tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268069337877135042024-03-13T13:50:58.852-07:00 Elder Isaac Sampson Mexico Tampico Mission
January 2014-2016Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-11236363851871801182015-12-14T22:24:00.000-08:002015-12-16T22:40:42.813-08:00December 14th My Last Email<div id="html-message">
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Well... the truth
about this week... it wasn't all that great with the investigators... we
looked for everyone but.... we didn't find anyone.... we contacted a
bunch of referrals and all that but nothin... and also... we didn't have
a whole ton of time to work because we got to see the cultural
celebration of the Tijuana temple and then the dedication on sunday and
so we didn't really get to work on saturday or sunday, we only had a
half day on thursday and wednesday and so we only worked the whole day
on tuesday and friday but it wasn't all that great either because it was
the Virgin Guadalupe's day (on friday) so... there was a lot of stuff
going on around here and people didn't have time to listen. They had a huge parade and they do a run from Valles to Tanquian and it
took all day so ya... there were a few things that got in the
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Something cool that happened last night was
that the wife of the branch president organized a going away party so
that was cool :) and I got to say good bye to a bunch of the members
because I already knew I was going... but something kinda lame it that I
am going to Tampico today... and I am going to stay the whole week...
so today is my last day in my area... because tomorrow I have an
interview with president and I get to go to the temple one last time and
then on thursday I have to be in tampico already so they are just going
to have me stay there until Friday.... :/</div>
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But a
little bit about the dedication.... it was really great :) President
Uchtdorf said the prayer and we got to see two sessions
and during the first session they sealed the corner stone! and we got
to watch :) it was a really cool experience! One of
Gordon B Hinckley's sons is the Temple President and he speaks spanish pretty well :) Something that I
really liked was that they said "when Jesus was young he sat and taught
in the temple and he keeps doing the same today." I have a testimony of
that because I have always been able to find answers when I go to the
temple and I know that it really is the house of the Lord :) </div>
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Well... this is my last email... I love you all! I can't
wait to see you on Friday! :) I am so grateful for the chance the Lord
gave me to serve him for two years :)</div>
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I have
loved this time and the people and I have learned a lot :) Thank you for
all the love you have given me :) See ya, on the other side! :) (here
they always say "el otro lado" to say the US :) )</div>
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-Elder Sampson :) (soon to be Isaac...) </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-43307806478303432702015-11-30T13:26:00.000-08:002015-12-03T13:47:51.527-08:00November 30th I Love the People Here!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hey! how goes it? Did everyone enjoy thanksgiving? I sure hope so! We only ate pizza to
celebrate it.... but it was fine :) it was kinda like all the other
days... Well I have a picture of my new companions! Elder Perez is in
the middle and the other one that isn't a tall white guy is Elder Mendez
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Church <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">t</span>his week was pretty interesting because it was
kinda like my first week here, the branch president couldn't make it and
all that and there was a very small number of people there.... like
13... us included and... all but 5 went home early... so it was great!
:D haha </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But everything is going great with us. I like being in a trio
but is a little crowded in the house but it is also a good thing because
there is less cleaning to do between the three of us :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So
to respond a little to some of the questions mom asked me I am going to
tell you a little about how I'm feeling about things at this point :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The people here
in Tanquian are really great! :) sometimes in the cities the people
aren't as willing to give up a little bit of time but here they are
super nice! A lot of times they aren't really interested but even then
they treat us very well. I like looking for service activities here
because there are a ton, the only thing is that a lot of times they
don't want us to help them... like they don't want us to lose our time
helping them because they feel like we have better things to do... if
that makes sense... and even when we explain that we are actually there
to serve them... they still don't let us ... but it's fine :) we are
still able to find some people that are willing to let us help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have
felt a love for the people and a desire to serve them I guess I don't
really express it all that much... like I do the things like walk all day in the sun and sweat and
do stuff like that and even though I don't think in that moment I think it is the love that I have that
makes it easy to do it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I never think "I am tired I don't want to do
this anymore" or anything like that, even though I am tired, I keep
walking and working and I have the strength to keep going, and it is for
the love that I and the Lord have for them, even though I don't think consciously about it... I hope that makes a little sense... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We had a cool experience with a recent
convert, and it made me realize that the Lord is guiding us even when we
don't figure that out until later. So we were looking for some people
to visit but they weren't home so we were thinking a bit about what to
do (mostly I was because my companions still don't know the area very
well, they had like two days, cut them some slack! ;) ) and I thought
about Rosalba, she is a recent convert. So we head over to her house and
she starts asking us all kinds of questions about baptisms for the dead
and stuff like that and so we are like hold on! we've gotta start with a
prayer! ;) so we say the prayer and start explaining some of her
questions and it turns out that the JW's had been visiting her and
trying to convince her that the Church is false and all that... and they
kinda had planted a large doubt in there but we were able to answer all
her questions and then we told how she could be sure... asking her
Father in Heaven. Then she tells us that before we got there she had
decided that she wasn't going to go to any church, but then she told us
about the time when God had answered her prayer and let her know that
the church was true, she had forgotten a little about that but we
reminded her to think about it and to look for more experiences like
that and she was excited to go to church again :) so it was a cool
experience for me because I felt like we really had been able to help
her feel the Spirit and remember the love that God has for her and I
felt really great because I was able to see that, it was a
great experience from this week :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">well... I gotta go! I love you all so much! have a great week! :)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-14790529280287724892015-11-24T13:43:00.000-08:002015-12-03T13:44:20.959-08:00November 24th They Got Baptized and Transfers<div id="html-message">
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Hey! It's
Christmas in a month! It's Thanksgiving on Thursday but today... Is
dad's BIRTHDAY!!!! :) Happy Birthday! I love you! :)<div>
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So
news for the week... THEY GOT BAPTIZED!!!!! yup they did :) I baptized
Mari Paz and my comp Pablo :) it was pretty great again :) they were
really happy and there are excited to keep going strong in the church!
:) we also did the confirmations for them and it was a neat experience
because I felt that the Spirit was guiding me in what to say and that
the word that I said weren't mine :)</div>
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Last week
we weren't really able to teach a whole lot because we had to go to
Valles and also to Tamuin and then we had to prepare things for the
baptism but yes, this time there was plenty of water so it was a lot
easier to do the baptism but it was all great! We also took a picture
of the branch on Sunday because my comp was going to leave.... and now
he did... and now... I have 2 new companions!! That's right... they put
me in a trio... (so they wouldn't have to have special changes during
the transfer) I am now with Elder Mendez... (a different one) and Elder
Perez! Mendez is a convert from Bolivia and Perez is from the Federal
District of Mexico ( el DF o México) </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-89708079977648535402015-11-16T17:10:00.000-08:002015-11-16T17:25:30.359-08:00November 16th Baptism this Saturday!!!!<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">HEY!!!! I really don't have much time but I will try to make it worth
your while;) haha </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well... this last week we had the
interviews for the up-coming baptisms! :) Mari Paz is 18 and Pablo is
12... or 13... I don't remember right now... but they are siblings, but
yes, they will be getting baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2022986325" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">this Saturday</span></span>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We also had divisions with the zone leaders and we all worked here in
Tanquian it was great :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We haven't been able to talk with Tomasa again
because she is really busy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We found some new investigators, Mario and
Kayla. We had a great lesson with them about the Restoration and they
were really open and willing to find out for themselves and totally
accepted a baptismal date! :) but... it is for after the 18th... so... I
hope to hear that they get baptized when I am home... :) It was great
because we were able to see that they really listened and thought about
what we were teaching and that only happens when the Spirit is present
so I felt good about that lesson but... I don't really have all that
much time left to write... </span><br />
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dressed up for Xantolo (shantolo for you English speakers ;) )</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-6405481351524815782015-11-09T15:25:00.000-08:002015-11-10T15:25:13.175-08:00November 9th Testimony of the Book of Mormon<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So...
