Here are pic..
Missionaries being crazy, I love the little kids they are so happy, and me with Jesus.
July 1st, 2013
Dear Everyone,
Elder Coombs is awesome we stayed up till 1 the other night talking we get along really well he's such a good guy we were at lunch and he saw an old lady walking, sprints from the table to go help her. My infection was really bad last week, but I went to a doctor and he said I'll have it my whole mission but I can try to control it better, but I was super sick the ratio is 1:1.60 to register as having the infection and I was 1:3.20! But its not horrible we still go out every day its just that i'm super ache and tired but I'm getting shotsin the bum (nacho voice) "its the beeest!" haha
We were eating with a family and I could barely eat with my stomach hurting so bad and so I put down my head just to rest since I was in pain and the grandma started crying she felt bad I was hurting which was so sweet to know that is how much I mean to them! But one miracle we were teaching a lady and she said she prayed and received an answer that she felt very peaceful and super good when she prayed and she was so happy and it was soooooooooo good as a missionary to hear that because that's why I'm here sweating like a... Monkey in a green house hahah and being exhausted with an infection from the food here for people like her. She has school on Sundays its the only day she takes this class and it so happens to be in the exact same hours as church! So we asked her to see if she could change the date, if not it doesn't end for 8 months and we don't know if the best thing is to tell her to quit it when its probably expensive they don't have very much and she could get baptized after but we will see. But idk part of what makes miracles is that they're not constant so we appreciate them were being completely obedient but ya the lord blesses us after the trial of our faith but we baptized the other sister on Saturday!!! We've been teaching her the entire time I've been here in Mexico and she finally got baptized which was awesome were working with her mom now. But one really cool prompting was we were riding on the other side of navolato and I had a thought to try and stop by a reference from our activity we had. So I went against my doubting like oh it'd be such a waste its all the way across navolato and she might not be there but we went and it happened to be the only day shes home and set a appointment with her for this Saturday and shes pretty interested! Elder Coombs gave a blessing and in it promised that if she stayed faithful her husband would reactivate in the church! So we will see how that goes but were working hard the first week of the transfer is really just introducing them to the ward. Then working in between and I was sick a lot and we had our first conference with President Velez he started last week he's awesome he's a Mexican version of Scott Anderson!!!! He is awesome I'm excited to serve with him
Love you all so much have fun touring Europe... WITHOUT ME oh so one last story so we were biking back from lunch and see this guy staggering around and I was like elder did you see how drunk he was and he said I'm pretty sure he was just handicapped then right then we hear a thud in back of us and we look back and beer cans are rolling around that fell from his backpack when he fell in the middle of the street haha i definitely won that one.. definitely drunk haha love yall Elder Hunt
Elder Coombs is awesome we stayed up till 1 the other night talking we get along really well he's such a good guy we were at lunch and he saw an old lady walking, sprints from the table to go help her. My infection was really bad last week, but I went to a doctor and he said I'll have it my whole mission but I can try to control it better, but I was super sick the ratio is 1:1.60 to register as having the infection and I was 1:3.20! But its not horrible we still go out every day its just that i'm super ache and tired but I'm getting shotsin the bum (nacho voice) "its the beeest!" haha
We were eating with a family and I could barely eat with my stomach hurting so bad and so I put down my head just to rest since I was in pain and the grandma started crying she felt bad I was hurting which was so sweet to know that is how much I mean to them! But one miracle we were teaching a lady and she said she prayed and received an answer that she felt very peaceful and super good when she prayed and she was so happy and it was soooooooooo good as a missionary to hear that because that's why I'm here sweating like a... Monkey in a green house hahah and being exhausted with an infection from the food here for people like her. She has school on Sundays its the only day she takes this class and it so happens to be in the exact same hours as church! So we asked her to see if she could change the date, if not it doesn't end for 8 months and we don't know if the best thing is to tell her to quit it when its probably expensive they don't have very much and she could get baptized after but we will see. But idk part of what makes miracles is that they're not constant so we appreciate them were being completely obedient but ya the lord blesses us after the trial of our faith but we baptized the other sister on Saturday!!! We've been teaching her the entire time I've been here in Mexico and she finally got baptized which was awesome were working with her mom now. But one really cool prompting was we were riding on the other side of navolato and I had a thought to try and stop by a reference from our activity we had. So I went against my doubting like oh it'd be such a waste its all the way across navolato and she might not be there but we went and it happened to be the only day shes home and set a appointment with her for this Saturday and shes pretty interested! Elder Coombs gave a blessing and in it promised that if she stayed faithful her husband would reactivate in the church! So we will see how that goes but were working hard the first week of the transfer is really just introducing them to the ward. Then working in between and I was sick a lot and we had our first conference with President Velez he started last week he's awesome he's a Mexican version of Scott Anderson!!!! He is awesome I'm excited to serve with him
Love you all so much have fun touring Europe... WITHOUT ME oh so one last story so we were biking back from lunch and see this guy staggering around and I was like elder did you see how drunk he was and he said I'm pretty sure he was just handicapped then right then we hear a thud in back of us and we look back and beer cans are rolling around that fell from his backpack when he fell in the middle of the street haha i definitely won that one.. definitely drunk haha love yall Elder Hunt
June 24th, 2013
Hey Everyone,
I've got some pics I'm gonna send next week I forgot the card reader.
Here is another funny experience was we were in a lesson and a recent convert we baptized thanked heavenly father for coke specifically.. hahah glad that is is not against the word of wisdom. Another said in his prayer thank you for the sun to dry my clothes so innocent. The culture is just so different and I cant explain what it is but people are just so different here talking to people about god to people here isn't strange at all they're such an awesome people but I'm very excited I feel like me and elder Coombs are going to see a lot of miracles together!! he's a very loving, humble person so it'll be good!
Need to go.. love you all.
Elder Drew
I've got some pics I'm gonna send next week I forgot the card reader.
Here is another funny experience was we were in a lesson and a recent convert we baptized thanked heavenly father for coke specifically.. hahah glad that is is not against the word of wisdom. Another said in his prayer thank you for the sun to dry my clothes so innocent. The culture is just so different and I cant explain what it is but people are just so different here talking to people about god to people here isn't strange at all they're such an awesome people but I'm very excited I feel like me and elder Coombs are going to see a lot of miracles together!! he's a very loving, humble person so it'll be good!
Need to go.. love you all.
Elder Drew
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