December 7, 2009

dear familythis week was filled with tons of success. me and my companion have so many investigators we have to run from appointmant to appointmant. so its pretty fun, but way hard. yesterday we had to wake up at 5 30 in the morning to go to a meeting with president olsen and the stake, to talk about the zones progress. so we were way tired on sunday. we will have a baptism this saturday. its of a less active family. they were less active. so they were reactivated and now there son that is 12 and 8 are getting baptized. then we have some way cool investigators that will get baptized in 2 weeks. they went to church yesterday and loved it. but at the end one member told them to think about what they were doing and to take there time to get baptized. its a lifelong desicion. so the member was telling them to not get baptized in 2 weeks. so we went to the lesson that night prepared with what to say, and at first they wanted to take theire time, but we had a way spiritual lesson and they all said they will be getting baptized the 19th haha. and after we had to talk to that member and the bishop too. because the member said it before to another investigator and the investigator got scared and never came back. so luckily we were able to save this one. we have seen so many miracles in this area. we were looking for a member and knocked the members house, and it turns out the member doesnt live there anymore but the person who does almost got baptized 17 years ago but the day before the baptism her dad wouldnt let her. so now she wants to get baptized the 26th. and there isnt any problems with her dad because now he is in the spirit world. then also some members helped us out and brought an investigator thats incredible. so we will see when he wants to get baptized. so we are basically running everywhere. but we are loving it. i cant believe the time is going by so fast. in a week i will have 22 months. honestly, i am not ready to go home. it doesnt feel like 2 years. i feel like i need to be out here for the rest of my life. i know it will be a hard day when i take off my plack. i hope you have a good anniversery and 29 years is amazing!! almost 30! the people here are lucky to be married for 5. some of them just dont get married and live together. i met someone who had been living together for thirty years and we asked them why they arent married and they said because they dont need a paper to say that they love each other. haha. i got the 12 days of christmas so i will open them one at a time dont worry. and the kite things that you were talking about mom are called globos. you light them and they float in the air. its pretty cool to see at night, all these lights floating in the air. and of course i will buy everyone a souvineer. but give me ideas of what type of things that you would like. dad i already know what i am going to give you, and i think you will like it. its way way cool. i am buying it for myself also. but i love everyone so much and have a good week.meganyou have to write me megan. i know you husband is home so you dont have all the time in the world but you need to write me!!! haha i love you so much. to an argentine what i just said to you would be dropping the cane haha. love you chau!!Nikkithat was a nasty picture of hailee. she cant go in the toilette thats way sick! haha, but it was a way funny picture. my comp laughed too. and i am sorry to say but i think that kelsey habla mejor español que vos. haha vos means you, they dont use tu here. i love the spanish here. but when i get home i am going to have to speak like a mexican or they wont understand my spanish. i am way excited to talk on christmas too. and dont make me to trunky when i call. i still will have a good month and a half to serve haha.chaukelseywhat!!!!!!!! you watched elf!!!!!! i forgot about that movie haha, that movie is a classic. that will have to be the first movie i see when i get back haha. good job on makin it to the executive embassador thing. that will be good for me when i go to suu. cuz then i can get all the ins haha. you will have to help me out. and if you think you have changed over the last 2 years you will be surprised when you see me haha. i weighed myself and i weigh 15 more pounds and i have lost hair haha. so when i get home i will have to go to the gym a bunch. and i look older haha. but i love ya and have a good day chau!!!

Novmber 30, 2009

hello famthanksgiving was way sweet. haha, maybe to you it sounds boring but i loved it. to start out every new transfer the zone leaders go to the presidents house to learn what we need to teach our zone to have success for that transfer. so we left our pension at 8 o clock and got to the mission home at about 8 30. at 9 o clock we had breakfast, we ate a bunch of facturas and a lot of juice. then at 9 15 we started the capacitation. where president and his wife and the assistants give talks. then at 1 o clock we went and had lunch. we had mashed potatoes with chicken haha. there arent very many turkeys here. we at for a half an hour then went back to listen to the talks. they finally ended at 4 o clock. then we went back to our area and got to work. and that was basically thanksgiving. a 7 hour meeting haha. but i honestly loved it. we found a way cool lady in my new area thats from peru. and 17 years ago she was recieving the lessons and was about to get baptized. but the day she was going to get baptized her dad showed up and wouldnt let her. but now she is in argentina and her dad is in the spirit world. she went to church and she loved it. i am serving in a ward now and about 80 people went to church. it was amazing to see that. my last area it was and everage to see between 30 to 40. my first sunday in my last area there were 17 that assisted haha. so i am way excited to be here. i am pretty sure this will be my last area in the mission but we will have to say what the big guy upstairs says. it seems like we usually get lunch here in this area. there are enough members haha. so we will see what its like. i think my handwriting is good in those letters because i have written in my journal so much in the mission. i will give you the details of how to call when they send us the information. haha, no we dont decorate the apartment for christmas. christmas here is nothing like it is in the states. they only talk about christmas like the day before haha. the new pench is way nicer then my last one. its smaller, but nicer. it was pretty hard to leave my last area but i am over it. theres great people everywhere. but i love everyone so much. thanks for all the e mails and have a good day

November 23, 2009

Dear familywe got transfers on saturday so now i am in my new area. i am back in cordoba!!! so i am way excited. i kind of wanted to go back to my first area and be a district leader. but i guess the lords got other plans haha. i am way excited though. my companion is elder zuñiga, he is from chile. i actually lived with him 4 and a half months ago. its pretty funny because i was his zone leader, and now hes my companion and we will be zone leaders together. i am way excited to be in cordoba, there is just a special spirit about it, and i know its because the temple is coming here. we have a burger king in our area!! so i am way excited about that. so its a double bonus. the temple, and burger king. haha just kidding. it was pretty hard saying good bye to members and investigators that were in my last area. it was my home for 6 months, and now i am kind of home sick from that area. but oh well. thats the only thing i dont like about the mission. is saying goodbye. i was joking with my members and told them that i was never going to make friends in my next area cuz then i will have to say goodbye if i make friends haha. its the hardest part about the mission. but anyway, everything besides that is amazing. and i promise that i will endure to the end and we are going to have a lot of success in this area, i am pretty sure it will be my last area. my birthday went really well. some members cooked me the cake that you send me mom, and it was delicious!! we found a lot of success on my birthday so that was pretty fun. but i was a little sad on my birthday because it just means that i am 3 months away from leaving the mission. i dont think they have started doing the tithing settlement. they usually do it like in the middle of december here. i think its pretty easy to get it done here. i should be getting home february 17th. so you can say that to bishop rasmussen. DONT MAKE ME REPEAT THE DATE haha. it scares me. and i dont blame you for not having to much interest in the soccer game. its fun to play, but i cant stand watching it haha. and thats all the people do here. is play soccer and wach soccer. and thanks for the advice Dad. its funny cuz i gave one of the elders in my zone advice that was similar to that one. i told him to be obedient because we love the lord. then i told him that i have never ever regreted it for being obedient in my mission. and its the truth. i have never regretted it because its what we are supposed to do and the Lord rewards us for it. i cant believe spencer is already home! thats so crazy. oh and this thanksgiving we have councel as zone leaders with the president and the hermana. so hopefully we get a turkey or something haha. but i will have to tell you next week. we will see. thanks for all that you are doing for me, and i know you are praying for me in every one of your prayers. i love everyone so much and have a great day.Megani love the pictures of oriana. i cant believe how big she has gotten so fast. and her 2 front teeth are way funny. the ties are hilarious but i am not even allowed to where 2 of them haha. and the one thats black with flowers on it is questionable. haha. but i love them, and i will wear them when i get home. way to go on the 900 dollar bonus thats way cool. but i love ya a ton megan, and have a good day! thanks for the e mail.Nikkihelllllooooo. i think that was the second time that you put i need more allowance in you subject line. haha. i am glad that lance won the competition. i am not going to lie, i have a gained a little weight on my mission haha. but monday me and my comp won a competition too. it was to see what missionary could find the most new investigators in 2 hours. and we won. we found 2 familes, so we found 6 new investigators. to cound a new investigator you have to enter in their house, teach them, and leave them with a commitment and have a return appointment for the next day. so it was pretty funny. i love you very muchly chau!!Kelseyfirst of all. of course you take a second class of spanish or you are going to olvidar everything that you learned in your first class. and what are you talking about you dont have any fun classes. spanish is way divertido!!!! you better take it!! and second of all, you better not be trying to hook me up with Kenzie your roommate. i would just feel weird. you talk about her so much i feel like she is in the family haha just kidding. but i love you have a good day. chau!!