this week... we didn't get to work all that much... because my comp got
sick from some tamales that we ate... so it was a little slow... but
he's better now :) so we didn't work on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday... it was a little boring... and on Wednesday we went to Valles
and then we worked for an hour and then... back to the house so that was
a little... ya know... boring but yesterday and Saturday we did get to
working and it was good :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On Saturday we visited a bunch of recent
converts and we finally taught a lady
that we had met a while ago. It went pretty well with her. Her name is
Tomasa and we taught her daughter as well :) They were really receptive
and were willing to ask God if what we were teaching was true and it was
a great experience :) She is catholic (like almost everyone) but doesn't
go (another common situation) but said that she doesn't believe that
there is a true church, that all are good but none are perfect. We
explained a little about why she feels that way but then we testified about the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and the Restoration :) She seemed to be very
interested and willing to read in the BOM too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On
Sunday we had a class about the Book of Mormon and I was able to share a
little about what we had learned and it was a neat experience to be
able to share with all the member that showed up (like 15) my testimony
and I invited them to read and reaffirm their testimonies and I was able
to feel my own testimony and appreciation for the BOM grow :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mari
Paz and Pablo came to church again and are progressing quite well...
but we are getting a little behind on the lessons and their interview
will be this Friday...but we will get 'em prepared! :) </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well... I don't have much time but I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week! BYE! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson :)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-92045083477786215062015-11-03T14:59:00.003-08:002015-11-03T14:59:33.966-08:00November 3rd Baptismal date set for Nov. 21st!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What! it is already November? It goes by so fast!</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
don't really have any time... but this last week went pretty well, we
found a couple that seem to have some pretty good promise! :) I sure
hope they can progress! We have been teaching Pablo and Mari Paz, they
are doing really well and we have their baptism scheduled for Nov. 21 so
it is great! They have been coming to church and all that jazz :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">um...
I was just informed that I wouldn't be able to go home on the 21st...
so... it will actually be the 18th... so like three days earlier... just
so you know, we had it figured out with President and everything
but then church travel services said that they can't send us that day so
we will be going on the 18th! Just so you know... but... have to go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">oh... we didn't write yesterday because my comp was sick so... we were in the house all day... but he's better now :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love you all! :) bye!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-67591960064200805992015-10-26T15:08:00.000-07:002015-11-03T15:17:23.021-08:00October 26th I Got To Baptize!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sorry for last
week and not writing a whole lot... My companion had planned the week
before with some investigators that we would make some cupcakes and
stuff with them and so we were doing that and then we helped them
make empanadas that they sell so it was like a service project and it
took longer than we thought and so we finished pretty late...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But...
I baptized someone for the first time in my life! It was pretty special
:) but it was a little interesting because there wasn't any water here
in the little church so we couldn't fill the font so... we called a guy
and he brought a tank and filled it up to about 3 inches below the knees
and was going to fill it up more... but the second trip was never made
and I had to baptize Rubicel in a very small amount of water... But I
did! haha it was pretty crazy but I did it on the first intent! haha
it was great! he was really happy and is rather committed to coming to
church. Yesterday he was already paying his tithing! He is pretty great :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This week was a good week:) we were able to achieve our goals with lessons and stuff
like that. We still need to improve on finding new investigators, but it is going quite well here :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are the only missionaries because
we are pretty far away from the city and the branch here is pretty
small, and I am in charge of the meetings like... I have to plan it and
we get together with the other elders in the district (just two) and the
four of us have a little class and then we go back to area, or
sometimes they come over here, we take turns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We
haven't been able to see a whole lot of nature except in the bus ride
to and from here, but we are going to see if we can go to some ruins
this next week... :) I am excited! :)</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuF4TiLDzCu54Weqd6iH7t7GBuPh4nii-Fp8tF6V_kHHukgo2hR3mfMtSE3hZmQMEcmCAfMRMkzJGNwtcu7fqd6-JWjhLoXSdE4f1QCYMoFMupqfjuVy9Hs5ntP7bYc6e3GUjpUNP-hoA6/s1600/IMG_0045%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuF4TiLDzCu54Weqd6iH7t7GBuPh4nii-Fp8tF6V_kHHukgo2hR3mfMtSE3hZmQMEcmCAfMRMkzJGNwtcu7fqd6-JWjhLoXSdE4f1QCYMoFMupqfjuVy9Hs5ntP7bYc6e3GUjpUNP-hoA6/s320/IMG_0045%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The branch is pretty tiny
but there are more that usually go and more came this week but there
really aren't a whole lot but it's all good :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well I hope you enjoyed your week! :D I gotta go but I love you all! :) BYE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8BHSs6Zzz-aw1KP_QayeUXiamO8pHKC-ZwdudqgyjPKIzPr1RKvUe5OJ3cBF64W0HtyrgfUUrqCbnWF-DXLwXXoJCbcDoY99Bj7afNrWEeDstw2QGYZqJXFBGzww5s7vC45B03d4ATbL/s1600/IMG_0175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8BHSs6Zzz-aw1KP_QayeUXiamO8pHKC-ZwdudqgyjPKIzPr1RKvUe5OJ3cBF64W0HtyrgfUUrqCbnWF-DXLwXXoJCbcDoY99Bj7afNrWEeDstw2QGYZqJXFBGzww5s7vC45B03d4ATbL/s320/IMG_0175.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These two pictures are from the two baptisms. The first one is Mateo and the second Rubicel. and my comp ;)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-28551621294184315302015-10-19T13:15:00.000-07:002015-10-20T13:16:06.317-07:00Oct. 19th We had a Baptism!<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, I got no time! as you can see because we are writing super late...
