Monday, August 26, 2013
Re: Picture
I cried when i saw the picture of jackson in football pads haha. You all look so great haha. dad you are jacked...i cant stop saying that haha. mom...looking 25 and hot! zach, paul told me you and him attended institute togehter...cool beans XD. who was the girl you were talking to? she was your first kiss? are you still dating natalie? what in the world is going on down in sea town!!!! jackson you are a complete stud. remember the juke move and spin move and youll score touchdowns for days. Keep your shoulders low and you can tackle anyone. Oh, and keep playing the piano. Im going to learn after the mission. If you keep practicing, you can be my teacher:) I love you all so very much. mom, ive been listening to a lot of enya in my house. we can listen to music that invites the spirit here...so i can listen to intrumentals and classical stuff. its all whatever someone thinks brings in the spirit. a member of the chruch down here gave me a ton of music, including enya. I think about you everytime I hear one of here songs. One of the songs is ¨running home¨ and everytime I thinking about my family in seattle. i love my mission and i love being here but that doesnt mean im going to forget about you all. I dont know how you were able to endiure 10 years of pain without us mom. you truly are amazing. Oh dad, im pretty sure i want to study music and business after the mission. thank you so much for your letter last week dad. i miss getting blessing from you or just driving around listening to music. zach you dont understand how you are literally my best friend. i still want to live next door to you. everyday i pray that you can serve with me here in argentina and if it be the lords will, one day serve together. jackson, you dont need to be sad. i know you miss me but ill be back real soon and i can teach you some spanish and you can sleep with me in my bed if you want. you are all so special to me. the meaning of being sealed for time and all eternity means so much more to me now that ive been on a mission and cant see all of you everyday. it is so great to think that we have an eternity together. oh, and zach, every morning i do my first set of pushups at 52 reps....no more no less. maybe all do more later but always 52 first! heavenly father has a plan for us. things might be tough now but just remember the preisthood blessings we have received. we have been promised great things. so just keep on pushing and growing so that we can help those around us in the future. Luke 22: 31 and 32. the picture is of an activity in the church. this is my district haha. mom, i got your letter from july 11 finally haha
Weekly Letter - 26 Ago 2013
Dear Presidente,
Todo esta bien aca en zapala. Esta semana fue muy bien. Elder Yañez y yo organizamos una charla para la rama. We wanted to help everyone intender their role in the obra misional. We had food and were prepared to show algunos videos of the capacitacion de la primera presidencia. We had the activity on saturday but only 3 people showed up but that was ok. None the less, it was fun to plan this activity with elder yañez. Elder Yañez and I are really trying to figure out what the people down here need. All of our studies have led us back to the palabra faith. So thats the plan, study with faith, teach with faith, look for people with faith, and invite with faith. It is really sad that Elder Yanez will be leaving the area but I know Heavenly Father has a plan. As for me, im nervous and excited for the arival of Elder Rios. I ́m ready to learn from him and work together. I ́m still going to miss Elder Yañez though. He is a great missionary.
Todo esta bien aca en zapala. Esta semana fue muy bien. Elder Yañez y yo organizamos una charla para la rama. We wanted to help everyone intender their role in the obra misional. We had food and were prepared to show algunos videos of the capacitacion de la primera presidencia. We had the activity on saturday but only 3 people showed up but that was ok. None the less, it was fun to plan this activity with elder yañez. Elder Yañez and I are really trying to figure out what the people down here need. All of our studies have led us back to the palabra faith. So thats the plan, study with faith, teach with faith, look for people with faith, and invite with faith. It is really sad that Elder Yanez will be leaving the area but I know Heavenly Father has a plan. As for me, im nervous and excited for the arival of Elder Rios. I ́m ready to learn from him and work together. I ́m still going to miss Elder Yañez though. He is a great missionary.
