This week was a crazy fast week!!

HOLA 

This week was a crazy fast week!!  so on wednesday we had the multi zone it gt changed and it was super great i really do  love president and his wife... they are jsut fantastic!! and they sang to me on my bday!!! and then on thursday i went on splits and i interviewed 3 klids and talked with a aunt about the kids and we ended up waiting a little time but hopefully for this week they will be getting baptized.... and then karla had her baptismal interview friday in  the morning and she totally pased and she asked me to baptized her!!! what a bday gift... hahaha it was great, but the sad thing was wsa that there was more missionaries at her baptism then there was members.... haha but that was super good and next week she is going to be going to the temple.. i went to the offices today and still no package but the Elder was going to go to pick up some packages around 2 but he couldnt so he is going to tomorrow morning and he is gonna call me to let me know if one of them is mine...  I HOPE SOOOOO ha

This week.. welp tomorrow im gonna be working with the asistants after the district meeting we are going to go to the  are of casa blanca! and then come back and we are still woking with Raul we want him to get baptized on friday but he is still un sure... so if you could send pryares his way... haha and then friday i am going to be doing 4 interviews.... for baptism... i wont lie i love to do interviews.!! its great but afterwards i am just drained!! haha but its great!! soooo its gonna be another somewhat busy week trying to get Raul to be baptized this week and doing splits with the asistants and doing more interviews and hopefully getting a package... lve you all keep up the good work jax!!! i hope i can see ya play when i get back!! keep working hard!! say your prayers each night and do your part so that your hip heels good!! :) love you guys! Elder Weaver 

Wow what a very busy busy week! So happy that the work is moving forward and it sounds like its moving faster each week! Just think for a minute how things were when you first got to this area and the difference now, what a blessing you are to those people and they have been to you, learning so much and seeing your hard work pay off! Tell me names so I can add to temple prayer roll, Raul of course! And did you get to have dinner with the villanuevas?  Fingers crossed about package!!Tomorrow sounds so fun with the assistants and ill have to look up the area of casa blanca… white house? Haha!  Jax is just leaving for practice so great time for the words of encouragement…How are you? You sound very happy…get to rest today and do something fun?

yes we ate dinner with them we ate spegetti and salad and frech bread!! i hope that its my package! haha jax iss a beast he looks like he just tares things up on the field in the pics that you sent.. haha yes im happy!! !i am using the time left...50 days as a motivater to keep working hard,.. haha today we went to the ofices to get supplkies for the Zone.. went and got food and washed my Gs... thats it.. haha hey just wnated you to know that i am kind of worried abpout you guys when you come... as in the food..... the food is very strong.. haha 

Yum I bet it was good, don’t worry about us and food, we will bring along some pepto and tums and say prayers over it �:;0 haha! He does a great job and I wish that he had the confidence to go with it, some one yelling for him like you did,  haha! Can you believe we will see you next month…so so excited! I am glad to hear that you are staying motivated and continue to work hard! Leave you mark on the work!!! Still a very busy day for you today, have power and water, so funny that I have to ask week to week…. Having fhe tonight?

but you might need something stronger for your stomachs... haha ummm ill be there yelling for sure i have missed the ability to yell... but i wanna yell.... haha;) and yes we have power and agua.. no FHE.. we might go help and give service... maybe..Ok, we will look into something, do you think it is stronger than Veracruz and Villahermosa? What foods are you thinking will be different and we can start trying to adjust now-haha! So glad you have power and water! Getting good food? Yelling is good, lets out so many feelings!!! Service is a good idea, if you have the time, your city seems pretty self suffiecient compared to others you have been in, are you still attending two wards? Liking one more than the other? Which one will we attend with you? Or do we get to go to both?

yes we are in 2 wards.. we are in church from 8 to 4... haha it gets to be long sometimes.... hahaha im just not sure.... the other day we ate cow stomach.. its called Mondungo.... and wow... it was sooo hard to eat.. smelled like poop.... not being mean... and we ate it in a soup.. it was sooo hard.. my comp couldnt finsh... hahah but idk.... about the food.... haha 

Hmmmm, yea I’m not going to practice eating that, and I will pray so hard that we wont come acrossed it,  yikes…. Do very many members know we are coming? How many other elders are going home same time as you? Are the pres and Hermana madsen having a devotional for you still?

yes a few know that you guys are coming actually.... hahaha yes they are still gonna have a devotional dinner and its me and 4 other elders and 2 sisters.. Wow that is a big group leaving, I have noticed a lot of new missionaries to your area on fb with pres, so great that the work is moving so well in that area now, are protests still going on, we haven’t heard anything for sometime and kinda figured they are over? Are you staying dry lately? Get to see pres Villanueva soon?

the last 2 days it was raining but today has been clear... haha i dont know when ill seen pres villanueava again why!=? 

