tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81764944046767601692024-03-19T03:29:24.159-07:00Elder Mitchell Woods Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-58521385400090333672015-05-30T11:10:00.000-07:002015-05-30T11:10:37.587-07:00May 25, 2015Well,,,,<br />
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It is very weird for me, right now to express how I feel... I'm happy that I could work in the service of the Lord and feel the spirit in such a way as I have here... But at the same time I know I may never be in a world were ALL my focus is the salvation of Gods children. It will be tough leaving this life. This week I want to stay focused... Its going to be more difficult then learning Chinese. We are setting my final interview, and a farewell with my converts in the mission. I just feel sick and nervous and need to just trust in the Lord and accept the changes that he gives me. This weekend we have a young man of 19 that we found, who is going to get baptized. Soo if there is no complications.. and if its the Lords will, I can leave the work with a friend being baptized. That is my last desire as I finish here. Pray for us and our safety, and that we can find those who need us.. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-17999427307215370772015-05-30T11:05:00.001-07:002015-05-30T11:05:46.986-07:00May 18, 2015Hey, <br />
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I have no time. We are running behind in everything.<br />
This week was good, we are seeing miracles. This week they dedicated the temple of Cordoba, Argentina... and its really special seeing the growth in the country.<br />
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Love you family! Thanks for all that you do! </div>
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So... Yeah.... I have few things to say.. I loved talking with you all, </div>
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and well... Dont be trunky... <span style="color: red;">(pack your trunk early and forget about the work)</span> </div>
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thats the goal numero 1. goal numero 2 is Find a golden family before I leave! </div>
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I love you all very much! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-45437824576374428242015-05-17T16:23:00.000-07:002015-05-17T16:23:00.633-07:00May 4, 2015I HAVE NO CLUE HOW IM GETTING HOME!!!!!!<br />
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I think you all should call the offices... jaja I did get told something about four corners regional airport... or something like that... I should get home like the 2nd ..por ahí no sé.. and yeah... </div>
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As for what you should bring... um all that it says... a good jacket... like it doesn't matter what they say... bring a good black jacket... good shoes.. like good leather... good soles. shirts.. more short sleeve. SLEEPING BAG... believe me... houses here don't have heating.. they are bricks.. and sleeping bags save lives. but yeah.. just bring what it says.. jaja </div>
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T his week was good, we found 20 new investigators... TALKING WITH EVERYONE!!! We are teaching a ton, and from our work a married couple and a young man of 18 and a girl of 14 went to church... it was stake conference and the Elder Zapallos came.. who just recently spoke in conference it was powerful and they all have dates for baptism now... we hopefully can see some miracles here. The area hasn't baptized in.. a while. Other then that we are just trying to fix a bit of the mentality of the members. They think that the missionaries are here to be best friends and just hang out with them, and well the sacredness of the calling isn't really recognized... we are going to change that. I have offended so many members, for just wanting to be obedient.. Like how will our investigators learn obedience to the Lord if the members don't even know? <br />
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This final stretch is LOCO but I'm enjoying it. It's a good challenge as Ammon says, to prove to this people the power of my God! I'm excited to go home, but afraid. I fear I will lose the spiritual high at which I find myself. I see too often that missionary's return... and are almost the same. I desire to be a new man, a different person. I think that is just weighing the most on my mind... wondering if I really made the change and was converted as I had desired. But the world is full of changes, and we accept changes and change fast! </div>
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You made me think of a talk called, ¨beware of Pride¨ It talks alot of comparing ourselves to others.. I don't believe that we ever need to compare ourselves to others, but we must look to the only one who actually is perfect.. If we forget others and solely focus on comparing ourselves to Jesus Christ... and what we can change to be more like him.. I think that is what God meant when he said be like him. </div>
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But really that's all I have. The week was good, some days I'm overwhelmed with thoughts of home, and other days, I don't even think about anything other then building the Lords Kingdom. </div>
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I love you all and will talk to you soon. This Sunday, I'm going to call.</div>
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Les amo y les espero lo mejor! Nos hablaremos pronto! Un abrazo fuerte! </div>
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PS.. I knew Elder Wiggins really well.. hes a great kid! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-63469472786469964722015-05-17T15:57:00.002-07:002015-05-17T15:57:45.238-07:00April 27, 2015Dear Family......<br />
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Well it seems that I can´t escape... I'm back in Gonzales Catan... but this time in a different area... this is.. like the most dangerous area of the mission..... I never thought I would say it.... but I have been in da hooood for tooo long! I'm going to come back like a Vietnam vet.... haha </div>
