tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22835790249965369282024-03-12T17:16:15.954-07:00Braiden's Mission Chihuahua MexicoNikki Thorpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222711785040705301noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283579024996536928.post-19960128520732989332015-03-02T13:40:00.001-08:002015-03-02T13:40:15.726-08:00<h3>
<span style="color: blue;">March 2nd, 2015</span></h3>
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Well this is it! I can't believe that this moment has come. The time has flown by way too fast. So we had our baptism for F<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1273568748" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">riday</span></span> "Karen", unfortunately I wasn't able to attend because president had me off doing a special assignment in Casas Grandes. But I'm ok with that because I'm helping the mission with a big project that president is starting. So we are doing this thing with the Book of Mormon and I'm Mormon pass-along cards. We are presenting the BOM with 8 questions that are answered in the BOM. We had a 98% that they accepted and we got a refferal out of it. I was there with another Elder for 3 days and we recieved 120 refferals for the mission.</div>
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I am so happy that I went on my mission I have learned so much and I am greatful for all the experiences that my Heavenly Father gave me. I love this Church so much and I know that it is true. I love the Savior and for his sacrifice that he made for me and for all of us. I love the mission and I am super sad to be leaving the field. I know that the Book of Mormon is true! </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">February 23rd, 2015</span></h3>
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Hey so This week was awesome!!! We had a baptism of such an awesome guy! His name is Jose Luis. His parents are super catholic but they told him they would support him in whatever decision he would make. So he got married to his wife and they have the goal to be sealed in the Temple!!! His baptism was so good, his mom came which was awesome and she felt the spirit so strong. We had a member baptize him who has been such a help to them and he was so excited to do it.<br /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1410564616" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Sunday</span></span> we had 8 investigators at church and they were so excited and they all loved it. The members were such an awesome help and they all talked with them and showed them around, and helped them feel more comfortable. I was so happy to see all the members making an effort in helping with the work.</div>
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So were going to have two baptisms this week one <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1410564617" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span> for Karen and another <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1410564618" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> for Orlando y Zoè! We are so excited for them, they are such great people and are going to be such great members of the church.</div>
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Oh so I forgot to say this we are living in the house of the other missionaries from our ward and we are all American. Don't worry we are being obedient, but it is so much fun!! I'll send pics of how much fun we are having.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">February 16th, 2015</span></h3>
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Hey so this week was really long I felt but it passed by so fast. This week We confirmed a baptism that we will be having <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_713308287" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span>. We are super excited to be having this baptism, It was been a long wait for him and he is so excited. We had a cool activity that we did for Valentines day. We had an idea to receive more referals by taking pictures in a giant cut out heart and taking the pictures to their houses and sharing a message on the importance of the family and the gospel. We got a pretty good number of referals we ended up getting around 272 refereals in two days. It was great! I am so happy to see the work going forth.</div>
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I have been doing great in my Book of Mormon reading I am almost done with Alma, I am loving it!!! I love the Book of Mormon so much and I love learning so much from it every day.</div>
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So this week was so awesome. Man I love the mission. We experienced so many miracles this week it was almost hard to believe. So for starters...we went to the end of Juarez we call it el fin del mundo. It's like houses and then literally nothing. We had to go there to look for referals. We ended up finding nothing and then had to walk about 5 miles to where we eat for the day. </div>
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<br />We had a really spiritual experience with one of our investigators. His name is Jose Luis. He really has been wanting to get baptized for a long time. The only problem is that his mom is really catholic and he was afraid of what she would think about his decision. So we have been working with her for these past couple weeks trying to help her feel the spirit. Lately she had been really getting into the lessons and she reads the Book of Mormon too.</div>
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So we got some good news from them Jose Luis and his wife (who is a member) are getting married. Boom...so that helped a lot. Also we had a really awesome lesson on the plan of Salvation. We really tried to put an emphasis on what we need to do in this life to return back with Heavenly Father like baptism. In the end we asked what everyone would be willing to do to achieve the celestial kingdom. The mom told us that she wants to understand our church better and she will support her son in whatever decision he makes. When she said that, I felt the spirit inside me leap for joy and I felt as those missionaries of the Book of Mormon. After she said that I aske Jose Luis if he would like to be baptized. He shared a powerful testimony of how he knew the church was true and he accepted. He will be baptized the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1930052956" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">21 of Feb. 2015</span></span>!</div>
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We also had some really amazing experiences with our other investigators. 3 others told us that they knew it was true and they are going to get baptized on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1930052957" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">28th of Feb.</span></span> So pumped!!</div>