Just wondered, seems like such a great guy and responded to dads text and said he was happy you are there! Hope we get to meet him and his family We are making reservations this week, please give me your home address where you live right now…

we live in the Colony Ixcotel calle 16 de septiembre en la residencial doña Soila number 9 its somwhat by the baseball stadium.. 

Great we will look it up! Love you tons, be happy and prayers are with Raul, big smiles and lots of hugs!!! Enjoy every moment

Love always mom and dad

 love you guys! have a good week! Elder Weaver 

Karla got baptized! and almost the whole zone came with investigators_______________

and what was dad thinking about me playing ball...? where? 

This is your father I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO PLAY BALL ANY WHERE !!!!!!!!!!I just love to watch my son be awesome at what ever they do :))))))

hahaha thanks dad! :) love ya___________________

Dad and ball, just wait till you get home to work things out about school and ball, see how you feel and what direction you want to take your education and career…he likes to make comments and it has been hard for him to not see jacer continue but things still move forward and life is good! 😊 not to worry or stress about that now

alright.. to be honest i dont write her... unless its like once every 2 months.. haha but ill start to think more about ball and a career... i have been thinking abnd readmg my blessing... but ya..Hey  mom love ya thanks for chatting with me!! you ar the best i love you guys hope you have a great week!! !talk with ya nect week!! :) Elder Weaver

 Just remember you are super duper!!!

thanks ou too!! have a good week! love ya Elder Weaver

 

this is Raul... the one that we want to baptize this week his bday is the 30th or August.. so they cgot us a cake..

What great, great pictures, love the big smiles!! She looks so pretty in white! And so nice that they got a cake, what a great bday, one that you will never forget!! Excited for Raul!! How are things with comp? love that you love the madsens, some missionaries are so happy with mission pres and I cant imagine how hard that would be, so grateful for them and that they love you and care for you…tell me about the conference, was it all classes, and teaching, what did you learn?

things are good with comp..._______-... haha but im good the conference was super good we were all together and sister madsen taught us a little and then president and we could make comments and things like that and i told us story about the buddist white guys and made some other comments!! it was super good... its really funny cuz pres gives me sooo much crap about the UTEs... i mean just for beeing a UTES FAN.. haha 

So I will have to bring him a Utah shirt, what size would you say he is? So funny…speaking of which we went to our first home game with our own season tickets 😊 they blew out SUU so not really a game but wear red all week because this weekend is the holy war, at the U, byu has new coaches and staff and they had a big win against Arizona this weekend…makes me a little nervous…haha! Should be an exciting game!Is raul a single guy and how many times will you meet with him this week for the baptism to happen this weekend?

yes he is a single man he is 17 just turned 17... and we are going to try and see him like maybe 2 this week before his baptizm if we get him baptized... haha he might be a a XL.. just because he is soooo tall... ha were is the Holy War gonna be at?

So he is jax age, almost exactly, what a great thing to have a Spanish little bro in the field, the holy war will be at Utah, so glad, it is part of our season tickets, Do you get much physical activity besides walking anymore, for a while you were playing bball? Have you heard anything about past members from other areas and how they are doing like Jose, or Pedro, who had the leg accident? and the boys (little boys you baptized)? Any more about transfers coming up, think youll get a new one?

no i havent been able to do much exercise.. haha because we are reporting late in the night and in the morning its hard... haha to work out.. i still get on time and everythign... but ya..ha and 2 sundays ago a family from my first area came to my ward and they saw m,e and they were shocked at how well i was talking.. because when i was there i couldnt talk anbything.... haha but i heard that Pedro is working and goes to church every once and a while.. and the kids are doing good..

You still look great, for not get to exercise, I’m jealous! And how great that you get kind of a progress report about your language, what a great compliment on your hard work with learning the gospel in a language and how funning that they came to your ward, there are no coincidences in the gospel…._______________!How is the Martinez family? You had me put their names in the temple a month ago and haven’t said much about since…So what is casa blanca? Is it far?

i just wrote him.... :) and casa blanca is somewhat close to the temple... kind of... haha but they are doing good they are maiking things work.... but they are going to be changing wards in like november.... 

