tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77149867260581209952024-02-20T21:24:27.338-08:00Elder Earl Saltillo Mexico MissionJordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-44161298841576639542016-01-12T21:43:00.002-08:002016-01-12T21:43:50.429-08:00Transfer 17 Week 5 January 11 2016This week was sweet. A couple families went to church with us yesterday. It was really cool. If you want more details you can ask me in like 9 days! I have to go!Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-72095792285476147322016-01-12T21:41:00.001-08:002016-01-12T21:41:54.238-08:00Transfer 17 Week 4 January 4 2016well this week was super cool as well. And aparently it is 2016 now! that means that i am going home this year! this month actually! in like two weeks!<br />
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Anyway we got a lot of work done this week. It was a little bit tougher this week. Because it was actually really cold. And because of the holidays most people are pretty busy. But despite of that. We still had a lot of success! </div>
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New years was really great! We had a lot of food that day! the sister that we ate with really spoiled us. The day was super fun, but night time kind of sucked. Fireworks are super popular here. But here if it doesnt explode and make the loudest noise possible then it is NOT a firework. And they keep setting them off basically all night long. So it was basically impossible to sleep that night, but i guess it was just part of the mexico missionary experience.</div>
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So yesterday we changed schedules for church. We are going at 9 in the morning now. Which is great for us because we have more time to work afterwards. But it is aparently a lot worse for the investigadors. Especially since it is cold in the mornings, because they didnt go to church yesterday. Except for one. Our investigator Ricardo went with us. It was cool because durring the services he told me that he wanted to share his testimony in sacrament meeting but that he wanted me to do it first. So i bore my testimony in sacrament meeting for the last time as a missionary and then my investigator shared his right after me, and it was a very beautiful testimony. </div>
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Well i guess that is about it. Happy New Years! and everything</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-35451596813361319022016-01-12T21:39:00.002-08:002016-01-12T21:42:23.408-08:00Transfer 17 Week 3 December 28 2015<div class="a3s" id=":221" style="overflow: hidden;">
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Well my last transfer is halfway over. and the week was super awesome! I guess that one of the most exciting things that happened this week was Christmas! On Christmas eve we were invited over by one of our investigators to eat dinner. We had one of my favorite mexican foods! Tacos de Pastor. Which is just tacos made from pig meat, It was awesome! That night they also let us use their computer to talk with our families which was super nice of them! It was great to see the family! but it will be even greater to see them in person in just a few more weeks!<br />
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This week was super sweet because we had a bunch of lessons with investigators. And a lot of them are progressing a lot! But the absolutely best christmas gift that i possibly could have recieved i got Yesterday! Two families that we are teaching went to church with us! It was an awesome day! there names are the Reyna Guzman family and the Luna Zapata family. They are super sweet! and hopefully we will be able to get them baptized before i leave. But if not i will be fine because i am possitive that they will be baptized. Obvioulsy they have problems and weaknesses just like all of us. But their faith and testimonies are super strong. And thanks to social media. Even when i am not here. i will still be in contact with all of them.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-72849021198590974242016-01-12T21:24:00.002-08:002016-01-12T21:42:15.874-08:00Transfer 17 Week 1 December 14 2015Well my last transfer has officially started, and i have already finished the first week! super crazy! On tuesday i went to the mission offices in the morning. They fed us breakfast there and then we had a few meetings before they told us who our companions were going to be. My trainee is super cool! his name is Elder Norton. He is from South Jordan, Utah and he is 18 years old. I would send pictures, but i dont have a way to send them, so you will have to wait until next week. So my new companion is really cool, we have been getting along really well. He is brand new, so he doesnt really speak spanish, but he is learning little by little every day.<br />
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I remember when i had just gotten to the mission i felt like the time went by really slowly. I was hoping that that would happen again as a trainer, but sadly the time is going by even faster than the last couple of transfers. I am not sure if i am going to be ready to leave in 5 weeks! But i guess i have to be, right?</div>
