Week #92 - Back to Spanish Work!

Hey everybody!

Well things are about to change over here in Florida :) I just got called to be a Trainer and I'm going back so spanish work!! wow oh wow is this weird. It pretty much means "hey you're almost done so we will give you someone to dump your knowledge on", so thats gonna be fun! Pray for me lots because this is the most important calling ill have had on my mission. Zone leader and all that stuff was good but this is going to be a future missionaries start to his entire mission and he better be way better than me or i did my job wrong!!

I am going to miss Windermere a lot!! like its gonna be really really weird to be back in spanish work. I have really met so many awesome people in this area and just like the rest it will have a part of my heart. Like Teresa passed her interview and will be baptized this weekend, which is dope and Elder Jensen and i have set up 2 more in the next weeks that are SUPER solid so i am pumped!! Also, Chris Bohrer got baptized and that was soooo dope!! Im just happy to see all these people enter the waters of baptism it truly is amazing. 

I have tons of pictures so prepare to be blasted haha and i added some people onto here so if you want off just please send me a private email and i will try to remember. 

I love you guys.

Elder HULK :)

Exchanges with Elder Fenn & an awesome youth, Austin Bleckner 

 Package from my sister,
not everything she gave is in the picture but you can see she is the best

 The Sillito's and a pic of some of the things they sell

Chuck is an older gentleman who always plays ball with us 

My boy Gio who always plays with us

Week #91 - Repentance & The Atonement

Heyyyy fam!

It's been an awesome week! Got someone else on date to be baptized in October so we are super pumped for that!! This weeks been great except I got mad sick just barely so that was a bummer for sure haha I slept in this morning because of it and man did that feel good. Not to much to say this week besides the fact that I've truly learned the importance of the full affect of the atonement process. Which are:

1. Recognize you've sinned
2. Stop sinning (duh right)
3. Then confess to you loving Heavenly Father and to proper authority if needed 
4. After continue to keep the commandments 
5. Acknowledge that it's all made possible through Jesus Christ

It's pretty amazing the effect it has on us if we follow through with ALL of the steps we can leave any out. I've seen it in my own life and in the life of others, you think it might be impossible to quit the things you are doing and that there's no hope, no light at the end of the tunnel...but there is. We just have to do everything we can and then will his grace be sufficient for us. It's weird how it works, it's like magic. You think how could things such as simple as these steps help but then you realize that they cause you to be humble and rely on the savior when the world would work on your pride and cause you to hide and be alone. It's amazing. We had a lesson with someone to help them quit their addictions and she was struggling and so we asked her if she had confessed to the bishop and she said no. So we helped her do that and a couple days later she said that she was doing great! Haha it made me SOOO HAPPY! All it took was for her to confess and finish the repentance cycle and her desire to sin stopped. For her it was the confession part, and for most people that usually is what they need to do. It's scary and hard, we were about being judged or condemned but there is only one voice that matters and that is the voice of our Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ who speak to us through the Holy Ghost. If you need to confess pray for strength and do it and I promise it will be the best decision you'll ever make. Don't allow the adversary to hold you back from who you are and who God needs you to be. Satan is a miserable man bound by eternal limitations and he wants us to be miserable with him, don't let him beat you. 

I love you guys and if anyone needs some strength or help email me :) Love you and Ciao :) 

Exchange with Elder Thornock sorry the pic is bad

Week #90 - Is the mission making me a little weird?

Week #89 - Maybe I'll become a trainer?

Hey everybody!! I love you guys soooooo much!

