Week 21 Area 1

wow every week is just getting better and better so this next Saturday we have 4 baptisms 1 is a family of 3 the 2 parents and there son that's 12 we have been spending a lot of time with them lately trying to get them ready for there baptism we still have to teach a lot this week yesterday we went to teach them and haha there so awesome they told us they were like so we have been thinking we have set a family goal and we were like okay haha what and there like we want to wash and iron your shirts for you every week haha we were like are you sure we were a little wierded out we were like no one wants to do that haha so we still go to the other hermana house and wash the rest of our clothes but we take our shirts to them now ha ha so that's super cool there a great family i  love them so much they have 2 daughters that are members and they have been awesome examples for them then the other girl were going to baptize her name is evalin shes super awesome she loves the book of Mormon we have been teaching her for like 3 months now because her husband is a member but he never comes to church he hasn't been once its pretty sad i don't know how he doesn't want to come to church we have been trying to help him for a long time because we want him to baptize her but he still hasn't come but shes awesome she is pretty set on getting baptized so hopefully it will be just what her husband needs to feel the spirit and come back to church 

so are recent convert had an awesome experience this week he went to a young singles adult camp thing for 3 days in our ward in veracruz and when we came back we had a meeting with him and asked if anything cool happened he said that he was at the camp and he went to the bathroom and there was a guy sitting down and he said he had the feeling to ask him if he was alright and he said no its been super hot this week like yesterday and the day before was the hottest its been since i have been here I'm pretty sure so i guess this guy was super hot and the altitude is different where they were and he couldn't breath so he was sitting there and our investigator said he ran to get a paramedic and he came and the paramedic was like i gotta run and get water and medicine haha stay here with him and keep him calm so axel said that he was sitting there with him and he noticed that he like couldn't breathe good or something and then he started breathing super fast and axel thought he was having a seizure or something and he said he felt the spirit telling him to say a pray so he put his hands on the guys stomach and said a pray he said as soon as he got done saying the prayer the guy started breathing normal and he was like what did you do to me haha i feel alot better 

axel told us he said i know i don't have the Melchizedek priesthood yet but i know that pray is very powerful and that god answered my prayer and helped that man 

sorry if my story telling sucked he told me in Spanish so that's the gist of what i understood hahah but I'm so grateful for this work if I'm being honest god has blessed me so much in these last 4 months we have worked hard and i can see the love that god has for his children and for these people that we are baptizing this work the work of our Lord Jesus Christ is the most joyful thing i have ever been apart of and i know that this gospel is true that our church is the only church with apostles and a prophet i think the thing that has made my testimony grow the most is the spirit of our Savior i have literately seen it work in these people all that we do as missionaries is invite people to read the great Book Of Mormon and pray with humble hearts and the people that do that every time they feel the spirit and they get baptized its really all above my knowledge all that i know is that god loves his children and he has a plan for them he wants us to receive all of the blessings that he has for us and to live a joyful life and the only way is through this gospel i never realized why people always said when they came home that it was the hardest thing for them i was like ya right you have been gone from your family for 2 years you finally get to be home and be with them i defiantly miss my family and i know its going to be a joyous reunion but there is nothing on the earth like serving your Lord your Savior your Redeemer Jesus Christ with all your heart its gotten to the point now were almost 24 hours of the day all I'm thinking about is how i can become better my love for the Book Of Mormon in the 4 months that i have been out here is so much stronger i love reading it 

my challenge for all of you this week is to just follow Christ love him and show your love for him by keeping the commandments reading and praying and going to church and partaking of the sacrament every week and going with the intent of learning all you can i don't even understand all of church cause its espanol ahah but i learn more now at church then i have any other time in my life 

i know that I'm a little sappy this week and i know you guys don't have the opportunity to spend all of your time serving the Lord like i do but these things are important this work is more important than any other work in the whole world and all of you can participate in it the people that we baptize is because they have a friend in the church because people care for them 

be a friend to everyone invite everyone to come to church with you be bold 

i love you all and i know your all the best people ever your great examples to me of strong Latter Day Saints 

le amo con todo mi corazon 

esta iglesia la iglesia de Jesucristo DeLos Santos De Los Últimos Días es verdadero \uD83C\uDD92\uD83D\uDCAF\uD83D\uDE00