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So will you get to go to the temple with Karla? Will she get her endowments already or do baptisms for the dead…I think it is great that so many elsers showed up but I agree she needs the wards support too for her baptism…I will add Martinez family to the list again, I have a ponderize…2 Nephi 32:3 do you have one?

im gonna ask to see if we can go to the temple with her.. and she is only gonna do baptizms for the dead.. she has to wait a yr to get her endowments out..and my ponderize is moroni 7 verse 5

Great scripture!! You are good! �:):): feelings about transfer and new comp?

in the interviews i asked pres. and i am pretty sure that ill stay with Eler Ringle until i end... haha 

Hmm well there must be a purpose for his plan and keep chin up and work hard, till the end, like you are and blessings will come, of love and patience �

So happy that you sound so happy!!! Love Mondays to hear how things are in your part of the world, during the week I think of so many things to tell you and ask and then I forget, I really should keep a list-haha, but I love hearing about your experience and seeing how you are growing and your testimony is so great of the work and the people you are serving I am so very proud of you! Do you have goals for the next 50 days?

thanks!! haha i am happy to hear your testimony aswell!! thanks! haha and i have the goal not to die.. like im not gonna stop being obedient.. 

Great goal to have your whole life even, all of us should,  and what a blessing to know that if we slip we can repent

I love you too and hope that you have a very fantastic week ahead of you full of blessings and safety, please follow the promptings and be well, tell comp to be happy! Fingers crossed you get your package and treasure Mondays soooo much-God bless you justeroo, be happy and smell the flowres,

Love mom

xoxxos

i am super happy and ready for this week!

 thats KArla and her daughter..

 IRON MAN

 the FHE...

 this is the guy that was going to take me out for dinner but coudnt so he bought me a cake.. hermano Laytan

 the stake Presidnet President Junco.. and his counsiler Villanueva.. 

Junco looks like such a little guy, is he American? Game looks very fun and holy cow your hair looks great so short!!

nope he is Oaxacan.. and we are actaull going to be mtg with him on tuesday.. haha 

Hola Familia, this week was a good week!! i am super happy and ready for this week! congrats jax on beating Jordan! keep ballin in up and youll get that starting place! i know it! well this last week we didnt have do splits with the newbie.. but Elder Lindsay came here with me and my comp went ot his area.. they have been having some hard times with the area... but me and Elder Lindsay talked with a american from Boston and his wife aswell.. and he was a member when he was younger.. and now he is a buddist, and his wife is like a Jewish protenstant... and wow that lesson was weird.. me and Lindsay thought it was gonna be SWEET because we were going to talk in English... but wow it was weird... the guy thinks that moroni is a alien.. and the wife is jsut super wacked... haha but we are gonna see what happens... haha Karla is doing great!! she cut my hair and it looks good i really like it actually.. and she is all good for this week!! we had a FHE on friday night for the RM and we werent jsut in charge of the games for the kids.. but for everyone.. and it was great we ended up killin it!! we played the cookie game were you had to put the cookie on your head and move it to your mouth... and alot of the member loved it!!! it was sick!!  and interviews was good"!! President is great! i checked again with our plans and thats all good!!!  and he told me that its more than likey that ill die here.. or ill end my mission here in this area!! and the dinner with that family got cancelled.. because he had something for work.. but he still bought me a cake!! and he is waiting for the beef jerky.. haha i still havent gotten my package.. or any letters... nothing has got here.. so im hoping for this week....

NOW for this week we have a multi zone on wed.. and its gonna be in Montoya.. and. i am super excited about it i love conferences! haha and then thursday ill be in Violetas going on Splits and ill be with Elder Reyes again and im gonna do 4 baptism interviews... and work there a little bit.. im gonna be spiritually drained.. ha and then friday in the morning we are coming back and Elder Reyes will interview Hna Karla.. and then her baptism will be on saturday!! sooooo its gonna be a good busy week!!! im excited!! and just have a few Qs..

Can you send me jaxs number and jaces?

ANd i need to know some of our flight plans.. what air port are we going to be flying to and times.. i know that we are leaving thursday but what is our flying plans? to what airport to what airport..?? haha 

Love you mom and dad!! thanks for the love and care!! keep being fantastic!! you guys are the best!!!! :))) Love Elder Weaver

Love to hear that you have had such a good week and sound so happy!! Sorry you haven’t gotten package yet, we are praying it gets there soon!  Jax number is801-725-5292 jace is 801-725-0919 are you going to call them? Haha! I will try and send a copy of our flight plans 😊 the pictures are awesome! Hope that you get to have a bday celebration this week! And you sound like you have a very busy week ahead full of travel…are you in charge or get to do anything for the conference? How far away is Montoya?  Tita? Still teaching her? Tell Karla that we are so happy and excited for her! And would love to meet her when we come! Are you happy about ending there?

thankSS me too!! haha maybe ill have someone call them.. i got the copy thanks!! we jsut got the deviotional ready... and montaya is like an hour away.. 45 min.. tita is doing good,... still going a little bit.. she left this week and got back friday.. yes im happy about ending here!! its gonna be good i like the area and the members.. 

