Monday, February 28, 2011
...we had another baptism this week...
Hola familia,
So this week was interesting. I´ll just tell you the most interesting part was that like two days ago the President of Guatemala flew in on his helicopter and landed in the field right in front of our house which was really wierd. We also had another baptism this weekend for Edson Arroyo which was cool. Oh the other guys want to go. I wll right a little later. sorry, lol.
Questions:
I have been wondering about your suitcases...did the rolling duffels work well for you, or do you wish you would have taken regular suitcases?
Yeah, pretty much I do like those bags but if I could go back I would probably just get some nice big square suitcases. And of course with sturdy wheels.
You talked about getting those tall boots and I see alot of pictures of the other elders in them...can you get them there in your size, or is that something we should look for here for you?
Yeah, I found some here so no worries.
Where did you hear about the "Journal of Discourse of Brigham Young?"
I think I may have that one at home ...if you still want it...let me know..
If you don´t mind sending it, I will take it, if you don´t want to take the chance of losing the book or whatever that´s fine too.
Tell us about your investigators...did Kareen (?) ever come around?
Nah, Kareen is still isn't ready to commit to baptism . We will just go out looking for some new guys.
What was your most interesting contact of the week?
Lol, probably this newly deported guy from the states. Man does he have a dirty mouth, lol. We were just walking by and BOOM he exploded and was like " why are you here go back to the states!" And I was like, I CANT!! Lol, it was kinda funny lol. Needless, to say I think we won´t be visiting him for awhile.
How are you and Elder Mosely feeling this week?
Pretty good. We are going to try to bake a cake and watch "The Testaments" today so hopefully that will work. He´s a funny kid.
Did the kids like their "glow in the dark" bracelets I sent you?
Saber, the office still has my packages, I don´t know when I´m going to get those...but I know they will love them lol.
How is your little branch progressing?
Not half bad, this week we had 60 people attend. And about 20 of them were recent converts and less active members!
Love,
E. Marquis
So this week was interesting. I´ll just tell you the most interesting part was that like two days ago the President of Guatemala flew in on his helicopter and landed in the field right in front of our house which was really wierd. We also had another baptism this weekend for Edson Arroyo which was cool. Oh the other guys want to go. I wll right a little later. sorry, lol.
Questions:
I have been wondering about your suitcases...did the rolling duffels work well for you, or do you wish you would have taken regular suitcases?
Yeah, pretty much I do like those bags but if I could go back I would probably just get some nice big square suitcases. And of course with sturdy wheels.
You talked about getting those tall boots and I see alot of pictures of the other elders in them...can you get them there in your size, or is that something we should look for here for you?
Yeah, I found some here so no worries.
Where did you hear about the "Journal of Discourse of Brigham Young?"
I think I may have that one at home ...if you still want it...let me know..
If you don´t mind sending it, I will take it, if you don´t want to take the chance of losing the book or whatever that´s fine too.
Tell us about your investigators...did Kareen (?) ever come around?
Nah, Kareen is still isn't ready to commit to baptism . We will just go out looking for some new guys.
What was your most interesting contact of the week?
Lol, probably this newly deported guy from the states. Man does he have a dirty mouth, lol. We were just walking by and BOOM he exploded and was like " why are you here go back to the states!" And I was like, I CANT!! Lol, it was kinda funny lol. Needless, to say I think we won´t be visiting him for awhile.
How are you and Elder Mosely feeling this week?
Pretty good. We are going to try to bake a cake and watch "The Testaments" today so hopefully that will work. He´s a funny kid.
Did the kids like their "glow in the dark" bracelets I sent you?
Saber, the office still has my packages, I don´t know when I´m going to get those...but I know they will love them lol.
How is your little branch progressing?
Not half bad, this week we had 60 people attend. And about 20 of them were recent converts and less active members!
Love,
E. Marquis
Monday, February 21, 2011
...my companion and I have been recuperating...
