LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • May 23rd, 2011

hello family. so i found out im a terrible father haha mi hijo already went home :( it was super rough he told me about how his parents forced him to come out here and then he got sick out here too so we couldnt leave the house for a couple days and yeah it was a real mess haha but im really actually proud of him because he had a whole lot going on that i cant really explain but im sure he is gonna come back out in the field if they let him.

but yeah so now i have another mexican companion... FINALLY!!!!! haha oh my gosh my spanish has been struggling with only americans haha cuz i cant ask questions about the grammar and what not. but yeah his name is Elder Zuvire. he is way cool and is really excited about the work. he is a newbie too he{s only got about 2 months in the mission.

but yeah i dont know why i havent told you guys about the Loya family but i just remembered and you guys gotta hear about them. so with Elder Hurtado here in Saucillo we went to get food from the street....cuz that is where the best stuff is at.. and we bought these burritos from this shack and Elder Hurtado got sick haha real bad like he went to the bathroom like 4 times that night and then another 3 in the morning haha but yeah so we were teaching a lesson and then he told me "we have got to go right now" haha so we booked it to the gas station and he went to the bathroom and while i was waiting outside one of the workers came over and threw something in the trash where i was at. and so i started talkin to him and stuff and then i put a date for when we could pass by his house haha. so we went over and his wife loves it all!! and the family lived in arizona for a while too so all the kids know english, the parents understand it but cant speak it, but yeah the kids are 19 17 14 and 10 years old and all of them have felt the spirit and everything. and one of the friends of one of the sons asked us (cuz he listens to the chats too) if he could serve a mission if he gets baptized haha how sweet!? this family is way cool and actually tomorrow we are gonna go and try to put a baptismal date for them, we already had one but they didnt go to church :( but yeah im super excited for them and the son is way cool thats my age i would totally hang out with him haha actually one of our pdays they invited us over for a bbq but there is not enough time during the day haha but yeah Mario is doing so good he is reading a ton and studying a bunch too. he is totally gonna be the next branch pres haha.

OHHH rachel and todd congratulations,, rachel if you keep the baby in just a little bit longer (about a year) i would really appreciate it haha i wanna see it the first day haha

actually the first full day me and Elder zuvire had together we were contacting in the street and i saw this lady carrying a ton of stuff so we went over and helped her and when we got to her house she invited us in to see her first grandchild haha so we went in and this kid was brand spankin new like i think 3 days out of the oven haha but what was super cool was to feel the spirit in that room just with all the love the mom and dad and grandma had for that baby and when we talked about the plan of salvation. for real we could have invited them to be baptized with out even teaching them anything haha and they would have accepted that is how strong the spirit was.. way cool!!!

but yeah the work here is great right now i am focusing on having more faith. that is what i love about the gospel, there is always room for improvement. we can never say ahhh ive got enough faith haha but we can increase our faith until we have enough that Jesus Christ Himself cant help but show himself to us like with the brother of Jared!! can you imagine?

well i love you guys all so much and thank you for all that you do. you should have someone translate the letter from the president and then follow what it says. it would help me out alot.

Thanks family, I Love you

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 23rd, 2011

hey i have a question... dad what do you know about being a principle of a high school. what kind of eduacation would i need? what do you know about principles in general? if you could help me out that would be great! cause i was thinking that maybe i would really like to be a principle!

ok so this week was really crazy... i dont think i have been so tired in my whole life! every time we road a bus i fell asleep! haha not even joking, oh man but wow time goes by fast.

ok so some really really really good stuff is going on... first off, we made a goal to double our baptisms in the mission and we need 20 by july.... in the last 10 days we heard about 13 people with baptismal dates!!! how cool is that! the mission is doing so well. SO we are super stoked about everything. You wannna know what the secret is--- its when we have success we tell everyone, and so then everyone gets super excited and wants to help out even more (and i spread the word that the mission is changing... and then i really does )! And we had a meeting with President Majc (branch president) and in the past we have had big problems with him not really liking missionaries. But at our meeting he said... "ok something is different, what are you zone leaders doing." So i am super excited about that, that is probably the best question to hear! He is getting excited!

ok then for english class we are doing it a little different... we are doing personal english class! we had 50 people show us for it and all of which are really really good! We are going to teach english and then just start teaching them as if they were an investigator! we have about 10 lessons a week becasue of that, and we are going to see some HUGE changes happen because of this! (ps.. i was the creater of the idea) hahaha so the mission is doing good!

ok so... we had a lesson with the most gangster kid i have ever met! He is black and from africa and is super cool, he owns a hip hop clothing store and is super funny! Previous missionaries got with him a couple times, and when we knocked on his door i am so suprised. (cause in slovenia you never see black people) and his shorts were PAST his ankles and his shirt was HUGE! It was really different teaching him.... hahahaha he just says so many gangster comments during the lesson. It is just way funny when he reads cause he reads like a gangster too! hahaha so i am super excited, he really liked me! (hopefully i can get some sweeet hip hop clothes before i go home!) haha jk Oh and he made us a rap about missionary work!!! hahahaha how cool is that!

