Hey Family!
Well, don't have much to write because I just talked to everyone but it was really great to get to talk! I loved hearing from all of you! I love you all very much! Thank you for all the stuff in my Christmas package. It was great! Well, I love you all and I will send you an email next week! I don't have much time this week because our p-day is shorter today because we had Christmas as p-day. But thank you for all you do for me and taking your time on Christmas to talk to me! I love you all! Know that I am safe and that the Lord is blessing me a ton. We have a baptism planned for this Sunday and others close. I'm excited to get to work very hard this week and get our investigators ready for their baptisms so that they can start of this new year in the way their Heavenly Father wants them to, by making a covenant with him! I love this gospel so much and I know it is true! Thanks for being such a great family. I couldn't ask for a better one. You are all so, so amazing! Thanks for all you do! Love Ya!
Love,
Elder Despain
Monday, December 27, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
One More Letter Home! Christmas Just a Few Days Away! 12-20-10
Hey Family!
So I'm super excited to get to talk to you all in a few days. It will be really cool! So ya, I will be calling on Christmas, the 25th, at, I think, about 5 or 6 at night. But I'm not sure on the time. I am still trying to find a computer that I can use to Skype, but I don't know if I will find one, but I will call you and let you know. I will just call the house or your phone mom and I hope you answer one of them. So this week has been really great! I don't know if I told you in my letter last week, but I am now in the barrio or ward Tlalli! Then the zone Lomas Verdes! and my companion is Elder Jaime! It's really great! My companion is awesome! It's so, so, so, awesome to have a comp that wants to work hard! We are just tearin' it up, like working harder than I ever have in my mission and loving it more then I ever have. The more I put my self into the work the more happiness I get and the more frutos (fruits) I receive! With other companions, it was hard because I was always pushing them to be able to get more done. But with Elder Jaime, he has the same desire to work and so we can really get out there and do the Lord's work how He wants and in the way He wants it to be done! I am now district leader and it's not much different, but some things are a little different. Although, I got put in a district that is really easy. It's just me and my comp and 2 hermanas! This makes it easy because the hermanas always work hard and I don't have to worry about them not working and all I have to do is help them by teaching them how to teach a little better. And so that makes the district meetings really easy because I don't have to say anything about working hard or being diligent because they are great at that. Although, last night they didn't answer the phone when I called for their numbers for like 2 hours and I was worrying that something happened to them because it was like 10 at night and they still hadn't answered. So me and my comp had to leave the house and go find them. But thankfully, when we were about half way to their area, they finally answered. But ya, that made me worry a little just for their safety, haha, but its all good. Other then that it's all going good, haha. The only other thing different is that now I do baptism interviews, but ya, it's not too bad! Well, I love you all very much and I will talk to you on Christmas! love ya!
Elder Despain
So I'm super excited to get to talk to you all in a few days. It will be really cool! So ya, I will be calling on Christmas, the 25th, at, I think, about 5 or 6 at night. But I'm not sure on the time. I am still trying to find a computer that I can use to Skype, but I don't know if I will find one, but I will call you and let you know. I will just call the house or your phone mom and I hope you answer one of them. So this week has been really great! I don't know if I told you in my letter last week, but I am now in the barrio or ward Tlalli! Then the zone Lomas Verdes! and my companion is Elder Jaime! It's really great! My companion is awesome! It's so, so, so, awesome to have a comp that wants to work hard! We are just tearin' it up, like working harder than I ever have in my mission and loving it more then I ever have. The more I put my self into the work the more happiness I get and the more frutos (fruits) I receive! With other companions, it was hard because I was always pushing them to be able to get more done. But with Elder Jaime, he has the same desire to work and so we can really get out there and do the Lord's work how He wants and in the way He wants it to be done! I am now district leader and it's not much different, but some things are a little different. Although, I got put in a district that is really easy. It's just me and my comp and 2 hermanas! This makes it easy because the hermanas always work hard and I don't have to worry about them not working and all I have to do is help them by teaching them how to teach a little better. And so that makes the district meetings really easy because I don't have to say anything about working hard or being diligent because they are great at that. Although, last night they didn't answer the phone when I called for their numbers for like 2 hours and I was worrying that something happened to them because it was like 10 at night and they still hadn't answered. So me and my comp had to leave the house and go find them. But thankfully, when we were about half way to their area, they finally answered. But ya, that made me worry a little just for their safety, haha, but its all good. Other then that it's all going good, haha. The only other thing different is that now I do baptism interviews, but ya, it's not too bad! Well, I love you all very much and I will talk to you on Christmas! love ya!