Hola familia,
So this week has been fun....lol.
Ok, so lets start off with Monday. It seemed like it was just going to be a regular P-day, going to Coatepeque and using Internet and such... but no. On our way to Coatepeque we ran into a HUGE protest of people that were blocking the roads for anyone to pass. So we had to get out of the bus and walk through it to try and get to a bus on the other side of the rally that would get us there, which was interesting. What was funny about the whole thing is that trucks and people, everyone were being held back by these people protesting and during the whole thing I didn't see one cop. I just couldn´t help thinking that, man if this was happening back in the states the cops would be running through here gassing and breaking this up so everyone could get back to work, but it´s not like that down here, lol. Anyways, that was our Monday, trying to navigate back and forth through all that without bugging the people.
Then Tuesday, we had a district meeting and had to try and get there somehow, even though the buses weren´t running. Luckily, a member drove by while we were walking and asked if we wanted a ride, which we gratefully excepted. Turns out that the protest was still going so he told us that we were going to be taking a side road. Turns out he got lost or didn´t know where he was going but my companion and I, although missing our meeting for the 2 hour detour, did have a nice country ride, lol.
Then on Wednesday all of the new guys and the sister missionaries had a conference in Malacatan, a city about 1.5 hours away and my companion being pretty new still got to go. So we woke up at like 4 am to get him there on time and so I could go do divisions with Pajapita (Pa-ha-pee-ta). Later that day we got a call from the zone leaders who went to the conference with everyone, that the conference was going to be changed to a later date and that they were on there way home. So we ran through our usually Wednesday routine of contacting and teaching until later that night when we went to play a little soccer with some investigators and members at the church. Anyways, one of the guys passed me the ball and I tried to kick it, although it was a little high. One leg went up the other left the ground too, lol, and I came crashing down and landed on my hand and I heard a cracking noise, lol, whoops. A little later that night I had a huge golf ball sized welt on my wrist so yeah, not sure if there is a fracture or just a bad sprain, it seems to be getting better, lol.
Then on Friday, the zone leaders wanted me and my companion to come down to get my companions foot looked at. Seems that he had an ingrown toe nail. I asked the doctor if he could check mine out and turns out that I too had an ingrown toenail and needed to be taken out....again. LOL. Here´s the funny part, IT WAS IN THE SAME TOE THAT THEY TOOK OUT LAST TIME!!! How convenient right, lol, good times, good times! (Note from mom...Couldn't they check the wrist!! Makes me crazy!!)
And yeah, from there me and my companion have been recuperating for the past few days, lol.
So yup, that was my week. Although, not too horribly exciting, lol.
Love you all tons,
Elder Marquis
So this week has been fun....lol.
Ok, so lets start off with Monday. It seemed like it was just going to be a regular P-day, going to Coatepeque and using Internet and such... but no. On our way to Coatepeque we ran into a HUGE protest of people that were blocking the roads for anyone to pass. So we had to get out of the bus and walk through it to try and get to a bus on the other side of the rally that would get us there, which was interesting. What was funny about the whole thing is that trucks and people, everyone were being held back by these people protesting and during the whole thing I didn't see one cop. I just couldn´t help thinking that, man if this was happening back in the states the cops would be running through here gassing and breaking this up so everyone could get back to work, but it´s not like that down here, lol. Anyways, that was our Monday, trying to navigate back and forth through all that without bugging the people.
Then Tuesday, we had a district meeting and had to try and get there somehow, even though the buses weren´t running. Luckily, a member drove by while we were walking and asked if we wanted a ride, which we gratefully excepted. Turns out that the protest was still going so he told us that we were going to be taking a side road. Turns out he got lost or didn´t know where he was going but my companion and I, although missing our meeting for the 2 hour detour, did have a nice country ride, lol.
