As for me, we had a baptism yesterday and we are going to have another one this sunday, and then the following sunday will be the Christians (Javier and his family) so things are going a little bit better here. now as for my new comp. his name is Elder Moreno, he is 22, his parents are now members, he is a convert at the age of 15, he has 22 months in the mission, and he is from Panama. So it is cool. So this past week we have had some things happen like another drunk came out of nowhere and started to talk to us, well mainly to my comp because I was talking on the phone with the bishop, and he was really drunk and he asked us where we were from and I said that I was from Tamuilipas and my comp said from Sonora but when I said that I was from tamuilipas the drunk was like "OH that´s awesome your mexican, we are friends" It was fun, and very funny because we just continued to have fun with this guy until we had to go, but he was so drunk. Also some other stories, we were walking in the street and stuff and on one of the street there is some constuction, so when we passed by the constuction place the workers came out and started to shout at us saying "go away mormons" and "Extranjeros" but we just walked away. which extranjero is some one that is from one country and then goes to a different one so like the mexicans that are that go the United states are Extranjeros also. There is another story but it is the same as that last one. Tomorrow we are going to the temple to get a picture taken of everyone in the mission. Okay now about the family (Javier) they came to church this past week and they liked it and everything but during the whole time that they were there Javier was writing something down, like questions I think which is good so we can get some doubt out of the way. So we have an appointment with them tomorrow so we will see how that goes. Well I think that is about it for right now so talk to you next week!
LOVE YA!!
Elder Larsen
(lalalalalala)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
May 11, 2009
Okay first thing is first and that is that I don´t have transfers, but my comp does, so tomorrow we will be going to the temple which I did find out that the temple is in mexico city, which I should have known duh, anyways we live like an hour and a half from the temple is we are kinda close to the temple but not really. My other area where I was before was much closer, we were like 20 from the temple so that is really close. Good I was hoping that everyone had enjoyed the phone call because I sure did, but am I trunky? No, nor did having dan there or anni make things worse so don´t worry. Although I was kinda surprised that shay´s roommates were there that was cool but who are they, well which ones I meant. How was my english? I can only imagine how it was, and just think it just might go down hill from there, well maybe. I am just going to put a bunch of one liners in this e mail just to make things confusing. Well things are going good. Well I think i will send this now and if something else comes up well then I will write another one.
Okay so Love YA!!
Elder Larsen
May 4, 2009
(HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWNI BOY!!!!!!)
So today really doesn´t feel like my birthday because well it just doesn´t. in the morning we had a zone activity in which we just played futbal, and basketball. It was fun, made a goal in futbal so that was pretty amazing, I day I will be in the pros playing against other pros but real pros. lets see here I am pretty sure that later on tonight there will be a party at a sister´s house, i know this because I heard my comp and the sister talking about it. Oh but the cool thing is that we are going to baptism a girl today at 6 but the not sure cool thing is that she is 8 years old so it doesn´t count for us but oh well it is the same work. we also had a baptism yesterday that was cool. Also we didn´t have church yesterday, but I think we will have them this sunday I am hoping, and also being able to contact and knock doors, It is kind of boring just asking for references and waiting, although the mission gave us a list of the members of our ward and so we have been looking at that and working with them and there are some that don´t show up in the list but say that they were baptized so they might need to be baptized again but we are working on that to see if they do or not. We might have another baptism this sunday also a kid that is 10 and his sister who is 8 Which i think it will happen so that will be cool. Okay as for the transfers, well they are putting off all transfers until after this swine flu is over or until it is better and we can have them, they are hoping for this sunday so we will see, also that is why the missionaries in the MTC that are going to Mexico are being delayed right now but they will be here next week I hope. Okay so I have a story right now, yesterday after the baptism in the night time, we were going to a less active family to visit them and as we were walking there, there came this guy walking towards us, I didn´t see him until he was next to us and it was a drunk so he greets us everything so we walk with him until we get the sister´s house then we were like okay we need to go now but he was like no,( during this whole time I didn´t understand what the drunk was trying to say, well I caught bits and pieces but it was bad spanish) so we talk again about the same things like about the swine flu and where did it come from, and why americans don´t want mexicans in their country, then he says to my comp that the next time that he sees an american he would kill him ( that was one of the parts that I understood) next he signals to my comp to follow him just so they could talk and I stayed back a little ways Anyways to make a long story short my comp talked to him saying that I was his friend and after all that he was cool with me and we left yep that was my story, pretty exciting huh. Okay now for the most important part of the letter on what are we going to do for sunday. Oh hey another thing we are teaching this lady , and we went to her work to talk to her and stuff and so we give the lesson and at the end she tells us that if we wanted to stay because some Jevoha´s witness were going to come but never did but I tell you this because the Jevoha´s witnesses gave her a book called, what does the bible really teach?, and she gave me the book so now I have their book it is quite interesting in what they believe in, I haven´t read it but I do look at the pictures and read some things but that it about it. well I think that is about it so until sunday
LOve YA Love YA!!