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No but its a good area, I'm with a companion, from Chile. He is called elder Ponce. He's a good elder just starting out, and doing good things. This area has not baptized in a... while. but we are going to baptize this next month... I'm sure! We found a girl and she went this sunday and we found a guy... AND HE WENT THIS SUNDAY... miracles..</div>
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But no I'm enjoying every minute of every crazy thing that happens and the even not so crazy, little spiritual moments... The mission is great, I'm tired a lot but this is maybe the most important thing I have ever done... I dont know why people dont extend.</div>
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As for where I should come in... Im thinking Albuquerque... from what they told me. The Trek is really awesome, I want to go camping when I get home, that will be fun... But no.. not a lot of news... in my old area there was a few baptisms. and they are going to baptize more of the families we were working with... SO many blessings. </div>
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But no... other then that I'm just getting to know the area, and we are going to make it incredible.. always leave a place better then how you found it, right? </div>
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But I love you all and hope that you keep us in your prayers! We always need them! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-71716827033104744572015-05-17T15:51:00.003-07:002015-05-17T15:51:57.927-07:00April 20, 2015<span> So transfers have come, and I'm leaving the area, presidente, me dijo que tiene.. wow I started writing in spanish without realizing it jaja sorry, president told me that he has a special assignment for me. and so we will see what that is, I don't think I will be zone leader, in fact I think I'm going to get an area that is hard, or a companion that needs help. But I'm excited to just be in the service of the Lord! :)) </span><br />
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Something super intense happened today also, because president confused my letter with someone elses saying that they wanted to go home... and well he called me today in the morning really mad, because the farewell of converts and missionaries was last night for all that were in my group, and he was like I wish you told me sooner elder, but if your done, then you dont need to be here, and was like talking about sending me home tomorrow... I almost threw up... like STOP THIS IS MADNESS WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO GOOO!!!! and then after like begging that he in his fury didnt send me a casa, We all realized that it was just a big misunderstanding.... but I just about showed up like the movie the return missionary... ¨jared, why are you home? I thought it was next month¨.... I almost cried but it helped me to see how much I love the work. </div>
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Yesterday I gave a talk in sacrament and looking at the ward that was grown from 85 people to now regularly like 110 (yesterday we had 116) in church, I have seen the Lords hand here in this little area. We have 2 people whom I love that are going to get baptized this weekend, but I won´t be there :( and they who are going to be baptized are bringing their family to church, and there are less active families returning, and recent converts talking and bringing more people to church... I came to an area that was wealthy and difficult, and I have seen more miracles and blessing then maybe all my mission... My joy is full. I Couldn´t believe that President was going to ¨send me home¨ when I really feel that this life and work is my home. My mind and body are exhausted but I know God has commanded that we work in his viñard and if I can I will.! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-21479332093767601282015-05-17T15:32:00.000-07:002015-05-17T15:32:23.080-07:00April 13, 2015hahaha I love the Picture mom, La mujer araña!!!!<br />
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<br />So family, I'm like realllly tired. I'm actually having a hard time seeing all my missionary friends going home and staying here. Its like I have two conflicting battles, I want to go home... but I want to stay. So hopefully this week can pass and I can start the next transfer full force. Also We have two women for the end of this month that are going to get baptized! They went to conference and this last yesterday they loved the church, our mission presidente went to the meeting... I don't know why... but he was there, and everyone started to talk about their conversions, it was a crazy good fast and testimony week. This week also we are taking care of a zone and trying to take care of our area, and they made us in charge of the money of our zone... its intense, and today we received a new companion... who is waiting a week to go to Brazil for his mission... he hasn't even gone to the mtc... so like... IM TIRED. we are taking care of him and trying to not like let the mission work fall apart! </div>
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But other then that I'm going to try and make this next month and a half. a good experience! and then... I will probably take a nap and rise from the bed(tomb) on the third day. haha</div>
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I love you all, put to practice what the conference teaches... sooo blessed are we to have the gospel! :)</div>
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Un abrazo, Elder Woods</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-57141711630846268082015-04-12T17:11:00.001-07:002015-04-12T17:11:27.219-07:00April 6, 2015 Sooo this week was awesome, we had investigators listening to prophets. I could understand English and Spanish, and well now I have some more answers to my questions in life.... As for my favorite talks... all of them were soooo good. There's one that talks to return missionaries and how to stay a full active in the life after the mission... ¨read the scriptures, every day, every day, every day¨ and well I loved the talk by Elder Holland and Elder Uchdorf...<br />