November 16, 209

dear familythis next week we have transfers so i am pretty sure i will be leaving. i have been in this area for 6 months now and so its pretty for sure that i am leaving. but i got the packages for my birthday and it has been killing me to not open them. but last week wasnt very fun. we were having a great week. until we lost a whole day traveling to do a baptismal interview and then we lost another day because my companion was sick the whole day. i had nothing to do all day. so i wrote letters, cleaned the pensh, studied for like 4 hours, wrote in my journal, did all of my laundry, sat around, and nothing else. it was probably the worst day of my mission. i felt like i did nothing all day and because of that we were only able to get one person to church. i cant believe that i am almost 21. thats like old person age... well in the mission thats an old person age. that means i dont have too much time left. that made me sad to hear about bingham losing, i remember exactly how skyler felt. its the worst feeling. all of our time playing little league we are just thinking about that one game our senior year. and when we get dissapointed its one of the worst days. haha, but now it just means so little but at the time it meant everything to me. so put your arm around his shoulder for me. And dad of course we will have to go to some alta basketball games together. i would love to. oh and the bulletin thing with all the missionaries addresses, i dont know if too many people take advantage of it. cuz i have never recieved a letter from anyone in the ward haha. i think from frank graph i recieved an email but thats it haha. and yes i know elder lineback. and i had no idea he went to indian hills haha thats funny. the city that i live in is called cruz del eje. you can send anything to the president and the hermana olsen and they will love it. pictures of christ i dont know. but i am sorry the email wasnt like, i want to try and respond to everyone. just know that i am doing great and i am loving the mission more then ever. i cant believe all the good it has done for me. i am so so so so so so thankful i came. if i wouldnt have come, i dont know where i would be. i would still be active, but i wouldnt have my priorities straight. i love everyone so much and have a good day chau!megani had no idea that orians is teething was actual a word in english. haha, i forget words sometimes. today i couldnt think of the word tamales. the one mexican food think. cuz they call it different here. and sometimes i cant prounounce words right haha. but oh well, spanish is screwing me up. and i know that twilight is a book, and kelsey told me that she saw the first movie. its about a vampire. they call it crepusculo here in argentina. its not too popular though. but thanks for everything you do. i got the ties that you sent me from hawaii and they were way cool. i dont know if i can wear a couple of them cuz they are too goofy but i wore the flower one the other day. but i love you and have a good day chauNikki and LanceLance, you made me way trunky!!! dont ever tell me that ever again haha. i liked your story about your comp buying you the linkin park cd. its a good thing i am not in the states. those kind of cds are basically impossible to get here so i am lucky haha. congrats on the band, and dont go killers style!! they are a good band, but they are good enough to have their style. tell them they are lame if they go that way haha. angels and airwaves is pretty good. and i dont know if i can be your man for the screamer haha, i havent listened to that music for a while. but i did here it like a month ago in the street and i couldnt believe that i used to like the music where it just constantly screams all the time. but oh well. i was stupid. for your band name i would definatley go with the destroyers, but if you dont like that i would go with circumstance. but i love you and nikki and tell hailee happy birthday for me. and she better enjoy this last birthday because i will not let her still my thunder. i will ruin her birthday to make mine look good. haha just kidding. chaukelseythe pictures were pretty cool. kenzie looks the exact same as you. i think you were somehow twins split at birth like in parent trap or something. you might want to go research that out a bit. i hope you are doing well at school and have a good week. keep having a good time at suu. and it seems like you are fitting in just fine. i remember your senior year at alta you had a ton of problems and trials. but now it seems like you are just doing great and i dont have to give you any advice. so keep it up and keep workind hard and do your best to stay happy. love you have a good day chau.

November 9, 2009

dear famsterso this week wasnt to cool. we had to drop susanna as an investigator. she loves having us over to her house because she feels better whenever we go by. but she just wont complete her committments. she likes listening, but she is just bad at the doing part. so it made us pretty mad. she wants to get baptized she just wants people to do everything for her. so we had to drop her. thats good to here that alta football is in the semi finals. and yeah i think it will be a good idea giving my clothes away to members. but i dont think they will accept a lot of stuff haha. a lot of my white shirts are now yellow shirts so its pretty gross. and i will agree about this being one of the hardest parts of your mission, only cuz when you have a hard frustrating day you think, oh its ok i will just be home in a bit. but i quickly get rid of those feelings because i still got a lot of time to help the argentines. i love my area so that helps me a ton. transfers are coming up, in 2 weeks. on friday we had interviews with president and we were talking a lot about a missionary who ends his mission in 2 weeks. how he has lost all desires to work. president told me there is nothing more pathetic then a missionary that loses his desires to work. because it means that they came on the mission in vane and not for the right reasons. so president decided to drop that missionary from district leader down to junior comp. and his companion that only has 4 months in the mission is now the district leader haha. so its pretty funny. but his companion loves doing the mission work. so its all good. that is way cool that L. tom perry is doing to the ward tomorrow that would be so fun. and yes we get the ensign, but here its called the liahona haha. but i love everyone and thanks for all the e mails. chau!!Nikkino i cant believe i will be 21 and i cant believe hailee will be 1. holy cow. i dont even know her and she will have one. haha, thats way funny. oh well. its not like she can talk, so i am not missing much haha. just kidding. tell Lance that he is a nerd for playing in a band again. one of the missionaries that i live with is in a band and they got invited to play with paramore he plays the guitar way good, he has some way good songs, tell lance to look up seasons extreme on i tunes. but anyway got to go. and i think kelsey is better then you at spanish haha just kiddingKelseynext time a boy tries to hold your hand you give him the advice that Dad has always given us and smack him in the adams apple. p.s. when you explain your stories i have no idea who these people are. the only one i know is kenzie and thats cuz you talk about her so much. i have never even met her haha. but i like the stories so its all good. you sound like you are pretty busy at suu. i love that place. but i think i changed my mind and i am going to have to go to college at home. i just miss home so much. so i think that uvu would be a little better for me. cuzi dont have to travel so much....... haha just kidding i would never betray good ol suu, i love that place too much. of course i am going back, but i think you love it more then me now haha. but i love ya and have a good day chau.

November 2, 2009

dear family, i am sorry but this is going to have to be another short email to everyone. we just baptized friday, so we only have one cool investigator. she told us she wants to get baptized the 21st of november and that will probably be my last saturday here in cruz del eje. so pray that susanna can get baptized. she is about 60 years old, she has already been to church and loves the book of mormon. she is a teacher and owns a shoe store so she doesnt have a lot of time. so pray for her so she can get baptized. she has had a hard life and needs to trust in God. so last week was pretty good. i am still with my same companion. his name is elder teemsma and hes from california. hes pretty cool. on the mission i have learned to have so much patience with people so its a lot easier for me to get along with people. sometimes we get so mad because people arent perfect and we think they need to be more like us. but they are probably thinking the same thing haha. so its us that need to change, we need to be the ones to have patience and get over it. thats great that your ipod didnt get broken, i didnt know you had one. we have to take another 3 hour colectivo to cosquin. so that will be fun. we are doing splits with some missionaries. i love everyone so much and have a good day. cuidensen thanks for all the support and prayers. chau!! besos y abrazos!!!

October 26, 2009

hey family i am sorry i dont have that much time again. i feel so bad, but thats the way it is. we just have to send a lot of stuff. i will try to answer all your questions and i think thats all the time that i have. but this week was a good week. we will have a baptism on friday so that will be fun. mom you dont have to send a package for christmas i was thinking that it would be better to just put money in my account so i can by everyone souvineers. we have to go on 3 hour bus rides at least once a week. and a lot of times twice a week. it would be like going to cedar city every week. this is the area that we ride bikes and its so fun. i wish i would have had bikes my whole mission. we get so much done. there is only one branch in the whole city. Sunday we had 50 members go. its the most that i have seen while i have been in the area. yes we still have a cell phone. the food is all the same in argentina. there is not too much of a difference anywhere you go haha. i would probably need like 150 for souvineers. unless you think thats too much. i will just take them in my suitcase. i think i will throw a lot of old shirts away. and i have enough sd cards. so i think i will be good. and i love everyone so much have a good day chau.

