Transfers, Conference and Baptism

well, i have big news..... transfers are this week. and general conference. so i will start with first things first..

transfers.... this one i have no idea what to think because i have been with my comp for 2 transfers, but in 2 different areas. really i have been here in bahia for like 5 months. and so it can go either way. i always play a little game with the elders in the house and try to predict transfers. so i will play with u all. try to decide what happens. if i stay or go and if my comp will stay or go... hopefully we both stay, we are a really great companionship, and elder waggy is a great friend. but iré y haré (I'll go and do) so yeah, we will see. but i will let y'all know...

then with general conference this weekend also it's going to make transfers interesting. but I'm way excited, and we are working to try to get everybody to go and hear the prophet cause if they hear him they will want to know more. it's kind of funny how conference talks are so much better when u actually listen. who would have thought....lol..

but also, to make this weekend even crazier but way awesome is we have a baptism... yeah, her name is antonela, we have been teaching her all the transfer. but we have also kind of had a fecha with her all the transfer but now she has the assistance, and and the testimony and is way excited for the baptism. then, next week, we have 3 more, who is an incomplete family, they are way good... they kick a lot or in other words, they want to know everything and complain about everything, but the funny thing is they all got their answers and know they have to do it and obey. so it's way fun to teach them, cause when they have a doubt about the commandments we just always say remember your answer. and so yeah. with them once they hear the prophet and the apostles, they will be way happy, so yeah....

but this week has been kind of crazy, as right now we have 7 living with us in our house, 2 of them are from another area but stuff happened there so they have to work with us, and the other is just an elder who is hurt so he needed to go to the doctor but it's been fun being so many but way crazy.... it's easy to see why we have the rule not to get together so much as elders. but yeah, it's been fun and a crazy week.

but to answer some question about rules.... no i don't get on facebook, so if someone aside from my mom and sister get on, get off...lol but nah, all in all, i do my best to be obedient to the mission rules. cause i figured out, a lot of it is so we can have more power in our testimonies, and for protection. so mas vale that i obey them. so i hope that answers those questions. gots to be like nefi, and the last thing i write in my book is "and i must obey, amen."

oh, and mom, i know i promised fotos but i forgot to bring my camera and this cyber isn't so good, so yeah.. my bad...

but yeah, that's pretty much all the things to come. and whats happened. this week we also have interviews, so yeah, it's going to be way crowded... but like all things in life, we just take what comes ahead, and trust in God, stay chill, and have fun. my motto. and i must obey amen...lol...

but thanks for all the love and the support, and the emails... i love y'all and miss y'all and so i will see y'all latter. peace out

I've got the news first

hello family and friends of mine....

well, i guess this week there is a new member of the family. and so that's way cool. happy birth, Lacey Misty Collins.... to be honest, i don't know if that's her name but oh well.... but that's cool. it's kind of weird to think that the family gets bigger while I'm far away but it's way cool. the more the merrier...

but yeah, the week here has been good but normal. we are still working with some of the same people. but they wont be able to get baptized this week cause they couldn't go to church last Sunday but it's alright, to be honest they are more excited to go to church this week cause they felt bad that they didn't go and noticed a difference. so yeah. it's been great.

here it's been funny cause we have been working, pretty much, in the same area, i don't know why but almost always i work far away from the house, it's the same here in villa serra. but it's a great area with great members.

to be honest i cant really think of anything, to say, and i didn't get the questions my mom or pops normally ask cause i haven't gotten the mail. but it's been a great week, like always we were blessed a bunch. one of the families we are teaching, the lessons are always way crazy. they are some of our fechas. to be honest i still don't know how we got them, the first time we went to their house they were like u brain washed our kid, way angry with us, but then little by little they started listening, and now the lessons, they still ask a bunch of questions but it's kind of like zeezrom in the book of alma, where first he ask the questions to try to find the fault. but then he ask to actually know. it's the same with them they are a great family. they are way funny. but yeah. but yeah that was pretty much my week. it was great, but not too many things outside of the normal. but yeah so thank u all for the love and the support and the prayers........


ps... this is to all the members of the family, as we have been able to see the family has grown at an increasing rate. since i have been on the mission, Jason got married, Amanda is pregnant, and Meli had a baby.... and now someone else is going to have another... but the question is who? i will leave that up to you all to guess and call the person. are u up for the challenge to find out who? but to that person: congratulations. and let me know who is the first to guess right...... ahahahahahahaha....

pss. the name of the person is in this email. lol

but thanks again...love y'all

peace out

We were blessed to know what we have to do and say

hey everybody, sorry but this letter is going to be kind of short.

this past week has been great, as of right now in our area we are working with a family of 4 their names are marcela (mama) Danela (daughter) tomas and ramiero (sons). they are 3 of our four fechas... ramiero is member ya. but it's way funny to see them progress because, when we first met them, they were all saying we brain washed their ramiero, and that we were crazy... and now they have feachas for the 25th of september..
we were blessed to know what we had to do and to say and all the lessons have been great... the other day she told us about how she got her answer (marcela)... it was kind of funny though cause then she went to church and it was all about diezmo (tithing)... but we talked about it and she's way excited.. and know it will help the whole family... so we will see. they are a little bit harder but, if we keep doing what we need to and she keeps praying, they will make it to their fecha...

then the other fecha, antonela... she;s still way good. she went to church also.. and is way excited. but yeah, those are the main people we are teaching. but yeah, this week it has been crazy.

