As of 12-3-09 Elder Mayberry is home. He has been suffering from headaches for about 3 months and after many discussions, phone calls, and emails it was decided with our Stake President that he needed to come home for a medical release to see how the headaches could be resolved.
It may be a sinus infection, may be something in the environment(they have a mold problem and dust everywhere except Monterrey it sounds like) or it could be tension headaches. Brendon had a CT last week and is on some pain meds that don't take away the pain but seem to be helping bring them down to a level that can be tolerated.
We are all hoping for a quick recovery...especially Brendon because he's already wanting to get back out and finish his mission. He said it feels weird to have everyone with white skin and speaking English. It's been amazing how quickly he's learned Spanish and how has already forgotten English.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
11-2-09
Dear Family,
Wow it sounds like a lot is going on there, this week was pretty tough, I
was sick a lot. I am taking medicine for my sinus infection, and so I really
hope that is helping, I have had some of the worst
headaches this week. I spoke with the doctor of the mission and he is pretty
worried, he thinks its a really bad sinus infection, and if the medicine
can't get rid of it I will probably have to have surgery. we had interviews on Wednesday, and I told President Mendoza that i was having problems with my back, and that it would be better if I was walking, and so he told me, okay just hold on for another week and a half, and I will get you an area on foot, and its gonna be in
Monterrey so that you can be there by Doctor Spencer.
The weather this week has been crazy (and it hasn't helped my heath) its been
hot, cold, hot, cold, everyday, and its gotten pretty annoying. But its not
extremely hot anymore, which is nice.
Well I can't really report the work for this week because there wasn't
any. On Tuesday we did crazy divisions, and I got put with Elder Doniz. He
totally reminds me of mick. That was the day that I was the sickest and so
we didn't work, we laid in bed all day and talked about soccer and cars and
our houses. It was pretty funny, he talks, acts, and has the same sense of
humor as Mick. Well for Halloween, we went to the house of one of our recent converts and watch The Other Side of Heaven, it was way good, and there was a lot of people there at the house, and everybody really liked it. Dia de
Los Muertos, they don't celebrate it here as much. we ate the bread which was
pretty good. We took some photos, but nothing more than that.
Oh okay, so I did a inventory of all of my clothes, my shirts are totally
fine, my pants, well I need new ones, I am gonna look here in some of the
markets for new ones, and my socks I am starting to wear them out but I am
still fine. My pants are my only problem, from wearing them out in the
bikes. I think I am doing pretty good though.
I think that's all for now, try and write me if you can. I love you all,
later.
Love
Elder Mayberry
Wow it sounds like a lot is going on there, this week was pretty tough, I
was sick a lot. I am taking medicine for my sinus infection, and so I really
hope that is helping, I have had some of the worst
headaches this week. I spoke with the doctor of the mission and he is pretty
worried, he thinks its a really bad sinus infection, and if the medicine
can't get rid of it I will probably have to have surgery. we had interviews on Wednesday, and I told President Mendoza that i was having problems with my back, and that it would be better if I was walking, and so he told me, okay just hold on for another week and a half, and I will get you an area on foot, and its gonna be in
Monterrey so that you can be there by Doctor Spencer.
The weather this week has been crazy (and it hasn't helped my heath) its been
hot, cold, hot, cold, everyday, and its gotten pretty annoying. But its not
extremely hot anymore, which is nice.
Well I can't really report the work for this week because there wasn't
any. On Tuesday we did crazy divisions, and I got put with Elder Doniz. He
totally reminds me of mick. That was the day that I was the sickest and so
we didn't work, we laid in bed all day and talked about soccer and cars and
our houses. It was pretty funny, he talks, acts, and has the same sense of
humor as Mick. Well for Halloween, we went to the house of one of our recent converts and watch The Other Side of Heaven, it was way good, and there was a lot of people there at the house, and everybody really liked it. Dia de
Los Muertos, they don't celebrate it here as much. we ate the bread which was
pretty good. We took some photos, but nothing more than that.
Oh okay, so I did a inventory of all of my clothes, my shirts are totally
fine, my pants, well I need new ones, I am gonna look here in some of the
markets for new ones, and my socks I am starting to wear them out but I am
still fine. My pants are my only problem, from wearing them out in the
bikes. I think I am doing pretty good though.
I think that's all for now, try and write me if you can. I love you all,
later.
Love
Elder Mayberry
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
10-26-09
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Dear Family
Well to start out with the best news, we had 2 baptisms yesterday, and we are going to have another this week so that was pretty fun. The one baptisms was pretty hard because she had had a lot of problems and so the interview was about an hour and a half and our district leader had to call President Mendoza, but everything went through fine.
But this week was pretty bad. We didn't teach many lessons and we didn't get many new people, and well almost all of our investigators fell, and so now we don't really have anything to do, and we have to contact all day, which never is fun. But hopefully we will be able to find some new people this week.
My companion and I are still getting along pretty well, but in general everything is fine. We have taken a lot of photos this week so I am going to send you some of them. I have me usb memory stick and I am putting all of my photos on it, that should be a lot safer. I think I will buy another one in a couple months I can put all of my photos on it, and I can send it to you so that you have lots of photos, I will continue to send photos every week too.
Thanks for sending me the package, if you can throw some photos in there, I really want one of the family in the barn, and ya I guess I will just sit here and wait for it to arrive.
I have been having some problems with me back, its been really really tight, and I was think about what the doctor said, about how I might have problems on the bike. I am going to talk with President Mendoza in my interview and tell him that walking would be better than on a bike.
We had a funny story this week, we had to drain the font so we could refill it for our baptism, and well the tank was filled. We had to drain the tank by running the sprinklers for 3 hours, so that we could drain and refill the baptismal font. It took a long time and it was pretty frustrating but, when we figured out what we had to do it was pretty funny.
Its been kinda hard, the mission isn't baptizing at all right now. A couple weeks ago we only had 12 baptisms in the whole mission. So the leaders are putting a lot of pressure on us to commit people to baptize more, the numbers really are not improving at all. We will see what happens here in the future.
Thanks for everything. I love you all a lot.
Bye
Elder Mayberry
Monday, October 19, 2009
10-19-09
Dear family,
Has it been really cold there in Washington? Does Jensen still enjoy football when its raining? Its been hot, cold, hot, cold. Its been kinda annoying I sent you a picture of one day when it rained pretty hard, that's what happens when the roads are dirt. I lost all my pictures again, but this time it was my memory card. It keeps telling me that I need to reformat it, and if I reformat it I will lose all of my pictures so I don't want to reformat it, but I don't have any other choice. If you haven't sent my package yet send the memory card SD that you bought for my when I was in the mtc, the memory card I have is horrible. I bought a usb memory card so I am gonna start putting my photos on it every week until I get the new memory card from you.
This week was pretty good. We have 4 baptismal dates in total right now I am pretty sure all of them will go through, but we will have to see. We had a lot of problems so we didn't get to work as many hours as we should have but we still came up with a lot of lessons and new investigators. I think we should be able to see a lot of baptisms this transfer, and really I didn't think we would.
On Wednesday we helped the bishop move into a different house, it was pretty fun. His mom cooked us one of the best meals I have ever eaten. It was tacos cooked in tomato sauce, and then with eggs, and salsa and cheese. His family likes this one thing called chapas, and they are small crickets cooked in chili and then dried, and you put them all over your food, and its really really good.
We didn't really do a whole lot. Its been kinda of a hard week because all pictures are gone again, and I had to buy to new inter tubes for my bike in one day, but I am hoping for a good week this week. I hope all is well for you guys, good luck and love you lots.
Elder Mayberry
Has it been really cold there in Washington? Does Jensen still enjoy football when its raining? Its been hot, cold, hot, cold. Its been kinda annoying I sent you a picture of one day when it rained pretty hard, that's what happens when the roads are dirt. I lost all my pictures again, but this time it was my memory card. It keeps telling me that I need to reformat it, and if I reformat it I will lose all of my pictures so I don't want to reformat it, but I don't have any other choice. If you haven't sent my package yet send the memory card SD that you bought for my when I was in the mtc, the memory card I have is horrible. I bought a usb memory card so I am gonna start putting my photos on it every week until I get the new memory card from you.
This week was pretty good. We have 4 baptismal dates in total right now I am pretty sure all of them will go through, but we will have to see. We had a lot of problems so we didn't get to work as many hours as we should have but we still came up with a lot of lessons and new investigators. I think we should be able to see a lot of baptisms this transfer, and really I didn't think we would.
On Wednesday we helped the bishop move into a different house, it was pretty fun. His mom cooked us one of the best meals I have ever eaten. It was tacos cooked in tomato sauce, and then with eggs, and salsa and cheese. His family likes this one thing called chapas, and they are small crickets cooked in chili and then dried, and you put them all over your food, and its really really good.
We didn't really do a whole lot. Its been kinda of a hard week because all pictures are gone again, and I had to buy to new inter tubes for my bike in one day, but I am hoping for a good week this week. I hope all is well for you guys, good luck and love you lots.
Elder Mayberry
Friday, October 16, 2009
10-12-09
Dear family,
Well I will start with the request first. Gold fish and trail mix from Costco. I was really crazing those to things the other day.
Well we had a pretty good week, we had a lot of bad luck. I broke two pedals this week on my bike and my companion broke his bike and I popped two tires. We were short on lessons. We seem to only be able to work in the night, because nobody is ever home during the day. That has been very difficult, but we are going to baptize and mother and son. and we found a lady who is a member that just moved here from Mexico city that has a lot of children that are not baptized, so we are hoping to maybe be able to baptize them too. The people here are pretty great, but they all work in factories, and there hours are always like 8 to 8 or weird hours like that, so we have had a hard time finding new people. We had a ward party Saturday night that was pretty fun. There wasn't a ton of people there, but it was good. They had the Mexico El Salvador game going, and then one of the brothers told me United States one, and we ate a lot of barbecued chicken. It was a good time and I got to meet some more of the members. There are a lot here.
