tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21860838834332790212024-03-04T21:48:19.831-07:00Elder Tim Eddington's Mission BlogThis is the place! The place to find out the latest info about Elder Tim Eddington and his mission experiences!
Check back weekly for updates.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-24562834412922788062010-11-30T22:40:00.001-07:002010-11-30T22:45:30.061-07:00Nov. 29, 2010<div><br /></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">hey guys, well this week has been pretty crazy with all the trips to the mission offices, etc. but we were still able to get some work done so that was good... we were able to find a new family.. its acutally just a couple.. their names are José and Yoli and they are older..(like in their 70s) but they acccepted the invitation to be baptized and came to church Sunday so that was pretty awesome! also there is this one convert named Andrea whos parents are REALLY SUPERDY DUPERY CATHOLIC::: anyways, it was her birthday on Sunday and so her parents asked her what she wanted and she said come to church with me, and they came!! so that was cool, condsidering that before they wouldn´t even let her go to church... we have been blessed with lots of investigators right now i just hope we have time to get to all of them! it has been so so so hot down here! i´m jealous of all of you at home with the snow!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><div> </div><div>That's about all for this week." <br /><br />Elder Eddington</div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-23372010976113900792010-11-30T22:39:00.000-07:002010-11-30T22:40:05.229-07:00Nov. 27, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">"Well, this week was great... we got moved on Tuesday, then Wednesday trough Saturday we were in trainings with the leaders all day from 8 to 5 each day.. it was really good we learned a ton .. we learned about the importance of the atonement and we now have to talk about the atonement in EACH lesson no matter what we are talking about... its actually really cool i can see the difference in my teaching... Saturday we worked really hard but still weren’t able to find too many people.. so Saturday night we prayed and told Heavenly Father that we had done all we could and we asked for a miracle... .. well we got it!!! We arrived at the church to an attendance of 148(we average about 80) and 10 new investigators in church.. even though not all of them live in our area, it was still awesome! so we are stoked for this week to start teaching some of them.. it was the primary program that brought so many people, so we were stoked... the Lord almost always gives us our righteous desires... and we need it cuz our area is seriously struggling right now... it has always been a tough area... actually it was closed to missionaries for like a year cuz it never baptized... but we are going to change that...</span><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">so its weird to think that its already Thanksgiving again... lol then before we know it, it will be Christmas again and I will be calling home... ha-ha the mission flies by... so yeah this week we are going to work our like crazy cuz the president is not happy with the efforts of the mission right now... the church has raised the bar again for new missionaries and also their expectations for us that are already here.... and they are sending missionaries home for practically nothing - the attitude of the church is now "work or go home" so yeah hopefully it will get us to work even harder... well that’s about it... just enjoying our new house, and trying to find people<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">That’s funny about your blizzard and snow - cuz its been unusually hot here... i miss snow a lot!! lol"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Elder Eddington</span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-52151249201524844752010-11-30T22:33:00.001-07:002010-11-30T22:37:11.766-07:00Nov. 11, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">"hey! well this week was pretty cool... we actually had kind of a difficult week with the work but we are excited for this week... i sprained my ankle Wednesday but today it was better and i played basketball with our ward.. that was way fun... but yeah elder Drussel is awesome... so chill and so much like me.. he played basket and football and baseball before the mish... he is so cool I’m so happy to get a comp with similar interests... but yeah we might change houses this week.. we found one in a WAY better location for WAY cheaper and its WAY bigger and WAY better.... so we´re probably gonna be changing... so that will be fun... obviously Mom, we have to get the move approved..... lol we took pix and sent them to the sec and if its tight then we change and they make up a contract... but yeah i learned this week that a lot of times the Lord doesn´t give us our blessings immediately for our work and obedience a lot of times he gives it in his time and his way... its always cool to see that way..</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;">so it has gotten way way way cold here.(60 degrees) lol and so we had to go buy blankets at the mall, but they are so awesome!!! i will send pix<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;">but yeah not much happened this week... ha ha the other night at four in the morning there was a drunk guy outside of our door screaming his head off..that was pretty funny ... also this morning downtown there was a drunk guy dancing in front of this rally fancy clothes store where they had music... it was quite possibly the funniest thing i have ever seen in my life...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;">in my package i just want some food but like better for christmas in December. the week of christmas everyone can just put some money in my account if they want to give me a gift and I’ll buy stuff i need here in downtown(cheap and there is tons of stuff) also faster and cheaper then sending a package..I could use some garments though – yes we can buy them here but the only day we can go is Monday and they are closed Monday plus they are all mesh or cotton and i hate both. lol! I like dri lux i think... but yeah that would be fine.. oh this week this guy in our ward gave us a bunch of ties he brought home from the mish.. it was cool!<span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span></span>Have a great week!"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elder E<br /></span></span><br /></span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-433422513816923192010-11-30T22:31:00.001-07:002010-11-30T22:33:08.881-07:00Oct. 25, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">"Hey fam! Well this week was pretty hard as far as the work goes, but we`re hopin this next week will be alot better! so this Sunday i got the oppurtuniy to ordain our recent convert, Josè Farfan, as a priest... i didnt want to do it and the bishop asked my comp to do it..(i`ve never ordained anyone to the priesthood before) but my comp said no and that he felt like i should do it (who knows why... ) but then after we ordained him he was crying and said that when we put our hands on his head that a warmth went from his head through his whole body and he felt something that he couldnt describe... it was really cool! this guy is so awesome! i will always remember him..<br /><br />so what else happened this week... well we got a ton of way funny pix that i am going to send... just wait.. lol<br /><br />also this week we had a movie night at the church and watched Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration and the members didnt bring investigartors only one... but we are grateful for that .. lol... also it is finally starting to cool down a little bit here ... "<br /><br /> Elder Eddington<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-72522718265937373692010-11-30T22:25:00.002-07:002010-11-30T22:30:37.872-07:00October 11, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><div>"Hey fam! sounds like your week was awesome! this week was pretty cool here too... we had the batpism of the hermana Gabriela.. it was awesome! in the baptismal service one of the families of our ward sang a hymn in harmony and their dad played the guitar it was awesome! I'm back in my own area now I only went Thursday and Friday and came back for the baptizm... but i got to teach Elder Sosa, the kid from the other area alot, and i learned from him too..(he has 4 months just barely) so that was fun... also José is getting baptized this week, he is SO awesome! I forgot to tell you guys but he was a professional wrestler(a famous one here in mexico) his name was doctor misterio... lol pretty funny.. he acutally showed us his mask the other day. but he is way excited for his baptism.. and so so so humble! this guy reads the Book of Mormon 2 to 4 chapters a week man!!! its nuts!