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Nikki Thorpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222711785040705301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283579024996536928.post-71098072415749321052015-02-03T17:09:00.004-08:002015-02-03T17:09:56.371-08:00<h3>
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Hey so this week was probably one of the best weeks I have ever had in my mission. We worked so hard this week after having kind of a tough week last week. We made the goal this week to do whatever we could to find new investigators, because that is what we were lacking. We finished this week with a total of 13 new investigators. The majority of them are families and they are so awesome. I'm so happy we found them even though I won't be able to see them get baptized. In our mission the investigators have to go to church for 5 weeks before they can get baptized. But that's ok. It's important that they can receive their own conversion. We should have at least 3 baptisms before I finish. I am so excited for the people that we are teaching.<br /><br />I have been really enjoying my daily scripture study. I have been doing really well with reading the Book of Mormon. I have been learning so much and I am so happy for the scriptures.</div>
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My companion and I have been getting along great, he is so awesome. We come up with some of the funniest things to do to keep us going when times are tough. Sometimes if there is a tire up ahead we run up ahead to see who puts their foot through first and whoever does it first is on varsity for football. It's really fun!!</div>
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Well I love you all and I am so excited for Ashlee's baptism.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEE!!!</span></b></div>
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Hey so I am back in Juarez. It wasnt what I was wanting but oh well. So my new and last companion is Elder Chapman. He is an american from Gilbert Arizona. I think its funny that I havent had one American companion that is from Utah. Well he is really cool, he only has 3 months in the mission so he is still struggling with his Spanish. Thats ok though.</div>
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The ward Independencia is awesome. we have 4 American Elders in the ward. I have never seen that before in my mission. They are all a bunch of great guys. One of them is the son of an ex mission president.</div>
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So this week we have been teaching a lot of investigators who are so awesome. The only problem is we need to get them all married. The good thing is that Valentines day is coming up and here in Mexico you can get married for free that day.</div>
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So it snowed again, not as much as it did in Casas Grandes but it still snowed. I started reading the Book of Mormon again. I finished it <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1034480285" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span> and started again <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1034480286" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span>. The mission reads it every 12 weeks but since I'm going home in 6 Im trying to finish it before I go home. So I am reading 13.275 pages per day haha. I'm so happy to be sharing this message with everyone in my mission. It is the best.</div>
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Nikki Thorpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222711785040705301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283579024996536928.post-41259736122255017692015-01-19T12:45:00.002-08:002015-01-19T12:45:37.107-08:00<h3>
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Well I am getting changed and I figured that I would be changed because its going to be my last change before I go home. I am going to a ward called <span style="color: #990000;">Intependencia</span>. It's supposedly one of the best wards in the mission for work because they baptize a lot. I'm still a senior companion so that's cool. I'm happy with my change and I am happy to be finishing my mission in a good area. My new companion I think is an American, not 100% sure on that but I'll know <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2097404748" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>.</div>
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I can't believe that I only have <u><span style="color: #990000;">6 weeks left in my mission</span></u>. Time is passing by so fast and I am super nervous because I don't want it all to end. I love the mission and I have learned so much. I am so grateful for my testimony that I have developed over these past two years.</div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We found this one family this last week who are amazing. For our first actual visit with them the made us dinner (but a really good dinner Lasagna) Then at the End the sister asked us why we say that if someone has been baptized into the catholic church that they have to be baptized again. So we explained that in Lesson 1 and talked about <span style="color: #38761d;">prophets and the priesthood</span> and <span style="color: #e69138;">Jesus Christ and the Apostles</span> and <span style="color: #990000;">the great Apostasy</span>. And then the best part of the lesson when we explained about <span style="color: #0b5394;">Joseph Smith and the Restoration</span>. In the end we invited her to pray and ask if all that we had taught was true and that she would start to read the <span style="color: #0b5394;">Book of Mormon</span> and she accepted. So today just barely we got a call from her friend who is a member saying that she was super excited that we went to teach her friend and that her friend is really happy and wants us to come over and teach her more and her family. She also said that she is reading the <span style="color: #0b5394;">Book of Mormon</span> and she is really excited.</span></div>
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Hey so this week was fun. We went to Juarez again to have our Leadership Council meeting. It was fun because we got to Juarez really early and we went to the mall by the offices to hang out and eat food. So we went there for a while. Then we headed to the offices and hung out with the secretaries and we watched a bunch of Mormon videos. We had a really good meeting on Leadership and how to set better goals and how to plan better. I really liked it and learned a lot. One of the sisters that gave a training used a lot from a book that Stephen R. Covey wrote. It was really good. President is going to give all of the leaders the book. We also got to eat a sandwich that is really common in Mexico City called a Guajolota!!! Its basically a tamale sandwich!!!</div>
