Elder Holland

so this week was better. but our two baptisms got pushed back again. they have to wait to get married first. but with my comp things went allot smother. so this week we had to take the metro which is like that trolley but under ground. and there is a stop called eugenia. most of you should pick up the significance of that one. but we took the metro to aragon where that temple is. we whent to the mtc which is right next to the temple to listen to Elder Holland speak. he spoke to all 4 mexico city missions and the mtc at the same time. it was an awesome experieance. he spoke so directly to us. it was awesome to listen to an Apostle. He spoke allot about making sure our converts stay strong and make it to the temple. i forgot my notes but i might write more about it later. it was such a good and strong spiritual experiance. we are so lucky here in Mexi town.

so im getting transfered tomarrow. im going to be in Mirasoles in the steak istapalapa. i think that im going to be comps with elder alvarez again. he was comps with me when i first got here when we were in the trio. so that sould be really cool. it should be interesting to leave my greeenie area and see what else there is in mexi town.

um i think im like 2 months late but what happened in The Office? how did it end and are jim and pam still together? also survivor who won? any updates on the LLWS? is US going to be in the finals? i miss watching those little kids play. and watching them loose and cry their little hearts out. jk. but seriosly. updates please. and also the chargers.

hey i love you guys and thanks for all of the love and support.
amor y dedos
elder skaggs

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largartijas...

what up,hey this week was ok. our baptism fell through but thats alright cuz we have two for sat set up. they are really cool people they are a coupple and a re going to get married soon. they have christians trying to convince them to not get baptized but they are staying really strong. so we founfd these new family it is 3 sisters who are like 40 years old and they are all pretty cool and receptive. so this week i saw something in the street that gave me a little bit of hope. i saw a Dan Fauts jersy. i got so excited for chargers season to start. i kind of forgot about how suckky the pads are this year. i heared the chargeres are picked to go to the super bowl. thats cool.so my comp has absolutly no manners. he smacks his food and crunches his chips really laoud. when he eats he spreads his elbows out on the table and gets really close to the food and eats really really fast. kind of like a dog. it is really rude.so i learned a new word this week. largartijas. it means lizzard or push ups. pretty cool huh. i think itsa funny cuz lizzards do allot of push ups. so this week should be sweet. tuesday we are going to have a missionary activity in the capilla (chapel). it should be good if the members show up and bring their friends. also on wed we get to listen to jeffrey r holland in the mtc with all of the missionaries in DF (mexico city) it should be an amazing experieance. hope you are all haveing a good week. i love you and write back.amor y dedos elder skaggs

Hail

hey
so this week was ok. sunday was cool. we had 3 investigatiors at church. one is going to get baptized this week and the other two are going to get baptized the week after. they are all really cool. so we had a hail storm on monday. it was crazy on our way home from email it started to rain then it rained really hard then it hailed so bad that there was snow really thick. it was really crazy and we got really wet. but it was fun. and not really cold cuz its mexico. so not much else to report things are still tough with my comp and with finding new people to teach but we should find a way to work it out. hope you are all doing ggood and keep in touch

love ya lots
amor y dedos
elder skaggs

Tyler's movin' on up...

hey

so i got my new comp this week. his name is elder morales. he is from chiapas. he is kind of weird and controlling. i guess ill have to learn to love him for who he is cuz i cant change him. so his first day here he asked me if i wanted to try some food from chiapas, i said sure. and he pulled out this jar full of little black things. little black ants. so i ate one. it sucked. i knew i would eat weierd things in mexi town but i never expected ants. he also carrys his wodden jap sword all over his mish. its kind of scary he could bash me in the head with it if he gets mad at me. he said that if he was mad he would punch me. but he says that he dosnt get mad ever. i hope not for my lifes sake. so we moved houses this week and we have a kitchen so that is cool. we also have hot water. this week was the first week that i have taken a hot shower since i got to mexitown.

so i had chicken foot soup again. the soup part wasnt bad. tortillas are the gringos lifesaver. if i have to eat anything nasty or down right terrible. i just slap that succer in a nice fresh tortilla and chow down. i think God made tortillas popular in mexico to save missionaries from the gross food.

no baptisms this week and the work has been allot harder without bentancourt. im going to have to really streach this transfer and work really hard. thanks for the love and support.

amor y dedos

elder skaggs

Tyler the tree hugger

so this week was pretty good but couldhave been better. we had one baptism when we had 3 people with dates. one guy has to quit smoking and drinking coffee. hopefully they can have allot of faith and be ready for next sunday. we will see. we are also working on getting a lady in our ward married so her husband can get baptized. we had service on sat. we went to help reforest and plant 5,500 trees. it was up in the dinamos (waterfalls) and we hiked like 3 miles up this mountian and on the way down it rained the whole time. but it was good. there were a lot of people there. we have been visiting allot of recent converts lately because my comp thinks it is really important but we dont really have any new investigators that are progressing and i think we need to focus on finding more people. but mi dont really know much about the mission and how it works and my comp only has 6 months left i dont even have 5 months in the mish.

so we had one baptism this week. his name is abraham he is really cool. we played soccer with hinm and some other members this morning. it was really fun. i am sending the pics to my mom andshe should put them on my blog soon. we are going to have noche de hogar (family home evening) tonight with some members. it should be chill. hope all is going well in the sd. sounds like it. go pads and keep the faith

paz
elder skaggs

Chicken foot soup, RS drama and the temple...

i did eat chicken foot soup. it was quite possibly the grossest thing i have ever tried. there is no meat whatsoever as you can imagine. i mean how much edible meat is on a foot?

so this week was the first week that we didnt have a baptism. but we have 5 people with fechas for next week. so that should be really cool. so i have been starting to have weird dreams. some dreams are in half spanish and about missionary things. i dont really have normal dreams anymore in some way all of my dreams are weird.
so we got to go to the temple on sat because the mision doctor lives right next to it. elder bentancourt got sick. he is better now. he had stress and was not drinking enough water. so all of the relif society drama is world wide and even worse in mexico. evryone knows about evryones buisness and somhow news travels even faster in mexico without internet or mostly phones.

First baptism

This is Tyler's first baptism, after he had been in the country for a few days. His name is Panchito. His companions are Elder Bentancourt and Elder Alvarez.