I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him--to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my doctrine is His doctrine. My Commission is to do what He wants done; To say what He wants said; to be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling! • My Missionary Commission • Elder Bruce R. McConkie •

Monday, January 24, 2011

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 24th, 2011

hola familia!! oh man this week was so awesome! i love hearing from all of you. dad that is crazy you met elder bergenurs brother haha i knew he lived in ND for a while i didnt know he still did though. small world. ok so yeah the baptism was awesome and afterwards Julian asked me if i would do the confirmation and so i got to do that yesterday! and then give a 20 minute talk in espanol haha oh man the Lord has too much mercy on me right now. i seriously can understand so much spanish already it is so suave!!! but lets see so my address is:

Calle Morelos (antes Ojinaga)
#2210 A Colonia Cuahutemoc
Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Mexico

so that will be my address the whole mission. everything goes straight to the mission home and then i get to pick up my mail like once a month or something like that haha.

but yeah delicias is definately not like you saw on the computer haha well at least not the part im at haha but yeah there are definately houses that are just shacks and a lot of peoples bathrooms are a cement room with out shower heads they all bathe in teh same water. but just like everywhere there are people that are more poor than others but yeah it is so awesome here. thats so cool john bahr is going to chile!!! i can only email family so tell him thats suave for me haha but yeah chile spanish is really whiny so ill be able to make fun of his spanish and he will probably make fun of mine because mexican spanish is the best haha lets see.

so we have another baptism this week on friday and i might be doing the baptizing woot woot! it is so much fun to see how much the Lord blesses us when we serve others. everytime after we teach a lesson i just feel so good. its the best... i love it! haha but the food here is so good. they all think its funny how much chile (hot sauce) me and elder burgener put on our food cuz we are gringos haha but oh my gosh everything is so tasty!!

amoray good job on the grades!!! thats awesome make sure you keep that up all the way through all your schooling! umm i cnat really write much cuz i have 30 minutes of email and that includes reading your emails. but im trying. oh yeah one more thing that i thought would be really cool to do is have the family buy a year subscription of the liahona for every family we baptize. the Liahona is so awesome especially the conference one. Presidente Angulo has us study it every day. and i dont know if you remember in my farewell talk but it says that living prophets are more important that dead ones. so we gotta study what they tell us.....through the conference talks haha but yeah a year costs 60 pesos which is less than 6 bucks. so let me know how you feel about that but this week you're gonna be helping me out with two families haha.

i love reading your letters even though i dont answer everything haha. oh demory that is way cool what youre doing good thinking. that will be way fun to graduate early and head on down to utah.

so yesterday we had a typical missionary story but i gotta share it just cuz it is so awesome...suave haha ok so we went to this one families house 45 minutes away and the just didnt want to hear from us even though they set up an appointment haha but yeah so we went to another families house a member and they werent there and then we realized we were gonna be late for lunch so we decided to trailblaze a shortcut! haha on this shortcut we met Bernando Silva. Ok so Presidente Angulo always tells us we are NOT here to plant seeds anymore. we are here to find the people that are already prepared. Bernando Silva is definately prepared. oh my gosh he is so cool and we met his kids and everything. he seriously is a golden investigator already haha and yes i have my hopes up. but that is also called faith haha. so yeah we would have never gone that way before and since we did we found him. im so excited to teach him!!
i love you all bien suave!! haha
Elder Nunley

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