Monday, August 19, 2013
almost 20 years old ha ha
Dear everyone,
in less than a month i turn 20. wow time flies. before you know it september 11 will be here. like i said before, everyone here thinks im in my mid 20s so its no big deal. oh, side note, mom, i havent received any of your letters via the postal yet. i print them off and read them but just so you know it takes a long time for mail to get to me. i dont know if youve ever sent mail to me because i havent getton anything from anyone haha. no worries, i just wanted to let you know just how slow the mail down here is. so life is really good. im living the life. teaching, preaching, and doing as missionaries do. things with our investigator segundo arent very good. he is still drinking and not very nice to us sometimes. but we are teaching his grandaughter vanesa, the one i mentioned last week, and she is awesome. sorry i dont have a ton of time to write this week. it is a holiday in argentina so there arent a lot of places to write. but, i love you all and am so gratefull for this time in my life. i am so pumped to bring my brothers and sisters to the knowledge to this message. ill talk to you all next week when i have more time.Weekly Letter - 19 Ago 2013
Dear Presidente Lovell,
This week was filled with ups and downs but still a good one. We had a lot of citas fall through but still saw miracles. The area here in 12 de Julio is great. I meet an interesting person everyday. There are a lot of memebers of the church here and a lot of menos active or part member families. Elder Yañez and I are planning a fireside this week about the obra misional to help the rama be on the same page and have the desire to teach with us. I really believe that this area is waiting to explode with success. The people here are pretty nice and with the help of the members great things are going to happen. Elder Yañez and I are doing good. We are learning how each others personalities are which helps us have more fun. We are praying for miracles everyday and trying to find the people ready to receive us. We are also trying to find the things we need to change to have more success and be better misionaries. Personaly I ́m doing good. I ́m keeping my faith in the people here stong and high. I ́m trying to develope christlike attributes to help more people here. I love the people here and in my mind everyone I see is ready to receive this message. My numbers for the week are 5/7 6/7 3/7 2/7 2/7
This week was filled with ups and downs but still a good one. We had a lot of citas fall through but still saw miracles. The area here in 12 de Julio is great. I meet an interesting person everyday. There are a lot of memebers of the church here and a lot of menos active or part member families. Elder Yañez and I are planning a fireside this week about the obra misional to help the rama be on the same page and have the desire to teach with us. I really believe that this area is waiting to explode with success. The people here are pretty nice and with the help of the members great things are going to happen. Elder Yañez and I are doing good. We are learning how each others personalities are which helps us have more fun. We are praying for miracles everyday and trying to find the people ready to receive us. We are also trying to find the things we need to change to have more success and be better misionaries. Personaly I ́m doing good. I ́m keeping my faith in the people here stong and high. I ́m trying to develope christlike attributes to help more people here. I love the people here and in my mind everyone I see is ready to receive this message. My numbers for the week are 5/7 6/7 3/7 2/7 2/7
Monday, August 12, 2013
pday
dear everyone,
everything is going great down here. thank you so much for the pictures. everyone looks great. pop pops looks like a stud, zach is a beast, jackson is a tower, and dad is a body builder now haha. and im loosing muscle day by day...but its all good with me:) you all look happy and like your having fun...keep it up! i have the greatest family ever. mom, dad, zack, jackson, and everyone. to all my little cousins out there, have fun this school year and work hard. so many miracles have happened this week i dont know where to start but here i go. we watched the restauracion video with segundo our investigator and his 24 year old grandaughter named vanesa. at the end vanesa said she felt someithing in her whole body and in her hands like she has never felt before and wants to read the book of mormon. i was so happy. elder yanez and i were fasting for miracles that day and we got one. onther miracle was elder y and i passed by a menos active family. elder y told me the dad isnt a member and doesnt like the missionaries. i told him, good, lets go talk to him. we had a great lesson with and the spirit was so strong. at the end we commited him to baptism and he said yes! talk about the power of the spirit. especailly when in the start of the lesson he told us he was catholic. it