Saturday, June 11, 2011
e-mail 5.16.2011
we are working hard but we only worked ONE DAY in the whole week. monday night i got sick with some stomach poroblems and i was down almost all the way through wednesday. we worked friday and then saturday morning the two elders that moved in with us had to go buy bed close by and i as their DL went with. we had no truck to bring em back so we decided to carry them... not too heavy nor too far. so we head out. its hot... the plastic is making me sweat profusely... we were walking alooong walking allooooong and then SLAM-OOOOO i went down... i was confused for a second but then i relized that i had just fallen into an OPEN MAN HOLE!!!!!!! is that even possible? YES! i fell in but the good thing is that it was only like 3 feet deep ish... but i landed with all my weight on my left shin bone on the edge of it.... oh it hurts... haha. and i couldnt walk... so i didnt know if my leag was broken or what had happened... we went to the closest members house and they helped me with the bleeding and we checked everthing out. got my strength back and hobbled home. laid down and put it up but it swole up nasty... so i called the presidents wife and told her and she FREAKED. and sent me the the red cross to get an x-ray... this is when i realized that there was a chance that i was gonna get sent home. so i started praying that there was not the least bit of a fracture.... went and waited for the Xray tech to show and taught a lesson on Baptism in the waiting room... haha. always looking for the chance to teach. and then finally took the x rays..........................................................................................................
NOTHING!
whew...
now i just have to deal with the swelling and the pain but i am good to go ...
turns out the the President had called every zone in the mission and told them to pray for me. haha. and this week we have a mission conference and everybody is going to be staring at me all wierd... haha
we are working and i am loving it...
Elder Elrey
This is the manhole he fell into!
NOTHING!
whew...
now i just have to deal with the swelling and the pain but i am good to go ...
turns out the the President had called every zone in the mission and told them to pray for me. haha. and this week we have a mission conference and everybody is going to be staring at me all wierd... haha
we are working and i am loving it...
Elder Elrey
This is the manhole he fell into!
e-mail 5.2.2011
Sorry, folks! Been kinda busy and Jeff hasn't really been writing too much about what he's doing. But alas, here I am catching up! Enjoy! He's still awesome and I still love him to deatthhhh! :) He'll be home in 7 and a half months! WOOHOO!
1 big interesting week.
we had zone conference on tuesday and everybody sang me happybirthday and we ate pizza. that was nice. at this point its hard to pull out new information but there always inspiring thoughts and words that get me excited. haha. after that we just worked and worked but it seemed we werent having a lot of succcess. but sunday everything has changed. we had a great day saturday and almost doubled our work of the whole week. lotss of lessons and contacts. and then sunday we had some big experiences. we were about to start the first hour of church(sacrament meeting) when an inactive sister calls us crying and asking for help so we decided to leave church to find out what had happened. turns out she had faught with her husband and the both of them were angry and distraught from the experience. we had to be marraige counselors for almost 2 hours and we had them calmed down and ready to move on. we left them with the home work of giving eachother a hug and told them we would pass by later on in the afternoon. we caught the last hour of church and put appointments with the investigators that had gone. after the meetings we had lunch which took a while and we passed the weekly numbers to the zone leaders so we didnt really start working until 6. we passed by a house and visited a less active family and then went back to check on the couple who had had their little scuffle... to our surprise they had read a chapter of the Book of Mormon together and had just finished praying when we arrived. the change we saw was AMAZING. they were not yet all patched up but their hearts were in the right place and her husbadn is now working towards baptism.
after that it was 830.. gotta be home at the latest 930 so we were runnig out of time and we had one more visit planned. we went by to see an investigator named Rodrigo who has gone to shurch with his less active but faithful wife the last to sundays. we went and gave him a personal copy of the Book of Mormon and i asked him how he had felt about baptism and he told me that he and his wife had talked it over and that he wanted to be baptised. YES YESYESSSSS.. i asked him if remebered the goal that we had put and he said no so i told him that he was going to be baptised this saturday (7 of May) and he said it was good. haha. so now he is content and progressing towards his baptism. i
it was a sunday full of miracles. haha.
probably the most interesting sunday of my life.
and today we got up early and played some ball and then played RISK
haha. not quite the most exciting day but fun none the less.
i love you all and i know that there is power in obedience to the Lord and his Commandments.
