11 Months

Jan, 26th, 2009

hey,

this week had its ups and downs. so ill let you know how it went day by day. sale

tuesday i completed 11 months in the mission. the member that we ate with threw me a party. kind of. we just ate and had a cake. it was pretty good. they smashed my face in the cake. i knew it was coming but it was fun and tasted good.

wed. we had a mission confrence. yup the whole mission 180 missionaries. we had the area president Elder Mickleson come. it was really cool and i learned alot about the atonement. it was a really good experiance and was fun to see all of my buddies from my gen and other fools i met here.

thursday. the BIG day. my b day. i woke up and opend my package. then i made myself french toast. it was cool. then we left to go work. we worked reall hard and tought abubnch of lessons until after the food. then we just went to the house and relaxed all night. just kidding. after the food we passed by for some investigators and went to the church where we had a baptism. it was cool. i got to baptize on my birthday. that was one of the things i wanted to do on my mission. cool huh?

friday. we worked all day until the night wen we went to the church for a activity. the members were suposed to bring their friend and family who arnt members. so we get there and there is no one. about 15 people showed up and no one brought their friends. all of the investigators that we invited bailed. lame.

sat we worked all day.

sunday we went to church. we had invited allot of people that said yea ill go. but only one came. that was a bummer. but the baptism (claudia) got confirmed. so that was good.

today we played soccer in the morning. that was fun

i hope you all are doiung good. love ya keep in touch,

elder skaggs

Dead Papa...

hey

this week was good. we kept working hard and our hard work actually payed off. we had 6 new investigators come to church for the first time. and there is another family of 3 that couldnt come because of an emergancy. so we could have had nine people there. it was way cool. the ward has grown alot here lately. we had 115 people at church which is way high. usually we have like 85 90 topps. so this last week was cool. me and my comp gave talks and kind of railed on the ward for not giving us refrences. so we will see if we get some this week.

so this week mi papa died. which means that my first companion (dad) went home. thats weird. i cant belicve how fast the time goes by here on the mission. also Alex goes home in 44 days. he was kind enough to remind me. thats crazy. i remember wen he called me wen he was just about to enter the MTC. now hees coming home. and tomarrow i complete 11 months in the mission. that scares me a bunch. i am almost halfway done. i want to add an extra year cuz i dont want it to end.

this weeek was cold. it actually rained. that was weird. cuz right now its not the time of rain. this whole week was cold until yesterday and today. its back to being hot.

love ya lots and hope your doing good. keep in touch,.

amor y dedos

elder skaggs

sup?
this week was alright. my comp and me worked like little japeneese kids work in the sweat shops. ooppps i hope i didnt just affend some of you who are going to jap-town on the mission. but seriously we worked really hard this week. my comp and i both did our 70 contacts in the week. which is verry rare that missionaries actually do what the president asks. we set up a bum load of lessons and almost all of them fell through or the people who actually listened to us dont want to change or come to church.

well this past week on the 6th was "day of the 3 wisemen". so here in mexico they have christmas and then on the 6th they celebrate when the wisemen gave Jesus gifts. all of the little kids buy special reyes magos baloons and tie their note with all the gifts they want and let it go. the balloon goes up into the sky and the wisemen somehow get it and bring the kids all the gifts they want. its kind of like writing to santa clause.

o another wierd twisted thing here in mexico. the tooth fairy dosnt exist. instead they have a little rat that brings the kids money when their teeth fall out. yup thats right a rat. i really dont undestand where they think theese things up. maybee part of the government spends a bit of money to pay people to think of ways to ruin and destroy holidays and traditions. who knows,?

well my kid is doing pretty good. he works and does his contacts. he is a bit weird. i guess its cuz he is from such a small town. he dosnt know how to use internet. today i was tring to help him but he was impaciant and shut it off. his first p day. we played soccer at the church and he had to go to the bathroom. he couldnt wait 5 mins and did his thing on a tree in the parking lot right next to the feild we were playing on. that was funny.

well i hope you are having a good time and having success in all that you do. love ya lots and keep in touch.

amor y dedos
elder skaggs

Jan. 5th, 2009

hey,

how are things? things here in mexitown are great. as you know i just got a kid. which means that i am training a new missionariy. my kid is elder Zapata and is way cool. he is from a little town (if you could call it that) in Tamoulipas. he has lots of desires to work and follows my advice. He actually contacts. which is cool because my comp Solis who has a year and a half in the mission wouldnt do it. we have been working really hard and should see the results soon.

so this week we found 20 new people to teach. it was way good. i think the best week of finding people in my mission. but the bummer is that none of the m came to church. we need to keep practicing the lessons together cuz my comp just goes on rambling. he gets really excited to talk to people and just dosnt stop and he confuses peopple. but he will learn to control himself and make his lessons more simple and effective.

well this week was good for me i hope it went well for all of you. this is the Lords church and work. I love Him and His gosple. if we trust in Him he will help us through our trials and when we pass them He will bless us likle crazy. Love you all adn keep up the good work. keep in touch.

amor y dedos

elder skaggs