Hey Mom,
Sounds like Ethan is doing good. The food here is good. I ate Burger King today and bought a cool Mexico jersey. I email some buddies and Spencer a little bit, that's it, and you guys. I only have 45 minutes to write so it's difficult sometimes. Everyone can email me, that's fine. We aren't going to celebrate Thanksgiving. You're lucky you get a lot of good food. For soccer, we went and found a field so it was cool. My district is all pretty close, within one bus ride. We have two hermanas in our district, and us, then our district leader. My district isn't too big. Some places are really big, but here it's not too much. Elder Rodriguez doesn't speak really any English. He can a little, but not much at all. It's good for me to understand and speak it all the time-haha. But I'm not going to lie, when I can speak English to someone I do! We only receive letters like one time a month, mom. So I don't get them very often. I got one letter from Ash two weeks ago and that's all! I don't know where the box is with the cord. So I don't know if you are gunna get many pictures either-haha sorry. But I think I know where a spot is to send letters, so I might get one off next week. I'm not promising anything.
The toilet is not so bad, but I got sick on Friday so I used that baby a lot! I'm good now, got sick from food, I think. But it was pretty bad.
Our family we are teaching is struggling. Here in Queretaro it's hard to find and teach and get them to baptism. I didn't know why but we can find people but they don't progress very well. So hopefully we can do better at that. We are in a ward. We have a Bishop Flores. He is cool. There are so many inactives here so we do a lot of reactivating, too. It's good because we usually find new people to teach through it.
You didn't tell me that Ash was in Mr. Ogden, that's cool! How did he do? Hopefully better than me. My friends won it both years they were in it, so hopefully he did well. How is everyone doing? I hope they are all doing well. Here still just working trying to get more people to the waters of baptism. And it's hijo mom, mi hijo, ok? haha
We went bowling today. That was fun. We have a lot of cool stuff here. I ate Burger King today, too. It was awesome! haha
But I don't have much time left so love you all! I'll try to get a letter sent off next week for you guys! I'll put my memory card in there or something. See how it goes.
Love you all. Tell Ash to email me!
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
November 15, 2010
Hey,
Sounds like things are going good in the O! It's good to hear that all my friends are doing well and Ash is doing well in swimming. I got my first real letter last week! It was from Ashton! haha I never would have thought, I was so excited! I'm still working on finding a spot to send letters. Probably next week I'll have one on its way. Before Christmas there will be one for you. Sounds like the party went well.
That's cool Karson got home. His Spanish might be the gay kind, where they pronounce their z and c different. haha So that's cool though. Sounds like you are having a party for your young single adults-haha.
Thanks for not putting those stickers on the box... I hate those things! They are everywhere here. A dang cross with Jesus on it or a dang ugly picture of Guadelupe (Mary). They worship her here. It's ugly.
Today, we played some soccer and ultimate frisbee as a zone and it was fun. We are teaching one family of three right now that are looking good. I hope they can continue to progress. We have to have them go to church three times before we can baptise them. So we are working on them. We are trying to find more people, as always. Elder Rodriguez is rich. His dad makes the clothes for malls and stuff down here and sells them to the malls. So he is pretty cool. As for a mission website, I have no idea. The companionship is good. Spanish is really hard. People say it's easy, but really it's not at all.
Yes, I have a carbon monoxide thing in my apartment haha!
I am still working on the letter thing. It's hard because not a lot of people send letters, including missionaries, so it's hard. Then when I don't know much Spanish so it's harder. We go on splits when the DL or the ZL want to go on splits. I can't really give you a time. I have been on two splits. I'm not sure if dear elders are quicker. I would like a real letter, but whatever you can do is fine.
That's crazy Jeff is a trainer! haha That makes me laugh. I wanna know how Ethan is doing.
I don't need a pillow, I bought one for like 3 bucks so we are good on that. Yes, I use the sheets we packed. I like them a lot. Yeah, I have a flash drive, but I don't know what to do with it.
Where I live it's city all around. There's like no grass, but cement everywhere. I heard that this is the most beautiful part of the mission. My apartment is alright. We have hot water for the shower. We don't have a lid for our toilet seat so that sucks, and our shower is right next to our toilet. But other than that it's chill. It's about the size of our upper garage, I would say. It's just me and my comp. We live above a member's house.
Yes, I got your pictures. I really enjoyed them. So you can send more if you want.
Well, I hope I answered all of your questions. I hope all is good at home. I pray for you every day!
Te amo mucho mama, un brazo
Elder Malan
Sounds like things are going good in the O! It's good to hear that all my friends are doing well and Ash is doing well in swimming. I got my first real letter last week! It was from Ashton! haha I never would have thought, I was so excited! I'm still working on finding a spot to send letters. Probably next week I'll have one on its way. Before Christmas there will be one for you. Sounds like the party went well.
That's cool Karson got home. His Spanish might be the gay kind, where they pronounce their z and c different. haha So that's cool though. Sounds like you are having a party for your young single adults-haha.
Thanks for not putting those stickers on the box... I hate those things! They are everywhere here. A dang cross with Jesus on it or a dang ugly picture of Guadelupe (Mary). They worship her here. It's ugly.