but let me tell you a little about the week. Please forget about all
typos or other such errors that you may find:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So this
week there was a baptism here in Tanquian! Mateo got baptized and well,
before there was a rule that the missionaries couldn't baptize but for October president said that we could :) so my comp baptized him! :D <b>And
this week we have another baptism! and I am going to get to baptize ! :)</b> <b>First time in my whole life! :) so cool!</b> I will baptize Rubicel on Saturday :) Mateo is an older guy but is super great, he used to be a
carpenter but lost two of his fingers in an accident (he is almost like Stavi;) ) and Rubicel is a young guy, he's 28. It is
going to be super cool :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In Tanquian there
aren't a whole lot of members... like there were 13 on Sunday... and 4
were investigators... but it is definitely a small little town out in the
middle of nowhere. The closest elders are an hour and a half away and
that is also a little town, they are actually the other two missionaries
in the district, the others in the zone are in a city called Valles,
like an hour away from the other elders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This Sunday was rather
interesting, my comp and I were the speakers in sacrament, my comp gave
the second class and the guy that was presiding the meeting also blessed
the sacrament and I passed it... and my comp and I also gave the last
class, but to everyone, there wasn't any separating into classes or
anything... so it was a little different but it's great :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's
all I have time for right now for everyone but I love you all and will
try to say more next week about Tanquian! :) it's pretty great here :) I
love you all! BYE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">PS My return date was finalized today in the morning... <b>I will be coming home the 21st!</b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-84838304218745362902015-10-12T20:48:00.000-07:002015-10-13T20:48:30.497-07:00Oct. 12th I Got Transfered<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bueno... Well I am
out of the offices and into the real world! I am now... with Elder
Juarez in a little town called Tanquian de Escobedo. It is in San Luis
Potosí (that is the state :) ) I don't have much time but... it seems
like we get along pretty well because we had a 3 and a half hour bus
ride and we talked pretty good the whole time :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He is from Puebla, he
is the oldest of four kids, he likes basketball, wants to study physical
therapy or business and broke his arm once when he fell of a horse when
he was like 4 or 5 years old ;)</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But anyways, he told
me we have a baptism this weekend and next week! :) I am also District
Leader again (I failed to mention that I was district leader the last
three changes as well... :P) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I will write more next week
but for now... ain't nobody got time for dat! :) haha I love you all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have an amazing week, remember... we are members of the true Church! :) How great is that?!?!? :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-34754548349746429342015-10-10T20:44:00.000-07:002015-10-13T20:44:54.241-07:00Oct. 10th New Baptismal Date<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, This week was pretty good :) we were able to work more with the
members and stuff like that be we still have struggled with finding new
investigators but things have gone well with a few that we have like
Ivan. Yesterday we had super divisions in the zone and I went with Elder
Mercedes (he got here at the same time I did, but will go home a change
later because he didn't have a change in the MTC, he is from the
Dominican Republic) to visit Ivan. We got to the part of the Plan of
Salvation that he had a lot of questions about we talked about the
Spirit World and the Resurrection and the Kingdoms of Glory. It went
really well and we put a new baptismal date with him because the other
fell through because he didn't go to conference because his mom got
sick. But it was cool because we asked him what he thought he should do
to prepare himself to get baptized and he said that he should pray and
read and keep listing to us and all that and it was a special
experience, he only didn't mention church attendance but we mentioned it
and he said he wanted to go this Sunday and he said "Voy a ir, es
segurísimo!" and so... we are waiting for that :) it will be great :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well,
this week I will probably have transfers so... if I write on Monday too
don't freak out, because I will be back out in the field not in the office anymore so my pdays will be Mondays again. I have liked being in the offices but it will be good
to get back out for this last little bit. They haven't said that
it is for sure but... I am almost positive I will be leaving but if not
that's fine too but we will know soon enough :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
really enjoyed the conference! I decided to ponderize Jacob 6:11-12
because it is great! I like 12, sweet, simple and to the point. Are
you all ponderizing? haha it is a funny new word :) I felt like it
talked a whole lot about faith in this conference and I loved it! I liked how they explained how to receive more faith and how to utilize
it in our lives :) I know that we are in the only true church that has
leaders truly called of God to guide His church in these days. I know
that the prophet and the apostles are who God has called to make His
will known :) I am grateful to have the opportunity to hear from them
and try to apply their counsels to my life :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week! BYE! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-85562781690997520812015-10-03T20:33:00.000-07:002015-10-13T20:34:14.901-07:00Oct. 3rd You Gotta Love Conference<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HEY!!! Is everybody loving conference so far? I know I am :) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well just
to talk a little about this week (I kinda am low on time) This week was
better than the last, last week was pretty hard to be honest but things
are looking a lot better this week and right now is conference! :D
but we did have a little more success with finding people and we put a
baptismal date with Ivan! :) I don't know if I have talked about him...
he is the son a less active but he is just barely living with his dad. I
think his parents got separated when he was rather young and until now
he has been with his mom (he is like 22 or something) and isn't a
member. He has a lot of questions about the Plan of Salvation and is
really interested in that stuff, he asks us when he has questions and
makes comments so it shows that he is paying attention and wants to
learn and he is going to go to priesthood session! We are going to
pass by to pick him up :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week we had several
training meetings and a leaders conference and Elder Naylor and I had to
talk about the records and referrals to the new missionaries that are in
their training and all the zone leaders. Then we got to go to the
mission home for lunch and it was pretty sweet :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We
have still been struggling with finding new investigators but it is
going a bit better :) something that is pretty great this week was that
we got a referral from some other elders for a less active sister and her
non-member husband :) They found them outside of the chapel in their
area and the family asked when the meetings were so they could go on Sunday! :) So we went and met the sister and we are going to visit them
on Monday! It will be great :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But ya... I gotta get back to see the second session of conference! I love you all :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-49475949107550825272015-09-19T16:53:00.000-07:002015-09-20T16:55:07.666-07:00September 19th We saw Ramon at the Temple!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well... I kinda already wrote a little bit to everyone so this is going to be a little short because I don't have much time.</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This
week we have still been battling with finding new investigators and all
that but we keep on working so it's all good :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We went to the temple
on Tuesday, had a zone conference and a training meeting yesterday and
it was great (well both experiences :) ), and also
today we happened to be passing in front of the temple and... we ran
into Ramon! The recent convert from Victoria! It was so awesome to see
him! He came in a temple excursion to do baptisms! It was great to see
him and talk to him for a bit :) He told me that he is now planning on
serving a mission when he completes a year as a member! :) I was super
excited to hear that because before he was kinda ify about it and
didn't really want to... but he said that it is now his plan! It was
great :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also we had the re dedication of the temple and it was really
special! We got to hear from President Eyring and Elder Holland
and some other speakers. They were all really great :) but that's
about all the time I've got so I am going to end it here but I love you
all and... felicidades a Lauren... and Gavin too! :) It is really weird
for me that whole her being married thing... haha :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson :)</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-1262807186537524772015-09-12T16:58:00.000-07:002015-09-20T17:11:59.273-07:00September 12th More to do in the office and Re dedicating the Mexico City Temple<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well... This week
went quite well, not like the best of all time but good :) We had a few
investigators in church but the worst part was... that Jorge didn't
go... and his date fell through... we will have to wait until Oct. to
baptize him... :'( pero... ni modo. He is still doing very well and is
ready to progress and all that :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The struggle we have been having this
week is finding new people to teach, the ones that we had are all kinda
burning out and we need new ones, so we spend a lot of time looking for
new people and all that but we haven't been able to find any with
desires to progress but we are going to keep looking and try to get with
the members to have more referrals and stuff like that, it is going to
be good :) </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another
interesting thing that happened this week is that my comp. and I are
going to be assigned to the records as well! We are going to take the
place of a senior couple that goes home soon that were in charge of the
records so now we are going to have more to do here in the
