PICTURES: Elder Nunley

Elder Nunley tried elote for the first time! It is the corn on the stick like in Nacho Libre and he said it was so good!

In the words of Nacho Libre- "Get that corn outta my face!"

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 31st, 2011

ok so i wrote down some things that i thought you might like to hear about this week. oh by the way we had another baptism!!! it was so good!! Juan is like answering and even teaching stuff in the class after sacrament haha i dont remember what its called but yeah so cool.!! lets see so those ohter pairs of shoes that we got for me at missionary mall are too small and i was wondering if you could check and see what their policy is on sending me another pair the right size. they are the McDonalds shoes haha. oh yeah ok so the Lord definately does not want me and Elder Burgener to have bikes haha we had bikes for 3 days and had to fix them 4 times and the last day we thougth we{d try em out we were riding and heard this noise like a gunshot haha and then elder B stops riding and his tire totally blew up but it was so loud!! and so i just busted up laughing haha cuz it was way funny with all the problems we{ve had with the bikes haha and when i started laughing a bunch of people on the street started laughing and they thought it was hilarious too and even one guy started clapping for us haha oh the bikes haha never again!!!

oh my gosh the food here is so dand good!!! every day the hermanas make such good food!! hmmhh and im actually losing weight too ahah i went down a belt loop and i stuff my face every day ! its all that walkin for sure!! ok but the american food i eat i gotta tell you is so good. ok so everynight and mornign i eat goober. its the peanut butter and jelly together haha and it is so so sos os os so dang good! it is the best with oreos though oh my gosh haha. oh so yesterday at lunch i ate chatarron which is pigskin... and it is absolutely disgusting haha oh my gosh i cant even tell you the thinks i was thinking when i was chewing it haha ewww guacala!!! haha so much happens here everyday and everyday goes by so dang fast!!! it stinks!!! before i know it 2 years is gonna be gone! haha.

oh amoray if you want some different songs to play on the piano you can start learning how to play Come thou Fount and If I Could Hie to Kolob so when i come back you can rock those puppies out for me! i love those songs on the piano. Stick with piano too i totally wish i would have. oh mom when i come back home i want to to refer to me as Mi Hijo!! haha all the moms here do that or Hijo Mío haha oh yeah our family totally has some mexican in us somewhere haha every family im with reminds me of someone from our family haha its so awesome they are all so funny and just laid back. oh demory i thought you might like to know where you name comes from. Well amoray comes from the word amor which means love. and it just so happens that your name comes from spanish too. its just mom and dad havent told you yet but i figure since im a missionary and i need to be honest i should tell you. your name comes from the spanish verb Demorar which translates to English as To Delay hahaha i was reading the scriptures and that word came up and i thought you might like to know that haha

oh my gosh i had my first elote today! its the corn on the stick like in nacho libre and it is so dang good!!! haha except i didnt have mayo on it i just had her put tons of chile..hmmmh the food though seriously is so dang good everyday. everything has tortillas and chile with it. chile is hot sauce and oh my gosh it is so dang good!!! i seriously cant get over how good the food is haha.

but for real other than food. i am learning so much stuff and having great experiences. there is so much stuff we can learn everyday. and i have the oportunity to learn every day!! but for real my favorite right now is reading through the ensign the one with the conference talks. cuz that is what the Lord wants us to learn and apply in our lives right now! i love studying that!! welp i gotta go.

i love you and at the same time am angry i didnt get an email from you this week haha jk not angry just upset haha

NOTE FROM DIGI: "FOR THE RECORD...I sent him the letters from our family by email this morning at 9:20. I don't know why he hadn't received our letter by the time he wrote us :( The pictures are SO Colton! Thanks for your prayers."

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • January 31st, 2011

Alright so my new area here is pretty good. The members are great (They always are) Our apartment isn't too nice and it smells a little funny. Tell you the truth it smells kinda funny and I'm not sure where the smell is coming from. Its been lots of fun though. We have a part time car that we share so that's pretty nice as well. I wish I had more stuff that has happened but right now I'm having a hard time learning the new area.