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We had a really successfull week this week. It was really cool. Probably the best part of the week was on Saturday. We went to visit an investigator named Blanca. We got there, and her entire family was there! We taught the Restoration to all of them! there was a total of 8 people there listening to us! It was a really cool and very spiritual lesson. They seemed to be really excited about the lesson and they all said that they wanted to go to church with us yesterday! But unfortunately they weren´t able to because yesterday we watched the dedication of the Tijuana Mexico Temple. So we had to emplain to them how the temple is a very sacred place and in order to watch the dedication we have to prepare ourselves by being baptized, confirmed, and by obeying the commandments of God. They seemed to understand really well, and they agreed to go to church with us this coming sunday.</div>
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My companion tried doing his first contact this week! It was a little funny. He tried to knock a door, and when the person opened the door he litterally just closed the door in his face! It was kind of funny, because that almost never happens here, and it was just super unlucky to have that happen your first time! But it was okay, because my companion is a super good sport. So he is fine. </div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-82376613897251251272016-01-12T21:22:00.002-08:002016-01-12T21:42:06.015-08:00Transfer 16 Week 6 December 7 2015Well, the tranfer is officially over so i am going to start my last transfer (My last 6 weeks) tomorrow! I am super excited! we have the new transfers, it should be a really good last transfer.<br />
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This week was really cool. The most interesting this that happened this week was the Christmas Conference. It was really cool. On friday all of the missionaries here in saltillo got together for the conference. So there was about 80 of us as well as the mission president and his wife. It was a lot of fun. We had a gift exchange! we ate tamales! and we just chatted for a while. I got to see a lot of Elders that i hadnt seen in quite a while, so it was super cool. For the gift exchange i got a newton´s cradle, a pen and a journal from an Elder named Elder Gallegos. But unfortunately i already broke the Newton´s cradle. It was cool while it lasted...</div>
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Then later on we all went to a park here in saltillo calle La Alameda. It is a really nice park. There we did a contacting activity. And we showed the new church christmas video A Savior is Born with a projector there in the park. There were also some Elders and sisters singing chritmas hymns in another part of the park. It was a really good activity and we had a lot of success doing it.</div>
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Anyway, that is about everything for this week. So i am staying here in my same area, which means that I am ending here! My companion Elder Hopper is being changed to Acuña. Which is super sweet, but really far away. So he has to catch an 8 hour bus ride tomorrow to get there. I dont know who my new companion is, because i am going to be training a greenie for my last 6 weeks! It should be fun. I am going to meet him tomorrow. Well i guess that is it.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-16295914767842340682015-12-02T13:36:00.002-08:002015-12-02T13:36:27.508-08:00Transfer 16 Week 5 November 30 2015Well this week was really great. We have had a lot of success lately with finding new families to teach. So that has been great. We have been really busy lately which has been awesome! So nowadays we have a few dates set with our investigators for baptisms. So this next week we have transfers, and if i stay here i should have a few baptisms next transfer which is also going to be my last transfer! So i am pretty sure that i am going to be staying here for my last transfer. But we will see.<br />
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So this week we had thanksgiving! I hope all of you had a great Turkey Day! There aren´t many people here that celebrate thanksgiving, but luckily the stake president here does and he invited all of the missionaries from my zone to his house <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_410415866" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on t\Thursday</span></span></span> to eat a thanksgiving meal! It was really good! we had turkey, mashed potatoes, salad, roles, and even pumpkin pie! there are 25 missionaries in my zone right now, so all of us were in his house as well as the Mission president and his wife, and the family of the stake president. Fun fact! the son of my stake president here is in the Torreon mission and Elder Bryan Earl knows him. Then in the night time we had one of our investigadors invite us over to eat a thanksgiving dinner as well! We ate a lot that day. Hopefully i will be sending some pics next week.</div>
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This next week we are going to have a chrismas activity for the mission. We are going to have a contacting/caroling activity in a park here in Saltillo <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_410415867" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Friday</span></span></span>, and then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_410415868" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Saturday<span style="color: black;"> we are going to have a white elephant gift exchange and do some other activities. today we went downtown to buy the gifts for the exchange. It should be pretty fun.</span><div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-62224995306445317082015-12-02T13:29:00.000-08:002015-12-02T13:33:10.895-08:00Transfer 16 Week 4 November 23 2015Well this week was really good. We had a lot more lessons this week than we usually do. So that was exciting.<br />
