LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • August 16th, 2011

so you are probably wonduring why i am writing today. Cause yesterday was a holiday so everything was closed.

So i am really excited to hear that i can live at home for the first semester!! hey what day, and time does my flight arrive in utah?

Well good stuff happened this week. Actually i am really excited, we had a lesson with our main investigator and we read 1 nephi chapter 8, and talked about enduring to the end and everything. We 3 other members come on that lesson, and when we talked about it we felt that she is ready for baptism. She has came to church like 10 times in a row and said she will continue to come. Well tonight we have a lesson with her and we are going to ask if she will be baptisted on September 3! She will say yes i already know, but its still exciting!

Also we had zone conferance this week and we taught about refferals! And last week we got 3 refferals. We had a really cool exspericnce. So we were teaching a less active member and he has been doing really well lately, so we had a lesson with him and taught him about service, and then we decided the best way for him to learn service would to actually do it. So for our lesson he came with us while we visited some of the ladies in the branch. While we were with him i felt like i needed to ask about his parents. And if they were still living he said.. yes, and they live right there, (as he pointed to a building) then i was like cool man lets go visit them. But he declined, so we kept walking as i was trying to convince him, that we should go visit them together. So we just kept walking, for about 5 mins then the spirit started working on him and he said, ok if you wanna go visit them lets go. SO to make a long story short we visited them, and had a short lesson/visit, it was good... they really like us, so hopefully you will hear more about them.

Also we are teaching this members wife, she is super cool but wont do anything, and the spirit worked on her this week and she came to church! I didnt know she was coming and at the end of the meeting when i saw her i seriously like ran to greet her! it was the coolest thing to see her there!!!

We had alot going on this week. It was good.

love you family!

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • August 8th, 2011

hola dad!"!!

we have a good looking family! not going to lie!!!! jessie...wow you are gorgeous! The family look sgreat! Thanks for the pics! how the heck is Brayden? i haven´t heard from him for ever!!!!! i miss hearing from him!!! Glad that the trek was a good experience.

Question 1 - What impressed you at Martin's cove when you went with heritage tours? I am not sure I remember really well (about 5 or six years since i was in Martin´s cove...but I think there is a picture of a boy in teh snow with his dead fatehr ot something in teh snow. I can´t remember everything exactly, but i have a picture of it. If i could see the picture I took, I would remember...I can´t remember where those CD´s are of Trek...que lastima! I just remember feeling the sacrifice of the pioneers. They are pretty amazing!

Question 2 - Is it harder for you to take the time to write letters home because you have so much work to accomplish during your P day? There is always a lot to do on pday...but We always have the same amount of time to write our family. We have to write our family acutually,and president. The other day president didn´t receive a letter from my mini because she didn´t have a form, and so we had to go back another day to write. normally, we try to sleep because we work so hard during the week. But today we are going to go with Elders to play sports. it doesn´t happen very often, and those elders won a sports day of pday...but asked permission to invite me and my comp! was sooo nice of them! THere is always a ton to do on pday....but it is great!

are you and mom going to serve a mission dad? when you have...more experience (I think that is how brayden says ölder¨ but i can´t remember..haha) so crazy! you can read mom´s email if youw ant. i kinda rambled like always! but it is good! hard, but good! THanks for all teh support of everyone! Soemtimes i feel alone, but then someone always thinks of me and does something for me or algo asi! it is so great! I am so lucky so many people care about me! THanks for everything! love you tonz!

Time is about out! Pleas tell jessie that if she can resend her email to me...somehow it was deleted..i saw a new email from her....clicked it...and then it deleted itself. anyohw, if she can resend it or something. i feel bad i didn´t respond!

love always,

hermanita schneider

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • August 8th, 2011

aha i love those pictures that you gave me! that trek looked like a bunch of fun not work or hard times! hahahaha thats way cool though!

We are busy doing missionary work. Everyone was on vacation so we were lacking in the lessons area.

Wow you guys got my flight plans??? JAN 2, 2012 hahahahahaha oh man that is just to weird. My question is, is how am i going to go to school on Jan 2? hahaha well i guess it looks like i will be missing the first day of school. Oh man that is crazy..... and that means that i will be missing 3 Christmases! hahaha what a blessing! hahaha that will be the coolest thing to say, that i missed 3 Christmases on my mission.

On cool experience that we had was 2 new ladies just showed up to church. I talked to one of them and the end of the meeting and she said that she is 100% sure this is church is true, and that she wants to be a member. (we will start teaching her but she might be a little crazy), but the other lady is amazing she loved it and said she was going to keep coming!