Elder Larsen
(awe *hugs* happy birthday boyo)
So today really doesn´t feel like my birthday because well it just doesn´t. in the morning we had a zone activity in which we just played futbal, and basketball. It was fun, made a goal in futbal so that was pretty amazing, I day I will be in the pros playing against other pros but real pros. lets see here I am pretty sure that later on tonight there will be a party at a sister´s house, i know this because I heard my comp and the sister talking about it. Oh but the cool thing is that we are going to baptism a girl today at 6 but the not sure cool thing is that she is 8 years old so it doesn´t count for us but oh well it is the same work. we also had a baptism yesterday that was cool. Also we didn´t have church yesterday, but I think we will have them this sunday I am hoping, and also being able to contact and knock doors, It is kind of boring just asking for references and waiting, although the mission gave us a list of the members of our ward and so we have been looking at that and working with them and there are some that don´t show up in the list but say that they were baptized so they might need to be baptized again but we are working on that to see if they do or not. We might have another baptism this sunday also a kid that is 10 and his sister who is 8 Which i think it will happen so that will be cool. Okay as for the transfers, well they are putting off all transfers until after this swine flu is over or until it is better and we can have them, they are hoping for this sunday so we will see, also that is why the missionaries in the MTC that are going to Mexico are being delayed right now but they will be here next week I hope. Okay so I have a story right now, yesterday after the baptism in the night time, we were going to a less active family to visit them and as we were walking there, there came this guy walking towards us, I didn´t see him until he was next to us and it was a drunk so he greets us everything so we walk with him until we get the sister´s house then we were like okay we need to go now but he was like no,( during this whole time I didn´t understand what the drunk was trying to say, well I caught bits and pieces but it was bad spanish) so we talk again about the same things like about the swine flu and where did it come from, and why americans don´t want mexicans in their country, then he says to my comp that the next time that he sees an american he would kill him ( that was one of the parts that I understood) next he signals to my comp to follow him just so they could talk and I stayed back a little ways Anyways to make a long story short my comp talked to him saying that I was his friend and after all that he was cool with me and we left yep that was my story, pretty exciting huh. Okay now for the most important part of the letter on what are we going to do for sunday. Oh hey another thing we are teaching this lady , and we went to her work to talk to her and stuff and so we give the lesson and at the end she tells us that if we wanted to stay because some Jevoha´s witness were going to come but never did but I tell you this because the Jevoha´s witnesses gave her a book called, what does the bible really teach?, and she gave me the book so now I have their book it is quite interesting in what they believe in, I haven´t read it but I do look at the pictures and read some things but that it about it. well I think that is about it so until sunday
LOve YA Love YA!!
Elder Larsen
(awe *hugs* happy birthday boyo)
April 37, 2009
(LOL ok so side note from anni: this week the power kept going off and poor shawn sent like 4 e-mails all with a few words or sentences it was kind of funny. ^.^ ok back to the letter)
Okay so the light went out again so we are going for round 5 so now will type my letter in Mircosoft Word and save it we will see how things work out now. The power has been going out because it has been raining a lot lately and very windy so it is not working out so well because of that. Okay I am alive and doing well. About the earthquake, I didn´t feel a thing and neither my comp until someone had told us that it happened. We are about half an hour away from the temple. Now About the Flu deal, well we are both doing good we found out the Flu on Thursday or Friday not sure which day it was but we go out to work and stuff then there a lot of people wearing masks so we are like what the heck is going on because we are just missionaries that don´t listen the radio or watch the TV but we found out because a sister from the Ward is like way are you not wearing masks and we say that we don´t have any idea on the heck is going on so she tells us that it is like the cold but it kills people, and it is transfered through the air and at first I didn´t believe it because the common cold dosen´t kill people but then today I found out that is the swine flu then well I can believe that more then the cold So that is the story everything is going well. Oh and yesterday we didn´t even have church because of the Flu. This week will be interesting because we were told not to contact anyone, nor knock doors until this thing gets cleared up, but we will be able to teach our investigadors, visit less actives, visit members, and work with references but that is about it for this week so it will be interesting. Now the other thing is Mother´s day, well I don´t know what will happen with the calling jazz because I don´t know if I have transfers or not. Our church is from 9 to 12 and we are an hour ahead of you guys so there is time before your church and after mine but we will see what will happen, but I think we will do almost the same thing as last time, is that I will give you a number you guys call me because that worked out pretty well but I will give you more information next time I hope. So more stories for this week, we had an experience with a Jehova´s witness on Wednesday I think, and anyways my comp knocked on this door and out comes a lady and so my comp contacts her and stuff then she is like well I am a Jehova´s witness and so my comp is like oh well this message is for everyone and startes giving the first lesson and all of that good jazz until the Prophets, my comp tells her that Prophets are like moses, noe, Abraham, then she is like no they weren´t Prophets because they were men, and stuff and so my comp gets all of that done with until the Prophet Joseph Smith that he saw Heavnly Father ,and Jesus Christ, then she was like no that is not true because no body had seen the Father because they believe that if someone is the father they die or something like that is it was kind of weird, because they know the bible really well but other people put weird things in there head and confuse them. Well I think that is about it for this week, Well everyone have fun, don´t die, and good luck with life!