October 20, 2009

dear familysorry i didnt write yesterday, we had zone conference yesterday and they announced that on thursday so i had no idea that i wasnt going to be able to write ya on monday. but last week was so crazy. we barely had time to do anything. last thursday we had to travel to cordoba (3 hours) then we had councel with the zone leaders and it was way good. President and the Hermana Olsen do such a good job and we always learn a ton. its always fun because 7 missionaries in my group are zone leaders so we get a chance to talk and see whats going on. then we had to travel back and got home at 9 in the night. then friday we actually got the whole day to work so that was a relief. saturday we had zone meeting (where we teach our zone) then at 12 45 p.m. our bus leaved to cosquin to do an interview. so we arrived at 3 p.m. and did the interview and at 4 our bus left. and we were supposed to go to Dean Funes for another baptism interview, but there wasnt a direct bus from cosquin to dean funes. so we got to cruz del eje at 6 45 p.m. and our bus left at 7 30 p.m. and we got there at 8 30 and did the interview and the guy that i interviewed didnt pass cuz he was still smoking but his wife passed the interview. it made me so mad that the Elders that were teaching him didnt even ask him if he had stopped smoking. it made me want to drop the cane cuz we had to travel all the way out there. but dont worry there was no cane dropped. and by the time we got done with the interviews (which were done in this way way poor house) it was 10 p.m. so we slept there woke up at 6 am and took the but back to cruz del eje. got back at 7 30, so we got showered and went to church. then monday we had to wake up at 4 in the morning and travel back to cordoba to go to zone conference and it lasted till 6 p.m. and we got back to cruz del eje at 10 45 p.m. so we went to bed. and now its p day haha. what a week of traveling. jeffery should be happy that they have a car and they dont have to travel by bus and having to deal with that. and i swear traveling takes more out of me then working all day under the hot sun. i dont think i ever want to travel in my life again. so it was crazy. oh and i did get those garments. thank you so much. i got like cool underarmor ones too. there so comfy on the bikes. and i will make sure i wont open up the packages until my birthday. the investigators are doing good we will get a baptism on the 31st. last transfer we got 8 groups of people to go to church and ony 1 of those groups will be getting baptized. so it was pretty frustrating. but they just didnt progress after going to church. but we found a way sweet family thats married (not common in argentina) and they are going to church this week. so i am way excited. we lent them the movie joseph smith the profet of the restoration. and she just loved it. so we are going to commit them to get baptized tonight, so we will see what happens. and i am sorry for all the money i have used. the mission owes me a lot of money though, for all the travels that we have done. so i will probably have to take out some money today again. thank you for everything. and the candy was amazing!! and i gave the pictures of Jesus to all the moms in our branch for mothers day and i gave them a milky way and every mom just loved it and wanted another milky way haha. one even came up to me and said she didnt get one. then i said oh really, and she said, well, i already ate it but it was so good i wanted another. so it was pretty funny. but i love everyone so much and have a great day

October 13, 2009

Dear familywe had transfers but i didnt get transfered and neither did my companion. so this will be 6 months in this area. which is just fine for my. i love it. on sunday we had a huge change in the branch. president olsen put his 1st counseler as our president of the branch and now we have counselers and a mission leader. before we just had a branch president so it was kind of hard for him to do all the work by himself. president was saying that we got to change this branch and make it into a ward. so thats pretty exciting. we have quite a few investigators right now so hopefully they can make it to baptism. dad the city i live in is cruz del eje and we live on a corner and the 2 streets are eva peron and san luis. we are one street in front of the church. and no i have never had to go to a doctor or the dentist. and thank goodness i would be too scared haha. i have only gotten sick like 3 times on my mission. and thanks for the package i got it last week and it had way cool doctor pepper football shaped things in it. they were so amazingly delicious haha. so thanks a mountain!! ... a phrase in spanish hahah.... it means thank you a ton!! oh and i would prefer that you didnt send me anything for christmas so that i can buy souvineers for everyone. i think that would be a better christmas present then anything. theres a lot of cool things that you guys would love. its weird talking about that but oh well, i just dont want you to prepare any packages haha. i cant believe today i have 20 months. its just scary for me. but oh well. thanks for everything i love you all and thank you for being so supportive and praying for me and my investigators, i know that your prayers are working. the family that i baptized in my last area are doing great, they are the ward missionaries and they help so much giving references to the missionaries and helping them out. they are great. in about 6 months they are going to be able to be sealed in the temple. so that is way exciting. but i love everyone so much. and i am already out of money. we never have lunch with members so we have to buy everything and its really hard on us. hopefully it will change soon but we will see. on thursday we travel to a zone leader councel and president was telling me its going to be amazing and we are going to double the baptisms in the mission. love you have a good day

October 5, 2009

Dear Family i am sorry this will probably be the shortest letter of my mission. but it is the 5th p day of the transfer so me and my companion had to send a progress report on every 20 missionaries in the zone. so it took up a lot of time. this week went a lot better then last week. we found some pretty cool people that went to the conference. they said they didnt understand a lot of it but they loved seeing the prophet. and i dont know if i am wrong but i am pretty sure i say scott linda and jason in the last session of conference. did they go? cuz i told the ward i saw them and so it was pretty cool. hopefully it was them though haha, i am not sure. but anyway we had a good week, and it will be even better this week. my companions doing good, we get along but he is pretty weird. haha. but yeah its all good. i am sorry my letter was so short but i really didnt have time. my favorite talk was the talk by elder holland. its not as good in spanish hearing a translators voice but its still always good. i also loved president monsons talk about anger. sometimes we get mad at such stupid little things and make a big deal out of it. but i love everyone and have a good daychau!!

September 28, 2009

dear family i dont have much time like usual haha but to clear up something, i am not training but i living with a missionary who is getting trained. i am still zone leadering it up haha. but i know you like experience and so i dont want to give you a bad one. but it was definately a bad week. we just figured out how to get people to pray to God and ask him if it is true and them to get their answer right then. but last week was a huge test for me and my companion. we were just working our tails off but we couldnt find anyone. we were working our butts off but nothing went right. it was the wierdest and worst week of my mission. we had to drop about 6 people that were committed to getting baptized. because they werent progressing. so it was a sad week. but we just figured its because we found out a way to give the people testimonies way easy, so satan worked his hardest to hide the people waiting for us. so it was pretty frustrating and not to mention that an investigator that we were teaching that was committed to baptism talked to a member because they were friends. and the member scared her off way bad. the investigator had only heard the first 2 lessons but already knew the church was true but a member went up to our investigator and asked her if she was going to quit smoking, drinking, and dump her boyfriend. and our investigator got scared and said no. so the member told her to give back the book of mormon and said she wasnt ready to be baptized. so it was pretty frustrating and we told the member that we never taught her those lessons yet and the member got all defensive and said that she knew who was ready to get baptized and who wasnt. so it was pretty frustrating because usually the opposition comes from outside of the church, but this time it came from the inside. so it was a pretty tough week. but it doesnt matter this is a whole new week. but i got to go and thanks for writing everyone. i am proud of you megan for teaching the lesson. thats way cool. lessons always mean more if you take time to prepare it. you can always tell a difference. thats way cool that you are having the missionaries over to dinner. just make sure they dont stay too long. some missionaries like chilling with members cuz they dont have to be working. and nikki i did recieve your video, i even got the sound. so keep doing it. make sure lance isnt getting too fat. haha kelsey espero que saques buenas notas en la escuela y no salgas con chicos que se han vuelto de la mision. divertíte pero no salgas con changos como ellos. jaja cuidáte. chau. remember the spanish from here is a little different. instead of using tu. they use vos. chau

September 21, 2009

dear famthis week was a sick week!! it was a way good week. we finally put in to practice and we have been doing what president and preach my gospel says. we teach the first lesson to the people and at the end of the lesson we ask them to pray about it to see if it is true, and every person that has prayed has gotten an answer to there prayer. they try to explain what they feel but they cant because they have never felt like it before. one lady had no idea what it was but she said it felt like a heat inside her chest. kind of like a fire. so that we read d&c section 9 verse 8 where it says we need to study it out in our mind first, and then ask God. and if it is right he will my our chest burn telling us that it is right. so we read that to her and she just got shocked and didnt know what to say, it was pretty crazy. so we did it like 5 times last week where we got on our knees and prayed with our investigators and all of them got answers to there prayers. it was crazy. and so i am way mad i havent been doing my whole mission. so that was our cool week. i cant believe you guys arent in jordan school district anymore. thats crazy. and i am sorry to hear about preston and what hes doing with his life. i know he will get humbled and want to go back to church again, people sometimes get so selfish. God just asks us to worship him once a week and only for 3 hours at church. and its crazy how some people cant complete with something that easy. but oh well. and i am keeping a journal. i have 2 journals completed and i am working on my third. unfortanately i dont think i will finish the third. i dont have any time at all. when we get home at night, we usually get home at 9 30 and have to plan for a half an hour for the next day, so we get dont at 10 00 and at 10 we start getting our phone calls from the district leaders and talk to them for a while and at 10 15 we have to start going to bed. so i am trying to write but there is barely any time. i cant believe how easy my life was before the mission. i had so much free time. oh and i am living with jordan beeches cousin elder moore. and he is way cool. he is a good missionary. he struggles with the mission but he only has 3 weeks here in argentina. he is way talented though and really funny. i already love the kid. he will be a way good missionary. sorry i didnt have too much time to write everyone. thanks for the letters everyone and Lance i already realize how fast time goes and it honestly scares me. but yeah here in argentina they love playing soccer but they got some ballers also and we destroy them. whenever we play basketball there is a school right in front of the court and so everyone comes out of school and about 100 people watch us play. we even played against some argentines and we destroyed them. but i will destroy you in basketball lance. but i love everyone so much, and keep sending me jeffs and codyes letters if you can. i love everyone chau!

