LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • June 28th, 2011

haha oh man i love the mission!!!

haha bryce you are lucky that i dont have to think about girls right now or else i would be pretty bummed for you stealing the girl I CALLED DIBS ON haha. JK i dont know if that sentence makes sense my english is getting so bad haha but that is super cool bryce congratulations Rachelle congratulations to you too.

oh so that is way funny that you all think the spanish from Chihuahua is way pretty haha cuz i was actually gonna write about the spanish today and haha welll yeah its way cool i love it but i found out that Chihuahua is a lot like Alabama i think haha people from other parts of the country hate how we talk haha for example the people here always say Sí me entiendes oiga? or Sí sabes como oiga? haha oiga is like the command form of to hear so everytime they say that i think of some old hick from alabama saying something like ya'll be good now ya hear? haha and like the other mexican companions ive had make fun of it alot haha especially the sh instead of the ch haha but for real i love the spanish... its the only spanish i{ve ever known and in Preach my Gospel chapter 7 it talks about how you gotta talk about how i should speak like the people here speak haha even if i have a spanish hick accent haha.

but yeah the clases de íngles were awesome we are doing two classes every week and we have signs on the fence of the church and the first class we had like 20 people there and it was way cool and the second class 2 teenages came and loved it and yeah it was really well. we are gonna have more classes today. other things that we are doing to work smarter...

this week we had a Family Home Evening with the whole branch and we taught. we read 1 nefi 8 and then we acted it out... oh my gosh we had it so planned out it was awesome ( and the best is that we had investigators there that loved it) but yeah we went out side and blindfolded everyone and then we had a rope that went from the church to a tree and along the way we tempted them with candies and quien sabe que más haha oh my gosh it was way fun and the members absolutely loved it!!! the investigators tambien!!!!!

so we have a couple investigators that are super cool right now and are progressign a ton but they had to go out of town on sunday and so they couldnt come to the church. ..

oh yeah!! im writing today becuase we all had to go to chihuahua yesterday and President Angulo talked to us for the whole entire day!! it was way cool...

haha that is pretty crazy you´re story about the fireballs at the house!! oh yeah i totally realized i lied to you last week. the people gain about 150 pesos everyday which is about 13 bucks everyday not every week.

so for real though my english is really suffering i hope you will all be able to understand me when i get back haha. but if not i{ll just go to a spanish ward in provo or something. but yeah what that girl said about mexico is totally true. mexico is so layed back it is great i love it. haha for real i would like to live here after the mission with like krabbs and greg lemer and link haha just work a ton in the united states and then come here and live super duper cheap haha.

oh yeah in the english classes i pass around a note book and they write down things that they want to learn how to say and then i translate it on the board haha and on saturday there was like 2 or 3 that wrote como se dice: Mexico is gonna dominate USA tomorrow in the Gold Cup!!! haha and mexico did win haha

but yeah i gotta go love yall haha bye

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • June 27th, 2011

hola papa!

you have so many talents! DVD...crazy! also that is great to hear

about the half marathon and total! i hope you can rest a little bit.

hope you can handle all teh soccer without me! haha !

sorry i didn´t answer the other questions the other week...but i can´t

remember what they are. por ahora....

Question #1- Compared to our home in AF, how nice would you rate your

apartment in Argentina? 1 being not nice and 10 being amazingly nice.

our pension is really really nice compared to the houses people live

in. compared to our house..our pension is probably a 8...it is super

super super super nice!!!!!

Question #2- Do you think your mission has been difficult thus far?

yes, the mission has been difficult. in different ways to express.

not speaking the language is part of it, understanding people, it is

so hard to see all the families separated, to see that they are

missing something but you can´t force them to fix the holes in their

lives. Agency is a blessing, but it is hard to watch the choices that

people choose sometimes. trying to find a balance in all things and

knowing what is most important and what is not is the most difficult

thing. but there is opposition in all things.... :) i like the talk

by Elder Holland that says that we can´t expect to become like Jesus

Christ...without feeling a particle of what he felt. i am still

learning how to love the hardships happily. there are so many

blessings!!

anyhow, sorry, i g2g...and didn´t have much time to write everything

or you better!

love you! i love the opportunity to be our here. i think i am still

adjusting...but i really love it and am learning so much!

love always,

hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • June 27th, 2011

So.... mom and dad i am sorry.... i went to the dentist! And i had to get a root canal, it will cost 426 Euros which is a ton i am so sorry! I havent paid yet i have to go back 2 more times, but they said all together for the 3 visits it would cost 426 Euros. And the money is bad but the pain was really bad. When i went the dentist was like "lets see whats wrong" and he seriously like stabbed my tooth, it hurt so bad i thought i broke my tooth in half! Then he got some pain killing stuff. it hurt so so so bad! oh man lets just say that was one of the worst experiences i have had in a long time! And i still have two more visits! But mom and dad sorry you have to pay for me! i will do some house work when i get home!

This week went by really fast. I cant really remember what happened. Just teaching and finding.

I used to write in my journal every day, but i am about a month behind cause we never have any free time to write! we always have alot to do!

So i have some really really really really good news though! so i figured out exactly what i want to do and how i am going to do it! i am going to became the president of Weber University! Bomb huh? that is my goal and i am going to do it! So i am really excited! I am planning on attending Weber this january (so i will get back like jan 2 and go to school on the 5th or something like that), then after 4 years of that i will become a teacher, then vis principal, then a Principal and do super super well at that, then become a professor, or a chairman of the education department or administration department for Weber"s a university, then become the president of Weber!