I briefly told Mackenzie about our neighbor. He is pretty crazy, he sits out in front of his house all day watching soccer. His wife works in McAllen. He is always talking about Joseph Smith and we are always trying to get him to go to church but he just wants to make jokes. He always shows me his American microwave food and ask me if I am hungry. Its funny, but sometimes its annoying. I will have to take some pictures this week.
We are going to try and relax today. That's all I can think of for now.
I love you all. bye
ELder Mayberry
Well I will start with the request first. Gold fish and trail mix from Costco. I was really crazing those to things the other day.
Well we had a pretty good week, we had a lot of bad luck. I broke two pedals this week on my bike and my companion broke his bike and I popped two tires. We were short on lessons. We seem to only be able to work in the night, because nobody is ever home during the day. That has been very difficult, but we are going to baptize and mother and son. and we found a lady who is a member that just moved here from Mexico city that has a lot of children that are not baptized, so we are hoping to maybe be able to baptize them too. The people here are pretty great, but they all work in factories, and there hours are always like 8 to 8 or weird hours like that, so we have had a hard time finding new people. We had a ward party Saturday night that was pretty fun. There wasn't a ton of people there, but it was good. They had the Mexico El Salvador game going, and then one of the brothers told me United States one, and we ate a lot of barbecued chicken. It was a good time and I got to meet some more of the members. There are a lot here.
I briefly told Mackenzie about our neighbor. He is pretty crazy, he sits out in front of his house all day watching soccer. His wife works in McAllen. He is always talking about Joseph Smith and we are always trying to get him to go to church but he just wants to make jokes. He always shows me his American microwave food and ask me if I am hungry. Its funny, but sometimes its annoying. I will have to take some pictures this week.
We are going to try and relax today. That's all I can think of for now.
I love you all. bye
ELder Mayberry
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
10-5-09
Hello family,
Well my companion right now, his name is Elder Aguilar, he is from the state of Mexico, its by the city of Mexico. He is pretty cool, we get along really well. He has like 18 months in his mission. We didn't work super hard last week, but we are hoping to work harder this week. But we get along really well and were having a lot of fun.
One of the other missionaries is from Guadalajara, but he was living in Arizona with his family left for his mission, he is in the same generation as me, but he was in a different area of the MTC so I don't know him very well. The other missionary is a district leader and he is from Puebla, and he has quite a bit of time in his mission. After a week in this area, umm... well its dirty. Most of the roads are dirty, and after it rains mud, and well the roads that are paved have dirt all over them, so they are pretty much dirty roads too. Really nobody has money, most people live in very basic cement houses or wood houses. The people here are a lot better than in my past area. There are a lot of members, and quite a few are active. Our bishop is way cool and his wife is American. She watched conference with all of us American missionaries in English. She is pretty funny. She is from Virgina, and speaks Spanish with a Virgina accent. But the best thing was we ate with them on Sunday. And we ate a hamburger potato combination thing, which was really good, potato salad, and best of all, brownies!!!!!!!! It was my first time here in Mexico. I ate a lot of brownies.lol. I was so happy.
But ya conference was really good. Elder Holland talk was very direct, I think Saturday morning was the best, honestly. Priesthood was really good too.
luckily for us the weather seems to be cooling down a little bit. I hope because it was really hot the first couple days here. but I am re-adjusting.
ooooh Some of my companions in the past. I have been trying really hard to learn a lesson of some sort from every one of my companions and leaders, and I have been able to. My zone leaders right now are pretty cool. They are both Americans from California. But there are a lot of people in my zone that I don't know. One thing that I have learned is that both of the companions have to be willing to work together.
Well I think that is all for right now. Write my back here if you can. I hope everything is going good for you guys. Good luck with the pigs. I love you all.
Bye
Elder Mayberry
Well my companion right now, his name is Elder Aguilar, he is from the state of Mexico, its by the city of Mexico. He is pretty cool, we get along really well. He has like 18 months in his mission. We didn't work super hard last week, but we are hoping to work harder this week. But we get along really well and were having a lot of fun.
One of the other missionaries is from Guadalajara, but he was living in Arizona with his family left for his mission, he is in the same generation as me, but he was in a different area of the MTC so I don't know him very well. The other missionary is a district leader and he is from Puebla, and he has quite a bit of time in his mission. After a week in this area, umm... well its dirty. Most of the roads are dirty, and after it rains mud, and well the roads that are paved have dirt all over them, so they are pretty much dirty roads too. Really nobody has money, most people live in very basic cement houses or wood houses. The people here are a lot better than in my past area. There are a lot of members, and quite a few are active. Our bishop is way cool and his wife is American. She watched conference with all of us American missionaries in English. She is pretty funny. She is from Virgina, and speaks Spanish with a Virgina accent. But the best thing was we ate with them on Sunday. And we ate a hamburger potato combination thing, which was really good, potato salad, and best of all, brownies!!!!!!!! It was my first time here in Mexico. I ate a lot of brownies.lol. I was so happy.
But ya conference was really good. Elder Holland talk was very direct, I think Saturday morning was the best, honestly. Priesthood was really good too.
luckily for us the weather seems to be cooling down a little bit. I hope because it was really hot the first couple days here. but I am re-adjusting.
ooooh Some of my companions in the past. I have been trying really hard to learn a lesson of some sort from every one of my companions and leaders, and I have been able to. My zone leaders right now are pretty cool. They are both Americans from California. But there are a lot of people in my zone that I don't know. One thing that I have learned is that both of the companions have to be willing to work together.
Well I think that is all for right now. Write my back here if you can. I hope everything is going good for you guys. Good luck with the pigs. I love you all.
Bye
Elder Mayberry
Sunday, October 4, 2009
9-29-09
Que bueno! haha or that's good!
Kaden! he ate a pound and a half of fudge! wow that's a lot, wow you need a bullet proof, flame proof, magic proof box to keep him out of stuff.
Well I am writing you today because I got transferred again, I am back in Reynosa, I am right by the airport. I have definitely decided that I like Monterrey way more, its still pretty hot here in Reynosa, and there is a ton of dust, I don't understand how there is so much dusty here. But its a good area, the people are good. There are about 200 active members in the area. Which I have never even heard of that here in Mexico. So I am excited for that. The area is some what ugly, the house is alright, its pretty small and there 4 missionerias in the house. But its good I will adjust here soon. I really hope to go back to Monterrey soon.
Well I am pretty sure there isn't a Walmart around here. The Mexican people almost never have ovens, so I can't bake a cake. Yesterday when I packed I couldn't get all of my stuff in my bags, I don't know what happened, but some how I am gaining to much stuff. I don't know if I really want to buy a CD player, because almost always everybody else has them, so I don't think I would really need it. My last companion had a ipod and player thing, but about 7 weeks ago, president said we couldn't use ipods anymore. So then my last companion didn't have music anymore. But my companion right now has one.
well I think the results of the MRI where that I have a sinus infection. My companion told me what is was in Spanish, but I couldn't really figure it out. But I am pretty sure it was a sinus infection. I still have a little bit of a headache, but its a lot better. I don't think the heat will really help though.
James came home! wow that's awesome, is he really tan? I want to hear his Spanish, the Spanish they speak there is cool.
We will go and watch conference this Sunday, it will probably be in Spanish which will be kinda hard, but its okay. It will be hard more because its very monotone. We watched a young adult fireside about 2 weeks ago, and I understood everything, but the voice was putting me to sleep.
Well thanks for the letter, I hope I don't melt in the heat. lol. Good luck with everything. Bye
Love,
Elder mayberry
9-22-09
Dear family
Hey thanks for the letter and the package. We didn't have time to write yesterday because I was with another companion. Well the story goes like this. I got cold and flu symptoms pretty bad last Tuesday and was sick until Friday. I still had a really bad headache and well I still have it a little bit. I went and saw the mission doctor on Saturday. He said to go get an MRI, so I went to get one yesterday in the afternoon, and then the elder and I went to eat and he is one of the secretaries and so we had to do a million other things at the same time. But it was fun. We ate at sirloin steakhouse, which is an American buffet with real American food. Its really good to, so I got to enjoy that. So know I am writing you a letter this morning.
We had our last district meeting today, it was pretty good, every transfer goes by faster. The last week has been really hard, mostly because I was sick, but I have had a really hard time staying positive. Its been really frustrating working here in the mission.
We baptized 2 girls on Wednesday that their families are less actives, and we should have 4 baptisms this weekend, we are actually seeing some results from this area which is a miracle. I really thought we weren't going to baptized here in the area. I am hoping for a good solid last week here in this transfer and then to see what comes next.
Well I think that is all for right now. I hope all is going well there, I am still alive here in Mexico,lol.
Hast luego
Love
Elder Mayberry
Hey thanks for the letter and the package. We didn't have time to write yesterday because I was with another companion. Well the story goes like this. I got cold and flu symptoms pretty bad last Tuesday and was sick until Friday. I still had a really bad headache and well I still have it a little bit. I went and saw the mission doctor on Saturday. He said to go get an MRI, so I went to get one yesterday in the afternoon, and then the elder and I went to eat and he is one of the secretaries and so we had to do a million other things at the same time. But it was fun. We ate at sirloin steakhouse, which is an American buffet with real American food. Its really good to, so I got to enjoy that. So know I am writing you a letter this morning.
