May 21, 2012

Hey mom! Happy birthday also mom on the 23rd! I hope you have a good one and that they buy you something really speacial cause you are special mom. But its good to hear from you again. Here we are doing ok. Sounds like you are staying really busy and thats good to hear. It's crazy that school is already getting out up there. Here they get out in July because they have a bunch of holidays here and don't go to school a lot haha. But its good that you will get a little of a rest from school.

Chickens huh, that's cool. We will have to kill one to eat it. So you can try the chicken feet mom :) haha I don't know why Makelle wont try the eggs they are the same thing that you buy in the store haha. They all come from chickens. How many did they buy? I bet it was funny to see Ashton run around trying to catch a chicken. He should stick to being fast in the swimming pool.

Ben and Israel are having to speak a lot it sounds like.  But its good to hear that Ben is doing well and gives good talks. I don't think mine will be very good cause I think I am gunna mix up some words but we will see how it goes. And that's cool that we got a new patriarch. He will do a good job. I haven't heard of the other guy either. What ward is he in? That's good to hear that Connor is going on a mission. Have you heard anything about Ian?

I was gunna ask you about that about the cheerlearders. A guy here in the ward is gunna go to Utah in August and he asked me where he could look to find a truck to bring here to Mexico so I said ksl.com and I showed him it and on the side it has like the top stories or something and I read that and said, Ogden is always under the spotlight with those things haha. Dumb girls. I bet Zack was there with them. haha His mom would kill him. and yes, my nose did bleed. I'm glad we weren't that dumb to do somehting like that when we were seniors.

Here we are doing ok, we had a baptism this last week and it went well. We filled up the font with really hot water it was tight, I wanted to dunk myself under and stay there for a second haha but I didn't. We found a couple people last week, but they didn't come to church. so we will see if this week they go. And my comp they said he has Gilberts Syndrome or something like that. I have no idea what it is but the doctor said he can't fast now. But right now my buddies in the mission are my district leader he is cool. He is from North Ogden. He knows Spencer. His name is Elder Hoopes. He is chill too. And my favorite comp, man I think is my hijo, he is really cool. We are good friends. And no I didn't hear about the eclipse. Here people don't really care about those sort of things I think. Either that or it didn't happen here. I'm not sure. The lady that is gunna come to Utah is gunna come in like a couple weeks I think. I'll ask her today and tell you next week. She is the lady that let me talk on her computer. She is cool. Her son is our ward mission leader. He is cool too. He has like 4 months home from the mission. And I did get your letter today mom. We had to go to the offices with Elder Hoopes to take his comp to sign his visa. So I got your letter. You didn't tell me we were gunna do so many cool things though! haha But if we go to a Yankees game we have to see the Cubs play! Or Ashtons team, the Rays. It will be cool to go to the temples there too. That will be fun and a cool experience. And thanks for the iron rod. I thought you were going to buy me one in Spanish but English is good too.

Then today for pday we played soccer again my team lost, but it was gay cause there was nobody really good on my team. But it was still fun. I played better today. The thing that sucks here is that there really isn't anything to do. No cool places to go and see. Everything is in the Mexico City. But we can't go there to see stuff, but oh well.

And it's good to hear that you are gunna start working on your genelogy. You will find a lot of people that you didn't know before. How many generations does dad have in his family since they were members? A couple people have asked me that lately and I don't know how many. I just know a lot haha. And I tell people that you are the first member in your family mom cause you basically are. Ya it would be cool to have a family reunion with both the families dads and yours. Elder Hoopes asked me if I knew some other Malans that live in Weber territory but I don't know them, I just told him I'm sure we are cousins somewhere down the line haha. And no mom you didn't tell me that your mom would have 80 years. How many years does your dad have? About the same, no? But that's about it for this week.  I don't have my camera to send you the picture of the baptism. So this next week I'll send it to you. Oh and tomorrow we have interviews with President. So we will see how it goes. Well love you all happy b day mom I hope you have a good one. See you later!

May 14, 2012

Hey mom! Good to hear from you guys yesterday. It was a good call. I was happy to see all of you there. Thanks for letting Jeff, Ben and Dirt take some of your time mom. I appreciate it and I'm sure they do a little bit. But the best was talking to you about the chicken foot ha ha that made me laugh. When I got done talking the mom of the family where I talked at was like wow Elder Malan you are really happy ha ha. Every time I have called you guys I have enjoyed a lot the call. And no I'm not that trunky. ha ha And the call didn't make me more trunky. Don't worry about that.

My comp is doing ok, I don't think he is sick. He looks fine to me. But who knows, tomorrow we have to go do some more tests. So we will see how it goes. He says he feels sick sometimes but who knows. And no he doesn't speak English. He understands a little bit of it but not much. I have never had a Mexican comp that has understood English well. But there are some here that speak and understand it well. I'm glad that your week went by quick mom! ha ha You told me that you only have 9 more days or something like that right? that's cool. We will see who is gonna be in your classes then int he next couple of weeks. I remember when me Colton Meacham and Jacob won the math Krypto in the district, ya I was a nerd when I was little ha ha. That was cool hopefully someone from your class will be able to go and win. And about the playground job, not sure about that I will have to think about it.  I think I want to do something else. But I will pray about it and see what's up. That's weird that you won't have two recesses. Why is that? ha ha

I'm glad I don't have a girl waiting for me either cause that would just suck in every way. And question? Have you heard anything about Brandon Clark getting married?? My comp? Not sure but I heard rumors that he is gonna get married. Lemme know.