Today, we played some soccer and ultimate frisbee as a zone and it was fun. We are teaching one family of three right now that are looking good. I hope they can continue to progress. We have to have them go to church three times before we can baptise them. So we are working on them. We are trying to find more people, as always. Elder Rodriguez is rich. His dad makes the clothes for malls and stuff down here and sells them to the malls. So he is pretty cool. As for a mission website, I have no idea. The companionship is good. Spanish is really hard. People say it's easy, but really it's not at all.
Yes, I have a carbon monoxide thing in my apartment haha!
I am still working on the letter thing. It's hard because not a lot of people send letters, including missionaries, so it's hard. Then when I don't know much Spanish so it's harder. We go on splits when the DL or the ZL want to go on splits. I can't really give you a time. I have been on two splits. I'm not sure if dear elders are quicker. I would like a real letter, but whatever you can do is fine.
That's crazy Jeff is a trainer! haha That makes me laugh. I wanna know how Ethan is doing.
I don't need a pillow, I bought one for like 3 bucks so we are good on that. Yes, I use the sheets we packed. I like them a lot. Yeah, I have a flash drive, but I don't know what to do with it.
Where I live it's city all around. There's like no grass, but cement everywhere. I heard that this is the most beautiful part of the mission. My apartment is alright. We have hot water for the shower. We don't have a lid for our toilet seat so that sucks, and our shower is right next to our toilet. But other than that it's chill. It's about the size of our upper garage, I would say. It's just me and my comp. We live above a member's house.
Yes, I got your pictures. I really enjoyed them. So you can send more if you want.
Well, I hope I answered all of your questions. I hope all is good at home. I pray for you every day!
Te amo mucho mama, un brazo
Elder Malan
Saturday, November 6, 2010
November 1, 2010
Hey, how are you doing?
Here it's pretty good stuff. Sounds like Halloween was good. You need to send me some pictures on the email! haha I
I just got a new comp from I'm not sure where, but it's under Texas he told me. He is cool. He only has six months in the mission so we are a young companionship! Here things are good. We hopefully should have some baptisms this month so I'm excited for that . Elder Rodriguez is my new comp. He doesn't know the area so we both have to learn quickly! I know a little bit but not too much. The water I drank was not from the tap. We have zone conferences every three months. We have interviews in a week with the president. So that will be good. I didn't know it was his b-day so we didn't do anything.
Work is going good, better. I think it's going to get better now. We got a new district leader, also. I think it's going to get better. Spanish, it's better every week. Sometimes it's better than others, but I am understanding more and more. My apartment is alright. I am going to try to send a pic on here if I can get it to work.
Ash needs to eat more. He is a toothpick! Tell him to eat some food.
But that's good you like those conference talks. I didn't know there was such good info in all of them until I listened to them in the MTC! As for the mail, I still haven't got it yet. They said we don't get it much and I still don't know how to send letters so I'm sorry if you don't get a letter for awhile. Packages are fine to send without those stickers they said. So don't worry about that. I don't want to see any more of those Mary things! They worship her here more than God. It's kinda sad. Everyone has a cross with Christ on it. So it's depressing. But you can send the package. It should be fine. I don't have too much more time so hopefully next week I can have some good stories for you. Hopefully we can have a baptism in the next couple of weeks. A couple of people are close. I will let you know how it goes. I gotta go entonces, hasta proxima semana!
Les amo muchismo!
Elder Malan
Here it's pretty good stuff. Sounds like Halloween was good. You need to send me some pictures on the email! haha I
I just got a new comp from I'm not sure where, but it's under Texas he told me. He is cool. He only has six months in the mission so we are a young companionship! Here things are good. We hopefully should have some baptisms this month so I'm excited for that . Elder Rodriguez is my new comp. He doesn't know the area so we both have to learn quickly! I know a little bit but not too much. The water I drank was not from the tap. We have zone conferences every three months. We have interviews in a week with the president. So that will be good. I didn't know it was his b-day so we didn't do anything.
Work is going good, better. I think it's going to get better now. We got a new district leader, also. I think it's going to get better. Spanish, it's better every week. Sometimes it's better than others, but I am understanding more and more. My apartment is alright. I am going to try to send a pic on here if I can get it to work.
Ash needs to eat more. He is a toothpick! Tell him to eat some food.
But that's good you like those conference talks. I didn't know there was such good info in all of them until I listened to them in the MTC! As for the mail, I still haven't got it yet. They said we don't get it much and I still don't know how to send letters so I'm sorry if you don't get a letter for awhile. Packages are fine to send without those stickers they said. So don't worry about that. I don't want to see any more of those Mary things! They worship her here more than God. It's kinda sad. Everyone has a cross with Christ on it. So it's depressing. But you can send the package. It should be fine. I don't have too much more time so hopefully next week I can have some good stories for you. Hopefully we can have a baptism in the next couple of weeks. A couple of people are close. I will let you know how it goes. I gotta go entonces, hasta proxima semana!
Les amo muchismo!
Elder Malan
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