tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54275969626055171382024-03-13T06:47:29.521-07:00Elder Xavier Maestas; Peru Lima East MissionCeceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-42367980739288713802013-06-17T11:38:00.005-07:002013-06-17T16:07:52.650-07:00Week 12<div ca="xavier.maestas@myldsmail.net" ci="3,11" cl="cl" class="HasLayout ia_h_r ia_h_d ia_vc_h0 ia_vc_f1 ia_vc HideSkype" cn="Xavier Maestas" dbt="Part" fid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001" ic="rmic3" icci="" icfn="Xavier Maestas" icit="PWN" idx="2" mad="2154|0|8D0399474FB9DF0||0|1|0|0|2|3,11" mid="8ab80c2b-d770-11e2-be02-00237de49bb0" pfx="mp2_" scid="" style="line-height: 19px;">
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<span dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">It's not really pollution here its more just dust and fog always, it really is dreary but I'm getting used to it now, and i like it when its really foggy! Yeah we have a lot of people progressing! we have 2 baptisms next Saturday! its really crazy! when we contact people either give us a day to come back or else we go right in and teach them! its pretty awesome. A lot of our referrals are actually pretty good too! we have a lot of success right now and i think in the next 6 weeks we should have probably 6 more baptized!! its nuts!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">We usually have time with members to get referencias and they always try to give us food but we can't eat the things they cook, only on Sundays can we eat with the members!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">hahaha you have a ton of questions!! Its kinda cold, i bought a sweater and usually just wear that, if i stay in Lima i probably won't need my coat honestly.. but we will see cause apparently august is the most cold, but its nothing like the cold at home! Pariachi has only little stores, so for most big things we go to chaclacayo where they have stores called metros that are kinda like smiths and have everything!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Unless i go to the huancayo mission this week i will only be in Lima, but eh its okay! I'm used to it now and it doesn't really matter! We pay 80 soles for 1 month of wash which is like 30 dollars and that's not from our money! the mission pays for that! I'm glad you had fun in Cali! I wish i could have come but I'm kinda busy!! hahaha! AH i wanna see the beach here!! but its far from where i am kinda, its not in my mission! but it might be cause the missions here all are changing areas! That's awesome about the cotton candy!! The Manti pageant thing sounds really fun too! remember when we went and it was that crazy storm!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Oh man Steve, i hope everything will be okay, i will definitely pray for him this week! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">So a couple more things from this week!! This week i learned that there is definitely and force working against us. One of our investigators was telling us about an experience he had after he had been reading what we wanted to him and prayed about it. He woke up in the night and heard a man calling his name from the next room, he said at first he thought it was just his dream but then he heard it really clearly again when he knew he was awake. He said he had the worst feeling hes ever had and just felt cold! its crazy, its like what happened to Joseph smith! it gives me the chills! But he knew it wasn't of god and that it was a testimony that the changes he was making are the right thing to do to keep that kinda thing out! it was really crazy and creepy cause it was like 9 at night when he told us! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Also this week i went to Lima with all the north Americans for our migrations! it was awesome because it was a full day of only speaking English! everything went well, we did Interpol! so now we have our Peruvian ids which is pretty cool, they just got all our info and stuff. this week i think i will go back again to finish up! that's pretty much all the cool stuff that went on this week! I hope all is well with you mom, i miss you so much and i hope you're doing great! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">Hola mom! Everyday is super busy it’s crazy! When we go to the
temple it’s our whole zone! So 14 of us! It was really cool to be able to go
back into the somewhat normal part of Peru! That’s cool about the pictures! I
most likely won’t see Nate again after this transfer unless I get moved to
huancayo! Oh yeah that could happen this week by the way so if I’m delayed on
writing that’s why! Because it’s the last week of the cambio! Yeah our first
baptism of a little girl is on Saturday so that will be pretty awesome! I’ll
make sure she has all the stuff she needs! Her mom is having a party after the
baptism which should be pretty cool! Hopefully we don’t die from the food!