Elder Despain
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Special E-mail - Please Get Back To Me By Monday 12-17-10
Hey, I just wanted to ask you a quick question. Will you ask Kimi if she can send me her Skype name and password so if I can find an internet with Skype I can call you with that on Christmas! I don't know if I will be able to find an internet with Skype, but I will try but I need the name and password. If I don't find one then I also have a card I bought that I can call you with. I will let you know more about when I will call on Monday but I need that information from Kimi first, because if I waited to ask you this Monday I couldn't get the answer till after Christmas and that wouldn't work very well, ha. I love you all! Thanks for everything and please get that information to me by Monday, thanks. Mom, I might buy a Costco card because there are lots of Costcos here and it's a lot cheaper to buy food. It is 400 pesos. Is that alright if I buy one? Well, i love you. Thanks for everything, love you!
Love your son,
Elder Despain
Love your son,
Elder Despain
Monday, December 13, 2010
Diciembre 12, 2010
Hola Familia!
So I have changes (transfers) tomorrow and I have to leave my area early in the morning to get to the changes so I won't have time to write. So I am using a member's computer to send you a quick email! I will try to get on tomorrow to write back to any letters you send, but I don't know if I will have time. So this week was really great! After writing last week, we went to eat with a member and he took us to a restaurant to eat. It was called Texas Ribs! It was almost the same as Texas Roadhouse and it was so amazing to get to eat ribs again, haha. I hadn't eaten ribs since I was at home! Also this week, we were able to teach Roberto again and had another amazing lesson with him. We were able to teach him about the plan of salvation and that if he accepts this gospel and lives it, that he can return to live with his Father in Heaven again and also see and live with his mom again. The spirit was so, so strong during the lesson. During that lesson, my testimony about the plan of salvation was strengthened because throughout the whole lesson the spirit was testifying of the truthfulness! It was really great we were also able to invite him to be baptized and he said yes. We still don't have a date for his baptism, but the next visit I am pretty sure we will be able to set a baptismal date! It is really great and I just love to get to see him grow and progress and come closer to his Savior Jesus Christ! Also this week, I found out about the changes. Well last night or this morning at about 2 in the morning. I was pretty sure I would be staying here because I only have one change. My companion had already packed all his suitcases because he was sure he was going to be leaving because he has been here 2 changes. But when we got the changes, I found out I will be getting changed to the Zone, Lomas Verdes, in the darrio or ward Tlalli! All that was fine because I will go where the Lord wants me to go and all the areas are great. So if I stayed or went, either way is okay. But the real surprise was that they told me that I got moved up and I will now be a district leader, which means I will have more responsibility and will be over a couple pairs of missionaries. This is also fine because I will do what the Lord wants me to do. But I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous for it because I will be helping and teaching other elders and thats a big responsibility. But I know that this is the Lord's will and whatever is the Lord's will, I will do. I also know that if He called me to do this, He will also prepare a way for me to be able to accomplish this calling and become the missionary that He wants me to be. Well, I love you all and I hope you all are staying safe! It's crazy, this week I will complete 9 months. The time is flying by. I'm so excited that I will be able to talk to all of you in less than 2 weeks! Well, I love you all so much. Sorry I couldnt write more, but I don't have much time but I will try to write tomorrow, really quick, just to respond to your letters. Love ya!
