How the mssion has blessed me

this week was pretty good. we worked hard, and found some people, and are working a lot with incomplete families...and they are going forward little by little... the cool thing is we found out that the father of a family we have been teaching all transfer was baptized like 30 years ago.... it was funny, cause we asked him why he never told us and he said nunca me preguntaron (you never asked)... and so, moral of the story, ask a lot of questions.... but it was funny cause then, after he told us, he really became a good help in telling his family to get baptized.... the bad thing is that the family went on vacation and don't get back till about 5 of May... so i wont be here but yeah... so that was a bummer.... but yeah, that's pretty much how things are going here this week... and the fact that everyone wants to give me food.... it's going to be cool... but yeah

so seeing how i don't know if this will be the last email i write in the mission field.... i figure i will just say how much the mission has blessed me..... and cause I'm like the reverse of the nephites... i don't express myself good, and so i write it down... and if nobody understands... oh well .lol....
for me the mission has been hard, cause it kind of goes against my nature..... for example i don't like when people get in my space or restrict me a lot.... I'm probably not alone... and if you don't believe me ask my parents.... but the mission has helped become more humbled, and realize that, when we do everything we can, God just does the rest. i saw that time and time again on my mission. it's actually way cool to see how God worked with me, a stubborn punk kid, with a lot of faults. and yet he used me and i had some success. just to make it short, the mission was truly nothing i thought i would have been but it was everything that i was promised it would be. Directed my life, helped me see what i can reach if i put my mind to it. helped me learn to trust in God. and all while i did it i had fun.. so yeah, i love the mission. and am grateful to everyone who helped me be able to come and be here. i love y'all and will see y'all latter...

peace out

oh ps. um thanks for all the letters... this week we beat last weeks letters amounts... lol... but don't answer back on this email, cause i think it might get deleted right away.... well, i have no idea... so yeah..

peace out again


so here are the answers to this week's questions, and very smart, make some essay so the letter gets longer...lol...

1. what movie won the Oscar for best film this year?
a. black swan
b. Toy Story 3
c. the king's speech
d. RM
Bryce: i know this one cause of all the signs they have for it here in mar del.... it's the discurso del rey.... or option c...

2. what would you like to do first
a. go to a movie
b. go to a game
c. go to the temple
d. go to a dance
Bryce: well i think the fact that we put the third option takes the fun away from the question, cause the temple is what i would like to do when i get home... but without the temple as an option i take, go to movie.....

3. what are your plans for the first month back?
Bryce: find a job, maybe work 2 jobs and make some money, just over summer until i have to go to school. but i honestly have no idea, how the first month is going to be... probably get used to it... but yeah, so if i told you a serious answer i would be lying....

4. how much do you think you will use your Spanish once you're back?
Bryce: i like talking in the language that people can understand me, so probably use it the same amount, i talk English here... maybe 60 percent English 45 percent Spanish..... i talk 105% of the time..... cause now i talk a lot... but i don't write a lot... so yeah....

but that's all i got to answers so yeah peace out

Interesting work

hey everybody.

this week was an interesting one. but it's been getting better here. this week was mainly trying to teach the fechas we have and try to get them to go to church. and in which none of them really came but it was a good week anyway. it's funny to see how God is always willing to bless us. we were blessed to work, we found a couple more people to teach and focused on the fechas. but we will see if this weekend we can get any. i hope we can... i know we can. but yeah.

this weekend we divis with the district leader and an AP... my ex comp van wagenen. i was with waggy and we did service all day, we cut one of our investigators grass, cause it was way long. but yeah, it was fun to be with him again. brought back old times.

but yeah, then Sunday for the first time me and my comp didn't have to speak, or bless the sacrament. i did direct, and my comp taught the class. but the branch is getting more consistent now. at least we have had like 25 or more for the past 2 or 3 weeks so that's good. and some menos activos are going back to so yeah, all in all, a good week...

but to be honest sorry I'm going to keep the letter short; my mind went blank and don't know what to write.

but yeah thanks for the love, and the support. you all have always been there to help me, and for that i am way grateful.... i love this work that I'm doing.. nothing's better than it, and nothing else i would rather be doing. but i love y'all and will see you all later....

peace out

10 things I'm grateful for!

well, this week was kind of like last week. the good thing is these past weeks we have been teaching this family. i don't know if i told y'all but their names are luisina, jose, and abel. they are way good people. and they really need the gospel. to be honest, they are the only investigators were they are always there. the mom passed away in February and the jose and all his daughters. they are a great family, and they are learning and are way excited to hear the message. but with them we have been working a lot.....

also, every Wednesday, we go to an even smaller town outside of loberia called tamgueyu. there, we have had a lot of success surprisingly. and we want to try to go 2 times a week now. but just so y'all know how small it is, we already knock every door there. but if not all them answered and also we found some good families there. but it's about 4 or 5 kilometros or in other words it's kind of far. but at least, i will lose weigth... that's good. lol...

