Dear Mom and Family,
Well, I didn't get transferred and I am with Elder Villalba again. So we were happy about that. Wow! We have been companions since October. That is a long time!!!! But it is aweosme and Elder Suntasig got transferred and so now the other missoinaries that live with us are Elder Cano and Elder Mcclure, from AZ!!!! He went to Mesquite and he knows BRETT Sevy. So I'm excited to have an Arizonian with me! Thats tight!!
This Sunday was sooo awesome! Ricardo recieved the sacerdocio, (priesthood). It was soo awesome! He told us last Sunday that he had a interview with the bishop and he wsa worried because he didn't have a tie or a white shirt. And so we told hime that we were goingto go to his house on Monday. So we went on Monday and explained a little about the Priesthood. And I gave him one of my white shirts and Elder villalba gave him a red tie. Itwas so cool!!! He is the best! He is so excited to bless the sacrament! And yesterday when the ward sustained him it was so cool for us to see that!!!! We felt so happy!! And yesterday we had 7 investigators come to church and some that have come for the first time! So that was a rally big blessing for us!
I can't wait for general conference! That is going to be soo fun! I can't believe that we are already at this time of year again! I'm so glad that you guys get to go! That is going to be soo fun! I hope we get to go next year. That is something that i really want to do. Hey, who is Haley going to marry? That is nuts! I can't believe she is getting married.
Well this week we had a really cool experience with Rodrigo. We watched the restoration and it was really cool. And we asked him how he has felt about it this time that we have been teaching him. And he told us that he believes it is true and that it all makes sense to him. And i remember in my experiences when i have prayed to know if everything is true i think my answer was just like that it just all makes sense to me. It is a testimony to me that the spirit works in different ways with everyone and we are probably gong to get an answer in a way that is reallly small. But it is still an answer. We are working with him so he can be baptized the week after conference.
Well, I have started to do some excersizes in the night with Elder Mc Clure we have been jump roping in the night so I hope I will stay skiny and strong. haha.
Hey so question. What is going on with Russia and Iran and israel and the states? I have been seeing a bunch of crazy stuff in the papers.
Well, I hope that you all have a great week! I love you all sooo much!!
ELder Sawyer
Monday, March 26, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
March 19, 2012 Another Noche de Hogar
Dear mom
how are you? well the noche de hogar was a success like the other one
that we did it was awesome! i am trying to send some pictures that we
took. it was awesome we did it out side in back of the house of the
hermana pando the mom of medaly jenifer and nicol. it was soo cool we
had a really good time and one girl that we are teaching came. her
name is yadi she had a really good time.
this week on saturday we asked victor if he could help us out and come
with us to soem appointments. we thought it would be good for our
investigators to hear a testimony of someone that just joined the
church and we also thought that it would help victor with his
testimony. we taught yadi and she has a lot of questions about the
book of mormon and it was great to have victor their because some of
the doubts that he had she is having right now. and we also went to
visit a member to plan a little about the noche de hogar and justo the
lady that works for him, he sews t shirts., was their and they were
talking about the church and sowe arrived just in time we got to know
her a little and then we taught her the restoration it was really cool
we had brother coral and victor there to testify with us and she said
that she would pray and read the book of mormon, and something really
cool is that she came to church yesterday and so that was really cool.
Ricardo is going to get the priesthood this week he has a entravista
with the bishop this tuesday and so that is exciting, he was really
excited he told us after church" im going to be able to bless the
sacrament" and while he said it he did a little cross in the air it
was funny me and elder villalba laughed afterward. haha the family
menos activa that we have been teaching came to church this sunday
again and so we are happy for them, they are going through some tough
family stuff and we are really said that they are going throught this,
the dad is a drunk! that pretty much somes it up. oh and rodrigo has a
baptismal date.... again for 31 of march.
well the multizone conference was awesome president talked to us about
the book of mormon and how it combined wit hthe holy ghost is the
instrument mas poderoso that we have for the conversion, it was really
aweoseme and then we talked about faith hope charity and humility and
he asked us which one is most important and we looked up a lot of
scriptures and they all say that we cant have one without the other,
and so we talked about we need to develop all of them at the same time
and we cant have one strong and the others weak they all go hand in
hand.
well this week in transfers and we will find out if we get changed
right after internent and so we are a little nervous i really dont
want a change elder villalba is awesome and he is an awesome companion
it will be tought if we have changes.
yes i have seen llamas!
tell ladawn that i say hi to the despain family and jeff!
LOVE ELDER SAWYER
March 19 Letters to and from Pa and Mommy na
Brother Richard Scott said that Heavenly Father made President Monson
> so big so he would have room for a big heart.
>
> We are having a great day. Your mother, brother, sister, and aunt suzi
> are here. Suzi is snoring in the chair right now. Your cousin Ben came
> and mad pancakes for us with hot syrup and sausage. Cousin Ben lives
> out on cotton wood wash and has 10 new lab pups.