Week 20 area 1

wow holy cow all mighty diggity diggity dog que bueno semanito  que paso ninga este semana fue muy loco jejeje just kidding it really wasn't anything special ahhahahahahhahahaha i just wanted to sound exciting once again we taught alot of lessons so that is super padre todavía mi español  es muy malo  paro esta bien this week i was super happy like every week nothing super excitin happened besides the fact i got to go around the streets of mexico bearing  my testimony  to every one i see the highlight of the week was probably yesterday in the church we had 8 investigators in the church and axel got the priesthood and blessed the sacrament almost made me tear up alittle bit carmen came to church to so thats super G shes awesome all of the people that we are teaching are awesome i fetchin love them on sunday we went to a members house she told us she wanted to cook us something in her dutch oven she cooked us papas cheesy potatoes that was super awesome it reminded me of camping and my momas cookin so that was sweet 

this week i have really been focusing on reading the book of mormon more haha it was super funny we have weekly planning every week and this week in weekly planning i told Elder best i was going to wake up at 530 every day and read the book of mormon before i work out for an hour haha oh man .....i didn't do it once hahah but its okay i read alot at night time before bed hopefully next week i can do that im doing good though just chillin here in iztapalapa quetzal mexico sur today we were going to go play volley ball with the zone again then last night the assitants called us and said we had to go to the mission offices to sign some papers so that sucked but bedsides that we washed our clothes today and thats it haha next week were going to go to this place were theres a bunch of tengis and a mall so that will be sweet 

this week in my studys i liked alot in Alma 32 it talks about faith and about planting a seed in our heart and nourishing it by reading your scriptures and praying and going to church we shared that scripture with a couple of the less actives that we teach and i liked it alot 

yo se que si ustedes mi familia lear su escrituras y orar a dios ustedes puedan sentir algo en su corazón que es mas bonita de todos los ultras sentimientos una cosa nunca voy a olvidar es la importante de lear y orar a nuestro amoroso padre celestial solo quiero invitar ustedes esta semana todos los días ustedes puedan estudiar algo y orar todos los días se que usted va sentir algo diferente en su vidas 

le amo todos y se que dios le ama mucho 

extremamos mucho paro yo se que este iglesia es verdadero y todos mi amigos que tiene la oportunidad a servir nuestro salvador necesita 

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God knows everything your going through but you still need to pray to him and tell him whats going on and ask him for help 

i love this gospel i just want to shout it to the world<3\uD83D\uDE01

\uD83D\uDD2B\uD83D\uDD2A\uD83D\uDCA3\uD83D\uDEAC\uD83D\uDD0Bdrugs and alchol are bad and degrade your spirit stay away from them and your life will be better :) 

church is true ⛪\uDBB9\uDCE9

Riding the Train in Mexico City

Video of how Mexicans cut their grass

Week 19 pics

 Alex's Baptism! 7/11/15

Week 19 area 1

what a week family!!! its been the best week of my mission so far i baptized axel hes such a awesome dude we have been teaching him for like 1 month now haha the baptism the truth it didn't go very good haha i had to baptize him 3 times haha hes just to tall i couldn't get his whole body in the last time i baptized him i basically just through him in the water and put his whole body under then picked him up haha it was hard because i like wanted it to be spiritual for him and everything but by the time i had done it 3 times i just through him in there haha i was getting mad haha and inpatient but it was alright he got confirmed into the church the next day the reason why it was such a good week is because we literally have a baptism every week for like the next 4 weeks we have been working super hard we taught 40 lessons this week but la verdad the lord just has blessed us so much this week all that we have tried to do is  teach lots of lessons and teach with the spirit and the lord just has put perfect people in our hands to teach we have a family there names our villa senor and we have been teaching them for like 2 months well longer then that maybe but the 2 daughters are members and the parents and the younger son that's 12 isn't we have been teaching them forever and the mom recently has been really interested and then yesterday on Sunday after church we taught a lesson with the whole family and the mom told us that she got a answer that she had a dream but she basically just bore her testimony to us and she started crying and then the 2 daughters started crying and then i started crying haha so we have a baptismal date with them in 2 weeks the dad the mom and the son and my heart is literally just pouring out love for this family there so awesome i cant even explain it  this week i have had so much felicidad in my life and i have really seen miracles and i know that its because the lord loves these families i know that he loves every family and that if you seek him out in prayer and scripture reading and are obedient he is there just waiting to bless you I'm so happy for the family for camille estoy feliz que ryan decidió ser hombre y proposed haha:)  missions are awesome I'm happier then ever life is good gospel is true if you seek Christ his arms are always open waiting for you i miss all of you and mom im super mad you went to lake Powell with out me haha when i get home were going to do everything that i missed Disney land lake Powell everything:)

dios es amoroso 

Jesucristo es nuestro salvador 

familias pueden ser eternas 

:):):):):):):):):):) Happy week pray for all my investigators that they can continue to progress <3

Week 18 pics