We had our last district meeting today, it was pretty good, every transfer goes by faster. The last week has been really hard, mostly because I was sick, but I have had a really hard time staying positive. Its been really frustrating working here in the mission.
We baptized 2 girls on Wednesday that their families are less actives, and we should have 4 baptisms this weekend, we are actually seeing some results from this area which is a miracle. I really thought we weren't going to baptized here in the area. I am hoping for a good solid last week here in this transfer and then to see what comes next.
Well I think that is all for right now. I hope all is going well there, I am still alive here in Mexico,lol.
Hast luego
Love
Elder Mayberry
Monday, September 14, 2009
9-14-09
Well we had a really busy week this week. We moved into the new house and we stilled tried to meet our goals, I have to admit I was really tired last night. We came out with pretty good numbers for this week considering we basically didn't work for 2 days. The new house is sooo much nicer and its in a lot better area. And we have a member family that lives right in front of us and they always give us food in the nights. So now this week its back to working really hard, which should be good. We are planning on baptizing 5 people this week! One family and two girls that are both 9 years old that haven't been baptized, and then next week is the last week of this transfer! wow, time is going by fast. We are hoping to baptize the last week also, but its been really hard to find people and to get them to church. I would like to get 2 baptisms, maybe more that last week. But we will see.
Hasta Luego.
Hasta Luego.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
9-07-09
It rained most of the week here in Monterrey and it's been nice and cool but today is sunny and hot again. It was a nice break from the heat, but the rain was kinda of annoying to say the least. We had a pretty good week work wise, we had a lot of lessons and a lot of new investigators which was really exciting, but we are having a big problem with getting the investigators progressing, everybody just wants to hear lesson one and no more, and most people just want to talk about the bible. Everybody here is very Catholic but they don't know anything about religion or God or Jesus Christ. They only care about maria De Guadalupe (the virgin Mary) and so its been a little bit annoying to teach the people here. But we are finding a few people that we could baptize. We finally found a house and at first they said the beginning of October we could move in, but then they called again this morning and said we could move in on Wednesday, so we are going to be busy moving into the new house. I am really excited because it is a nice house and in a lot better condition.
We have stake conference this weekend so hopefully we will get a new bishop! hopefully. Hopefully this week we can continue to work and get moved into the new house. There isn't really a lot else going on. I think I have some pictures to send you so I will send those soon. I love you all, have a good time.
Hasta luego
ELder Mayberry (still your son)
We have stake conference this weekend so hopefully we will get a new bishop! hopefully. Hopefully this week we can continue to work and get moved into the new house. There isn't really a lot else going on. I think I have some pictures to send you so I will send those soon. I love you all, have a good time.
Hasta luego
ELder Mayberry (still your son)
Friday, September 4, 2009
8-31-09
Wow another busy week for you guys, haha keep it up Jensen, and always keep hitting until you hear the whistle, never stop never give up, okay? Learn to be dedicated all the way through right now in football and you will be a lot better when you are older. Do you have a lot of stuff growing in the garden? What exactly is the Whatcom county farm tour? What do you guys have to do for it? haha ya I brush my teeth for like 7 minutes every morning and every night, because I don't want to have to go to a dentist here in Mexico.
This week has been pretty crazy, my companion and I are working ridiculously hard, its been a little frustrating because we haven't seen a lot of success yet, but it usually take 4-5 weeks to see success, so we should see success at the end of this transfer. It's really amazing the effect that not working has on an area, especially when nobody has done anything for 3 or 4 months, but my companion and I are changing the area around and really focusing on helping the people here, because the ward is in shambles.
We don't have a bishop or a Relief Society president or most of our auxiliary leaders, and there is only one counselor in the bishopric.
But we are doing our part and working really hard with the ward mission leader (he is a really awesome guy). We are finding here in the area that a lot of people don't understand much. We teach a lesson and either don't listen or just flat out to understand anything. It's really sad, because the lessons are really basic and people just cant put two and two together. And a lot of people claim to be Catholic but they don't even know what Jesus Christ did here in the earth. Its been hard not to get frustrated, but I am keeping a good attitude and working hard.
My companion and I are getting a long really well and it has been fun. He is kinda of a music geek, but its okay. This morning we bought a cake at Lety´s pasteleria (ask Sister Lara about how good they are) so I am really excited to eat it. But I am not a huge fan of the cakes with milk, and my companion wanted one really bad, but still I am really excited.
I have to admit I can't think of anything else to say right now, if I think of something else I will send another email.
I love you all, hasta luego amigos
Elder Mayberry
This week has been pretty crazy, my companion and I are working ridiculously hard, its been a little frustrating because we haven't seen a lot of success yet, but it usually take 4-5 weeks to see success, so we should see success at the end of this transfer. It's really amazing the effect that not working has on an area, especially when nobody has done anything for 3 or 4 months, but my companion and I are changing the area around and really focusing on helping the people here, because the ward is in shambles.
We don't have a bishop or a Relief Society president or most of our auxiliary leaders, and there is only one counselor in the bishopric.
But we are doing our part and working really hard with the ward mission leader (he is a really awesome guy). We are finding here in the area that a lot of people don't understand much. We teach a lesson and either don't listen or just flat out to understand anything. It's really sad, because the lessons are really basic and people just cant put two and two together. And a lot of people claim to be Catholic but they don't even know what Jesus Christ did here in the earth. Its been hard not to get frustrated, but I am keeping a good attitude and working hard.
My companion and I are getting a long really well and it has been fun. He is kinda of a music geek, but its okay. This morning we bought a cake at Lety´s pasteleria (ask Sister Lara about how good they are) so I am really excited to eat it. But I am not a huge fan of the cakes with milk, and my companion wanted one really bad, but still I am really excited.
I have to admit I can't think of anything else to say right now, if I think of something else I will send another email.
I love you all, hasta luego amigos
Elder Mayberry
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
8-24-09
Wow it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun at the fair. did the boys earn a lot of money? make sure Kaden doesn't spend it all in one place.
Well this week we found one house that is perfect and its in a really great area, and then the zone leaders came and said it was too expensive, but we cant find anything else and Hna Mendoza said she wants us in a new house next month, which is in a week and a half, so we are going to talk directly with her and she what she says. We havn't had any problems with anything in this area, and I'm not worried. All of the gangsters think I am really cool. Its kinda funny. I am having a lot of fun here in this area. But we have the problem of people just cant think here, they cant put 2 and 2 together. We teach a little bit and then ask a question to verify and they just don't understand. I am a lot more grateful for the education that I have. Its been hard to find people to teach but in time the success will come. Also we are having a lot of problems with the ward. Nobody wants to do anything and we are losing people really fast. We talked with the ward mission leader last night and came up with this big plan for people to visit people. He has a lot of energy and he says he going to enforce this plan like crazy, and he will. So hopefully we will change the attitudes of the people.
So Kevin and Marisol are at the house? If yes here is a quick message for marisol.
Hola que dices mi tia? que tal washington? te gustas or que? aqui en mexico es bueno me gusta mucho pero la gente es deficil. pero no se, la obra missional esta pregresando ahorrita y tengo mucho animo para las personnas, pero son bastantes chollos y son bien ratos cada dia, es ey moreno, o que tal way. lol. son chiestoso, pero es triste por que ellos no hacen nada menos las druggas y roben la tren. pero la evangelio de jesucristo es las respuesta. gracias
Hasta luego
SO this week I had my first crazy experience. We went for one of our investigators and there was a couple gangsters in front of his house, and then one started asking us questions about the bible, like who's Aaron, why was Moses so important. He knew a lot. and then he asked us if he were to kill somebody in self defensive who God forgive him (he was pretty drunk) and he told him he would, if he repented, and well he didn't really believe us, and then he told us he had killed somebody, and he feels horrible about it, and he wants to change is life, but he is scared because of the other gangs, and then he started crying (he is like 260 lbs with lots of tattoos) and he told us he didn't want to kill anybody again. And we told him to read the book of Mormon and it would help him change his life. and then he asked us if we were going to come back next week and we said we would. and he told us if we didn't he was going to beat us up. It was pretty crazy, but its part of being in Mexico I guess.
Well have fun, I love you all, hopefully we can find another house this week.
Elder Mayberry
Well this week we found one house that is perfect and its in a really great area, and then the zone leaders came and said it was too expensive, but we cant find anything else and Hna Mendoza said she wants us in a new house next month, which is in a week and a half, so we are going to talk directly with her and she what she says. We havn't had any problems with anything in this area, and I'm not worried. All of the gangsters think I am really cool. Its kinda funny. I am having a lot of fun here in this area. But we have the problem of people just cant think here, they cant put 2 and 2 together. We teach a little bit and then ask a question to verify and they just don't understand. I am a lot more grateful for the education that I have. Its been hard to find people to teach but in time the success will come. Also we are having a lot of problems with the ward. Nobody wants to do anything and we are losing people really fast. We talked with the ward mission leader last night and came up with this big plan for people to visit people. He has a lot of energy and he says he going to enforce this plan like crazy, and he will. So hopefully we will change the attitudes of the people.
So Kevin and Marisol are at the house? If yes here is a quick message for marisol.