was wierd because while we were talking i remembered what sister baker told me...that i will teach someone that has been waiting a long time to hear the gospel from me. i couldnt help but cry in the lesson haha. i could feel the spirit and the love of heavenly father for this man. The last miracle is so cool. as missionaries we need to be in the house at 9pm unless we are teaching a lesson than we can be in the house at 930pm. we were with a member with 2 min before 9 and found a house to enter and taught a lesson. wow. after that, we left the house to head for the casa but the lady loved to talk so it was hard to leave. after the prayer i looked at the computer and it said 930. i was so sad because we were late. it took another min to get out of the house and when we left i looked at my watch and we were late. we ran to the house and when we got there i looked at the phone and it said 930. i just about cried because i know heavenly helped us to be home on time. there is no way we could haave been there without his help. literally, because i saw the time on my watch and the computer. we should have been 2 or 3 min late at least. i love this work and am so pumped. the picture is of me today on the way to the computer place. i love you all so much and thank you for the letters and the prayers. hay milagros every day! oh zach, your letter made me cry. i loved it and am so gratefull for you and jackson. something ive read is the story of nefi and his family. they had trial then blesings, trials then blessings. that is the way life is trials and blessings. so when we are in trials just remember blessings are on the way:)
Weekly Letter - 12 Ago 2013
Dear President Lovell,
Thank you so much for your response to my last letter, it really helped me have peace in my heart. This week has been amazing! I have seen so many amazing things happen this week
in the area. We watched the restauracion video with in investigator and his granddaughter. The grandaughter is Vanesa and after the movie she said she felt something like she had never felt before go through her body and hands. She said it was one of the most beautiful fillings she has ever felt and that she wants to read the book of mormon. We also have a great ward mission lider here. He is giving us a lot of support and I am so gratefull for his love for us. We also put a date with a man who ́s family are members but he has never joined. He started out by saying he is catholic but by the end and with the help of the spirit he said he would read the book of mormon and be baptized. So many great things here in 12 de julio. Elder Yañez and I are doing good. We are growing closer together which is really helping us enjoy the time we have. It ́s like spending the whole day with my friend as we teach others about Christ, it ́s awesome. As for me, I am doing great. I have faith for the future and in the Lord. I ́m working on being more patient and more humble. This week we taught with a returned misionary and I got sad at the thought of one day not being able to do this work anymore. I know i will always be a missionary but not like this. This truly is a special time in life. We get two years to teach others and an eternity to remember our experiences. Thank you again for your letter. I hope your family is doing well and is healthy. Thank you for everything!
Thank you so much for your response to my last letter, it really helped me have peace in my heart. This week has been amazing! I have seen so many amazing things happen this week
in the area. We watched the restauracion video with in investigator and his granddaughter. The grandaughter is Vanesa and after the movie she said she felt something like she had never felt before go through her body and hands. She said it was one of the most beautiful fillings she has ever felt and that she wants to read the book of mormon. We also have a great ward mission lider here. He is giving us a lot of support and I am so gratefull for his love for us. We also put a date with a man who ́s family are members but he has never joined. He started out by saying he is catholic but by the end and with the help of the spirit he said he would read the book of mormon and be baptized. So many great things here in 12 de julio. Elder Yañez and I are doing good. We are growing closer together which is really helping us enjoy the time we have. It ́s like spending the whole day with my friend as we teach others about Christ, it ́s awesome. As for me, I am doing great. I have faith for the future and in the Lord. I ́m working on being more patient and more humble. This week we taught with a returned misionary and I got sad at the thought of one day not being able to do this work anymore. I know i will always be a missionary but not like this. This truly is a special time in life. We get two years to teach others and an eternity to remember our experiences. Thank you again for your letter. I hope your family is doing well and is healthy. Thank you for everything!