Things are going good! you guys are the best!

ps.. the black guy said he is coming to church but he isnt going to wear some dumb white shirt! hahaha so i am excited to see him there!

ok wait... i have a really really really good exsperiance that i wanted to share this week! we got to teach president Juhart and his daughters (who are 8 and 10), and we talked about baptism... and about their mom. They really want to be baptisted but their mom wont allow it! So we asked the daughters if they would act on their faith and ask their mom, and if they would then i would call all the missionaries in slovenia and ask if they would pray for them and we would see miracles if its gods will! they were so so so so excited. Matijaž was also very excited! So we had an amazing lesson and prayed alot! I was so convinced that it was going to happen.... everyone was. But we recently heard that the mom wont allow it and that the mom wont talk to the missionaries either! I was so sad... it was really really not cool! But the lesson that we had was amazing! After the lesson the girls wouldnt let us leave.... they just held onto us and wouldnt let us move... hahaha it was really funny, so then i decieded to role play what they would say when they asked their mom.... it was so funny!!! oh good times! but i still think something big will happen in that family so that the daughters can be baptisted!!!!

love you guys!

PICTURES: Elder Nunley

(me and mario and Elder Evans)

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • May 17th, 2011

hey family!! haha so President Angulo wanted us to send you the letter that he wrote for us. luckily you have brother pitcher there and sister milller so they can help you translate it haha i still havent read what it says yet but i thought that was pretty cool that he would write you all a letter.

so yeah i recieved my son this week. haha thats what they say if you train someone. he is my son and i am his father. haha but yeah he is from centerville utah and he is way cool actually funny story when we were in the airport leaving the mtc and while we were in line his mom asked us where we were going and we told her chihuahua and so she went running and grabbed elder evans and intruduced us to him haha pretty crazy huh haha but yeah we had a baptism on saturday.. his name is Mario Guardiola. he is like a perfect convert he is so great like he absolutely changed his life around for the gospel and he is sticking to it too. haha it is so great.

sorry but today there really isnt a whole bunch of time to write so if it seems like im rushing through thats why haha. but that is so crazy that you all are going to be finishing school here so dang soon haha RIDICULOUS.

but way cool i cant believe how fast time goes by here on the mission. and i will be with elder evans for a the least 3 months and so when that three monthsis up i will have already had 9 months out on the mission... absolutely crazy. thats great that you got my letter finally haha HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM AND DAD haha still not mom but dad yes haha.... but what sort of crazy plans do you all have for the summer and vacations that im gonna be missin out on or what.

Saucillo is great the people here are excellent and the branch is nice. it is starting to get pretty dang hot here haha im still not ready for it haha but its all good. it was so good to talk to you all again last week i loved it. elder evans said that saturday night i woke him up because i was teaching about prayer haha so im still going strong with teaching in my sleep haha

so yeah the picture im sending is of me and mario and Elder Evans. Man i absolutely love the mission. i absolutely love how the Lord teaches us lessons. He always knows what is best for us and we just have to be humble enough to accept it. it blows my mind how much the mission has changed my life in just the past couple months.

WOW haha i love you guys so much. Keep on keepin on haha

Elder Nunley

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 16th, 2011

So this week was crazy... i say that ever week but we never have enough time.

So i have a couple of funny things to say.... so first off, sydney pace sent me an email of all the new stuff going on in American Fork, utah and she named off a huge list of friends that i had before the mission how are now all married!!!! hahahaha so remember collins girlfriend, well she got married to someone else. Hahahaha its really sad but really really funny also!

ok so we have someone with a baptismal date.... his name is Ljubo! he is a super cool guy. He is getting baptised on the 18th of June.

But on friday the branch had a picnic and it was the most fun i have had in a long long time! hahaha so we got to play volleyball and everyone was pretty good so it was super fun. Well we were playing for about an hour and the missionaries all played with there church clothes on. And.... i wriped my pants (the seam on the butt of my pants)... hahaha i know it stinks huh? ... it was like a three inch whole.... so i kept playing anyways cause it was too fun. But then they wriped really badly until i couldnt play anymore and i just had to sit down. hahaha it was super fun. good times.

more good news... so we got a new investigator this week and he is a way nice kid. And so we invited him to family night and he came. When we were walking to family night he asked if he could smoke, i said i didnt but he could if he wanted. Then we said hey guess what we have a program the helps people stop smoking! hahaha and he said cool lets do it tomorrow. SO we taught him the program and he has been a non smoker for 4 days so far! HE is really really good, he said in family night he wants to have a more meaningful life. So tonight we are going to talk about that with him!

Well thanks for everything! love you guys.

ps... congratulations rachel!

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 9th, 2011

It was super good to hear from you guys yesterday!

So i have some super super super good news.... well after i got off the phone i asked the president if i could have 5 minutes to call Sean, he thought about it and decieded it would be a good thing! (i am super lucky cause its not really allowed) hahaha so i was super excited and called but nobody answered so i called again and Seans mom answered! hahaha she was so happy to hear from me but she said he was at work and probably wouldnt be able to answer his phone! but i got his number and called him anyways... i called 4 times and nobody answered so i was kinda bumbed out. And right before we were about the leave the mission home Sean called back! hahaha it was so good to hear from him! oh man it was the best. But he said he is doing better, he just doesnt have much goin on, but he is going to church and i told him we have to baptise all of our friends when we get back and he was super excited! Oh mothers day is the best!

well we talked yesterday so there isnt much to say.

The zone meeting we had on thursday was super good, as zone leaders all the missionaries get together and we have a meeting and my comp and I had to teach.... I was pretty nervous for the first min that after that it went really well!

Well things are good!

love you guys!

ps... how is adri doing? was it super fun to talk to her?

PICTURES: Sister Schneider