So very happy to hear that you are happy there and like the area and people!  Do the flight plans look ok? Airports ok? Does karla cut hair for a living? How old is her daughter and did you get to teach her as well…did you see the bday wishes, I will send more next week as I am positive tons will come on the 31^st….will you be on divisions on your bday? So tell me, why did the guy think Moroni was an alien…because he is gold-haha! That makes for an interesting religious mix, buddahis, jewish and protestan?

ya flight plans are all good!!! and yes she cuts hair for a living. and her daughter is 7 and turns 8 in november.. yes i saw the bday wishes.. thanks!! umm ill be in the multi zone and so theyll sing to me for my bday... haha :) i know honestly it was suuper hard to teach them.. tthey are somewhat special.. i never would have thought to fnd an american buddist and a american jewish protestant in mexico.... haha 

Awesome you will have lots of people to celebrate with!!! So is her daughter planning on getting baptized in November?  We got to attend the ysa ward with dad yesterday and I was so impressed by the strong testimonies of the young adults there and their willingness to participate in the lessons….I am excited for dad and his new opportunities…we are going to a bbq tonight at the college chapel for all the new kids that come to school for the fall. Dads ward is strictly kids in housing for school so lots of different people, mostly girls, Jordan and jax came too and both agreed Jordan needs to visit more and maybe find some dates there 😊 any ways should be a fun fhe…jax would like to attend the ward on Sundays when they have linger longer food-haha! That kid always eating! But like you still trim.

What are you doing for fhe?

yes she is really excited actaully and wants to get baptized!!  and thats awesome good for them!! i hope that its gonna be a good blessing for dad and for jordan as well!! haha tonight we don't have a FHE... 

Guys just got home from work and say hi and happy bday week! They have been digging a basement all day, it kinda warmed up today to about 88, I love it not ready for fall yet-do you still have power and water on? Any more headaches? What did you prepare for devotional?

tell them thanks! and yes we had water and power all week and all good with headaches.. no worries.. :)  we just ahd to get some elders and sisters to help out witht the prayer and objective and sec 4 of DC.. 

Any service opportunities last week, I know that you were super busy teaching…and that is a great service in and of itself!

to be honest not really..... sadly.. but nooo.. 

Not sadly, it is great that you have been busy teaching and preaching the gospel! This week I am trying to prepare my lesson for relief society on Sunday and I thought since the kids went back to school I would talk about Education and continuing to learn and grow your brain. This part makes me smile every time I read it….I know it’s a little long but its awesome…One of the basic teachings of the Church is that the knowledge we gain in this life will be a blessing to us now and in life after death: “If a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come” (D&C 130:19).

Learning is necessary for progress in any phase of our lives. Continued learning is an important part of the gospel. To live the gospel we must learn its truths. Consequently, the prophets have instructed us to study the scriptures regularly. Elder William J. Critchlow Jr. told of giving special instructions to home teachers about motivating those they visited to read the scriptures:

“Once, as president of a stake, I sent the home teachers into the homes of the Saints to read as their lesson verses of related scripture found in the four standard works. I instructed them to take no books with them—to borrow instead the family books. What they found was surprising:

“—In many homes there was a lot of searching and dusting off before the books were available.

“—Young people who had been married a short time were generally without the books unless the husband was a returned missionary.

“—One good brother said, ‘We packed all our books in a trunk when we moved here. It’s in the attic and I can’t get to it tonight.’ When asked how long he had lived there, his wife found the courage to answer, ‘Seven years.’

“—Another wife said she didn’t know why her husband had never purchased a Pearl of Great Price. ‘We have the other books,’ she said. She was a bit embarrassed when she learned that it was found with her Doctrine and Covenants.

“—One wife said, ‘I’ll have no trouble finding the Bible. My husband keeps it in his reading room.’ The teachers watched her go directly to the bathroom and come out with the Bible in her hand.

“Well, we didn’t care where our folks read them. The whole idea was to get them out of hiding and into the family room, in plain sight, so that occasionally they could turn off the radio or television set and read them” 

wow!!! thats awesome!!! haha good for you!! !thats gonna be great!! hey how is maddy doing with her foot?? maddy b

I asked about her Saturday and Lanni said it is still bothering her, they didn’t get it all and want to go in deeper and freeze it out, but I think that they are hoping she can wait till she gets home (6 months) and take care of it then, the doc doing it is a dermatologist and I think that she made need a different kind of doc and some American help….I know that she has been a little discouraged about that and her comp right now is a really hard one and so their numbers are down and her dl, I think, got on her case about the whole thing and meeting number goals, Jordan said that she was going to write her and try and encourage her and I am sure that she would love to hear from you as well, do you have her email address? You could even write her in Spanish…cant believe she is down to 6 months, her year went fast, but it always does for others, but if it my elder seems to drag 😊 not so much any more!! Yea!!!  Some one asked me if you are anxious to come home or would like to stay longer?  What would you say?