</div><div> </div><div>so this morning we had a pretty crazy experience.. we got up early and went running around the block a few times.. well we had just turned the corner to go back to the house when an old volkswagen beetle came roaring down the street.. my comp and i jumped out of the way on the sidewalk,(dont worry mom it didnt even come close) but then it smashed into the car in front of it, then went around it up onto the sidewalk,(still going about 50) until it ricocheted off a light post, then smashed into another car where it came to a stop in the middle of the road... we ran to see if the lady in the first car that got hit was ok,(She was) and then went to see about the second that got hit... the guy in the second car had his baby in the front seat in her car seat, but luckily they were both ok.. the guy was pretty mad though.. we stayed with his baby and he ran to the other car and started cussin em out... it was two stupid teenagers that im pretty sure were wasted... the driver had no clue what was going on... lol we realized that had we been running on the other sided of the street we wouldnt be here right now... but luckily the Lord protects his missionaries... but yeah everyone turned out unhurt just a lot of stuff got smashed and a lot of scared shaken people... lol</div><div> </div><div>so this weeek the mission president changed the rules and now on p day we can go wherever we want,,(before we had to stay in our area) so today we went and lost ourselves in the deep jungle of the downtown Merida and the historic center..(we´re still here lost, we just happened to find an internet place) but no worries we´ll just take a taxi out... this place is so so cool cuz there are tons of ancient buildings and castles but also it's modern - there are outdoor malls markets music in the parks all kinds of crazy stuff! you guys would love mérida.. but also its crazy traffic.. both on the sidewalks and in the streets.. its just like new york city in that aspect no joke...(even though ive never been to new york) but i love it here!</div><div> </div><div>oh also this Saturday Elder Benjamin de Hoyos (a seventy) is coming for zone conference!! so we´re pretty stoked about that! so that means this Saturday we have training with a seventy AND a baptism.. lol all those tihngs you told me about in the animal show at the Living Planet Aquarium in SLC are everyday things down here.. there are as many giant flying cockroaches here as there are birds.. it doesnt even scare me anymore i'm used to it... lol </div><div> </div><div>but hey here is some good news... my comp and i have been having a really hard time getting up in the morning and we decided that its becuasse for dinner we always just eat junk food and nothing healthy.. so we made a pact that we will not eat anymore pizza or take out for dinner, that we are going to quit being lazy and cook dinner, but good things with vegetables lol.. that will give us more energy and also save us money! lol"</div><div> </div><div>Elder Eddington<br /></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-66727606818026274382010-11-30T22:23:00.001-07:002010-11-30T22:25:43.126-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Oct. 4, 2010 </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">"hey fam!!!<br /><br />yeah! conference was awesome!!! the one that hit me the most was of elder Holland... when he talked about what his parents sacrificed so that he could go on the mission i thought of you guys! and all that your sacrificing for me to be here... it really made me appreciate my mission THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!!!!<br /><br />so our two goldens, Gabbie and José came to conference.. José went to ALL 5 SESSIONS!!! wow!!! haha he is so awesome<br />Gabbie gets baptized this Saturday and José the next... it was great... this week was pretty good. we had interviews with the mission president... he told me the lord expects ALOT out of me so i need to work even harder and be even more obedient! lol conference was great it always recharges my batteries... ok question and answer time.. Yes, we are living in an apartment and my comp's name is Elder Martinez. Yes, I should get packages sooner now that we live like 6 blocks from the mission office. For transportation we either walk or take a bus. I took my torn pants to get them fixed and he did an amazing job so all my pants are back in comission!<br /> there we go!!! haha<br /><br />so this week we did divisions with the district leaders.. that was fun! Also we had a really cool experience! we were praying all day to find new investigators... and we had an appointment (the last of the day) with an inactive guy.. well he brought his girlfriend to the appointment.. she(they) have alot of problems and she is so so prepared to enter the church! she accepted to be baptized right then and there in the first appointment.. the only thing is they didnt go to any of the sessions this weekend! so pray for them that they go to church!<br /><br />Jose is so amazing! He is in 1 Nephi 9 and every time we come to an appointment or to take him to church he sits outside of his house and waits for us... he is truly a blessing for me to know him... thats about it for this week!!"<br /><br />love you all,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Elder Eddington</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-25045027810712542292010-11-30T17:54:00.002-07:002010-11-30T22:22:15.019-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; "><strong>9/20/2010 </strong> "</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">wow! well, where do i start?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">well this week we worked our butts off, brought new people to church and found new investigators, had some way cool experiences...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">with one investigator named Julio we were reading the Book of Mormon with him... we were reading in 1 Nephi chapter 2 ... the power of the Book of Mormon amazes me! something really cool happened! how many times have we as members of the church read 1st nephi? like a bajillion times right ? well as we were reading something popped out at me i had never even seen before! its when Lehi and his family, after traveling for 3 days in the desert, the FIRST thing that Lehi does is stop, build an altar, and give thanks to the Lord! wow!!! after all he went through the first thing that went through his mind was to thank the Lord!! we started talking about that with Julio and it really brought the spirit to the lesson!! SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!!! THERE IS SO MUCH THERE!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">so anyways last night my comp and I were chilling in the house, (I think I was laying in my hammock reading Jesus the Christ) when we got a phone call from our district leader informing us that today I would be heading for Merida to an area called Esperanza and Elder Nichols to Cancun area Kabah(the area i started at) AAAHH!!! hahah Merida is at the other end of the mission again! so i got to ride in a bus for 6 hours today! my area is SO CRAZY!!! i think when i was in Merida before I failed to realize just how ridiculously huge this city is(i was way in the north before) but anyways, this area is DOWNTOWN Merida!!! IT IS SO CRAZY!!! I FEEL LIKE IN LIKE TIMES SQUARE!!! I went from a hole in a rock in the jungle to downtown Merida! lol but I am pretty excited... know why? CUZ THEY FINALLY GAVE ME ANOTHER MEXICAN COMP!! lol his name is Elder Martinez, and he has 8 months in the mission... Elder Lucero, the old comp of Martinez, is going home in 3 days, and is here showing me the ropes of this area(when ever an elder gets changed to an area to be senior comp they have to hand over keys phone, etc... )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">so all is good here, im excited to work in this new area!!!! love all of you!!!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Elder Eddington</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><strong>9/27/2010<o:p></o:p></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">"hey fam!!! well this week has been pretty good.. Elder Lucero went home, but he ended his mission good! on thursday night an old investigator called us and told us that she wanted to talk to us! we met her at the church and she said that a bunch of stuff has happened in her life and that she wants to change and she is ready to get baptized! she is so awesome! her date is for the 9th of October.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">Also while while walking down the street the other night we saw a guy sitting outside his house so we went and contacted him... he is a 66 year old man who was an alcoholic his entire life... he left it about 16 years ago but because of it they had to take out one of his kidneys and now his other one is failing so he is on dialysis... he has been preserved by the Lord for us to teach him.. the first appointment he accepted to be baptized... he told us..."i know that your church is true... and i am going to baptize, not because you want me to, but because i really want to change!" he is so amazing! he came to church with us Sunday and he said he felt like he was in his house.. he is awesome.. his name is Jose... he has alot of health problems and no money so pray for him eh? he is awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">so life here the first week was pretty crazy but fun.. my companion is from Cuernavaca(state to the east of mexico city) he is cool... he is crazy and likes to have fun just like me but he also works hard when its time to work... so we`re doin pretty good! we are super super excited for conference this week! conference is a super awesome way to get people into the church so pray for us that we can bring a ton of people in there ok? it is pretty crazy speaking Spanish 24 hours... also I am the only American in my district... so I will not be speaking english for some time...