Hola que dices mi tia? que tal washington? te gustas or que? aqui en mexico es bueno me gusta mucho pero la gente es deficil. pero no se, la obra missional esta pregresando ahorrita y tengo mucho animo para las personnas, pero son bastantes chollos y son bien ratos cada dia, es ey moreno, o que tal way. lol. son chiestoso, pero es triste por que ellos no hacen nada menos las druggas y roben la tren. pero la evangelio de jesucristo es las respuesta. gracias
Hasta luego
SO this week I had my first crazy experience. We went for one of our investigators and there was a couple gangsters in front of his house, and then one started asking us questions about the bible, like who's Aaron, why was Moses so important. He knew a lot. and then he asked us if he were to kill somebody in self defensive who God forgive him (he was pretty drunk) and he told him he would, if he repented, and well he didn't really believe us, and then he told us he had killed somebody, and he feels horrible about it, and he wants to change is life, but he is scared because of the other gangs, and then he started crying (he is like 260 lbs with lots of tattoos) and he told us he didn't want to kill anybody again. And we told him to read the book of Mormon and it would help him change his life. and then he asked us if we were going to come back next week and we said we would. and he told us if we didn't he was going to beat us up. It was pretty crazy, but its part of being in Mexico I guess.
Well have fun, I love you all, hopefully we can find another house this week.
Elder Mayberry
8-17-09
Dear Family,
Nope I didn't get transferred I am still in good ole Azteca, but thank heavens I got a new companion. The last transfer was really bad, but I got a new companion and I have a lot of hope for this transfer. But its kinda of hard to have a lot of hope because my last 3 companions have started out really good and then ended up really bad, but I am going to just keep doing my part and hoping for the best. I definitely am learning a lot here. And really I have been able to find a really important lesson from each of my companions. Last Tuesday I had a really good talk with my district leader( he is from California) we talked about the mission and why we are here and what we need to do here. It was really a great talk, and it was all because my companion was having so many problems.
Last week we were at the church talking with one of the brothers, and this teenage girl came up and starting talking to us and then she told about how she was interested in the church and she wanted to know more, and how her boy friend is serving a mission right now, but her parents don't really like the church. And the brother shared his feelings and it was really good. And then a couple days later we went to talk with her parents and her dad didn't want to listen and her mom was really hesitant, and then the lesson didn't really go that well, because my companion had been really mad at me the whole day. But I think my new companion(Elder Costilla) and I can make a difference and I really hope we can baptize her and her family.
Tomorrow we one of the presidents of the seventy and another member of the seventy are coming to talk to us, and its only for the missionaries in the city, i am really excited! It should be really good and a really good opportunity to learn.
Here in the mission right now we are starting to search for a new house to live in, because Hermana Mendoza doesn't want us living in Fomerrey 11 anymore. And Elder Costilla and I are going to start focusing on the other part of our mission that is a nicer area. it should be good, and I am excited to see what results we get from it. I think we are going to set a goal for baptisms this transfer and really try and achieve it.
Wow you are doing a lot there at the house. I would say one of the best way to learn Spanish is watch movies in Spanish with English subtitles that way you can hear it and then try and pick up words and write them down. that would be really cool if you could speak in some Spanish when i get home because I am not going to be able to speak English, its awkward right now to speak English and I just end up speak Spanish.lol.
I hope all is well and that you guys are doing good, write me back right now if you can. bye
Love
Elder Mayberry
Nope I didn't get transferred I am still in good ole Azteca, but thank heavens I got a new companion. The last transfer was really bad, but I got a new companion and I have a lot of hope for this transfer. But its kinda of hard to have a lot of hope because my last 3 companions have started out really good and then ended up really bad, but I am going to just keep doing my part and hoping for the best. I definitely am learning a lot here. And really I have been able to find a really important lesson from each of my companions. Last Tuesday I had a really good talk with my district leader( he is from California) we talked about the mission and why we are here and what we need to do here. It was really a great talk, and it was all because my companion was having so many problems.
Last week we were at the church talking with one of the brothers, and this teenage girl came up and starting talking to us and then she told about how she was interested in the church and she wanted to know more, and how her boy friend is serving a mission right now, but her parents don't really like the church. And the brother shared his feelings and it was really good. And then a couple days later we went to talk with her parents and her dad didn't want to listen and her mom was really hesitant, and then the lesson didn't really go that well, because my companion had been really mad at me the whole day. But I think my new companion(Elder Costilla) and I can make a difference and I really hope we can baptize her and her family.
Tomorrow we one of the presidents of the seventy and another member of the seventy are coming to talk to us, and its only for the missionaries in the city, i am really excited! It should be really good and a really good opportunity to learn.
Here in the mission right now we are starting to search for a new house to live in, because Hermana Mendoza doesn't want us living in Fomerrey 11 anymore. And Elder Costilla and I are going to start focusing on the other part of our mission that is a nicer area. it should be good, and I am excited to see what results we get from it. I think we are going to set a goal for baptisms this transfer and really try and achieve it.
Wow you are doing a lot there at the house. I would say one of the best way to learn Spanish is watch movies in Spanish with English subtitles that way you can hear it and then try and pick up words and write them down. that would be really cool if you could speak in some Spanish when i get home because I am not going to be able to speak English, its awkward right now to speak English and I just end up speak Spanish.lol.
I hope all is well and that you guys are doing good, write me back right now if you can. bye
Love
Elder Mayberry
8-10-09
Wow you guys are doing a lot there. It sounds really exciting! Good luck with everything and I hope it all works out well.
This week was better. we have a couple of people that are finally starting to progress, and its the last week of the transfer. this area has been difficult and my companion too. but its been a really fun transfer. I have seen a lot of new things and my Spanish has increased a lot. I am now doing a lot of the teaching, sometimes I don't understand but i get whats going on almost all the time and am talking a lot.
It's crazy i complete 6 months in the mission tomorrow! I cant believe it, its going by really fast, this transfer went by really quickly, its almost been hard, I feel like we haven't worked because it went by so fast. I am feeling pretty good now, I think everything has finally cleared up.
We started teaching 2 people this week that i think will be really good. the one lady just wants to ask questions but she really like the church a lot. and the other is a man and he is really accepting. And also one of our investigators moved back to her house, so we are hopefully going to baptize her here pretty quickly. We have had a really hard time finding people at there houses here, because everybody works a lot here in the city, or they say that they need to leave. But we are finally seeing some of the fruits from our labors.
We have special conference tonight and I am really looking forward to it, its always really fun, and there lots of missionaries, so i get to see a lot of people. There one missionary in my zone that is from Federal Way and he attended college at Western for a year, so I have been talking with him a lot, hes pretty cool.
I think that is it for now, if there is anything more I will write another email. thanks love you guys a lot.
has ta luego!
Elder Mayberry
This week was better. we have a couple of people that are finally starting to progress, and its the last week of the transfer. this area has been difficult and my companion too. but its been a really fun transfer. I have seen a lot of new things and my Spanish has increased a lot. I am now doing a lot of the teaching, sometimes I don't understand but i get whats going on almost all the time and am talking a lot.
It's crazy i complete 6 months in the mission tomorrow! I cant believe it, its going by really fast, this transfer went by really quickly, its almost been hard, I feel like we haven't worked because it went by so fast. I am feeling pretty good now, I think everything has finally cleared up.
We started teaching 2 people this week that i think will be really good. the one lady just wants to ask questions but she really like the church a lot. and the other is a man and he is really accepting. And also one of our investigators moved back to her house, so we are hopefully going to baptize her here pretty quickly. We have had a really hard time finding people at there houses here, because everybody works a lot here in the city, or they say that they need to leave. But we are finally seeing some of the fruits from our labors.
We have special conference tonight and I am really looking forward to it, its always really fun, and there lots of missionaries, so i get to see a lot of people. There one missionary in my zone that is from Federal Way and he attended college at Western for a year, so I have been talking with him a lot, hes pretty cool.
I think that is it for now, if there is anything more I will write another email. thanks love you guys a lot.
has ta luego!
Elder Mayberry
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
8-03-09
Well I am continuing to feel better everyday, I am close to perfect, but it took a big tole on me to say the least.
This week was another tough one, but we are starting to see some investigators pop up out of the contacts. But the bad news is we have the goal for 6 baptisms this month and three of the six moved to other places, and so now we are down to 3, but we should be able to find more. We have 3 others that are possibilities. This week was also a little crazy. We saw a fight on Friday, and then last night there was 2. The one was early in the evening and the other was in the night. The one in the night was 2 different gangs throwing beer bottles and cement chunks at each other. And for the first time here we saw the police, I really was quite surprised, but they showed up after it had calmed down quite a bit. Hna Mendoza told us we need to search for a new house, because this area is kinda of dangerous. But we are not really finding any other houses, so I don't know what will happen.
If you could send me some stamps for the U.S. that way I can send letters that would be great. I can give my letters to the zone leaders and then they can get mailed through Texas. but I don't have any stamps and if you want to send me some other stuff that"s good or fun that would be cool too. thanks.
wow it sounds like there is a lot going on there. Jensen is playing football? How's that going for him? Do you like it Jensen? It sounds like you have lots of vegetables. We have a farmers market here in our area just around the corner from our house every Saturday, Sunday and Monday, its really quite impressive, it has all sorts of different things and lots of food. People play bingo to get different household items or food, there is 4 or 5 different places you can play. Its funny. Its been really hot here the last couple days, but on Friday it was really nice, we had some huge thunderstorms and then rain, and it cooled off a little bit but now its hot again. I am doing pretty good here in Mexico. I love you all. Bye.
Elder Mayberry
This week was another tough one, but we are starting to see some investigators pop up out of the contacts. But the bad news is we have the goal for 6 baptisms this month and three of the six moved to other places, and so now we are down to 3, but we should be able to find more. We have 3 others that are possibilities. This week was also a little crazy. We saw a fight on Friday, and then last night there was 2. The one was early in the evening and the other was in the night. The one in the night was 2 different gangs throwing beer bottles and cement chunks at each other. And for the first time here we saw the police, I really was quite surprised, but they showed up after it had calmed down quite a bit. Hna Mendoza told us we need to search for a new house, because this area is kinda of dangerous. But we are not really finding any other houses, so I don't know what will happen.