yes i got her email... ill shoot her a email!! and i feel like i have mixed feelings... i wanna get home and start my life and play ball again and stuff.. but then theres others days where i feel like.... NOOOOOO i wanna keep going.. ha

You are awesome thank you!  I think that it has to be hared to leave the people you are serving and to be released from preaching the gospel 24/7, fortunately you can always be a missionary….I wish that I could be as brave as you are to share the gospel and feel that blessing!  I am so thank ful that you have taken to time to serve the Lord and you will be very blessed for leaving the things of the world behind for two short years when compared to the rest of your life to do “stuff” I am proud of you!!

hahaha thanks mom!! its been a great belesing to be honest! thanks for the support andhelping me get to this piont

You did it! Dad and I are always here to love and support and kinda guide sometimes but will always be around, but just like getting your eagle you did it! You are the one serving! What did pres have to say in interview about refining_______

ummm somewhat... hahaa not how i wanted it... but i keep seeing it more and more myself.. But hey mom i gotta go..... i love you soooooo much and hope you have a great week! love you guys!!! if you can send marcus the email of natalie hart... haha love youguys!! thanks for everything i know i wouldnt be able to do it with out you guys! love elder Weaver

I love you too Justeroo, have a very happy week and most happy happy bday! I will have a small piece of cake on your day 😊 you have a big one! Please be safe traveling and follow the spirit!! That is the correct email for natalie I just looked it up….Love you tons! Happy 21, big big smiles! Chat with you soon!  Your super duper,

Hope you get your package!

Love always mom

xoxoxs

thanks mom!! you are great!! i love you sooooo much!!! thanks for bearing with me these 21 years!! love you guys!! have a swell week!! Love ya

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Busy week.

 love the spectacles, and the scooter, is that your new mode of transportation?-haha

hahaha i wish....;)

 today for pday we went to Monte Alban.. with Elder Lindsay and Elder Tutiven.. they had never gone

 the picture on the money, is what is in the background of Justin

You look awesome! It is so incredibly green, except for the red picture of course, very cool filter…hope that you can take us when we get there….does it cost 20 pesos?  Are the other elders part of your zone?

ya they are in my Zone... and it costs about 65 pesos to get in.. 

Hola motheroo,

This week was a good week, we ended up waiting on doing splits with our DL because we are going to be having them come here for a splits next week and so we just figured that it would save money to wait a week... haha and Raul is doing good he still has his baptism date for the 10th and we were out teaching his dad this last week a lot and he has a lot of questions... but he is doing very well.. on saturday and sunday we had stake conference and it was super good and we had 6 inv that were able to attend and karla is doing great!! she is getting baptized but not this week... we were teaching her and we got a call from president Madsen and he wanted to talk with my comp so he left out of the room for a sec, and i was sitting there with Karla and jsut started to explain to me that she just looked at her calander... and it looks like the 26th or 27th is.......hmmmmm her time... haha and so we are going to be waiting to baptize her on the 2nd of september..  we didnt do to much of service this week but we were able to help a old grandma walk to the other side of the street.. which was great!! i felt like Russell from UP..;) but im glad that things are going good congrats jax on winning your ball game!! keep playing hard... you got heart... even if you have to play JV and Varsity.. _______ :) tell Bailey Congrats! thats awesome for her! :) i love you guys and this week we are having interviews on saturday, and i think it will be my second to last interveiw!! crazy!!!! i love youguys i saw the video.... you all look good!! :) Love Elder Weaver  PS Mom can you send that video of jaxes TD again por favor!?

Yay for raul, do you think his dad will be baptized soon too? And so glad to hear that karla is still on schedule, we will continue to keep her in our prayers….Russell service is better than no service and I am hoping that she wanted to go across the street-haha…. I would rather have him play hard for you so that when you get back you can see him in the playoffs….maybe drop him an email?  I will try and send touch down….so how was the teaching this week, do you have fhe tonight? Any pix of karla? Any new investigators? Still knocking doors? Did you get to speak at stake conference

and yes we have a fhe tonight, and wednesday and friday!! :)  and i really wanted to talk in stake conference... i dont know why... but no we didnt.... haha this week we are going to knock a lot of doors. dont have pics of karla.. ill try and gets some.. haha good for jax i hope that he can keep playing hard.

Wow that’s lots of fhe, do you teach the same thing? Do you have power yet? I know why you wanted to talk, because you have a great testimony and you are dying to share it!!!

nope we are going to be teaching different thigns.. friday we are going to be doing games for the little kids because a member asked us to help out.. and tonight we might be talking about strengthening families and wed, about faith.... haha how did jace go on his luna de miel!!?