Love,
Elder Despain
P.S. I asked some elders from the states that have more time then me and they said all packages take 3 weeks to a month to get here. So I'm sure mine will take the same amount of time, so I thought I would let you know. Love ya all!
So I have changes (transfers) tomorrow and I have to leave my area early in the morning to get to the changes so I won't have time to write. So I am using a member's computer to send you a quick email! I will try to get on tomorrow to write back to any letters you send, but I don't know if I will have time. So this week was really great! After writing last week, we went to eat with a member and he took us to a restaurant to eat. It was called Texas Ribs! It was almost the same as Texas Roadhouse and it was so amazing to get to eat ribs again, haha. I hadn't eaten ribs since I was at home! Also this week, we were able to teach Roberto again and had another amazing lesson with him. We were able to teach him about the plan of salvation and that if he accepts this gospel and lives it, that he can return to live with his Father in Heaven again and also see and live with his mom again. The spirit was so, so strong during the lesson. During that lesson, my testimony about the plan of salvation was strengthened because throughout the whole lesson the spirit was testifying of the truthfulness! It was really great we were also able to invite him to be baptized and he said yes. We still don't have a date for his baptism, but the next visit I am pretty sure we will be able to set a baptismal date! It is really great and I just love to get to see him grow and progress and come closer to his Savior Jesus Christ! Also this week, I found out about the changes. Well last night or this morning at about 2 in the morning. I was pretty sure I would be staying here because I only have one change. My companion had already packed all his suitcases because he was sure he was going to be leaving because he has been here 2 changes. But when we got the changes, I found out I will be getting changed to the Zone, Lomas Verdes, in the darrio or ward Tlalli! All that was fine because I will go where the Lord wants me to go and all the areas are great. So if I stayed or went, either way is okay. But the real surprise was that they told me that I got moved up and I will now be a district leader, which means I will have more responsibility and will be over a couple pairs of missionaries. This is also fine because I will do what the Lord wants me to do. But I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous for it because I will be helping and teaching other elders and thats a big responsibility. But I know that this is the Lord's will and whatever is the Lord's will, I will do. I also know that if He called me to do this, He will also prepare a way for me to be able to accomplish this calling and become the missionary that He wants me to be. Well, I love you all and I hope you all are staying safe! It's crazy, this week I will complete 9 months. The time is flying by. I'm so excited that I will be able to talk to all of you in less than 2 weeks! Well, I love you all so much. Sorry I couldnt write more, but I don't have much time but I will try to write tomorrow, really quick, just to respond to your letters. Love ya!
Love,
Elder Despain
P.S. I asked some elders from the states that have more time then me and they said all packages take 3 weeks to a month to get here. So I'm sure mine will take the same amount of time, so I thought I would let you know. Love ya all!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Diciembre 6, 2010
Hola Familia!
This week was a good week! We were able to start teaching a man named Roberto! He has a sister who is a member and they went to the visitor center and he put himself down as a reference for the missionaries to come visit him. So, we got the reference and were able to visit him and teach him this week. The lesson was so great! The Spirit was so strong during the lesson and we could tell that he wanted to cry during the whole lesson but held it back. At the end, we asked him to say the closing prayer. As he ended his prayer, he started to cry and we were able to explain that what he felt was the spirit testifying that these things are true. It was a great experience not only for him but for us as missionaries. I think that after we teach him a little more that he will be baptized! He is a really cool guy! I'm so grateful for the opportunity we have to teach him because I know that this gospel can be a true blessing in his life. His mom died not to long ago. She was a member and I know that as we teach him about the plan of salvation that he will be comforted a lot. Also, just to be able to let him know that he will be able to see his mom again! I know that this gospel is the source of true happiness in this life and I'm so grateful I am able to share it with Roberto and all the other people I meet here. I'm very grateful that I had the ability to be born into a great family that had made the choice to accept and live this gospel! Many people spend most of their lives searching for the happiness that I have had since the time I was born. I'm