If you could send me some stamps for the U.S. that way I can send letters that would be great. I can give my letters to the zone leaders and then they can get mailed through Texas. but I don't have any stamps and if you want to send me some other stuff that"s good or fun that would be cool too. thanks.
wow it sounds like there is a lot going on there. Jensen is playing football? How's that going for him? Do you like it Jensen? It sounds like you have lots of vegetables. We have a farmers market here in our area just around the corner from our house every Saturday, Sunday and Monday, its really quite impressive, it has all sorts of different things and lots of food. People play bingo to get different household items or food, there is 4 or 5 different places you can play. Its funny. Its been really hot here the last couple days, but on Friday it was really nice, we had some huge thunderstorms and then rain, and it cooled off a little bit but now its hot again. I am doing pretty good here in Mexico. I love you all. Bye.
Elder Mayberry
Sunday, July 19, 2009
7-13-09
How was the drive back? was it really hot? Its so much cooler here in Monterrey than in the frontier. Miguel Aleman it was high 40, here its only the low 40. Today is pretty warm, but still a lot less than Miguel Aleman, one correction, I am in San Nicolas, and the colonia is Fomerrey. I am right in between San Nicolas, and Monterrey the city. Its really cool here.
Today we went out to eat at this buffet in the middle of nowhere west of Monterrey, it was legite home cooked Mexican food. It wasn't my favorite but it was pretty good. and then we went to downtown Monterrey, where the huge market is with the family, because he needed to buy stuff for his hamburger stand. It was really cool and really huge. Its like pikes place market, but 6 or 7 times bigger, and that's the place for food. there is another market for clothes and more craft kinds of things. I will send some pictures.
My companion right now is pretty cool. We get along really well. I have a lot more confidence in my Spanish here. And really the people are a lot nicer. On Sunday I gave a talk about Alma chapter 5, I think it went pretty well. But i think it was a little to complicated for my language ability, so I didn't get it across like I wanted to. The stake I am in is Moderna, and then the stake next to me is Apodaca.
Our area is absolutely huge, but we really only work in a small part of it, and most of the members life here by the house. All the different colonials are very different, We have some really nice areas, and some areas that are not so nice, and some areas that are somewhat bad. When we where walking home Sunday evening, a whole bunch of different drunk people kept trying to ask us questions and it got really annoying. One of the guys had talked with the missionaries before and was really nice, but one of the other guys there at the house kept saying how god didn't exist, but he believed in the bible and Jesus Christ. and then he would say there is a god, but he didn't exists. It was pretty funny, and all of his friends where making fun of him.
We had a baptism on Saturday. It was really extremely good. Most of there family are members, and they live up in Texas, they all came down from there. It was really entertaining. After the baptism everybody went to Pollo Loco, and ate lunch. all of the spoke English, so i had a really good time talking with them. There are Mexican, but none of them really like Mexico. The one guy was making fun of the waiter, and what he should call him. We were suppose to have a baptism this Sunday but the father of the daughter got really sick, so we are doing the baptism this Sunday. We have another couple that want to get baptised and they have everything, including the interview, so we just need to give them another date. The first baptismal date got ruined, because she had here baby.
Happy birthday to dad and Kaden. I am pretty surprised that I actually remembered. But I thought of you guys.
This week my companion completes one year in the mission. On Thursday, so we are going to go for hamburgers and have a little fiesta, I am really excited. I completed five months on Sunday. Its really going by fast, its kinda sad. But it is more of a reason to enjoy it. I hope all is well. I am doing really good here in Mexico! I love you all and have a good time.
ELder Mayberry
Today we went out to eat at this buffet in the middle of nowhere west of Monterrey, it was legite home cooked Mexican food. It wasn't my favorite but it was pretty good. and then we went to downtown Monterrey, where the huge market is with the family, because he needed to buy stuff for his hamburger stand. It was really cool and really huge. Its like pikes place market, but 6 or 7 times bigger, and that's the place for food. there is another market for clothes and more craft kinds of things. I will send some pictures.
My companion right now is pretty cool. We get along really well. I have a lot more confidence in my Spanish here. And really the people are a lot nicer. On Sunday I gave a talk about Alma chapter 5, I think it went pretty well. But i think it was a little to complicated for my language ability, so I didn't get it across like I wanted to. The stake I am in is Moderna, and then the stake next to me is Apodaca.
Our area is absolutely huge, but we really only work in a small part of it, and most of the members life here by the house. All the different colonials are very different, We have some really nice areas, and some areas that are not so nice, and some areas that are somewhat bad. When we where walking home Sunday evening, a whole bunch of different drunk people kept trying to ask us questions and it got really annoying. One of the guys had talked with the missionaries before and was really nice, but one of the other guys there at the house kept saying how god didn't exist, but he believed in the bible and Jesus Christ. and then he would say there is a god, but he didn't exists. It was pretty funny, and all of his friends where making fun of him.
We had a baptism on Saturday. It was really extremely good. Most of there family are members, and they live up in Texas, they all came down from there. It was really entertaining. After the baptism everybody went to Pollo Loco, and ate lunch. all of the spoke English, so i had a really good time talking with them. There are Mexican, but none of them really like Mexico. The one guy was making fun of the waiter, and what he should call him. We were suppose to have a baptism this Sunday but the father of the daughter got really sick, so we are doing the baptism this Sunday. We have another couple that want to get baptised and they have everything, including the interview, so we just need to give them another date. The first baptismal date got ruined, because she had here baby.
Happy birthday to dad and Kaden. I am pretty surprised that I actually remembered. But I thought of you guys.
This week my companion completes one year in the mission. On Thursday, so we are going to go for hamburgers and have a little fiesta, I am really excited. I completed five months on Sunday. Its really going by fast, its kinda sad. But it is more of a reason to enjoy it. I hope all is well. I am doing really good here in Mexico! I love you all and have a good time.
ELder Mayberry
7-6-09
Well I got a new area today. Now I am in Monterrey in Apodaca. Its really different here. Our area is absolutely huge and we are walking the whole time. So i am going to be really tired here for a while. Its a lot cooler here which is nice because it was getting really hot out in the frontier and it was getting really annoying. Right now its raining off and on and we have some gnarly thunderstorms. It feels really good its a nice change from the heat of Miguel Aleman. My area is a lot cleaner but its kind of a ghetto. It's not to bad, buts there is a lot of people here. Most of Apodaca has a lot of money so I'm pretty sureIi got one of the few areas that doesn't have a lot of money. But I have heard really good things about our area and we have a really good ward. We have 4 baptisms this Saturday which will be really exciting. Really I am just happy its not as hot. I saw a lot of people from my generation today because we had the transfers. Elder Boucher was telling me about how everybody is talking about how its gonna get really really hot next month, like 40 or 45. Well its been 45 in Miguel Aleman for the last month so, I had to laugh at that.
My new companion is Elder Del Toro. He is kinda of quiet but he seems a lot more laid back then Elder Moro was. So I think he will be a little easier to work with. But I was telling Pres. Mendoza today how I was really grateful for the opportunity to work with him because I learned a lot of patience and obedience. I have a lot of photos but I don't have any batteries that have energy so I cant send pics. I might try. So I think next week I will send a bunch of pictures again. I have to admit i was sad to leave Miguel Aleman. It was a really fun town and it was nice and small. Monterrey just keeps going and going and going and it seems like its never going to end.lol.
It sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun in Idaho. How much longer are you staying there?
I was kinda bummed I missed the fireworks this year. I was thinking that I would be able to see them in Texas, but then one of the hermanos told me ¨ No they are all Mexican they don't care about celebrating the 4th of July¨ so that was pretty funny. And then on Sunday we went and visited Hermano Torres and we had the best horchatta ever!!!!!!!!!! It was from El Salvador and wow, it was really good to say the least. We had some really good food Thursday, Saturday and Sunday last week. And my companion was telling me we get some really good food here in the area. We are going for Hamberguesas tonight at the house of one of our members. So I look forward to this area. I am a little bit nervous being in the city like this but I will get use to it. I think that is everything. Drive home safely. I love you all and hope all is well.
Lata
Elder Mayberry
6-29-09
Wow it sounds like there has been a lot going on!
This week has been pretty calm. We had 2 more baptisms yesterday. Both of them were older men. I don't think any of them were ready, I taught them lesson 1 and then my companion asked them to be baptized and then we never taught the other lessons. But its not my responsibility. The mission is really a lot different then what I thought it would be. Pres. Mendoza always tells us the missionary work is hard. I really don't think its hard, the missionary work is the best thing in the world and its really not that hard at all. I mean going out and talking with different people all day and sharing the gospel. I love doing that. What is hard is working with your companion and getting along. I don't understand. All the people here are here to serve missions but there are some elders who just don't want to work with other people, and then there are some people who just want to be friends with everybody. Its really interesting the clash of personalities, especially with Americans and Mexicans. But I am really learning a lot. I have been trying to study really hard the past couple weeks. and its really paying off a lot. I am learning a ton about the scriptures and about the gospel. Currently I am reading the book of Mormon is Spanish but it is pretty slow.lol.
Really my Spanish is pretty good. I can communicate and understand pretty well. I have a lot left to learn but i have learned a lot. I am pretty satisfied, because the president of the mtc told us if we worked really hard and studied we would be able to communicate and understand within 5 months and i feel like I have achieved that. But of course i have to keep learning a lot.
The packages to Mcallen I get during conferences( which are about every 3 weeks) and sometimes when I see the zone leaders. So really about every 2 or 3 weeks. And don't send anything to Roma right now because transfers are next Monday and I have a chance of getting transferred because I have been here for 2 transfers.