Love,
Elder Elrey
1 big interesting week.
we had zone conference on tuesday and everybody sang me happybirthday and we ate pizza. that was nice. at this point its hard to pull out new information but there always inspiring thoughts and words that get me excited. haha. after that we just worked and worked but it seemed we werent having a lot of succcess. but sunday everything has changed. we had a great day saturday and almost doubled our work of the whole week. lotss of lessons and contacts. and then sunday we had some big experiences. we were about to start the first hour of church(sacrament meeting) when an inactive sister calls us crying and asking for help so we decided to leave church to find out what had happened. turns out she had faught with her husband and the both of them were angry and distraught from the experience. we had to be marraige counselors for almost 2 hours and we had them calmed down and ready to move on. we left them with the home work of giving eachother a hug and told them we would pass by later on in the afternoon. we caught the last hour of church and put appointments with the investigators that had gone. after the meetings we had lunch which took a while and we passed the weekly numbers to the zone leaders so we didnt really start working until 6. we passed by a house and visited a less active family and then went back to check on the couple who had had their little scuffle... to our surprise they had read a chapter of the Book of Mormon together and had just finished praying when we arrived. the change we saw was AMAZING. they were not yet all patched up but their hearts were in the right place and her husbadn is now working towards baptism.
after that it was 830.. gotta be home at the latest 930 so we were runnig out of time and we had one more visit planned. we went by to see an investigator named Rodrigo who has gone to shurch with his less active but faithful wife the last to sundays. we went and gave him a personal copy of the Book of Mormon and i asked him how he had felt about baptism and he told me that he and his wife had talked it over and that he wanted to be baptised. YES YESYESSSSS.. i asked him if remebered the goal that we had put and he said no so i told him that he was going to be baptised this saturday (7 of May) and he said it was good. haha. so now he is content and progressing towards his baptism. i
it was a sunday full of miracles. haha.
probably the most interesting sunday of my life.
and today we got up early and played some ball and then played RISK
haha. not quite the most exciting day but fun none the less.
i love you all and i know that there is power in obedience to the Lord and his Commandments.
Love,
Elder Elrey
Monday, April 18, 2011
e-mail 04.11.2011
felt my first legitamate earthquake this week. and i am proud to say that i survived. haha.
i think it was thursday morning in our study hours we were in our second story room house thing and it started to wobble around and i thought i was drunk or something... so then i look out the window and the whole city was dancing around... haha. i felt awesome... and personally i dont think it lasted long enough... they say it was like a 6 on the scale. my comp says it is the second one he has felt in his time here in Coatza so mabe there are more coming. im watching out because i have been warned of earthquakes in diverse places before... haha.
defitintely something that i wont be forgetting.
wow... my first earthquake.
Elder Elrey
i think it was thursday morning in our study hours we were in our second story room house thing and it started to wobble around and i thought i was drunk or something... so then i look out the window and the whole city was dancing around... haha. i felt awesome... and personally i dont think it lasted long enough... they say it was like a 6 on the scale. my comp says it is the second one he has felt in his time here in Coatza so mabe there are more coming. im watching out because i have been warned of earthquakes in diverse places before... haha.
defitintely something that i wont be forgetting.
wow... my first earthquake.
Elder Elrey
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Pictures, e-mail 4.4.2011
This guy was baptized this last confrence weekend.
These girls were baptized the weekend before confrence weekend.
This is the dump that caught on fire from the heat of the sun.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
e-mail 03.17.2011
Subject: goood times in COATZACOALCOS pronounce that one right. i dare you...
LETS GO CATS!!!
i am pumped that ew are once again on our way to basketball powerhousing. it makes me think of the good ol days. there is no replacing Lute but i just love a winning season and DOMNATING THE PACK.
my new area is sweet. i was worried about leaving Comalcalco but Coatzacoalcos is sweet and my area is on the beach. my comp is a super hard worker even though hes white. He is from Tahoe, Nevada and we are getting along great. another bonus is that my new house has an AC unit and so we sleep nice and cold. and we live with members so we are always eating and they do our laundry. this area is a paradise and i am looking forward to a good 4-6 months here. we had our stake conference this last sunday and we did in the convention center here in Coatza... place was a humungous auditorioum. i felt like i wass in the conference center. especially because we had our conference directed by 2 of the 70. Elder Christiansen and Elder Aguila or something like that. they reorganized the stake and then we had a broadcast conference from salt lake and listen to talks from Elder Ballard and President Monson. it was sweet and super powerful. got to listen to a message from the Prophet and also had an extra hour to get some work done. i still feel wierd working on sundays but then i have to remind
myself that it is the work of the Lord and He went about His Father's work on the Sabbath as well. i am fairly certain that we are gonna have a great change here. my Comp Elder Johnston is a hard worker and i am learning from him. i am still District Leader and in my District right now are the Zone Leaders and one other companionship so i really dont do anything... the ZL's do it all. its nice.
today for p-day went walked 10 minutes to the Beach and played some catch with a local kid name Fernando. had a great time, got sun burnt, saw a flock of buzzards destroy a dead catfish in less than 30 seconds. aside from that there were a lot of beached Jellyfish. it was a blast. i thoroughly enjoyed it. the beach here has a loottttt of trash but t is pretty. if it were only a little bit cleaner. hmmmmmmm que mas?
i am now studying all of thhe major works of the church. the Bible, Book of Mormon, and D&C.
i am focusing on the new testament in English and i am learning a ton about Christ. everyday i feel edifeid to be in the Service of our FAther in Heaven and to be able to take the GOspel of Christ to every heart the i can make it to. i am grateful for the sacrifices that have been made for me to be able to be here and for the sacrifices that i have had to make. i know that the Church is true and that God is our LOVING and ETERNAL Father. be obedient and all will go well in the last day.