offices... yesterday they were teaching
some of the new stuff we have to do. It will be good :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today
there is going to be a cultural event that will be broadcast from
Mexico City as a celebration of the re dedication of the Mexico City
temple! So we can go to that broadcast and then tomorrow we don't have
regular meetings, we just have to go to the re dedication and I am super
excited! :) It is going to be cool :) and then next week we are going to
the temple here again so it is the best! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This
week we were talking to Ana (eternal investigator) about her marriage
and divorce and all that and we set some goals for when she can get
baptized! She should be able to get divorced in like 2 months and then
get married and then baptized! But we probably won't visit her a whole
lot because she can't progress until she gets that all figured out but
we have the goal set and so we will be checking up on her so that it can
all work out and she can get baptized soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is also another
family where the parents aren't members because they can't get married
and we visited them and we are going to do a fast with them to find the
way to get the divorce all worked out. But those are just a few things
that have been going on around here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have
been reading in the old testament and I am at the part when Moses is
preparing the house of Israel to go into the promised land and in that
part it talks a lot about why God gives us commandments and what we get
if we obey or disobey them. It is interesting because God is always
saying (through his prophet Moses) that he wants to bless his people but
he can't some times because they are aren't obeying the commandments
but as I was reading that part it mentions over and over that God just
wants to bless us, we just have to receive the blessings by striving to
be obedient. A lot of people don't understand that but I am grateful for
the Spirit and the Gospel and everything that the Lord has given me
(and everyone) to help us understand that He truly is a LOVING Heavenly
Father and he is waiting for every opportunity to pour blessings into
our lives. I know He loves me and everyone else in this world and that
has restored His Gospel to let us really know it :) Share it with
everyone so they may know it too!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love you all and hope you have a great week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-59208694387047393032015-09-05T15:31:00.000-07:002015-09-08T15:46:38.964-07:00September 5th David got Baptized!!!!!!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well... I am not
going to say anything about my companion this week... I am just going to
send a picture of him and you all have to guess what he is like just
based on the picture of him, I know there will be some hard core judging
going on but it will just be a little bit of fun ;) haha :) I can't
wait to see what you all say about him... :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So... David did get
baptized... YES!!!! A girl from the college he is going to spoke ( I
don't remember her name) and also Hermano Torres (he's in the bishopric) and then at the end another friend from school gave his
testimony and then David did too! It was good :) Afterwards we
had the activity! and... well it was good but not a whole ton went
considering that it was a stake activity but it was alright :) Everybody
that went said they really liked it. Oh, Roberto, David's friend was the
person that baptized him and Elder Marsden confirmed him so it was
pretty cool and all the missionaries in the zone sang a special number
(the one about looking for rainbows after rain) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jorge went to the
baptism and the activity and to church the next day so he is doing well
:) This week was good, we are getting to know some more of the members in the area of the sisters and also some of their investigators.</span></span><div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My
comp will also serve in the offices, I am now doing what my comp did
and I taught my new comp what I did and so that's what's going down with
all that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ya...
so it seems like we won't be able to have 5 in September but we will definitely have one with Jorge with how things have been going with him
:) So that's great! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">An experience that we had
yesterday was pretty interesting.... My comp was going through the
teaching records of the sisters to find some more people to visit in the
area of the sisters because we don't know very many people on that side
of the ward and he wrote down a few addresses and the names of the
people and we headed out to work. So we start looking for these people
and we go to the house of someone named Laura... and we yell "Buenas
tardes!" and someone asked, "who are you looking for?" "Laura Valles." So then a lady gets up from her seat (she was in her house but the door
was open, they almost always just leave the door open because it is so
hot all the time!) and she walks out and we see that she has a problem
with her feet but she uses a crutch and can walk. We start talking to
her and she says that she started going to another church because she
really needed God and the sisters stopped going and she didn't know what
to do... She told us that she had read the part of the book of Mormon
that they left and had just been waiting for the sisters to come back
and talk about it and all that... we felt really bad and explained why
the sisters hadn't gone and she said we could go back and keep teaching
her! She really has a lot of potential and has a desire to know God, especially in these moments of her life (because we always need Him, all
the time) and so we are going to visit her on Tuesday and I hope we can
help her to find God but in the true church and not just the closest
place to her house... But I want to help her find the truth and help her
be able to accept it :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sounds like a bunch of crazy stuff has been going on back there in Utah...</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well that's pretty
much what's been going on these days. I hope you can get everything
ready for the big day!!! That's so weird to think that in a little less
than two weeks... Lauren is going to get married... and also it is
pretty weird to think of all the things that have already happened in
the family... I feel like it will be rather different when I get
home...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And also, if you could give Logan my email and tell him to email that would be great :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, I love you all a bunch! Have a great week!! :)</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-24468651639334392262015-08-29T15:47:00.000-07:002015-09-08T15:56:03.312-07:00August 29th David is going to get Baptized in 2 hours! Yay:)<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">YAAAAYYY! He's
gonna get baptized! In like... 2 hours... crazy right? And then we have a
stake activity that we planned... it is going to be right after the baptism so that is what we are
going to do all day, hang out in the stake center! :D haha it's
alright... but I hope it turns out well... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week only David
and another investigator came to church, the other investigator is an eternal investigator so we don't know if she will be
getting baptized soon... She has been going
to church for like 5 years now and only hasn't gotten baptized because
she isn't married to her boyfriend... but he finally asked her to marry
him and only need the money to pay for the papers and she can get
baptized! So maybe she will be able to in this upcoming month... who
knows? but as of right now... it only seems like Jorge will be able to
get baptized in Sept He is still doing really well by the way, we
thought we had kinda lost him but he has just been really busy with
school and all that. but he is still really interested and wants to keep
learning and get baptized! So we have hope for him! :)</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sounds
like things are coming along in the back yard getting everything ready
for the big day! :) Thanks for sharing that experience about going to
the temple and all that, it is really such a great place :) It's the
best! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well... we kinda have a lot of things to do so I am going to
end this email and I will tell you about the activity and the baptism
and all that next week and I will probably have some good pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh
and by the way... it seems like my comp is going to get transferred...
but we were already expecting that, we just don't know where he will be
going yet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love you all! Have a great week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-64277187233951831682015-08-15T12:02:00.000-07:002015-08-17T12:02:55.274-07:00August 15th Pray for us that we'll get our 5 baptisms<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So our week went
pretty well. It is kind of a good thing that they pulled the sisters
out because it gives us a few more people to work with but it's now
kinda hard to work out how we are going to cover the whole area because
we had it all figured out before and now the house isn't in a very
convenient location because it is pretty far away from some parts of the
sisters' old area. And they aren't just going to replace the sisters at
least in this change because right now in the mission, there aren't
very many sisters... actually, something kinda interesting... there are
only two American sisters in the mission right now... and one is
actually from Argentina but has lived in Idaho for the last 9 years but
ya... just one... and so with that in mind... there aren't very many
other sisters either.... and actually less missionaries have been
arriving to the mission. Like... last change about 20 went home and... 7
got here... so it's a little crazy because we aren't as many as we used
to be and that is kinda going to keep happening at least for a little
bit...</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The goal for my comp and I and each companionship is to have 5 baptisms at least in our zone, in September. Other zones have other goals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">David is doing very well, this week
we taught him about the Gospel of Christ and the Word of Wisdom... He
took it well but... wasn't so strong on the accepting the challenge of
keeping it, he said he would try... but wouldn't give a firm yes so we
are going to see what happens... he does have a date for the 29th and is
pretty excited about it :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jonathan didn't come to church... again...
he had to work late and didn't get out of work until after church...
