March 30,2009

I am not lost! I know exactly where I am at, at all times, it is just that other people may not where I am. Okay I am in chimualcan, or something like that. That is the name of the Area, the state is the State of mexico. The zone is called Los Reyes and something else, my area is called Los Olivos. The area is good, and pretty big, about as big as my first area, With lots of people walking around infact there is probably just as many people as there is dirt, and there is a lot of dirt here I mean a lot. Also this area is really cool because we live on a mountian side, and the top is pretty sweet it feels a little bit like home. So yeah we have a pretty sweet view of things, of the area, and city and we get to walk up hills most of the day so my legs will be huge when I leave this area. This area a bit more poorer then my last area but it is all cool. Also in the district that I am in, well the area of the district there is an inactive volcano, so we are thinking going to it and take pictures and stuff, and you can go right into the crater and stuff so it will be pretty awesome. Okay my comp is pretty chill, his name is Elder Alcala, and he is from Oaxca Mexico. So he is my second comp from Oaxca. This guy loves to joke around lot, so that means he is pretty funny. before the mission he took some karate classes, he knows how to play the guitar, and he is pretty good at fùlbal. Oh and by the way he says HI. The Ward is pretty good, well for a good first impresion, we will see how things go, but the bishop is pretty sweet, he is a returned missionary so he knows what we do day to day, which helps a lot. The house is really small, all it is is two rooms and the bathroom, but the cool part about it is that it is really cheap, it cost about 800 pesos which it dollars would be about 40 or 60 dollars with water and light, so it is really really cheap. The one of the two rooms consist of our beds , a desk, and a rack to hang the clothes and the other has two sofas, and a desk where our kicthen is, then the bathroom with the shower. What is a recession? Well I guess that question answered about 2 of your questions, mom. I haven´t bought new socks I am just going to use the ones I have until there is nothing left. Oh about my other Area is well, yeah they closed it, so there isn´t any missionaries there right now. But I don`t know if other missionaries from another area are going to work with the references or what, but I hope that they do because there were a lot of them. I am doing alright, I might be getting sick again as well as my comp but we will see what will happen, but other then the sick part I am doing great. My favorite scripture is well how about a couple of chapters? Mosiah2, 3, 4, 5. I love the speech that King benjamin, (spelling ?), because he hits a lot of key points to a good spritual life. About serving our fellow men, and about jesus and the Atonement, and how we should do good continenually, and a lot of other things that maybe hard to do or to change but the exprience in the garden was harder (Elder Holland said something to the effect of this). the Savior preformed that act for us to be able to have Salvation and to live with Him and God. Okay enough of the spritual stuff but my favorite food is the tacos here because they are simply amazing! The food here is differently better! Okay well that is about it for today so yeah

LOVE YA!!!!!!!

Elder Larsen

(lol his spelling is getting worse how cute lol #4 i think...... i dont remember)

March 23, 2009

Bueno so transfers are this week, and guess what I have transfers. How transfers work is that we call to the District leader sunday night, and he tells us if we have transfers, then if we do, we go next to the temple with all of the missionaries that have transfers then they us where we are going. So I don´t have a clue where I am going, and I think that they are going to close this area that I am in right now too, because my comp is going to and we need to pay the rent for march so they might close it. Which is kind of weird because on saturday we had the people from the visiter center come, to the church building in my area, to give like a small tour and some movies. And all of the missionaries in the zone came to help with this, the missionaries brought people to the building for a small tour and there they would get there directions if they were interested to learn more, well that was saturday and we recived like 80 references, and most of them are in my area so we will see what will happen, if the other missionaries in the other ward will get to go looking for those names or what because that is a lot! Oh well, So something funny happened this week. So we live with some members, and the dad`s mom is kind of crazy, anyways, so one day my comp and I we find this hole in the like "their Driveway" which this old lady had dug just for fun. She used a pickaxe to break the cement and then the shovel, and Hole wasn`t small either, it was a good 2 feet wide and 1 foot long, and kind of deep, I am not sure how deep but about 2 or 3 feet deep. So that is my funny story for the week. The whether here is weird, it is hot most of the time though, I got burnt saturday. Oh one day in the night time, we were going to some appointments and it starts to rain a little bit, then more and more and pretty soon it was raining hard and we started to run to some appointments but nobody wanted to answer the door, and we think it is because of the rain, we decide to run home, and we were completely soaked it was awesome! We I guess that this will be it for this week, and next week i will let you know where I am.
Love YA!!!!