When do you leave for Idaho? is the whole family going? like aunts and uncles? Take some pictures to send me so that I have them! Its a lot more beautiful there and here. Mexico is beautiful but there is so much trash and its so dirty and so its only really kind of beautiful.
I found out some interesting information this week.
My companions family is moving to Vancouver Canada, and so when he returns and I return we will be neighbors. He has about 6 more months than I do. So I will return shortly after he does. I tried to use this as an excuse to be better friends but he was pretty neutral and didn't seem to care much.
I think that is all right now. I hope all is well. I am really jealous you get to go to Idaho without me. I love you all.
Elder Mayberry
Saturday, June 20, 2009
6-22-09
Yeah I am learning that a mission is a lot different than I thought it would be. I am starting to understand what I have to do as a missionary and its defiantly not be myself, which I don't really like very much but I don't have much of a choice.
During special conference today, one of the temple president councilors spoke about how we are only responsible for our actions and how we need to do our part and if we don't then its our fault. And the problems we have don't matter because we are missionaries. I liked the talk a lot, it had a lot of really good points. I have to do it. The mission defiantly isn't easy. I have learned a ton of patience and even more humility already. I imagine I will learn a lot more.
We had another baptism yesterday it was really rushed because everybody wanted to eat. Our ward prepared a whole bunch of food and cake and it was really good. But the baptism went well. We have another one this Sunday and possible 3 more and Saturday maybe. I don't know because my companion keeps changing his mind.
Because today president lectured us for a long time about how we would only have success if we worked together with our companions, and I am the only person in our companionship that has more than 1 baptism, I believe. Right now I have 7 with as many as 4 more this weekend. So I am pretty confused right now. I am just gonna keep working and having a better attitude. thanks for the love and support. I love you all and miss you.
Elder Mayberry
During special conference today, one of the temple president councilors spoke about how we are only responsible for our actions and how we need to do our part and if we don't then its our fault. And the problems we have don't matter because we are missionaries. I liked the talk a lot, it had a lot of really good points. I have to do it. The mission defiantly isn't easy. I have learned a ton of patience and even more humility already. I imagine I will learn a lot more.
We had another baptism yesterday it was really rushed because everybody wanted to eat. Our ward prepared a whole bunch of food and cake and it was really good. But the baptism went well. We have another one this Sunday and possible 3 more and Saturday maybe. I don't know because my companion keeps changing his mind.
Because today president lectured us for a long time about how we would only have success if we worked together with our companions, and I am the only person in our companionship that has more than 1 baptism, I believe. Right now I have 7 with as many as 4 more this weekend. So I am pretty confused right now. I am just gonna keep working and having a better attitude. thanks for the love and support. I love you all and miss you.
Elder Mayberry
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
6-8-09
90!?!? hahaha oh man, yesterday it was 120 here in Mexico according to the thermometer at our Branch Presidents house! And today is going to be just as hot, but today there is a really nice cool breeze coming in so its not to bad.
So I guess I have lost a lot of weight. I was showing me companion pictures, and I showed him the one of me and you guys at the airport, a nd he asked who is that? and I said that's me! He was like no, that's not you. And I said ya, it is. He was like wow you look a lot different.lol. (My spelling is really bad because my Spanish is getting better)
Wow school is already out! This last month went by somewhat fast. The days are starting to go by faster and kinda of the weeks too. I just need to work on having more patience I guess.
HAHA, yesterday I was thinking wow I am missing oatmeal pancakes right now, and I was kinda sad, because then I realized I would miss oatmeal pancakes 23 times here on my mission!lol. But I know about what day I will be coming home.lol. It will be Jan 31 or Feb 1, depending on how much time we spend in the offices after transfers. I was bored the other night.
Wow that sounds like a lot of fun! happy anniversary! I am going to be teaching and umm teaching and umm probably teaching. But Wednesday we have zones conference, so I am really excited for that.
Yes I got the package!!! muchas gracias!
We had a baptism yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 teenage girls and we are hoping the mother gets baptized really soon, She has a really strong testimony but doesn't feel that she is ready. So both me companion and I baptized, It was my first time here in Mexico, and was really fun. We have 3 more baptism this Sunday!!!!!!!!!! this is going to be a really good month.
I think that is all for this week. Have fun!
Love
Elder Mayberry
So I guess I have lost a lot of weight. I was showing me companion pictures, and I showed him the one of me and you guys at the airport, a nd he asked who is that? and I said that's me! He was like no, that's not you. And I said ya, it is. He was like wow you look a lot different.lol. (My spelling is really bad because my Spanish is getting better)
Wow school is already out! This last month went by somewhat fast. The days are starting to go by faster and kinda of the weeks too. I just need to work on having more patience I guess.
HAHA, yesterday I was thinking wow I am missing oatmeal pancakes right now, and I was kinda sad, because then I realized I would miss oatmeal pancakes 23 times here on my mission!lol. But I know about what day I will be coming home.lol. It will be Jan 31 or Feb 1, depending on how much time we spend in the offices after transfers. I was bored the other night.
Wow that sounds like a lot of fun! happy anniversary! I am going to be teaching and umm teaching and umm probably teaching. But Wednesday we have zones conference, so I am really excited for that.
Yes I got the package!!! muchas gracias!
We had a baptism yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 teenage girls and we are hoping the mother gets baptized really soon, She has a really strong testimony but doesn't feel that she is ready. So both me companion and I baptized, It was my first time here in Mexico, and was really fun. We have 3 more baptism this Sunday!!!!!!!!!! this is going to be a really good month.
I think that is all for this week. Have fun!
Love
Elder Mayberry
Thursday, June 4, 2009
6-1-09
*This is Brendon's comment about us having a yard sale, we write to him on Sunday night so he is able to read a letter from us when he gets on the Internet to send his email.
*So how much did you get for all of my stuff? I hope its a decent amount at least.lol. jk. I know that you wouldn't do that. We have had some pretty crazy weather here. We have had a lot of thunder storms, and then we also get these crazy electrical storms that is lightning with no thunder and it stays in the clouds. They are usually in the afternoon or evening. And we random get rain and it comes down really really hard. But its been really nice during the day and 80 sometimes 90. I am no going to complain at all. I like it a lot.
Well my new comp is better. He is already pretty frustrated with the fact that I don't speak much Spanish. He is from Mexico City and so I don't understand him at all. And he mumbles his words so I really don't understand him. But he wants to work more than my other companion.
The difficult thing for me is he likes things to be perfect! wow, he spent most of the morning rearranging our house because he didn't like the way it was. So I don't know, its gonna be interesting.
This is the first week though that has gone by pretty fast so that is good news.
we have 3 baptisms next week which is way awesome! Its a mother and her 2 daughters. We might be able to get baptisms the week after and after that one. We have a couple good families and some solo people. But we need to work on finding more new people. My new companion doesn't really like contacting people a lot. So its pretty back and forth. On Friday we knocked on the door of this house, and the guy said "Oh I have one of your books, its really an awesome book. He told us he read the whole thing a while back. But he didn't realize what exactly the Book of Mormon was. Then he started telling us these stories about UFOs and other superstitious stuff and it was pretty funny. He was kind of a cooky guy, but he might be a good investigator.
This week I was thinking back to the mtc and we had a lot of stuff happen, here are the exciting things that happened in the mtc
My companion got hives and had to go to the hospital.
Somebody put a hotpocket in the microwave for way to long and set off the fire alarms.
We where one of the first classrooms to get desk and chairs.
Some of the eagle scout association religious board people, came the the mtc and talked with our class.
and on our last p.e. day we had a kid clothesline himself on the volleyball nets and got a really bad concussion and had to go to the hospital, and we didn't get much of a p.e. time.
that's all I can think of for now.
thanks for the letters. I hope all is well
Elder Mayberry
*So how much did you get for all of my stuff? I hope its a decent amount at least.lol. jk. I know that you wouldn't do that. We have had some pretty crazy weather here. We have had a lot of thunder storms, and then we also get these crazy electrical storms that is lightning with no thunder and it stays in the clouds. They are usually in the afternoon or evening. And we random get rain and it comes down really really hard. But its been really nice during the day and 80 sometimes 90. I am no going to complain at all. I like it a lot.
Well my new comp is better. He is already pretty frustrated with the fact that I don't speak much Spanish. He is from Mexico City and so I don't understand him at all. And he mumbles his words so I really don't understand him. But he wants to work more than my other companion.
The difficult thing for me is he likes things to be perfect! wow, he spent most of the morning rearranging our house because he didn't like the way it was. So I don't know, its gonna be interesting.
This is the first week though that has gone by pretty fast so that is good news.
we have 3 baptisms next week which is way awesome! Its a mother and her 2 daughters. We might be able to get baptisms the week after and after that one. We have a couple good families and some solo people. But we need to work on finding more new people. My new companion doesn't really like contacting people a lot. So its pretty back and forth. On Friday we knocked on the door of this house, and the guy said "Oh I have one of your books, its really an awesome book. He told us he read the whole thing a while back. But he didn't realize what exactly the Book of Mormon was. Then he started telling us these stories about UFOs and other superstitious stuff and it was pretty funny. He was kind of a cooky guy, but he might be a good investigator.
This week I was thinking back to the mtc and we had a lot of stuff happen, here are the exciting things that happened in the mtc
My companion got hives and had to go to the hospital.
Somebody put a hotpocket in the microwave for way to long and set off the fire alarms.
We where one of the first classrooms to get desk and chairs.