But the baptism this week should be a little girl from that less active family. They are getting better and are going to church. The mom wants her kids to start going to the activities and all that too. So that should be this week if everything goes well. Elizabeth she has to get married so I think we are gonna have to stop visiting her soon cause her husband doesn't want to get married yet. so we will have to see. And right now we have one dude that has came to church named Xavier. He is a goofy dude, he's 23 but he wants to change how he is. So we will see how it goes with him. And yes, I'm trying to find a family. It's really hard to find one that everyone wants to listen to us. But we just need to keep looking to find it so we can bring them the blessings of the gospel. And Makelle tells me Ashton is a new dude and I'm gonna be surprised when I get home how he is. That's good to hear. He has always been a cool little dude. So we will see how he is later. And get him a journal if he doesn't find his cause journals are important. I was reading mine and I laughed at some things I put. It's funny and good to remember those experiences that I have had in the mission. I'm glad I have kept a good journal through out the mission. And for the sobrino. We will see. It will come when they are ready. I'm not too worried about it.

Then today we played soccer it was fun. I'm still decent at soccer so its good to see that. All the churches here have a soccer field thing. A concrete court with some metal goals. No nets but that's fine ha ha. And lets go to Lake Powell with the Annis fam! If you guys aren't gonna go I'm gonna go ha ha. And what package? You sent me a package or what? I'll let you know though. Well that's it for this email. I hope you are all doing good. Love you all and thanks for talking to me yesterday. See you later!

May 7, 2012

Hey mom! It's good to see your email this week ha ha. Last week was a little weird. I looked and I didn't see your email. I was like that can't be possible, mom hasn't missed a week the whole mission! So I told dad that I would write him for a change. ha ha So it was good. He needed a letter I think.

So this last week was a little adventure. On Thursday we had to go to the DF, Distrito Federal cause my comp has been a little sick so we had to go to the temple to see the doctor. He checked him out and then told him he had to go get some tests done. A member took us in his taxi. It was cool. Then on Friday he went to get the tests done and we had to email them to the doctor. The doctor told us that he has to go see a specialist now cause he doesn't know whats wrong with him. So we will have to go to DF again this week I think. So it should be another adventure. But on Saturday in the morning we had an activity with the ward. We went to a Tianguis, a market in the street, and put a little stand with a bunch of pamphlets and Book of Mormons and stuff like that and we started to contact people. We had like 12 people from the ward that came and helped us contact people it was pretty cool. In the picture I sent you I was explaining the Book of Mormon to a lady. It was cool. We got quite a few references and it was a good experience for the people that came with us. It was cool. I would have never gone to something like that before the mission haha. Some teenagers came, it was cool.
Then as for Elizabeth, she is really cool and wants to get baptized but she has to get married. So that is the part that is holding her back right now. So it sucks, but we will see what we can do for her so that if her husband wants to we can marry her. But we will see. Then we brought one new guy to church. He is gay though. So we have to help him out a lot ha ha. So we will see how it goes with him too. We didn't have much time to work with all the things that we had to do in DF. This week might be the same. and I have not gotten your letter yet mom.

And about the job, how much would I make and what are the hours? I would like to go to school full time cause I want to get done with school ha ha. But we could check it out. We can talk more about it on Sunday. I will call around 6 in the afternoon up there. It will be 7 here. So tell everybody about that time and I will call on time this time ha ha. And yes we are going to use Skype. And here Mother's Day is always on the 10th of May. So he is gonna call home on Thursday.

But here we are doing OK. We are still trying to find more people to teach, that is always the hardest part to do ha ha, find the people that are ready and that want to hear about the gospel. And ya I sleep good at night. I have gotten use to the beds. I sleep on my back now. I can't sleep any other way cause the beds suck. And ya I'm used to the food now. It's good stuff. I like almost all of it. And can I see my room on Skype? Do you have a moving camera or what??ha ha And the chicken foot it tasted OK. It wasn't soo bad. I have tasted other things a lot worse. And then last night a family gave me cake for my birthday it was cool. And a nice cold coke. Man, it was good stuff ha ha. Then today we went and bowled. It was good. I saw my hijo Elder Hernandez. He told me that the kids of Noemi are gonna get baptized, the lady in my last area. So that is cool too. And today we went to Walmart and I found some good stuff, some Fruit by the Foot, a box of 6 for 5 pesos!! It was a steal ha ha I guess nobody here likes them. And I found some Goldfish. So it's good stuff. Well that's it for this week. I hope you all are there on Sunday so we can have a good talk. Ben is excited for New York, so am I. What day are we going? Well that's it. Have a good week see you on Sunday!

Second picture is our ward mission leader acting like he is giving out pamphlets ha ha. He actually got quite a few references.