Monday, August 5, 2013
the wind
hola familia,
life down here in the motherland is good. elder yanez and i have been working our tails off. weve been teaching a man named segundo who is like 65 and has attended church about five times. he has a date and we have been working with him to quite drinking. he has gone about to weeks without drinking and even made his daughter cry because she heard him pray for the first time. but in the middle of this week he drank. it was one of the saddest things because i felt like i couldnt do anything. we came by his house three days in a row and each day he was drunk. elder y and i fasted for help and for all of our investigators especailly segundo. sunday we went to his house at about 9 am before church and he wasnt drunk so he came to church with is. later we taught him a lesson and he still wants to be baptised and stop drinking but he needs help. elder y and i were so happy that he still wants to stop. i love miracles. oh, crazy story. elder y and i talked to a guy who was drunk in the streets and he asked us to pray for him becasue the day before he had stabbed someone. right after he told us that he lifted up his shirt to show us a knife with the blade wrapped in news paper in the front of his sweat pants haha. this past week has been super windy. you all have no idea how windy. i feel like im in a sand storm in the middle east haha. elder y and i walk down the street like we are drunk because we cant walk strait. sometimes we are stopped dead in our tracks. oh, so all the people here think im like 23-27 years old. one kid told me he thought i was 32..... i was like you got to be kidding me haha. everything is great down here. the language is still coming. i still cant understand everything everyone is saying but im trying to have patience. i love you all and hope all is well. shout out to the dream team. let me know what all of your plans are with school, sports, and life:)Weekly Letter - 05 Ago 2013
Dear President Lovell,
This week has been pretty good. The zone conference was great and i learned a lot. The area is doing good in 12 de julio. A new ward mission leader was called this past sunday so Elder Yañez and I are really excited to have him. We are trying to find the people the lord has prepared for us. As for Elder Yañez and I, i think we ́re doing pretty good. Sometimes we have our small differences but we work through them. All I want to do is work hard and serve the Lord. As for me, not going to lie, sometimes it ́s a little rough. Sometimes I feel like Im the only one that really cares about obedience or wants to use all the time we have as missionaries correctly. I beleive that the we have the rules for a reason and that we will be blessed for following them. If Im wrong please just let me know. Im affraid that Im going to disrespect my liders or other missionaries around me if I say something. I dont know. The white handbook says to ask Heavenly Father first and I made a committment to Him at the start of my mission to be 100 percent obedient. I just want to give my heart to His will. I always hear people talk about the higher law but something i thought of that could be wrong or could be right is that right now we are living the letter of the law. We as missionaries are living the letter of the law to prepare us to live the higher law after our missions. Maybe Im wrong. Anyways, I love this work President. Im not complaining. My only desire is to work hard. Please let me know if Im crazy or not about the obedience or what I should do. Oh and the numbers for the times of the week for studies I dont know exactly but Im keeping track of them for this week. Thank you.
This week has been pretty good. The zone conference was great and i learned a lot. The area is doing good in 12 de julio. A new ward mission leader was called this past sunday so Elder Yañez and I are really excited to have him. We are trying to find the people the lord has prepared for us. As for Elder Yañez and I, i think we ́re doing pretty good. Sometimes we have our small differences but we work through them. All I want to do is work hard and serve the Lord. As for me, not going to lie, sometimes it ́s a little rough. Sometimes I feel like Im the only one that really cares about obedience or wants to use all the time we have as missionaries correctly. I beleive that the we have the rules for a reason and that we will be blessed for following them. If Im wrong please just let me know. Im affraid that Im going to disrespect my liders or other missionaries around me if I say something. I dont know. The white handbook says to ask Heavenly Father first and I made a committment to Him at the start of my mission to be 100 percent obedient. I just want to give my heart to His will. I always hear people talk about the higher law but something i thought of that could be wrong or could be right is that right now we are living the letter of the law. We as missionaries are living the letter of the law to prepare us to live the higher law after our missions. Maybe Im wrong. Anyways, I love this work President. Im not complaining. My only desire is to work hard. Please let me know if Im crazy or not about the obedience or what I should do. Oh and the numbers for the times of the week for studies I dont know exactly but Im keeping track of them for this week. Thank you.
Elder Nobmann,
Thanks for your letter. I think you are right. Until we are willing to live the letter of the law, we will never get to the higher law. I am grateful for the desires of your heart to be completely obedient. And you are right, this is the Lord ́s time now. You have given it to him. You are not crazy. You are on the right track. The challenge is how do you do it, and still invite others to join you. Not even God will override the agency of another, yet he will not leave us alone no matter what. Keep studying the scriptures. Learn more of the atonement of Christ. Let his words and actions be examples to follow as you represent him as a missionary.
May the Lord bless you with peace in your heart.
President Lovell
Thanks for your letter. I think you are right. Until we are willing to live the letter of the law, we will never get to the higher law. I am grateful for the desires of your heart to be completely obedient. And you are right, this is the Lord ́s time now. You have given it to him. You are not crazy. You are on the right track. The challenge is how do you do it, and still invite others to join you. Not even God will override the agency of another, yet he will not leave us alone no matter what. Keep studying the scriptures. Learn more of the atonement of Christ. Let his words and actions be examples to follow as you represent him as a missionary.
May the Lord bless you with peace in your heart.
President Lovell
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