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This Sunday was the primary program in my ward. It was really good. On Saturday in the morning we went to the chapel to practice with the primary children because we sang a song with them yesterday during the program. It was a lot of fun. I have always really liked going to the primary program (except for when I was still in primary) because all of them are still so innocent, and sometimes kids can just be hilarious. I feel like I haven´t sent pictures in a while...I´ll see what I can do about that next week...</div>
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(From left to right) Elder Merrill (Kennewick, WA), Elder Mera (Hidalgo, MX), Elder Bedoya (Colombia), Me (Moses Lake, WA), Elder Fernandez (Bolivia), Elder Hopper (Atlanta, Georgia)</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-69890675811373413182015-12-02T13:27:00.001-08:002015-12-02T13:27:57.574-08:00Transfer 16 Week 3 November 16 2015Well this week was really good. My mission president had to have surgery this last week, so we were all a little bit worried about him, but I saw him yesterday and he seems to be recovering really well.<br />
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-84006742020885893242015-11-14T14:09:00.001-08:002015-11-14T14:09:05.380-08:00Tranfer 16 Week 2 November 9 2015Well i dont have much time to write this week. We had a service project today and it took longer than we originally expected.<br />
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I am doing really well and we had another really good week here in Saltillo. The most exciting thing that happened this week is finding a new family to teach! It is always a really good feeling when you get to teach an entire family together. The spirit is always super strong especially when we testify about the importance of the family and the fact that through the power of the preisthood our families can be together forever! So far we have had 3 lessons with them, and so far they really like the message. We are going to continue working and helping them and hopefully someday soon they will be baptized in the church of Jesus Christ. </div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-84301275494625590442015-11-14T14:08:00.002-08:002015-11-14T14:08:10.385-08:00Transfer 16 Week 1 November 2 2015<div>
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So far this transfer has gone really well. They didn´t transfer any of the 6 missionaries in my ward, so it feels like basically nothing has changed. My old companion Elder Gallardo from Ecuador is in my District now, which is super cool. He is a really good friend. </div>
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We really focused this week on trying to find new investigators in our area in order to have some new people to teach this transfer. Truthfully this area is one of the hardest areas that i have had when it comes to finding people who are willing to hear us. But luckily i have come to the point in which rejection doesn´t really phase me. Sure i feel sad for the people who may never get to hear the message of the restoration, but i am reminded of somthing that my mission president told us in a conference not to long ago. Everytime someone rejects us that just means that we are one person closer to finding a person prepared to accept the gospel. I am also thnkful to be in Mexico, because i know that there are other missions that have an even harder time than here. So by the end of the week we were able to find 6 new investigadors to teach, and we are hoping that by the end of this week we will be teching another family as well.</div>
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Everything else is going really well. My companion and I still get along really well. I am happy! and i am glad that the Lord is letting me be a full-time missionary for another 12 whole weeks!</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-78154061339156874962015-11-14T14:06:00.001-08:002015-11-14T14:21:39.630-08:00Transfer 15 Week 6 October 26 2015Well the week went really well, and it went by super fast! i can´t believe how fast the time has been going lately. The transfer has officially ended, which means that we got all of the transfers today.<br />
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We had quite a bit of work this week. It was really good. We found a few more investigators and one of our investigators went to church with us yesterday. I wouldn´t say that my area is one of the easiest areas in my mission, but i have grown to really love it, and i have seen a lot of success and progress in the time i have here. </div>
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So something super crazy happend this week...Aparently there was a giant hurricane here in mexico. It was super weird because i didnt hear anything about the hurricane until the day that it actually hit. I heard that it was the strongest hurricane in all of history, but apparently it didnt do nearly as much damage as everyone was expecting. Which is great. Here in Saltillo it just rained a lot. It kind of sucked because when it rains the streets all flood, but i am not going to complain.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-9301956831871505252015-10-19T20:54:00.001-07:002015-10-19T20:54:17.705-07:00Transfer 15 Week 5 October 19 2015Well we had another really good week. I dont have much time to write
today because we went downtown to buy some sarapes. A sarape is like a
colorful blanket that is originally from saltillo. They are pretty cool,
so i bought some since i am actually ending the mission pretty soon.