hahah! Yes I’m with elder Diaz but I think because we get along so well that
this will be our last week! But we will see! I haven’t gotten the box yet but
maybe tomorrow because Tuesday is when we get mail! hahah rabitto!!! He is our
dog! He is really cool; dogs here know their houses like cats so he will walk
with us all the way to the bus stop and all over the place! He got hit by a bus
at some point we heard and he’s kind of coo coo but he’s nice, but really
gross! He likes to fight other dogs so he’s all cut up and what not but eh it’s
normal! Nasty dogs here seriously, the dogs native to here have no hair and
they are disgusting!!! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lunch! For breakfast we have some meat with pan y some avocado! It’s pretty
good! Usually something similar for cena! We eat a ton for lunch and then not
so much for dinner, I’m used to it now! I’m getting a lot better with my stomach;
I think I’m getting used to the food now! It’s nice. Yeah it’s rough to wake up
that early for soccer but eh its fun! We don’t have any other time to play
really! Well mom will try to send some pics and I hope you’re all having fun in
Cali! I love you so much and thank you for everything!! Have a fun week! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-59816484045452674242013-06-07T10:39:00.002-07:002013-06-07T10:52:01.112-07:00He's Alive!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">Ok, so this has been a long week. We always here from Xavi on Mondays. This week no email. I told Ted if we don't hear from him by Wednesday we are going to call Peru.... Well, nothing!! So, Ted calls and they tell him that they changed his p-day this week to Thursday because they have planned a trip to the temple! Well, ok, but you have to let us know these things!! He said they tracked him down and it was funny! (He said, "I knew you would call mom"! Your'e right I will call. I told him that they need to let me know when things happen or I will call the First Presidency! HEHEHE (I really would!!) Anyway, needless to say he is fine and he knows that we love and miss him. Here is his most recent letter and pictures from the Mission President!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">Hey mom! Whew I will try to respond to everything on here!! I am
seriously just always tired, but I can wake up without it being too bad now
which is pretty cool, it’s really hard for my companion though, but I just yell
at him and he jumps up, it’s really funny! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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not really a problem, plus we don’t really have the time to fix stuff! But we
have hot water now! Our neighbor rigged up our hot water thing, it’s like a
little drizzle, but hey it’s hot!! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all, I just have to focus super hard every lesson and i can get whats going on
but by the end of the day I understand less and less because I’m so tired of
trying to figure out what they’re saying, but teaching is going great!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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little girl Bridgett is getting baptized the 15 of June along with a teenager
named Patty! One of them will be my first baptism!! Awesome yeah??? and we have
another baptism on the 22 of June!! It
is crazy how the lord puts us in peoples houses who are just ready to be
baptized!! Last night we went to a couples house who the man is a less active
and his wife is a non member, we were going to teach the importance of marriage
and when we walked in they said they were ready to be married on the 22nd and
that afterwards the woman wants to be baptized! What the crap? hahah it is so
awesome! Transfers don’t happen until about the 17th of this month, I will most
likely stay put and be in Lima for the rest of my mission! Which kinda sucks
but hey it doesn’t really matter where I wanna be! It is sad though because Elder Turner is in the huancayo mission! So he won’t be in my mission anymore!! <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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dogs, eh it’s not so bad, they come at us sometimes but we just use the dazzer,
throw rocks or use our book of Mormons to smack them! It’s pretty funny! <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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sounds like you are all having fun though with the young women’s stuff and with
Mercedes going to t swizzle!!! That is awesome!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that makes me happy about grandma too, she needs to enjoy herself and I hope
she will! Tell her hello for me!!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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grandpa is 80!! that is crazy!! He’s getting up there; I hope you can fix his
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to the Lima temple today and the rooms are tiny but it was really cool, but
also really intense in Spanish! But it was an awesome experience, I’m starting
to blend in though, the presidency there is American and to the other Americans
they were talking to in English and then started talking to me in Spanish! hehe
they don’t know I can’t speak! We have zone meeting every week! But it’s not
really anything special! We don’t ever see the president unless there’s a
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these cases for our book of Mormons that have pamphlets and handouts and a book
of Mormon to hand out, and during a lesson a huge spider climbed on my leg and
the members said uhhh elder there’s a spider on you and I threw my book of Mormon
at it and all my stuff went flying all over! Super embarrassing, but I killed
it! Oh and one more, one of our investigators, we taught them the law of
chastity and the next day they were sleeping in different beds! Awesome! Haha
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<br />Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-54531411354673581662013-05-28T10:53:00.000-07:002013-05-28T11:19:30.463-07:00Iraq not Peru?? Call of Duty??<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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swear they accidentally sent me to Iraq! I feel like i'm in call of duty, it is
legit exactly how Iraq looks in pictures! The missionaries here before us were
really bad.. Apparently so I doubt they really did anything productive at all!!
Hahaha yes my pension! That is where I eat all of my meals! Its nuts, the first
day I was seriously thinking, wow I am going to die here! I found out this week
that Peru is the second to last country in south America when it comes to the
how good the economy is and what not, very poor everywhere except for La Molina,
which is like not even that nice.. haha. People here don’t really work for
better things; they just seem to be fine with what they have, which I honestly don’t
understand! I can’t imagine living here for all my life. This week the members
really have started to bond with us though and it’s nice because we have a lot
of help from them. Oh man some of the other apartments are so freaking nice but
our area is super poor! Pretty much all of Peru is! Our pension gives us plenty
to eat! My companion says she is one of the best he has had because he isn’t
hungry all the time, she feeds us a ton and is always worrying about us if were
like 5 minutes late so don’t worry about that! I am definitely losing weight
but it’s because I sweat all day, and then we eat pretty healthy every meal so imp
losing all my fat! haha! Oh and here were not allowed to eat anywhere besides
the pension if the food isn’t in a package, but the members and random people
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progressing! We have a little girl who is probably going to be baptized in 2
weeks if her mom will continue to let her to go to church with us and another
lady who is going to be getting married in 2 weeks and hopefully after we will
baptize her.! We have tons of lessons everyday! We have a lot of investigators
who need to get married though which is our main problem here, there are a ton
of members who live with their spouses but don't have the money to get married!