(his schedule is pretty tough and then they ask him to stay longer!) but
he has been reading and it is great :) we went to just check up on him
and we talked about what he had read and a bunch of other stuff and it
was great to know that he is liking it and wants to keep reading and
learn even more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We haven't really found any new prospects per se...
but we did "inherit" some from the sister missionaries that are pretty
good, like La Familia Duarte, they are a middle aged couple with two
young kids, one is 8 and the other is 2. The husband had talked to the
missionaries before, like a long time ago but told us that when he read
the intro and the testimonies of the witnesses in that time, he got a
super bad headache and had to stop reading and hasn't read it since...
but we are going to get him to read again, they are a really great
family and really want to get an answer from God about the truth. We
talked about faith when we visited them and it was a really good
experience :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Things are going well with my comp, and we still talk a lot and it's good :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A good experience from this week
would be when we taught Larisa about the Restoration. She had already
kinda heard it from the missionaries in her boyfriends ward but we
explained it again and it was a really great experience :) I could feel
the Spirit as we taught and testified of the first vision and when we
taught her about the apostasy, later she said "now I get it! why you
call it the true church, because it is the same church but had been lost
and now we have it again" it was really great to see that the Spirit
could teach her that important truth and confirm our words :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's about it for this week, I love you all :) take care! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-30675236521908438532015-08-08T11:47:00.000-07:002015-08-17T11:47:49.718-07:00August 8th Goal for September...421 baptisms! Pray that we'll reach it:)<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hey! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week is going pretty well, but we just got an interesting
tidbit...
The ward we are in until... like an hour ago had 4 missionaries 2
sisters and my comp and I but... now... the sisters are going to be in a
different area because of some health problems of one of the sisters
and we now have the whole
ward! It is a little strange... but anyways... we are going to see what
happens :) </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We have a goal in the mission right now... we want to have
421 baptisms in the mission in September... and so the goal we have for
our area is... 5! In September! and we are gonna do it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">just... pray
as much as you can so we will be able to do it :) We have a few people
that we are preparing but we still need a few more to fulfill the goal
so pray for us to find a couple more people that can get baptized in
Sept. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This last week David went to church again and is still excited and
progressing quite nicely :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We taught him about the plan of Salvation
this week and it went really well and we could really feel the Spirit
when we taught and testified about the Atonement and he understood very
well (even though the brother that accompanied us talked about a LOT of
slightly unrelated topics) but it was good :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also, something good that
happened with Jonathan (he didn't go to church...) was that he had read a
bunch of chapters in the BoM and also the pamphlet about the Word of
Wisdom and understood most of it! :) (sometimes he doesn't understand
completely what he reads... but this time he did :) ) and he was really
excited to go to church! He has wanted to go for a while now but
hasn't been able to, but he assured us that he will be there tomorrow! So that's good. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hmmm... other than that... there hasn't been anything
all that crazy going on around here... just workin' in the offices and sweatin' it out in our area :) haha it's great! :) I now feel
like 94° is like a normal temperature... a little on the warm side
but... normal... maybe I've been in Mexico a little too long ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's about all I've got for now :) I love you all a
ton! Have a great week and family reunion! Tell everyone "hola"
for me ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(looks like a blast! The family reunion that is :) )</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-45554528087477737782015-08-01T11:36:00.000-07:002015-08-17T11:36:44.230-07:00August 1st Love going to the Temple<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hey, it's August! (is that how it's spelled?)</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well,
things have been pretty good around here, we have had a better week
this week. The only people that went to church this last week were David
and this girl named Alisia. Jonathan didn't go because they changed his
shift on him and he had to go to work... and Jesus didn't go because he
went fishing with his uncle or something like that. I think it wasn't
just a pleasure trip, I think his uncle works in that or something...
Things have gone pretty well with David. He asked my companion during priesthood meeting, "so in like a year, what would I be?" (he asked that
as they were taking roll and he had asked my comp what all the names
like deacon, teacher, etc. mean) so he seems be really interested :) and
this week... we were able to visit Roberto twice and it is always great
to go with him because he is progressing a lot as a new convert. He now
has a calling to teach "los valientes in the primary :) it's gonna be
great :) This week we talked with him about the Restoration and the Book
of Mormon ( with all the recent converts we are supposed to review the 5
lessons from PMG) and so it was great to talk to him. He seems to have a
really strong testimony and to be really happy with the Gospel. It's a
little crazy because before he was an aethiest... :) he really likes
having the book of Mormon and remembers pretty well the details of how
it all went down in the times of Joseph Smith and all that. We were
there with him and just talked a little about how great the Book of
Mormon is and what it really means for us and it was a rather spiritual
experience :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had a lesson with Jonathan and
we found out that he is the father of a little 5 month baby! That was a bit of a curve ball, he hadn't mentioned anything about that
before... we knew that he had a girlfriend but... not that, it was a
little bit of a surprise... and so we talked about the Law of Chastity!
:) whew!!! que diversión!! haha he understood pretty well and said that
he is going to live it from now on :) but ya, it was weird... and then
we taught him about the Plan of Salvation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A really spiritual experience that I had
today was when we went to the Temple! It was really great :) we were
able to go today in the morning and I got the answers to several
questions that I have had for a bit and it was awesome! I love
going to the Temple :) it is such a wonderful place of learning and
inspiration :) It really strengthened my testimony of the scriptures and
of the church and helped me understand many things a lot better. I
know that the Temple truly is the House of the Lord and that we can
enjoy the blessings of them because of the Restoration and all the
blessings it brings with it :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well that's I've
got for now but things have been pretty great here :) I love you all! Thanks for your support and love :) Have a great week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-81169445229130276752015-07-25T12:29:00.000-07:002015-07-25T12:29:12.564-07:00July 25th Keepin Busy in the Office<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hey!!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So
how was the trip to Hawaii? Did y'all enjoy yourselves? haha I am
sure you did :) and that's the good part :) I am sure it was quite
relaxing and enjoyable so that's fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week has been a little
crazy and we haven't been able to get much stuff done in the area
because we have been doing stuff with the changes and such. Before the
secretaries of referrals and health didn't help that much with changes
but they wanted us to so we did :) We helped set up "La Última Cena" for
the missionaries that were heading out and then president invited us to
stay and eat... so we did... and then we cleaned everything up. That was Sunday evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">None of our investigators came to church
with us... Jesús was moving and Jonathan had to work because they
changed his schedule... and there was this other investigator that said
she was going to go and we passed by her house and she didn't get up or
something and didn't make it either... and then on Monday we were
helping out with transfers and all that and spent the whole day here in the office...
and then on Tuesday... we did work a little and then on Wednesday a
little as well, on Thursday we didn't because we had planning and a
conference and mission correlation with the WML and then yesterday we
worked :) so it's been a little slow for all the things that have been
going on... well not really, but speaking about the work in the area sense
it is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So a good experience that we had
yesterday with Jonathan and also another from this week with him.