So we are teaching one lady that really really wants to be baptized, but we are waiting for a little bit because we dont know how sensor her desires are! Its an interesting situation! haha

The weather is super weird over here, it rains and then is 10000 degrees.

So this week we had alot of meetings! We had separate meetings with the mission president, assistants, and the branch president.

The branch president is really liking the missionaries that he has right now! Its alot of fun working with him.

Well good news i am losing weight.... when i came out on my mission i was about 200-250 pounds but now i am about 145! hahaha no jk but i think i have lost any muscle that i used to have! haha

ok so we had some really good lessons this week.... its weird cause now i never know what to write about our lessons!

otherwise i am good! And hopefully next week you will hear about a baptismal date!!!

Ps... mom and dad i do want to go to UVU. How can we get me signed up? can you guys work on that one?

ps... my president really really likes me.... even more then president hill did! hahahaha the mission just goes so much better when your leaders like you! hahaha

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • August 8th, 2011

Hey family, muchísimas gracias for you letters!! I stinkin love

hearing from you guys.

This week was really really good. We are having so much success here and i am finally beginning to understand how the Lord blesses us with that success according to our faith!!! Haha it is so amazing.

So things with the bishop are going super well and we actually ate lunch with his family this week and i asked his wife what else she would like to see from us. Haha she absolutely loved that haha. But she told us that we are doing really good she loves seeing us work with the members in the ward and she sees the service that we are doing. Its awesome!!!

this week we are gonna have 2 for sure baptisms and probably 2 more.

sorry i dont have a lot to write thisweek haha and the computer that im using is super slow so my half hour is almost up already.

thanks for everything you guys are doing over there. i love that you are all serving too. (i promise i´ll write more next week) haha

Elder Nunley

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • August 1st, 2011

I just want to begin and say my 20th birthday was amazing. I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful family that takes care of me. I loved everything I got. I'm actually wearing one of the new light blue shirts that I got right now. And then I used some of the lemon head candy's to bribe the little kids at church to like me. I feel like I'm back in the 1st stages with Brooklynn back in the day when I was home. I'm glad Brooklynn taught me how to bribe little kids to like me because now I got the little ones giving my high five's when I go to church. So little Brooky... thanks =) I don't know what I'm going to do when I get home when there is going to be a complete other family of little people running around. But that's not a bad thing. Its actually a very good thing because our family is so awesome and I'm sure God feels that way to so he trusts us with more of his little ones. Not only that but he also trusts us with the way cute one's.

So this week has been pretty exciting. We finally got in to the juvenile correction center that has been trying to meet missionary's for 9 months. I have been tying to get in there for 8 weeks so pretty much the moment I got here. I have been finding all these members of our church trying to get them to talk to the religious coordinator there and nothing was working. So God decided to help me out and led us randomly into the middle of nowhere with tree's and mountains everywhere. So we knocked on this guys house and he happen to be one of the main managers of the facility and now we are actually really good friends with him. So he gave us the hook ups that we needed and we finally ended up making it there to the kid that wanted to speak with us. It was quit an amazing experience how God just made everything work. Terry Lewis is the guy that we tracted to and God really did just soften his heart for us so that he didn't make us do fingure prints or anything to get in. He told us "You know I havent really ever done this but... I understand that you missionaries get transferred about every 6 weeks so I talked with the boss and asked if it was ok for you guys to come in every Wednesday to speak with this kid with out the prints" So his boss told him it was ok so we are now meeting with him every Wednesday. Not going to lie though... It was a little scary when we were in there. They had 3 body guards around us almost the whole time. =)

well i have to go. I love you so much. =)

PICTURES: Elder Nunley

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • August 1st, 2011

oh my gosh that is so awesome that Elder Howell is already on the mission!!! haha for real i am so happy for him. and what about ammon and john bahr? oh so this week im gonna do something a little different im gonna send the letter that i send to the President to you guys too. He told us that we should update our families on all the work here just as much as we update him. so im gonna write you my normal letter and then afterwards i`ll paste it to the end of this letter. oh im gonna send some fotos today too from the baptism that we had.