also a lot of investigators who just have a ton of questions and its hard to
get them to commit. But we will definitely have at least one in the next 2
weeks! Gosh the first transfer is already almost over!! To start the new area
we had to just start from scratch, meet all the members and find people! It was
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where I am the stuff is not so nice! But tell him thank you so much for his
prayers! Ah sounds like fun stuff at home! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pictures! I will respond to your other email too! Oh this week we did some
service at a members house who is rich for here! It’s the closest thing to an American
home but we found out why, he runs cock fights in his backyard and has like 50
roosters!! It’s freaking nuts, they are good looking chickens though, and it’s
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women breast feed anywhere they feel like and it is REALLY awkward sometimes,
especially when it’s like in church! fetch, our church is like this little
house too...different world! Oh here it’s normal to kiss on the cheek when you
say hello but this one freaking lady tries to kiss me every time and were
always like ahhh stop! Freaking peruanos. oh and we taught this old lady named
eddy who is from the jungle, all the old people are nuts, and we asked if she
prays and she’s like yeah I wake up at 430 every morning and pray until 6
before I shower, hahahahah what the crap!! And then she said the closing prayer
for like 10 minutes, I seriously was trying to think of a way to sneak out of
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actually sounds short when i say that so I'm good with it. Sooo my guts are
probably just going to be like this for the whole mission! and that's alright,
its not too bad, it's definitely from the stuff i eat all day, its pretty crazy! Every meal consists of some form of rice, chicken and potatoes, not much
variety, very bland! I miss your cooking! Seriously though this week is 2
months out! how crazy is that! The mtc felt slow but these 2 weeks here have
flown by! I'm glad you were able to talk to Eutimio! Tell him hello for me!! I'll
tell you a few things from this week. So all the dogs here are not very chill,
and they always give us crap, but the other day I was thinking about how President Jess said Nick would be with me and there is this one dog that always
follows us around and is like the only good dog! It's really weird! We walk past
and he just walks with us and barks at other dogs! Weird huh! That is so cool
that you had the special needs mutual! I wish I could have done that! seriously
such an awesome thing! hahaha it sounds like a blast! You guys seriously are the best, you are the best
family and the best people I know. Gosh I love hearing
about what's going on at home! Its only for a minute but its so nice! I can't
really think of anything for you to send me! I have pretty much all i need!
Maybe some slim jims cause they don't have that stuff here! something spicy! I
freaking miss the food so much at home! I crave it every single day, it's hard
eating freaking bland stuff! haha! Everything is going well and i think that we will get to go to the temple every
transfer at least once! pretty cool! just a few more things I'm doing! I'm going
to be teaching an English class to people in the church! it will be pretty
fun!! we tried to clean the room but seriously its impossible to keep clean,
our window in the back is like broken and dust just flies in so I'm getting used
to being dirty! oh and the cockroaches! we made it so that they can't get into
our room cause we stuffed the holes but we can see all their little antennas
sticking out of the wall...pretty sketch. I'm sure i will get over my fear of
bugs here, theres crap everywhere!! Money in my mind is getting messed up, I bought a ice cream the other day I thought was a rip off but guess how much it
was.. like 75 cents.. haha oh boy! We finally figured out how to get warm water
and we will be doing that this week! I just can't believe how people live here,
you have no idea, and they don't even know its bad!! We are so busy, I wouldn't
even have time to write letters if i knew where to send them!! just so nuts,
everyday is a blur which is good! I love you so much and miss you a ton! I can't
wait to hear from you next week! Tell everyone I love them! I love you all so
much, just know I'm okay! Love you my family! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">So the start of week 2 is diarrhea central!! hahahah i hope i don't really get sick though! It was so awesome to be able to talk to you on skype yesterday! It was really hard for me too but afterwards it made me feel alot better because i know that i can do it because i have so much support at home! Yes i do have a regular shower but we don't need a kitchen because we always eat at the pensions house! i'll send you a picture of that! We have a store next to our house and they pretty much have everything you need so don't worry about any of that! Its not the quality of stuff at home but at least we have it!! my address, i have no idea! oh and i can't figure out how to do a question mark on this so yeah! I have no idea about the email thing, I'm hoping that it will change soon cause it sucks that everyone has to email through you or dad! actually I'm hearing that it might have just changed, i have no idea cause i can't read the long email from the president!! I'm starting to adjust already, its really not that bad, its just a huge shock at first!! I will probably be here for 3 months, which is my whole time of training, but it could possibly just be the one transfer of 6 weeks!! Opening a new mission is hard because you have to find all new people, we already have baptismal dates as goals for our 5 investigators but its just hard learning to know the members, and all that! My companion really is cool! he is a great trainer and is easy to get along with! the dogs, eh we can just hit them with our books or rocks, or kick them, they aren't that bad except that try to come rub on you and stuff which they are just so dirty. I feel like my English is getting bad because i have to talk really simply with my companion in English so he can understand. in the room we only speak English so that i can teach him how to speak better! i was wondering about the school! i hope its all good! I'm glad you love it, it sounds fun, i may be teaching English to little kids in church soon! that will be fun! 93 degrees holy crap!! its always just kinda warm here! it doesn't really change that much! Tell dad i love him too! oh the dear elders will probably take like a week so keep emailing so i can respond easier! I hope you don't worry about me too much! comfort Mercedes and dad and let them know i am fine!! I love you so much mom. </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mother's Day! We had a great time catching up! We only had 40
minutes and wow did that go fast. Xav and his companion had to find a
family that had internet to be able to skype and I am so happy that they did.
They made them dinner which he said was rice and some potato thing....