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">lol there is a lot of super super super rich members here who always send us pizza already paid to our house... we are getting fat... not good!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; ">we played basketball today and it was my first time in a ton of months but I actually played really good... it was like I picked up where I left off... (does that make sense?) I'm not really sure how phrases in english work anymore!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); ">Elder Eddington</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 10pt; "><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-69576713173797238172010-11-29T21:15:00.002-07:002010-11-30T17:53:30.408-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">Aug 23/30 or Sept 6</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">"Hey fam! well this week we had the baptism of ubaldo, that was awesome... he and his family are one of the coolest stories i have on the mission... ( think i told you about them) but yeah the inactive family and we came and the spirit told us to promise her that if she came back to church and put her life in order that her husband will get baptized! well the Lord completed our promise! it is awesome! their family has changed so much! they{re still a little bit crazy lol but gettin better...<br /><div> </div><div>also today on the way here a tire blew on the bus and i was sitting like right over it so it scared the crap out of me cuz i was like half a sleep... but yeah so then we had to wait on the side of the road for a while until another bus came to pick us up.. .lame! but yeah here we are we made it all safe and sound! also we found a kind of snake this week i havent seen yet! i will send pix of it in a minute! i acutally have lots of pix to send this week!</div><div> </div><div>so we had another REALLY challenging week! silviá, the one with the abusive father fell....something happened and when we called her to set up an appointment she said she didnt want anything from us anymore, which is CRAZY cuz she was SO SO SO excited! i have no clue what happened but she wont even talk to us so who knows... also Mar, (girlfriend of the ex missionary) came and we had a lesson with her and she is golden golden golden but the only problem is she is taking a course for 8 weeks that is saturday and sunday... so she doesnt want to get baptized right now and then inactivate for like two months so we are going to wait until the 1st of november which is lame cuz im almost sure i wont still be here in carrillo in november(I SURE HOPE NOT! ) also almost none of our investigators came to church AGAIN... except for giselle, but she cant get baptized either cuz she has to ask permission from her parents and they are crazy catholics and she is scared.. so we basically have nothing!!! last night we were both REALLY frustrated and my comp and I got in a dumb fight which just made things worse... but today we're a little better.... all we can do is keep working...."</div><div> </div><div>Elder Eddington</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#444444;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hey fam! i don`t know how much sense this letter will make, cuz last night we didnt sleep... we had to travel to chetumal in the middle of the night for a early morning meeting.. .then this morning i got REALLY REALLY SICK!! i have honestly never had diarhea like this in my life! it is so ridiculous i also have had a fever all day! but dont worry im on a constant supply of tylenol and pepto pills... and yes mom, if i don`t feel better in the morning, i will call the mission president`s wife... lol i have no clue what i ate but there is another elder in our district with the same thing... uggghh<br /><br />so this week we blanked bringing investigators to church again, so we were pretty disanimated (i dont know if that is a word in english or not... i think it is.. bueno in spanish it is desanimado and means like.. upset, or not excited lol)<br />in our district meeting today it was about just keep moving forward and the Lord will bless us... the Lord is SERIOUSLY TRYING ME RIGHT NOW.. .with the sickness, the probs with the comp(which are fixed) and the lack of success, its been pretty rough, but all we can do is keep going with faith....the brothers of Ammon were locked in a prison for months while Ammon was out baptizing entire cities, and they didn`t whine, so i guess i will be ok! haha<br /><br />Well, that's about it for this week. The day after tomorrow is the independence day here, so there is all kinds of crazy stuff going on here.... I can honestly say, without being racist, that when there are holidays here the ENTIRE COUNTRY gets drunk.. it is so ridiculous! I am so sick of dealing with drunk people... also in our ward we have like 9 couples that can't get baptized cuz they´re not married!<br /><br />I have learned lots of valuable things on the mission ... most importantly<br />1. NEVER DRINK<br />2. marry your wife!<br />3. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!<br /><br />lol</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#444444;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size:medium;">Also this morning running out of the house to catch our 3:45 bus... I ran out, slammed the door and smashed my finger in the door.. I`m smart.. lol so my fingers are all bloody and swollen but they will be alright cuz im typing ok with them... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma;"><br />Elder Eddington</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-29828883086875194282010-08-19T09:39:00.002-06:002010-08-19T09:46:14.968-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><div>Aug. 16, 2010</div><div><br /></div><div>"Well this week has been pretty good... Elder Nichols and I got to the house and got all settled and then we got to work... we had a baptism this week and that was pretty awesome... we also had to go to Chetumal on Wednesday for zone conference.. which was AWESOME!! I got the package with the pants, shoes and shirts! Thanks a ton mom!</div><div><br /></div><div>Well let´s just say my comp and I aren't the best of friends... he is a great missionary but very very very very very controlling and very obsessive compulsive about everything... it's ok though we will work hard, that's for sure... we are like completey opposite people... at first I pouted but I realize now the Lord is just giving me another oppurtunity to learn patience and humility! lol I miss Elder Rose! </div><div> </div><div>My skin got really really bad this week so I had to buy some random pills and stuff that was not fun... but it looks like its gettting a little bit bettter... the mission president thinks that I have psoriasis... not good! He say if it's not completely cleared up in a week I have to go to Cancun to a dermatologo.. not fun either... lol but it's starting to look a little bit better!</div><div> </div><div>So we were knocking doors the other day and this guy told us to come in... I felt inspired by the spirit and I said... "the Lord has sent us here to your home to help you. What do you need?" he opened right up and told us he has been an alcoholic his whole life... my comp all of a sudden said "will you prepare to be baptized by someone holding the authority of God?" I looked at him like, are you crazy!? But the guy accepted! The problem is we´re kind of strugglin with him... he isn't completing with his commitments (expected from an addict) so pray for him lots.. his name is Victor... we only had one investigator in the church this week so that was kind of a bummer... but the one we brought is awesome!! He is getting baptized the 4th of September! His name is Hubaldo. </div><div><br /></div><div>Well that's about all that happened this week ...</div><div> </div><div>I am at a year!!! Can't believe it! Hope the second year is even better than the first!!</div><div> </div><div>PS - tell everyone if they write me it has to be through the pouch, not the mission adress or I never get it... Tell them I want some written letters too!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Elder E</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-46066987095858863162010-08-16T18:10:00.002-06:002010-08-16T18:15:49.767-06:00Aug. 9, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">"We had the week long conference in Chetumal which was AMAZING! The twelve and the first presidency has completely changed the way we teach.. it is 100 percent by the spirit now.. there are no more lessons or outlines or anything... we find the person's needs by the spirit and teach what they need to know personally.. I have seen miracles in just three days of using it... when you teach this way the Lord DOES give you revelation for your investigators... there is nothing better than to teach this way... you are sitting in a lesson praying with all your might to know what to say to the person and the spirit brings the answer to your mind like an explosion of knowledge and love for the person - it's ridiculous... we will work miracles with these new techniques... this is it... this is what will prepare the world for the second coming... the Lord is digging about his vineyard for the last time... and I get to be a part of it!!!<br /><br />Elder Rose got changed to Cancun today.. my new comp is.... believe it or not.. ANOTHER AMERICAN!! ridiculous! 