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Now I want to talk about the difference between magic and Celestial Priesthood Power. Magic are things that entertain us for short periods of time and that are tricks and illusions. Priesthood power is the power of God given to man to provide marvelous changes in the human heart and life. The power given from God has no equal and may not be replaced by short tricks or illusions. Now I make the question... with which of the two would you like to fill your life with... and when? </div>
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As for the week we had a great baptism. It was filled with tears and happiness and everything else you can imagine... I got attacked by a wild cat living in the church... also a less active we found is now active and we got her and her boyfriend to get married, it was beautiful... but they partied the whole Friday night before and left the church destroyed.. it was like murphy's law... everything that could have happened happened that day.... but it all worked out! :) </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-90533189032730167432015-04-12T16:45:00.000-07:002015-04-12T16:45:13.529-07:00March 23, 2015 Hey family we are good, we are doing good things. We have helped families return from less activeness and our converts are great. They are growing, and wow the changes are incredible!!!! We have some people whom with we are working. One man who is a police officer is going to get baptised this saturday... we are seeing miracles.<br />
We are hitting a patch of tiredness and we are slowing down a bit. We have to just remember why we came and finish strong. I am sprinting to the finish. Thanks for doing all that stuff for school, thanks for doing that really! Love you all. Sorry we never have time. I'm good. I lack nothing and the mission is miracle filled.<br />
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<br />LOVE YOU all! You're all the best!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-12602813447695406312015-04-12T16:38:00.000-07:002015-04-12T16:38:50.330-07:00March 16, 2015 We contact 100s of people. I personally am well known for talking with everyone, because I see it as a soul passing by, and you never know. We invite and others can accept it or not. But if there is no invitation there can be no response, there can be no action of repentance, and thus without the loving invitation there can be no salvation. Talk with everyone. That's all the Lord requires. We are rejected... maybe 90 to 95% of the time, but the 5% of golden families and people there are, are mucho más valuable and worth the work. Christ invited the world... and how many are truly following Him... without His invitation to follow Him and change, we could not be saved, nor achieve perfection. <br />
This week has been great. We are working with a family who's children are now listening to us. They aren't even members but they started to share with their friends and we are going to teach all of them... its stemming out fast and we are seeing miracles! Also we have a family that we found, that the husband is less active of 9 years and his family are not members. They are all going to church and want to all be baptized. They need to get married no más, and then they will be ready. We have a family home evening with them and its going to be incredible! I'm sooo thankful for the chance to be here and help and be helped by these people. They teach me so much through their faith and sacrifices!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-47063070157872024852015-04-12T16:27:00.002-07:002015-04-12T16:28:53.871-07:00March 9, 2015Soooo, this week was great.<br />
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I hope marah is happy and that I'm proud of her non partying ways. I've learned that being the ¨fun guy¨isnt always the right choice! Just know I'm thinking about you all! The mission is good, I love it sooo much! Its helped me see my weaknesses and start the changing process. Its helped give me a vision for what I want in my life! Which is simple: be a good husband, father, and just follow the steps of Christ. I want to be a hard worker, and I want to always give of myself. </div>
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LOVE YOU ALL, Elder Woods</div>
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Well, I have a few things of business, the debit card still works, and the BAPTISM WENT GREAT!!!! We are going to see if we can get another for this month!! I dont know how the Lord is blessing this area a ton, it is a hard area but like... lately we are seeing miracles!!! The family that got baptised last week, we had a lesson and they invited there family/daughters who have like 30 years o más and wow It was great I feel like they are going to get baptised also... MIRACLES. we will see though. Also for Marah </div>
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Sooo yeah, Im exausted we are coming up to the next transfer in a week, and then it will just be two transfers mas... but my body knows that It should be ending in this next transfer.... ITs going to be a mental battle.. I feel like if I can endure to the end here.. then I can do it in the life hereafter. As for getting a call to BULGARIA,,, voy a orar por él that language... will be like locura, but thats were the Lord will use him to plant seeds and harvest the work! Im excited to see more miracles!</div>
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Un abrazo fuerte! </div>
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HEYYYY MADRE!!!! COMO ESTÁSSSS!!!!!!!!!! Hey how is life? going ... up there :) do you miss me yet? I'm wanting to hit the ground running with work so with dad I need you guys to be looking for some good working oppurtunitis... :) sorry I'm putting you to work, but it would really help me out! and yeah... how is the home and Farmington? Someone looked my house up on google earth... and told me that it is like a house... and dirt... I saw the picture and wow... Nuevo Mexico, isss.. brown. like.... its just brown. haha </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-24827136702579131322015-04-12T16:10:00.000-07:002015-04-12T16:10:52.763-07:00February 23, 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">
