March 14th Pictures!!!

March 14th Letter

i feel like that too. like i want to go but i feel its rushing things. he told me when i get home ill want to rest and sleep but after 5 days ill be gong crazy wanting to do something so i dont know. i need to work and i havent had any other job oportunities lined up. he is the only one and it would be a good adventure like u said. he told me there is a possilbility i could go later on but not sure. this week we had 3 baptismes and we are about to marry some poeple. im excited, this week was a good week... carmen came in from utah and told me i needed to go work. im going to pray about it but i have alot of mixed feelings. a job near the family would be cool.i would love that. well sis i love you. see u in two weeks and when and where are u flying in. what do u guys want from mexico. tell me so i can buy it. landen looks just like me and i think brynn does too.lol. all the mexicans think landen is me when i was little.lol

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Jordan's Testimony

the mission has been the greatest time of my life and definitely the hardest too. the mission is hard but its how we progress. everyday is a new adventure and dont know whats going to happen. the mission has taught me to be positive in the bad moments. that everything is for our benefit. i know have a better attitude towards things and how we progress through the difficult times. has taught me to have a the attitude of ¨come what may and love it¨...........so even the worst and saddest times of my mission i was growing as a person and that's the beauty of it. the lord really does bless us when we do his will even if its hard.starting the mission was really rough but its when i learn the most. i learned to put my trust in the lord and not to doubt.just cly a person can make a glob of clay into a por or something useful, god can do the same with us if we trust him. make us into what we need to become. the greatest part of the mission is seeing the change in the lives of the people. seeing god and the gospel change the lives of many. i've always had a little testimony of the church but it was put to the test here in the mission and instead of saying i believe... i can now say.... i know..l know without a doubt that this church is true. that a little boy saw god the father and his son. its something i know bc i came on the mission. jesus lives, i've been able to feel his love so much in the mission. he shapes us and makes us into what he wants us to become. the mission is the greatest thing a person can do before he gets married, it has taught me so much and has prepared me alot for what i need in my life. the church is true. its the greatest organization in all the world. the book of mormon is evidence of it all. i know these things bc i did the small and simple things and still continue to do them.....by small and simple things are great things brought to pass....alma 37. 6... i hope and pray that i continue doing what the mission has taught me and continue overcoming my weaknesses and endure to the end. i love the mission and it will be something ill never forget or want to replace.

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March 7th Letter

hey get mom to send u the message my friend sent me. i dont know what to do. if i go and work with my friend ill leave on april 12 and wont be back for 4 month. so i dont know what to go bc i want to be wth the family but i need a good job. in the 4 months ill make atleat 12k so its pretty good but i wont be with family. so what do u think. i forwarded the email to mom of my friend explaining me everything.

this week went good. we had 18 in church in the whole zone. thats really good. 18 people. we are excited. hopefully we can have few baptisms this week. alot of the people have problems with smoking or not married but hopefully we can help them. next week we are marrying people so im excited. this week there was a missionary that ran away from his comp, just bc he is new and got frustrated so he ran down the street. so we had to go and find him and talk with him. well we ended up doing divisiones. he came with me and my comp stayed there. weell my comp ended up finding 3 references for our area. so we went and contacted them and there are really good. i was thinking how the lord works. if the missionary never ran away we would have never got those references. lol. it was kind of cool. well sis i have to go ill send u the letter. love ya
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Mission Summary

in my mission i have been in 5 areas. i started my mision in the ward morelos 1 in the morelos stake. there i had two companions. elder flores y elder marcial. elder flores is the person that trained me and continued helping me in my mision. he was my zone lider months later and then the assitent. i was with him for 2 weeks and we baptized like 8 people. then i got stuck with marcial. i was with him for 2 changes and learned alot of pacience and im sure he did too. we baptized like 3 together in 2 changes. i was afterwards changed to fraustro in the san nicolas stake. it was like 30 minutes away from my first area.. there i was companions with elder sanchez for a change. we baptized one person together. with him i learned to have fun and work at the same time. he was a good friend of him. he helped me with stress and made me happier. after him i had elder guthrie. my first american comp in mexico.he is from arkansa. i was with him for 2 changes and we baptized like 12 together. i learned to be humble and be myself. he taught me alot. i was then chagned to saltillo. i went to the ward fundadores in republica. i became senor compaion and my companion was elder cosme. he is from mexico city . i was with him for one change and a week. we baptized 11 together. he taught me resonsiblity and to grow up a little bc he was like a little kid. he left and arrived my kid from kaysville utah. his name is elder mcneil. i was with hm for 3 changes and we baptized like 29 people together. he taught me to enjoy live and the mission. after 4 changes in fundadores i was sent to muzquiz cuahuila. it was my first branch. i arrived with elder guerra for one change. that was a time. he was dead. we baptized one person. taught me alot of pacience. my zone leaders were elder anderson and hawken and i was the district leader. after guerra arrived elder torres. a funny but not very smart person. alot of funny stories about him. we was with me for 2 changes. we baptized 7 people togethere. then i came here to estanzuela roma. its by the temple. i have 2 changes already and i am on my last one. i was elder smyth from utah. i love that kid. so funny but obedient. i think him and jonathan are twinns.we baptized 2 people. now im with elder flynn, my last companion. we have baptized 6 people together. he is teaching me obedience and to grow more spiritually. so i have had 5 areas with 10 comps.