4 comps americans now!!! His name is elder Nichols and he is from Tooele utah... lol<br /><br />We have zone conference in Chetumal Wednesday morning so even though we just got back from there today we get to turn around and go back tommorow night.. yay! Yeah we're pretty excited... excited but tired! "<br /><br /><br />Edler Eddington<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-22935978539783106632010-08-16T18:03:00.003-06:002010-08-16T21:46:11.723-06:00Aug 2, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">"This has been a crazy week! lol<br /><br />So the other night we were walking and a snake came out in front of us again, but it was little so we just stamped on it until it died.. i took a pic of it and the next day we showed it to a member and he was like YER CRAZY! that is like the most venemous snake there is here! lol but we didnt know and we were just stompin on it like it was a normal garder snake.. lol good thing it didn't bite us... lol we also had a run in with a HUGE scorpion, I will send pics of all that in a second... then we went to cut pimienta(pepper) for hermana julia, i will also send pics of that in a sec... and she cut us down some HUGE COCOS and we drank the milk and then she cut out the meat and we ate it with lime and chile... haha my english sounds terrible, but yeah it was fun... we just worked like crazyies tryin to find more people.. we´re kinda frustrated right now cuz we only had one investigator in church...<br /><br />this branch has got alot of problems, all the sisters are really gossipy and really mean and it has driven like half the members away from the church.. plus all the priesthood leaders are like pharisees i swear.. so the mission president is coming down next week to clean up i think... lol we talked to a family the other day that doesnt come because the branch president shot their dog... (it was in his yard tryin to get at his chickens) and so they havent came back... we talked to another lady who hasnt gone to church because all the ladies started rumors that she commited adultery and that she was pregnant from another guy.. (not true) so its gettin pretty bad... PLEASE DONT GOSSIP... what you say about people can have an eternal effect on someone's life and we will all be held responsible for the words we say... so be careful! JUST LOVE EVERYONE! who cares what they have done or said just love them, and both of you will be blessed for it... i am so sick and tired of seeing families suffer for stupid disputes over dumb things...<br /><br />so this week we will be in chetumal from tonight until friday night or saturday morning for the week long training.. the apostles have changed completely all the lessons, the way we teach find and basically the way we do everything... so now we get to sit in the chapel from 7 am to 6 pm from mon to fri to recieve the training on everything... i´m excited but also a little scared as to waht is going to happen... lol ... and then this sunday there are changes again.. i think im staying here, i only have two changes.. lol<br /><br />who knows... all according to the will of the Lord.<br /><br />as we´ve talked to all these people with problems the Lord has blessed to be able to see them as hee sees them, to love them as he does, and when you can feel that you know exactly what they need and what they need to hear... I had a pretty cool experience this week, we were walking down the street and i saw a guy sititng all by himself on the curb, and I looked in his eyes and felt the most overwhelming feeling of charity.... I went over to him and introduced myself and my comp and told him that we were representatives of Jesus Christ and that we had been sent to tell him that his Heavenly Father loves him and knows him, and desires his happinees in this life and the next, and we invited him to church.. it was just a little simple thing, but it was amazing to feel the Christ-like love that he shares with all his servants when they are in tune... let us all strive to have more of the pure love of Christ! In Preach My Gospel and in Moroni it says that we should PRAY WIITHOUT CEASING and plead with our Heavenly Father that He can fill us with His love... I read that a few weeks ago and the Lord has blessed me since then as I've been striving to obtain it... I still have a LONG way to go, but I'm getting better little by little!<br /><br />I love all of you I hope you have a great week! Take some time this week to smile at someone, do something for someone who is tired or sick or sad, for this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ..."<br /><br />Elder Eddington<br /><br /><br /><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-39401301814927635532010-08-16T18:00:00.002-06:002010-08-16T18:02:13.656-06:00July 27, 2010<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">"I did wake up this morning but it was to pure rain.... it has rained for 8 days straight here... we´re starting to get pretty depressed. it is pouring right now even... thing is its still in the nineties even with rain so the humidity is killing us... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">Everything is good here, we had another baptism this week of Moises that was really cool I will send some pix in a minute... not really much to write! supposedly the mission president is coming to our little branch in Carrillo this week to reorganize it... and yeah thats about it - just tryin to find more and more people to teach! hope all is well there. love you!"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">Elder E<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-70729739008523979842010-08-16T17:40:00.004-06:002010-08-16T21:43:54.637-06:00<div style="text-align: center;">July 19, 2010</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCp2EdgAaX8YTzc3Me6SZO84hCKHQY9CEnIN3ruXysUemJCPvW2oN10zbJSuPHneeUA9lMm_uhTZ2zHRarYNXt_CGIEagdlol5CdMLHLbsUfuc2XIDWOpxPvtZt2cHpWSXAORk9YI8L4Km/s400/P1020506.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506157144433078226" /><div style="text-align: center;">Miguel (I assume)</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoaxet3nCe3asNbe_G5BIhVqJmDlWEjY7yfJ9YqSFv9CecSE98OmQ1cX251KrKLvZuIg3MVJcWMzJ4pzUWFySJsDByIPrVzNUBj4h71sxGL1AMKQ8Z-wT-t5PiuNu-z_El92Hu4B5bMQV/s400/P1020507.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506157150209515474" /><div style="text-align: center;">Kids that remind him of Ethan and Hannah</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNmvwT-qeog-peW98lkJRB5LUE9SgwHgpL_5kkWTOg5e9oojeTxsHR0Wt8nyhAM5m-izLrkgTqZXolJRvFm4zab35bofMjnZdnq_zcQ0HZSaTHQBcQGMHp00JJWljyOz0zXQ7bGliNcy7/s400/P1020495.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506157160023210610" /><div style="text-align: center;">Yuk. A snake that a member killed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-20523194133318951712010-08-16T16:11:00.001-06:002010-08-16T17:39:14.719-06:00July 17, 2010<div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><div>"All is good here.. we got struck by some crazy tropical storm this weekend so it has been raining cats and dogs here... i thought i knew what rain was until i lived in mexico during the rainy season.. its ridiculous! </div><div> </div><div>well we had the baptism of miguel this weekend that was awesome! he is the one who was the drug addict and totally turned around... his mom came to his baptism and then to church the next day and we set an appointment to go see her on tuesday.. also the alcoholic dad of a member decided that he wants to talk to us so were prety excited for that...</div><div> </div><div>we had another great expereince with fasting this week... we fasted fro people to go to church in spite of the crazy rain... when we got there there were only 20 people there.. so we were pretty depressed, and miguel hadnt showed up for his confirmation!! we prayed hard during the sacrament and when they opened the doors after the sacrament 37 people more were outside waiting including all of our recent converts our investigators and miguel and his fam!! it was way cool! the Lord has power to do ALL things for us if we have enough faith. its really hard to find people in a small town like this but if we keep working hard and trying as hard as we can the Lord always gives us people to teach! they fall from the sky! its always cool to see the work of the Lord in his vineyard....."</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>Elder Eddington</div></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-23434505629994318832010-07-15T14:11:00.009-06:002010-07-15T14:40:39.775-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">July 12, 2010<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"Hey fam! Ttodo bien here in Carrillo Puerto..