6 Decker PB&J

The work has been very successful so far. We are very excited for this upcoming transfer.

We are teaching a family that really wants to be baptized and this past Sunday they actually went to church which was huge since missionaries have been teaching them for 2 years but they have never come to church before.

We love "Light the World", we got to hear all about it a little more than a week before it was released. When people tell us they aren't interested we just share light the world and it's awesome how much their hearts soften.

I got to visit the temple today which was awesome, our zone is just awesome.

Also, today for lunch I am eating a six decker pb&j!

First Thanksgiving on the mission!

It's been crazy outside! It actually isn't super cold though so the snow isn't even sticking. But man the mountains are beautiful. My branch is awesome, there aren't a ton of members but everyone one of them are amazing and love missionary work. My thanksgiving dinner was with some really friendly people from Texas that own this Alpaca farm in our area. Our thanksgiving meal was super awesome, they made us feel right at home. This was Elder Fletes' first Thanksgiving so it was a blast. It was really nice to have some American food again.  Especially this transfer, since there are a lot more Mexican families we have a lot spicier stuff like Habañero Chili Salsa. It was so hot even my companion thought it was kinda spicy, which means that it's deadly to everybody else. Our investigators are still doing awesome, the biggest problem most of them have has been coming to church. So once we take care of that it will be great, because most of them have already received their answer but they are afraid to come to church for some reason. We have asked several different families to help out our investigators and luckily our Branch is really amazing so they have been doing an awesome job. About my haircut, our area is really small and there is only one haircut place and it's run by Latinos. So I figured this would be a good time to practice more Spanish, since it says in PMG to speak your mission language as much as possible, and I'm probably not going to do that again for a while.

New Transfer, New Companion!

This transfer has been nuts! We've seen a lot of success and we have pretty good teamwork in teaching. Things have been super successful and fun with Elder Fletes, we've seen miracles since our first day. We have 9 investigators on date for baptism so we are pretty excited about that. Elder Fletes is a convert of less than 2 years, but before he talked to missionaries he never read the Bible or anything. Elder Fletes is super humble but he doesn't like to seem dumb so he told me that when he would get home from church he would read the Bible and the Book of Mormon until 9:00 at night. So he knows a lot of Bible stuff and loves to bash. 

The few Hispanics that are actually Christian always answer the door with a Bible in their hand ready to prove that Mormonism is wrong and Elder Fletes gets really excited and quotes like a hundred other scriptures. Normally you aren't really supposed to do this, but the thing is the Hispanics really respect someone who is intelligent, especially in scripture, so we get invited back and have a chance to teach the restoration and set up more lessons.

The work has been good so far, I have a learned a lot from my new companion and we are making some really good progress together. Nothing is more amazing than visibly seeing the gospel bless the lives of a family or an individual.

Packing and Unpacking

Hey! So this week has been pretty crazy, I wasn't expecting to transfer out at all and my new companion just finished up training, so he only has one more transfer over me. His name is Elder Fletes, from and so far it's been so rad. It was really sad to say goodbye to my dad(trainer) though, it didn't feel real to leave him. But luckily I can see him some Sunday's since he's in a neighboring Stake.

Originally we were supposed to move in with the zone leaders and Elder Bottari and I thought that the sisters were going to live in our house, so we spent most of P-Day trying to make the basement spotless. It's not that we didn't keep it clean or anything, more that Elders have been living there for more than a year. So when we finally cleaned everything and got packed Elder Gunn gave us a ride to our new apartments, and dropped me off at the Zone Leaders first. Except when I got there they told me that they just barely found out Elder Fletes and I were living somewhere else, so we got the address and Elder Gunn took us there. At first it seemed like we were pretty close to our old house, and then we thought it was funny that it was in the same neighborhood, and then I realized that it was the same house I just left from. So I had to unpack everything again which was a bit of a pain.

But once we got our area book we realized how much potential this branch has, we are in the River 9th Branch, we shaping up to really make this area blossom. We have many investigators that sincerely want the gospel in their lives and the only thing holding them back is "big change" they have to make.

My new companion is from Mexico and is a little worried about the upcoming winter, he told me that sometimes his town gets up to 120 degrees! So this weather has felt like his winter so far. Luckily we are pretty prepared in terms of clothing. Work has been amazing in this new area and we are excited to baptize a lot of families this transfer.