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Mon 5/25/09 3:51 PM
hows the bunch?Haha well sounds way busy there. Man i wanted to be there for jills grad but o well thats life huh? Yeah the karla, the lady i told you about, yeah she is already a member, she was baptized at the age of 15 and since hasnt gone to church. SO basically is like an investigator, but yeah she has an 8 year old daughter and a friend that we taught last time. The friend sounds really interested, she is catholic and has been thinking that the catholic church does some things that arent right. So yeah hopefully well at least get her to realize what the truth is. Since being out here just lets me know, how much everything that the true church of Christ does, makes sense. The great apostasy makes sooo much sense that when people truely understand it they try to obtain to the truth which then leads them to gaining a strong testimony about the restoration of the gospel and church of Jesus Christ. But any ways things are good here not many inerested people but we just had a meeting with elder alonzo from the area 70 and we will be working a ton with the ward to help activate less actives, ordain the ones that dont have the priesthood, and help those who havent been through the temple get their endowments and get sealed as families. Our ward right now maybe has at most 70 active members with 400 memebers in the ward. So yeah things arent to hot as far as the activity of the ward goes. But yeah we will spending half of our time with that and the other half finding and teaching investigators. O and i think it was tuesday or wednesday or maybe thursday haha i dont remember but there was an earthquake in puebla, but we felt it pretty strongly here in D.F. it was the second one ive been through. Luckily they havent been very strong. But everybodys all good i dont think there was much damage caused in puebla well as far as i know. Well out of things to write love you guys sooo much enjoy the summer.

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Mon 5/18/09 3:36 PM
Hola,¿Que honda mi hermosa familia? Yeah thats crazy that jill is graduating. People are getting older and its wierd. Yeah you guys best be gettin me some pics of jills grad and all. Yeah this week we found a 25 year old single mom with two kids. She seems interested and i think she feels that the true gospel will help her kids when they are growing up and with helping raising them. I just hope all goes well with her its been soo long it seems like since weve actually had somebody interested. In this area we have most success looking for less actives. Or inactives. Cause at least if they dont live there we are able to contact the person that does live there and teach them. Yeah but things are going better. I think this week will be a good one. So did you guys do anything fun with jodi and dan? So dad when does the overhaul end? It seems like you have been working straight for a month or two. Yeah but everthing is pretty normal here now. Its been cloudy and raining off and on all week. It is awesome...a little break from the heat. Well gotta go but love you guys have fun....be happy and take care. Love youuuu..Elder Crick

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Tue 5/05/09 4:04 PM
hey, well not much to say ive been bored out of my mind. We havent heard yet when well be able to go work normally. They will be letting kids back into school here the 11th of may so who knows how things are going. Umm nothing really much more im reading the bom in spanish again and jesus the christ. You should read jesus the christ ...... an awesome book. Ummm o today are changes but my comp and i are staying the same. We didnt get much to do it seems before the flu hit. But yeah im writing today cause yesterday evrything was closed for 5 de mayo. But yeah im getting excited to talk to you guys....Cant wait. O yyeah no jerky yet, im sur its in the offices but we havent had any district meetings or anything so who knows.Yeah i took out the money cause the dollar dropped a tonnnnn and then it started coming back up so i took out half just in case it went back down...which it did. So it was an alright move. Well no leadership positions for me... sorry about the disappointment. Anyways love you guys tons talk to you in 5 days i think.. Have fun enjoy the company.

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Mon 4/27/09 4:10 PM
Hey fammmmmm.,What up? Im fine, no sickness for me or my comp. at least not yet all is good here. Well yeah this flu thing is pretty crazy huh. Me and my comp just barely heard about it thursday when the government shut down all schools. Yeah yesterday was different we had no church services and we had to stay in the house all day. Yeah our president told us to clean our house extremely well. Noi trash, mop, sweep, and we need some lysol(yeah dont remember how to spell that). Yeah right now we are just waiting on orders from the pres. So who knows last night they said that tomorrow we were going to be working but who knows. Yeah not really much more going on. Still no success this change. And this is the last week of the change. But yeah its about time i heard that some progress was being made on the house. Congrats!!!! haha Yeah SO Tyson is home ........... Ill have to write him. Sorry about the short letter but i guess by now youre used to it. Love ya guys tons and tons. Anyways stay safe and have fun