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So last week was a blast! We had our super awesome pachanga (party) with the Jones family! They are super awesome. We played games and watched The Saratov Approach, ate a ton of hot dogs, and made ginger bread cookies! It was super fun. I talked with their son a lot who got back from his mission recently. He served in London. He was a ZL too so he gave me some advice and some ideas of how we can help our zone work better. Then later we went to a sisters house after we had our zone meeting and had dinner. She made our whole zone a bunch of tacos. So that was M<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_982374140" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">onday.</span></span><div>
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Oh quick story so we were in Juarez for the leadership council meeting and we always stay in a hotel when we go. So while we were in Juarez Ricky Martin was having a concert there as well. So when we got back to the hotel at night you won't believe who was staying in the same hotel as us. Ricky Martin, and we got to meet him! It was cool even though I don't even know any of his music except for liven la vida loca. Also while we were in our room we looked out the window and there was all his admirers yelling and when I opened the curtains to look out they all started screaming and pointing at me because they thought I was him haha.</div>
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This week was super awesome! We have been preparing this entire week for our Multi Stake Christmas Choir program that we had yesterday! It was super good!!! I was in charge of doing all of the tech stuff and getting all of the videos ready! We had two big screens that we used during the program and we put on the new video of the birth of Jesus Christ to start it all off to get everyone in the right mood. Then we sang a couple of hymns/Christmas songs about Christ. Then we had another video that we showed it's a mormon message called the true meaning of Christmas (its the one with all of the little kids). Then we sang some children Christmas songs like Feliz Navidad. I really got into that one and my companion and I started dancing haha! Then we ended with some more songs about Christ and his birth. Then we ended on a really spiritual note. We put up the video He is the Gift! It was so awesome. We only planned on having about 1,500 people show up but more than 2,000 people came to see it and more than half of them were not members of the Church. It was such an awesome experience!!!</div>
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I love this time of year, and I love the Savior! I am so grateful for the love that my Heavenly Father had for us to send his son! I am also so grateful for My older brother and the love he had for us to come down in a imperfect world and live and die for us! I love this church and everything about it!</div>
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So Cambios were yesterday and I'm still here with my companion!!! I'm super excited that we are still together! He will be my first companion that will be able to talk to you in english when we skype! I hope that the package that I send gets to you all in time! If not I'll send what is for who.</div>
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So this week was super fun! We officially started the campaign of ¨Él es la Dádiva¨ (He is the Gift). We are super excited with what is happening in the missionary work. We are planning on using it in our Choir activity as well. This week we are going to go to all of the stores here and talk to them about putting the video in their stores. It has been super great.</div>
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We have been super busy in the mission preparing all that we want to get done in the mission during December. We are going to head up to Juarez to see the Choir that they are going to do there, the 18th. I'm so excited for Christmas and still not sure when I will call to Skype but Ill let you know next week.</div>
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So this week was a bit tougher than the others. We are struggling to find some new investigators and the ones that we have aren't progressing very well. So we are trying to find new ways how we are going to find new investigators. We talked to President Derbez and talked to him about what we are doing and how we think we will find new investigators. Well he told us that it wasn't the best idea and he talked to us and had us think a lot about how we can find new investigators through a better way. So we came up with the conclusion that what he has been telling us this whole time is what we need to do. The Book of Mormon is the best missionary tool that we have and we need to use it. He then told us the best way to use it is by visiting the youth and teaching them about it and getting them excited to share the gospel with their friends. So we are going to try that this week and see how things go.<div>
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Pues esta semana estuvo muy buena! Fui a visitar allá en LeBaron. Estuve muy animado para ir y visitar mi recién conversa y ver como esta. También estuve muy animado para platicar con los miembros de allá y todo. También esta semana seguimos teniendo j</div>
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untas con muchas personas. Esta semana tuvimos una junta con el Presidente de Estaca Presidente Kelly Jones y su hermano Jefferey Jones. Estuvimos platicando en aspecto de como queremos ayudar la estaca en la obra misional y como queremos ayudar los lideres del barrio a empezar a trabajar. Estuvimos tambien placticando de el coro que vamos hacer en Diciembre.</div>
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Well this week was very good! I was able to visit LeBaron. I was very encouraged to go and visit my recent converts and see them. I was also very encouraged to talk with members there and everything. Also this week we had meetings with many people. This week we had a meeting with the Stake President Kelly Jones and his brother Jeffery Jones. We were talking in aspect of how we help a stake in missionary work and how we help neighborhood leaders to begin to work. We were also discussing the chorus that we well have in December.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">November 10th, 2014</span></h3>
