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  Hola! Buenas tardes a todos!! A great week here in good old Saint John! Still working hard out here trying to gather scattered Israel!! Behind us is the biggest wasp nest I've ever seen! This week hasn't been very different than last week, at least in the sense of work. We've stayed with our rhythm just trying to visit as many inactive families as we can and the rest of the time just teaching lessons! It's honestly perfect, everything we do is just straight find, teach, and baptize!! Now that I don't have to worry about all the Facebook stuff like I did in Xalapa, I feel like I'm a horse who just got let out of the starting gate!! Though I will always be grateful for the experiences I had in Alborada, and my magnum opus ad has gotten 130 references for the mission, so I'm glad I was able to leave it on a good note! But now that I'm here and free to just work as hard as I can to live my missionary purpose it feels so liberating!! And we've been cont...

  Bueno buenas tardes!! This week has been super great!! My new son and I have been having such a fun time in our new area!! The pyramid literally right in front of our house while it's lit up at night! So like I briefly mentioned last week in my message, I have been transferred ! My new area is very different, but not in a bad way, in fact, in a very very good way! The main town in my area is called San Juan Xiutetelco, which is where the church building is found! Right next to San Juan is a town called Jalacingo, which is our second big focus here in the area. So these two main towns are where we do most of our work and where the majority of the members live. First of all, I absolutely love it here!! We've only been here for a week but I have been able to really see great potential in San Juan and enjoy what is already is! The people that we have had the pleasure of meeting are absolutely wonderful, everyone is so nice and so very friendly! Because we are both new here we...

Buenas tardes!! It's been a great week!! We've been having some struggles but we made sure to finish this transfer off strong!! The Quartet final send off So I wrote my entire email with my normal 5 paragraphs but when I put in the photos it all got deleted haha!! So I'll just have to write some bullet points really fast to fill this week! But next week we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programing!! Staring straight into the sun for the selfie Jesus photo bombing our picture Shrimp cocktail! -I am leaving Alborada, headed back to my first zone to an area called San Juan, I'll be district leader again, but this time I'm training a brand new missionary!! I'm nervous but excited to meet him tomorrow and have a new challenge!! -Saying goodbye to all my friends here was really hard, but I know I'll never forget them and the experiences I've had with them! -Had some great divisions with an Elder who is going home today! He's finishing his missio...

  Bueeeno entonces!!! This week has been such a great week! We've been working super hard and have been seeing a lot of ups in our work lately! Once again I find myself with little time to write, but it will be super sweet!! My favorite Guatemalan named Elder Morales who is in area Los Lagos! So I'm sure all my faithful readers remember Conchita and Larry, we have been teaching them since I got here to Alborada. They have been ready for baptism since I got here, but the only ting that has been stopping them is the fact that they aren't married! Up to this point it has been a very slow process helping them get everything ready for their wedding, but this week we finally were able to get their papers submitted and get a date for their wedding! It was kinda crazy getting everything, especially getting the witnesses there to the civil registry and getting copies of all their documents! After waiting at the building for two hours and eating a popsicle, our friends finally...

Buenas tardes, y feliz año nuevo!!! This week has flown by super fast!! We've seen a lot of ups and a lot of downs this week, but it's been good getting to work! Los coordinadores *insert cool sound effect here* To start, this week was the last week of the month, that means that your monthly ad had to be finished so we could get it up and running for January! As we usually do, we have already had a plan written down with a lot of new ideas, but early in the week we had a meeting with our trainer in Salt Lake, and it kinda changed our plans! So our trainer in Salt Lake had a meeting with us to give us some advice when it comes to the ads. By the way, for all you Madison Stake friends out there, our new trainer is Bradly Spindle!! He is at BYU but he's our buddy here in Xalapa to help us with all the stuff! Anyway we had a meeting with him and he gave us some help with our ads, he told us that we should make a video for our ad, he told us that usually brings ...