His companion is Elder Dias and he is from Chile. He is a great
companion and has been really good to Xav. It is quite ironic that Xavi
goes all the way to Peru to learn Spanish and he has been told all along that
they will only be able to speak Spanish once he gets there and all the Spanish
speaking Elders want him to teach them English! They want to learn slang!
So Xavi taught them to say "That's so sick!" and he said it is
so funny to hear them with their Spanish accents saying things are sick!!
He has had quite the cultural shock! I asked him if he thought he
was spoiled and he choked up and said, "You have no idea Mom!"
This is going to be quite the humbling experience for him. He said
that his apartment is very small and that the door is small and he has to
crouch down to go in. He said they have cockroaches and if you
know Xavi that will not go over very well! He said he has a concrete
floor which is good because we thought he may be on dirt! Such luxury!
His first P day he and his companion were going to scrub the whole
apartment down because it was disgusting! He had not even unpacked
because he didn't feel comfortable. His P day will now be on Monday's so
I will post then. He has a pensionista that will cook all meals for him
and a lady that they hired to do wash! He and his companion will be
playing football (soccer) while the ladies work! Hmmm.. I thought he was
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lot of the people there in Peru do not have roofs on their homes.
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Keegan when he first walked into the MTC! it was just for like 10 seconds cause
you have a lot of crap to do when you first get here but he looked good! I
really hope i can see him before i leave!! The Peru T shirt is from the book
store here, you just go in there and tell them what mission and they order it
for you! Its pretty sweet, it was only like 7 dollars! I cannot believe that my
visa is here, everyone else besides hermanas Gale and Gifford are getting
reassigned, ill be with those hermanas on the plane which will be pretty sweet.
My flight leaves to Georgia at 831 am so the call will probably be a little be
before them or when I'm in Atlanta around noon! so be expecting that, hopefully
we'll be able to talk for a good amount of time! That picture that you took of
Mercedes is so funny! we kinda do that to each other here which is pretty
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know that I love them! I love hearing about whats going on in the outside
world! I can't believe that about the canal over by Tate's! was Tate's flooded?
i hope everyone is okay, that sounds so bad! Reinharts birthday went great and
everyone said to tell you thank you for the present because we just kinda gave
it from all of us!! My mission blessing is awesome! I probably cant print it so
hopefully you can send it today with the hair stuff! I love you mom! Thank you
so much for all of your support! Gosh its crazy that I'm actually going to Peru
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you re not worrying to much about me and just always remember that I'm fine!!
Don't stress! River Heights is that a new job? Do we do any work out in
delta? Tolman is from there and I'm just wondering! How is the new deal all
working out? i hope everything is going well with Paul and all that! I'm glad
the you re taking care of grandpa! You are seriously awesome for that!! That is
so funny about Nicholas Mitchell! i can just picture that and that is so
funny!! I'm so glad i don't have to do flags though. whatever i say to any of
you is really to all of you! You can just pick what you put on the blog! I love
you dad! Don't worry about me! I pray for you all the be comforted every day so
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going to tell you guys, There is a sister in our home mission that just left
yesterday from my zone. Shes Spanish speaking but her name is hermana zufelt!
You probably wouldn't be able to see her but it would be pretty cool cause i
know her! So the other night after the Tuesday devotional we were having our
district meeting with the presidency and afterwards the wife of one of the
counselors comes up to me and says " Elder Maestas I've been thinking
about you" and i was seriously just like oh great what did i do now, cause
it was really weird. But she said " last time we were here i just really
saw how well you were listening to me when i was sharing my thoughts, you
seemed so interested and were so supportive of me. I just realized that you
were going to be an amazing missionary if you continue to show that kind of
love every time you hear your investigators and people talk" gosh it was
really so uplifting to me! And that was after i had gotten my travel papers!
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questions if you have any about travel and all that. I will be going directly
into the field it says on my papers! Read the passage i told Mercedes to read!
