July 6, 2009

okay so some good news this week, it is werid also. So Last week I told you that all of my pictures got deleted? Well today I come here at the computer and put in the jump drive and open it and suddenly there are my pictures again so I guess I still have them but it was really werid but it is good weird. Although if you could send me another one that way I have one that is for the pictures and the other for other things that would be really nice. Okay so I have a funny for everyone okay so last sunday not yesterday but a week from yesterday, anyways so the district leader tells us that there is a zone conference wednesday so we are like okay that is a little weird because usually they are on tuesdays but we were like okay so wednesday comes and we go the place where the conference was going to be, then we get there and nobody is there and we were like um okay this is cool, also the district leader told us that it was at 9 but we needed to be there like at 8 45, and we got there like at 9 and nobody was there so we go and call the district leader and he tells us that it was yesterday (tuesday) and that he is waiting for us at our church building so we were like oh crap we missed the conference and now the President is going to yell at us, so start making our way back to our area and stuff to go meet with the district leader so we get there and he asks us why we didn`t go to the zone conference and we were like um because you told us that it was today, so yeah it was funny. Also there were some things that were funny that happened this week but I don`t remember them right now. I did get the package that you guys sent with the the photo of the mission and yes it is the one that everyone thought it was, The first choice that you pick was actually Elder Anderson, who lives in the 5 th ward well before it got split. The wheather has been really rainy because from june to august is just rain, so we have had a lot of rain which is good because heat is getting over rated here and so it feels good when it rains. Oh I just remember something I have seen dogs that don`t have a leg and when I see them I think of L`le Brudder from Homestarrunner then I laugh and point at them. Okay I don`t point but I do laugh. The next transfers are july 28th, but my comp goes home on the 24 or 22 or something like that so I don`t know what will happen for those days. My health is good, not sick so I guess that is good. My clothes still look like clothes. Oh I do have another story, remember the toe nail or at least my toe that hurt when we played scorerr? Well I took off the nail because there was another nail that was starting to grow and stuff and the nail was starting to come off so I took it out and took some pictures and it looks good. Well that is it for today


LOVE YA!!!!!!!


Elder Larsen


(lol our happy lil missionary)

June 29, 2009

So guess what happened this week, and it is not something good it is something bad. Saturday we went to a internet cafe to make a program for the baptisms so we can just print it out and fill in what we need to fill in, and so we make it and everything and I saved it on my jump drive and everything right so I would have it for the mission and then we could open my jump drive not sure why and the lady that was there was helping us then the virus thing came up on my jump drive so the helper lady runs a virus protection software and it detects my pictures that I had safed on the jump drive then she deletes them without asking me and I was like what the crap are you doing and I had deleted them from my camora because I put them on the jump drive where I thought they were going to be safe but no that was wasn´t a safe spot so the pictures that I had taken of my whole mission up to this point have been deleted. It kinda sucks. Also this week has kinda been a bummer one also because we didn´t find lot of people to teach, but we did have a baptism and that went really well. the person that got baptized is Natalia and her mom and her brother are members but not the dad and he doesn´t want anything to do with the church well he just doesn´t want to get baptized and most of their extended family are members also so it was cool. We sang a song as part of the baptismal service it went well I think, we sang "Come thou of every blessing" first we sang it in english then in spanish it was pretty sweet. well apart of that and not having my pictures anymore that was it.

So LOVE YA EVERYONE!!