Some of the eagle scout association religious board people, came the the mtc and talked with our class.
and on our last p.e. day we had a kid clothesline himself on the volleyball nets and got a really bad concussion and had to go to the hospital, and we didn't get much of a p.e. time.
that's all I can think of for now.
thanks for the letters. I hope all is well
Elder Mayberry
Thursday, May 28, 2009
5-25-09
I got a new companion today. Its pretty crazy, of course he doesn't speak English! and he doesn't understand me very well either. So its kinda hard to communicate, but the really good thing is, we are gonna work really really hard, he told me! He is very calm, kinda the same personality as James McCarrey, I am the leader and do a lot the stuff because I know the town and he doesn't. So its really fun for me. I'm looking forward to the next 6 or more weeks.
Looking back my companion and i had quite a few problems and it was partly my fault because I didn't talk to him about them much. But when I did he didn't really listen. So with my new companion and I am going to work a lot harder at communicating with him. He told me he is going to help me out with Spanish a lot. I am getting a lot better at Spanish, its really awesome! The biggest thing for me is just making sure I give it my best effort.
Looking back my companion and i had quite a few problems and it was partly my fault because I didn't talk to him about them much. But when I did he didn't really listen. So with my new companion and I am going to work a lot harder at communicating with him. He told me he is going to help me out with Spanish a lot. I am getting a lot better at Spanish, its really awesome! The biggest thing for me is just making sure I give it my best effort.
Monday, May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009
The food here is good but I do miss good American food a lot. We have been eating out a lot it seems, one of the brothers takes us out to eat every Saturday so we get some really good food. Most of the peoples houses we eat at is really good also. They don't eat sea food here very much. We eat mostly beef and chicken, which are both really good.
Yesterday at church I was talking with our branch presidents father. He was telling me that he lived in Roma for a while and he watched them film a John Wayne movie. I tried to tell him the John Wayne was one of my grandpas favorite movie stars, I think, that he thought I said John Wayne is my grandpa. I tried to correct him, but he just kept asking me why I wasn't in Hollywood and some other stuff I'm not sure about. He is a really funny guy!
hi Kaden
hi Mackenzie
hi Jensen
hi Kyla
Wow that was really hard and took. WOW 2 seconds lol. jk
Being a minority is really different, its really not that bad, most people are really nice, I just say buenas to every body, at this point most people are use to seeing a white missionary in Migeul Aleman. This week has actually been really nice, its been 70 or 80 and Saturday we got some crazy rain! it was pouring and we got stuck out in it riding our bikes, It was pretty crazy! And there was thunder. And when we were riding home everybody was standing under cover laughing at us. It was really fun. Last night i was freezing for some reason. I was really surprised!
This week was pretty crazy to say the least. I have learned a lot more about being a missionary.
And Wednesday we went to Diaz Ordaz.
This week was really slow. a lot of people weren't home and we wasted a lot of time, and we didn't teach many lessons, I was really frustrated because my companion and I would plan and then end up doing something else. This week i am gonna lay down the hammer so it doesn't happen again. But on the good side, We had 11 people at church on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!! which was way awesome, and one of the investigating family's that always come wasn't there. So we easily could have had 16 people at church.
Hermano Felipe and his spouse are doing really good, They are working on getting married and he is working on not drinking. We had a really good lesson Saturday night that I taught about goals.
We had a new family attend church and they really liked it. The wife has a baptismal date for 31 I think so hopefully we will baptize their whole family!
So it was a okay, week, the other problem is I bought this really sweet Ferrari shirt! but then I got home and it was too small. It was only 200 pesos, The lady kept telling me that is was an extra grande but its was actually a medium. Oh well. It was mostly to small in the arms. One of our investigators commented on how I had lost a lot of weight, so that is really good and I have, I can defiantly feel it. Wow, I wrote a lot today. I have lots of pictures but I don't have time to upload them. I will try next week!
Love Elder Mayberry
Yesterday at church I was talking with our branch presidents father. He was telling me that he lived in Roma for a while and he watched them film a John Wayne movie. I tried to tell him the John Wayne was one of my grandpas favorite movie stars, I think, that he thought I said John Wayne is my grandpa. I tried to correct him, but he just kept asking me why I wasn't in Hollywood and some other stuff I'm not sure about. He is a really funny guy!
hi Kaden
hi Mackenzie
hi Jensen
hi Kyla
Wow that was really hard and took. WOW 2 seconds lol. jk
Being a minority is really different, its really not that bad, most people are really nice, I just say buenas to every body, at this point most people are use to seeing a white missionary in Migeul Aleman. This week has actually been really nice, its been 70 or 80 and Saturday we got some crazy rain! it was pouring and we got stuck out in it riding our bikes, It was pretty crazy! And there was thunder. And when we were riding home everybody was standing under cover laughing at us. It was really fun. Last night i was freezing for some reason. I was really surprised!
This week was pretty crazy to say the least. I have learned a lot more about being a missionary.
And Wednesday we went to Diaz Ordaz.
This week was really slow. a lot of people weren't home and we wasted a lot of time, and we didn't teach many lessons, I was really frustrated because my companion and I would plan and then end up doing something else. This week i am gonna lay down the hammer so it doesn't happen again. But on the good side, We had 11 people at church on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!! which was way awesome, and one of the investigating family's that always come wasn't there. So we easily could have had 16 people at church.
Hermano Felipe and his spouse are doing really good, They are working on getting married and he is working on not drinking. We had a really good lesson Saturday night that I taught about goals.
We had a new family attend church and they really liked it. The wife has a baptismal date for 31 I think so hopefully we will baptize their whole family!
So it was a okay, week, the other problem is I bought this really sweet Ferrari shirt! but then I got home and it was too small. It was only 200 pesos, The lady kept telling me that is was an extra grande but its was actually a medium. Oh well. It was mostly to small in the arms. One of our investigators commented on how I had lost a lot of weight, so that is really good and I have, I can defiantly feel it. Wow, I wrote a lot today. I have lots of pictures but I don't have time to upload them. I will try next week!
Love Elder Mayberry
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Monday May 11,2009
Family
(These are couple of letters combined, I happened to be on the computer at the same time as Brendon, so it was as close to chatting as we could get.)
Ya it was awesome to talk to you too. It felt really good. Today was awesome also. Presidente Mendoza is an absolutely amazing person! I love going to conferences because iIalways learn something new!
I am really bad with names because everybody has funny names or I don't remember them.
Its probably a 10 minute walk or so. Our house is closer to the border and on the other side of the main drag. I didn't think we were going to use the Internet until tomorrow also but presidente Mendoza said so as much of p day today as you can. I thought you said on the phone that you had sent an email. So I was expecting one. We got home at 6:20 or so. We use the Internet at a local Internet place. Its 12 pesos for an hour. so its pretty cheap.
Brendon.
My branch president has works for a mail company of some sort or something, I am not really sure, but you can send letters and packages to him while I am in Miguel Aleman. The address is...
Luis Ricardo Chavez
Elder Mayberry
1909 North U.S. Highway 83
P.O. Box 967
Roma, Texas USA 78584
Thanks for the letters they are awesome! I hope to hear from you guys soon!
Well today was conferencia especial. SO it was all of the frontera. About half of the missionaries where there, I got to see my companion for the MTC, Elder Griffith, Elder Paden, Elder Halliday. Quite a few people I know.
I had my second interview with Presidente Mendoza. He is really a funny guy. He is really really serious and then all of a sudden he will make a joke. He really keeps us on our toes, and he is really really smart! He still talked a lot about the influenza and how it was a problem but he shouldn't worry about it. and we talked a lot about preach my gospel. I always learn a lot. Tonight it has been really cool. And there are some clouds in the sky so I don't know. I guess we will see if it rains. All of the new missionaries problem is the language. Presidente Mendoza told me 2 things during the interview. Have patience, support and correct my companion and something else but I am not sure.
Elder Mayberry
(These are couple of letters combined, I happened to be on the computer at the same time as Brendon, so it was as close to chatting as we could get.)
Ya it was awesome to talk to you too. It felt really good. Today was awesome also. Presidente Mendoza is an absolutely amazing person! I love going to conferences because iIalways learn something new!
I am really bad with names because everybody has funny names or I don't remember them.
Its probably a 10 minute walk or so. Our house is closer to the border and on the other side of the main drag. I didn't think we were going to use the Internet until tomorrow also but presidente Mendoza said so as much of p day today as you can. I thought you said on the phone that you had sent an email. So I was expecting one. We got home at 6:20 or so. We use the Internet at a local Internet place. Its 12 pesos for an hour. so its pretty cheap.
Brendon.
My branch president has works for a mail company of some sort or something, I am not really sure, but you can send letters and packages to him while I am in Miguel Aleman. The address is...
Luis Ricardo Chavez
Elder Mayberry
1909 North U.S. Highway 83
P.O. Box 967
Roma, Texas USA 78584
Thanks for the letters they are awesome! I hope to hear from you guys soon!
Well today was conferencia especial. SO it was all of the frontera. About half of the missionaries where there, I got to see my companion for the MTC, Elder Griffith, Elder Paden, Elder Halliday. Quite a few people I know.
I had my second interview with Presidente Mendoza. He is really a funny guy. He is really really serious and then all of a sudden he will make a joke. He really keeps us on our toes, and he is really really smart! He still talked a lot about the influenza and how it was a problem but he shouldn't worry about it. and we talked a lot about preach my gospel. I always learn a lot. Tonight it has been really cool. And there are some clouds in the sky so I don't know. I guess we will see if it rains. All of the new missionaries problem is the language. Presidente Mendoza told me 2 things during the interview. Have patience, support and correct my companion and something else but I am not sure.
Elder Mayberry
Monday, May 4, 2009
May 4, 2009
First of course I am calling on Mothers Day! I don't know when though. My schedule is always different and I never know what is going on because my companion never tells me.
