Sent: Mon 7/27/09 5:39 PM

Hey familyyyyy,

Well this was a pretty good week. We had two baptisms yesterday a mom(Francisca)and her son(Leonardo). She is a very humble woman with a lot of problems. She is a single mom with 3 kids. She works all day monday through saturday. Her kids havent been schooled very much and they dont know how to read, that is the mom and the 9 year old dont. The other two kids are 4 years and 4 months old. But she is an example of the importance that members have in missionary work. She was a reference from a sister that has been helping her a ton. The sister owns a little bakery/restaurant and she found the lady knew her situation gave her a job, found her an apartment and then invited her to church. Shortly after she started taking the lessons and was baptized. I have only known them about three weeks and i can already see the change in them. Also yesterday we had an activity to go to the visitors center. About 60 went. We took two buses it was cool. Not very many investigators went but that also wasnt the purpose of going. We were hoping that the members would be able to strenghten their testimonies of the restored gospel and remember why we live the the way we live. And then hopefully by helping them remember and being spiritually strengthened they will feel the desire to share the gospel. It turned out great though. Too bad i wont get to see the fruits of the activity cause changes are tomorrow. I am getting changed to an area called Granjas. My comp will be elder rodriguez. So ill tell you how things go. Good luck on the house hope you get close to finishing soon . Love you guys tons and tons. Later Elder Crick

Sent: Mon 7/20/09 5:49 PM

Hey hey hey,
Well not much going on here as of now no more baptisms. This is the last week of changes so who knows who will be going or staying. No change in apartment we may not change, its more work to change. But anywho things are going good. We have an activity planned for this sunday to go to the visitors center and as of now about 90 have signed up to go. So hopefully it will be an awesome experience. And a lot are inviting families so some references should come from it. The weeks are just flying by right now next thing i know it will be friday again. O yeah we got to go to the temple that was awesome as it always is. There was also a infant stake conference they asked us to help they had trampolines and food and a ton of stuff. A lot of people walked in from the street wanting to know what was going on so we got a lot of references from that as well. O yeah did you get carpet down yet i cant remember? And when is brit. due? Its like in august isnt it? Any who sorry for the boring letter buts thats me. Thanks for being the best parents ever. Im soo greatful to have been raised in the church. I love you guys so much have an awesome week and keep up the good work. Later

Sent: Mon 7/13/09 3:43 PM
Man sounds like things are going pretty good. Good stuff eh? Well sorry to disappoint you guys but this week nothing really happened. We had a 7 hour long zone conference on wednesday and then next thing i know the weeks over. We have alot of support from the ward and it is soo cool. We are planning an activity to go to the visitors center here a few weeks. The bishop already announced it in sacrament meeting and said that all members need to support this activity by bringing an investigator, inactive, or recent convert. So i think things will go really good with that. This ward is almost ready to split but they lack active priesthood holders, so hopefully we can activate some priesthood. Tomorrow we are also going to the temple sweet!!!!!!! I havent gone there for about 4 months. I need to buy some hymn books, i forgot mine in my last ward and we need to buy martha(she got baptized two weeks ago) a hymn book. So things are going good o yeah we also might change apartments since right now we dont even live within the area. And where we live is pretty ugly. A couple of nights ago i thought i was going to have to fight cause there was a group of kids out drinking and doing drugs in the street and i think they dared one of them to go fight me. He started to walk up behind us but then stopped. So nothing happened but yeah its kind of a lose lose situation cause if i fight then all of his friends jump in but if i dont then i get the crapped kicked out of me soo....ANyways just everyday stuff. I have been so blessed and protected. So dont worry. Love you guys. Have an awesome week.