It will really help you with anything, not just with knowing the book of Mormon
to be true but knowing anything! Please take care of yourselves and be safe. I
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Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-45868042935861263922013-05-02T20:27:00.004-07:002013-05-02T20:27:57.184-07:00Good News!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yay, Xavi will be leaving for Peru on Monday, May 6, 2013. Everything is arranged and he will go straight into the mission field. He will be flying with two of the sisters from his district. The rest of the Elders and Sisters in the district are being temporarily reassigned. It has been really hard on all of them. Xavi is sad to leave all of his friends but excited to start his journey. </span>Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-77822443838858612742013-05-01T14:17:00.000-07:002013-05-01T14:17:25.709-07:00April 28, 2013 - Stay tuned for some EXCITING news! :) <span style="font-size: large;">4/28/13</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Como Estan?! Estoru muy bien aqui em el CCM (MTC) no palabras sobre nuestras visa perro, seriamos reassigned esta semana, jueves. Alright, No more Spanish! :) So I just wanted to write you a quick letter! We got a new schedule this week because it's a new semester for the teachers from BYU. So this (hopefully) last week my P-Day is on Thursday! So don't freak when you don't get an email Wednesday! Today was Elder Reinhart's birthday, since we have no free time, we had his little surprise party at 6:30 AM! Haha it was the earliest party I've ever been to! It was night though and he really appreciated it! I'll send a few pics but they aren't super good! Oh well though! He really liked the tie and kinda teared up cause he said he never had a surprise party before! It was really awesome so thank you so much for sending that! Oh, and I got my slippers and pants yesterday! Thank you so much! I'm sorry I've has you send me so much crap but I really do appreciate it. So I am pretty sure that we will be reassigned by Thursday if our visas don't come, temporarily that is, or we could be here a couple extra weeks if they find out our visas are in the mail or something like that. I really am fine with it all though, I would rather just get out into the field if I had the choice though, this place is great but we are all going to go crazy soon! Tomorrow the third set of English Missionaries leave. It blows my mind, we have been here forever! A hermana going to Lima Central got temp assigned to New Jersey! That would be so sick! I probably won't know about my reassignment until Thursday night so it won't be in my e-mail but I'll probably be able to call for 5 minutes! So expect that, but if I just have to stay here I won't be able to! I'm so excited for Keegan to come in Wednesday! I'm going to try to find him! Some of our zone is leaving in the morning! It's really sad! It's crazy how you feel like you have known the people here in the MTC for your whole life! I'll get a picture with them tonight and send it Thursday! We did get out checkout sheets though! Which is some info and stuff you get right before you leave and Wednesday....I mean Friday is in field orientation, where they tell you some stuff...all day I guess! Oh and you'll never guess who I saw here. We do street approaches on random missionaries for practice, we approached these 2 hermanas and started to share a message and about halfway through one was like Maestas? Where are you from and what's your name? I told her and she was like I KNOW YOU! You're Shae Pettit's cousin! It was her friend, Kimmie! Mercedes will know who she is! Such a crazy coincidence! Oh, and what's even weirder, she's going to Kevin Hales' mission! Nuts! Thank you for all of your love and support! I'm so lucky to have you! I love and miss you all! Just always know I'm fine wherever I am and take care of yourselves!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love you Mercedes!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love you Mom!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love you Dad!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love you Kramer! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">-Xav</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Talk to you soon! Florida here I come! I hope! :)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Oh one last thing, we've been reading the missionary library books, I'm reading Jesus the Christ and it has been blowing my mind! You should check it out! Love you all! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">So, this letter was mailed to us, and we received it May 1! But, there was a little note inside that was added in that read....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It should be here this week, I found out right before I mailed this! Me and 2 of the sisters! So sick! Love you all! I should be calling sometime this week for 5! </span>Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-82053379859560284092013-04-27T20:20:00.003-07:002013-04-27T20:23:55.652-07:00<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gosh so i have so many questions to answer today i hope I can respond to everything! Mom and dad, thanks so much for all the dear elders you send me! it is honestly so awesome to get those each day, it makes the day so much better every time i get one! Its way cool mom that you are starting to get all of grandpas genealogy stuff together, that is really so interesting to me!! And whats the genealogy library?? I've never heard of that! Tell grandpa i got his note and Send me his address so i can send something back!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So i haven't had to speak in sacrament yet and it may work out that I don't have to, we have a district leaving this week and then our last Sunday if we leave on time is fast Sunday so it will just be testimonies! So hehe i hope i don't have to! But i do have one prepared every week on the topic just in case!! When I call ill do my testimony and the first vision in Spanish so you can hear me!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So i have been sleeping much better since i moved rooms, We aren't in the room with the snorers anymore and I'm on the bottom so I'm not as hot all night! I Still hate waking up and I'm sure i always will, I'm just not a morning person! We never have enough time to sleep though it feels like, only when we take naps on pday do i feel rested! but we have class at 6 on pday so it still kinda sucks!! So they finally opened the soccer field and we will be going to do that and i am so excited! It Will be awesome!!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So our teachers got reassigned before we are even leaving! Saturday is our last day with them and we'll have new teachers! I feel like it kinda hinders us but we'll just keep going with how we did things before. Oh i heard if our visas are here we will most likely hear this week, if not we may be temp reassigned, which is alright! Elder Tolman and I want to go to Florida, it'd be cool to go down there for a while if we had to! This week also another district left in our zone and its seriously like saying bye to your good friends! It was sad! they got reassigned to Texas for a couple weeks until they can get their visas to Mexico!