Then on Wednesday all of the new guys and the sister missionaries had a conference in Malacatan, a city about 1.5 hours away and my companion being pretty new still got to go. So we woke up at like 4 am to get him there on time and so I could go do divisions with Pajapita (Pa-ha-pee-ta). Later that day we got a call from the zone leaders who went to the conference with everyone, that the conference was going to be changed to a later date and that they were on there way home. So we ran through our usually Wednesday routine of contacting and teaching until later that night when we went to play a little soccer with some investigators and members at the church. Anyways, one of the guys passed me the ball and I tried to kick it, although it was a little high. One leg went up the other left the ground too, lol, and I came crashing down and landed on my hand and I heard a cracking noise, lol, whoops. A little later that night I had a huge golf ball sized welt on my wrist so yeah, not sure if there is a fracture or just a bad sprain, it seems to be getting better, lol.
Then on Friday, the zone leaders wanted me and my companion to come down to get my companions foot looked at. Seems that he had an ingrown toe nail. I asked the doctor if he could check mine out and turns out that I too had an ingrown toenail and needed to be taken out....again. LOL. Here´s the funny part, IT WAS IN THE SAME TOE THAT THEY TOOK OUT LAST TIME!!! How convenient right, lol, good times, good times! (Note from mom...Couldn't they check the wrist!! Makes me crazy!!)
And yeah, from there me and my companion have been recuperating for the past few days, lol.
So yup, that was my week. Although, not too horribly exciting, lol.
Love you all tons,
Elder Marquis
Monday, February 14, 2011
....the gospel is true!!
Buenos dias familia y a los demas,
So this week has been pretty fun. Something that really got me excited was when I found out that VERIZON HAS THE IPHONE NOW!!! and it happened on my year mark too!
Besides that its been like a pick up week, lol. This past week both me and my companion were feeling a little sick and just without any energy so we weren´t really putting out the full effort so this week we paid for it trying to play catch up with everyone. We talked to one of our investigators, Jirum Andrade, and we really drove it how much Christ really suffered and how if he doesn´t except the atonement for all that it is and receives a baptism, that door that Christ is holding open to return home, will be closed.
Then we had the wonderful opportunity to try and find the boss of one of our families and work something out to where the family could run down to Mexico for a day and get married. Come to find out that the boss is the father of the husband! What the heck! So we finally worked out with the dad a plan that would still allow him to earn a profit and let his son get married so that his wife could be eligible to be baptised.
We have hit a snag with one of our investigators, Kareen DeLeon. She has about 16 years and is married to one of the members and we have been teaching her. She has told us that she knows that everything is true and that the church has been restored and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God here on the earth and goes to church every Sunday... but for some reason won´t accept baptism. The reason that she continues to give us is that she wants to be converted in her heart before accepting baptism and we have explained that it is through faith that she can gain that knowing, but who knows..we will see how that goes. So those are our best investigators right now.
I´m finally falling down hill in time of my mission and its really wierd. Elder Dudely from the Xela office, my MTC companion just emailed me and sent me a funny little note. Its crazy. He´s been in the office since like month 6 and I´m beginning to believe that I will never get that opportunity... but whatever... the mission will go on and the gospel is true.
OH! A fun gospel note that I just found out through my studies....When we die and are perfected, our perfected bodies will not have blood but a spiritual essence flowing through our veins! And that glow that God and Jesus´ bodies gives off...for example... Jospeh Smith's 1st vision....is that spiritual essence glowing. I found this in the Infinite Atonement book and different scriptures throughout the BOM. Don´t know if you guys knew that or not but I thought it was cool...we wont have blood, lol. But anyways, the studies continue. From what I´ve learned the perfected body is AMAZING and although similar to the ones we have now...completely different.
Questions:
You keep calling your companion Elder Mosley, but I thought it was Mobley...which one is right?
His name is Elder Steven Mosley. Elder Mobley was his trainer.
Was it Juan that was babtized last week? Did he get to bless the sacrament this week? How did that go?
