Happy Halloween!

Hello!

My week was really good actually. My ward had a Halloween party and it was so fun! Ton of people went and it was super fun. On Halloween we have to be in by 7. Real tacos are usual small. There’s different types of authentic tacos too. Fajita, tripa, carne asada, etc. then you have to put a good salsa and cilantro with onion and bam there you go. I think we are learning to make flour tortillas today. Maria had her baptismal interview and we found out she is still legally married. So she needs to get a divorce and then she’ll be baptized. She really wants to get baptized so it’s good. I’m actually going to get FaceBook this week so if you see me doing stuff and posting things that’s why. We will use our home accounts so that’ll be cool. 

Monday was a good one. We played lots of soccer and basketball. We ate with a member afterwards and it was tasty as usual.

Tuesday we had Spanish class and I don’t really remember the rest of the day except we ate with the Fuentes. They are from El Salvador and their kids are legitness. 

Wednesday we had soccer and it was so fun! I did good. I’m still a speedster even wearing a brace and a bum knee!

Thursday we had weekly planning and a really good lesson with Maria. We committed her to pray about baptism right there and ask if she needed to be baptized this Sunday. The spirit was really strong and when she was done she said she felt she needed to be baptized this week. 

Friday we had Maria’s baptismal interview. We found out about the divorce thing. See god knew that she needed to want to be baptized this week so we could find these things out and work with it. 

Saturday we did service for the Fuentes. They are moving shops so we helped them move a ton of stuff. There was a coworker there that I bashed with too haha. Hermano cooked us up some chicken and it was so good!

Sunday we had church which was the usual. Then we ate with the Tenorios and it was so good and healthy. We then helped the Fuentes again and this time the Suazo family and the Cardenas family where there to help. Afterwards we went to the Fuentes house for a barbecue and fire. Hermano Suazo was using a machete to cut some wood and he broke it. It was so funny. We ate and then sat around the fire and we all shared our testimonies. It was cool because almost all the members and their kids shared stuff about missionaries and how they appreciated us. It was awesome! 

This week was a good one! Sorry I didn’t have much detail this time though. Love y’all 

Buildin' Houses

Hey guys!

My week was good thank you! I got the box and that was awesome. Thanks for all the stuff. You got the right garments so good job. The house is coming along great! It looks cool. I hope it’s cool on the inside too. Make sure dad actually gets blinds in the basement this time. I see past companions all the time. I saw Elder Riches, Elder Carter, Elder Nabo, and Elder Gill Friday. Thanks for talking to the missionaries. I’m sure they appreciated it. I think I won’t go to school until the next spring. I’m planning on coming home and working so I can have so money to pay for it. Who knows.

Last Monday was alright. Wasn’t the most fun p day I’ve had but it wasn’t the worst either. We just kind of bummed around at the church. We played some ping pong, some pool, shot some hoops , and played a little bit of volleyball. Then we ate with the Rendons for dinner. Had chicharrones and frijoles, rice, and tortillas. 

Tuesday we had interviews with President Hewlett. It was really good. He’s so awesome! After that we ate sushi.. that was delicious as well. Good to see our home boy Shen again. We tried some people in the afternoon and that’s about it.

Wednesday we were on exchanges with our zone leaders. I was with Elder Petersen in my area. He was the red head in the picture of us reading the Book of Mormon while lifting. It was a good day. We started off by biking for a long time, had some good lessons, then went home for lunch. Had a good Spanish study. We ate with a member at 4 and had street tacos. The were so good... tacos de fajita with cilantro, salsa, and lime. Yum. I’ll make us some when I get home. With real salsa too. Not that white people garbage. The salsa consists of like 30 jalapeños, water, and a few other stuff. I don’t remember . I’ll have to get a recipe. The hotter the better too. Right after dinner we got ready and played some soccer with investigators till the end of the night. A member brought 15 of his friends. It was so fun. We had like 40 people there!

Thursday we had a district meeting which was good as usual. We weekly planned and that was about it. 

Friday was the Zone Conference. We all got there and took a picture then filed in and we all shook his hand and spoke with him for a minute. That was cool. President and his wife spoke, then president Rascon. Then Hallstroms wife spoke, and then he did. After everything we ate and that was that! It was fun and I learned a lot. 

Saturday was a normal day, we tried lots of people and had another lesson with Maria. 

That was it haha, 

Sunday Maria came to church! We had a good three hours and she enjoyed it. Then we did some service for the first time in a few weeks. But instead of destroying houses... we built houses! It was fun. We put in lots of insulation and put up some Sheetrock. Took us a bit and we only finished a few rooms because there’s lots to do. But we are going back this week to hopefully finish it up. 

This week was good and I hope y’all have a good one! And reminder mom if you send a Christmas package you should add hichews. I haven’t had those in forever!!! But other than that minimal candy haha. We are being healthy! Love you guys!

Exchanges and Zone Conference

Hey guys!

