LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • August 29th, 2011

Dear Mom who I still love and will always love.

Things here in my new area are going great. Its always a little more stressful trying to learn everyone's names again but I feel like I'm getting really good at that by now. I still haven't seen the lake here yet but maybe I will go see it today for P-day and see what it looks like. I hear the lake here is very beautiful. So if its good enough maybe will have to come visit up here some time. Will see though

My new companions name is Elder Pierson. (not Kierson) The zone leaders told me the wrong name last time. He has broken about 8 different things on his bike since I have been here. Its has been pretty funny. We have been working hard though. This last week we have been helping a lot of people move so just so you know when I get back I am pretty much a licensed mover now with all the people that I have had to help move since I have been out.

Well we are living in a pretty nice apartment. Its the biggest apartment that I have stayed in so far so it has been very nice. We have no AC again though so I always have to be next to a fan or I just start to swim in my own sweat. And thank you for that birthday money. It actually was spent to fix up a part of my bike. So I have been living off of peanut butter and eggs and reeses for the past week. I no longer like eggs or reeses any more. Its ok though we are finally getting our next payment on Wednesday so that I can start eating something more healthy. I have been getting lots of protein though so I think that's good. Man I love my mission.

Well hopefully this week we will have more people that we will be committing to baptism. Its so weird how different each area feels. I love so many families here already though. I feel like this is going to be a really good area.

Well I love you my most beautiful mom

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • August 29th, 2011

hey family hows it going??? everything is so dang good here in chihuahua!!!

we had stake conference this week and our bishop is now the 2nd counseler of the President and my district had 26 investigators in the sunday morning meeting!!!!! that was super cool and we talked to all the investigators after and they all talked about how when President angulo talked he has a voice that you just straight up cant ignore haha i told them that i had many opportunities to get chewed out by him when i was in the offices haha jk but yeah President talked about the definition of condemnation and in the scriptures it talks about how its a state of no progress. i liked that a lot and he talked about how if we are not progressing or preparing ourselves everyday...which is our purpose in life, alma 34:32....we are in the state of condemnation. How direct? there are so many things that we NEED to do everyday to help us prepare for the eternal life. for example reading the scriptures daily or praying, family prayers and personal. soo soo soo many things, little things but escencial that we have to do.

its amazing to see how much the gospel has changed my life here in the mission. haha i lucked out so much to come here to chihuahua. this gospel can do that for absolutely anyone too. and actually this week we are gonna have a baptism for someone that is proof of that.. his name is rey david (king david haha) and he used to live in arizona and was a cholo (thug) he dealed with all that kinda stuff and got sent back here to mexico. he continued living his life like that for a while here and his wife is a member less active. one day he just decided to change completely... we got a call from his wife and we went to go talk to him... something suupper crazy happened that week but i´ll have to wait til after the mission to tell you about that haha but yeah now he is soo soo active in the church. he doesnt have work right now and so we taught him about fasting and he was like yeah man lets do it haha he still has the cholo accent haha but he has such a strong testimony. he is one of the biggest examples of faith that i have in my life. he believes 110 percent that if he puts the things of the Lord first in his life the Lord will bless him. he is doing absolutely everything that we ask him and we actually had a miracle and one of our other investigators said in his work they need some more people but we are gonna find out today if David got it or not.

hahah dayton i think you´ve gotten funnier and i loved your letter you sent this week i laughed so hard. haha i hope everything is going super duper well !! can you believe that general conference is in like 5 weeks???!!!??? how awesome. but yeah so we are gonna baptize david this week and we are super pumped i´ll send a picture of him to you after the baptism he is so awesome.

Love you so much,

Elder Nunley

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • August 29th, 2011

That is super cool to hear about Tina deffering from her mission call! sounds like love is in the air!

mom that is cool to talked to elder hadley... i never met him cause he was from Croatia... and i am in Slovenia. But that is super cool!

You guys are not going to believe this but this week the sisters in our district had a baptism and guess how many investigators/non members showed up? 25!!!!! it was amazing and we had like 18 members there. I was loving it after the baptism cause we had a chance to talk to all the non members and get some phone numbers! Also the branch president asked my comp and i to give a first lesson for one of the baptismal talks. I was kinda nervous cause i we were in a tiny room and there were so many non members that we were praying really hard for the spirit! it was great though, we challenage everyone there to read the BOM and ask god, and everyone took a BOM after the baptism! Also last week we got two new investigators!

So yeah it was a good week president said we need to work on inviting so i have started to. We were on the train going to visit a member and someone invited me to sit by them, we talked for a while and i decieded to practice inviting so i invited him to prepare himself for baptism. He said yes! hahaha so that was a cool exsperiance, but the only problem is, is that he didnt have a phone so he said "i will call you next week" so i will pray for him that he will call!

oh yeah we had some nice visitors from some spanish speaking country and they didnt know any english or slovene, so i "pretended" for about 20 mins that i knew what they were saying... man spanish is so easy though, i was having so much fun though talking to them! It was really weird to meet nice people though, because in slovenia the culture is so different, and it was weird to talk to people that are exciting to talk to, slovenians are quiet, shy and not really open or outgoing. It was just really different.

One lady we are teaching accepted a baptsimal date for september 17! So also gave a BOM to her mother this week!

Well things are good!

ps... i will send some pictures home sometime...... sorry i always forget.

pss.. Do you guys want anything from Slovenia?

psss.. i have a feeling missionaries are going to Bosnia soon!!!! president said something about it on our meeting. Pray that he will choose me, i would even stay an extra 6 months if i could serve there!!!

one other thing, i was laughing so hard when i read adris email about how the ZOne leaders always focus on baptisms and stuff and that her distict leader is like way cool! hahahahahaha its funny cause it seems like that is the same everywhere ZL are always the bad guys! hahahaha (i am a zone leader) oh man that is funny stuff!