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Mon 4/20/09 4:39 PM
What up fam?Well umm not much to say all of the people we have found dont even live in mexico city, they are just here on vacation. BUt they were good lessons where the holy ghost testified to them that this is true, so hopefully at least a seed was planted. We also had a really cool experience when we were knocking. Well we knock this door and this 21 yr old kid comes out. Turns out that was a business buildiing and not a house. Anyways he comes out really angry, i introduce myself and he says well frankly im not even going to listen to you if i let you teach me something so its better if you just not waste your time. Then he goes can i ask you a question i said sure and he just starts going how come americans are so racist? they just kick mexicans around and treat em like crap and a bunch of other stuff. So first elder Zamora starts talking to him really calmly, explaining the realty of it and why some people just have bad experiences when they go to the states and others prosper. Then after talking for a while and a few other questions. He calms down and says you know what i like you guys i really do. He then thanked us for answering his questions and said you know i would like to hear your message. So we shared it and he was really interested. It was a way cool lesson and he felt something i know he did. Sadly he was just a security guard there and they switch them every month or so to other areas. So we were truely guided to this door cause that was his last night there and then he was getting transfered. And hopefully that experience will lead him to want to know more and someday some other elders will knock on his door. But yeah good stuff. Umm yeah o and thanks for the videos. Im sure the jerky will be here this week. So i cant wait to eat it. Well i love you guys sooo much thanks for everything. Have an awesome week. Later

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Mon 4/13/09 5:44 PM
Hey fam.Yeah easter here hahaha there wasnt one. But yeah it just makes me sooooo angry they cant even have one day of respect. Well they worship the virgin a lot on this day i dont know why. Beats me but yeah then the rest ummm they have an event where they do a scene reenactment. Starting with the judment of Jesus to when he gets crucified. I dont know about the resurrecion. But yeah they choose somebody to be Jesus like 6 months before and he gets prepared and then he walks like a looooong ways with his cross and getting whipped(actually whipped so that he bleeds) at the same time. Then they hang him on the cross, here they just use ropes to tie him up, other places they actually nail him to the cross. Yeah i havent seen one so i dont know what all they actually do. Yeah im just glad to know the true gospel and that none of that is necessary.But man i wish it was cold here, its been so hot and dry. And we are running out of water so they just pick random days to shut off the water, so some times you wake up with no water. But we set some apart in buckets just in case. Umm virginia went on vacation so we werent able to teach her. Hopefully this week. Then this week we taught a lot of people but they all were just visiting. But hopefully we were able to plant a little seed so they can be interested and excited about the restored and true gospel. Yeah that was about it and dont think i have anything else. But i love you guys. I hope all is greatly and awesomely wonderful. Love you and have a great week

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Mon 4/06/09 5:50 PM
Hey fam,Whats up? Yeah the conference was way good. I got to watch evrything but the first session on saturday. Yeah all of the talks were sooo good. I loved how there were a lot based on trials and hard parts of life. Those will always come but basically like they were saying bring it on. No matter if its a trial or the easiest time of our life we have to enjoy every bit of it. I love how positive they always are. Yeah but good stuff. Anyways sound like itll be a party up there for the weekend. Here itll probably be a little crazy basically everybody takes off for two weeks and parties at least thats what the people say. But well see what happens. But yeah as for the comp. we get along really well. This area is still a little hard but hopefully we can be lead to the people that are prepared. We have a lady that was looking promising her name is virginia. She is Christian so well see what happens. The thing is she prayed and recieved an answer but when she went to church she was a little bored cause shes used to having a rock and roll concert in her church. But God gave her the answer now its just her choice.But yeah other than that we dont have any progressing. Well im out of things to say. But i love all of you sooooo much and thank you for all of the prayers and support. I pray for you guys everyday. Have an awesome easter. Youll have to get me some pictures from the easter gathering right? Love ya hasta luegoElder Crick