Elder Larsen

(awe but no worries the pictures get fixed so YAY he has them now ^.^)

June 22, 2009

Anyways, This week has been good with some children fighting and some people on the ground sleeping because they got drunk, let me tell ya Mexico is pretty cool, at first your like "this is odd why do they do that," and "what is he doing." But then everything goes cool and you get use to it. Okay so first off, on Monday we went to some old investigadors that were in the area book and there was a lot of kids, it is a family of 7 kids and the parents and the oldest of the kids is like 13 or 14 then it is like 11 and so on, and they live in a two room house, and the bathroom so it is really small, and they don`t have a lot of things either. The mom doesn`t work because she can`t, she had open heart oporation ( my english is getting worse, okay maybe I just don`t know how to spell) and with that she can`t do a lot or else she would get sick, and the Dad isn`t much of a dad because well he works and everything but he does`t take of the kids and is going off with some one else and sometimes doesn`t give money to the kids so that they could eat and everything so yeah, but that is everything that they have told us but we think that some of it is a lie, but we will see. However we did find a family of 6 and 5 are above the age of 8 so that is cool and they came to church, so everything there is good, they are kinda like the Christian family that we baptized so it is pretty sweet. Okay another thing, yesterday, the christian family that we baptized moved from the appartment that were living in and moved the another appartment and in the same appartment building that we live in so they are now our neighbors. They moved because the owner from the other building pretty much ran them out so yeah it is pretty cool. Now about this fight. On Thursday or Friday not sure which, we saw a group of friends well that is what I thought at first but then two kids just start hitting each other I was like Wow what is going on and stuff, so they fight for like 2 minutes then they each went their own way, so it started and ended it was weird, and I did see one of the kids and he was bleeding a little bit. So yeah that took place on the street where we live. So yeah This has been my week this week. Pretty sweet huh. Now my comp. He is from Panama, he lives on the other side of the country of the capital and he goes home in a month. he has 9 brothers and sisters and he is the youngest in his family, he has a sister that is a member of the church but the rest are not, but his parents have told him that when he comes back home they will be baptized so that is pretty sweet for him, and a blessing for coming on the mission. Well I think that I am done now,

LOVE YA!!!!

Elder Larsen

(HAPPY FATHER`S DAY!)

June 15, 2009

Fetch this past week was kinda rough, because we couldn´t find anyone new to bring to church and we didn´t have that many at church, but I am doing good and we are going to work harding this next week. Okay so updates Adan didn´t get baptized because we unable to find him at his house the only person that we could find was his wife and she dosen´t really want us there so we haven´t been able to talk to him, and he didn´t come to church but we are going to try again this week. Okay now for the others, we did baptize Yuliet sunday but not her mom because she is living we some other dude so we couldn´t do anything for her and we found this information out like thursday or wednesday and the funny part was that we had explain the law of chasity to her and all that but she didn´t tell us that she is living with someone else. Although we did baptized yuliet it would have been better if we had baptized her mom as well but oh well. We did talk to the person that she is living with but he thinks that if they get married that he would have to get baptized also but we told that he dosen´t have to if he dosen´t want to. So he is a little slow in the head on that, but he will give us an answer this week we are hoping for the best. Well the Christain family are just fine, rolling along and they just keep rolling along. Yesterday the dad recived the priesthood and are doing great. Oh by the way, transfers are this week and no I don´t have transfers nor does my comp so I will be here another 2 transfers at least because the next transfers my comp is going home, he will have finished his mission so that will be cool for us. Well things are going well here don`t have anything else to type so I think I will make in end to my letter.

LOVE YA!!!

Elder Larsen

(is he working hard yet?)

June 8,2009

Well this past week we didn`t have a baptism but this week we will, and we will baptism about 3 so that will be cool. One of them should have baptized last sunday but his wife kind of prevented it from happening, and the other two are a mom, and her daughter. So now I will example their situations. so the one that should have baptized this past sunday, his name is Adan. So one day last week we go to his house at the hour that we had the appointment and like his wife comes out and tells us that he doesn`t want to get involved in the church because he was getting confused and stuff and that he doesn`t want to talk, so we were like okay well then, so we ask his wife to see if we could talk to him and she was like okay so we go to talk to Adan and he then tells us that he enjoyed church and wants us to keep teaching him and stuff, so we were like really well then so we talk some more we ask them for their birth certifecate because they are not married for the law in which you need to be if you are living with someone, so we ask them for that but Adan couldn`t find his so we said that we will come back the next day to see if he had found it. So the next day comes and we go and Adan was not there but his wife was and tells us that he could find his paper so we told that we would come back later to talk to him and so we go back and stuff and knock on the door and then comes the wife and tells us that Adan doesn`t want anything, that he doesn`t want to be confused so we were like crap and that was friday night but on sunday guess what, Adan came to church and tells us that he found his paper so we are going to try again this week with him. Now for the other two. The mom well her husband died 10 years ago and wants to see him again so we explianed all of that and she liked it, she like going to church and everything, and really there isn`t any problem with her and her daughter. Transfers are this week or the following week, I am not sure which week because of the flu thing last month so we will see what happens. The Area is very hot and more heat, it stopped raining last week. Well I need to go. My time is up for today.