September 14, 2009

dear family thanks for sending me the chearleading picture, i just told my companion that story about it yesterday, and you guys sent me the picture today haha, so it was really cool. this week was a pretty good week. we had a crazy week. monday and tuesday we were here in cruz del eje working. wednesday morning at 3 30 we woke up to go to cordoba for zone conference and interviews, so that was a 4 hour bus ride. then we went from cordoba to villa dolores which is a 5 hour bus ride, we went there to do interviews for some missionaries in our zone. oh and we got there at one in the morning then woke up at 6 30. then friday we woke up at 4 in the morning and went from villa dolores to our area which is another 4 hours. then saturday we got a surprise call for another interview for a baptism so we hopped on a bus and went to cosquin and back to make another 4 hour trip. so it was a crazy week, and it was the first week that my companion is a zone leader so i am hoping he thinks thats not how it is all the time to be a zone leader haha. that was the craziest week of my mission i think, and also we were able to get a new family in the church on sunday. so it was pretty fun to see. our members are getting a lot of animo to work because they see like 10 investigators in church every week and thats like 1/4th of the members so they are happy. so it was a fun week. and thats weird that i have 19 months in the mish. i think its coming way to fast. i think when it comes, i will not be ready. but i guess we will see. maybe i will have to extend my mission a little bit, maybe a couple months longer.... haha, just kiddding, just wanted to see moms reaction. and i think you should try the rabbit at la caille. i told you that i tried it at members house didnt i? i ate brain, cheek, and toungue of a rabbit. so it was pretty cool. haha and yes the cotton garments are wonderfull. and i love everyone so much, keep up the good work. me and my companion are fasting so that we find a new family to baptize in the church. so pray with us. i love everyone and have a good day. chau!!!

September 7, 2009

dear familywe got transfers and my new comp is pretty cool. yes i am still zone leader, but president is doing a new thing where the zone leaders and the assistents wont end the mission as being assistents or zone leaders but they will end training new missionaries so that they learn a bunch. so that will be way fun. zone leader is way fun, its way fun when you have a companion thats willing to work cuz if your a leader and you arent working very hard, its a difficult task to help other people out if your not having to much success haha. but now we are doing great. we have found amazing people. one lady, we gave her a pamphlet of lesson one and we went back the other day and she had a page and a half of notes written down and was so happy talking about the gospel. it was really amazing to see. so it was a good week and we have a great zone. so this week was a pretty good week. thanks for the e mail dad. i love to hear about football and how everyone is doing. good ol Alta. and Byu sound like they are doing good. its sounds like you are kicking butt in golf!! mom here are the answers to all of your questions haha1. my companion is from san diego california. his name is elder teemsma2. yes i am still a zone leader3. no, it is not getting colder, it is getting hotter every day, todays nice because its a little cold4. just pray for us so that we can find a family to baptize here in cruz del eje to help out the branch5. no i dont use a towel anymore. it was pretty nasty. i am converted to toilet paper. but i still use the bidet. and no i never shared my rag haha6. the mission president is doing great. i love him so much7 my health is great!!but thanks for all the e mails and i dont have any cool mission stories for ya right now. we are finding little miracles every day with just finding fun people. today we cleaned the pension for a good 2 hours and it still needs a little bit more. some times p day isnt to much of a day of rest cuz there is so much stuff to do. even using the internet i have to work, because there are a couple forms we have to send in. but i love everyone chau!

September 2, 2009

hello family,yes we had some transfers so i got a new companion but i am still in the same area. i am glad i got a new companion haha, it was really hard with him, he was very pridefull and would never accept my ideas but oh well its already done. the street that i live on is called san luis and eva peron. its right on the corner its a green building and its 1 block in front of our church. i love the area and everything so now we are going to get things going and working our tails off i am wayexcited. this week was a pretty good week, a lot of our investigators went to church. the mission is doing better then it ever has. everyone is starting to understand the purpose of a mission and that we are here to help the people come unto christ through baptism. the mission in 2 months baptized 122 people. thats the best its ever by far. so everyone is doing well. i am sad to hear that alta lost but oh well, ya never know what will happen. i am glad to hear that skyler is doing so well. oh and i wrote kenzie a letter but i dont know her address so i am sending it home to you guys so you have to give it to her. and no you can not read it haha. and that is good to hear that kj is going to peru, i know that those people are really receptive to the gospel and he will have a lot of success. and i am sorry mom that i cant write you longer letters like i did back in the day, but i think you understand. i barely get any time now. and in the package just make sure to keep sending garments. mine are getting nasty now. they look more gray then white haha. and Dad of course we got to get some bikes!!! haha, i love everyone so much and have a good day. chau

August 17, 2009

dear family i am already apologizing but this e mail is going to be another short one. i sware i get less and less time. today i had to fill out a bunch of stuff for the zone. and dont get me wrong i love being a zone leader mom but sometimes it gets frustrating haha. i love helping out the other missionaries and see them just watch me to learn. so dont worry about that. i love being a zone leader. but this week was a pretty good week. i cant believe i have 18 months, it scared me quite a bit. of course i burned a pair of pants haha to celebrate. but it definately scared me. i remember looking at those people with 18 months and thinking that they just had so much time in the mission. i still have a lot of time left so thats good its just weird seeing it leave. but one my converts has baptized 2 people now haha. so looks like my converts are doing pretty well. unfortunately the missionaries are spending a little to much time with the familia cejas. they are hanging out there instead of working. they are a way cool family but the missionaries are just chilling there instead of working. last week we killed everyone in basketball so we will see what happens today. and dad we get about 430 pesos a month. sometimes it seems like a lot and at other times it seems like nothing. but i love everyone so much and nikki and kelsey thanks for everything and take a picture of the baby with her doll. and kelsey good luck at college. i love everyone so much and have a good week. chau!!

August 10, 2009

dear familyi am so glad you got my package!!! it cost me a lot!! but i wasnt able to send the camara or the candy, i didnt have enough money to buy the candy and i didnt feel safe about sending the camara. so i will just keep it and we will fix it when i get home. i am glad you like the dolls. no matter what i need nikki and megan to take a picture with the doll and with their baby then send me the picture as soon as possible. the members that made the dolls want a picture of the little babies with there dolls. so if you could send me that, that would be great. i didnt get an e mail from megan. i dont think the blackberry works on this computer. is fa a home though? i am excited for megan. this week was a pretty good week. we had 7 investigators in church so we had a bunch. the members were saying that there were more investigators then members so it was pretty funny. its pretty hard being a zone leader. its a lot of responsibility cuz its like if one of the areas in the zone is doing bad we get in trouble for them. but i guess it is like that in life too. the more responsibility you get, the more pressure you get haha. i would love to go down to district leader for my last couple of transfers and train again. but we will see what happens. but unfortunatley last week we lost in basketball but today we got the rematch going on. we also played american football. so that was fun too. i hope you enjoyed all the letters. it will be a fun day to read my journal with all of you when i get home. you might get a little shocked what the mission really is like haha. but thanks for everything. and dad thanks for reminding me haha. in a few days i will be burning some pants haha. i cant believe its almost 18 months. its the weirdest feeling ever. i am getting too old. i am starting to be one of the oldest in the mission. doesnt spencer get home soon? that will be pretty fun for the ward. tell megan nikki and kelsey hi. tell megan to take the picture and send it to me. and nikki too. and tell kelsey good luck at college she will have a blast. and if she gets home sick read D&C 100. but i am sure she will be fine. just make sure she doesnt get married at the age of 19 like one of our siblings haha. just kidding. but love everyone so much and i will give you an update next week on how bad that i destroyed everyone else in football. i hope you get better mom and i will be praying for you. and dont ever put the word cancer in your e mail again haha. you almost gave me a heart attack. i hope its nothing too serious. but love you and you will be in my prayers. have a good day i love everyone so much and kelsey enjoy these last few days with mom and dad. i know you will miss them just like they will miss you. love you!! chau