i love you all soo much and appreciate your support and valor,
keepeth it real,
Elder Elrey
LETS GO CATS!!!
i am pumped that ew are once again on our way to basketball powerhousing. it makes me think of the good ol days. there is no replacing Lute but i just love a winning season and DOMNATING THE PACK.
my new area is sweet. i was worried about leaving Comalcalco but Coatzacoalcos is sweet and my area is on the beach. my comp is a super hard worker even though hes white. He is from Tahoe, Nevada and we are getting along great. another bonus is that my new house has an AC unit and so we sleep nice and cold. and we live with members so we are always eating and they do our laundry. this area is a paradise and i am looking forward to a good 4-6 months here. we had our stake conference this last sunday and we did in the convention center here in Coatza... place was a humungous auditorioum. i felt like i wass in the conference center. especially because we had our conference directed by 2 of the 70. Elder Christiansen and Elder Aguila or something like that. they reorganized the stake and then we had a broadcast conference from salt lake and listen to talks from Elder Ballard and President Monson. it was sweet and super powerful. got to listen to a message from the Prophet and also had an extra hour to get some work done. i still feel wierd working on sundays but then i have to remind
myself that it is the work of the Lord and He went about His Father's work on the Sabbath as well. i am fairly certain that we are gonna have a great change here. my Comp Elder Johnston is a hard worker and i am learning from him. i am still District Leader and in my District right now are the Zone Leaders and one other companionship so i really dont do anything... the ZL's do it all. its nice.
today for p-day went walked 10 minutes to the Beach and played some catch with a local kid name Fernando. had a great time, got sun burnt, saw a flock of buzzards destroy a dead catfish in less than 30 seconds. aside from that there were a lot of beached Jellyfish. it was a blast. i thoroughly enjoyed it. the beach here has a loottttt of trash but t is pretty. if it were only a little bit cleaner. hmmmmmmm que mas?
i am now studying all of thhe major works of the church. the Bible, Book of Mormon, and D&C.
i am focusing on the new testament in English and i am learning a ton about Christ. everyday i feel edifeid to be in the Service of our FAther in Heaven and to be able to take the GOspel of Christ to every heart the i can make it to. i am grateful for the sacrifices that have been made for me to be able to be here and for the sacrifices that i have had to make. i know that the Church is true and that God is our LOVING and ETERNAL Father. be obedient and all will go well in the last day.
i love you all soo much and appreciate your support and valor,
keepeth it real,
Elder Elrey
e-mail 03.07.2011
hey heyhey heeyeyuheyheeyhe
so last night the ZLs called and informed me that i am getting transfered... NOOOOOOOO i am in love with Comalcalco and wanted at least another tranfer here. but they are sending me back to the state of Veracruz in the BIG city of Coatzacoalcos. i am half excited and half not so much but we´ll see how things go. apart from that i am bummed because i am leaving 2 people here with baptismal dates for this Saturday and one for the next. right when i get things going they always pull me out. but i half other things to accomplish i guess. the lord has it alll planned out. i know that so ill be alright. i am going to be some white guys second companion and keep being a DL so it is gonna be fun. i will make sure to send pictures soon its just that all of the computers here are lame and dont have the conections to get it sent off. aside from that there is nothing much going on. sunday i bore my testimony in our ward and i gave thanks for all of the foods and love and support that the ward had given me and everyne told me that i was leaving. and i wouldnt believe it but now i am getting kicked out of the glory that is Comalcalco. i have made tons of friends and founf lasting relationships here and i wont be able to forget the chocolate land of Comalcalco.
i know that the Lord has purpose for all things that we are commanded and sent to do. just find your purpose.
love
Elder Elrey
so last night the ZLs called and informed me that i am getting transfered... NOOOOOOOO i am in love with Comalcalco and wanted at least another tranfer here. but they are sending me back to the state of Veracruz in the BIG city of Coatzacoalcos. i am half excited and half not so much but we´ll see how things go. apart from that i am bummed because i am leaving 2 people here with baptismal dates for this Saturday and one for the next. right when i get things going they always pull me out. but i half other things to accomplish i guess. the lord has it alll planned out. i know that so ill be alright. i am going to be some white guys second companion and keep being a DL so it is gonna be fun. i will make sure to send pictures soon its just that all of the computers here are lame and dont have the conections to get it sent off. aside from that there is nothing much going on. sunday i bore my testimony in our ward and i gave thanks for all of the foods and love and support that the ward had given me and everyne told me that i was leaving. and i wouldnt believe it but now i am getting kicked out of the glory that is Comalcalco. i have made tons of friends and founf lasting relationships here and i wont be able to forget the chocolate land of Comalcalco.
i know that the Lord has purpose for all things that we are commanded and sent to do. just find your purpose.
love
Elder Elrey
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