11/18/2013 - Pics

My awesome mission leader, Sergio Franco, his wife and new baby.

                                        My new comp from Paraguay.  He's mega awesome!

11/18/2013-I got a cool comp from Paraguay

11/18/2013

what is going on!! 

sorry this letter will probably not be very long or very good at all... i didnt have time to think out what i wanted to say but i have some sweet things to tell you all!!

sooooo i got transfered! and my english already is GARBAGE! haha spanish gets to you and you forget how to spell or how to talk... or im just a dumb curly headed kook that cant spell or talk anyway.. i dont know which is which....

well i got transfered! i think that isnt the correct way to spell transfered but im not really sure.. so i dont really care :) 

i moved areas and got a new comp :) 

im in the city of banfield which is super close to the mission house

and my new comp is from paraguay... 

DOESNT SPEAK A LICK OF ENGLISH!!

WHICH MEANS MEGGGGA AWESOME!! 

haha ive been with him for a good 4 hours and ive loved it... 

im having converstations and understanding a good portion of everything!

holy freak is that soooo awesome to say!! 

in no way whatsoever am i close to being fluent but im getting by! 

whoever thought a tard like me could speak spanish??? 

well lets see.... i left the area of el cruce...

im not a person to say goodbyes very well

IVE GOT A REAL TENDER HEART TO SAY THE LEAST

im such a cry baby holy freak! 

in the 3 months that i spent in el cruce i was reallll confused! 

haha but in the past month i felt like i had really started to get to know the members

they loved me for the pure reason that i loved to try and talk to them... i couldnt do it that well but they could always see that i was trying

haha the last month i was able to be myself and joke around with them!

i got some good laughs in... 

its crazy how you can come to love people so much without clearly being able to communicate with them...

there were families that were real rough to say goodbye too... 

did i cry?? YES OF COURSE I CRYED... 

I HATE CRYING! i feel like such a homo crying... 

ummmm like i said this letter isnt going to be very good because my thoughts are being typed as i think them! 

freak we had the most sweetest, dopest,,, sickest, coolest, experience on saturday!!!!!

WE LISTENED TO ELDER HOLLAND 

live!!! in the chapel!! the great elder holland was freaking like right in front of my face stabbing my heart with his words! o my gosh it was so sweet

the buenos aires north, west, and south missions all met at this mega big church and listened to him along with two others from the 70...

wow it was such an incredible experience... one that constantly reminded me of the missionary i want to be

one of the things he said was the impact that the mission will have on your life... what you put into your mission will determine who you will become as a person..

also that you must never forget your mission... my encouragement to those who read this letter is to NEVER FORGET the two years that you gave to the Lord

never forget the bad things that happened and never forget the good things that happened

take your mission with you wherever you go

i honestly hate writing this letter write now because i cant think... my words seem like crap right now... haha there is so many things i want to say but simply dont know how to express it...

i cant wait to write next weeks letter because there are so many things that i have to say about my last 6 weeks.... and elder hollands words on saturday can sum up a good portion of my last 6 weeks

"salvation means going through gethsemane- as a missionary you will go there"

my last 6 weeks, i went through of what i personally know as gethsemene...

i love you all

stay jewyyyyy... even if you dont have curly hair! ooo yeah i got a haircut... no worries they savored the curls.... 

love

Elder Myers

11/11/2013 - Talent Show

11/11/2013

another week down! ive got one more week left in this transfer.... so yeah! 

before i start i heard that it was my girl laina´s birthday last week!!! so mega shoutout to my girl laina ogden for turning 8 years old... laina remember when we went on that way sweet date to the movie monsters university.. best date ive had for sure.... save a date for me in two years please laina! haha

wellll i have a freaking awesome story to tell you all! 

so we had a talent show this week.... and o boy do i have some talents.. nah just kidding i cant do jack

but anyway it was with all the missionaries in our zone and all of their wards! 

so we all did this little skit together that we made up on the spot.. somebody had some music and we went for it

 

so we were lip singing to the music.... so it wasnt very funny at the beginning.... so i decided to spice it up a little bit... PRIME TIME TO THROW OUT MY DANCE MOVES! so i start doing my thing dancing all homo  like (sorry for the potty talk) and then all the missionaries took my lead....