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That family is awesome! They brought alot of family members, and they said they loved the church, and now we are going to try and teach them. Also we had some investigators go and see it and everyone left happy. It took the man David, who is 70, three times until he went completely under... he left laughing. Then when the member we had baptize him, was leaving, he hugged him and was like hey thanks for trying to drown me.. hes funny. </div>
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But it was amazing, and now this weekend we are going to have another baptism of a young girl of 17 years, who told us she wants to prepare for the mission,,, she is already doing her personal progress!! She's awsome, and then we have some other great guys we are working with for the middle of march.... like we have been seeing some miracles lately.. </div>
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I'm good... just kind of skinny and tired, but I gotta sprint to the finish!!! I have been really thinking to much in the future, ITs weird, coming to the end. Sometimes, its like before the mission, the anticipation, and the fear, and its just getting closer each day... the time is flying by... and its just weird. </div>
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So things are going really great, The Lord is BLESSING US A TON!!!!!!! WE have some great families that we are working with, and they like all went to church this week, and if you can believe it we found another great family that has gone to church 2 and they are just so like... Mormon already and they have a date for the 21st to be baptized. I'm super excited for them. Then another family that just have been great, we went and by teaching them found a woman to teach that lives next door. Lately the Lord has just been blessing us SO DANG MUCH!!! We have another young guy that went with his less active girlfriend and loved it... so we are going to try and get them married and BOOM! It was just great in the church we had recent converts helping investigators and less actives, and less actives just opening up and coming back... I love the work here!</div>
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So this week was INSANE!!! I don't have pictures because I lost the card to transfer pìctures... so one day. Also, let me tell you, this Wednesday we got a call at like 11 saying we had a meeting with the mission president and the stake president. We had to be there in 2 hours and the traveling was like a ton of time... so we book it back to the pension and got on some suits, we fly to the offices and while we were waiting we were told we were going to get a new companion,,,, One elder had his area closed and needed a companion, so we have been in a trio this week, with an Elder Lyman. He's from Oregon... interesting elder. Trios are a little more difficult but It was fun. Now today he's going to a new area. The thing that was difficult was that we have two beds.... so I made like a bed of the few thin blankets we have and slept on the floor.... I'm excited to have my bed tonight, but yeah. We also had a division, in which I stayed in my area, and I received a really young elder from Spain and Elder Lyman. It was an intense day, we taught all day and found some great people and one less active family is now going to get married :D so it was a great division, but it was like super intense. I felt like a little bit babysitter and then like in charge of the area and the zone.... I didn't die, it made me much stronger!!!! </div>
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MOM EAT A BURGER AND FRIES IN MEMORY OF ME,,,,,,,,, IM SOOO HUNGRYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! But yeah, its crazy also if you want to improve your relation with Christ and understand who he is more... you should read <u>Jesus the Christ</u>...its phenomenal. :) I love you mom</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04139463320601408686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176494404676760169.post-73433195074028456962015-03-15T17:04:00.002-07:002015-03-15T17:04:50.541-07:00January 12, 2015 So this weeek has been intense but awesome. I had divisions with the assistants and I learned a ton. We found some people to teach but the problem here is that everyone smokes or isn't married So we continue in the search. The area is difficult but we just need to start a small flame here and then we will see the forest fire take place we are going to make miracles :) <br />
It is weird to think dad that we are on the final stretch of 2 years. Its been never ending but at the same time super fast. I talked with the president this week, I don't know if he has called you or what but because my return date was like a week before I entered the mission I'm able to extend. So we talked about it and If everything works out Ill be getting home now on June 3rd which really isn't a big difference, but when will I be able to serve and work in the mission field of Argentina any other time... I wanted to get a job and work... but I thought and I'm going to prioritize the Lords work over my own. I'm just like a bad penny you cant get rid of me jaja I'm the missionary that wont die!!!! <br />
But this week was fun we had a zone conference and we made some home made nioquis. They are like potato noodles... sooo good. But the word Caseros, which is our name, it means home-made in spanish... I don't understand why its named that but we have been focusing how everything is homemade in the hands of the Lord and we just need to follow what He's told us to have it come out in his own special way.... always putting in the secret ingredient of LOVE .... you better believe we are loving everyone here... jaja But I think its true If we convert ourselves first mom, we will be able to convert others... Its something I learned in the mission. I came here not really knowing why I came, but now I see the whole world differently, what really matters, what things I need to be careful of. and ultimately it sounds weird but how to be a father and guide a family back to God. Which if we think about it, if we are slowly progressing to be like God and he is the best father of all... it makes sense that I would learn that jaja. <br />