August 3, 2009

dear familyto answer the questions1. i got fruit roll ups, shoes, some letters a lot of fudge and some socks in the packages. it was great!!!2. the weather is cold but not to bad, you need a coat but during the day sometimes you got to take the coat off cuz it gets too hot3. in the next package i would just say garments dp, sunflower seeds and beef jerky haha.this week was a pretty bad week, we didnt have any investagators in church it hit me pretty hard. i was kind of happy though, because hopefully its letting my companion know that something we are doing is wrong. its still pretty hard with him, everything that i say he goes exactly against, so its pretty hard to do the work. he has 2 months till he goes home so he is getting ready. but we had interviews with president and we talked about what i can do to help him out. so hopefully i can just use all my patience in this moment. i am not going to lie though its pretty hard. i am getting pretty sick of him. the other elders in the pensh are noticing too that he is getting pretty trunky and not wanting to work. so its starting to effect them too. but we will see what happens with him. he is a really weirdy too. haha, but there is definately a lot of potential in this area, you just got to work a bit and everything will be going great. today we are going to be playing some basketball so i am pretty excited about that. we will have to see how it turns out. i think i am going to destroy everyone but thats just my opinion for now. i will have to tell you how it turns out next week haha. the zone is doing way good. we are one of the best in the mission. the only problem is that me and my companion arent putting are part in. but the interviews helped him out a lot so he will get things going. i just got to be his friend in this moment. but i am so thankfull for all the letters that everyone has given me, and i know you all miss me, but i promise you that i will be home before you know it and then you will all want me to get back in argentina haha. but the time is flying it is still scaring me but oh well. thats why its so important to work every day, because before you know it the day is gone, you never get it back. and if you want tomorrow to be a better day you got to start right this second. there isnt time to complain. but thanks for all the e mails and i hope this letter was a little bit longer!megani am so happy for you and for fa a to get home. i really am way excited for you and way proud of you. there are a lot of people that have to raise all their children alone and i know its one of the hardest things. i am way happy fa a will be getting home. i will have to start including him in my letters too haha love younikkii am so sorry but i wish you a huge happy birthday!! to make up for it, mom and dad should be getting a package in the next couple weeks and your doll will be in there. the memory cards are taped on the dolls legs, so make sure you grab them before hailee gets to it. love youKelseygood luck on your half marathon that takes a lot of guts to do so good luck on everything. i am so proud that you are so close to God and good job on bearing your testimony. i think i bore my first testimony in testimony meeting like 3 months before my mission. love you and have a good day chau!

July 27, 2009

hey fam!the week went pretty well. we just had a meeting with president and all of the zone leaders so my companion has more desires to work. i am doing good. in our area there are 4 missionaries and one of them is a humongous missionary that i am scared he can beat me up pretty easy. he has had a pretty hard mission with a lot of disobedient companions so right now he is just starting to learn. when we did exchanges i went with him and at 1 we went to the pensh to eat lunch and he asked me what bands i listened to before the mission so i told him about my past with the bad music and i told him what bands. then he went in the other room and i kept cooking, and then all the sudden the bands that i just told him that i used to listen to, was playing on his cd player. right when that music turned on there was just a bad spirit about everything. right when he turned it on the spirit immidiatley left the room. so i had to tell hime to turn it off haha. but he is getting better. he has a way good companion so he is helping him. the zone is doing way good right now. this is elder daviss last transfer so president moved him to our zone as a district leader and holy cow that kid knows how to work. he was in his area for 3 days and in that little of time he had three investigators in church. they blanked the area so they started out with nothing 3 days ago. so he is helping the zone out a ton. just an amazing missionary. and dont worry about me and my companion. companions are usually only together for 2 transfers then leave. so we will see what happens. i am going to take advantage of the time right now while he has desires to work. hes a pretty good missionary just way ready to go home. we did an activity about the mission work on saturday and we recieved about 100 references from the members so we are pretty excited about that. of course we have to share with the other elders but thats ok haha. but i love everyone so much, and i hope everyone is doing well. i know i am doing well. and megan i am so happy for you, that will be a way fun day when fa a gets home. and nikki, i love the stories about hailee. and kelsey hope you have fun at suu being an ambassador in your red coat. haha, love everyone so much and have a good day tell the whole ward i say hi. and i wrote mckenzie mayne in december and she still hasnt writting me back! drop the cane on her!!! love you chau!

July 13, 2009

Dear Family i am doing great here in argentina, next week is transfers so dont expect an e mail from me next week on monday. todays a funny day because we send a paper to the president telling all strengths and weeknesses to President Olsen. so its kind of funny. sounds like everyone had a good time out on the boat. this week we had a girl names agustina we had an interview for her baptism and she passed so she will be getting baptized this saturday. so we are pretty excited. on saturday we had a little miracle happen. a lady from buenos aires thats a member came to our area and told us to come to her house to talk to her mom thats not a member. so we went to the lesson and asked the daughter in the lesson why she wants us to teach her mom. and she just said i want my mom to get baptized. haha, so it was a good little lesson. we will see what happens with her. we hope the best. this week was a pretty hard week though. because my comp was sick and we didnt go out and work for 3 days then sunday came and he contaged me. so we didnt go out sunday either to week. but i feel a little bit better today. i just have a little headache but what ya going to do. my comp is struggling a bit because he only has 3 months left in the mission so he is getting a little trunky and thinking a bit about home. so i had to drop the cane on him a bit haha. but today i have 17 months in the mission and i am getting a little depressed about it. i dont want my mission to end. i still have a lot of time left but i know its going to come to an end. but dont worry day, i am going to endure to the end. i cant stand the missionaries that give up at the end of there mission. it just kills me. the closer i get to ending my mission the harder i work because i realize that it will end. but i am sorry i couldnt write everyone today we had to fill out a lot of paperwork so sorry. Megan i am happy that you only have 4 weekends left without fa a. that will be so fun. the time has gone so fast. but i love everyone and sorry for the short letter. love everyone.

July 6, 2006

what is this new word you guys are using? skyp? that is the stupidest word i have heard. haha just kidding. but its a funny word. the week went well, we had a few investigators in church. we should be getting a baptizm in a couple weeks so that will be fun. baptisms always make you feel so good haha. but our zone isnt doing to well. a lot of the zone are young missionaries so they dont know how to work very well. they dont know how to get people in church. but we are helping them a lot with that. because if we dont get our investigators to come on sunday we dont baptize on saturday. but other then that everything is doing well. i am glad you guys are using my computer to skyp with megan. that is the wierdest thing i have ever heard haha. i am glad its still running though. how is sabbie doing. how old is he now? mom i am glad you enjoyed the picture of me. i almost wasnt able to send it haha. when you frame the picture just make sure it doesnt look like you guys are worshipping me. i am sure the house is filled with pictures of me haha. i am glad the surprise party didnt get ruined and you actually were surprised haha. and when you send the package dr pepper has to be in there!! yes or yes!! thats a frase in spanish i dont know if it is one in english haha. and garments. i swear my companions steal from me. i am glad you liked the empanadas because i am going to be ordering a ton when i get home!! i love the argentine food! it is delicous. some of the foods arent too great but almost all of it is amazing. and the mission is really worried about us getting sick so we got a new rule to wash our hands 10 times a day yes or yes. but i love everyone so much, and your going to love the letters i sent to you mom and dad. i know you guys like my experiences so i went to the most real experience as i could get and i copied two pages out of my journal. one page goes to dad and the other goes to mom. ones a good experience and the other one is a bad one. just so ya know what the mission is like haha. love you and thanks for everything. i love reading the letters every week they are amazing. love you Elder Brown

June 29, 2009

Dear Family,i am so greatful uncle scott dropped the cane on you mom!!! haha, we only have an hour to be on the computer and i have to write president and tell him our plans and what we acheived, then i have to filll out a paper about everyones investigators in the zone and i have to send a paper in to president about what everyone acheived in the zone. and on top of that i have to read a bunch of e mails on the mission and what we need to do and then i need to read your e mails and then respond to everyone. and if the letter isnt long enough i get a cane from my mom haha. so i am glad uncle scott is on my side haha. and the kid that sent his mom tons of long letters and to everyone in the family definately was not doing what he should have been doing. haha, but we had a good week, not to many of our investigators went to church, only one. some investigators werent ready to get baptized so we had to drop them so we were a little sad about that. so we need to get finding. the mission is doing a new thing where everyone sees your numbers haha, so its pretty interesting. so thats why being a zone leader isnt too cool because if we have one bad week then our zone will say to themselves well if our zone leaders cant do it neither can we. so its kind of frustrating to think like that. but we are working hard so we havent had a bad week yet. we had a meeting with the leaders in the branch and the whole time everyone was just arguing and saying what needs to happen but they just talk about so many things and they dont talk about answers so basically it turns into them complaining about everything. but after about 30 minutes of listening to them complaining we told them that we had an appointment in 20 minutes so we have to go, but we wanted to share what we are doing. after we shared, everyone was saying yeah we could help the missionaries out more! lets help them! so hopefully they start helping us more. i got a package like 2 weeks ago and it had a milky way and some pants in it. the milky way was amazing!!! and its starting to get a little cooler here but i got everything i need so dont worry. keep sending me letters from Jeff and from Cody. i want to hear from those guys. especially good ol jeff. i hope you have a happy birthday. 50 years isnt too old!! haha, youre only 30 years older then me!! haha just kidding. love you and have a great birthday. tell everyone in the ward i say hi! chau!