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February 28th Letter

well this week was pretty horrible. we did horrible as a zone but we are learning...we had stake conferencia and one person went called juan. his family is member. and he isnt but he has a word of wisdom problem. im stilll comp with elder flynn he´s tight. keeps me on track. we have a new elder in the zone from utah. elder knoles he is with elder combe. we recieve one other one about 4 weeks ago called elder nelson from arizona. he is a forest fire fighter. he is tight. but we didnt do too good this week. but im really excited for this week. everyone is telling me im dead.lol. even an investigator told me. he said¨its seems like u have a lot of time on the mission and have one foot in florida already bc u look way tired and beat up.¨ i thought it was hilarous. i dont know what im going to do. im going to write my friend today too with the work. he is in idaho i think right now. he told carmen he wanted me to work with him so she wanted to ask u and mom to see if i could so u could respond. he wanted me to go work with him on the 12 of april and i didnt know if i could do that so carmen was calling to ask. but i dont think it will be possilbe. its too soon. but anyways sister. im doing good. working hard. trying to end good. love you guys be good.

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January 31st Letter

hey mom

this week was good. we had a baptism and 3 confirmations. but we didnt take anyone in church. the person wasnt there. the pepole here are so irreponsible. they will tell u one thing and do another and not care. but we still love them. this week i passed a few days in another area trying to help one elder with his possibles for being baptized. we just walked around alot. no one was there. we are teaching some cool people. this month we baptized 7 people. the computer is not recognizing my camara so i cant send pics. we have a new elder in the zone. he is from arizona. his name is elder nelson. he seems cool. the zone this month did good. we baptized a good amount. we have sister missionarys in our zone and they are so annoying. i dont know if i want to get married. they complain so much and excuses and excuses. but all is well. im learning pacience and what is sdyney talking about with a family. what family. im confused. everybody is talking about how im leaving soon and telling me im already n my house. trying to make me trunky. lol. but all is good. we continue working. well mom i have to go. we are going to play some b-ball. well got to go. love you.--
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January 17th Letter

Mom,

So mark and them are not going to be there when i get relesed or what, they fly in later than i do? thats fine. it would have been cool to have mark there but i get to wait for him again.lol. even though he isnt the missionary this time. this week was rough. we had alot of baptismes postponed. we didnt have water so we didnt get to yesterday but tommorrow we will. in the zone we could have like 10 baptismes this week and thats good for this zone. well i thought i was going into panama good thing u told me well mom i hope everything is going good. im fine. it was cold this week but its warming up and HAVE U GOTTEN PACKAGES I HAVE SENT HOME: I NEED TO KNOW. bc i sent some of my important stuff back. well love you. bye

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melissa im pretty sure im going out there but im nervous to tell you to buy my ticket bc i dont know how it will be when i get back. im planning on working with my friend when i get back. and im trying to talk to wade to go with me.thiss week we had a bap get postponed. a kid of a lady we bap. thiings here are good. it was cold this past week. well sis. i dont have time. but talk to mom about it and what you two think. well sis. ill talk to u later. love you.
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January 10th Pictures

January 10th Letter

WHOOH!!!!!!!!! i knew u would come. we have to see the twilights. i want to see them. are they better than the first one? well anyways on to more important things. this week we had 4 baptismes. the president of the mission came and his wife. we baptized the sister of a convert. we baptized the grandson of a member and a friend of a member. this week we by really great. the zone did really good too. so if we keep it up we will do somethng cool. maybe we can see toy story 3 or something. i have a new comp. his name is elder flynn from utah of course. he is cool and tall.
we had a lot of success and its so great to see the people we are teaching growing in the gospel and recieving answers to their prayers. i love it. well sis i lve you. be good. im going to buy my ticket next week so ill know the time next week. bye
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mom so have you gotten packages i have sent home? i need to know that. well how are you doing. we had 4 baptismes this week and hopefully we will have 2 more this week. the president and sister romney came to it. it was really cool. sister romney is hilarious. and mom WHAT AIRPORT DO I FLY INTO. u need to let me know dont forget to tell me bc they are buying my ticket. i think u told me panama. we baptized a sister of a lady we baptized a month ago. we baptized a friend of a member and her son, and a little kid. his grandma is a member. so whats going on there. i hope everything is going good. i think i wear a large. well mom i think that is all. im still alive so dont worry. love you guys.
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January 3rd Letter

Hey mom. everything is good here. just another week. we had alot of people that went to church and quite a few people that we are teaching. its freezing one night and hot the next night. really weird here. and my friend josh says hey. he is the one from atlanta. he is 14 and his family just came here. well my size is the same. 32. i just need bottoms. its half cotton and half something else. im just going to leave half my stuff here. we have changes tonight but im pretty sure i am staying. ill probably end my mission here.... i dont miss games at all....but i do miss movies. there are movies i want to see and we need to start planning my trip to idaho.i have to talk with my friend to see whats up with the job with him but we have time i still have a while left. but anyways mom. i love you. i have to go. bye.

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hey sis, dont worry. ill be home and ill help you with the kids. they have to get to know me again bc i know they dont remember me and peyton said he is going to beat my face in. so i have to go out there.....everything here is good. we have 2 sisters in my zone and they make me NOT want to get married. drive me off the wall. so much drama and complaints. i decided ill stay single.lol. jk. but this week was really good. alot of people in church and alot of possibles. the lord really blessed us. and sis just keep on and on. life is hard but its how we progress. the kids are going to help u become what u need to become. just pacient and uncle jordan will be there to help out. remember to teach the kids good things. love you.

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