They are kind of like a mexican poncho but they dont have the slot to
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not much happened that is really worth mentioning. We had a good lesson
with one of our investigators Andy. He says that he is going to think
about and pick a date for his baptism. That is something fairly new that
we are implementing in our mission. Instead of inviting an investigator
to be baptized on a certain date, we have them pick their own date. I
think it is a good idea. I am not sure how many missions are doing it,
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Everything else is going well. We only have one more week left in this
transfer so we are going to keep working and finish strong. I am pretty
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-75427073928254716712015-10-16T14:15:00.002-07:002015-10-16T14:15:14.649-07:00Transfer 15 Week 4 October 12 2015Well. We had another really good week this week. But i dont have much time to write so i am not going to write much.<br />
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We had a zone conference this week. It went really well. Our president talked to us about Faith. It was really interesting. It is so strange how a principle that seems so simple can be so deep and interesting. We also talked about inviting people to make and keep commitments. Which is something that we do a lot as missionaries. It went really well.</div>
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This week was really good. We had quite a few lessons and we have three investigators that seem to be progressing fairly well. One is named Oscar, and the other one is a couple named Guillermo and Norma. </div>
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On Wednesday at like 8 at night a drunk guy in the street started to talk to us. Which is something that happens quite often here, especially in my area. Luckily the drunk people here are really nice, but this one was a little TOO nice. After talking for like 2 minutes or so he grabbed my face and pulled me down and kissed me on the cheek! it was really weird and truthfully it made me a little mad, but then he did the same thing to my companion. So i just started to laugh. It was an interesting experience, but we both had a laugh about it as we were walking to the next meeting.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-49391556140955636322015-10-16T14:13:00.002-07:002015-10-16T14:13:21.755-07:00Transfer 15 Week 3 October 5 2015It was another really good week. The transfer is already halfway over, and luckily everything is going well. I really like my area still, we have a lot of investigators, we continue to find more people to teach every week, and i still get along well with my companion.<br />
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Well, truthfully there wasn´t anything really all that exciting that happened this week. We had quite a few lessons, and on Friday i did divisions with an Elder named Elder Nay. He is from St. George, Utah. The divisions went really well. We stayed in my area. I get along really well with Elder Nay, so the day was really cool. He has been in the mission for almost a year.</div>
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This weekend was General Conference! it was amazing! I had a really great time, and it was the first time in the mission that i was able to watch the conference in English. Spanish is great, but i definitely like the conference more in English. The traslators can´t convey the emotion that you can hear in the speakers own voice. I would say that my favorite talk was Elder Robert D. Hales. I am pretty sure that is was in the Saturday Afternoon session. I also really liked the idea of ¨Ponderizing¨ a scripture every week. And it is definitely something that i would like to apply.</div>
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It was also really amazing to see the three new Apostles called to service. I really enjoyed all of their testimonies. I am sure that they will make great Apostles. </div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-88536591400780539432015-09-30T11:13:00.002-07:002015-09-30T11:13:22.927-07:00Transfer 15 Week 2 September 28 2015Well, the week went really well. On Tuesday we had divisions and i was with Elder Domiciano all day. He is from Brazil. It was really cool, but sometimes it was really hard to understand his accent. And this is only his 4th transfer, so when he doesnt know the spanish word he would just say the word in Portuguese. A lot of the time i could undertand what he was saying, but other times no. But it was cool. He taught me a bit of Portuguese, but i have forgotten most of what i learned. I is kind of like speaking spanish, but you just say it weird...That is probably the best way i could explain Portuguese. He also gave me a coin from Brazil, so it ended up being a pretty successful day!<br />
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The week was great! we found 7 new investigators this week knocking doors. And i think that about half will probably progress. We have a new investigator named Oscar. He has a bunch of problems with a lot of different things. But luckily he has the desire to change, and i know that the Gospel can help him do it! i have seen it happen before! A lot of people here say "La gente no cambia" or "People dont change". A lot of people believe that that is true, but one of the things that i have learned here is that that is definitely not true! we all have the capacity to change. And our Savior Jesus Christ is willing and able to help us do it! I have seen a lot of people change for the better here, and i have seen myself change a lot as well.</div>
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I am doing great, and i am looking forward to this coming week. This week it really hit me how much time i have here, and how much time i have left. I am not ready to go yet! I just hope that i can do a lot of good in these next 4 months.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-55124141910521282672015-09-30T11:10:00.001-07:002015-09-30T11:10:49.464-07:00Tansfer 15 Week 1 September 21 2015Well, the new change has started, and so far it has been really great! My new companion Elder Hopper is super cool! We are getting along really well, which is always great. It is super hard to work efficiently if you don't get along with your companion. Have you seen "Meet the Mormons"? Turns out the bishop from Atlanta that is in that movie is my companions Stake President! Which means that my companion knows a famous person! Which means I know someone who knows a famous person! So that is pretty exciting.<br />