Yesterday we visited him and we were talking about what he had read in
the Book of Mormon and he had a ton of questions... so we were just
answering all of his questions for a bit but then we started teaching
him about the Plan of Salvation and all that. And again, he had a ton of
questions about all that. It was a cool experience because he had a ton
of questions and we were able to answer all of them (well, almost all
of them, some of them were kinda weird...) and it was something that
makes me more grateful for having the fullness of the Gospel, because
there are a lot of churches and people that don't have access to all the knowledge and insight that we have in the restored church and they have
to live with those questions and doubts until they find the true church
or... they die so... it's such a blessing to have the knowledge that we
have here on this earth and I am grateful for it :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also, we taught him earlier in the
week and we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In this lesson we taught him about receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and Endure to
the End and it was great when he totally understood the need of getting
baptized spiritually as well as in the water and how it doesn't really
have a point to get baptized if you don't receive the Spirit afterwards.
He is still excited to get baptized as well because (well he didn't
remember the date exactly) he asked when was the day we had invited him
to get baptized so he could get work off that day, haha it was great :)
but anyways, he is doing pretty good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh.. I
lied... we did have an investigator at church... but we didn't know he
was an investigator, well we did but we thought he lived in a different
area. So we were going to pass the reference to another area but then,
the other day we are walkin' down the street and a motorcycle honks at
us and pulls over. Turns out that it's David (the investigator that we
thought was from another area) and so we start talking to him and he
tells us that he was headed to institute with his friend, and that he
stopped to talk to us because he wants us to teach him in the chapel
and we start explaining that he has to go to the ward where he lives and
that we would love to teach him an all that but then he says "that's
not a problem, I have a house here too!" it's kinda weird with him
because he lives all over the place! he lives with his mom, and his dad
(they aren't together) and has an apartment when he goes to school and
sometimes he lives with his brother... and it turns out that one of
those is in the limits of the ward so... we can teach him! :) he
is going to get baptized! Well I am pretty sure he is, and it will be
soon :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But there you have it! That's all I've
got for this week, catch ya' next time on weekly letters with Elder
Sampson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks for checkin' in, all comments and suggestions are
welcome and appreciated ;) (haha I don't know why but I just felt like
ending it like that, Love y'all!!!! :) )</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-13658021440889357242015-07-18T12:42:00.000-07:002015-07-25T12:42:25.873-07:00July 18th Missionaries from your Church<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, this week
was alright, well a little slow to be honest but we made some goals in
weekly planning to get things turned around. We have been struggling
with finding new investigators and such so we are going to work on
contacting more and also going with referrals that we have to be able to
find the people who are looking for the truth :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had an interesting
experience a few weeks ago because it was how we met a family that we
invited on Friday (yesterday) to get baptized in August. So one day, we
were walking down the street with the one recent convert we have in our
area and we had just gotten out of a lesson and we were going to the
next one, but all the plans that we had... fell through... so we didn't
know what to do in that moment but then I saw my companion start walking
up to a house where a lady there had motioned for him to come over. So
he gets to the house (the convert and I follow behind him a little) and
she asks my comp if we can give a blessing to a little baby. We say
that we can and we walk into the house. Then we start to talk to them a
little and find out that they aren't members... What happened is that
when we were walking past she was talking on the phone with her daughter
that lives in California or something and the daughter is a member. The
lady mentioned to her daughter that some of the missionaries from her
church were walking past so the daughter told her mom to go out and ask
us for a blessing. The granddaughter of the lady (the niece of the
member in Cali) was only 2 weeks old and was really fussy all the time
so they wanted to have a blessing. So we give the baby a blessing and we
put another appointment and we leave. Yesterday we went back and taught
them about baptism and we invited them to get baptized and they
accepted! I kinda doubted they would to be honest because they don't
really talk all that much when we are there and they have a GIANT
picture of the virgin Guadalupe on their wall, but they surprised me with
their openness and all that so it was great! :)</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A little about Jonathan, he didn't go to church because they changed his
work schedule but he still really wants to go :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus is coming along
little by little, but he is now reading more and stuff like that so it's
good :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Answers to questions from mom:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I do like our mission
president. He's great! He is funny :) I
haven't really seen much of his family, I only saw his kids once and
his wife twice so I think they are usually pretty busy with life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
will probably be here for 3 months more, the leaders and secretaries
are normal in for 3 changes. Maybe president will change that later on
but as for now it will probably be like that but we will see. I will be
with my comp for this next change as well because he got here one before
me, but then he will probably go, and I will be with someone for a
change and then probably get transferred. The APs do pretty much all the
stuff with the changes so it won't really affect me much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">President doesn't really speak much English... I haven't ever talked to him in English or heard him talk in English and he says he doesn't
know much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But anyways, that's a
little about this week! I love you
all :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hey!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So...