Ok so i have more good news everyone in 2 weeks is going to a meeting in croatia except for me. And guess who is going to be my companion, Davor majc (he is the president of the branch and he doesnt really trust missionaries and at first he didnt like them AT ALL)! hahahaha i am really excited actually, i can tell you one thing though, we arent eating lunch or dinner or ever sitting down! hahahahaha i figured i will just tell him we dont do any of that as missionaries then he would figure out we arent lazy! hahahaha

But the missionaries right now are loving it, they are changing, the mission is changing, and i am having a good time!

love you guys!

ps... sean wrote me and he was saying that when i come back he wants to move out with me!!! super excited.

but still focusing on the mission dont worry!

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • June 23rd, 2011

ok so CONGRATS BRYCE! that is super super cool!

So we had a little farewell party for president hill this week! i have never had so much fun in my life! OH man i loved it we played random games and i am so so so so so so sore! hahah we played a soccer game where you get on you hands and crawl like a cramb and i just had a blast!!! its was so funny, but i really really think missionaries lack having fun, cause i really didnt want to leave!

Ok so mom you asked about my visa, well lets just say i cant get it! haha i know there isnt much we can do about it. But i will be ok here in Ljubljana because everyone is tourists so they wont ever check visas. So i wont be getting my visa, but its ok, its better that way! haha

So we had our baptism this week. Ljubo got baptized and it was super cool, he is doing good and will endure to the end!

We had another missionary meeting and my comp and i had to teach. I did only ok, but everyone liked it.

We had transfers, i am staying zone leader and i am getting a new comp!

Cool fact: because of the personal english class the mission avergages are going up very very fast! All we do is teach now!

We had so so so much to do this week, i am suprised we made it through everything! our new president is coming in two weeks!

Thats about it! i am doing good! just really busy!

ps... dad thanks a ton for checkin up on becoming a principal! i am about 90% sure thats what i want to do! Now i have to deciede which school i am going to!

ps... i will send you guys some more pictures sometime!

*IMPORTANT* ADDRESS CHANGE FOR ELDER SCHNEIDER

Dear Parents,


This is to inform you of the moving of our Mission Office to Zagreb, Croatia. As of the lst of July we will be operating out of that office. President & Sister will be leaving and President and Sister Rowe are the new Mission President.




Croatia has many different rules for their country. We do not fully understand them all; but when you send your missionaries letters you will now use the address as follows:


Slovenia/Croatia Mission 


Crkva Isusa Krista Svetaca Posljednjih Dana


Svačićev Trg 3


10000 Zagreb, Croatia

If you intend to send packages you are not to address them to your missionary. Use the address above and put the missionaries name as the return address with your physical address. The reason for this is that if it is addressed to him/her then they will have to come to Zagreb and pick it up at the post office themselves, which of course they can't do, because they are living in other towns. Your packages will probably be opened and gone through and perhaps charged customs if is over $55.00 in value.

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • June 20th, 2011

hello family,

i love you guys so stinkin much!! haha the mission is so good right now. i have to say thanks to Elder Schneider though. his letter last week helped me out so stinkin much. because here too i{ve been workin so stinkin much with hardly any success and to be honest it stinks haha. but i loved what he said about (oh my gosh the guy here at the cyber just started playing the harmonica and is playing a hymn, How Great Thou Art he is totally not member) haha but yeah so i loved what Elder Schneider talked about working smarter and so i{ve changed a bunch of things and its already starting to be better. for example we have bikes here but to be able to talk with more people we only walk now. even though it is so much hotter walking its so much better talking to more people. also tomorrow we are going to be teaching english lessons haha i figured if it is working so so stinking well over there in Slovenia why not here in México. so im super pumped for that and the members are too.

oh yeah that reminds me there is a family here in the branch and the mom totally reminds me of Mom and the daughter of demory. haha its pretty crazy.

so when we talk with the families and stuff in the streets i ask the kids how old they are and oh my gosh and the kids that tell me they are 12 scare me to death haha. cuz i think about how amoray is about to have her special day this week HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! and they all look so stinkin old haha when i come home i dont know if i will be able to recognize demory dayton and am haha i imagine they are all gonna change a ton haha.

so this week it got up to 111 degrees haha.... yes it is stilll ooooober hot.

haha but Elder Schneider thanks a bunch i will let you know how the classes go and if you have any hot tips lemme know haha

oh my gosh in the package that you send mom, could you please please please please send gatorade mix!! haha all the people here say that water doesnt do anything when its this hot haha and for real gatorade is way better when it makes so much heat haha

umm id have to say that Mario Guardiola is my favorite person here is Saucilllo haha before he met with us he had been drunk for 4 and 1/2 months straight and becuase he wanted to change he gave it all he had to repent and change his life to come closer to Christ. But yeah so im super excited for this week we have lots to do.

oh dayton with how much money you are making i wanted to share a little bit about what mexico is like. a lot of the people that i talk to here say that there is no work here and when there is they can usually get about up to 150 pesos every week....that is a dicent(i dont know how it is spelled) job. 150 pesos is about 14 bucks and imagine you are making that every hour!! pretty crazy huh.

oh so another thing that boosted my confidence this week is i read the talk from the conference by Elder Johnson that talks about how all of us are going to see trials but they are essential to be able to live with Heavenly Father again. There is a way good scripture i think its in Romans 8 that talks about what is it going to be that seperates us from Christ. that talk is way good.

OHHH something way cool that happened this week is that the father of the Branch President has been inactive for about 6 months now and Elder Zuvire and i went and taught the family and we taught the talk by President Uchtdorf about the guy who went on the cruz and found out the last day all that he was missing. and guess what... HE CAME TO CHURCH on Sunday haha it was so cool like all the members were crying and what not haha but yeah

hey dad HAPPY Fathers day!!!! thanks for coming to the border to receive the congratulations and all haha. welp i gotta go ... Love yall

PICTURES: Elder Schneider

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