but yeah, aside from that it's been normal. we have been trying to find some new people who will be there when we put citas. but yeah. can't complain.

as far as the church went on Sunday. it was fun. we had none of our investigators go, and also none of the youth went that we have been working with . but yeah, it was raining a little so that's always kind of the excuse they throw out. but yeah. this sunday was the Sunday of dropping the cane. i gave the Sunday school class, it didn't turn out as well as i would have liked but oh well, it was from the old testament, called los pastores de israel (the shepherds of Israel). then in sacrament meeting there were 2 talks on diezmo (tithing), and 1 on orgullo (pride). so yeah, it was kind of funny. but yeah.

but like in all things hard there are miracles to be seen if we open our eyes to them. but yeah, this week we are planing for ways to get better success in the work here and so we will see what happens.

but yeah, i actually don't know when is turkey day or i don't know if it passed but happy turkey day..... i think i will list ten thing i am grateful for....

1. my family, the thing i that i truly miss the most of everything. Everything i am, the good and the bad, it's their fault. so thanks family of mine. i love y'all and y'all helped me get this far and taught me by your examples.

2. the scriptures.....because who doesn't want to hear the word of God. and who doesn't want to have the blessing and knowledge that comes with that...they have helped me a lot this past few months.

3. the church.... who doesn't want Gods only true church......( i write that as though He has churches that aren't true..lol)

4. the mission.... I'm learning a lot and am really getting directed in what i want to do when i get back and learning a whole bunch.

5. the branch and my old ward.... this are the people who put up with me in the church, and who guided me and taught me. so thank you all. i miss you all.

6. driving..... probably the thing i miss second most... it sucks not being able to drive and having to watch this people who don't know how to drive do it....

7. temples... i underestimated this one when i was at home, and could go. i always tell the members here when they say "if only the temple were closer we would go more often" that when it's closer it's harder cause you always wind up saying " i will go next week" or tomorrow.

8. my friends and family. this time i put friends before family cause i already talked about my family. but thanks for those of you who have supported me, and have written to me, and to one of my special bros... who just got a girlfriend named nikki.... or is working on that.... keep up the good work.... i miss just chilling with y'all. and i say family cause y'all are my friends... so yeah...

9. for computers that don't freeze and go slow... I'm sure this email will take about 5 minutes to send... cause it's long.... but yeah, I'm grateful for that.

10. I'm grateful to be grateful for so many things... and that God's blessed me, probably more than i deserve. but yeah...

so yeah, that's the list. if you want to see if there is a difference from this year and last year check it out.... but yeah thanks for everything for the love and for the support i love you all and miss you all. but i will see you all latter..

peace out

Perfect week

hey y'all... this has been a great week... first on the week end we had the baptism of Karina... it went perfect. then Sunday the ward was very happy with us... even to the point that the obispo said we need to be fed more often. it was funny... so I'm going to be getting fat..er.. but yeah... then as far as the game, Sunday... it was crazy here, people were going out to party and yelling from the streets, it was awesome... if they win Saturday i will video or take pictures of it.....

so what the mission was doing last week was a "semana perfecta" or perfect week, where everyone in the mission has had to be exactly perfect with all the rules, and every one has to get at least 215 contacts because that is what the area presidency says... so we did that so we can see the miracles, and mainly to force God to bless us... D&C 82: 10...... and so with all that done, me and my comp had to make sure that we did it and that the other areas did it too... but it was hard cause few of the companionships actually did it. but the ones that did do it saw some miracles..

as far as me and my comp, the baptism and what happened on Sunday was our miracle... this area it's segun dicen one of the hardest areas in the mission.... to be honest, I don't see it, i love it here... but it has also had some bad missionary experiences so not many of the members gave a ton of support to the elders.. but the last companionship's worked on that a lot and we are too and we are seeing the blessings of that work... all the members like us and do the best to help us... so it animates us a ton to work and keep strong.

but that has been the great week we have had, we saw a lot of miracles, a lot of them not really worth telling cause they weren't anything big, or that crazy.. but what i have learned is the smaller ones are more important, and make a bigger difference... that's why i think they are sometimes hard to see. but to be honest, the fact that i can stay on the mission this long, and learn the stuff i have learned, had the exito i have had, and the strength i have received are all miracles... of an all powerful.. yet all loving God...

that was something i learned a lot this week. with that lady i told y'all about. Amalia, where her nieto died... she is angry at God because every one says He is all powerful, and in being all powerful, why does He not step in and make people do stuff, heal people, and stop natural disasters... it's cause He is all loving... loves us enough to let us make mistakes, pass throw hard times, let people make choices, and more than anything give us a purpose, and a way to be happy.. and all powerful enough to give us that way, and option many times we just need to take it..... but yeah, that's what i have learned. sorry for the rant... but i want to thank u all for the love and the support you all have been giving me... for the prayers. and everything... i love u all...... sorry i can't spell...

but yeah. aguante argentina world cup......

peace out