My week was good thank you! I got the box and that was awesome. Thanks for all the stuff. You got the right garments so good job. The house is coming along great! It looks cool. I hope it’s cool on the inside too. Make sure dad actually gets blinds in the basement this time. I see past companions all the time. I saw Elder Riches, Elder Carter, Elder Nabo, and Elder Gill Friday. Thanks for talking to the missionaries. I’m sure they appreciated it. I think I won’t go to school until the next spring. I’m planning on coming home and working so I can have so money to pay for it. Who knows.

Last Monday was alright. Wasn’t the most fun p day I’ve had but it wasn’t the worst either. We just kind of bummed around at the church. We played some ping pong, some pool, shot some hoops , and played a little bit of volleyball. Then we ate with the Rendons for dinner. Had chicharrones and frijoles, rice, and tortillas. 

Tuesday we had interviews with President Hewlett. It was really good. He’s so awesome! After that we ate sushi.. that was delicious as well. Good to see our home boy Shen again. We tried some people in the afternoon and that’s about it.

Wednesday we were on exchanges with our zone leaders. I was with Elder Petersen in my area. It was a good day. We started off by biking for a long time, had some good lessons, then went home for lunch. Had a good Spanish study. We ate with a member at 4 and had street tacos. The were so good... tacos de fajita with cilantro, salsa, and lime. Yum. I’ll make us some when I get home. With real salsa too. Not that American garbage. The salsa consists of like 30 jalapeños, water, and a few other stuff. I don’t remember. I’ll have to get a recipe. The hotter the better too. Right after dinner we got ready and played some soccer with investigators till the end of the night. A member brought 15 of his friends. It was so fun. We had like 40 people there!

Thursday we had a district meeting which was good as usual. We weekly planned and that was about it. 

Friday was the Zone Conference. We all got there and took a picture then filed in and we all shook his hand and spoke with him for a minute. That was cool. President and his wife spoke, then president Rascon. Then Hallstroms wife spoke, and then he did. After everything we ate and that was that! It was fun and I learned a lot. 

Saturday was a normal day, we tried lots of people and had another lesson with Maria. That was it haha, 

Sunday Maria came to church! We had a good three hours and she enjoyed it. Then we did some service for the first time in a few weeks. But instead of destroying houses...we built houses! It was fun. We put in lots of insulation and put up some Sheetrock. Took us a bit and we only finished a few rooms because there’s lots to do. But we are going back this week to hopefully finish it up. 

This week was good and I hope y’all have a good one! And reminder mom if you send a Christmas package you should add hichews. I haven’t had those in forever!!! But other than that minimal candy haha. We are being healthy! Love you guys!

Elder Petersen and I reading the Book of Mormon while lifting

Sushi Obsessed

Heyo!

My week was pretty good! We were fed a lot more this week and meals are picking up again so that’s awesome. Aaron is correct! But he got his good dressing skills from yours truly. The Jon. Mine are just a blessing I suppose lol. Crazy that we have another nephew. Maria Gil is doing good. She came to church this past Sunday so that was awesome. She should be baptized here in the next few weeks. I should be staying one to two transfers more here. Probably one more with Elder Stringfellow. Exciting to hear the house coming along. Have any photo updates? 

Monday was good we did the usual. That night we got sushi... again. We are obsessed with this place. 

Tuesday was a good one! We had a good lesson with Maria Gil and tried tons of people. We biked a lot. That night we played soccer a lot. I had some goals. Super fun! They are all really good too. We worked out really hard in the morning too so we were tired all day haha. 

I don’t really remember Wednesday. I know we went and tried Lupe in the morning but she wasn’t home. We biked a lot too. 

Thursday morning we went over to President Rascon’s house to study with him. He lives just five minutes down the road. Really close. His house is huge! And super nice! Biggest refrigerator I’ve ever seen in my entire life... he’s super cool and so knowledgeable. I want to go back to the mission some day and stay at his house haha. He invited me! After we weekly planned on our apartment complex office. The office manager walked by and turned on the news for a bit and Rascon came on and we said hey we know him! We ended up talking to her about stuff because she asked us and we had a little lesson with her. We had mutual that night and a member brought all his friends to play soccer so we are getting lots of referrals from him. 

Friday we had district meeting which was good. Elder Stringfellow is the district leader and he does a good job. After we went to get sushi.. we know all the workers it’s funny. We always sit at the sushi bar and talk with all of them. Shen is the waiter and he’s from China! Ryan is the sushi master. He’s from China too. Their English is alright and we have fun. Always making jokes! Silly shen! They know all of our names and bow to us sometimes. We feel cool. Friday night we had ward correlation which was good as usual. Hermano Tenorio our ward mission leader looked like Steve jobs. He had his glasses on with his turtle neck and everything. I’ll attach a picture. 

Saturday we biked so much. We ate with a cool part member family and they gave us a ton of food to take home and stock our shelves so I won’t have to grocery shop for a while. 

