Just. Keep. Battling.

This week the title says it all.  I am emotionaly, physically, and well I guess not so spiritually drained.

So last week sucked.  I was pretty stoked for this week to start just for life to take my hopes and burn them in a trash can.

I got a stomach infection, which basically felt like it was eating me inside out, yes I took medicine mom dont worry. haha

Then we traveled to Xalapa a five hour busride to do divisions in a hilly area with the assistants, which went good for  them and bad for us because that means 3 days outside of our area.  And when NOT EVEN WATER stays in your system I was ready to drop dead.  

Then we got back, we did have a super productive day on friday but that was about it.  My body is tired and I keep thinking a lot about how much time I have left (which is a lot and is a really silly thing to do)  But I am focusing a lot too.

I miss rodeo and riding horses it makes my teethe ache.

WITH ALL THAT NEGATIVITY ASIDE WE ARE PRESSING ON!

Elder Rojas is super cool, we are having fun too, I think the LORD is just conditioning me for life right now.... because it had been fairly smooth sailing as of late.

If you are having problems read the Book of Mormon,  If you are feeling really bad or really good read you patriachal blessing  OH ITS SO COOL.

And remember, God Loves you, but he cant wait for just one person, CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN THIS INSTANT, because every instant that passes by is one less opprotunity to deside your life in the eternities.

I love you all.. I dont have enough time to write all of you,

forgive me. 

I cant thank you enough for the emails. 

Poza Rica is pretty cool and its pretty pretty too

 THIS COCONUT WATER TASTES AS GOOD AS THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE.

Went back to Alamo, and we got to visit one of the families we baptized and these were hung on the wall, it meant so much to me.

  When gatorade mix makes you so happy you just have to take a picture of you drinking it.

Mouth full of orange 

Elder Campuzano second from the left, WENT HOME THIS MORNING wow.

"Keep smiling for me"

7 months

Ok well this last week has been one of the worst good bad week of my life...

To start off, my wallet got stolen, thats all I am going to say about that because I am trying to stay happy but just a little trivia: my wallet got stolen.

And to make things worse, we took out money monday night and tuesday morning we were in a rush to get to the chapel because president was there I didnt have time to take out MY MISSION CREDIT CARD, and MY VISA DEBIT CART.  The only way to describe it would be through the words of Alma the younger, "there is no more exquisite a pain, than the anguish that I felt."

So ya thats it.  

Then THAT SAME DAY A DOG BIT MY LEG AND TRIED TO TEAR IT OFFFFFFFF!  

Never have I passed for more trials so difficult in one day in my life.

We did have a zone conference on friday and President and Elder Rojas and I taught little classes, I have to admit the spirit was quite strong speaking about repentence in my class.  And President gave a good class on sacrifice here in the mission.

Then to top all things off, a wonderfully converted young lady who was scheduled to be baptized this sunday in our area had a problem where Satan entered into the thoughts of her family and they spoke very ill and prohibited her to be baptized.  

So I came home kindof molested, because I feel like Ive just kindof been falling apart lately, between being tired poor and frustrated this week.

And then my companion took offense because he thought that I just wanted to baptize people for numbers.

No Elder Rojas and I are very good friends, but, that kindof offended me.

So..

I politely,

Put him six feet under the ground with my words, testimony and scriptures, until he changed his attitude.

Because I DO NOT baptize for numbers.

I am a servant of the LORD for these two years.

But dont worry we are on really good terms Elder Rojas and I and we arent fighting and have never had any problems so dont worry mom, we are still Homies. haha

So yep, this week was hard, but, I am learning.

Thanks for all the prayers and emails. 

I love you all.

The dog bite pics

 Our investigator Guadelupe was quite worried about me.

 This grafiti is very real looking

Giant trees

Dont know why I took this picture

Short Email this week

Hey so Im gonna keep it suuuuper short this week.  So we had fun this week, and although it was one of the most demoralizing weeks of my life, it was also super fulfilling.  We went from having 0 investigators to having a baptism this next sunday and a full agenda again.

I cant really explain to you how fasting and faith work, By faith God works through us, but when we fast it is like everything amplified.  I think that when we fast we should be very specific and not have a bad attitude about it because it is us showing Heavenly Father our willingness to put off our desire for physical nourishment and replace it with spiritual nourishment.

I cant believe how it works, but it does, and although it is a love hate relationship being hungry, YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS.

President comes this week for zone conference, hopefully he doesnt planch us to hard haha, 

I love you all, and hope everyone is good, be happy, toughen up, be feliz say your prayers especially for me haha.

Im gonna finally send pictures. 

Thanks for all the emails.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDAN.

The ZOOONE

 Yeah it rains pretty hard here even though it is super hot

Downton Abbey on the bus ride haha

Three little bunnies whoooop

 Angry birds glasses are pretty funny

 Helping convert kids make little stages is pretty fun to be honest

RootTree

The cuates (dudes)

 Hanging with a member in his air conditioned semi whoop!

 She was a good listener, but didnt really talk much... we had to let her go.

SHADE!!

 

Long/Short Week

So this week wasnt terribly bad, the weather is crazier than every and it is starting to drive me crazy, it rains suuuuuper hard and then the next day its like 95 outside and you want to die, but we keep battling.

So our area has gone super downhill and we are working hard and so it is frustrating, but we arent letting that get to us, so Elder Rojas and I are like the only ones that president isnt frustrated with because in our zone we had 5 baptisms yesterday and the whole mission had 10, and the planned baptisms next sunday is 8 and we have 4 sured up, so thats really kinda sad but IF POZAS GOTTA CARRY THE MISSION WE GON CARRY IT! 

So I gained a lot of faith this week and a new appreciation for fasting.  We decided to fast so that we could find some new investigators, and I cant even tell you how hard I was praying, and then the next day we went out working and decided that we were gonna contact ten people before we went to lunch, which isnt very hard until you have a tropical storm hitting your area, hahahaha.  But I remembered Moroni 7:33 on faith... and we went out in faith.

So being hungry, fighting rain, and lack of people on the street we battled to find 10, we had 9 and about gave it up but we went and walked to the end of a very uninteresting street and we found a woman outside, talked to her, taught her the restauration and she accepted everything! After starvong to death all morning, I noticed that as soon as we contacted that woman my hunger completely left me even till we went to eat.  Honestly it is so fulfilling.   

She even came to church on her own and is liking the Book of Mormon.  

I dont really have a ton of energy and feel like my letter is kindof cruddy with a bunch of mistakes because Im super tired and hot, so Im gonna finish up.

The Church is True, you cant prove it wrong, try and it wont work.

I love you all thanks for the emails.

I forgot to bring my camera I will sent pics next week.