June 15, 2009

dear familythis week went well. its a lot different being zone leader. when theres a problem we are the ones who have to fix it haha, we cant just pass the problem on to someone. no one came to church on sunday. its been a long time since i havent had someone in church so it made me a little mad. but i have only been in the area for 2 days. i have another companion from Logan Utah. hes a pretty cool kid, he loves fishing. like 90 percent of his pictures our of him and him fishing. so i am sure this transfer for a p day we are going to go fishing. he has a fishing pole and everything. his name is Elder Marshall. he has about 20 months in the mission and hes kind of getting tired of it. but last night we had a good night and worked our butts off. hes willing to work and everything but i got to be the one to push him haha. and yes i bought new shoes. they are so expensive here. i tried to get a deal but the guy wouldnt budge haha. but these shoes should at least last 8 months, so i think i will be good. we are in a branch here and only about 25 go to church. we put some good goals so we will have to see how it happens. the branch has a lot of potential so we could definately double the number of people assisting. so i am pretty excited to be in a branch that depends so much on the missionaries. we are everything to them haha. i am going to have to drop a cane on elder jardine for not giving you guys that package!! haha. i will e mail him. and no i cant imagine taking the act. i think i have forgotten all of my math skills haha. but i think from all the spanish my memory has gotten a lot better with learning. cuz now whenever i hear a word i usually memorize it if i just say the word once. so its pretty cool. and no we dont speak at the baptisms, the members do. my last day in arguello the family that got baptized got mad at me because a member showed them pictures of there baptism and the missionaries baptized them. so fabiana, the mom of the family cejas she got mad at me and said... so it looks like all the converts were baptized by the missionaries but brown wouldnt baptize us.... she was mad because i told her that we will have a member baptize her instead of me. because usually if the members baptize the converts stay active. but she dropped a little cane on me haha. and the bishop arranges everything and no we didnt have refreshments because it was fast sunday. and i think the cordoba temple will be done in about 2 to 3 years. we are in charge of 14 missionaries. and no we dont have a washing machine. we have to wash by hand. but i love everyone so much, pray for me this transfer. my comp is a zone leader and everything but he is getting really tired of the mission. so make sure you pray for me and him. hes a good missionary but he just needs to get excited. love everyone so much chau!!!!!!!!!!!!Elder Brown es lo mejor

June 10, 2009

Well this week was great!! the familia cejas got baptized!! it was 3 of them. so it was an amazing experience. all of there family went to the baptism and we got everyones direction so now we will baptize there family haha. but unfortunatley i already got transfered. this was definately my favorite area and i am said i only got one transfer here. but i am going to an area called cruz del eje. i am going to be a zone leader there. so it will be a little bit more responsibility. i am pretty excited though. it will be a good experience. but the baptism was saturday and the family was so excited to get baptized. after the baptism the guy came up to me and i said thanks for everything, and he told me no thank you for this incredible experience. it really was a chosen family, they accepted everything we taught them without doubting. last night we put a goal with them to go to the temple in buenos aires in one year they all accepted and are really excited to go. so we will see if they will go. i told them i was leaving and they all got sad. but i told them i would return before i leave argentina. then she said, oh great, and she started making plans of what to do for when i come in 8 months. she will be making pasta frola, its a kind of desert thats amazing!!! in a lesson we were joking around saying that i love pasta frola and now everytime we go there she has it all ready for us to get fat haha. but it was a great week and we saw a lot of miracles. and i didnt send the package yet because i lost some of the memory cards but i found them today so it will be sent soon. and i will send my broken camara too. and today i will be buying shoes and they are pretty expensive here so i am going to take out like 200 pesos. love everyone so much, and i think people are starting to notice that in 8 months i am home haha. because more people are writing me telling me they are excited for when i get home haha. but love you have a good day. and 8 months is still a lot of time left. so dont get trunky!! chau!

June 1, 2009

Well family sorry for the short letter last week but i had so many things to do. but anyway this week was a great week. i dont know if i told you about the family cejas. but they are great, they had their interview on saturday for baptism and they all passed with flying colors. so this saturday we will be getting a baptism, there are 4 people in the family but 3 of them are getting baptized becuase the other kid is like 2. all of them were way excited, and so are me and my companion. they are a way humble family and i sware they just do whatever we say its amazing. they really are a special and a chosen family. you always hear that there are people being prepared to recieve the gospel, but when you come across with those people that were being prepared its just amazing. they havent had one doubt about anything, they all have testimonies of the book of mormon. its really amazing, they are even sharing the gospel already, we are teaching there neice now. so they will be a great family to work with. and they always make us food every time we go buy. they will be great members. so me and my companion are really excited. it will be his first baptism too, so that will be an amazing experience for him. but the week went really well, nothing to special happened. being a leader isnt always the best haha. theres one missionary thats kind of a rebel, and when i try to help them he just gets mad. but oh well what you going to do. i had to drop the cane a bit yesterday haha. but my comps doing great, the assistants told us that its probable that we are going to be separated and i dont want that at all. my companion is great, hes a lot different from all the other latins that i have been with. hes actually willing to learn haha. but yesterday we had 6 investigators in church, so it was fun to see that. sunday is basically game day for missionarys haha, if our investigators go to church we won, and if they dont, we lose and satan wins haha. well thats the way i look at it haha, it helps me do well in the week. i love my area so much, i definately am not looking forward to leaving, the members and the area is just amazing here. the people are way humble here. in one lesson we watched a little short movie of when joseph smith prayed to see which was the true church. we watched it with the family cejas and there neice, but the neice was just crying in the movie, and she said it relates to her so much because she is so confused. she doesnt belong to any religion, so will have to help her find the truth. but anyway, today we are going to centro, so i am going to buy some new shoes and a companionship tie. me and my companion buy the same ties haha. but anyway i hope everyone has a good week, and mom and dad, keep giving me updates on the ward and on good old alta highschool. i love everyone so much, and i hope that this letter was a little bit longer then last weeks haha love everyone so much. oh and mom, with that kid that is having stuggles deciding to go on a mission, i dont think i will have time to write a letter but just tell him that deciding to go on a mission was the biggest decision i have ever made, but it is also the best decision. there hasnt been one day in the mission where i havent smiled. because i am always happy here. i know he will regret it if he doesnt go on a mission, and i know if he does go he will not regret it. but i love everyone chou!!!