>
> We appreciate you serving a mission and the success you are having.
> The spirit that you have in your letters is great. We are very happy
> for your desire to serve a mission and the dilligence that you are
> serving with.
>
> We ate at the Bistro. It's new and higher class in Pima.
>
> We enjoy going to the Temple and go twice a week and do sealings.
> Takes all of 5 minutes to get to the temple.
>
> We are going down to the Valley on Monday to get Grandmas hearing aides
> fixed.
>
> Love your Grandma and Grandpa!
Dear PA and MOMMY NA,
thank you soo much for writing me! my mom said that you guys wrote me
a letter but i think that it got lost in the mail. Im so glad to hear
that everything is going well in Pima. Im happy that there is a temple
is so close to you so that you can go so reguraly. my mom told me
about when you guys went to the temple with all of your kids, my aunts
and uncles, and did sealings that sounds like an awesome experience i
want to be able to do that with my mom and dad too. well grandpa and
grandma i love you soo much! the work is going great here i am loveing
to mission. i have transfers this week so i dont know where i will be
going. we are excited to get to hear the prophet speek this april!
lVOe you all say hay to the snoring aunt suzi and to all the cousins
and aunts and uncles in pima.
Love Elder Sawyer
>
> so big so he would have room for a big heart.
>
> We are having a great day. Your mother, brother, sister, and aunt suzi
> are here. Suzi is snoring in the chair right now. Your cousin Ben came
> and mad pancakes for us with hot syrup and sausage. Cousin Ben lives
> out on cotton wood wash and has 10 new lab pups.
>
> We appreciate you serving a mission and the success you are having.
> The spirit that you have in your letters is great. We are very happy
> for your desire to serve a mission and the dilligence that you are
> serving with.
>
> We ate at the Bistro. It's new and higher class in Pima.
>
> We enjoy going to the Temple and go twice a week and do sealings.
> Takes all of 5 minutes to get to the temple.
>
> We are going down to the Valley on Monday to get Grandmas hearing aides
> fixed.
>
> Love your Grandma and Grandpa!
Dear PA and MOMMY NA,
thank you soo much for writing me! my mom said that you guys wrote me
a letter but i think that it got lost in the mail. Im so glad to hear
that everything is going well in Pima. Im happy that there is a temple
is so close to you so that you can go so reguraly. my mom told me
about when you guys went to the temple with all of your kids, my aunts
and uncles, and did sealings that sounds like an awesome experience i
want to be able to do that with my mom and dad too. well grandpa and
grandma i love you soo much! the work is going great here i am loveing
to mission. i have transfers this week so i dont know where i will be
going. we are excited to get to hear the prophet speek this april!
lVOe you all say hay to the snoring aunt suzi and to all the cousins
and aunts and uncles in pima.
Love Elder Sawyer
>
March 12, 2012
dear mom,
How are you and the family? this week was pretty awesome we had a baptism. ricardo was baptized on saturday in the morning. it was kinda weird because it was in the morning and all of the other baptisms that we have had have been in the after noon. but is was a really cool experience! his family couldnt make it and the only member that came was roberto mache, he lives in our area and he always works with us he is awesome! so we were sad that there werent any people and that his family couldnt come but it didnt matter much to him. IT was soo cool, he walked in to the church with a HUGE smile on his face!! it is something that as missionaries we always want to see!!! and we had a great baptismal service and he shared his testimony and it was a very good and powerful testimony, we all felt the spirit!
This week we are planning another family home evening in our area it should be really awesome! I hope that we have as much success as we did the last time. this is the last week before the changes and I cant believe that time is going by so fast!!! I hope that i have another change with elder villalba but i dont think that will happen. this week we have a multizone meeting with president and so we are excited for that!!! yesterday in church they announced the general conferance and that was really cool im excited for that!!!
that is awesoem hat youguys got to listen to Elder Groberg that is way awesome that would be soo cool to listen to him speak! Im glad that jared is doing well in pole vault I hope that he keeps up his grades to that he can keep doing it. Im glad that meagan got to go to a cabin and that you are going to the zoo I hope you take pics for me!!!! ITs been a long time since i wrote your guys a hand written letter and so this week i am going to write you a letter im sorry that it has been a long time! I hope that gRandpa sawyer is doing ok, tell him that i love him the next time that you talk to him.
well I love you all im sorry that this letter is really short.
HEY I still want a picture of my room!!!!!!!
LOVE
ElderSawyer
How are you and the family? this week was pretty awesome we had a baptism. ricardo was baptized on saturday in the morning. it was kinda weird because it was in the morning and all of the other baptisms that we have had have been in the after noon. but is was a really cool experience! his family couldnt make it and the only member that came was roberto mache, he lives in our area and he always works with us he is awesome! so we were sad that there werent any people and that his family couldnt come but it didnt matter much to him. IT was soo cool, he walked in to the church with a HUGE smile on his face!! it is something that as missionaries we always want to see!!! and we had a great baptismal service and he shared his testimony and it was a very good and powerful testimony, we all felt the spirit!