also so grateful to know that I am part of an eternal family and that some day I will be able to start an eternal family of my own. Without this gospel, it would be impossible to have that. So this week it has gotten a lot colder here, haha. In the mornings when we wake up, we can see our breath inside our house, haha. In my bed I am fine and warm and all, but it is really hard to get up in the morning because out of my bed is so, so cold, haha. I'm doing good and adjusting! I'm so grateful to be here and have the opportunity to serve my Heavenly Father in His great work. It's crazy it has almost been another 6 weeks next Monday. We have cambios (transfers) again. I will find out this Saturday where I'm going or if I'm staying here and who my new comp will be. It is really crazy how fast the time is going by. I mean, I have almost been out 9 months and it just seems like time is flying by. I don't feel like I have been gone for 9 months. Well at times, other times, I feel like I have been gone a life time but its okay. I'm getting very excited to be able to talk to all of you at the end of this month. It is getting very close, haha. I remember getting to Mexico and thinking Christmas is forever away. Well it came fast and it's here, haha. I was also thinking by that time I will be so good at Spanish. I still feel I am not very good, but I always have to remind myself to look back to the day I got here and when I do that, I have come a long, long way, haha. My Spanish is 1000 times better then when I got here, haha. Well, I love you all so much and miss you all a ton. Thank you so much for all your letters and for your prayers. Know that I pray for all of you daily and that I am so so thankful and lucky to have such a great family! Love you!
Love,
Elder Despain
This week was a good week! We were able to start teaching a man named Roberto! He has a sister who is a member and they went to the visitor center and he put himself down as a reference for the missionaries to come visit him. So, we got the reference and were able to visit him and teach him this week. The lesson was so great! The Spirit was so strong during the lesson and we could tell that he wanted to cry during the whole lesson but held it back. At the end, we asked him to say the closing prayer. As he ended his prayer, he started to cry and we were able to explain that what he felt was the spirit testifying that these things are true. It was a great experience not only for him but for us as missionaries. I think that after we teach him a little more that he will be baptized! He is a really cool guy! I'm so grateful for the opportunity we have to teach him because I know that this gospel can be a true blessing in his life. His mom died not to long ago. She was a member and I know that as we teach him about the plan of salvation that he will be comforted a lot. Also, just to be able to let him know that he will be able to see his mom again! I know that this gospel is the source of true happiness in this life and I'm so grateful I am able to share it with Roberto and all the other people I meet here. I'm very grateful that I had the ability to be born into a great family that had made the choice to accept and live this gospel! Many people spend most of their lives searching for the happiness that I have had since the time I was born. I'm also so grateful to know that I am part of an eternal family and that some day I will be able to start an eternal family of my own. Without this gospel, it would be impossible to have that. So this week it has gotten a lot colder here, haha. In the mornings when we wake up, we can see our breath inside our house, haha. In my bed I am fine and warm and all, but it is really hard to get up in the morning because out of my bed is so, so cold, haha. I'm doing good and adjusting! I'm so grateful to be here and have the opportunity to serve my Heavenly Father in His great work. It's crazy it has almost been another 6 weeks next Monday. We have cambios (transfers) again. I will find out this Saturday where I'm going or if I'm staying here and who my new comp will be. It is really crazy how fast the time is going by. I mean, I have almost been out 9 months and it just seems like time is flying by. I don't feel like I have been gone for 9 months. Well at times, other times, I feel like I have been gone a life time but its okay. I'm getting very excited to be able to talk to all of you at the end of this month. It is getting very close, haha. I remember getting to Mexico and thinking Christmas is forever away. Well it came fast and it's here, haha. I was also thinking by that time I will be so good at Spanish. I still feel I am not very good, but I always have to remind myself to look back to the day I got here and when I do that, I have come a long, long way, haha. My Spanish is 1000 times better then when I got here, haha. Well, I love you all so much and miss you all a ton. Thank you so much for all your letters and for your prayers. Know that I pray for all of you daily and that I am so so thankful and lucky to have such a great family! Love you!
Love,
Elder Despain
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