Awesome topics….they had a great time, they stayed in Ben Lomond hotel for 3 nights in Ogden, dads gift, and then flew to long beach, dads gift, and then cruised to catalina island and Ensenada then home, they had a great time, did parasailing…we will all have to go next spring-so fun! Now they are trying to get everything moved into marians basement….still different not having him come home, but a good different

Im gonna miss him.....

You will see him most every day, he was here this morning at 7:30 and attends our ward 😊 and I want to have family Sunday dinners at least once amonth and we have fhe with gma and gpa on the second Sundays every month….what did you learn at stake conference?  My ponderize is Alma 42:31 we talked a lot about it in Sunday school…church was kinda different yesterday, dad is attending the ysa ward from9-12 and so I sit by myself until jax is done with sacrament, miss dad with me a ton….I feel bad for all those sisters who are widowed or have inactive husbands, I am truly blessed!!!

no worries ill sit with you when i get home... :) haha its gonna be soooo weird.. not seeing him for 4 years and now hes married..

 

me and my comp...

Looks like the two of you have fun together, are you liking him as a comp? what is the picture with the big mask?

that mask is on a door... haha its pretty cool! ya we get along, but he is 19.... haha he reminds me a lot of high school.. 

_________________ Power? Are you able to eat and study and iron at home yet?  _______________but we are doing good, the lessons are spiritual, but somtimes its hard because the people we talk with just think that we are teching about a church that comes form the US.... but its alllll good

Hmmm…._________________! I am sure it is confusing to some people to realize the bofm is from their continent and that jsmith from ours restored the gospel, we will pray that people will understand and that their hearts and minds will be prepared for your message, and lessons Are interview Saturday because of upcoming transfers?

haha maybe maybe.... we are having interveiws because we didnt have them last transfer... 

Gotcha, did you get the touchdown video? And do you have power? Are you dodging that question?

yes!! i got the video... ha and yes we got power.. on wed... and the day we got power we lost water..... how great... hahah but thursday in the night we got water.. so all is good we iron in the house and everything! :) 

Hallelujia!! Crazy, I am sure it makes you appreciate the tiny things we take for grantide….so tell me about some of the people you are teaching besides raul, and karla….and the Edwardo that got married is he the one that you taught, saw baptized and get the priesthood?  Seems like you have had a few edwardos….:) did you get card in mail yet? I texted pres Villanueva but never heard back….I think we will make reservations this week at the hotel dad found by the temple….so excited!

ummm yes thats the same Edwardo.. haha and we are also teaching rodolfo and pearla.. there parents are les actives..  and were sealed in the temple but its soo hard to find them they have 12 and 9 years old.. to text president villanueva put 001521951 in front of his number.. but dont put 951 again.. haha

Ok, ill text again, so a few weeks ago you had me add the Martinez family to the prayer roll, still teaching them? Ill add Rodolfo and pearla to prayroll 😊  are you happy? You look great in the pictures! Your hair is longer than I have seen in a bit….when you chat with pres on Saturday want to just double check about all our plans and be sure he knows you are coming home on the 27^th of October 😊 if you remember…are you going to ask him about comp and why him?  Do you have a ponderize for me?

Awesome!! Is the kid pre mission? Are all these people within walking distance? The picture of you on the scooter, is that at the church? Looks like a nice building….did you get to ride the scooter? You mentioned that you are playing games with kids Friday is it an activity?  I sent rings and missionary badges in box…just got notice that it is in san Francisco, so maybe it will be to you next week sometime….have you told anyone its your bday next Wednesday so they can make you a cake?:) if not you should…..or buy one and share with a family…

welp... im gald to get my package actually.. haha umm yes and a member is inviting us to dinner this saturday for my bday!! haha how sweet!!!  he is a x missionary.. yes most of the people we are teching are within walking distance! no i didnt drive the scooter.. that is pres. Villanuevas scooter.. and thats our stake center.. he was in a mtg and i got on real quick and took a pic! :) 

 umm yes ill check with him!! yes we are still talking with them.. they are a member family... and there kid might be coming out with us to teach..:)

yes i know i need to cut my hair....  im happy! !im tired.... haha ive had a headache all day..

Are you not sleeping well? If you can find some B12 vitamins try taking those everyday, gives you energy and has taken care of jaces really bad headaches he had everyday…should sell it at a grocery store, pills or gummies, be sure to only take as many as the bottle says 😊 the guys here were eating the gummies like candy and they got rashes in their arm pits….haha! are you drinking and eating well? Sometimes a coke helps my headaches….sorry

no yes!! im sleeping well!! i think i need to drink more water and i think i was more stressed for not having power and water... but now that we got themi feel alot better!!! but i just need to drink somemore water!!! :)) 

Buy yourself a waterbottle to carry around….do you get water at the grocery store? Or can you drink from tap? Please take good care of you so you can continue to serve with your whole heart and mind…so glad that you have both turned back on and pray it stays that way!! Dad says hi, he reads all the emails as you send them….he says he is proud of you, he hopes that you are enjoying yourself and are pleased with yourself, we pray for you everyday, sometimes two or three times…continue to be super duper and know that he loves you, he says he cant wait to watch you play college ball…..:)

love you guys thanks for the prayers.. i cant wait to play college ball either..  and i cant wait to get married..;) haha love you guys have a good week! Elder Weaver

Love you too, please be safe and happy, take time to eat some tacos…😊 hasta luego, Much amor Madre y padre   Big smiles-

love you Elder weaver until next week! 

wedding week....