(actually I'm in Chetumal rig</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">ht now) so I had another crazy critter expe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">rience this week ... haha Yesterday after church we were in the house of Hermana Nori eating </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">and I was on the phone talking to the branch president when all of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">a sudden on the wall behind Nori´s head there was a huge lizard the size </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">of a small alligator... it was seriously the biggest lizard I have ever seen that's </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">not an alligator!! We all stood up and then it dropped to the ground... we of course all screamed l</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">ike girls and jumped on our chairs... then the kid of the family knocked it out and grabbed it and took it </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">outside... then it revived and tried to run in the house so the kid handed me a machete and I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">chopped its head off!!! It was the coolest thing! It was seriously like a big rattlesnake but with legs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">!! They say its called a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">salamander... it is the nastiest thing I have ever seen... but it was pretty </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">sweet to chop its head off...</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The work is also going pretty good here... we </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">have the baptism of Miguel on the 17th,.... he is so so so awesome.. I´m not sure if I told y'all the story of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">him.. he is the nephew of some members and was in a gang and a drug addict but then they brought him </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">to church one day and we started teaching him and he has completely changed!!!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">He is way excited and yesterday we were talking about how after a year of being a member he can go </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">on a mission (he is 19) and he thought that was pretty cool! That would be </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">awesome! Also, on the 24th we are baptizing another youth that is Potente! He walks by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">himself to church every week!!! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It's really hard to find new people here, but we're </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">workin on it.. sounds like life is busy but good there... </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Last night we left </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Carrillo Puerto and stayed the night with the zone leaders here in Chetumal so that we could play soccer </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">as a zone this morning.. .none of us has seriously ran in A LONG TIME... lol </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">but we had fun! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It was a good thing that we left, too, cuz on the 4th </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">there were elections and this one candidate lost but now he is saying the other </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">guy cheated and now last night there were a ton of péople in the streets with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">machetes and soldiers with guns .. they probably had a riot... they were waiting for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">the verdict of who really won... if the other guy </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">won I guarantee you something big went down there last night.. We might come home tonight to a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">bloody mess... but that is the way it is here in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mexico... corrupt, scary, and crazy... But, we will be ok that's for sure...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Another really funny story:</span></span></span></div><span style="color:#666666;"><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">lol So where we live the branch presidents house is like connected to our house by th</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">is covered walkway.. well they have a dog that lives there that is called Brisa... lol She is this </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">little yipper dog that gets afraid of everything! When the storms come and there is thunder, if our door is open s</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">he comes scurrying in our house and hides under our couch! Well the other morning </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">a HUGE thunder storm came in and she ran in as usual and hid under the couch! But then </span></span></span><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">another HUGE thunder struck </span></span></span><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">and she ran out from under the couch and jumped in my comp´s boxes and tried to dig her self in as deep is she could. I</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">t was so funny! Here is a </span></span></span><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">picture</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">...</span></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1G41_TDnNQmIA45Xc8SD7KDRBa4wW5xYfN601kAjg3i6DqobEc5Kzi_YTuFSpCyeB1uFuZ3EMZzuE0Hm-lBvRXDe5aVk3OQn0l0D1rRDWVBChRPLd5MEczUd4E57nJ-V7-qeAVwR-TU3a/s400/P1020487.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494230068009860514" /></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">So I guess they made a new Preach My Gospel and added a ton of stuff.. so the 26th to the 31st of this month in Cancun all the leaders of the mission and the people who will be training new missonaries the next change will have a 5 day conference with President Salinas to learn the new stuff that has came out... THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! Nobody knows who will be training next change they are just going to call and invite the people who are supposed to go... so, we´ll see what happens. Have a great week!"</span></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Elder Eddington</span></span></span> </p></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-44375641213097246152010-07-06T10:59:00.002-06:002010-07-06T11:05:31.669-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">JULY 5, 2010</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">"Hey fam! Well, we had another crazy week here in Carrillo Puerto... lol the other day we were standing talking to this guy when the guy all of a sudden grabbed a huge rock and hucked it at my feet !!! what i didn’t realize was that there was an orange snake crawling over my foot.... i guess it was really venomous... lol so the lord was looking out for me.. it was actually pretty funny... lol</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">Also we got BIKES this week!!! we spent like 1500 pesos in taxis in June which is ridiculous so we asked the president for bikes and he said we could have them... i am so tired!! i haven’t ridden a bike in a LONG time and my body can feel it!! Ha ha my bike isn’t actually that bad it has full suspension but the bike of my comp is TINY and old.. lol but he does ok on it...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">President Cardenas went home this week, and our new mission president arrived on the 1st with his fam and his wife. the presidents name is Netzahualcoyotl</span></span><span class="ecxhighlight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">Salinas( no i didn’t misspell his first name that is really what it is. its Aztec) but of course to us he is just Presidente Salinas... so today we came to Chetumal and President Salinas came for interviews... HE IS SO AWESOME!! he is like 16 years younger than president Cardenas and he is so ANIMATED! he has so much energy and is so full of the spirit... he has some crazy goals and vision for this mission.. .i think he is literally going to turn this place upside down... he give one of the most powerful capacitations that i have ever seen today.. he talked about the faculties of the soul and how alma exhorts us to "stimulate them" he also talked a lot about the eye of faith... everything we do we have to picture first with the eye of faith or we cant do anything... he is awesome... his wife also talked to us... he also has 4 teenage kids with him! his oldest is his daughter that has 17 years and next three have 15 and 13 and 11 years... they all presented themselves too... so that was really cool.. he is going to do great things with this mission!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="ecxhighlight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">so we have another baptism the 17th ... he is the drug addict that we helped... after the first time in the church he cut his hair and changed all of his crazy jewelry and stuff... he has Changed a ton.. he is way excited!!!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="ecxhighlight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">well all is well here! </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">BTW, I guess the new Americans missionaries aren’t coming.. they couldn’t get their visas so they are spread out in various missions in Utah so I probably won’t be changing companions right away.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> I</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">n my interview with the new president he sat down in the desk and said... (translated) "Before we start I want to tell you something... I was observing you during my capacitacion (training) and I want you to know that I now consider you as one of my kids" and he said "You have a good spirit.. you have a LOT of potential and you are very able.. now I want you to go and meet that potential!" This President is so crazy amazing!"