like i said Sunday we had 6 in the church... so that was good. and the rest of the days have been pretty normal. but yeah.. it's funny to see how the Lord blesses us to know what to say, and the stuff we should do. like the other day, this part member family asked us to give their son and the husband a blessing... the husband is the one who is not member and normally when we are there he is nice, we talk but when we pray and talk about the church he leaves... so i got to give him the blessing, and it all just came... it was great. then the funny thing after is he got his daughter and was like lets say a prayer... it was cool and a nice step... for him... but it's cool just to see how we can all be tools... lol... in the hands of the Lord...

but yeah to answer some questions.....

the zone is good but a lot of people sick this week. but it makes it fun.. but I'm way lucky to have a good comp. he helps me out a lot so I'm way blessed. but yeah

so thank u all for the letters and the love and the support. i love y'all...

peace out

Funny story

Well, how's life going for u all.....

this week has been crazy for us.. and it's been kind of funny. this week we had plans to have like 6 people in church with members passing by to pick them... and only one came; it was kind of a disappointment, but oh well, the work goes on. they will all come next week cause they felt really bad they left us and some members hanging. but yeah, pretty much thursday through saturday it was normally going to teach, and trying to get them to go to sacrament meeting.

but yeah, then the big news, on monday and tuesday we had conference with elder adukitis, a member of the 70ty, that came and part of the area presidency...... lets just say he called us all to repentance... it was funny, he dropped the cane but we deserved it, and he did it with love and a smile.

on Monday it was a conference of leaders in all the mission. so there he talked about how the mission is doing, what we need to do to have more exito (sucess). and also talked about paying the price... he said that like 200 times during the 2 conferences "pay the price"... and so after that, presidente talked about some of the new metas (goals) for the mision. and so yeah, it was a great conference.

another good thing about it was that i got to see a lot of my friends in the mission cause everyone had to come here to bahia... so that was fun.....

but then on tuesday it was zone conference, my zone bahia with the santa rosa zone. and it was great. he once again talked about how we can be better, have more faith in the promises, telling us that there is people to find..... something he said that i like a lot is that he said: the field is white and ready to harvest. and if it's ready to harvest, how do we not see many fruits..... yeah he dropped it good... but it was great... I hink it's like all things, when someone gives you advice, even more so a servant of God. u take it and do all u can to do it... so i'm way excited...

this past 2 months the mission has been changing a ton for the better. and with all the new changes i only see good things. it's all about faith , what we need to do to have more, and to put it in practice..... o sea paying the price.

it's been a great week. the mission is a funny place cause it's kind of like a mini life. ur born ur new, u learn or die. when change comes u accept it and adapt to it. same thing when problems come, u solve them. and so yeah, it's funny, i love the mission. it's the best experience ever.....

to answer some questions really fast....

one - no, i could not see or hear the argentina game cause of the conference.. and cause it's against the rules...

funny story though..... tuesday, we got to the church at 9 in the morning to prepare the church, clean up, make it look good for the conference. it should have started at 3 in the afternoon. then the other zone comes like at 10. and then we just wait in the church till it started, cause we didn't want them getting lost if they went out to work... so yeah, anyways, like at 2:50 one of the ap's asked me and my comp to go run really quick, find a kiosco that's open, cause it's the siesta, and buy like 5 bottles of water.... and do it before presidente and elder adukitis come. we go and see presidente in the car with the elder so we started running to the gas station. the only place open... also, we are in our suits, and when we get there the aps call us and tell us that it already started. and so, we buy the water and run back.... we get there late, i give them the water bottles. My tie was way out of place cause we were running, and so yeah, we were one of the first ones there and we got to the meeting late with a general authority there..... worst part about it is that he didn't even need the water... he had his own watter bottle...... yeah, stuff happens.... it was funny to me.... but yeah

ok well, i love y'all very much and miss y'all. and will see y'all latter.

thanks for the prayers... and peace out

Book of Mormon has all the answers

hey every one, how's life going over there....,. this week has been great, well, we have the opportunity to actually work in our area, and we are being blessed...

the end of last week was good, up until friday we couldn't really work in the area that much cause of problems and stuff like that. but after that we have been working. some of the people we have been working, one of them is a lady who is called antonela, we put a fecha with her yesterday... she is a 21 years old who wants to start everything new, and be a better example for her 2 daughters.. she is a really good lady and, as of right now, has been blessed a bunch by the gospel and loves it so, we will see what goes on with that.... but hopefully all is good.

it's been weird now though with 4 elders in our house. to be honest, i always like 4 better than 2 cause it's never boring with 4. and so that helps a lot. even more so when they are all obedient elders. so yeah fun. fun......

but trying to think of a good story to tell, well, yesterday (this story is not really that good but it's the only one that came to my mind, so yeah) so yesterday we went to visit this menos activo, her husband is in jail right now, she is always bumbed about it. but we went to teach her and she said how she lost her faith in the book of Mormon, and in the church. and so we asked her some questions and explained about the atonement, using the book of Mormon, and she didn't want to understand it... it was hard for us, mainly cause she really needs the peace that comes from that book and the bible. but i remembered something in that experience, just how loving god is... that He has given us the book of Mormon to help us. it really does have all the answers one needs in life.

something that i find really funny is everyone who knows me knows i hate reading books, but the only books that i don't mind reading are the scriptures, and that I'm here in Argentina teaching people about a prophet that i know is true because of a book.... kind of funny how little stuff changes our lives. but yeah. it happens, every one can choose for themselves.

but this next week will be kind of crazy because elder Adikitis (no idea how to spell his name) a counselor in the area presidency is coming to visit our mission and is going to check our house..... i don't know why but it's going to be funny when he sees my big suns blanket on the wall.....lol, but yeah

thanks you all for everything u all have given me. i love the mission, every one who can go should go. like everything in life it's hard but worth it. sacrifice brings worth... and so yeah

thanks again and peace out