LOVE YA!!!!!

Elder Larsen

(YAY PICTURE!!!!!!)

June 1, 2009

Okay so here in mexico it has rained a lot these past 2 weeks it is kinda crazy. About 2 weeks ago when it was raining and there was lighting and stuff, we were in the church because my comp needed to go to the bathroom and also it was raining a ton anyways we were waiting for the rain to stop so that we could leave but it didn`t stop for awhile then suddenly there was this loud noise you know why? Well because lighting hit a cable, which this cable was for the lights, so it hits the cable and the post and the cable is on the ground but what had happened is that the cable fell in the water so you could see sparks and stuff it was pretty cool and stuff. And for this week we baptized the christian family all of them. So it was freaking sweet because they were so prepared by the hands of the Lord to get baptized and this sunday they will be members and have the Holy Ghost, and I know that the dad will be a bishop one day because if you could have the chance to talk to this guy and some of the things that he says and his attitude about things and stuff, you would realize how prepared he actualy was. He knows the life of Christ and tries to follow it. for an example like other sunday there was this conflict or contention in the classroom in church, and me and my comp we were like oh great now we get to talk about that the next that we go to his house, so we go to his house afterwards and stuff and we talk then this thing that happened in the classroom came up so we were explaining it and stuff then he says to us that everything is alright, he did feel a little uncomfortable about what had happened but he says that he dosen`t go to church for anyone else but for himself because salvation is personal, so we were like alright this guy is diffinetly prepared to be baptized so yeah that is all for this week. We did play some Futbal, and football, and my legs got burnt but not my face because I put sunblock on, but I didn`t think about my legs but we play and stuff, then there was a zip line but not everyone got to do it becaue we had to eat our food and get on the food so we ate sandwiches which was good. Well I think that is all for this week, we might have a baptizm this sunday but we will see. Okay well I think that I am done for today,

So LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!

Elder Larsen

(rain rain rain rain rain)

May 26, 2009

Okay eh so this week has been good, I can`t remember everything that happened this week but I will try to remember so things. First thing is that we had a baptizm this past week and we will have more this week also, a family that are catolicos and christians and all that jazz so things are going well. We are hoping as well to have another baptizm the following week but we will see how things go. So that is my tip of the week, Flirt to converte ( I am hoping that I am spelling things right). And really simple is the only word that we need in the gospel, because going deep brings questions even for members and some of these questions can`t be answered but will be in the future, so after the questions comes the doubt and doubt brings more doubt then the more doubt helps that person stay in there house sunday mornings and doing other things that they shouldn´t be doing. So this is my other tip for the week, keeps things simple people. Okay now for some expriences of mine. First is that this morning we played futbal with the boys of the family that we are going to baptize this sunday, and that was fun but this one time I had the ball and I was going to kick it so it would go in the air and so I kick and guess what my foot actually hit the ground then my toe started to hurt so I checked it and started to go a little bit purple but I didn`t break it but later after playing futbal some more and we are in our house and stuff I check it again just from looking at the sock, I knew that it had bleed(spelling ?) a little bit so i WAS LIKE CRAP so it hurts a little bit and it has swollen a little bit also but things are good. This past week we had our picture taken but as a mission so I got to see everyone from the MTC and old comps well not my dad because he is a goner Anyways I think that this is it for today so

LOVE YA!!

Elder Larsen