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><span class="ecxhighlight"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">Love all of you</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> -<br />Elder Eddington</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-8584798024698336042010-06-29T20:35:00.002-06:002010-06-29T20:40:39.028-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">June 28, 2010</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"All is well here - just had three baptisms this week and that’s good... </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tropical storm Alex hit us this weekend - that was pretty crazy, but we’re all ok and it’s long gone now!!! </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Next week I’ll tell you more about the storm.. it was </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">SO CRAZY!!!</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> We woke up at 3 a.m. with sheets of rain pouring in our window.. we went outside and it was coming down completely </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">horizontal!</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It was nuts!!! Nothing got destroyed though.. and now its heading for the northern part of Mexico.. and growing..</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not much else going on.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some great baptisms though!!!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bye -</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Elder E.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-87732382053826417182010-06-29T20:26:00.003-06:002010-06-29T20:35:09.841-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIGHPb9ZPloEOHPrS325tYhpHqeVG5gSf21Jpi_ziZJjSR95F2cRbwTVdEuRbHKlYq16YYNQCGgrulmqpJW6kimfVpxkzfd8iF-ehSFX13Q4035i6QV0cIJpYd9XcVBcejqnmc43X9Wrh/s1600/DSCF0790.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIGHPb9ZPloEOHPrS325tYhpHqeVG5gSf21Jpi_ziZJjSR95F2cRbwTVdEuRbHKlYq16YYNQCGgrulmqpJW6kimfVpxkzfd8iF-ehSFX13Q4035i6QV0cIJpYd9XcVBcejqnmc43X9Wrh/s400/DSCF0790.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488389373504618914" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">My comp & I!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">June 21, 2010</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br />"Time is flying by! I can hardly believe it .. 10 months, wow! </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It's been a great week...</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">S</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">aturday we had the baptism of Vanessa... she is a teenage daughter of one of the ward members who was VERY rebellious but we helped her to change.. she is like a completely different person now!! it was great.. so last night we traveled two and a half hours to Chetumal and stayed with some of the elders here... it was crazy... we made pancakes and put all kinds of syrup and sweet stuff on them and then didn't sleep till like 2 in the morning... which was bad cuz today was zone conference! haha but luckily we were all able to stay awake and all that... we also had interviews at the same time cuz Chetumal is so far away the president only comes down here once a month... the President Cardenas is done this Monday and he's going home! Our new president, Presidente Salinas, will get here July 1st... we are all way sad... in the interview the president gave me an assignment for this next change... it looks like they are making me a trainer... in the interview the president asked me if I was ready for an assignment (leader, trainer, secretary, something like that) and I nervously said yes... he then said "ok you will do well"... then he started talking about the American missionaries that are supposed to be coming this Monday, but it looks like they are getting delayed... so I don’t know if I will be training a Mexican greenie or an American one but probably a Mexican one... fresh from the mtc in Mexico City!! scary!!! I hope something changes and I get to stay another change with Elder Rose... he is awesome ! He reminds me a lot of fritz... really chill and really humble... so we will see what happens with that this next Monday....</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">After zone conference the president took all of us to Burger King.. the president´s wife bought EVERYONE(including the sister missionaries) the biggest burger on the menu in a combo large size... and after she bought us all an ice cream cone!!! so yeah we are pretty full now...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Hope all is well there!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Love,</span></span></span><div><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Elder E</span></span></span></div><div><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-90594414745659096402010-06-29T19:54:00.003-06:002010-06-29T20:25:01.041-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwWHyJsCjkD9mH3-dfAYnk0MNlKQhFa8GSiombWp-4-rLQhKiT_FNyMDfyRyorLPhUqEs7MzTTv2DAxeTbm57kql7hHOVtYTWKIci3LRygR4hQPNOAu71kzxHuK2TZS6kztnVBFSnzAaI/s1600/P1020400.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwWHyJsCjkD9mH3-dfAYnk0MNlKQhFa8GSiombWp-4-rLQhKiT_FNyMDfyRyorLPhUqEs7MzTTv2DAxeTbm57kql7hHOVtYTWKIci3LRygR4hQPNOAu71kzxHuK2TZS6kztnVBFSnzAaI/s400/P1020400.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488379822006737362" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sweet parrot!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;"><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5/31/2010</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Li</span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">fe is pretty crazy but pretty good here... haha In district meeting yesterday Elder Terry opened up his preach my gospel and an alacran (scorpion) fell out !!! haha It was funny .. there are two sister missionaries in our zone down here and they flipped out!!! all the elders were laughing and the sisters were up on their chairs screaming matala matala!!! (kill it kill it) it was great... so today we have more time for our p-day which is good cuz we needed it... the elders before me changed houses right before I got here so there is no mirror, fans, seats or anything... I bought a mirror this week so now at least we can shave and do our hair... the Branch President gave us a couch so that is pretty sweet... there is a ceiling fan where we sleep but it is terrible. The branch president says he is gonna fix it...but yeah we went through the market this week and I found this sweet sweet woven bag for my scriptures for 35 pesos!! ( 3 bucks) It will be so much cooler than my backpack! It has been really hot and humid here. ITS HURRICANE SEASON BABY!!! haha There is a tropical storm in Guatemala and Chiapas right now.. like 100 miles south of us... who knows if it will come. I doubt it.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Anyways.... we had a really cool experience this Sunday... last week we didn’t bring any investigators to the church so we were pretty bummed... so this week we worked super hard and Saturday afternoon we started a fast... Sunday morning we went for our investigators and, once again, nobody. So... once again we went to the church solo. As we were sitting in sacrament meeting I was praying and trying to figure out what I was to learn from this and what we were missing to bring investigators to church... I got a feeling of "quit pouting, trust in the Lord and everything will be ok". Five minutes later the family of four we had invited all showed up!!! Also, a family that had just moved here from Campeche came. The husband and wife are members, but they had been inactive forever. They have four kids of the ages of 16, 14, 11 and 8... all of the age of baptism, and they want us to teach their kids!!! So we had 8 new investigators in the church this week!<br /><br />The power of praying and fasting is real!!! The thing is that the Lord knows what we need MUCH better than we do and He generally blesses us in different ways than we expect... He always listens to our prayers, and He worked us a little miracle here in the jungle this weekend!"</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elder E.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6/7/2010</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Hey! This week has been pretty good. We found some more people, so it looks like we should have 3 or 4 baptisms this month, so that's pretty cool!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The family that we are teaching wasnt able to come this week because the dad had to work and the mom was sick (she is pregnant) .. but the son, called Moisés (moses) who is 13, got himself up and ready and WALKED all the way to church by himself! It was so cool! He LOVES young mens. They have youth conference this weekend that comes in Chetumal and he is going to ask permission to go with them, so that would be cool.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I’m doing pretty good here in Carrillo Puerto. Sometimes I feel like I´m trapped in this tiny little village and I just wanna run away. lol But it's pretty cool I guess... My comp and I actually got kinda lost in the jungle the other day and that was actually hilarious! We found our way out! Everything is going pretty good here. Just workin hard and tryin not to burn in the ridiculous heat..