It went well I suppose. We had to travel to try and pick up some investigators that weren´t even home and ended up missing the sacrament but when we got there later we saw him sitting up there and smiling.
Tell us about your investigators...how are they progressing?
Good and bad, lol. Jirum is going to get baptised on the 26th of this month. Karen, is another. She goes to church every week and says that she believes in everything and the only thing she is waiting for is for her to know by HEART, and we told her that maybe she isn´t going to know that unless she puts her faith to trial and gets baptised so hopefully we can get that before the end of this month. And then there is Yasmin. We have to get them to Mexico to get married and then baptised by the end of these two weeks...sooooooo....fingers crossed.
Did you recognize your "Hump Day" with anything special....? you know..burn the shirt or whatever??
Nope, just another work day, lol. I´m not really down with the whole burning clothes thing...there are a lot of people here that don´t have clothes, so to go and burn it would be a pretty jerk thing to do. But I might go buy a piece of cake or something, lol.
Ooops gotta go, overtime, lol!
Love you all tons,
E. Marquis
So this week has been pretty fun. Something that really got me excited was when I found out that VERIZON HAS THE IPHONE NOW!!! and it happened on my year mark too!
Besides that its been like a pick up week, lol. This past week both me and my companion were feeling a little sick and just without any energy so we weren´t really putting out the full effort so this week we paid for it trying to play catch up with everyone. We talked to one of our investigators, Jirum Andrade, and we really drove it how much Christ really suffered and how if he doesn´t except the atonement for all that it is and receives a baptism, that door that Christ is holding open to return home, will be closed.
Then we had the wonderful opportunity to try and find the boss of one of our families and work something out to where the family could run down to Mexico for a day and get married. Come to find out that the boss is the father of the husband! What the heck! So we finally worked out with the dad a plan that would still allow him to earn a profit and let his son get married so that his wife could be eligible to be baptised.
We have hit a snag with one of our investigators, Kareen DeLeon. She has about 16 years and is married to one of the members and we have been teaching her. She has told us that she knows that everything is true and that the church has been restored and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God here on the earth and goes to church every Sunday... but for some reason won´t accept baptism. The reason that she continues to give us is that she wants to be converted in her heart before accepting baptism and we have explained that it is through faith that she can gain that knowing, but who knows..we will see how that goes. So those are our best investigators right now.
I´m finally falling down hill in time of my mission and its really wierd. Elder Dudely from the Xela office, my MTC companion just emailed me and sent me a funny little note. Its crazy. He´s been in the office since like month 6 and I´m beginning to believe that I will never get that opportunity... but whatever... the mission will go on and the gospel is true.
OH! A fun gospel note that I just found out through my studies....When we die and are perfected, our perfected bodies will not have blood but a spiritual essence flowing through our veins! And that glow that God and Jesus´ bodies gives off...for example... Jospeh Smith's 1st vision....is that spiritual essence glowing. I found this in the Infinite Atonement book and different scriptures throughout the BOM. Don´t know if you guys knew that or not but I thought it was cool...we wont have blood, lol. But anyways, the studies continue. From what I´ve learned the perfected body is AMAZING and although similar to the ones we have now...completely different.
Questions:
You keep calling your companion Elder Mosley, but I thought it was Mobley...which one is right?
His name is Elder Steven Mosley. Elder Mobley was his trainer.
Was it Juan that was babtized last week? Did he get to bless the sacrament this week? How did that go?
It went well I suppose. We had to travel to try and pick up some investigators that weren´t even home and ended up missing the sacrament but when we got there later we saw him sitting up there and smiling.
Tell us about your investigators...how are they progressing?
Good and bad, lol. Jirum is going to get baptised on the 26th of this month. Karen, is another. She goes to church every week and says that she believes in everything and the only thing she is waiting for is for her to know by HEART, and we told her that maybe she isn´t going to know that unless she puts her faith to trial and gets baptised so hopefully we can get that before the end of this month. And then there is Yasmin. We have to get them to Mexico to get married and then baptised by the end of these two weeks...sooooooo....fingers crossed.