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We had a really good week together in our area. We found 7 new investigators to teach and we did a lot of contacts.</div>
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So i talked a bit about our investigator Luis last week. We had a lesson with him yesterday that went really well. He is super excited to be sealed to his family! so yesterday we made a list of goals and plans for him to prepare to enter the temple. We explained the Gospel of Jesus Chirst and the importance of all of the priciples that it contains, as well as the importance of the ordinaces of the preisthood. He is super excited to learn and to start applying everything that he has been learning. He said the closing prayer in the lesson, and we could all feel the spirit super stong. Especially when he asked God to bless his family so they can accept the Gospel as well. Because so far his family hasn't been quite as excited about all of this as he has. </div>
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We also were able to find a new family to teach this week. It is the grandson of one of the sisters in our ward, his wife, and his two children. We had our fist lesson with them on saturday, and it went really well. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel. They had a lot of questions, and they accepted all of the invitations that we gave to them. We are hoping that they are going to progress. </div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-76172704264553678942015-09-30T11:01:00.001-07:002015-09-30T11:08:19.258-07:00Transfer 14 Week 6 September 14 2015So the change is over and we have our new changes, and i have to say the changes really surprised me this time.<br />
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The week ended up being super cool! We had a lesson with and investigator that is named Luis. We discussed temples and the ordinances that we do inside them. He really liked it and he told us that he wants to be baptized so he can be sealed to his family. His son Andy (Ya like from Toy Story) is also listening and accepting the message. And today we are going to have another lesson with them and we are going to invite the entire family to be baptized. </div>
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Other than that we also got to watch the rededication of the Mexico City Temple via satelite yesterday! It was an amazingly spiritual experience and i feel super blessed that i was able to see it. And it was super sweet because a less active family that we have been teaching got to go as well!</div>
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Anyway so this morning we got our changes. I was almost positive that i was going to stay here with my same companion because we both only have 6 weeks in this area, but my companion is being changed to Piedras Negras! And i am going to stay here. My companion is going to be Elder Hopper. I dont know him very well. I have just seen him like 2 times, but i know that he has been here for about 5 months and that he is from Georgia. I was kind of bummed, because i actually wanted to stay with Elder Miller because we get along great, but i am sure that i will get along really well with Elder Hopper as well.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-24544984501281859152015-09-13T16:19:00.001-07:002015-09-30T10:58:30.012-07:00Transfer 14 Week 5 September 7 2015Well this last week ended up being pretty good. But i have decided that i
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teaching a new family! they are really great! They were actually being
taught by the missionaries about a year ago, but we dont really know why
they stopped visiting them. Some of the members of the family have even
been to church before. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ through the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the Spirit was
really strong. It was a great lesson and we explained a lot about the
Preisthood and how there family can be blessed through it. They all
accepted the invitation we gave them to be baptized, and they want to go
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-23853720169485793672015-09-13T16:18:00.001-07:002015-09-13T16:18:20.530-07:00Transfer 14 Week 4 August 31 2015Well i dont have much time to write. But i did have a really good week
this last week. I got a little stomach flu, but it didnt really affect
me all that much and i feel a lot better now. So we had a buch of
lessons this week and we found some more people to teach. Two of our
investigators went to church yesterday, and i think that one of them
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paint there house. it was pretty fun. Other than that the week was
pretty normal, but really good. I am still getting along great with my
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-58835153390398925632015-09-13T16:15:00.003-07:002015-09-13T16:15:50.563-07:00Transfer 14 Week 3 August 24 2015Well this last week was pretty good, but it was a little tough too. But
something amazing did happen. On Tuesday i finally aquired some
chocolate muffins from Costco! A Costco opened up here in Saltillo in
June and i have been trying to get some muffins ever since. And it
finally happend on Tuesday! And thankfully they tasted exactly the same
as they do in the U.S., But unfortunately they are all gone, and it
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started to teach a christian family here in our area. They have some
beliefs that are pretty different than what we believe in. Especially
when i comes to Sunday Worship. They say that in their chuch they have
music and they dance, and people faint when they are overcome by the
spirit and the people speak in uncomprehensible languages. So we had a
lesson with them, and it was the first time that i was really a part of a
real ¨Bible bash¨. It was a lot of fun. Luckily the family is really
cool so there wasn´t too much contention. And i think that they actually
understood what i was trying to tell them. So I was able to talk them
into reading 3 nephi chapter 11. and they also fed us dinner. Afterwards
the brother asked my companion if he could pray for him. My companion
told him that he could and the brother asked him to stand up. So he did.