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • August 20th, 2011

Dear way beautiful mom still.

So you know how I get move around a lot? Well that still hasn't changed. Transfers came up again and I will now be going to Cour d'elane. I think my purpose here is to travel and explore the whole mission. I've now been in Moses lake, South Spokane, Moscow, North Spokane, Lewiston, and now Cour d'elane. I still haven't been in an area longer then 12 weeks. I really thought this time I was going to last longer but who am I kidding. So I will be moving tomorrow at around 3:15.

Well I had to so good bye to Yire (G-ray) Last night and I'm not going to lie it was very hard for both of us. I will be keeping in contact with her through my mission but it was still very hard. She will also be going back to Mexico on September 14 so I wont be having a chance to ever see her again while I'm on my mission. She is such a strong member though. We have been going through a lot of questions and answers with her lately to try and prepare her when she goes and sees her family again. Her whole family is going to sit around and listen to her about the gospel. So I guess will see what happens.

Things in this area have been so wonderful. A couple less actives have started coming to church. Have 2 people that will be getting baptized soon here. And the lady that we tracted into is going to be baptized. (She just doesn't know it yet) Its so weird how fast you can be attached to new people. It feels like just a couple of days ago I got here. This mission stuff goes by fast. Well I guess the next area I'm going too is one of the biggest anti place's in our mission. So I might have a lot more stories to tell you guys in the next few weeks until I get transferred again in a couple of weeks.

Well sadly this week one of the guys (Don Russel) that we have been teaching the temple classes too, to prepare him to go to the temple went into the hospital because of breathing problems. We were able to finish all the temple lessons with him before he went in though. I will have to be saying goodbye to him today as well.

Suzzet in my last area seems to be doing very well lately. She was asked by the stake president to give her testimony in church a couple of days ago and she is also now a secretary in her ward.

I have also found out that mark and Vickie in south hill that we were teaching also got married and then baptized in the church and just a couple of weeks ago he got the Aaronic priest hood. Also I cant remember is I told you already but the Blest family that we were teaching there also got baptized.

I also cant remember if I told you this one either (sorry) but I found out that also Chris Jones in my very first area(The person we found tracting) also got baptized when he turned 18 because his parents wouldn't let him until he was an adult and he will also be serving a mission in about a year.

Man I love my mission. I'm so glad that god sent me to the greatest mission in the world. Our talk here with Elder Tom Perry of the twelve and also Elder Clayton of the seventies was also a great testimony experience Watching apostles on TV doesn't even come close the power you feel when you are near them. When Elder Tom Perry spoke I knew that this man had authority

from god. Any one there could feel it. It was also a great experience to shake his hand. (By the way Elder Tom Perry is a huge guy. I have never realized how big he actually is)

Well things here are going great. My mission has been going great as well. Well great besides I lost my camera when we went and saw Elder Tom Perry. I have been pretty sad that I have now lost my last 4 transfers of pictures. I have searched every where for it and I haven't been able to find it any where. I'm praying that someone will bring it to me soon. All I really want is that SD card. But other that that everything here is going great. This area was amazing and We will have to come visit here again some time soon when I get back. I love you my most beautiful mom. Oh and did I mention we have the greatest family in the world? I love you =)

*NEW ADDRESS for Elder Schneider*

Slovenia/Croatia Mission 


Crkva Isusa Krista Svetaca Posljednjih Dana


Svačićev Trg 3


10000 Zagreb

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.

PICTURES: Elder Nunley

This picture is of a dog that one day just showed up at our house to protect us. at night she barks at everyone that passes...in the day too. haha her name is abish and she wont leave haha she jsut stays there and waits for us to come home and leave but its pretty comforting to have a dog i actually like it a lot haha.

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • August 22nd, 2011

hey family!!! hows it going? sounds like i missed out on the family reunions, sounds like they were way fun.

oh man this week has been awesome. oh so that picture of the baptism that we had, her name is anabell. and her kids are so funny especially the smallest one haha oh man his name is manuel and is a hoot haha. just a couple things to share about him. he always is walking around naked and he thinks my name is Mormón Loco haha and he says it the whole time we are at their house haha. we actually went over to their house right before coming here to take a video of it and i was gonna send it to you but they weren{t home haha al mejor next week. haha oh yeah so one day we were teaching anabell and her husband and manuelito, the little kid that goes around naked, came over to the table and climbed up on the chair next to his mom and just started peeing on her haha oh man that was funny.

but yeah this week we have had a couple miracles its amazing we are having so much success with the members they are helping us out so much. and my district is doing way good we all improved a lot in our numbers this week which is way good. i would love to describe to you all of the miracles that happen here on the mission but it would take forever to do that.

but yeah mexico is so awesome and i absolutely love spanish its the best.... SOOOOO much better than english haha.

but yeah this week i´d say my testimony grew the most through the scriptures. DyC 121 and Moroni 7 y 8. i learned a ton of things and i finished the book of mormon finally for only the second time in the mission. but now im starting to read a little bit more in the bible and im learning a ton too.

oh the picture that im sending is a dog that one day just showed up at our house to protect us. at night she barks at everyone that passes...in the day too. haha her name is abish and she wont leave haha she jsut stays there and waits for us to come home and leave but its pretty comforting to have a dog i actually like it a lot haha.

yesterday we had a baptismal interview for an investigator but the president had to do it and it went super well. i learn so stinkin much from him!!!!!

but i love the plan of salvation its so awesome to know that i´ll be with you guys for forever if we do our part and im so glad to know this is the church that helps us do our very best to achieve that.

I love you all so much!!!

Elder Nunley