Did you recognize your "Hump Day" with anything special....? you know..burn the shirt or whatever??
Nope, just another work day, lol. I´m not really down with the whole burning clothes thing...there are a lot of people here that don´t have clothes, so to go and burn it would be a pretty jerk thing to do. But I might go buy a piece of cake or something, lol.
Ooops gotta go, overtime, lol!
Love you all tons,
E. Marquis
Thursday, February 10, 2011
HUMP DAY!!!
It's hard to believe it has been one year since we put Brandon on a plane to serve his mission! He was so nervous, excited, ready, and happy to go! He is absolutely LOVING his mission and those he serves with and for. I am almost sad for him that it is going by so quickly. Here is to one more fantastic, spiritual, adventure filled year!! Love you Elder Marquis!!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Buenos Tardes all!
Yeah, one of the members asked us to move a new 40 inch TV into their house last night and me and Elder Mobley told them to turn it to the football game for a few minutes..lol..but we only saw like 5 seconds worth and then they changed it...they don't get American football...oh well.
Yeah, I heard that it has been super cold up North lately. Like there was 20 inches of snow up there or something..who knows. But no worries I'm still sweating my behind off down here daily, the heat never seems to let off, lol, and I'm getting darker for it. I was thinking, I will be getting home around this time next year and you guys are all pastey white from the cold and I'm going to be looking like I just got off a cruise, lololol!!!
Anyways, my favorite english speaking investigator, Jirum Andrade, is doing great right now!. He is progressing amazingly. He asks all the right questions and best of all he actually has a thought process!!!!
Questions:
How is Jose and his family doing?
He's doing well. We only have like one day out of the week for about one hour that we can visit with him and we missed him this past week sooooo, bummer.
How are your "kids" doing? Are they adjusting to the language and mission life well?
Elder Langi is on his way to becoming a future assistant one day, I think, and Elder Mobley is still such a funny guy, lol, I call him brown bear lol!
One of the other missions had a seventy visit...did he come to your mission as well?
No, we haven't received that opportunity yet so who knows.
When is your next conference?
The conferences usually come every 3 or 4 months so I would assume that we will be having one coming up here soon, hopefully.
I can't remember when I sent the smaller "Atonement" book...did you receive it yet?
Yeah, I really love this book and still have not had the opportunity to read it through all the way because the other elders like it too and I've let all of them read before me so now it's my turn lol.
OK..dad told you we are getting a box ready for you...I guess you probably won't get it for a month or so...but there will be some 17"shirts, pants, socks, ctr rings and a few goodies if there is room....I'm excited for you to get that stuff. If I can find a solid tie, I will send one of those too. What color would you like? I can't remember what I sent you.
Blues, greens, really any color and really and type of tie is fine.
What was your week like? Lots of tracting, or do you already have people to teach?
No, this area is pretty ligit with the members so we haven't had to tract a lot. We can usually go to a few of the members and they always have a reference or two ready for us to go contact. But yeah, these past few weeks have been pretty much trying to further the people that we have right now and really focus on them. But we always should be contacting I guess, lol.
What is one thing you have learned on your mission that you wish you had been doing all your life...
Studying, reading, meditating, and really applying the scriptures to my life. And of course learning more languages before my mission.
What does it feel like to see one of your converts go down into the waters of babtism?
Great! Because a lot of times they are only going through with the lessons on faith but when they get baptised you can see that conversion in their eyes and you know that they know. This past week we had a baptism for Juan Hernandez and then yesterday he received the priesthood and this coming Sunday he is going to bless the sacrament!!!!!! I'm so excited.
But yeah the other guys want to go eat so I have to get off now...lol.
Love you all tons!!!
Elder Marquis
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