Week 17 Area 1

this week was a good week it was kind of a hard week but its good cause we worked hard we taught the most lessons we have taught since i have been here this week i have been focusing alot on trying to become closer to my heavenly father and to be a better man a lot of people don't understand what a missions like i didn't I'm still figuring it out for me the hardest part is just always wanting to be better but not knowing how to do it sometimes i have been blessed my whole life too have the will power to want too do better but its harder on the mission when i was at home i had the help of my parents to guide me what way to go to tell me i need to go to church or mutual or i need to wake up for school and when i played football i always had a coach to tell me exactly what work outs to do what to study for the football game but on the mission its just you and your heavenly father your coach is your heavenly father hes the only person that can guide you and shape you into the man you want to be but hes not going to wake you up in the mornings or tell you what to study you have to make those decisions you have to be self competent i love being on a mission for this reason i always know what i need to do to be a better person so when the time comes that i need to bare my testimony to someone the spirit can touch there heart 

we have alot of investigators that are hopefully going to get baptized next month but I'm kind of sad because we have changes next week and me and Elder Best both think that hes going to leave this area so I'm sad he wont get to baptize them with me because we have worked really hard with these investigators presidente mecham y herman mecham arrived today so that's pretty cool I'm excited to get a new mission president we will probably have a zone conference not this week but the next week to meet them and stuff 

everything is good in Mexico i hope everyone is doing good at home and is always keeping a prayer in their hearts and a smile on their faces ;) everyone go to the temple this week i miss going to the temple so bad but the temple here opens in September so hopefully i will get to go to the re dedication

 le amo todos mucho

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Week 16 pics

Elder Patey from Farmington

week 16 area 1

love you all and i hope you had a great fathers day weekend to all the fathers in my life i just want you to know you are the best and i love you you men have been such a good example to me not only of how to be a good man but on how to honor your priesthood and respect your wives your all super buano personas and i hope you know it I'm doing super good here in Mexico i love every day I'm a missionary we have 3 investigators that have been coming to church and they should get baptized in 2 weeks i love this gospel and i love the people that our in this church la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días ill send a really long letter next week sorry i didn't have alot of time cause I'm going to get a haircut i just want to challenge all of you to have humility and to pray every morning and night for gods help in all things 

tenga un buen semana familia ustedes es la mejores personas yo se 

once you find christ you will find yourself :)   

Week 15 area 1

its been a good week i have really just been trying to learn this fetching language we have had a lot of investigators that our really good 3 of them we will probably baptize at the end of this month i have been really thinking about what matters most in life and enjoying the time that i have right now to serve my lord the time that i have here has gone by super fast and i have just been thinking  alot about how I'm serving and the person that i am becoming  I'm super grateful for my difficulties that i am having right now i know there nothing compared to what some people are going through but i was listening to a talk the other night that said the most important thing when your on your mission is how you receive difficulties the more and more i struggle with the language the more i realize that i have to overcome this language and i have to overcome the trials that are put in front of me and learn from them and grow closer to Christ as a person i like what Elder Holland says he said lots of missionaries may think  why isn't the only risk in the mission field of ammonia just soaking wet all day and night in the baptismal Font he says i think its because for missionaries and investigators to truly be converted they have to walk some what of the path that Christ walked I'm so grateful for him in my life y por la expiación de Jesucristo gracias a el vive podemos recibir perdón i love this góspel and what its teaching me i challenge all of you to step back and look at your lives and reflect and see what you can do better and then truly ask god in prayer to help you overcome these challenges that you have

le amo mucho todo personas

tenga un buen semana recordar Jesucristo

Week 14 pics

                                           Carmen's Sisters

                                           Random Dog that followed Sam around

                                             He titled this picture "Happy Mexican"

                                            Sam and Elder Vallejo

Week 14 Area 1

as i know this week was hard for the people that i love back at home this week was a hard one for me too on Tuesday night we had a investigator that wanted to add my mom on Facebook and send her some pictures so i told her my moms name and she looked it up and saw the picture of sierra and asked who she was and she read the stuff that had been going on this week...

i know that god loves you i know that it wasn't by coincidence that i new about everything that was going on at home before today because i have been praying for you all in everyone of my prayers and it was fast Sunday here this week and i fasted for the families of these sweet sweet girls even though I'm all the way in Mexico i knew what was going on and i felt the love of Christ in my life this week and i know that he has a plan for every family and for every child of god since i have been on my mission i have seen his hand in my life more then ever before i know that the families of these girls can live eternally with there daughters

just wanted to let everyone at home know that they have a missionary in Mexico that has had a pray in his heart all week long for them!!

this week was a good week though we had some good lessons that i felt the spirit so much i went on intercambios this week with Elder vallejo it was super fun hes from Washington he goes home in 4 weeks hes a good guy and i learned alot from him

this week i just feel really humble and really lucky to be a missionary i really do love the people here that I'm teaching i know that its only only because of Christ and because of the spirit that i am even able to be here and be able to speak Spanish in the lessons

not alot went on this week we have a zone conference tomorrow so hopefully ill get some letters or a package

but i just want everyone to know that i love you so much and I'm so grateful for you the longer and longer i have been out here the more respect and love i have for the people in my life and the more I'm realizing whats really important and that is family and being in the temple with your families so you can live eternally

tenga un mehor semana porfavor

<3

Week 13 first area

we had a good week this week taught about 30 lessons on Sunday we had Carmen's confirmation in to the church haha Mexico is so weird sometimes they did her confirmation in front of everyone in sacrament on the pulpit me and best and the 1st counselor did the blessing it was actually super spiritual though its probably the happiest and most spiritual momento i have had on the misión so far me and Elder best are getting along good he likes to try to make me mad sometimes but good thing I'm a good sport :)

yesterday we had our 1st meeting with the zone leaders because Elder best is district leader now it was a good experience i like our zone leaders there good dudes

me and Elder best have a ping pong table in our house now haha not really but we bought paddles and a ball in the Street and we made a net on one of our tables so that's pretty fun

this week went by really fast missions are what you make it

its fetchin hard if you make it hard but if you focus all of your efforts on not thinking about yourself and thinking about helping your companion or your investigators then your alot happier its a daily struggle but through sincere prayer anything is possible the other thing i have been having a hard time with is just the language i have 1 month left and i have been here 3 months and that's when everyone usually can talk español some times i lack faith that's my biggest deflaw is that its hard to not be discouraged about this language but i know that I'm progressing poco a poco

i hope everyone is doing good at home i don't have tons of time to write this week cuz I'm going to get a fresh cut

everyone remember your covenants that you have made with god and stay true to them and if you haven't made them make them if you have made them and haven't kept them repent and keep your covenants god blesses the people that our obedient to this góspel and he loves all of us anything is possible through repentance..

I'm doing good i love my misión and I'm grateful for the difficulties god is giving me

le amo mucho!! tenga un buen semana:)<3

ill send pics later Elder best for got the conecter to put pis on haha