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Elder E</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6/14/2010</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"A</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">ll is well here in Carrillo Puerto... as far as the work goes at least. We have a baptism this Saturday and three more the next so that should be fun... Now we are just trying to find more people for July! Last night a plane crashed here in Carrillo Puerto that was headed for Chetuaml so there was sirens and all kinds of shenanigans last night all night long... eight people died... today here in Chetumal they are having the funeral. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" color="white" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color:white;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" color="white" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Anyways... yesterday one of the ladies in our ward fell and broke her foot... and had surgery - I swear it is like the EXACT injury you had Mom... My comp and I went to the hospital to give her a blessing... there was this lady next to her that is from this little tiny village in the jungle that has to get an operation on her.. something... I dont know how to say it in English... lol But she was crying cuz she was scared and all of her kids are alone at home in her town... The lady from our ward explained to her what a blessing was and she asked us for one... of course I had to give it. As I put my hands on this sick ladies head and started the blessing I had no idea what to say. But it came out of my mouth that the surgery will go well and that she will be able to return to her family... so I hope she does well!! haha It's always cool to be able to bless the lives of other people. We saw a monkey this week!! haha It's so funny! It started dancing and swinging on the tree and showing off when it saw us.. it was great! haha Everything is all right here!" <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" color="white" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" color="white" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elder E</span></span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-74117777715412931462010-06-29T19:45:00.002-06:002010-06-29T19:52:47.454-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9PSLQySpyS05SBHbd4zrh2GkGNNqET1-yyBybR1zm3CBuuZvnKa6T5Upcch8b80rXqU6cx6dyznouiQhBr-7B-iX2a5VdrMeP2c7D62encfimQu1TBeP26d7YmIPdXyToF_QbQBOhIWW/s1600/P1020371.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9PSLQySpyS05SBHbd4zrh2GkGNNqET1-yyBybR1zm3CBuuZvnKa6T5Upcch8b80rXqU6cx6dyznouiQhBr-7B-iX2a5VdrMeP2c7D62encfimQu1TBeP26d7YmIPdXyToF_QbQBOhIWW/s400/P1020371.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488378519088552978" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">May 24, 2010</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Hey Fam! Enjoyed the letters!!! I'm very excited cuz I got changed again last week!!!</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I have been banished to the southern corner of the mission!!! I´m in a tiny tiny little town called Carrillo Puerto (car eeh oh) its a little town about two hours from Chetumal, which is the capital of quintana roo.... its so so cool!!! It's nothing more than a village... it's about the size of Ely!! All the roads are dirt and all the houses are huts... its IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNGLE!!! Finally, after 9 months in the mission I am in the boonies!!! haha The only store in Carrillo is like the equivalent of a Rite Aid... so every Monday we have to come here to Chetumal to write, shop and for district meeting... 2 hours here and two hours back each Monday!!! It is just a little branch here with about 40 people... its cool... we struggled bringing investigators to church, so we will have to work super hard this week...</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My companions name is Elder Rose, he is a good ol boy from Anabella, Utah.. which is just outside of Richfield.. haha We have alot of the same interests, hiking and fishing and things like that... he is really cool.</span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is SO MUCH WILDLIFE HERE!!!! In the last few days I have seen things run across my path like turtles, toads, frogs, geckos, ducks, turkeys, roosters and all kinds of stuff!!!</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is also this one lizard that is like a little dinosuar!!! It runs on two legs!!! It's like a baby t rex!!! It is the craziest thing I have ever seen!!!</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our house is a tiny two room house... not two bedroom, literally two rooms! haha But it's cozy and has a shower at least and a washing machine,(which doesnt hardly work) but yeah it has rained here every day this entire week.... its crazy alot of people's houses (huts) are flooded... they are forecasting a bunch of hurricanes for this year! We will see what happens...</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The mission work here is a little slow, but we're workin on that little by little... it's so cool to go tracting - you just take off into the woods on a little dirt trail and call at the door of little huts scattered in the woods... its sweet!!!</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hope all is well there. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Have fun and don't forget to write!!!!"</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elder Eddington</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-36089759028590104122010-06-29T19:29:00.003-06:002010-06-29T19:39:54.164-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">MAY 17, 2010</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgy1fvJxAEVGTZgCHuoY7U1yxgUR8vo6DfTwqM8pDKVDv_7jEpWDO-sBMUIjGsCWzHsT-8dccCiIgiOzv5Vhwt-wmksIwGpDZGeG93Q6d0cBtqndVO9LL7FItfBlsNZ7yjCOI1eEBY3F8/s1600/P1020364.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBgy1fvJxAEVGTZgCHuoY7U1yxgUR8vo6DfTwqM8pDKVDv_7jEpWDO-sBMUIjGsCWzHsT-8dccCiIgiOzv5Vhwt-wmksIwGpDZGeG93Q6d0cBtqndVO9LL7FItfBlsNZ7yjCOI1eEBY3F8/s400/P1020364.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488372982206246530" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">BAPTISM!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Another HORRIBLY hot week in Merida... ugghh.. its disgustingly hot... I miss our home ward... church just isn't the same in Mexico.. it's still really primitive but it's ok... it's growing!!! haha</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So I just restarted the Book of Mormon again and I have realized how awesome first Nephi is!!! I love the story of Nephi breaking his bow... he breaks his bow... which basically means they are going to starve... everyone is flipping out... the whole family starts to murmur against God.. even Lehi and Sariah!!!! But what does Nephi do? He goes, makes another bow, and prays to know where he can find animals to hunt...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Another amazing story is when his brothers tied him to the boat for 4 days and he never once murmured!!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Someting also that really touches me is when the Lord tells Nephi to build the boat.. he never questions at all... and rather then asking the Lord to do the work for him or to give him tools, he asks where he can find the materials TO MAKE THEM HIMSELF!!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">This is so key!!! All of us are going to have our broken bows in our lives... we will all be faced with things we think we can't do or can't handle.... but rather than pout or cry for God to make our problems better or to help us solve them... let us follow the example of Nephi and HELP THE LORD HELP US.... the Lord helps those who help themselves... if we do everything we can with a good attitude and faith he will always be with us to do the rest... the funny part is we think we are walking along with him but in reality he is doing all of it!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We have had a few frustrating experiences this week but we are going to follow the example of Nephi and keep trucking along! grrr Sometimes I feel like straight up preaching to these people that if they don't repent and get baptized in THE TRUE CHURCH they WILL not be eternal families ... I have felt many times like Abinadi and Alma as I watch people who I know have felt the spirit and know the church is true deny it and follow in their old ways...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">N</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">everhteless the Lord is preparing people every day for us... we set a baptismal date with a girl who has been trying to tell us for a while that she wanted to be baptized but she is afraid of her family.. in the last lesson we had with her I sensed that there was something wrong with her and that there was something she wanted to say but was afraid to say it... I felt like I should ask her how she has felt the last few weeks as she has studied and prayed and went to church.... she started to cry and said that she feels completely different in the Church and with the members and that she knows that she needs to get baptized but is afraid her family will abandon her... we assured her that the work of the Lord is never frustrated and that she will recieve more blessings than what she loses... she is going to talk to her fam this week... pray for her!!! her name is Sarah!!