Well remember how I would always joke with my friends about being called to the "North Idaho mission"? Well ya, God thought it would be pretty funny too. . . =) So I'm right by the University of Idaho. We do the family wards but we tract into a ton of college kids.

Alright and for the small miracle of the week is going to sound kind of funny but it really did happen. Ok... So the GPS that Josh sent me has helped me out so so much in my new area. My new comp has no idea where he is going so it has saved as plenty of times. Anyways for some reason it started to not work for some reason.(The screen wouldn't turn at all) I really tried to do everything. I tried to turn it on and off. I plugged it in to the power cord all over the apartment and car. I left in for an hour and blew on the power cord and nothing would work. I had no idea why. But that morning as I was doing my study I came to a scripture in Mormon. Saying have faith in Jesus Christ and pray unto me and I will give you what so ever you asketh. So I decided if that were possible that god would do that for anything even this very small thing like a GPS. So that's what I did. I said a prayer having faith that he would do it.... And guess what.... Bloop!!! It came right on! I was actually laughing out loud! I know that it sounds so cheesy but that's really what happen. And if it didn't we wouldn't have made it to any of our appointments that day.

But if god would do such a small thing like that just think about what bigger things he will do for us if we just pray to him with faith believing that we will receive. That was really one of my first prayers believing that I would receive.

But that's my small miracle for you. I will probably have more stories to tell you next week. My step training is going alright too so don't worry. =)

I love you my best mom ever =)

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • January 31st, 2011

hi padre!

haha thanks for talking about me... i guess...haha at least i don´t have to turn red in front of everyone. ya, i love brayden adn to hear from him! he cracks me up! he is so funny. i don´t dare pull any pranks on my companion yet. especially cuz she is senior companion and all and if she doesn´t talk for me, i am in trouble. haha. she has been sick too so it is nnot a good time to pull pranks. ya, there is alot of work to do...and i can´t wait to speak. people always stare at me, i hope it isbecause the light and not that i look completely ridiculous. haha it is funny, when i bear my testimony during the lessons, i cant totally tell the attention is rivited on me...and it goes really quite. i dont´know if it is because they feel the spirit , or have no idea what i just said. but i decided to choose the first thought...the spirit. hahaha it is great!

i am glad to hear jessie is smiling a lot...tell andrew if he is a missionary...he told me he is going on a mission on the phone...and that they have to work hard...so he should work hard...hahaha and they don´t have video games here for the missionaries, we aren´t even allowed to watch tv. being here, i wish i didn´t worry so much about menial things at home. man, there is so much to be happy for about where we live and the numerous opportunities we have in america! even just our knowledge of the gospel! it is great! so, how are you doing papa bear? i finally found the question mark on this keyboard??????????? yay!

thanks for your sacrifice and taking care of me always! te amo! (i love you!)

con amor,

hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • January 31st, 2011

hey i got the package you sent dad/family, it was so delightful!!!! the mourning i got the package i was like dang now my calendar isnt any good, then you guys sent a new one! its awesome! hahaha the package was in half when i got it, it was even wet too? hahaha not really sure how but i think the package was sitting in a pond for a really long time! haha cause it was pretty wasted. But..... the calender is still ok, and the candy i gave lots of it away cause we were at church. But thanks a ton for the package!

mom that is funny about the talk you gave! hahahaha good work!

ANDREW SCHNEIDER.... thanks for writing me, that is super cool you have super smash brothers brawl, remember when i bet you everytime we played!!!! hahahahaha you the best little guy!

ok so.... this week was crazy. haha i will start from the beginning, monday we had a lesson with a new investigator, he came to english class and after class he said that he liked the way he felt so he invited us over for lunch. Well the first time we saw him at english class, i am not going to lie i could kinda sence some gay vibes coming from him. hahaha but we went over anyways cause he seemed super interested. Well we went over and his place was kinda different/weird and there was a picture of this indian lady that was huge that looked like it had been taking from like the 1700s hahaha well so then i ask, "is that your girl friend?" and me and my comp just laugh. (cause it was super funny) :) well it actually ended up that the picture was of a guy. haha it was pretty funny.