Wow.... mom... sounds like you had a busier week then i did... haha thats sooo great!! tell jace congrats!! i am happy for him! this week i also went to a wedding.. haha Edwardo got married to his girlfriend Claudia... on friday.. so that was great!! i am super excited for them to get sealed in a year!!! its gonna be awesome!! and something super great happened Raul is a investigator that we have been teaching but he didnt want to get bapztized because his dad was in jail and we wanted to wait for him to get out oof jail... and his dad had about a year in prision.. and he was there for false charges... well... this sunday Raul walked in and a man followed him and a lady aswell..... and he came and sat by me and said... thats my dad.... and i just wanted to cry it was amazing!! sooo now we are woriking with this family and we are going to try and get the for of them baptized in the first week of september!!!! and Karla is doing good we watched the REstoration with her and she cried... she told us that she knew that this is the true church... she still has her date for the 27th of august.. this last week we didnt have the mtg with president it got cancelled and we had to set a meeting that presidnet was going to have and it all went good.. we still dont have power.. and ive talked with presidnet and his wife and hopefully by wednesday we will have power.. if not.. im gonna have a month without power... how cool... haha this week im excited to work.. me and my comp are doing good and things are moving along!! :) 

Wow, right back at ya! That’s awesome you had a wedding last week too, and what a great blessing for Raul and his family, you are definitely there for a reason and when I hear things like this it verifies that very fact! What a great job you are doing!!! And how fun to have baptisms on either side of your birthday!!! Did you have to help a lot with the wedding and that’s why you needed a coke?  I had one too-haha! Who did you get to teach in your meeting? Makes me crazy about power, so does that mean you haven’t eaten at home, and have to study at the church? Still have warm showrs?

we just had to get things set up at the stake center for president to come and do his thang... haha and yes we went to the wedding to take pics and then we sat in another room to eat so we didnt see the dancing and  i just needed a coke.. ha to be honest i i only eat dinner when a member invites us to eat... haha and weve been ironing and eating in the church yes! haha  still have warm showers yes!! :)

So I am hoping and praying that members invite you every night to eat with them so you get dinner!!! Please use your money to get a good big lunch on days you don’t have dinner appointments or eat out….need to keep eating 😊 what about laundry how does it get done? Is Karla in the fhe picture….any names youd like me to add to prayer list? What does your week look like, lots of work and in your own area?

karla wasnt able to make it that night.. she was going to but couldnt make it.. umm put Lazaro and Raul in the tenmple please!!? and karla.. and tania.. haha this week i am thinking we might do divisions... maybe thursday and we are going to be meeting with the Stake presidnet maybe tuesday.. 

I will add those names and put them in Wednesday when I go, For divisions are you going out of your area and do you know who with? Is the Ixcotel ward coming around and being nicer to you guys, are both your wards in the same stake….if you see pres Villanueva please pass along my gratitude and love, I have tried to text and not getting an answer, does he have an email?The family for fhe are you teaching all of them, are some members….what did you teach and are you seeing them again tonight?Did you get to watch jace and mckenzi video?Feeling the spirit strongly in your area?Enjoying life?

ill be staying here in my area with a greenie... and yes the ward is doing alot better and both are in the same stake.. yes ill let him know... yes i saw his video.... feel the spirit strong in the video... yes i feel the spirit strong... yes enjoying life.... :) are you?

Yes, several people asked if I was sad about jace getting married and moving out, how can I be, its what I have prayed for for each of my boys, that they find someone to love them and marry in the temple, to be a strong worthy priesthood holder and an all around good person….sad because my little people aren’t so little anymore, but soon we may have other little peoples around, (not for a few years) So a greenie….do you know him and will it be just for the day?Requesting anything for bday….Ive got to get it together and try and make it by the 31^st 😊 need anything?

i kind of know him he is from panama!!! im all good:) just jerky :) ha 

_________________________________________________________________- umm ponderize is.... that you often cant look for spiritual light, while sitting in the darkness.... haha :)  i heard that in a movie this week.. a church video