We had a super fantastic week this week. We were able to teach a ton and got two more people on date for baptism for the 1st/2nd week of October. We were able to meet with Ethan this week and he's set for baptism for this weekend and our investigator Chris came to church this week and announced in priesthood he will be baptized September 10th haha it was pretty awesome. Then, we got another lady on date that we will be visiting with this week, I don't know if I talked about her last week but her names Rosa and she is for September 3rd. It's pretty exciting all the great stuff going on this week. Besides all of those amazing miracles I also learned how to solve a Rubik's cube haha

Guys the closer and closer I get to finishing it gets more real to me how hard it's going to be to leave. I'm really gonna need plans for every day so I can stay productive haha I don't care what they are but it's has to keep me busy. So if anyone wants to shoots me some plans we can slowly start scheduling haha I need to do a lot, just remember the first day I need to sleep a lot hahaha

Oh, super Random but pray for CB, we got his baptismal paper signed after two years of waiting but now we just need to reassure him this is what he wants to do. 

Anyway I be like you guys and we are meeting with a general authority this week and I might become a trainer next transfer but we will see haha that would definitely be the most important position I've had in the mission so it would be cool but we will see. If not I will have been a ZL for like 18 months bahah

Well, love you :)

Temple Tour with an awesome kid named Alejandro

Went to breakfast with practically my family from Deltona this week haha I love them, Alex Reyes & Carla Ortega. The funny thing is the pancake picture, we ordered chocolate chip pancakes & Alex says, "Dang man they're so stingy on the chocolate chips!" haha he didn't realize that was just decoration.

Elder Jensen lost, what are the odds? He had to wear these socks all day today

Exchanges with Elder Toronto 

Week #88 - Don't Lie :)

So this week has been awesome and just pumpkin miracles out the seems haha

This week we were able to teach a lot of people and find a lot as well, but what was truly awesome is we got two more people on date and they are super solid for their dates. So we have a baptism on the 27th of August and September 10th, as well our Indian friend came to church but I don't know if he will make his date for the 27th of August. Then I don't know if I wrote about this but Theresa had to move on the day of her interview so now we are waiting til she moves back to baptize her bahah

Ttwo more awesome miracles, we are teaching a lady named Cecilia and once she gets her new promotion. Which should be taking place this month she will be baptized in September and then we just got permission to get the baptismal papers signed for a dope kid named Christian who's been waiting to get baptized in forever, so we can baptize him at any time. So pray all of these come to pass and that we can continue to find and bless more people on their journey to happiness :)

We had a super funny experience this week. So we are teaching this young girl named Alex and we went over to teach her cousin who is a recent convert and she was there with her friend Linda. So we told them we would love to teach them after we we finished teaching Trey (her recent convert cousin) and Silvio (His non member friend). So we taught Trey and Silvio and then came back and they were still there waiting for us to teach them. So we started teaching them and Linda is pretty attractive so that was fun and interesting hahah but we went through they listened and Alex kept giggling the whole time. Then asked if Linda wanted to pray and she said yes super quick, so I went over to her and helped her pray and then they left us. We got a return appointment and Linda wasn't there so we were confused and apparently she doesn't believe in God (and she told us she did and was Christian) and we found out that after our lesson she like cried because of how awkward she felt ahaha so I guess that's why you don't lie :)

Elder Acevedo & I splittin' up :'(

Elder Lefholtz & Elder Langston as they depart from the mission

My favorite boys from Deltona 

My companion falls asleep all the time in his prayers

Week #87 - Meet Elder Jensen :)

Heyyyy Family :)

Well I got my new comp and he's awesome! His name is Elder Jensen and he actually knew me back home from soccer and he knew Leo. He is a beast at soccer!! Super good ball control and passing. We got to play a little today. Well guys I don't know what to say today, it's gonna be a pretty short email but my pictures will explain a lot. Well also this has been the weirdest transfer haha we've literally passed off 50+ people in the last month and 3 people we've had on solid dates have moved, it's been kinda sucky but I know they will be blessed wherever they are #sameteam. 

Well I love you all and pray for my mom :) 

Tyson Stiggins came for a visit 

Saw my favorite boys from Deltona!!!! 

Initiation for Elder Jensen involved a lizard :) Shout out to my trainer

Funny pictures of Elder Jensen and I 

Teresa just moved but she will be baptized soon

Interview with Jackie for her baptism, so spiritual