Week 92

dear family and friends i just want to start out my talk with something that President wrote us all this week he said 

I hope that as each of you go through this week you will remember the great significance in your lives of the birth of Gods only Son in the flesh Jesus Christ. And let the joy of that testimony within your heart fill your soul with joy and everlasting happiness.Now I know that some of you may be homesick and missing your families during this special time of year. I have a suggestion. Turn your thoughts to your Heavenly Father and let your hearts be full of praise and gratitude for the gift of his Almighty Son in your lives and you will feel the healing power of Jesus Christ as he heals your own homesick heart.And then go out and go to work and tell everyone with whom you come in contact with the good news. That Jesus can heal them and that he loves them. And as you do so you will feel his love for you.

so that's what I'm going to do its really not easy this time of year but its something so special and beautiful it really is being able to be here serving the lord this last month here with Elder Trasviña has been very special for me we have worked hard and we have one more week to work super super super hard so that our investigators can get baptized the 24th and we can accomplish our goal please family pray and fast do everything possible so that this Christmas you guys can feel the same way that you can feel this love in your hearts for our Savior Jesus Christ this last week i had the chance to give 3 baptismal interviews to people that are going to baptize the 24th and my joy was so big as i was able to see there testimony's and the changes that they have had in there lives the power of Jesus Christ has started to heal them and there is no joy bigger for me then being able to ask someone do you feel ready to make this covenant with god and to be loyal to him and to hear them say yes 

I know that this church is true that it is the church of Jesus Christ there's no where else that a 21 year old kid can feel and experience the things that i have experienced and the feelings that i have this Christmas as i am here not worrying about the presents under the Christmas tree but worrying about what I'm going to do how can i be more worthy so that we can baptize on Christmas eve and confirm 3 people members of the church of Jesus Christ and welcome them in with loving hugs ! 

Feliz Navidad provecha el tiempo con la familia y el amor que sienten!!

Elder >Tams

Week 91 pics

Week 91

i love all of you guys and i hope your doing awesome sorry we dont have that much time to write today we had our christmas party with all of the missionarys i took lots of pictures but we dont have time to send them right now so we will send them when we get time 

love you all Elder Tams

Week 90 pics

Week 90

this week was a good week went bye really fast we have been seeing miracles we found another investigator and put baptismal date for the 24th of December we have 5 investigators with baptismal date for the 24th of December and all of them are from the members there family's our less actives this week was kind of harder then the first week i just need to have more faith and more confidence in God that hes going to do his part if i do mine im doing all of my part and i have seen the blessings already and the miracles that God is doing here but some times i get nervous or i feel like i just don't know what else i can do cuz i know God can do everything and everything is possible with him but i just need to have a good attitude and have confidence in my self that i can do my part and be the hands of God in this area!! but I'm just going to keep going and keep being happy my companion is doing awesome he is a stud he reminds me alot of myself when i first got in the mission but he is a lot better then i was and more prepared we get along great!!! please please please pray for eleseo, david , paula, jimena, cecilia we need all the help we can get we really need a Christmas miracle so that we can make this a wonderful Christmas and show our thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ this Christmas is becoming something very special for me every day since December has started we have done service for someone and it has been a great feeling we are just trying to not get to carried away we have found that there is alot of service to be done on Saturday we helped one of our investigators he wanted to paint his walls but he had holes in them so we bought concrete and filled in all the holes but it turned into a 2 hour project but it was awesome then after that he asked us he sells beer he asked us if we could deliver some packages of beer on a dolly to his neighbor that lived around the block so that was pretty funny my companion told me after hes like hey we shouldn't do that its not a good image that were walking around as missionaries with a 6 packs of beer and i was like ya well your probably right but at least we helped our investigator cuz hes an old man I'm loving the mission and I'm loving this time of year there is really nothing better then giving your life to others and coming home every night so tired from doing good and loving and helping others i love all you guys and thanks for the birhtday wishes i feel so old i think that i have lost alittle bit of hair since i left on my mission but its okay i grew alot more on my face so it all evens out haha 

te amo familia con todo mi corazoncito gracias y siguen iluminando el mundo con tus sonrisas!!