We are working with a girl who is a recent convert from a while ago and she started dating another member and well now she is pregnant...they are both sad, and I thought wow if this kid just understood how God sees us and his expectations. I look at the difference between them and then Hailey and Blake and like One family is welcoming a baby with love and bright futures while the other looks at the baby as a punishment and looking at the baby as something that will take away from their future! I realized that the two sins that are more serious are killing and sexual sins... because the both deal with life... taking a life irresponsibly or bringing one into the world.... Life is SO precious... and now I'm slowly understanding a little more.<br />
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Well this week has been a good week. We worked hard and had a few people in church. One woman we have now has a baptismal date, and this next month we will have some people to baptize and keep active and grow in the church until the celestial kingdom... :) But we are working a ton to fix the zone because I got here and they have baptized 1 person out of like 30 missionaries.... that's like super bad... the worst I have ever seen. I have little time here but we didn't baptize anyone this month... This isn't a problem, I think we can just improve on our obedience to the Lord, work to have the Spirit, and give everything to find the chosen people. This area is reminding me a lot of Utah. Like the ghetto areas, it was like a whole different thing, I could find people in different ways. But here we are going to work more with members and maybe this is why I was sent to Utah, to learn how to help this area here :) I'm excited my comp is a stud, this week was his birthday also, he now has 20 years, and well, We are pumped to see the miracles that the Lord will give us. Ill try and send some pictures and let ya see, Its a goal to get better with the pictures and what not, I love you all, it was awesome hearing you!!!!<br />
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Some other comps... my old comp elder Escobar is in my district again.. haha </div>
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This is me lifting some funky hand made weights... of concrete... getting huge!</div>
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This week was a RAINY week, and it was a good one, I had to travel a little to visit some other missionaries because their area was a little.... in need of some things. But it was awesome the Lord blessed us a ton, I was with one Elder from Texas... super strange but awesome elder, and then the only Elder in our mission from Ecuador, he was really funny and we found a bunch of people that went to church despite the huge rain storm on Sunday, Then I got back and me and my son we were super happy to be reunited haha He was taking care of our area with an Elder from Mexico... It drained him a little especially for being new, but he's a champion so it worked out well... </div>
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As for advent... We haven't had like any time but we read a little and It was fun. The families like it alot, but translating stories is turning out to be a little more challenging then expected.... </div>
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We found some funny new people to teach. One guy who is like super thug and is like 24 years. His name is Rodrigo. He's gone with us to church two weeks now. One day we passed and he had this huge black eye, I was like did you get in a fight and he's like nooo noooo woods, I'm not a fighter.. I asked what happened and he told me, bueno this guy came and got my pants dirty, so I just returned him the dirt to his pants... he has a ways to go but he's funny and really a good kid. We also taught like a family of 15 the other day... we clapped a house got in... and BOOM just so many people... but like grown they all had like 20 or more years... that was super awesome teaching everyone, we are going to pass by and see what they think about the book we left them haha. </div>
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Then this Friday, this family gave us this things called Chorizo... which is just Sausage... but giant these things, I'm telling you... we didn't know how to cook them, and our oven doesn't work... so we were like we will cook it with oil and a pan... and well I haven't really learned how to cook just yet... long story short we ate these giant bloody sausages with a ton of grease and oil and I'm pretty sure raw in the middle... It didn't help me physically or spiritually in any way shape or form... If I ever get sick or a parasite/worm it came from that... so That was a moment that I put on my list for future wife- someone that can cook. </div>
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Other then that my arms are full of bug bites because there are a billion in the apartment... and well I'm happy. The mission is fun, a little stressful pero bueno, that's a given and well... yeah ITs been a slow week, alot of our other investigators are struggling so we are going to pray but its not looking good. As for music... I'm good, I like don't have any idea of what kind of music there is now... I'm way out of the Loop of everything... basically I feel a bit separated from the world... that's probably a good thing though. :) ITs just SUPER HOT and RAINY all da tiempo.</div>
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We are coming up to transfers also this next week so I assume we will stay together and that we will keep working here. I love the area and the ghetto haha </div>
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Also I love you all, enjoy the Christmas spirit... Save it for me when I get back. </div>
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LOVE YOU, Elder Woods</div>
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a District meeting were the others... didn't show up... so it was successful and my comp learned a whole lot haha... The others got confused on where to go and like went super far away...</div>
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