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">So with the hosting missionaries who are coming in you just get randomly assigned, except i don't think its possible for us since its our pday on Wednesdays! So that kinda sucks but we go watch them come in sometimes for fun! Pday honestly isn't that great, we get bored and just sleep after we finish everything!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the sicknesses here range from everything, people are constipated, running like faucets, runny noses, sore throats all kinda of stuff! One of my companions eye vessels are like popping its messed up! I'm so glad Ive been fine besides a couple of headaches! If they're really sick we can stay back though but its hard when you have so much to do always!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There have been tons of visa problems lately, Argentina and Brazil are really bad, i would tell Paul to hurry up on that stuff cause it is really an issue for them right now. And also for Mexico, the Mexico missionaries have to go to the consulate and they can only send so many. Like yesterday one of our districts went but the other district wasn't able to so they'll be reassigned it's nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its crazy to think though, this is our last normal week! Next week we have in field training and stuff so that will be cool! No matter what we'll be leaving here kinda soon! The Spanish is coming along well and two of our "investigators" are getting baptized. Its crazy, even though its fake, when we teach them as if they're the person it feels real and you really feel the spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Oh before i forget, so the TRC thing i was talking about last week, this week we taught a lady over skype who is IN Mexico!!! it was so crazy! she spoke zero English but i could actually understand most of what she was saying! it seriously made me so excited to go into the field! They just barely set up the TRC for that and we were some of the first to do it! Way cooL! This week our teachers actually were praising us on our Spanish which was definitely a first! They were telling us how much we had actually progressed and they we knew way more and could understand way more then when they went out. Next week ill have some pic to send of them!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tell Diane thanks for the info even though it may have not been super good! it was nice to hear something! Oh and tell Paul congrats and that My teacher went there and that hes going to love it! Oh and one cool thing, i think Keegan might be coming into my district! were supposed to get new ones next week, and if hes not he should be at least on my floor! ill find out on Friday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So it's P-day still and I already emailed you but I'm really bored and everyone is asleep! P-days are nice but there really isn't anything to do here when you aren't on a regular schedule! We went and walked around, watching all the new missionaries coming in, i'm so glad it's not me! I can't believe we've been here 3 weeks! 3 weeks MTC time is pretty long! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today some new english speaking missionaries are moving in, but it makes me sick because they will leave before me! That is the worst thing ever! Later today, I have to teach "Fernando" who is actually my teacher Hermano Rhodes, but when he's your investigator, it seems pretty real, they are all people who the teachers taught on their missions and are just acting as them,. We have 2 other investigators, Guadalupe (Hermana Castillo) and Miguel (Hermano Savio). They have some crazy backstories like Miguel cheated on his wife and Fernando is the son of a Baptist preacher. Pretty intense! Oh, I forgot to write this in the email. So there is this thing at the MTC called "TRC" I forget what it stands fore but it's where members come to the MTC and are taught by the missionaries! You guys should look it up and come dot it! You just come and volunteer. The missionaries practice on you! It's way Fun! It is probably one of the best things we do here. You can just practice talking to them in Spanish and get to know them and stuff! I'm sure they do it fore the english missionaries too. You should do it :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So one nice thing about my branch presidency is that they really aren't super strict. Like in some zones, you can only pass out the mail at night! Which gives you absolutely zero time to read! But like with other things they get on us about, like when we have to wear our suit coats, we HAVE to button the top buttons and if we put our hands in our pockets they freak! It's weird. But we only have to see them Tuesday and Sunday so it isn't terrible! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so lucky that I haven't gotten sick! 3 of the 5 of us have been sick and I still haven't. I can't imagine trying to get through this schedule while being sick! I got one headache but that's it! Really crazy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, one thing I haven't talked about is Sundays! Well actually I guess you have the schedule, but it's way early sacrament! And every week we have to have a talk prepared in Spanish on whatever topic it is! And they pick the speakers on the spot! It is the worst! But I guess it's supposed to prepare us for randomly having to in the field. Gosh, I am pretty sure I'm going to be here the for the six weeks. I feel like Elder Turner just got super lucky somehow! But oh well, I can make it if I have to! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't been going too crazy in gym. A kid in my zone broke his ankle the other day, it's sketchy! I've seen 2 elders go home in my hallway. I think for health reasons but who knows!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I want my visa so bad because it's so close to home still! It makes it rough! I can't imagine what it will be like to finally leave! I do feel kind of bad cause I always say that and talk about how we'll all see each other down there but Elder Peterson won't be! (he is going to Columbia). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laundry isn't that bad. I just do colors and whites. I only have 3 shirts and 3 pants out which is really as much as I need in the whole week. I'm seriously only using essential things here and keeping everything else ready to go! I want to be ready if I get called and leave the next day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are two Elders in my zone going to Mexico who are getting temp assignments tomorrow which sucks. Mexico just changed their visa policies I heard and so it's going to be really hard to get them in there! But anyways, I love you all so much! Always know I'm fine and just hoping my visa will come. Don't stress though, if it doesn't it won't be the end of the world. Plus a temp assignment would be cool! Get to go 2 places! Be safe, stay healthy and you will hear from me soon! </span><br />
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<span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I know i can't
believe it’s been three weeks, though it seriously feels like I've been here
forever! It’s weird to think of what it will be like to leave here now. I’m
definitely excited but also kinda nervous for it! I really don’t like writing
letters though! I Love to get mail but I’m also trying to get used to
only being able to email because as soon as i leave, that’s what will happen!
Gosh i can’t believe it’s been a year since i graduated! I wish i could do
splash again, i miss my friends and stuff but none of them are home anyways!