Then the Brother told my campanion that he was going to faint and you
should have seen my companions face! He looked so scared! So luckily i
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guess they were afraid of losing again, and that this time i would
actually talk them into being baptized! But seriously, they actually did
know a lot about the Bible, a lot more than i do truthfully. I guess we
just interpret it in a different way. But it was a lot of fun
truthfully. He would share a scripture, then i would share a scripture,
then he would, then i would. Then i would share my testimony and there
is no way that he could argue with a testimony. I hope that we can see
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Yesterday, but unfortunately only one person showed up. But i was still
pretty happy that that one did go. We had Stake conference this week. it
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-69940151389220908662015-08-19T06:45:00.000-07:002015-08-19T06:45:04.472-07:00Transfer 14 Week 2 August 17Well we had a really great week again. My companion and i basically have the area down. Which is awesome because we learned it super fast. So now I almost never have to use the map unless i am searching for a referral. We found a lot of new investigators this week and we had an investigator go to chuch with us.<br />
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The coolest thing that happend this week was finding a new investigator named luis. We were looking for some of the less-active members in our area so we knocked on his door. The member had moved a while ago but we started to talk to Luis when he opened the door and he let us into his house to talk. The most interesting think about Luis is that he is completely blind. It happend about 3 years ago. But despite that he is a very pòsitive and friendly person. I cannot imagine how hard it would be to lose my eyesight. He is a very strong person. We talked a lot about the plan of salvation. Especially everything that is going to happen after this life when we die. He was unsurprisingly very interested in the Resurrection and the fact that we will all be given perfect bodies thanks to Jesus Christ and His Atonement. It was a really powerful lesson and he says that he wants to go to church with us. </div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-82314686275299345182015-08-19T06:44:00.001-07:002015-08-19T06:44:11.560-07:00Transfer 14 Week 1 August 10 2015So in tuesday I arrived to my new area with my new companion. Like i said last week my new companion is named Elder Miller he is from Grand Junction, Colorado. He has almost been a missionary for 6 months and he is really cool! We get along well, and we had a lot of success this week!<br />
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So most of the week was spent meeting all of the members and investigators that live in our area. Which was great because we have a lot of really cool people in the area. We have and investigator named Ricardo who is super excited to be baptized! he has read the whole Book of Mormon and he has an extremely strong testimony of the Gospel. Unfortunately he needs to get married before he can be baptized. But we are hoping that he can get married very soon. </div>
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We also found a new family this week. We contacted this man in the street. He is a very active member of a different chuch. Actually i am pretty sure that he is basically the pastor, but we shared a short message about the resoration of the gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith right there in the street, and he said that he wants to hear more. He also said that he is going to go to the church with us this coming Sunday with his family. He has a wife and one daughter. He also gave us each a bag of prickly pears (Ya like the ones in The Jungle Book) which are super good! </div>
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Well i dont really have time to write any more but really a lot of things are happening in the area. Oh ya! yesterday church was great! there is a family in my ward that lived in my previous area that i had a year ago! it was really great to see them again! they live in my area and they are a really cool family.</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-47192862718360386772015-08-19T06:43:00.002-07:002015-08-19T06:43:10.870-07:00Transfer 13 Week 6 August 3 2015Well, the transfer is officially over and i am being changed tomorrow, but i will get to that later.<br />
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On Thursday we did divisions with Elder Bauzan and Elder Miller. I went to the other area with Elder Miller. And we had a really good time. He is from Colorado and he is about to finish 6 months as a missionary. The day was great we found two new investigators for his area and we made quite a few contacts. We met a guy who had previously talked to missionaries before who asked us to give a blessing to his sick friend. It was a really neat experience to see the faith of this guy who we didn´t even know to yell at us from two streets over so we could give a blessing to his friend. Elder Russell M. Nelso of the Twelve Apostles said in a talk that ``Men are that they might have joy`` and the best way to recieve true joy is to participate in Priesthood Ordinaces. I have come to know that his statement is very true.</div>