</span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I know this is the work of the Lord!!! He is always willing to change us no matter who or where or when! I have seen it countless times here in Mexico and in my own life!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">S0o we have changes tonight, but I doubt I'm going anywhere... we'll see what happens...I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">love all of you!!!!"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elder E</span><br /></div><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-57157586183161557382010-06-29T09:23:00.003-06:002010-06-29T19:43:06.656-06:00May 3<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;">"Hey! I still havent gotten the package but the zone leaders are gonna check today when they go to get the balija... I am felling a million times better this week!!! Even with the CRAZY heat I'm feelin good thanks to the dolocam... (pills the doc gave me) so yeah we're all good there now... haha</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;">I am so jealous of the snow! It is over 100 every day here... and with humidity.. I'm going to die!!! grrr.. They should have to give us cars here in this climate... haha or at least bikes!<br /><br />So things are doing ok here in ward tanlum...we have a baptism on Saturday of Hugo..... he is awesome1 The gospel has changed his life completely... which is cool cuz he has a family and was doing drugs and drinking.. but they are all way excited and we are too... we also had an activity Wednesday night where we showed the Testament and then testified of the Book of Mormon to a ton of people... there is nothing cooler then standing in front of a crowd and testifying of Joesph Smith and the authenticity of the Book of Mormon... it gives you more adrenalin than... long boarding.. or draining a three in someone's face!!! haha (I miss that alot - We got to play basketball last week that was pretty cool...)"<br /><br />Elder E</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-38239729804634385952010-06-29T09:13:00.003-06:002010-06-29T19:42:39.474-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">April 26</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Hey!!! Well.. haha I think the Lord smote me last week for my bad attitude... cuz I went six days in a row with a fever and head pain! lol They sent me to an ear nose throat doctor cuz most the pain is in my ears... apparently I have some kind of infection and have to take this pill and that pill, blah blah blah... but the president told me today in interviews that he wants me to see an.. internista... I honestly can't remember what that word is in English. I haven't spoken a word of English in three weeks! Don't worry I'm fever free today and I'm going to pick up my prescriptions!!! aarrggh!! (insurance doesnt really exist here) You pretty much just have to pay for everyhing... so that kind of not cool.... lol but the... (internista) I'm going to see is our stake president so I think it should be good... haha<br /><br />On a lighter note... its been in the high 100s all week!!!! yay!! 110 Saturday!!! and its only APRIL!!! I'm going to die... the fat is literally melting off of me... the president's wife saw me today and thought I looked sick cuz I've lost so much weight.. haha but it's just part of the mish...<br /><br />So, we have an investigator!!! wooooo!!! His name is Hugo and he is an ex drogadicto!!! He is gettin baptized the eighth ... and thats about it... Life is hard here in rich catholic-ville ... but we know the Lord has people for us if we keep goin...<br /><br />So as for Mothers Day... I'm pretty sure its gonna be the 9th Sunday... the catch is you will be calling me... you will call me between 6 15 and 6 30 UTAH TIME... that would be between 715 and 7 30 here... and the call can only be for one hour... I will confirm everything next week... gracias<br /><br />I want it perfectly clear that no one is to worry about my health... I recieved a blessing from my companion that said I would be healed from head to toe according to my faith and if I comply with what the docs say... I recieved spiritual confirmation that all would be ok... so dont worry... its just a trial I have to learn from. I have never felt more close to my Heavenly Father than during this week that I have been sick. I understand alot of things now that I didnt before. Like if we comply with EVERYTHING the Lord asks, it really doesn't matter what happens to us. So let's all try to comply with EVERYTHING a little harder!!!"<br /><br />Elder Eddington </span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-6261708228151007682010-06-29T09:01:00.006-06:002010-06-29T19:44:15.306-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Op2DtwjME6TYKEC52wM86FjOqUEc43m57Vm4v-IcHIBlRIjQmlWEKPEHwFCh1784eVm_sKG9t6rwO3zcWmmJbBtJM7CTqhL0ZnKDSzcg3_Lo4HKNIDQSAcd4OySCKEgCQ1DwsTw9r4GS/s1600/P1020321.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Op2DtwjME6TYKEC52wM86FjOqUEc43m57Vm4v-IcHIBlRIjQmlWEKPEHwFCh1784eVm_sKG9t6rwO3zcWmmJbBtJM7CTqhL0ZnKDSzcg3_Lo4HKNIDQSAcd4OySCKEgCQ1DwsTw9r4GS/s400/P1020321.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488213055931096530" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Our house</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">April 19</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><span style="color:#ff6600;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"So last monday after I got done writing we got a call from the zone leaders saying that I had a change... tuesday in the morning I got changed to merida.... barrio tanlum... </span></span></span></span></i></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">this is </span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the rich part of merida.. all the houses are huge and all the people are Catholic and no one wants to talk to you... the missionaries here before had little success and we have no investigators except for one... I have a Mexican comp who is cool. I know the Lord has something for me here, I just need to keep going... I miss CANCUN!!!! I loved that place!!! oh well..<br /><br />By the way, my comps name is Elder Galvan.. .he is from Mexico City... he has 16 months on the mission..<br /><br />So in Kabah, my old area, I walked away from 8 more baptisms we had in April... its ok its not about the numbers or does it matter who does it, I just would have liked to see it. But still its way cool they all got or are getting baptized... so yeah my comp and I have our work cut out for us this week.... haha lots of doors and lots of contacting... we wil be ok its just hard to stay excited sometimes in a hard area.,... but its alright blessings always come after the trial of faith... right?<br /><br />We have this one guy - hugo - here who is also an ex gang member who has chagned completely.. he's awesome.. he should be getting baptized next month!</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />love all of you... pray for us to have a good week."<br />Elder E</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186083883433279021.post-54123582814524999702010-04-22T13:09:00.001-06:002010-04-22T13:14:07.407-06:00April 12<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma, serif;color:#444444;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; ">"We had zone conference this week and I got the packages!!! Thanks a ton!!!!! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; ">So this week was pretty cool.. we had two baptisms and we have one more tonight!!! Yay! Then three more this week!! So, yeah we’re pretty happy! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; ">So we brought this family to church this week, the family rios vives.. its a dude named eloi, and his wife, and three kids, esidrio (18) jessica (14) and... the other one(12).. and so anyways this week was fast and testimony meeting cuz of conference.. so at the end eloi.. the dad.. (who never really says much) gets up and walks to the pulpit.. so me and my comp look at each other like oh no.. what do we do.. who knows what he’s gonna say! he gets up and bears a powerful testimony that he knows the church is true and that thanks to us.. (he called me elder smith) that he and his fam are now in the right path.. it was so awesome!! wow!!!! THAT IS CONVERSION!!!! first time in church he had the conviction to bear his testimony!!!!! it was so cool! i truly experienced "the spirit of god like a fire is burning" in that moment! we will baptize him and his family the 24th... !!!!!! I cant even express how cool it will be to bring an entire family into the church!!! things like this are what make the mission worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; ">So Elder Hill goes home here in May... and after zone conference I’m afraid about what is going to happen to me... I won’t really say anything but I have a feeling its gonna be scary.. so I have five more weeks to relax and be menor!!! haha Can you believe I have 8 months out?!!! And I´m gonna be 20 this week!! I love all of you and miss you terribly. Hope all is well!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; ">Elder Eddington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0