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

Running to the finish

so this week was actually kind of hard for me.... but still a good week. it was hard because it was the last week of transfer, and it actually hit me that soon I'm going home. but since i was in loberia i came up with a boxing analogy, my mission is 16 transfers, this is the last round, but from my little understanding of boxing, finishing isn't enough to win, so that's what i need to do better with, not just finish but finish good. but lucky, I'm in the best place in the mission.
funny how God always helps us out in ways like that.

but this week, we at least had members from each of the 2 big families we are really focusing on, come to church, and thye all said next week more will come. so that is great news. also with one, the familia sanchez, we watched "Jose smith prophet of the restauracion", and it worked wonders. they were way excited and would have all come to church but the dad woke up sick so that was a bummer. but hopefully in April we will be able to get both families. then aside from that it was kind of way tranquilo, i can't really think of any weird stuff that happened, it was actually a lot of walking around looking for part families that the bishop gave to us on a list. but yeah.

oh, and about transfers. i'm still here in newberry and elder seegrist is still my comp. I'm way excited, he's a good friend, and presidente likes the team we make... he says " ambos son re-vivos" ..... don't know if it's a good thing but we have fun, and manage to work so I'm excited to finish with him... really the only change that really affects me is the new elder in the ward with us. but he is a good kid. so it will be fun. but yeah.

and so, yeah, on kind of a trunky note to my family who is going to want a lot of stuff from Argentina, write me a list with everything you want and send me some money (give it to mom) and i will do my best to get it. the good thing is that I'm in mar del plata, and so i can pretty much get anything Argentina has to offer.... so let me know cause if you don't tell me I'm just coming home with independiente shirts for every one. and alfajores for me, but the cheap ones....lol... money talks to my mouth... but yeah, that's all i can remember...

so yeah, i guess i will write y'all next week, and be good. and now that i think what i always say is thanks for the prayers, support, and love..... but that's cliche, so i just leave it with this lovely phrase..... if you want to love me got to show me.....

alright peace out

Happy New Year!

Well, happy new years everybody. hope you all passed it good and enjoyed yourselves. I was with my comp and we passed it at home, it was like the first time i can remember that i didn't even intend to stay up and see the firecrackers, and stuff. but it was fun, we made some food..... that my comp got sick from eating... and we ate a lot. but it was a tranquilo day. and yeah, that's how we passed it, even though at 12 we woke up cause there were a bunch drunk dudes playing with fireworks in front of our house, it was way funny. but yeah.

aside from that, the week was good, even though me and Elder Garcia used to live with each other in Bahia, but it's always kind of hard to get used to a new person around you. but its been fun. this week we went by some menos activos, and they are an incomplete family. but we were teaching them and they were way interested and excited about the message. so we will see what goes down with them. they are 4 non members. but yeah. it was a good blessing. but this week we were blessed to find some people to teach, so it was pretty awesome.

but some people have asked what are my goals for 2011, after all a new year. new thing to do, and so yeah to answer that questions I'm going to give you a scripture reference.... DC 90:33... lol. you can look it up when you want. but to be honest i have the goals i want to reach, but just don't know how to reach them yet. but it will all come... first things first finish the mission, then worry about the other stuff.

but it has been a great year. to be honest my full year in the mission wasn't really what i thought it would be but i have never learned so much in my life... that's kind of a comment about the mission in general... but it was a hard year, but i guess that's one of the reasons things get hard, cause if it would have been easy i wouldn't have learned anything...lol... but yeah

i don't really know what more to write, but i promised my mom i would make this letter way long, or that i would send some pictures and i cant send pictures right now so i need to make it long. but yeah...

oh well i guess i just want to say thanks you all for your help and your prayers, and all the thing you all have taught me and given me. I'm way grateful for my family, friends, and mainly that i had the opportunity to be born in the church, mainly cause if it had been for my mom and dad finding the church i wouldn't have ever looked for it. to have the gospel has been one of the best things i have ever been given, and the good example of my mom and dad, by teaching me it. but not only by teaching but by living it given me the example..... with the rest of my family, and my other friends from the church and outside of it..... didn't want to leave y'all hanging...lol...

and congrats to Alana for getting baptized, i asked pres if i could go but he didn't write me back, i take it as a no. but i wish i could have been there. or if it's the 8th of January...... there is still hope...lol... but yeah, thanks, love y'all and peace out


PS.... wait, the branch has church at 9 in the morning now?.... bummer. whatever happened to the "we don't change our horario". 11 in the morning is the best time to have it. but oh well. es lo que hay. the church is still true.
peace out

Being humble to see the miracles

hey every one, this week was good. we actually found a lot of people and so we are getting started with getting them ready for their fechas... the biggest problem is finding our investigators after we found them the first time... kind of the story of my mission... but yeah. no complaints. it's funny how sometimes the Lord just wants patience out of us. like last week was way hard, to be honest so was this one but yet God blessed us and helped us find more people. so it was cool.....

Monday, we found this dude named juan, it was funny, it was raining, and we passed his house then we doubled back so we could knock it and he let us in. we taught him, he's a great dude. then Tuesday, we found some more people, a family of 3, well, more like a sister and brothers but they are way funny, they heard the lessons before and pretty much know everything. we just need to help them apply it. but yeah....
we pretty much found people every day of the week. and Saturday, we found the coolest dude. his name is Jeremiah... like the bible prophet. but this dude looks and acts like Chris Rock... he's way funny, heis 20 years old... but he had us laughing all the time in the cita. it was fun.
all in all, we received many blessings... patience is the name of the game. but it was a good week all in all.

but to try to answer some questions.....

here the only person that gives us food is presidente gutirrez, and to be honest, if we go to his house every day he will give us food... way good. but most of the week we fend for ourselves. and so yeah, we eat, hamburgers, pizza, pasta, rice, sandwiches, and whatever else we have in the house...

then the branch is still fun, me or my comp has to teach Sunday school. and then whatever other class the teachers didn't prepare. and we talk every sunday. wether it be directing, talks, prayers.... either way, the members here get the blessing of hearing my broken Spanish...lol.. well, strong yankee accent. but yeah....

but yeah, like i said, this week was a lot better, most of it was just in forgetting myself and serving the people and being humble enough to see the miracles..... God sometime kicks us on our butts so we can get better and progress. so after the swift kick in the rear from last week, I'm good until probably tomorrow and then i'll need another..lol.... but that's life, right? Progress, slowly but surely... like someone told me in an email "we ain't the losing team". just work hard, serve, love, be myself, stay chill, and it will all go good, or at least, the way it needs to go.

but yeah..... so thanks y'all for the letters i'm gonna try to answer all the emails i didn't answer last week. sorry, know I'm way gratefully to get mail. and love hearing from family and friends. so thanks for the support.

love y'all and peace out....