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So this week was a super, super busy week as Zone Leader. We were only able to work about 3 days during the week. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1028957971" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Wednesday</span></span> we had to write a huge directory of all the missionaries and leaders of our whole stake and send it to our mission presidents counselor. Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1028957972" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1028957973" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> we had our Zone leader training with President Derbez in Juarez. It was super good! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1028957974" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> we had more training and interviews with President and his Counselor all day so that was fun.</div>
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But for the training meeting with President in Juarez it was really good. We talked a lot about the importance of the Book of Mormon. We worked on different ways that we can present it and help people so that they want to read it. I really liked doing all of the practices because it helped me to understand how to better present the Book of Mormon to people.<br /><br />The Zone has been doing great. We are working hard but we can still do better. President in the interview that my companion and I had told us each that he put us together because he has confidence in us to help the zone so that it baptizes and has a lot of success. He basically said the Colonies are dead, the Elders and Sisters there are in need of some guidance and motivation to work harder. So he is puting his trust in us to help the zone!</div>
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Esta semana fue muy bien. Estoy muy animado con mi nuevo compañero. El es de Queretero y el se llama Elder Alba! Es muy cool y bien suave, pero mas que nada bien chido. Ok im not going to write all of it in spanish. But he is chido. So this week we made a lot of visits to members so that my companion could get to know who is who and learn the area. This week we go to Juarez for our Zone Leader meeting. We are super excited for that.</div>
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<br />This week we went to visit David our investigator and he was super excited for his Baptism. We explained to him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he was super excited and wants to know all that he has to do to be baptized. We are super excited for him and we should have him baptized by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1364327971" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Nov. 22</span></span>!</div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. Happy people surround themselves with other happy people. Joy is contagious. People are four times more likely to be happy in the future with happy people around them.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. Happy people try to be happy. When happy people don’t feel happy, they cultivate a happy thought and smile about it.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>3. Happy people spend money more on others than they spend on themselves. Givers experience what scientists call the “helper’s high.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>4. Happy people have deep in-person conversations. Sitting down to talk about what makes a person tick is a good practice for feeling good about life.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>5. Happy people use laughter as a medicine. A good old-fashioned chuckle releases lots of good neurotransmitters. A study showed that children on average laugh 300 times a day versus adults who laugh 15 times a day.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>6. Happy people use the power of music. Researchers found that music can match the anxiety-reducing effects of massage therapy.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>7. Happy people exercise and eat a healthful diet. Eating a poor diet can contribute to depression.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>8. Happy people take the time to unplug and go outside. Uninterrupted screen time brings on depression and anxiety.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>9. Happy people get enough sleep. When people run low on sleep, they are prone to feel a lack of clarity, bad moods, and poor judgment.</b></span></span></div>
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So this week was a sad week. The reason why is because my companion goes home this week. But it was also a super awesome week!!!! This week we had a baptism. His name is Ruben and he was super excited to get baptized. His daughter Rubi got baptized the week before I got to the area. Ruben was super excited and we had tons of spiritual experiences with him and he told us with a strong testimony that he knew that the church was true! His wife Ana is starting to feel the spirit more and is starting to believe that it is all true. She should be getting baptized within a few weeks. We also have about 3 other people planned to be baptized in November. I'm so excited to keep working in the area and help others come unto Christ!!!</div>
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So my new companion his name is Elder Alba, he doesn't have a ton of time in the mission he has about 9 months. I'm excited to start working with a new Elder and have success with him as well. Hopefully this week goes well with finding people. I'm probably most nervous about finding the people who we eat with.</div>
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I have been learning a lot this week with how I can become a better teacher. So this week I decided to study about ¨Ask Questions¨ I learned a lot about how sometimes we treat people as objects and we ask a question and don't accept an answer untill we get the answer that we are thinking in our mind. But rather than do that we should treat people as Agents and help them to learn for themselves. We should ask an inspired question (Which requires the Holy Ghost) and then let them think and learn by the spirit. I really like that about my studies this week.</div>
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Any ways I love you all and pray for you all! <b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE BOOK OF MORMON!</span></b></div>
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P.S. This week I ate a ton of Tamales but we fried them in butter!!! It was the <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>BEST!!!!</b></span></div>
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So this week was a crazy week! We were doing exchanges with all of the district leaders the whole week. So I was hardly with my companion this week. I was working in our area for the majority of the week. But it was good because I got to see how well I know the area.</div>