well then we have a lesson and it went well, but he kept looking at my comp a little different??? hahaha its kinda weird i know. But he agreed to get with us again on thursday. So thursday we text him to remind him and he wrote back and said he isnt interetsted but wants to get together with my comp! hahaha so yeah we dropped him. hahaha it was really funny though (i thought)

ok but... we also went bowling last monday!!! it was so so fun i bowled a 175!

and... we are teaching a new guy, he is super cool, he has a band, and gave me one of his CD.s. But he really like the gospel and wants us to meet his friends and teach them too! cool cool!

and... a mom and daughter from english class are investigating.

and... this week i gave 3 blessings!!! that is more then i have my whole mission. One of the sisters was having a hard time, and another missionary, and a member! but these were all really amazing exsperiances!

also, my district is on fire we are dominating, they are super cool, and we are getting alot done! :)

and... we had some good lessons this week.

well this week was great, loving it, and thanks again for the package. (ps. thanks for the journal)

love starešina schneider

PICTURES: Elder Nunley

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 24th, 2011

hola familia!! oh man this week was so awesome! i love hearing from all of you. dad that is crazy you met elder bergenurs brother haha i knew he lived in ND for a while i didnt know he still did though. small world. ok so yeah the baptism was awesome and afterwards Julian asked me if i would do the confirmation and so i got to do that yesterday! and then give a 20 minute talk in espanol haha oh man the Lord has too much mercy on me right now. i seriously can understand so much spanish already it is so suave!!! but lets see so my address is:

Calle Morelos (antes Ojinaga)

#2210 A Colonia Cuahutemoc

Chihuahua, Chihuahua

Mexico

so that will be my address the whole mission. everything goes straight to the mission home and then i get to pick up my mail like once a month or something like that haha.

but yeah delicias is definately not like you saw on the computer haha well at least not the part im at haha but yeah there are definately houses that are just shacks and a lot of peoples bathrooms are a cement room with out shower heads they all bathe in teh same water. but just like everywhere there are people that are more poor than others but yeah it is so awesome here. thats so cool john bahr is going to chile!!! i can only email family so tell him thats suave for me haha but yeah chile spanish is really whiny so ill be able to make fun of his spanish and he will probably make fun of mine because mexican spanish is the best haha lets see.

so we have another baptism this week on friday and i might be doing the baptizing woot woot! it is so much fun to see how much the Lord blesses us when we serve others. everytime after we teach a lesson i just feel so good. its the best... i love it! haha but the food here is so good. they all think its funny how much chile (hot sauce) me and elder burgener put on our food cuz we are gringos haha but oh my gosh everything is so tasty!!

amoray good job on the grades!!! thats awesome make sure you keep that up all the way through all your schooling! umm i cnat really write much cuz i have 30 minutes of email and that includes reading your emails. but im trying. oh yeah one more thing that i thought would be really cool to do is have the family buy a year subscription of the liahona for every family we baptize. the Liahona is so awesome especially the conference one. Presidente Angulo has us study it every day. and i dont know if you remember in my farewell talk but it says that living prophets are more important that dead ones. so we gotta study what they tell us.....through the conference talks haha but yeah a year costs 60 pesos which is less than 6 bucks. so let me know how you feel about that but this week you're gonna be helping me out with two families haha.

i love reading your letters even though i dont answer everything haha. oh demory that is way cool what youre doing good thinking. that will be way fun to graduate early and head on down to utah.

so yesterday we had a typical missionary story but i gotta share it just cuz it is so awesome...suave haha ok so we went to this one families house 45 minutes away and the just didnt want to hear from us even though they set up an appointment haha but yeah so we went to another families house a member and they werent there and then we realized we were gonna be late for lunch so we decided to trailblaze a shortcut! haha on this shortcut we met Bernando Silva. Ok so Presidente Angulo always tells us we are NOT here to plant seeds anymore. we are here to find the people that are already prepared. Bernando Silva is definately prepared. oh my gosh he is so cool and we met his kids and everything. he seriously is a golden investigator already haha and yes i have my hopes up. but that is also called faith haha. so yeah we would have never gone that way before and since we did we found him. im so excited to teach him!!

i love you all bien suave!! haha

Elder Nunley