Love Ya!!
Elder Larsen
(I LOVE CHEESE!!!!)April 20, 2009
Well this week kind of was well it just didn´t work out to well, Because we didn´t have any investigadors go to church and all of the new investigadors backed out on us and everything so it quite work out this week. Sunday was stake conference here, I don´t know if it was good or what because we were waiting for investigadors to come and calling them and stuff but nothing but everything is going good. It is nice to know that we have our Heavenly Father that knows our needs and situtations. D&C 68:3 I read this scripture and it helped me get though this week especial yesterday. Hard times will come but come what may and love it, that was the topic of the talk that Elder Withlin gave before he passed away, and well I am doing good. Waldo and Alejandra ( his wife) they are going good, they had there interview last week but they are not going to get baptized until the 3rd of May but we will see, also another man named Ricardo who will get baptized that same day but he has a bit more problems like smoking, drinking, but has the desire to change which is really good. But other then those two nothing, we found a family but I think they are trying to dodge us. Yeah so that is kind of how my week has been but we are hoping that this week we be alot better. Oh another thing this past week is that we had divisions with the district leader. So I went with the district leader´s comp and the district leader went with my comp, and I worked in their area and for lunch we go to a sister in the ward, so we go and stuff eat some food then we talk for a bit and then she tells us that she has a learning problem and not very good at public speaking, like she would get nervous like really nervous to the point where she gets sick almost, and in any type of public speaking like to answer a question, or give the prayer so I thought that was a bit odd because she talked to us just fine and she even mentions that, that with us (the missionaries) she is just fine so that was weird I thought. Oh another thing I just remember it is kind of a sad story though. the day after the divisions with the district leader we had a appointment with a pregnant woman, who apected everything, the book of mormon, going to church, and her baptismal date. So we go to the appointment and stuff and before we could say anything she says that she doesn´t anything to do with the church because she had talked to her family and the reason was that the baby needed to get baptized because the Orginal Sin and that we don´t believe in that kind of thing. So we explain it and total about baptism of children but she is like no I like my religon and gives back the book of mormon and I was like dang, she just rejected God and a very precious gift, so then we left and that was it. tomorrow we have the zone conference for a good part of the day. So that will be exciting. Well that is really it for me as in for had happened to me. Sounds like everything back home is going good Pigs flying (I have yet to see that, so you will have to tell about that one Shay), computer hacking skills, and the usuals. Well I think that this is it Have fun!! Love Ya!!!
Elder Larsen
D&C 68:3
(ahhhh i give -.-")
April 13, 2009
Okay so for easter here it is a bit different because it is only the Cathliocs that celebrate this hoilday, and they call it The Holy Week. I am not sure well completely what they all do but really they just celebrate Christ and his suffering on the cross, also I think they have an event where they have a person (which I am sure it is voluntary he is supposely christ) and they well crosify (¿spelling? ¡help me my english is getting worse and worse!) him, a sister in the ward told us that but I am not sure that is right or what but if so then it is diffinetly pure apostasy and God will stirke them with him Hammer+777. So that is what happens here. Oh today we went on a hike to the top of a mountian( it is more like a big hill but okay) where there is a white cross with graffity, and stuff, but apart from the cross was the view which was great and so I took lots of photos in which everyone we be able to enjoy the beautiful area of Chimualcan. Now another story about this cross which the same sister told us is that a kid was crosified on this cross some years ago not sure why and for what purpose because Christ was and still is perfect, and if people are trying to be like him by crosifing themselves is well kind of dumb in my opinion but hey who knows. Okay so where I live is close to a main street called Baja California, and another one called Tijuana and no I haven`t found kevin yet but I will keep trying. Oh so this past week was pretty good, and I am doing great. On Friday in the night time we were knocking on doors and stuff and then this van comes with a family so my comp was like oh goody a eternal family so he goes and contacts them and I continue to knock doors so I knock a few doors more then I was like well my comp hadn`t come back yet so I went to find out whats up, okay, and well when the husband saw me I had realized right then that they were drunks, and the husband was like hey you white boy come here so alright, so we just sat there listing to him and his wife who was drunk also even more drunk then her husband so it was really funny with them because the wife was like, "I believe in Jehova, and I want you two to tell my husband that he exist.." then the husband was like no I don`t believe and anyways this story goes on and on it is kind of long but I will tell of the funny parts. So Anyways the husband talks to me about the united states and stuff, then he says that he knows everything about the united states, so I asked him a question so I asked "Where is