Sent: Mon 7/06/09 7:25 PM


hey,
hows it goin? well yeah this week was pretty good we had a baptism on the 4th. Martha got baptized. It was a lot of work. Satan was fighting pretty hard so we didnt have the baptism. First we get to the church and there is water still in the font( just a little) and it was way dirty. So we needed to drain it but didnt know where the switch was so we emptied it using buckets. Soo good its emtpy so we start filling it and the new water is coming out yellow so we only have like 2 hours before the baptism so we decide to baptize with the water like that. Then the water just stops the pump quit working. So we call our bishop and tell him to start filling the font at the other church. So we get to the other church and the font is dirty so we have to clean it and then we finally start filling it. Well we had the baptism planned for 7 but we ended up having it at 830. But it was awesome she was so happy and content after the baptism. But yeah it was cool, and a good 4th. After we were going to go order some pizza but didnt have time so we just went and ate some Burger King. It was pretty good. Not much more going on except we are already in the 4th week of the change and we have changes every 6 weeks. Sounds like things are going pretty good there huh? Well at least with the house and all. Thats awesome. Did you get some pics from the 4th? Youll have to send me some right? Well love you guys a million times a million and even more. Have an extraordinarily awesome week.

Sent: Mon 6/29/09 9:23 PM
Whoo hoo,
Gettin some work done up there arent ya? ....but sounds good well maybe youll get to the point to where you can move in and then stop paying rent on the trailer that way youll have a little more extra money to put into the house. Yeah well this week was cool we found a lot of new people that are excited to learn more and are progressing quickly. Ill give you updates on them as they progress. Hopefully a 17 year old kid will get baptized his name is angel. The problem is he hasnt come to church in a couple of weeks so well see how it goes. But yeah we went to this outside market( they call them tiangis) But yeah i found two pairs of brand new dr. martens for 600 pesos. Yeah im not sure if they are stolen or what but i couldnt pass up the deal. Yeah im pretty happy with that buy. We also have the investigator named martha. She is about 35 i think and we have been trying to baptize her for about two weeks , but she has some friends that tell her things and tell her that we worship the devil and stuff....yeah just a bunch of stuff when in reality they are the ones that worship satan. But yeah if you could include her in your prayers please she needs a lot of help. But yeah it was a great week and it flew by. I think this saturday for the 4th we are going to order some pizza or something so it should be fun. Well not much more to say i love you guys soooo much. que tengan buena semana y siempre sean felizes. Bye.

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Mon 6/22/09 7:03 PM
¿Que honda mi querida familia?Well im doing great. I got changed to an area called aquiles serdan. My new comp is elder arzola from chihuahua. Hes tight we are getting along really well. And the area is awesome we have a lot of people that we are taking the lessons and a bunch that are progressing. And the ward is supportive which doesnt usually happen. I think it will be an awesome change. And they built a new stake center, that was just dedicated like 2 weeks ago. Ill try to get some pics of it it is huge and wayyyyy nice. I thought i would have more to say but i cant think right now. Its been raining all week which is nice cause it makes it a lot cooler. Im just really excited about this area and i think itll be a fun one. The counselor to pres. fuentes( mission pres.) is in the ward. O and im giving english classes again which i like doing. Its always fun to get to know people. The only funny thing is that we dont even live in our area we have to walk like 10 min. before entering our area so that gets a little annoying. And we live right next door to a bar so every fri and sat. the have music blasting until about 4 in the morning ill have to admit that that makes me a little tired. But yeah everything is just great and thanks for the pics of the house. Well gotta go love you guys. Have and awesome week. And ill try to get you some pics

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Mon 6/15/09 3:54 PM
Well not much is going on this week. Tomorrow are changes yeah i have no idea as to whats happening, our stinkin leader was supposed to call last night but didnt so who knows. But yeah we baptized a 13 year old boy yesterday. His whole family was baptized about 10 years ago and then went inactive. Hopefully this time theyll stay. But yeah poor kid was deathly afraid of the water, i think he had a bad childhood experience. I dont know but it took a few tries before we could get him under. Sounds like it was an eventful week. Anyways things are good here its pretty hot but its all good. Just kinda feel stuck not knowing whether to pack or not. Sorry i dont have much to say. Hope you guys get everything worked out with g mas house. O yeah and you should send me some pics of the house. Dad said you painted it last week. Well love you guys have a fun time and dont forget to read your sciptures.