then the music went more into a magestic style.... PRIME TIME OPPORTUNITY TO DO MY HAWK NOISE! soooo all of a sudden i bust out the hawk noise and start dancing around like an eagle / hawk!! haha CLASSIC! everybody was dying laughing... no biggie... i saved the talent show with my hawk noice... mega awesome 

that definitely brought back some high school memories and im sure that you guys can imagine i was soaking it up... loving every second of dancing around being a weirdo... haha it was sweet that i could be myself like that... 

another story... we went to find this inactive member.. she was like 90 years old and a good 3 feet tall... o man she was the cutest old lady.. she kept calling me her sweet child... when we were leaving i went to shake her hand and she told me to bend my head towards her... BEFORE YOU KNOW IT I GOT A NICE KISS ON THE FORHEAD!" HAHA Bless her heart what a sweety... 

so here was a really spiritual moment for me this past week

we went to my mission leaders house to see his brand new baby
so i walk into the baby's room where he's sleeping in hiscrib... as im standing over the baby's crib watching it sleep tears start to fill my eyes...
as im looking at this baby so many thoughts started coming into my head... it hit me that this sweet precious little baby was just in the presence of our heavenly father... i realized how true it is that we are literally our heavenly fathers children. i realized how precious this lady's baby was and what a blessing it is. 

then i started to think how proud my missionary leader and his wife are for having this baby... it made me think  that i used to be that baby in the crib... that now ive grown up into the person that i am today. a missionary. i realized how much of the fact that my parents raised me every step of the way. they loved me every step of the way... it hit me how much my parents mean to me and how much they have given me in my life.. they have given my everything they have in order to raise me...

then i started to think that one day that baby sleeping in the crib will be my own.... haha probably a little curly headed jew baby! haha but anyways i realized that one day god will give me one of his children for me to act as its father.. to be able to love that baby with everything i have within me! 

my thoughts are so scatter brained here as i am trying to type as fast as i can... but i learned so much from this experience that we are all children of god.,.. that before this life we lived with our father in heaven... that he literally is our father and we are his children... i hope i can do all that i can to make my father proud... life is a special gift... its a gift that we have to live our own lives as well as it is a gift to be parents to our children our future children....

haha i was standing over this crib just crying..... no surprise that i was crying right... freak i hate crying! haah im such a baby! no homo in saying all that stuff but it was a real special moment for me! and dont worry mom im not having babies anytime soon... probs in like 2 years ill have my first child... nah nah just kidding

keep it real at home...

love you all

smell ya later

 

-Elder Myers 

11/11/2013 - Pics

11/04/2013 - Sister Franco is having a baby

11/04/2013

heyyy what the freak is going on!!!

another week in a crazy country!

sometimes i just freak out thinking that im in argentina!! holy freak its crazyyyy!!! and sometimes i freak out thinking.... WOW IM EATING FOOD THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE COOKING FOR ME.... THATS NOT MY MOMS FOOD... OR ISNT MICROWAVABLE!

sooo when you learn another language your spelling and grammar in english goes to crap.... so if my spelling and grammar is bad that is why!

welll lets see here what can i say...

 
so ill start off with a funny story here...

so we went to see this lady who is a member... turns out her husband was in the hospital for 11 days and just got out... he was in pain and recovering so we went to go talk to him for a little bit to see how he´s doing..... keep in mind this is the same guy that said ´´f you´´ my 1st day in argentina.... hahah hes CLASSIC!

so im talking to this guy... or at least trying ya know... haha and all the sudden he gets out of his bed and says i gotta go to the bathroom...... so he picks up this bowl from the floor and well.... starts going to the bathroom.... 2 foot in front of me :) hahahahahah i was dying it was sooo funny.... and my companion.... was not laughing.... i thought he was going to crap his pants he was soooo scared... ya know that stuff doesnt really bug me... i just think its funny.. i dont blame him. if he had to go then he had to go! aint nobody got time to walk to the bathroom right??? hahaha classic!