Sunday we had church and Maria showed up. That was good. Afterwards we went to a part member family and ate some carne asada. Good stuff. We went to a baptism too of some other elders. Also we tried a bunch of people after. Not really any success though. 

This next week we are having interviews with president and a zone conference. Elder Hallstrom is coming. He spoke in general conference. It’ll be cool to hear from him. My week was good and I hope y’all have a good one!

"The man himself. We did early morning studies with President Rascon."

"Rascon's wonder wall. Some of his many Emmys."

Life in Summerwood

Hey y’all!

Another week down! This one was a good one! It went by pretty quick, except for Wednesday and Sunday. Those went by really slow. Elder Stringfellow is awesome! We are like best buds already! He is from Bountiful! President Eyring is in his ward... lucky. Yes my neighborhood is one to send packages to! Our apartment is in Summerwood mom.... Summerwood... let’s just say we are in one of the nicest parts of the mission, surrounded by million dollar homes. Our apartment is soooo nice by the way. Nicest Spanish apartment in the mission. Blessed.  The mission home is still wrecked from what I know. There’s like no supplies right now. We might go to President Rascon’s house. He lives here in Summerwood. He’s a news anchor for abc13 here in Houston. He’s famous. He has like a billion emmys. He’s the first counselor in the mission presidency. Such an inspired man too. To answer your question about weather... Houston has one season. Summer. Besides the week in January that can hit 40s. Other than that it’s blazing hot. Last Christmas it was like 80 degrees! 

Monday was good! We had a good day and had lots of fun. For lunch we went to this buffet place because we were craving sushi. We ate a lot of it haha. We played basketball and volleyball. A lot of missionaries go to the pine trails building and serve in this area, so on pday there are lots of people there. It is fun.

Tuesday I was on exchanges with Elder Aybar in my area. He is a greenie, it’s his second transfer. He is originally from the Dominican Republic, so he’s fluent in Spanish, but moved to Utah three years ago. He’s so funny. We had a fun day! We taught an awesome lesson to a lady we magically found. I even gave her a blessing because she was having bad migraines. Her name is Lupe. English missionaries have taught her in the past but dropped her because she had so many questions.. which I thought was weird because she’s awesome! And prepared! We tried lots of other people and had a few good lessons here and there. Tuesday night we played soccer again. It was so fun! I wish I played and stuck with it, I’m better than I give myself credit. I do good against these Mexicans haha. It would be nice to have cleats though. All the Mexicans have them on but I’m just in some running shoes haha. 

Wednesday was lame. It was a boring day. On paper we planned a really awesome day but it didn’t turn out. So that’s too bad. Oh well. Maybe next time haha. All of our appointments fell through and nothing happened. Luckily Stringfellow and I were able to make the bad day fun. We are too funny! We went to this pizza place called Persona that a member owns and he gave us free pizza. It’s super good. It’s like a subway for pizza! It’s Neapolitan pizza, like Settebellos in SLC. They say we can just go in whenever for pizza! 

Thursday was good. We had weekly planning and we did it in our apartment complex office. They always have free cookies and it’s super nice. There’s also a hot chocolate maker in there for residents so we have the hookups. For lunch we went to Persona again. It was yummy! I had a bbq bacon ranch chicken pizza that was so good. For dinner we tried this new sushi place that just opened up. I had been eyeing it for a while, but it was still being finished. We finally were able to try it though. It was super yummy, and they have good deals. For their basic rolls you can mix and match any three for 9.95. So that’s 24 pieces of sushi. Pretty good deal I think. Then their specialty rolls look so good but those are more expensive for less. We love sushi too much I think this is where are money will be going to for a while haha. 

Friday we had district meeting which was good. We helped the hermanas give a chapel tour too which was cool. Really interesting because he was being pretty stubborn but I gave him a really powerful promise and left him to be an agent to act. The spirit was super strong. We had ward correlation too. That wasn’t too bad. 

Saturday we went to Persona again. Tasty as usual. I did something super embarrassing too... I ran a red light... haha!! I  was talking to Elder Stringfellow about something that happened earlier that day and we were laughing super hard and I guess I just didn’t notice... luckily there was no one there. 

Sunday was ehh. We had church, which was back to normal. Had a full three hours for the first time in awhile and it wasn’t combined anymore. We taught gospel principles about eternal families last minute. It went well. After church however the day went so slow. No one was home, and we just tried a bunch of people and no success... didn’t have a dinner appointment either so that was sad. We are all out of MSF too and out of food so we were stuck scavenging. Idk how we will make it through this next week! Wish us luck! Hopefully someone will feed us haha. 

I hope everyone is doing okay! I’d love to hear from my siblings btw.  please tell me all about your weeks!! Love you guys! Have a good week mom! 

"Catching Butterflies"

"Goodbye MSF...3 rolls for 9 bucks!!!"

"We are getting huge!"

"Breakfast equals eggs and tuna. Gains!!!!"