Some special request are my pillow, because they don't provide us one here, some honey because they don't sell it here and some strawberry jam because they don't have that either. I can buy bread and peanut butter. I get packages when the office receives them, when the APs make contact with the zone leaders, and then the zone leaders make contact with us. Its about every two weeks or so. We had zones conference last week and next week on Monday we have special conference, so we have p'day on Tuesday next week.
I would just tell Cathy to send them and pray that they are not rock hard when I get them.lol. I really want Cathys cookies! They don't have cookies here like they have in America. They have crackers, which are cookies here, they are really good but i want cookie cookies.
The temple is in south Monterrey. It is really cool. It is in a really really nice part of Monterrey. There are some houses by it that are the biggest houses i have ever seen! Its a beautiful area.
My city is called Miguel Aleman. It is across from Roma Texas. It is not a huge city but it is bigger than Lynden, and we have some members out in Los Guerra which is like a mile away. I have no clue how many people are in the branch its not that big. The members are pretty nice. we get fed everyday and its really good food, I haven't had to eat anything weird yet. I drink over a gallon of water a day, its pretty crazy. Its been like 90-95 degrees here, which is pretty warm. My companion said in summer its average 104 or so. It feels pretty good. I come home ever night covered in sweat and I am getting a lot of rashes but I just ignore them. But yes, the town is pretty nice, there are a lot of rich people here. But there are still dogs everywhere and trash everywhere. And I have come to the conclusion that most people are not as poor as it seems. A lot of the people just spend all of there money on clothes and food and not there houses. I am slowly getting use to it. I don't think I will ever get use to the bugs everywhere though. That always grosses me out.
As far as the food, the milk here is really gross, the chocolate tastes funny, I'm not sure what it is. The ice cream taste funny and people don't eat it much.
The yogurt is really good though. I always buy the drinkable yogurts because they are pretty cheap. I found out the other day that I have been eating mashed potatoes on all of my tacos. I thought it was a corn mush but then I asked and the family said no its mashed potatoes. They eat corn tortillas with everything! Litterally! and they are really cheap like 15 pesos for 200 toritillas. they are really good too. One of the hermannas makes really really good flour tortillas! One of my room-mates eats everything raw. He eats uncooked hotdogs and he also eats raw chorizo(which is like a sausage meat) its really gross and he always tries to get me to eat it.
I have made a friend here in my branch, it is the branch presidents son. he is probably 4 or 5 im not sure. I don't understand much of what he says but he is pretty funny.
I don't think it is ever going to rain here. Its cloudy sometimes in the morning but its always hot and sunny in the afternoon. I am getting pretty tan on my face and arms. And my hair is getting lighter.
The work here is pretty fun. It doesn't seem like we are working very hard but I really don't know. We have about 10 people we are going to give baptismal dates to this month and a couple baptism this month.
Yesterday, sacrament meeting was canceled so we had sacrament meeting in our house with the other companionship. Then each of us shared a spiritual message. I pretty much just cried because I was so frustradted but through it I had grown a lot closer to my Heavenly Father because I had nobody else to talk to. One of the other elders, started trying to tell me in English how he knew that is was really hard for American missionaries and how well I was doing and how good my Spanish is. My Spanish really is pretty good, and I can understand quite a bit.
Some special request are my pillow, because they don't provide us one here, some honey because they don't sell it here and some strawberry jam because they don't have that either. I can buy bread and peanut butter. I get packages when the office receives them, when the APs make contact with the zone leaders, and then the zone leaders make contact with us. Its about every two weeks or so. We had zones conference last week and next week on Monday we have special conference, so we have p'day on Tuesday next week.
I would just tell Cathy to send them and pray that they are not rock hard when I get them.lol. I really want Cathys cookies! They don't have cookies here like they have in America. They have crackers, which are cookies here, they are really good but i want cookie cookies.
The temple is in south Monterrey. It is really cool. It is in a really really nice part of Monterrey. There are some houses by it that are the biggest houses i have ever seen! Its a beautiful area.
My city is called Miguel Aleman. It is across from Roma Texas. It is not a huge city but it is bigger than Lynden, and we have some members out in Los Guerra which is like a mile away. I have no clue how many people are in the branch its not that big. The members are pretty nice. we get fed everyday and its really good food, I haven't had to eat anything weird yet. I drink over a gallon of water a day, its pretty crazy. Its been like 90-95 degrees here, which is pretty warm. My companion said in summer its average 104 or so. It feels pretty good. I come home ever night covered in sweat and I am getting a lot of rashes but I just ignore them. But yes, the town is pretty nice, there are a lot of rich people here. But there are still dogs everywhere and trash everywhere. And I have come to the conclusion that most people are not as poor as it seems. A lot of the people just spend all of there money on clothes and food and not there houses. I am slowly getting use to it. I don't think I will ever get use to the bugs everywhere though. That always grosses me out.
As far as the food, the milk here is really gross, the chocolate tastes funny, I'm not sure what it is. The ice cream taste funny and people don't eat it much.
The yogurt is really good though. I always buy the drinkable yogurts because they are pretty cheap. I found out the other day that I have been eating mashed potatoes on all of my tacos. I thought it was a corn mush but then I asked and the family said no its mashed potatoes. They eat corn tortillas with everything! Litterally! and they are really cheap like 15 pesos for 200 toritillas. they are really good too. One of the hermannas makes really really good flour tortillas! One of my room-mates eats everything raw. He eats uncooked hotdogs and he also eats raw chorizo(which is like a sausage meat) its really gross and he always tries to get me to eat it.
I have made a friend here in my branch, it is the branch presidents son. he is probably 4 or 5 im not sure. I don't understand much of what he says but he is pretty funny.
I don't think it is ever going to rain here. Its cloudy sometimes in the morning but its always hot and sunny in the afternoon. I am getting pretty tan on my face and arms. And my hair is getting lighter.
The work here is pretty fun. It doesn't seem like we are working very hard but I really don't know. We have about 10 people we are going to give baptismal dates to this month and a couple baptism this month.
Yesterday, sacrament meeting was canceled so we had sacrament meeting in our house with the other companionship. Then each of us shared a spiritual message. I pretty much just cried because I was so frustradted but through it I had grown a lot closer to my Heavenly Father because I had nobody else to talk to. One of the other elders, started trying to tell me in English how he knew that is was really hard for American missionaries and how well I was doing and how good my Spanish is. My Spanish really is pretty good, and I can understand quite a bit.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
First letters from Mexico
Monday April 27th, 2009
I tried my best to interpret President Mendoza's letter and all I got was don't panic, I think, and keep baptizing 55 people a month in ever zone. so ya I'm not sure. I will tell people to email you and then you can forward them to me I guess. I don't know. I don't really like the rule just because we will probably only get mail once a month or so and I cant send mail to other people unless I wanna pay to ship it to Mexico so I'm not sure how else
I am gonna communicate with others besides email. That's a really good idea, to do the blog,I will try and send lots of pictures through email next week.
It's been awesome weather here. I really like it a lot. Its usually about 90 or so with humidity and it is always windy and usually the wind is cool, so it feels really good. I haven't gotten sunburned, yet, and I already am starting to look very Mexican. lol. I think I am gonna dye my hair dark and then I wont get mad fun of as much. Everybody thinks its really cool that I have blue eyes, especially the girls. A lot of people have never seen that before and they ask if they are fake. lol. My companion and I run every morning and I am definitely losing some weight to say the least.
The food is different then I though it would be, but it is really good. Luckily I haven't had to eat anything weird like dog or bird yet but I imagine I will at some point. My favorite thing is this pork dish that is breaded and fried and then rice and cabbage and avocados and tomatoes with lime. All in taco shells. its really really good. I actually like the corn tortillas here they are really good. And just the other day I found flour tortillas that are amazing.
Ya the food was horrible especially compared to now. But I only put on 4 pounds in the mtc, which is way better then most. One elder in my district put on 20 pounds and one of the chinos that was by us put on 30 pounds.
Ya so the Spanish. I remember that he said i would have the spirit of the gifts of tongues, and he also said I wouldn't get very sick, those are the only two things I remember. But it is extremely hard because i have nobody to talk to. The language is really coming well, and i am speaking alright. But most days it is frustrating because i have so much i wanna say and teach but i cant. My companion gave me a priesthood blessing which has helped. And my companion trained a gringo in December and he said i am picking up Spanish way faster than him. So i really am learning fast but its tough. I didn't know if we were working hard enough until my companion said we were by far the best companionship in our district. So ya all is well overall. I will happier when I can speak more though.
Love
Elder Mayberry
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:25 AM
Well I sent you one email but it failed to send I guess so now I have to write another one. Mexico has been very hard. At first when we were in the mission offices it was really easy, but not so much anymore. I am getting adjusted to it though. The frist couple days have been really hard. Teaching the people is fun and meeting people but i have no clue what is going on. I had a cool experience on Thursday though. The morning was really hard. I was pretty depressed because I didn't know the language and my companion doesn't speak English and neither does the other companion ship.
I was really down and so I said a pray, probably the most sincere prayer ever. And we had to the opportunity to go the the temple and I got to do endowments and then sit through a sealing. It was really awesome. I wish I could explain more. If you get the first email it will have a lot more details and more stuff in it but I don't have anymore time. Tell me if you get the other email and if not I will tell you more next week.
Love Elder Mayberry
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Elder Mayberry
In order to keep everyone informed on how Brendon is doing I decided to start a blog. This way those that want to can read his letters. One of his rules is that he is only suppose to write to family and they can only write to him through snail mail or dearelder.com.
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