so on thursday the bishop called me and asked me to speak on sunday and i was super pumped because our bishop isnt all to enthusiastic about the missionaries. i think there was a missionary who was here before me and they butted heads haha but yeah ever since i got here we`ve been trying to animate (the verb animar in spanish is what i want to say and its different from animate haha but because my spanish is better than my english now im just gonna use animate, but it means like get excited...kinda haha i dunno how to explain it but yeah) so yeah we`ve been trying to animate him a bunch and so the other sunday i asked him if we could have just one minute in sacrament meeting to announce something and he was like sure go for it. and so we told the ward that we appreciate all their help and the food especially haha and how truely truely we want to serve them. so we told them if they need help with any little thing they should call us. and the bishop lightened up a bit... just a bit haha. and so we have done some way cool service projects for members this week and so when he asked me to speak i was super stoked. he asked me to talk about obedience and i talked about the 2000 strippling warriors and alma 57:20 y 21 and how their moms taught them about obedience and having faith that the Lord will ALWAYS follow through in His promises. then i shared about how small and safe north dakota is and how when i opened my call to Chihuahua we were all super stoked and then how mom found out about how dangerous it is here haha. i told them about how mommy told me to be obedient and how Her faith in My obediece really helped me. Thank you so much mom and dad for your examples all throughout my entire life. it was honestly the best talk i`d ever given because i testified and i could feel the spirit testify of much of what i said. the life of a missionary is absoulutely the best life ever. i have never felt so much guidance from Heavenly Father Himself in my life and the mission has helped me so much to humble myself to recognize it.

that is so cool about how the berogans went to the temple!!! i havent gone to the temple since the mtc and i bet i will maybe go 2 ò 3 times on the mission. i miss it so much. thank you mom for sharing that advice and when i go i will for sure do that. dad that is way cool that you are turning green chile around. if you want when i get back id be more than happy to help you out with all that stuff and help you learn some espanish haha haha that is way funny what they all call you haha i laughed pretty hard.... oh so the video im sending is a re-enactment of something that i used to do haha let me know next week what you think haha

ok so her is the letter to the president

Hola Presidente,

muy buenos dìas. Me gustò mucho esta semana. mi compañero y yo hemos mejorado mucho con nuestro unidad. Estamos buscando las cosas que tenemos que mejorar para poder lograr la unidad que se trata en Predicad Mi Evangelio. Algo que me encanta de mi compañero es que èl es muy humilde. Elder Hernandez està aquì para ser un misionero y està dispuesto para obedecer todo para poder ser digno de la ayuda del Señor en todo momento. Me alegra mucho. Esta semana he estudiado mucho en Predicad de la secciòn que se encuentra en Capìtulo 9 que se llama "Hable con Todos" algo que el Elder de Hoyos dijo cuando estaba aquì es que no sabemos por què no hablamos con todas las personas en la calle. Quien sabe si sea miedo o vergüenza o que pero no lo hacemos como misioneros. Yo sè que yo puedo hablar con màs personas y sè que Dios les està poniendo en mi camino para poder enseñarles de èste evangelio que Necesitan....y ¿¿Por què NO lo hago?? hay una escritura que està en 2 Timoteo 1:7 que dice "Porque no nos ha dado Dios espìritu de COBARDÌA, sino de PODER,de AMOR, y de DOMINIO PROPIO." Un misionero debe ser alguien que tiene ese poder, amor, y dominio propio...no de cobardìa. Me ayuda mucho esta escritura y cada dìa estoy hablando con màs y màs personas. Muchos dicen que no quieren nada pero como dice en Predicad yo nunce debo desanimarme y siempre debo seguir adelante con el conocimiento de lo que Yo Soy y el Porque yo estoy aquì.

Esta semana tuvimos solomente 2 en la capilla pero Elder Hernandez y yo sabemos que esta semana vamos a tener tres. No vamos a aceptar menos que 3 en la capilla. vamos a echarle màs ganas cada dìa. Estamos viendo los frutos de nuestro ànimo aquì. El obispo està animàndose poco a poco y nos està confiando màs y màs. Esta semana me pidiò a dar un discurso de la obediencia y despues me dio gracias y espero ahora que èl sienta màs confianza a pedir cosas de nosotros.

Esta semana en mi distrito vimos cambios. Pero los elderes en villa Juarez estàn muy muy animados y nosotros tambièn. Presidente estoy muy agradecido por la oportunidad que tengo para estar aquì en Chihuahua y poder escuchar sus consejos cada semana. Muchas Gracias por todo lo que hace. Yo sè que Usted es llamado por Dios para dirigir esta mision y seguir aceleràndola. Cuìdese mucho.

Elder Nunley