October 14, 2013 Email

What are you talking about mom I am just fine nothing happened with my face ha ha. No I got an infection in my face the beginning of this week which caused it to break out good news is I didn't have to shave for the next couple of days what a blessing I missed my beard. ha ha 

Diarrhea, na nothing to talk about there lets just flush that topic haha. Hmmm well I don't know why dad has felt me around there lately maybe it was the relaxation exercise I did the other day it says to imagine a place that brings you joy and I just imagined myself walking through the house so maybe thats what it was. 

I am doing great. Every once in a while I have some physical challenges but I am not worried about that I am more worried about my mental challenges ha ha Well everything has been going great. This week was a little hard with our investigators because we had one that decided she doesn’t want to meet with us anymore, one that started drinking again and two that don’t want to get married until December so their family can have a fiesta. But we also have many that are progressing. We have three baptisms for this Sunday so hopefully everything works out. Then we have a couple more for the end of this month and we are working on finding more but I don’t know whats going to happen. A lot of it is in the hands of the Lord. 

I love working here, These members are pretty awesome even though there are a lot of inactives but this week was pretty awesome we decided to contact inactives one day after we had some citas with investigators and we found a couple and one of them came to church he is an awesome guy he thanked us for finding him and he says we can stop by his shop whenever we want and he wants us to teach his son in law. 

Yesterday was a great sunday one of our investigators brought her boyfriend to church and she came with her grandma and grandpa too. I went to comida (food) at the house of our relief society president. Ha ha, we were supposed to have family home evening at their house three times this last week but had to cancel every time and then we were going to have one today but we had to cancel too because I have to return to Xalapa for my Visa. ha ha. She is a little upset but in a joking way. ha ha She has family in Provo and Orem and visited them in july I told her next time to visit our family. 

I saw some football I hope that is not a sin but it was the 49ers so I think I am ok. Ha ha. But I also heard the chiefs have a perfect season I think that it is because their coach is Mormon now, but I don’t know ha ha. Congrats mike. 

I hope that everything is going great I am so glad that Mom finally got to go to cove fort thats so great! Ha ha, congrats Mom. I want to thank you all for your emails sorry I don’t have to much time to email you back and don’t worry Kaytlyn even if you don’t have a boyfriend for Christmas you might have a present from me ha ha I am still looking and it might get there a little late. Sorry, ha ha. 

Thanks everyone I love you all I will take pictures this week and send them next week. Thanks for your prayers your examples your love and for teaching me and raising me in the gospel.

Elder Monsivais

October 7, 2013 Email

Hey Mom, 

I hope that you are forwarding these or sharing these emails with people because I only really email you and thats all. Well family today is my 2 month mark I have been in the field for 2 whole months it is pretty weird. Conference was a blast and we had three investigators there on saturday and should have had three on sunday but my companion said no no they are going on there own i argued but he said it would be fine oh man we had a talk later let me tell you what haha he is awesome but sometimes doesn't think things through. Conference was great and I got to watch it in english so that made it twice as good. 

Well we are starting to have some problems with a few of our investigators mostly Rigo and Flor who are the ones that are supposed to get married so they can be baptized and Rigo is the one that I play the piano with sometimes he asked me to be one of the witnesses for his wedding but I cant be because I am not full mexican and they said they don't want to get married till december I was a little upset with this because they know that this gospel is true and that they need to be married and baptized but we cant force them to get married so we will just try our best for right now. 

My spanish has improved a lot but I still need to work harder on that, I am not sure if I will send pictures today haha i am kinda having a problem with my face the heat and sweat made it break out a little yep I said it my face is pretty ugly haha 

We have stake conference next week with one of the guys that talked in conference alfuerzo I cant remember his name its in my notes somewhere but we are supposed to have a bautizona to which is when our whole zone baptizes the same day I think we should be able to but I am not sure. we had a district BBQ today and went fishing but didnt catch anything good but it was still fun and one of the elders got bucked in the butt by a horse it was pretty funny he was laughing so hard. 

Well mom I guess you can send boots but I don't know how much I would wear them. I am thinking maybe it will be better if I buy shoes here but I am not sure where i wear a size 12. I never got a micro fiber towel mom so you might have to send more or I can try and find one in Walmart or somewhere. you did send me those little things but they get wet pretty fast here haha. 

Oh I was thinking about it and I would really love to get a dvd of the family too I do have two pictures of the family that I carry everywhere with me they are in my scriptures and I show them to everyone but I would like a dvd like the one we sent anthony when he was in the mission. sorry I am being kinda needy but dont worry I am also working pretty dang hard. well last week I was not able to get my visa because the computers at the place in Xalapa were not working so I will have to return later which is kind of a bummer but good too cause its like a six hour nap. 

Oh p.s. think week or last week was Loren's birthday I am not sure but if you will wish her a happy birthday that would be cool. Um not sure what else to say the mission has been pretty great and I am learning lots I can pretty much understand everything but my grammar is worse than my english grammar so I don't really make any sense luckily my companion understands me haha 

Love you family thank you for your prayers your love and all your support I hope that you are doing good and that you enjoyed conference weekend as much as I did until next week your number 1 missionary yep Mara is number 2.

Elder Monsivais o Elder munchie (that is apparently easier to say)