the secret is out... I'm in the office... haha :) um... well what I do
is... help all the other secretaries! and some other stuff. I have to
fill out medical reimbursements, I have to send an insurance claim
to the company that the church has to pay for medications and stuff like
that so I just have to check the medications they have taken and then
send that to the people and then they send money to the mission :) cool
right? :D and now... I might start taking the calls from sick
missionaries to tell them what to do or things like that, Sister Jordan
used to do that but now Sister Ramirez has other responsibilities so
maybe that will be my job or maybe they will find someone else, but ya,
that's basically my job but I also go with other missionaries or
secretaries if they have an errand to run and their companion is busy
with something and random things like that. And my companion is the referral secretary so he has to manage the referrals that the mission
receives like from other missions or when missionaries here in the
mission have a referral for a different area, they give it to us and we
put it into the system (I actually have helped with that a bit) and so
ya, that's what we do here :) We are part-time secretaries so we work
everyday in the afternoon, so in the morning we work in the office or we
have a meeting or weekly planning and then we go to lunch and then we
work in our area. I am enjoying it :) we get to
interact more with other elders and stuff so that is fun and to be
honest, the mornings here out in the field are always kinda dead so it is nice to avoid a
little bit of that time and do something productive and then get to
working in the field after that. It's and interesting change of pace
:) We don't live with the other office elders we live in our area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So
now a little bit about our area, we found a really great investigator
this week! Well I think we talked to him last week but then we went
and visited him this week and it was really great :) I haven't mentioned
Jonathan already have I? He is really great :) He is 18 and really into
learning about God and the Gospel. He is really willing to search for
himself and find the answer :) He read the pamphlet about the
restoration and the one about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He now has a
book of Mormon and is excited to read it! Èl es bombero (firefighter)!!!! que
padre no? :) so that means he has time to read when the sit around the
station while nothing too exciting is happening (like taking care of
wasp nests, crocodile wrangling ;) ) haha we asked him
about what he does and it seems pretty fun :) He just started there and
still isn't like a full time bombero but he has to go all the time,
he spends 24 hours there and then has a 24 hour break... isn't that
exciting? So on the down time they can do whatever they want like
read, watch tv, sleep, whatever, so he is going to read a lot... :) I
hope and I really think he will :) He totally invited
himself to church, they were talking about his schedule and when he
talked about Sunday he just threw in the phrase "and Sunday I'm going
to church" and he was talking about the LDS church... so that was great
:) and so ya, that's a bit about Jonathan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And
with Jesus, well he hadn't read yesterday when we visited him so we read
with him and then the JAS (Young Single Adult) that accompanied us invited him to go to
institute with them and they got him excited about it so I hope he goes
and then there could be some serious fellow shipping going on and it
would be great :) He was actually going to go to a jam session with one
of the youth in the ward but he had to go to a photo shoot and couldn't
make it... but things are going good with him, he said that he likes
going to church and when he is there it seems like the time goes by
super fast so I think that is a good sign :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So
that is a little about what has been going on this week and a little
about the office, I only have one picture of the office right now,
it's a picture of the secretaries of the mission, one is the financial
sec. and the other (the bigger one) is President's Sec.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Les amo mucho :) quídense!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson :)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-19929396362714242072015-07-06T15:15:00.000-07:002015-07-06T15:15:49.230-07:00July 6th We Have a New President!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Question... Where did June go? it was here just a second ago...</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does time go by really fast for anyone else? for me it does...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A
little about this week, Jesus is doing good. He has been reading a
little more in the BOM and went to church again :) We straightened him
out a little but maybe not all the way but we are working on that and it
is improving so that's good. We started teaching him about the plan
of Salvation this week and he has a ton of questions... that's fine it
just is a little hard sometimes because he asks about whatever... The
questions he asks do have to do with the plan but sometimes he just
wants to go really far out of the order so it gets a little confusing
but it's all good :) He is doing well but maybe he could progress a little
faster. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some of the other investigators we have.... Well, I don't know
if I commented about Salvador and Adela... they are an older couple we
found one day and they are pretty willing to listen to us. An
interesting/sad experience that we had with them this week... well I am
going to explain the whole thing. So we went to visit them on.... Thursday (I believe....) and when we got there Salvador was in pretty
bad shape... he was just lying on the bed and hadn't gotten up all day
because his legs and feet hurt really bad (he has diabetes BTW) and so
we told them that we could give him a blessing. They were super excited
to hear that and were more than willing to let us in and give it to him.
Obviously it was a good experience to give him the blessing and we
could see the faith and hope that they had. They were so sure that
everything was going to be OK after we gave him the blessing it was
special and strengthening to see, but then we started talking about
their day and what was going on and we found out that they hadn't eaten
anything.... all day, and it was like 7:30 at night... so my companion
after hearing this was like... We need to buy them some food! So we
bought some bread and ham and cheese and we took it to them because they
really don't have money (Salvador is blind, they are both old and Adela
is always taking care of Salvador) so they were super grateful and all
that and we felt good right? Then we have to leave because it is
getting pretty late so we say goodbye and we walk out and then Adela
asks us, "so how do we get to the church?" and we tell them that we
will get a ride set up for them because she didn't know where it was and
Salvador is blind... So we go to a recent convert's house and we had a
lesson with him and it was great, (his name is Roberto and he got
baptized like 4 weeks ago) then afterwards I realize he has a car and
that he could give them a ride to the church! light bulb... :) and so
we ask him and of course he says "of course" so perfect.. all set up
:) We get to church on Sunday and BOOM! THEY WERE THERE!!! it was great
to see them and it happened to be fast and testimony meeting and
Salvador wanted to share his testimony, so he did :) but then the sad
part... when we were heading to the Gospel Principles class... Salvador
was walking with my comp and he told my comp. "consíguenos una despensa"
which is basically, "get us some money for food" and my companion was
upset... because now he felt like they only went to church because we
gave them food and that now they think the church is just going to give
them money and they aren't going to go with real interest in the
gospel... so my comp was kinda divided... because he felt so bad for
them that they were basically starving but now he feels like he has ruined
the process of their conversion... if that makes sense to you guys...
but anyways... we don't know if they went because they want to grow
closer to God or just to get welfare... obviously they need it but it is
like...something that can get in the way... I don't know... but ya... that is what happened with them this week :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">About Tomas, well we had an appointment with him but he wasn't there so we don't know what's going on with him...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We
got to meet President and Sister Ramirez on Friday! it was good :) They are great and kinda young... they have 3 daughters one is 18 the
other 16 and the other 12 and then they have a 3 year-old son.... how
crazy is that? Well we met them in a big
meeting with a few zones but today I was able to talk to him a little
bit more because I was in a meeting with him for like 2 and a half
hours.... he is pretty great and his wife too. I kinda hadn't
mentioned that I am an office elder right now... I am the Health
Secretary! haha surprise! I have been that the whole change but I hadn't
really said anything about it (as you may have noticed) but ya, we had a
meeting with him and we talked about how things are going to work in
the mission :) but, just a side note... my P-days are now going to be on Saturday! Just a heads up :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umm... It is sad
that two apostles have died recently... I did hear about Elder Packer...
it was sad... but it is kinda the same thing as with grandma, he was
suffering a lot it looked like and I am sure that he is very happy to be
on the other side :) I just want to know who the new Apostles are going
to be! we only have 10 in the Quorum right now... It is going to be
interesting to see who's next :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyways... this has been kinda long... I hope you enjoy it :) I love you all! BYE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-88589238228831282292015-06-30T11:34:00.000-07:002015-07-01T11:34:47.943-07:00June 30th New Mission President Tomorrow!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">WOW! It is sooooo
weird, tomorrow we are going to have a new president! it's crazy... I
sure am going to miss President and Sister Jordan.... they are the best
:) I think they are great! Sister Jordan is pretty funny
:) We always just talk about random stuff with her and well she always tells some crazy stories from the mission... it's great :) and President is really great too. He always can
help me with any problem I have and is always super patient with
everybody, they are the best! I am sad they are leaving... but I am also
excited to have a new President! But it's going to be really weird at
first...</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyways, today we went to the Temple!!!! It
was super awesome!! I love going to the temple, it is like the best
place on the whole planet! (and I don't need to go to all the places in
the planet to know that ;) ) I love the peace and tranquility that I
feel just being inside and all the things that I have learned just for
the spirit that can be felt in that special place. I am so greatful for
the opportunity I have had to go and experience such wonderful things
and I know that the temples truely are Houses of God and that His Spirit
dwells there and wants to teach us and help us understand the love He
has for us :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week was a good one I would
say, we had more lessons with members present than in past weeks and we
were able to get Jesus to come to church again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week our zone leaders
gave us a challenge to give away Books of Mormon! We had to carry a BoM
in hand each day and give it to someone and if one day we didn't give it
away, the next day we would have to carry the one from the day before
AND the other one for that new day so if you didn't give one away you
would have to give two the next day! It was a little crazy... but it's
all good, I have had some cool experiences with giving it away more and
it also helps us to find new investigators! A win win :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like... This
week (yesterday) we went to the house of a contact we did once and we
found his dad there so we started talking to his dad and we just taught
him about the BoM and he was really interested. We gave him one and he
wanted to read it and we invited him to get baptized and he accepted! It
was great! His name is Tomás! He is an older guy and is a carpenter. We hope he will progress because he seemed really excited to read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus... he's doing fine. The
biggest thing right now is that we have to change how he sees us because
he sees us more as friends than missionaries so we are going to have to
help him change his point of view towards us. Like... he sees us as
friends, then missionaries instead of missionaries then friends... I
hope that makes sense... but ya, right now those are the biggest things
with him right now. He did go to church but only because we go by to
wake him up... well he would go if he was already up, but he never is...