Elder Tams

Week 89

my new comp is awesome my area is pretty crazy so there hasn't been good missionaries here for a long time its worse then cedral when I got there the last missionaries got sent home like 2 weeks ago cuz they decided to go to the bar and drink and smoke in the house  so when we got here there was cigarettes all over the house and ashes movies from the world beer bottles so it was a surprise for my comp ha ah so the first night we spent cleaning for 3 hours im sure my comp was like this is not missionary work haha and he was tired but it has been a great week mom we have put 3 baptismal dates with investigators for the 24th of December and so please pray for them dana paula her little sister and teresa and we had 2 investigators cometo church on sunday and it has been a week full of work work and work it feels good I'm glad that I'm district leader and training again i think that's where I'm best at in the mission as zone leader you don't really do anything but as district leader your just doing the work and my comp is awesome he is from baja California he speaks Spanish his city is where they do the baja 1000 motorcycle race he new kirt casseli and all those people so we get along really good i defiantly am ready to come home jhaha 11 weeks left but i don't feel tired at all or anything like that I'm at the best part of my mission in the best area here in the mission there's so much work here my area is a rama its not a ward yet so were in a house of prayer its just a little house its not a church but this Sunday was awesome I felt the spirit a ton my area is where the rivers are and the little boats its super pretty its just like a little pueble bunch of little mountains and stuff its been a great week and my comp is awesome he is learning so fast and hes going to be a great missionary President pulled me into the office and told me Elder Tams i want you to do the same thing that you did in cedral and so that's what were doing and its been a humbling experience i have and to remember that its the lords work and put all my trust in him with prayer and fasting i know that we can achieve the goals that we have for December we have the goal to baptize 2 people so that the mission can achieve the goal of 100 baptisms and were working hard and were gonna do it 

wohoooooo!!!!!!:)

love you guys Elder Tams 

Week 88

well its been a good week here... nothing to exciting just the same old same old we are all working really hard so that we can achieve our goal in December as a mission to baptize 100 people so we are working our butts off  oh ya one funny thing that happend this week we were with some elders studying and one of the elders was kind of sad and then he just told us he's like I have alwways wanted to go ice skating in the mission but I have always asked president and he has never let me he was like you guys think he'd send me home if I went ice skating and we were like no probably not he's like if i just left right now would you guys come after me and we were like well ya of course and he was like alright and he threw his phone to us and walked out the door and so we were like what the heck hahaha and so we followed him out the door and he was already way in front of us we finally found him getting on a bus we got on there and i was like hey where you going he's like im going skating theres a place right close to here and i was like well you know im going to have to call president right he's like ya whatever call him i need to talk to him anyways and so we get to the ice rink he pays for some shoes and he's just skating arounnd and so I call president meham and I'm like hey were at the ice rink a missionary ran away and he said he wanted to go ice skating so we followed him here and he's like what??? let me talk to him so i yelled out for him on the ice and handed him the phone later he told me that president said hey what are you doing? do you want to go home i can have your plane tickets right now and that he was like well no and he said then get your butt off the ice and come to my office so that we can talk so he got off put his shoes on and we got on a bus and he kept telling us i just want to go home then we get to the offices they talked for like 3 hours him and presiednt and they both came out laughing smiling and talking about deer hunting hahaha and now the elder is good just working like normal so that was a pretty funny crazy experience in my mission besides that every thing is really normal we are going to have a family night tonight with a bunch of our investigators so that should be fun!!

i love you guys thanks for everything you do for me i am really grateful for you guys and what you do for me lots of elders their families don't even write them but i have been blessed with a great family that has always wrote me and supported me 

thanks Elder Tams