May 25, 2009

hi family, i dont have very much time to write. but this week was great. our golden family went to the church so it was pretty cool, but a lot of our other investigators werent able to go. but we still had a great day. the family is getting baptized june 6th. and they have a lot of relatives that are mormon. so a lot of their family is going to come for the baptism. so its pretty cool. its a family of 3, and its honestly a chosen family. they were definately prepared. the mom has so many questions, and she asked us about the poligamy thing, and we explained it that back in the day there was multiple wifes but now no. but juan, the husband, said oh, well if this is a church where multiple wifes are allowed, where do i sign. haha, so it was pretty funny. they are so open to everything. then with another investigator we kind of had to drop the cane a bit. she has a huge testimony that the church is true, but she cant really stop smoking and drinking. so we had to throw down some cane and told her if she doesnt smoke and drink for 3 weeks then she can get baptized. so she is way excited. then we have another investigator that went to the church in bolivia and went for a year. he went to the church and everything but when he got there he saw us in our suit and he was in his jeans, so he told my companion he was going to go change and come back and he wasnt able to come. the church is different with the standards of dressing. a lot of people dont have the nice clothes, so a lot of times, its not weird to see a member going to church in jeans. we say that we get dressed in nice clothes because sunday is not a normal day its a special day for us. but we say if they dont have the clothes its just important that they are there, because God knows the sacrifice that they are doing. and yes that was me my comp and the assistants that went golfing with president. we just hit range balls and i still got my slice going haha. it was really fun, but hard at first. but at the end i started getting it down, so we will have to practice a bit. but sorry i cant write a bigger letter. my comp is bugging me cuz he wants to go play sports. but i love everyone so much, and the time is flying. i got a letter from cody and cassie today. codys doing well hes serving in a college area so he says theirs a lot of pretty girls there. and cassie brown wants to hang out after the mission. flirt to convert haha. just kidding. love everyone and have a good day. thanks for all the prayers. me and my comp are working our butts off and seeing the results. chou!!! love you

May 18, 2009

dear family!!!i am sorry to say we didnt have a week of miracles but we had a day of miracles haha!!! but first the day started out with disctrict meeting. and we have it once a week, and i have to talk to the district about the investigators and about how we can improve and all that. but it went way well. we have some elders in the district that have been struggling and dont have any investigators. but it went way well, and after those elders that have been struggling were saying, finally we have a good district leader, i actually learned something in district meeting. haha, so now whenever i call them they are willing to do whatever i say haha, so it was pretty cool. then when we were on our way home we got on the colectivo (bus) and me and my comp decided we wanted to preach to the whole bus. so we asked the bus driver if we could share a message about christ to the bus. he said yes, and we started sharing the book of mormon to everyone. and we were holding it up and showing everyone it was way fun. there were some people that just thought we were idiots while we were preaching, then there were others that were listening and you could tell they had the light of christ in there eyes. so then after we got done preaching, we sat down next to the people and told them we want to give away the book of mormon, so we would like to pass by another day. so we wrote down all the peoples names that were interested and we should be going by soon. it was a way fun experience, and so now we put the goal to do it every time we go to district meeting. then we got back, at lunch, and got back out working, we found a family, and we taught them in their house for a little bit, and found out the mom is a member. the dad was kind of against the church so we will see what happens. then we saw a lady leaving her house and we ran over there and talked with her and taught her and her family about the book of mormon. they let us in, and we taught more and gave away the book of mormon, and while we were teaching, everyone was hanging on the edge of their seats listening to what we had to say, it was so cool to say that. so we gave the book of mormon to them. then it was like 8 o clock. me and my companion had a feeling to go down a street, so we started walking and we passed by one of our investigators house, right when we walked in front of the house, she came out crying telling us that her kid is way sick, he hit his head, and that all she needs is peace right now and for us to talk to them. she told us that she had been praying and praying for us to come. and she was about to go to her neighbors house to have them call us, when she looked out the window and there we were. so we gave the son a blessing and shared some scriptures to comfort them. so it was a pretty cool day for us, and i will always remember it in my mission. i have seen so many miracles in my mission, and i have them all written down in my journal. when i get home, we might have to read it so that you know what i was doing every day for 2 years haha. for the first 6 months of my mission i wrote every day, but i got a little lazy, so now its like every 2 or 3 days. but it will still be a way good memorie. but anyway today for pday, we are going golfing with the assistants haha. so i guess because we live with them, we get some benifits. haha. but me and elder davis are still way good friends. he ends his mission in 3 months. but he always asks me if we are going to hang out after the mission. so i guess hes thinking about the home haha. but hes an amazing missionary. they only have like 3 hours a day to work, and they always kick our butts with investigators in church, haha. we had 5 investigators in the church yesterday, but they beat us and they had 9. its just amazing that they only have 3 hours to work every day, and sometimes less, and they accomplish what they do. í am learning a lot from them. i love everyone and thanks for everything. hope you like my day of miracles hahachou!! love yaElder

May 11, 2009

that was great talking to everyone. everyone sounded so good. i am glad everything went well with the calls this time. my comp had a good time talking to his family, he was focusing on the future a little too much after that. but he cried haha, it was his first time calling his family. but we had a cool little experience last night, my comp was complaining, and he wanted to go to the pension because all he could think about was his family, but i kepts saying we got to endure to the end, we got to work the whole night until its time to go back to the pension, so he said all right, and i said look, theres a nice little house. its our next baptism. he knocked the door, the people let us in, and we taught a family of 7. they have a lot of intrest and live right by the church, so it will be way easy getting them to church. then after he told me, ok i am sorry!! i learned my lesson!! we have to endure to the end in everything. so it was pretty funny. but yesterday i am not going to lie, i was pretty trunky too haha. but i will ask around to see if i want you to come look for me... hahah... but as of right now i think i would rather just come home. and mom of course i am happy. every day i am always happy because the work makes me happy. even though its hard work, i love it. it will be a sad day when i have to stop wearing my name tag. but i still got quite a bit of time left. and yeah why dont you send those shoes. i am sure they will fit. and my shirt size is 16 and a half. i need them pretty bad!! i was looking at my shirts and all of them are yellow except where my nametag and my tie is haha. so it was pretty funny. and of course i am never going to lose my personality!! i love laughing and laughing with other people. especially with my investigators, it makes them feel more comfortable. and dont worry dad i know numbers arent important. i give it my all and see what happens. but i love you all and have a good day, next week are going golfing and today we are doing something lame i guess. we are going to go bumper carring or something. but we will be golfing at that course with 9 holes. but love youElder BrownMeganit was so great to hear your voice, even though it was for a little bit of time, i am glad you have your priceless sense of humor. but what ya going to do haha. keep going strong fa a is almost home!! what a Stud!! and the next time we talk will be at Christmas!! wahoo!!! have a good day. ps for christmas i want to talk to fa a. tell the big brown bear that i say hi, and that i say kill a couple of people for me... just kidding dont say thatlove youNikkithis time i am going to say more then just You Stink!! haha, but it was good talking to you and Lance yesterday. dont tell Lance, i dont want him to know i have feelings, feelings are signs of weakness haha just kidding. but he is a way good example for the whole family and for me. i am glad that you married him. and plus i can be competitive with him. but you have always been an example for me. i think you have always taken the right desicions and thats amazing. but thanks for everythingKelseyhey runt. dont get married you first semester at SUU like Nikki did. haha just kidding, but make sure you enjoy the summer and work hard for college. cuz at college, its ALL PLAY!! haha just kidding, i had a lot of fun but i also had to study a lot. i think i might have played a little more then i studied, but thats because i thought i had to because i was going on a mission. i didnt think i would ever have any fun on the mission. but just work hard at college and make a lot of friends. you need support down there. make sure you go to all the church activities, thats where you will make your true friends. love you and have a good daySUU 2011. P.s. elder davis told me he wants me to go to BYU with him, but dont worry i am sticking strong!! sssssuuuUUUUUU forever!! haha

May 4, 2009

Dear Familyi dont have much time to write. every time you get more responsibility, it takes up more time. But yes Nikki i am District Leader. But thats not even saying anything. It means that if the District does bad one week, i get chewed out. but i am way lucky because i have a way good district. but sunday i will call, so be ready and be awake haha. i am way excited, i will only have one more phone call after this one. its actually pretty sad, the mission goes by so fast. i need to take advantage of it, soon it will be over and i will be sad. one of the missionaries ended his mission and his family came here to pick him up so i was able to meet them. all of the members were talking to his family like they new spanish. so i had to come up and translate, because their son was talking to some members. but it was so weird for me, because they greeted us with a handshake and when they left they just said bye without even shaking our hands. because here, with the men we always greet them with a hug and say goodbye with hug. and with the women we shake hands at the beginning and the end. so i was just wondering if thats how everyone is in Utah? i kind of forgot. i know we dont hug, but it just seems weird now. but i still dont know if you are planning on picking me up or if i go home alone. i am in favor for the both, but we will have to discuss it on sunday. oh on the call i hate to say this but we only have like 45 minutes to an hour, so it wont be like the other calls. but thats what the president of the mission wants from us. so we got to obey. but i am doing really good. i am just way greatful i am here in the mission and that everyone got me on the right path. this is definately the best experience i have had. my companion is great, he has a lot of desires to work, he just doesnt do it the best way, so i got to show him haha. he has 4 months in the mission. he studied english before the mission. he knows a lot of words, but he doesnt know that grammar that well haha. so i am helping him with that. i have a lot of stories for you so we will have to talk really fast on sunday to get the stories in. and Dad i am glad you are going to try to be more of a man haha. hopefully you dont cry. haha just kidding. i wouldnt care if you did. but i will just call you guys. so dont worry about anything. just be right next to the phone and i will get it figured out. i think that would be the best way. so be waiting for the phone. But i love everyone so much. Megan, 15 weeks is nothing!!! keep going strong!! love youNikki, You smell!!! just kidding, keep showing that baby pictures of me!Kelsey, run your next race like your last one!! nor regrets!! love everyong so much, have a good day love youElder BrownTalk to you on Sunday woohooooo!!!!