so we have to try his faith a little...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But
ya, that's a bit about this week :) But, mom to answer
some of your questions: It is a nicer area, it's in the city, kinda
near downtown so it's not really poor or anything, there are some big
stores all around our area but in our's there is only a store called
Chedrauí which is rather large and has many </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">American products. By our
area there are some big stores like Walmart, Office depot, and others
so it is pretty nice I would say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My comp and I get along quite well and
I (that's right, me) am always talking to him... like... I don't know,
with him I am a talkative person and we talk about whatever so it's great. We joke around a lot and so it's fun :) We were talking on Sunday
about what we can do to help the area and to improve as missionaries so
we are going to make it a great week :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyways....
I love
you all and hope that you have an amazing week! BYE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-27798772055609313372015-06-22T11:14:00.000-07:002015-07-01T11:15:04.261-07:00June 22nd 4 Investigators at Church!<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hola! como están? :)</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bueno...
esta semana fue buena! Pues por lo de la asistencia a la iglesia! :) Tuvimos 4!!! Oh right, We had 4 investigators at church! :) Jesus went!
we had to go to his house and wake him up because he didn't go to bed
until 3 in the morning! But he went and it was great. Also, Alicia
went to church, she lives with a member family and has listened to the
missionaries before and all that but she doesn't always go to church
and she had a while that she hadn't gone, but she went! And then the
parents of some members that still can't get baptized because they
aren't married because one of them still needs to get a divorce...
and it was good :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Crazy story... it was stake conference and they
broadcasted the conference to the chapel from the stake center and...
well I don't know why but one member thought the bishop wanted us to be
separated into men and women and so every time someone got there, he told
the men to go to one side and women to the other... it was weird... and
nobody argued with him because the conference had already started when
most of the people got there... :/ but ya, we had a segregated
conference and we asked the bishop why he did that and he said that he
never told anyone to do that and that he thought that everybody just
decided to do that... it was super weird... but whatever, it was funny
because the member that thought it should be like that (I think he might
just be a little crazy... ;) but yes, we did feel good about the fact
that 4 went with us and I think they enjoyed it :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">With
Jesus, things are going well, we had a lesson with him one day and his
dad showed up and was kinda... drunk and he started going on about
stories that he "knows" from the Bible and then he would ask us a
question and the answer we would give always seemed to be quite
delightful to him and that it supposedly supported his view on things
and that we were proving ourselves wrong... it was rather interesting...
but it was funny because he would always say "Tu lo has dicho!!!!"!
so... ya, interesting experince haha :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Something else that happened
was when a family called us one day and asked if we could pass by the
house because they needed a favor and they didn't tell us what it was...
so we got there and the husband was kinda waiting for us in the window I
think and then his wife walks in and starts calling to her 20 year-old
daughter to come downstairs because there was something that she had to
tell us about... I kinda thought it was weird... 2 missionaries in a
members house wanting their daughter that's twenty to talk with them...
but anyways she gets downstairs and the mom starts telling us that she
has a huge favor to ask us... and it has to do with her daughter...
weird... and then they start talking about their daughter's love
life.... and that they want the missionaries to ..... teach her
boyfriend because he isn't a member but that they had put a goal (the
daughter and her boyfriend) to get married in the temple in some future
date. that's cool! So we agreed to teach the boyfriend and then pass the referral to the mission where he lives. So... yesterday we taught the
boyfriend, Gamaliel the first half of lesson one and it was a pretty
good lesson. I am sure he felt the spirit and was able to recognize it
at least a little. I feel like he is going to be a great investigator
and that he will get baptized soon :) it was a good experience and I
hope something good comes out of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyways...
those are some of the experiences we had this week teaching :) I hope
you all have an amazing week. I love
y'all! bye! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Elder Sampson</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526806933787713504.post-15112878709379105922015-06-15T10:59:00.000-07:002015-07-01T11:00:17.287-07:00June 15th Getting adjusted to my new Area<div id="html-message">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Helllllllllo!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sorry
if my email last week was lame... I had a lot going on in my head and
very little time.... I don't know, maybe I can prepare a little bit
before I get here so I don't have to think so much about what to tell
you... but... anyways... some crazy news... My mission president is
goin' home!!!! We are all getting ready to meet the
new president. He gets here July 1st! that is just a few weeks away! It's kinda crazy for me... I don't even really think I am taking
it in right now... but anyways, the new president is from Monterrey and
is going to come with kids and everything, it's going to be strange....
But this week we had the good-bye president conference and it was pretty
good and sad and happy and weird and a whole bunch of other things at
the same time... so ya... but anyways something that is
going on around here in my area....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, right
now there are some problems in the ward I feel like... some conflicts
between members that have been going on for a long time... but we are
trying to get them to leave it all behind so the ward can progress ... it is quite a daunting task but we are going to try to help
so pray for us! :) The area here is kinda struggling... we don't have
many investigators and we hardly found any new ones this week, we are
going to turn everything around! We are even going to clean up the
house!!! It was a mess when I got there and it has definitely improved a
little throughout this week but I am going to keep working on it so
that it isn't a gross place to live...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Right now we have an investigator
whose name is Jesus and he is 20. He doesn't really do anything
really... he is living with his family (I believe his parents but I am
not actually sure...) and has a really strange sleep schedule, like
yesterday he slept in and didn't go to church but... the thing is that
he didn't get up until 6 in the evening! So it was kinda sad but he did
go to a family home evening that we had in the house of a part member
family and I think he enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is also a really great recent
convert that got baptized the Saturday before I got here... how sad...
but not really, it would have just been cool to be at his baptism but he
is doing great, he is 25 and understands everything really well, he was
an atheist before and now he's a Mormon! He actually gave like a 10
minute talk in sacrament yesterday and it was really good :) he nailed
it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And also yesterday we found 2 new investigators!!! They are good,
we are going to visit them on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week was kinda hot and hard and there are a ton of
mosquitos but it's good. We are going to have a much better week :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My
comp and I get along quite well and we tend to talk in English a little more than I am used to... I want to talk more in Spanish so I don't lose my accent... so ya, he actually speaks spanish
well, we just start talking in English sometimes and I do remember
Mountain Green now and he does know that lady... her kids are his age...
or one of them I believe.... but ya, I believe it is going to be a fun
change! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I love you all! have an amazing week! bye.</span></div>
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