Everything is fine and we are really figuring out how to do everything. I’m
comfortable here and it’s nice. Spanish is a continuous struggle but we were
told by our presidency to try to just focus on the doctrine and just have faith
that the language will come. It’s really hard, and we have to keep studying it
but we have to make sure we know the doctrine first. I read my Book of Mormon
everyday and study in it multiple times a day for things! Preach my gospel is
like another companion! It is always being used there is so much stuff in it
that can really help you while teaching. I do wish i would have studied it
before I came but at the same time.. I’m studying it non-stop here so oh well i
guess! :) Yes my testimony has absolutely grown since I’ve been here. This has
to be the true church because of how well we all do while we prepare to go
teach gods children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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story where an elder had a dream about the pre existence, and he was hanging
out with his friends waiting in line to hear where they would be sent in the
world, When they got to the front the elder was told he would be able to be
born into a family who was a part of the church and he would be able to serve a
mission. His friend behind him was told that he would have a really hard life
and that he would have to do his best to find the true church. His family would
be poor and would not have the opportunities that his friend would have. And as
they were about to leave to earth, his friend said, "Don’t forget about
me, you have to find me" geez this story gives me the chills. I don’t know
if it is true but I honestly believe I knew the people who I am going to teach
in Peru before my mission and that they are my friends from pre life. It was said
that his mom got a letter from him saying that he had found his friend from the
dream. Gosh it really makes me feel the spirit so much, just thought I would
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<span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The spirit is always
strong here, you especially feel it while you teach and while you're in
devotionals. It’s just a crazy experience how much you feel it all the
time. It honestly isn't that peaceful here apart from when you have personal
study, other than that you're going pretty fast all the time! It’s hard but
also keeps your mind off home and what not. I’m taken care of and have
everything I need. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family who is a part
of the gospel! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moved rooms because since elder turner left we've been in a trio with Elder
Tolman. This week one of our districts left, which were Elder Tolman’s
roommates, It was just down the hall but it really felt weird leaving there!
Plus it’s sad to leave Elder Harris and Reinhart, but it’s okay! At least we
are still in the same building. It’s been snowing and raining here quite a bit
and it’s been pretty cold! Elder Reinhart loves it because he’s from Cali and
hasn’t really seen snow before, but the rest of us are sick of it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think the day after that picture, he was going English speaking so he was only
here like a week! He was from California but I never really got to talk about
him about anything. You really are only able to talk much with the people in
your zone, but you’re way more close with your district. I am honestly with
them all week besides sleeping. So we have got to know each other really well!
Our zone is the rooms around us in the building which right now is only 2 other
rooms but we get a new district next week. We see them in gym, in the residence
and every so often we visit each other in class. Everyone else is kinda in
their own thing, you’ll see them at lunch or in passing but you never really
have a opportunity to talk to them! Like I always see Ryan in passing but
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Keegan goes in and what not! I’ll try to find him! So I won’t be DL
anymore by Sunday, which is honestly great so I won’t have to worry so much
about things anymore:P Its awesome that you had the elders teach your
lesson, it probably helps big time with them practicing their lessons! It’s
funny because we can talk so much about the gospel but right now we can’t talk
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<span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s so awesome about
kevin and his sister! he must have a pretty awesome mission president. Sorry
I’m so scrambled but I’m trying to respond to everything! Thank you so much for
everything you have done for me mom! I love you so much and I hope i will hear
from you soon! You’re probably going to have to just put up some of your
letters on the blog and to other people because i can’t really write a whole
separate one about what I’m doing! plus it isn’t so interesting! Just know all
these letters are for all of you and read all of each others! Oh and guess what
An apostle came last night and i was in the room he was in, Richard G Scott! it
was really awesome, he gave us all a blessing to learn our languages and to
succeed in our missions. it was seriously awesome! Love you mom! :) </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-64495478653530012382013-04-12T19:04:00.001-07:002013-05-15T16:53:37.175-07:00<a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=295&sid=24703772">http://www.ksl.com/?nid=295&sid=24703772</a> <span style="font-size: large;">Check out this link!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On October 6, 2013, I was running on my treadmill and I was watching conference. Xav was still laying in bed in his room just listening. When the President Monson announced the age change for missionaries, I yelled and asked Xav if he heard that and he said yes and came running. While we finished watching conference Xavi text the bishop and said,"Start my papers"! We were in tears and so excited that his prayers were answered and that he could leave on his mission. I am posting the video that Carol Makita did about the age change and all the missionaries that are going. We are so proud of Xavi and all of his friends that jumped at the opportunity to serve the Lord!</span><br />
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Ceceliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285725013703439246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427596962605517138.post-91265440968672136552013-04-09T10:45:00.002-07:002013-04-27T21:01:23.679-07:00Xavi's First Letter<br />
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crazy. I made a huge list of questions and stuff i got so sorry if it sounds
like I'm jumping around! Thanks so much for the birthday and Easter boxes! I
love getting mail but at the same time it makes me kind of homesick! Don't
worry i would much rather have the mail! I will definitely be sending some
exercises shirts home and probably my towel, the micro fiber towel is great so
ill probably just take that! I did my laundry and ironed all my shirts today
for the first time! I'm pretty proud of myself! So the food here isn't that bad
but it seems like we eat every 5 minutes, its actually every 5 hours but it
really feels like too much. My roommates have had problems going to the bathroom
and what not but I've been fine. So today we teach our 4th lesson in Spanish
and I'm really not even nervous, its not that hard to get your point across and
i kind of just review some words before we go into the lesson, i don't take
anything in the lesson to help me but i still do pretty good! :P I can almost
always understand everything that's being said which is really nice its just
hard to know what to say and understand it all quick enough!</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">So Nate is in my district and is a really cool
