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. =)

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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

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • July 25th, 2011

hey family!!!

oh man sorry i didnt write last week i was so stinkin sick!!! for real im not even gonna try to explain what i had but the good thing is the day after it was all gone. just an oober bad infection in the stomach.

so i only read the letter from you guys for this week but im gonna print the other one off just incase there was something important that i need to know haha. but yeah so i am no longer in saucillo. im in chihuahua again and im disrict leader and my area is super freaking awesome. its huge too. its the second biggest one in chihuahua. all the members are absolutely awesome here and we are have baptisms left and right for august we should have a baptism every weekend!!!!! how awesome!!! the Lord is really preparing the people here and it is so nice to be in a big town. i loved saucillo but i felt like every time i passed someone in the street it was someone i had already taught and didnt want to hear more haha and that was just with three months down there.

so ive been reading the talk from President Uchtdorf from the confrence in october about Pride and i love it. and im just starting 3 nefi in the book of mormon and in chapter 6 verses 13 to 18 (i think) talk about how all satan needs to start working in us is pride. and President Uchtdorf talked about how every single sin stems from Pride.

hahaha mom you would not believe how much patience i have learned on the mission and the funny thing is, is that im still super impacient!!!! that just goes to prove that the Lord does give us weaknesses so that we depend on Him because being impacient in the mission doesnt work very well.

My companion is another mexcian his name is Elder Hernandez Rìos and he is way cool. we are workin together really well already. he is super short and pretty dang funny haha

but yeah i`ve already got to go but i just hope you guys know i absolutely love the mission and The Lord definately is watching over me at all times.( that reminds me i have a super crazy story for you guys after the mission cuz i cant tell you it over internet...Mom would freak out haha) I love you guys so much and dont worry about a thing.

Con mucho amor,

Elder Nunley

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • July 25th, 2011

hey dad!

Question #1: Are you still playing the piano as needed or even just for fun?

I like to play the piano, but they have a pianist in this ward. I played for the baptism and things like that, for meetings sometimes. It is a good stress relief, if there is a piano, i like to play. There is one Elder that is phenominal at the piano! it is cool that he will share his talent with everyone!

Question #2: Do you miss driving a car or are you glad you don't need to drive?

Yea i miss driving a car, especially the scooter. They have so many motorcycles here and sometimes i just want to jump on one and ride. It is so nice to sit in cars too...doesn´t happen too often for us. it is either walking or the bus. but i never feel like i can sit down because there is always someone we should be talking with and there are always people that are older than us, and I think they should have the seats before me. I don´t think i would want to drive here...they are a little crazy...but safe...haha i don´t know how to explain it. they drive fast, but there aren´t a lot of accidents. but yes, we love the cars! :)

sounds great! what color is suede blue? haha like the flag of argentina ;) haha...for some reason perhaps i liked light blue for a reason.... jokes

always repairing everything! thanks!

I went to Martin´s cove with Heritage Tours! logan should totally do it! it is probably too late...but heritage tours was the best! seriously! it helped me understand so much more and have more gratitiude for the pioneers, joseph smith, and the gospel! that will be so great for the youth!!!

we are éxploding the area...it is good to see...and working hard. it is always interesting to find more people....but we haven´t been able to maintain them the best. the ward is great here and suporting the missionaries a ton! one recient convert recently got married in the temple, it was so great to see that the members supported her so much to travel to the other temple in paraguay (The temple here is under construcction, we don´t know when it will open again). so, it is great to see the support of the ward.

i can´t think of more to write.

love always,

hermanita schneider

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • July 25th, 2011

Beautiful mom. I have survived another week in this crazy jungle. =)

Yire will be calling you soon. They called me yesterday for the house number. So I gave them your number and the home phone.

This last week we got a miracle phone call. A less active lady that hasn't been to church for 7 years called us up on Monday night. Recently in her life she has been having a very hard time and hasn't known what to do. She has been praying and asking God what she should do and she got the answer that she should try and talk with the missionaries. Suddenly as she was praying she looked out the window and saw us both riding on our bikes. In her mind she knew that was her answer. She tried running outside to stop us but didn't reach us in time. Little later on she was thinking to her self on what she should do. She was wishing that somehow she had our number so that she could call us. As she was picking up the phone not knowing who to call.. Again suddenly she sees us ridding by on our bikes. She again didn't have time to come out and stop us. She was starting to feel a little hopeless but still she knew that her answer from god was that she needed to speak to us. At this time she had no idea who to call or know how to get a hold of us. So the day went on and she had no idea what she should. Then the very next day she goes to one of her friends house and see's a picture of Christ on the table. Hydie then asked her friend "where did you get that picture from." Her friend then replied " Oh, I got it from some of the Mormon boys that came by awhile ago." Hydie then asked "Does it have a number on the back of it?" Her friend looked at the card and said "I'm not sure I havent really looked at it. Why do you ask any ways?" Hydie then reached over and flipped over the card... and to her relief she see's a cell phone number on the back. God answered her prayers and guided her to us. God used something like a simple card to answer her. She later on that night called us and asked if she could speak with us. We then went over and learned what had happen and that she wanted to start coming back to church. We are now teaching her and her boyfriend and trying to help them over come some of there addictions. Its amazing how God is always watching over his children.

I love you beautiful mom. =)