This week we are planning another family home evening in our area it should be really awesome! I hope that we have as much success as we did the last time. this is the last week before the changes and I cant believe that time is going by so fast!!! I hope that i have another change with elder villalba but i dont think that will happen. this week we have a multizone meeting with president and so we are excited for that!!! yesterday in church they announced the general conferance and that was really cool im excited for that!!!
that is awesoem hat youguys got to listen to Elder Groberg that is way awesome that would be soo cool to listen to him speak! Im glad that jared is doing well in pole vault I hope that he keeps up his grades to that he can keep doing it. Im glad that meagan got to go to a cabin and that you are going to the zoo I hope you take pics for me!!!! ITs been a long time since i wrote your guys a hand written letter and so this week i am going to write you a letter im sorry that it has been a long time! I hope that gRandpa sawyer is doing ok, tell him that i love him the next time that you talk to him.
well I love you all im sorry that this letter is really short.
HEY I still want a picture of my room!!!!!!!
LOVE
ElderSawyer
March 5, 2011 Noche de Hogar
Dear Mom,
This week has gone by so fast!! I cant believe that it went by so fast. this week we worked pretty dang hard. we walked so much. we were planning our family home evening inviting everyone and teaching our investigators and we did a lot of contacting, we reached the goal of 70 this week and we found a lot of really awesome people. one day we had 30 contacts in a day because all of our appointments fell through and so we contacted the whole day. and we ended up finding some cool people. well yesterday was an amazing day for us! RODRIGO CAME TO CHURCH! all by himself and he stayed for all 3 hours, and so we were really happy about that! and in the night we had our noche de hogar, it was a huge success!!!!! it was sooo cool. almost all of the families that we invited came! it was so cool we assigned victor cordoba a spiritual thought and he talked about the love that God has for us. and he did an awesome job! and pilar vega, who got baptized in december, and her daughter bore their testimonies and they did amazing, one of the gemelas gave a prayer, it was an awesome experience we felt the spirit and after we played some games andhad a great time. oh... and rodrigo came to the noche de hogar that was really cool he had a great time! i was thinking after wards, why did i forget my camera in my room? i cant believe i didnt have it to take a picture with all of these people. but we are going to di it again in 2 weeks. so then i will get a pic.
well this week we are going to have a baptism, ricardo is a young man of 17 years and he has been progressing a lot. he has been to church 3 times and he is reading and he might even go to seminary if we can find a teacher for our area. he is awesome.
I am so glad that you are doing better and able to ride your bike! keep up the good work mom. it sounds like you are progressing a lot! IT also sounds like you made some awesome food for break the fast!! I wish i was there. say hi to all of the family for me.
WOW moses got married? that is nuts!!! im glad that you got to go to the reception. dallas is leaving in may? that is nuts too! he is going to love it. say hi to them for me!!!
And I love the pics that you sent me of Jared! how cool is that he is going to do great!!!
Well I love you alll!!! I got the package this week and i absolutuely love it i have been eating nutella every day this week! i got it on tuesday and that day i had a work visit with Elder Paulson, from utah, and he also got a package so we took some pics of our packages.
Love
Elder Saywer
February 27, 2012 Victor and Nicol
Dear Mom,
This week we had two baptisms it was soo cool! hermano Vicotor and nicol. it was a really great experience. Its really funny when we first met victor we never thought that he would progress he was a litltle wierd and he liked to drink and we just visited him because it was a reference but we had a couple lessons with him and he started to change and he came to church and after that he started coming to church every sunday and from then on he hasnt missed a sunday, and he brings a noteook to church to write notes. he is a really cool guy the last time we went to his house he asked about callings and he said he would like to be involved so that is really cool. in our area there arent to many men with the priesthood and so we are working with him and next week the bishop is going to interview him to recieve the priesthood.
this next sunday we have planned a family home evening with all of the members in our area in the house of a family. it should be really cool if everyone comes it will be a great experience. we want to fellowship some new members and also so that the members in our area can be more united and get to know one another. we are excited for this family home evening.
well me and my companion are doing well, right now i dont thinkthat we are going to make our cçgoal of baptising every week but wea re going to keep working hard and we will see what happens. Elder Villalba is doing good he laughs at me because everytime that we pass some dogs barking i get a little scared haha.
I havent got my package yet but this week we have a multi zine meeting in the offices so im going to check and see if its there.
Im excited for jared and his track meet!!! that is going to be really fun. Please take pics!!! he looks soo diferent and he has muscles.... what happened to my baby bro?!?!?! haha
and he is super skiny! haha.
Im soooo happy that you are getting on your bike and riding way to go mom!!! I love you soo much and i hope that everything is going well for you guys!!!
this weeek not much has happened only that we had baptisms.
well I love you lots
Elder Sawyer
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