guy, I've gotten to know him pretty well and its awesome that were going
together. Quinn is in another district and Ive only seen him like twice, hes
weird though. So my district has 4 hermanas (sisters, thats what we have to
call them) and 6 elders with me and my companion. Ill try to get a picture to
you guys of us all if i can figure out this weird computer. I've seen Ryan a
few times but if missionaries aren't in your district or zone, you never see
them. So Ive just seen him in passing but he looks like hes doing good. A girl
from Murray is in my zone though! Her name is Korrine Woodmansee, Mercedes
probably knows who she is.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In my apartment theres me, elder Reinhart, Elder
Harris and Elder Peterson ( my companion) Reinhart and Harris snore, Reinhart
really loudly and so he bought us all ear plugs so we could sleep. This morning
was our first time to the temple and i woke up at 5:30!!! it was so hard but i
think ill get used to it eventually.. Its true that I am always SO tired but I
have SO much to do and so you can't really stop! Ill try to send a picture of
my schedule so you can see what I'm doing every day! All our classes are just
with our district which is cool because were getting super close and its going
to be fun. My whole district, except my companion, are all going to the same
mission! Elder Peterson is going to Colombia. Its awesome because we know we'll
see each other throughout our whole mission. I'm so glad i made it to P-day! I
think after this i will be completely fine because the schedule doesn't change
until your last week, which hopefully i wont be here for. On P day we have to
wash our clothes, go to the dry cleaner, clean our room, email the president
and just anything else to prepare. There really isn't a lot of time for
yourself which kinda sucks.</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Our presidency is actually alright, they really
do care about us and you can tell, but they're also very strict. And since I'm
the District Leader I'm the one who has to answer for other peoples stuff. Its
rough to try to tell them all what to do even though I've been here the same
amount of time, but thats alright, its what i have to do! Oh so they really did
change it so that you can email for an hour on Pdays! thats so awesome, I was
worried i wouldn't have time to read and respond to all my emails but with and
hour thats not problem!</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Easter devotional was really cool and
Sundays are way better than Sundays at regular church.. Its so funny though
because in the main gym is where the speaker is and there are a bunch of
overflow rooms, everyone like runs to the gym because they're hoping its an
apostle or something but every time so far its just been a member of the 70 or a
mission president. Their talks are all really good its just not what everyone
expects, my district and I just go to the overflow and watch it because i
mean...who cares that much, we still get to hear what he has to say!</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the moment here it seriously feels so long!
every class feels like it drags and drags but now that its been a week i can't
believe that Ive been here that long. Walking here I saw all the new
missionaries coming in and that means that I'm not the new guy anymore! Its
really cool and I would not want to redo being dropped off like that.. its
rough! But I'm thankful for the missionaries here who do help out with
everything. Hermana Woodmansee was helping me figure out the washers earlier,
it was funny! Its hard being with other people 24/7, sometimes i don't want to
be with them and it gets super annoying. But out of all the elders here.. i
definitely got lucky with the guys in my district, the lord knew i couldn't
take some of the other guys or something.. :P So on my B-day my district gave
me a card and a snickers which was pretty awesome since i only knew them for a
few days!</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tomorrow starts what i feel might be a long rest
of the week but i am really excited to be able to be here for general
conference! Its going to be awesome!</span><br />
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I just want to share real quick what I've really
learned while I'm here, prayer is so important in everything you do. Through
prayer you can get answers to anything you need to even if you think its
something that isn't that important. We pray a million times a day and i can
feel us being blessed with the things we ask!<br />
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Feel free to email me or send me a letter through
DearElder.com! Ill respond as best i can! I Love you all and i hope to hear
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">As you know things change. Xav did not receive his visa in time to go to the Lima, Peru MTC. So, on Wednesday March 27, 2013 we dropped him off at the Provo MTC to start his mission and to wait for his visa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had to say goodbye in the parking lot of Kneaders, after lunch, because we were warned, they just sweep them away at the MTC! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of the elders snore zzz so the first night they all laid awake until one of the elders said, "The first night of the next two years", and they all laughed because that was exactly what everyone was thinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, we dropped Xavi off at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27th and then we waited.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, Saturday morning the mailman brought our first letter! We were so excited to see how things were going. We all sat around to hear what he had to say. Mercedes said, "It's like Christmas"! and it certainly was. We read and reread and cried. He was doing great! The mtc was good, food was good and he was soooo busy. He sent a copy of his schedule so that we could see what he was up to! His spanish is coming along and he said that the spanish classes must have really helped because he was really picking it up. On Friday, March 29, 2013, he taught his first lesson in Spanish! Wow, I guess that spanish class helped. He said, he could understand, but it was hard to respond. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Xavi's friend, Tyler Liddiard, left the day before Xavi. He is going to Bogota, Columbia! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Xavi and Tyler</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Xavi, Mercedes and Tyler</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Mercedes and her two brothers)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Liddiard saying goodbye to Derek</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Xavi and Amy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Amy helped Xavi survive seminary and was his Trek sister!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mitch's best buddies are leaving him! Poor Mitch! :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> These kids have all been buddies since kindergarten! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Awh! Xav and Brady</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> See ya in two, buddy! Mitch and Xav</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(We love Crunchy! She has been a part of our family for 3 years and she's a great support to Xavi!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I'm off to serve the people of Peru!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the video of when we first found out where Xavi would be going to serve! We were all so nervous, but..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Peru Lima East Mission!! </span></div>
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