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Then on saturday we had a service activity. All of the missionaries in my zone went to one of the chapels and we washed cars for free. Truthfully i didn´t think that many people would show up, but i was wrong! we had a bunch of signs, and people just kept coming. I guess if you put ``free`` on a sign people are bound to show up. So all of the elders washed the cars while the sisters talked to the owners about the church and invited them to accept a visit to there house. We actually got quite a few referalls. So i guess it was a pretty successful activity!</div>
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Anyway so we got our changes today in the morning. I am staying in Saltillo, actually in the same zone, i am being moved to a ward called Fundadores. My companion is going to be Elder Miller. Yep! the same missionary that i did divisions with on thursday! Unfortunately we are both going to be new to the area so we are going to have to figure everything our by ourselves. But it should be a lot of fun!</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-80278721738546351082015-08-19T06:41:00.003-07:002015-08-19T06:42:15.649-07:00Transfer 13 Week 5 July 27 2015<div class="a3s" id=":nr" style="overflow: hidden;">
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So we had another fairly good week, except for the fact that me and my companion both got a pretty bad cold. We are basically fine now, but it was pretty rough for a while. </div>
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So basically we had to go to the doctor almost every day this week. My companion is going to get a minor surgery to get something from his face removed. He is fine, but there is a lot of paperwork that we had to do to get it approved by the insurance. So we had to go back almost everyday for that, and then i got a cold, and then my companion got a cold. So that was the bad part of the week. </div>
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But on the upside, even though we had to lose quite a bit of working time durring the week. It didnt really affect the number of lessons and contacts we had. Which was a huge blessing! On Wednesday we found a new investigator. His name is Miguel and we contacted him in the street. He has a lot of questions and he is interested in the message that we have, but he isnt exactly the best listener in the world. He just likes to talk a lot. He is a really interesting guy though. We are going to keep working and hopefully he will accept the message. and in the meantime we will keep searching for more people to teach.</div>
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We have transfers in a week, and i will almost for sure be transferred. Hopefully i get to stay in Saltillo though because the heat is almost unbearable anywhere else!</div>
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Jordan Earlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05445970054267680980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7714986726058120995.post-46607686280433566632015-08-19T06:40:00.001-07:002015-08-19T06:40:48.867-07:00Transfer 13 Week 4 July 20, 2015So we had another really good week here in Saltillo. On Wednesday we had a multi-zone conference with all of the missionaries in Saltillo. Because one of the Seventy came to the mission. Actually he is teh area president of Mexico, and his name is Elder Pieper.<br />
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It was a really good conference. We learned a lot! It was really cool because he shared us some experiences from his mission and his first area was in saltillo! but when he was here, there was only one ward and four missionaries in the entire city! now there are three stakes and about 70 or so missionaries. So the church here has definitely grown a lot! </div>
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So we have been teaching a less active famlily for a while about a month now. And they have been progressing really well. And yesterday there 8-year-old son was baptized. It was a really great baptism and he asked me to baptize him! I will send some pictures next week. His name is Julio. </div>
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We also have an investigator named Carlos. He is doing really well, and i am sure that he is going to be baptized within the next two months, but unfortunately i will most likely be changed before his baptism because we have changes in two weeks and i have been in this area for quite a while. </div>
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Yesterday my companion and i were talking and i spotted something on his shoulder. I wasnt sure what it was but then i realized that it was a giant cockroach! I tried staying calm, but there is something about giant cockroaches that makes you just forget all reason and freak out! so i kind of yelled at him, which mad him scream, brush the cockroach off, and stomp on it about 10 times. It wasnt super graceful but the job got done nonetheless. We were laughing for about 10 minutes after that.</div>
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