Elder Larsen
(#3)

March 16, 2009

Okay, we just got back from a zone activity which we played fùtbal, and basketball and we watched other side of heaven. It was good, The team that I was on was the worst, we had three teams, two would play and we would switch when someone makes a goal, I think we made one goal during the time that we played. I was pretty much the keeper. So we haven`t done our laundry because we left at 9 to get there for the activity, and the sister where we live wants us to help her with somethings in the house I guess they are changing some things around. We do our laundry with a investgador that should be baptismed but now she doesn`t want to go to the church, but we can go and do our laundry. She has a laundromat kinda of thing so we leave our laundry then some stuff come back and talk to her and some of her kids and that about it. The spanish is coming along, it is getting better and better. So we now have a new Elder huh, who else is with him? How much time does he have on the mission? Tell him to keep up with language and that it does come, because I know what it feels like being thrown into a country that doesn`t speak your language, and trying to learn theirs which you probably won`t see him alot because they have the whole stake right? Here for food, we sometimes cook in the mornings if we have food in the house and for lunch the members feed us, and for dinner it is on our own sometimes we ate with members or with the members where we live. Yesterday we went to a family that really doesn`t have anything, from what I have seen is that they only have two rooms one is where they sleep and a family room and the other is the kitchen, in which they are not connected and they both are like the size of your room, mom and dad, the kitchen might be a little bit smaller then that. So that was interesting, I have seen poor, even poorer then that even. In my other area there was this family that we were teaching that had the samething as this family, a kitchen and a room where they sleep. But if you ask them for something or to do something, they would give it you and they would do it, with pleasure. We did give a talk in church sunday, I think it went well saw some heads nod so they understood me. I talked about a testimony, and my comp about the atonement and so I think it went well. Well that is it for today I am out of time so until next week.

Love Ya!!

Elder Larsen

(#2)

March 9, 2009

Okay I am doing a lot better from the sickness. On tuesday we had our zone conference and interviews, in which it went pretty well, talked about a lot of things. This past week for me was kinda boring because we did quite of bit of contacting but nobody was to listen to us, or we get there direction but they are not home. So yeah, we do our laundray with a brother and his family they have a laundromat so we go there to do the laundry but it takes forever to do it, like 2 or more hours just to do through the washing machine with all the laundry so it takes awhile to do it. The brother that we do the laundry with is member and some of the family is also but the wife and a few others are not because they are not married or just don´t want to, but it is a good family they own two laundromats and a store so they do good with money. There are some that don´t have a lot like this family that we went to on sunday to eat, they have one room where I think everyone sleeps and it is also the family room, then the kitchen and that is it as far as i know but they have some land to grow some stuff. This sunday we are hoping to baptize a girl to complete a family, but first we need to visit her, we went last week but she was sleeping so we couldn´t talk to her but this week we will and hopefully she says yes, her family are members and active but I don´t know why she isn´t baptized so that is why we are going to find out. There was something to tell but I don´t remember it right now oh well.

Sale pues,LOVE YA!!!!!

Elder Larsen

(there is one ^.^)

o.O oh wow O.o

CRAZY SILLY US!!! So i was looking through my blogs and this one has really died so I am going to try to revive it. LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE!!! ^.~
This is anni over and out.

April 27, 2009

Hey everybody! I thought I would just get on and tell ya that shawn is doing well. He is working hard and is doing a great job. He didn't even know about the earthquake till he was asked if he felt it and he didn't know about the flu till a member told him. The Mission president has given the elders some guidelines while the flu is out and about. All we can do is pray that everything will go alright. Thanks for keeping up with what has been happening. And sorry I have been horrible at posting this for him. Will try to keep it updated more in the following weeks! :)

~Shay

March 2, 2009

This past week was good, although it did kind of stink too, because well I got sick pretty much the whole week and now I will tell you the story of how it all started. First about sunday of last week I started to sneeze a bunch and my nose was starting to be stuffy, so it was a start of a cold, so I was like great but continued to work and stuff. On wedneday we had divisions with the district leader and the zone leaders, and I went with the zone leader and well things were fine until the night when I felt tired and a headache, but the following day after the divisions we started working but then I got sick to my stomach, I felt like throwing up but didn´t, so we went back to the house and found out that I had a fever as well so I slept pretty much the whole day until the night time then we did some visits. Friday I felt a little better so we worked and stuff and Saturday I felt worse so the morning I slept to feel better for the appointments that we had for the day. Yesterday I felt tired all day because I didn´t sleep well saturday night i don´t know why but oh well. So that is my exciting week although we did have a baptism yesterday of a girl who is 17 years old and has a son that is 1 years old or maybe 2 don´t remember. But the baptism went we had some members come to support and stuff so that was nice. Oh on friday something funny did happen, Okay is that we are knocking on a door of one of the investigator that we found, and well there is this guy that comes up to us out of no where and is like `do you want an orange?` I was like no so he asks my comp the same thing and well my comp didn´t want it either so the guy is like `why don´t you want my orange, what do you have against me` and throws the orange on the ground, and looked like he wanted to fight but lucky for us is that there was a cop car that was coming so my comp signals the cop and the cop is like what is going on here and so the guy who was offered us the orange well picks up the orange and offers it is the cop and the like says okay you know how things work, and the guy opens the car door and gets in by himself and the cop take him away it was so funny but the bad part was that the investigator wasn´t home. Anyways that is my excitement for the week. What do you mean how do we get around? The whole mission walks. This area has a bit more money then the other area, but almost everyone struggles with money but they enjoy the company of their families. Well I think that does it for me this week. Well Love YA!

Elder Larsen