That’s awesome! And I like your ponderize  too, reminds me of something gpa said in the temple, we need to look for the light that is brighter than any other light, then he referred to the sunlight and said can you imagine light brighter than that?I love this time of year when all the sunflowers are blooming and they follow the light, what a great reminder to follow light and I hope and pray that you will continue to find light at the ward house, with your power out…or even make your own light with flashlights, and know that we think you are super, your sending us signals by shadows 😊What church video did you get to watch? Was it part of your teaching your meeting or investigators?

we shared it with a member family and its called the light and hope of God.. its about a guy that didnt believe in God and prayed and fasted and ya.. its ca mormon message

Ill have to look it up and use it for our brief fhe….are you eating with members this week, tonight? It makes me worry about you, please use the money you have to stay healthy and take care of yourself! Ok for garments, and socks? What kind of candy sounds good? Cake mix?

no worries mom im good! im a big boy..;) ha im good with Gs and socks.... skittles.. would be good! :) but hey mom GTG...... sorry...  haha i love you soooo much i love you gyuys and miss you tons!! have a great week and congrats on your bike ride!! you guys are the best! :) be happy always:) Love Elder Weaver

I love you Justin, please be safe and continue to follow the spirit, treasure those you teach and have fun on splits with greenie- eat well and take good care of you….I love you tons, have a super duper week and Ill chat with you soon! You be happy always too

Love mom

xoxoss

sounds good love ya mom! :) 

 super man.

 Elder Ringle.. and McDonalds

 thats my coke.. i had to drink to try and cope with all the weddings... ha

 FHE

Edwardo... 

Looks like a pretty fancy car they had 😊 how are things with comp going? Two gringos? Speaking a lot of English?

good.. miracles actually.. haha we have a investigator that is super tough.. but we seem to be getting somewhere.. her name is Tita..  yes we are both practicing english..;)

Miracles actually…you need to explain a little more….How is Tita tough?

just because... haha miracles.. and tita has talkes with alot of Elders.... but me and my comp are the first americans and we are actaully getting somewhere with her... she comes to church and now we are talking with her more frecuantly..;)

Awesome! I know that some people say that it takes the right missionaries to come along and bring the spirit that touches a persons heart at a certain time because the spirit has helped to prepare them to receive the message….a time and a place for everything 😊 any service last week? Get to do anything fun besides the wedding stuff?This is my ponderize, the thought for the day today….I think it really applies to all of us regardless of our youth or not 😊 its from Ronald Rasband…."I pray that ... we may each of us do all things that lie in our power to teach our youth what source they may look to for a remission of their sins, even the Lord Jesus Christ. May we each respond with our most sincere efforts to “all hands on deck” as it pertains to saving our own rising generation—they are certainly worth our very best efforts."Jax and I moved some of your stuff into the basement room, things are going, lots of shuffling around but we are hoping to get everyone in the right room set up by the end of the week…fingers crossed,

wow.... things are gonna be super different when i get home.. so when does jace get back from his honey moon!?

They get home on Thursday, they did a cruise we have done before, going to catalina island (when we went the weather was too bad) and Ensenada…dad paid for them to stay in a hotel in ogden for 3 nights until they left for cruise….I am crossing fingers that Jordan will find a place before you get back, so things will be a lot different….hoping he meets that girl this Sunday. 😊So with dads new calling we get to go to fhe with the ysa ward….should be interesting!Jax is a practice right now, its game week….he had physical today, team effort at the school haha! Right now they are saying he is second string d, and on all special teams but after watching the scrimmage the other night, I really think the guy in front of him isn’t going to last long, he runs around and kinda has no idea what is going on, has awful footwork and I think jax will be sliding into his spot by the end of the game, they play murray this weekend…ill send you the article from deseret news….So yes things will change but hopefully for the better😊What is your plan for tonight? Have a ponderize?

wow tell jax good luck !!! hell be palying first string i dont doubt that.. haha tonight we are going to talk with Tita and see if we can put a baptismal date with her... haha :) do you have plans for tonight!!?

We will pray for her and to feel the spirit to set a date😊 we are going to the goof Olympics for ysa ward in mountain green…Jax wont, he will be home probably just as we are leaving….havent seen him much with his ball and us riding and life….I feel bad, we sometimes have to take him out on the weekends so we can see him and catch up

Jax and me are going to be going on a lot of dates together.... i miss him tons.... haha 

i mean that we are going to each get a date and go on a double date... haha 

😊 I knew what you meant…he is so looking forward to it. And I am sure he would love it!! He misses you more than you can imagine, you are such a great influence on him here at home, we kinda thought jacer would like helping him lift and stuff but he kinda doesn’t dig being around him….so I know Jax will love having you home, he has talked about making the wieight room a bedroom so you can have your own little bachelor pad downstairs…haha!

haha that be sick!!! :) love you guys tell him i love him!