April 13, 2009

well family i got to write fast. i got jeffs e mail and thats way cool that jeff is training too. i cant believe all of his companions are gone! thats the opposite of me haha, my first companion just went home 3 weeks ago. cuz i have had all young comps. but thats way cool hes training. all the greenies think a lot of funny things. then they rely on us so much, so its always funny. But some of the ward members made oriana and hailee some dolls, so today i am going to send a package home. i am going to send a couple of memory cards and a bag made here in argentina the dolls and some different kind of foods here. i am going to send some alfajores. so hope you guys enjoy it. i am glad to here you loved oklahoma and that is was a missionary ward. and dad i am glad you are already planning spring break haha, that doesnt make me trunky. haha, and it was me who you knocked out of the tournemant. i couldnt return your serve. you had it perfected basically haha. but this week went well. i am starting to feel ready to leave chilecito, i still love it, but i am ready for a change. so we will have to see what happens. next week we are going to la rioja to play football. so it will be way fun. i am excited. saturday at night i bought a huge giant egg of chocolate for easter, and i was going to hide it, but i figured if one of my comps found it they would eat it. so in the morning of easter i was just sitting by myself eating a big chocolate egg and drinking a drink. im not going to lie, the next easter with the family will be a lot better haha. this sunday we will be able to see general conference so i am pretty stoked. president olsen called us and told us that the session on sunday morning was so powerfull that whatever investigator that went to the session will get baptized. and if they dont, they will never get baptized. so we are excited to watch it with as many investigators as we can get. so wish us luck in our week, i am way excited. i love you all so much, and the package that i am going to send will cost about 30 dollars. but it will be fun for me to give you guys a package for a change. love everyone so much and have a good day and dad happy birthday, you should get your letter soon, love you have a good day, for your next birthday i will be there with a gift in my hand haha love youElder Brown.

April 6, 2009

Dear FamilyWhat Up!!We just had zone conference so we learned a bunch. they made a new rule for the mission presidents that we can only have 8 minute interviews with him so it wasnt as cool but oh well. my comp is doing better, he is trying to get better with everything. hes a good comp he just needs to learn a few things. happy bithday dad, and kelsey soon. i sent the card with a few pictures and i hope they are pictures you havent seen yet but we will see. so in a couple weeks you should get the letter. at zone conference i recieved 4 packages from you guys!! thank you!! and more importantly i got DR. PEPPER!! it was amazing!! haha, i shared a tiny bit with my comp and he loved it. but i also got those reeses peeces. the cadsberry eggs, fuge, new pictures of you guys, and my credit card!! i was scared that i lost it, because i found the memory cards on the inside of my garments, then i was looking for the credit card and i couldnt find it, then the next morning i pulled out the pencils that you guys sent me, and there it was behind those haha. so i got scared for a second. if you need anything else just tell us. and i didnt get your e mail Dad, i got the short summary one, but not the first one. but right now what were doing for food is we have to buy for ourselves a lot. i think i explained it before, but when i was with elder laws, the other missionaries would call the members and tell them not to give us lunch because we already had lunch. and in every visit with the members they would talk bad about me and elder laws. so now we are just kind of fixing things. but i cant believe the members believed these missionaries telling lies about us. i just barely found out, but the other missionaries were staying at members houses for about 5 hours watching movies and even rated r movies. they were doing a lot of bad stuff, and the members knew what they were doing and thought that me and elder laws were the bad missionaries being disobedient. so now we have to help the members see that we are good missionaries. so we dont have to much lunch with them anymore. but we will get to see general conference in a few weeks so we are pretty excited. but yeah saturday and sunday were just normal days of work.i havent heard about this 3 days of mourning, but i am sure i will soon. i would tell you if palm sunday was a big day here, but i dont even know what palm sunday is. Sunday in church i had to do a little bit of math, and Dad you better get ready to help me a bunch in math, i was so bad at it. Me and my comp are doing well, we have a lot of investigators unfortunately i dont think i will be able to see the baptisms, because i am sure i gone at the end of this transfer. i am pretty ready for a new area too. i still love this area, but getting to a new area is just something so exciting. but we will see. i think at the end of this transfer i will be ready to not be training haha, cuz if you remember i basically had to train elder laws too. so i think i will be ready with someone with more experience. but we had a good week this week, and thank you for all the packages and photos especially, and the videos. but on my camara i cant see the pictures or videos, cuz the camara is a peice of crap. but my comp has a camara that was able to see all the pictures and videos. but thanks for all the support, love everyone so much and have a good day!

March 2, 2009

Dear Family, first off, when i say i lost a few pounds does not mean i have worms haha. i just lost some weight because its way hot and we are working our butts off. but anyway with the investigators they are doing way good because we had 6 people in the church yesterday haha. it was fun to see because finally our hard work pulled off. but we got one of our best investigators to go to church yesterday and she loved it. by the end of church she was telling me in a few months she is going to be moving closer to the church so she is way excited it will be a lot easier for her to go. yesterday for church we took her in a taxi so they didnt have to walk 45 minutes. but it was amazing cuz we met her only a week ago and usually in argentina it takes a while to get the investigators going to church. so she has a baptism date for 28th of march. and that will be the soonest baptism we get. i cant remember if i told you but we had to give all of our other investigators to elder guerra and his comp, because they didnt have any work. so the last couple of weeks we have just been rebuilding. and now we are getting some pretty cool investigators again. but anyway wednesday or something we had a family home evening and we were going to play a game and for some reason i just felt like we shouldnt so we said goodbye and started walking to the pensh and then 2 people stopped us and said that they had a question. the lady started telling us she wanted to get taught the missionary lessons. so we set up a time. went by the house, gave her a baptismal date and she accepted it immediately, it was crazy. so yep we are seeing miracles. but with one member in particular we saw a miracle. we were teaching to share the gospel with her aunt and then we starting teaching about planting the seeds and all of her work right now will be for the future and she started crying so we finished the lesson. then later that day we started teaching that lady that asked us if she could recieve the lessons from us and when we went by to teach the lesson she told us she was a cousin of that member that we went by that morning teaching her about planting the seed. so then we finished the lesson with that investigator by putting a baptismal date, then we went to the church because there was an activity and we talked to the member that was crying in our lesson and we told her we just taught her cousin and put a baptismal date with her. and she just got so happy she started telling me ELDER ELDER thats why you were teaching me the lesson of planting the seeds because 3 years ago i taught her with the missionaries she was a seed that i planted, now shes going to get baptized!!! haha, so she was so happy it was just funny. and by the end of the night she was telling the other 3 elders that i was her favorite missionary. so it was pretty funny. but that was our week, so it was a pretty good one. about paul winklemen telling you that you were kissing ( ) he is a punk. dont worry i will beat him up when i get home too. elder guerra always gives us crap saying that we are robots in the mission and saying other things about us, but he just says that because we are working while he isnt and we are doing the things we should be while he isnt. so maybe paul should be doing things a little better too. yeah i would invite chris to dinner only when nikki and lance are there. and dont worry dad i miss golfing too so we will go when i get home. and i am 99.9 percent sure that i am going to suu when i get back home so no one has to worry about me not going there. and no mom i am not going to the U haha i am sorry. and i am sorry about all the money that i used all the money that month, we only get lunch from 2 members a week now becuase elder guerra talks bad about us in front of members so yeah we dont have lunch too much anymore. but i will do better this month. and yes i got the pictures from last week. thank you so very much they are always different and i always love them. but i love everyone so much and send me grandpas e mail so i can e mail him. have a great day. oh ps thanks for jeffs letter, i loved it, keep sending them its fun hearing from him. Kelsey, what the heck does ambassador of the shcool mean? freak, by the time i get home you are going to be running the whole school. but explain to me what it is. my english isnt as good as it was. My comp will sometimes be telling me a story and i will have to ask him what a word in english means because there are a lot of similar words but some of them have different meanings. but i am still going to suu so dont worry. and yeah elder guerra acts like you 2 are getting married and on the photos that i have to show to members, i showed members and they asked me why there were hearts on your pictures and i looked above it and it said elder guerras girl. so dont write him!! if he keeps writing and you feel bad for not writing, write back when i am not living with him anymore. thank you chou!! oh and i didnt get your cd yet, but we will seelove ya!!