Neveda?" so he thinks for a moment and then says that Neveda is in Neveda, I wanted to laugh so hard when he said that because it was hilaious but I could`t not in front of him. Anyways that is only one of the funny parts but it was rich! Also this past my comp got sick, but he is doing better now, he got sick on tuesday night at about 11 and he was throwing up and stuff, and had a small fever so that was fun, we just in the house all day on wednesday. Lets see here oh our mission president has given us a challenge to read the book of mormon in 90 days, and has given us a sheet of what chapters we need to have read and things to look for in the reading and it is really pretty cool. He has us looking for doctrine concerning to conversion, and also personal experiences in the Book of Mormon well like the prophet had and stuff, also whenever God speaks like " Thus saith the Lord", and whenever it mentions the name of Christ with any of his names, and Christ like attributes so this reading is going pretty good I am enjoying it. Oh about the President and his slamming is well like it says in the scriptures, that for the wicked the truth is hard to hear and accept but for those that enjoy and obey the truth is well enrichment to the soul. So yeah but he does it so well, he is a very sprituall man, he is a great guy. You know dad the advice that President keller gave is true, I know it is, some of the things that we hear and they strike us right in our hearts that is because god is talking to us through the Holy Ghost, because one of the feelings of the holy ghost is an increase of faith, then it is up to us to follow it. I know that this principle is true, We teach this principle about faith to the investigadors, and I have had that feeling as well. That advice is true I testify that it is because when I say my prayers and they are more focused on the people, I recive help from God and inspriation for my personal life. I know that is it true. Well I think that is about it because I don´t have anything else, I am sorry that This is late again but it is because we were doing laundary with at a sister`s house and it started to rain when we finished doing laundary so we waited til it was over, Well I love ya`all Have fun and don`t die!
Love YA!!
Elder Larsen
(#5674?)
Love YA!!
Elder Larsen
(#5674?)
April 6, 2009
Okay first of all yes I did get to go to all of conference and yes we brought a couple to the morning session on saturday. Although I couldn´t understand all of it because for most of conference I had a headache so that was rough, but when I paid attention then I could understand it so yeah, so from what I could understand, it was good. Another thing is that sorry that this is kind of late but we kind of got a late start on somethings here because we went to play some fubal with the zone and stuff and we didn´t get back until like 2 or 3 I don´t remember, then we went to go eat with a member and things like that. It was fun though, got a little bit burnt that is okay. we play for a couple of hours and drank water. Also I made one goal but it was with luck that I made it, because I kicked the ball and it bounces off a foot of the opposite team and goes in so that was awesome. This week was good because we found Waldo and he lives here in mexico with his wife(Alejandra) with no kids yet. In Which they are married and I don´t think that they smoke, and they hardly drink, and are open on sundays, which it is hard to find people like that in mexico it is always like woman, beer, and work. Anyway these people are pretty sweet, and are like oh we want to be baptized, and we were like okay let us show you the font that happens to be full of water. Okay not like that but they are cool and totally awesome, because they do everything that we ask them to do, so I am positive that we will have a baptizm here on 19th of april, in fact we have already put that date with them, and they said yes so things are going good. well nothing else right now oh wait about my comp. He is a convert to the church about 3 years ago, and he was introduced to the church by his girlfriend, Which she is still his girlfriend, He is the only member of his family because his dad doesn´t like it and his mom is like whatever, and I don´t know what his sisters. And yes he only has sisters, he has 3 sisters and his parents, his parents are separated, so yeah anything more, oh yeah he has the same amout of time in the mission as I do and what I really like about him is that he is sarcastic (speelinger ¿ I am lossing me ability of english speaked) and that he is always asking people to see if there is something we could help with, or just doing it. So the only thing about the package is a jump drive thing to put pictures on and e mails, and please send it soon because the next transfers are on May 9th and the transfers, zone activities, and when we have zone conference are when we get pouch so send it now and I will get it at the district class meeting after transfers so yeah well I thing that is about it. I was Pachuca about Christmas time when me and my comp took a bus so we could get our hair cut, well we got on and there was a family which a kid and his dad were sick and throwing up, like they looked normal and stuff but then they would just throw up then go back to normal life, it was weird but that is the kind of things you would find here in mexico. Oh I hope that story was inspriring for everyone. The pres is doing good, he is a very good man like tommy said, he is a very spritual man, and he can slam some missionaries very well also. Yeah okay that is about it for me so yeah have a good day!
Love Ya!!
Elder Larsen
(#5)
Love Ya!!
Elder Larsen
(#5)
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