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This week we found a really awesome investigator, his name is David Gutierez. He is a P.E. teacher in a elemetery school here. He was really interested in learning about the church and loves listening to us. We visited him two times last week and he said he wants to get baptized. He went to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1056138933" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and then looked at me and I asked, ¨How did you like church.¨ He responded, ¨I loved it, when can you come back to my house to visit me.¨ He is super awesome!</div>
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I have been trying to study more the Bible now and the Pearl of Great Price so I can understand them more. I just finished the book of Samuel and it was really interesting. While I was reading in the book of Moses I found a scripture that I really liked and I thought to apply it to me as a new Zone leader. Its in chapter 6</div>
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So this week was once again another busy one. We went to Juarez for a ZL training meeting. It was super good and long so we had to stay in a hotel over night. It was good though. We learned a lot about the importance of how to begin teaching and also look for the needs or problems of the people who we teach and answer with the scriptures. I really liked it! They also had us all do military styled exercises. They do that to make sure we are working out in the mornings correctly, and let me tell you it was insane. One things for sure I still don't like to run!</div>
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So I loved General Conference!!! I learned so much and was so happy that I got to see it live. I got to watch it in the stake center in Dublan. I also got to watch it in English which was awesome because the talks sound so much better when there isn't a translator. When the two 70's spoke in Spanish I went and watched them speak in Spanish.</div>
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I really enjoyed the talk by Elder Bednar. I think he is another one of my favorite speakers. I love how he teaches with such clarity and power. I like listening to his talks so I can try and teach like he does. I really liked his example of his two boys when one of them got hurt and the older brother helped the younger and how when the younger brother saw that it was something that made him feel good he desired to share that feeling with others. Obviously I liked Hollands talk and I felt like I should try and be a better desciple of Jesus Christ and help the poor and needy.</div>
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Well I am super excited for this week we have our leader meeting with Pres. Derbez. So that should be fun! Then hopefully <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1207506863" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span> we are going to be having another Baptism. I am so happy with how the area is progressing right now. Before this area didn't ever baptize but now were baptizing a ton of the chosen and elect!</div>
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So this week was full of some awesome experiences. We were running all over the place trying to get things done for the Zone all week long going to the centro and then back to our area. I feel like here as a ZL its busier. I like it so I can stay more focused and not worry about how much time I have left. The days have been flying by like crazy. Anyways back to how my week went. We have been visiting a lot of investigators and we have been teaching with a lot of claridad, so a lot of the people who we have been teaching have been understanding very well and are progressing a lot. This week we also had a baptism which was cool. She's a little girl that's 10 years old.</div>
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So this week flew by so fast it was nuts. I have been having such a great time in my new area. I have been learning it super fast so I can do inter changes with youth and other Elders. It's been super crazy though as a ZL. I'm talking on the phone even more with all the District leaders and I'm constantly planing and taking data. But it has been a blast.<br /><br />This week was full of spiritual experiences. We have this awesome investigator her name is Melissa, she's not 100% if she wants to get baptized or not so we went and taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We taught about how faith leads us to act and we taught how the miracles happened with Jesus and the sick and afflicted. We explained that through their faith they were healed by the power that Jesus had and how we sometimes need to take that leap of faith and trust Jesus. Then we showed the video ¨Because of Him¨ and we talked about repentance and baptism. By the end she was crying and she was feeling the spirit so strong and she told us she would accept to be baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1688247504" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span>.</div>
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We also had Stake Conference this week. I really liked both the talks that Pres. Kelly Jones gave. He talked about sybolism and how we should look for things in our days symbolically and how we can apply them to the scriptures and teach from those things we find. He also talked about the importance of the temple and how we should go and do the work of our family so that we can be eternal families.</div>
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So I have some crazy news! So turns out I did have cambios, I'm staying in Casas Grandes though. I'm going to a ward called Alemedas and President is making me a Zone Leader. I'm super nervous but I'm super excited for my companion. I have known him practically my whole mission. I know I'll probably be there for about 3 transfers at least because my companion this will be his last transfer.</div>
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I'm really sad to be leaving my area though. I have really grown to love LeBaron. It has been such an amazing area. I'm really sad to leave behind our convert Ana. She was super sad when we knew that Elder Fabian was getting changed but when she heard that we both were getting changed she lost it. I know that we will be missed.</div>
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I can't believe the time is flying by so fast. I was talking to some of the elders that have a year now in their mission and I remember meeting them when they first got to the mission. But I love it here! I was thinking about it actually last night about how much I love the latin culture. I'm so happy I came to Mexico.</div>
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