 

sorry for the potty talk mom... that was a potty talk story huh?? sorry ill try not to potty talk

 

ummm lelts see what else do i have... so my comp is real quiet.. doesnt talk much... and for that i HAVE TO TALK TO ALL THE MEMBERS! HAHA so im the one always talking to them... or at least trying to talk and if i dont get what they are saying... which is a good amount of time then ill try and get my comp to explain it to me 

haha the members always come up to me for questions... and most of the time i really dont fully understand what they are saying.. but its all good because im talking to them! who would have ever thought this curly headed kid would be speaking the espanol! im doing it... KINDA... haha watch out elena because in about 6 months ill be spitting spanish left and right! 

 

so another story... there were these guys drinking on the street and they called me to come over... so i go over to them and im joking around being all giddy and they were laughing... then i swurved my way into saying why i was learning the language... PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO BEAR MY TESTIMONY!!! So i had the guys laughing and then i switched gears on em.... i just talked about how if they wanted to have a difference in their life they could find that difference by coming unto christ...

 

IT WAS AWESOME! they all were dead silent and i looked over at one of the guys girlfriends and she was crying a little bit... it was an awesome experience for me... my spanish isnt the best and its still garbage but i can say some stuff now in order to express how i truly feel about this gospel!

 

WHICH IS FREAKING DOPPPPPE!!!! 

 

as a missionary i am so grateful to be able to tell people that they have the opportunity to feel the love of their heavenly father... everybody in this world wants to be loved and everybody has the chance to find that love if they really want to.... JUST GOTTA GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY FOR IT!  

im happy at how much spanish ive learned because i can actually start to get to know this people just a little better... its still not good at all but im so grateful for the lords hand in my life and in my mission... im starting to feel like i can love these people just a little bit more because i can actually know things about their lives... 

 
UMMM our mission leader is wayyyy awesome... hes incredible! and his wife is having a baby today! haha so at church i was telling everybody that brother franco is having a baby!! haha i was letting everybody know it! its funny because all the members laugh at me because im always trying to crack jokes or do something dumb but i can never fully do it because of my spanish! haha its nice to get a good laugh out of them 

but anyway brother franco is mega sweet so keep him in your prayers because hes been an answer to my prayers and he is a very special person in my life right now... they dont come much better then him... and his wife does the laundry for my socks... so thats awesome!  

well i hate emailing sometimes because my brain is thinking 5 million miles an hour and i never know what to say... haha i havent really been writing spiritual things in the past weeks... my bad my bad....... ill try and get something for next week.... 

but i do know that the love our heavenly father is greater than anything else.... if you want to feel his love get on your knees and ask for it... his love is always there... through good times and bad.

 

ive learned so much in these past 4 weeks... a lot of things i have learned havent been in the way that i wanted to learn it but our ways arent the ways of the lord... be thankful for trials because there is always something to be learned from them. 

hope you all had a good week!! 

smell ya later

elder cocoa myers

11/14/2013 - Pics

10/28/2013-I Had a Whole Spanish Conversation

10/28/2013

hola hola....

whats good in the 801??? how is the carpet treating you guys??? because we dont have carpet here :) when i get home in a good 2 years im going to lick the carpet and sleep on it... carpet is meggggga awesome!! 

hey do ya´ll remember when i was a dumby and went motorcycle riding 4 days before i was supposed to go into the mtc and i got in an accident and was about as dumb as a box of rocks and couldnt remember what i do for the previous 2 weeks.... yeah im a tard

 

mom... remember when i was at disneyland and purposely peed my pants just so i could get some disneyland sweats.... man i was just a smart little devil

 

dad... remember this summer when we were in lake powell and you had to clean up the poop on the houseboat..... HAHAHA HALARIOUS.. IM GLAD I DIDNT HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE POO POO... CUCKA CUCKA

parker... remember when you made the all star team for baseball?? haha youre awesome!! 

 

taylor... remember when you were a little fat ginger boy and loved cheetos sooo much... you loved cheetos to the point where the only thing that you kept in your locked up treasure chest was cheetos! hahaha 

 
lenny... remember when you were the best pooch ever?? yeah i remember that

elena.. remember when your daughter sofia loved me?? yeah i dont remember that either... but remember when i got you and spencer to move into my house...THAT WAS AWESOME!

tammy... remember when me and your dad flipped the razor at your cabin right in front of you... and you almost pooped your pants and killed your dad...

hahahah o mannnn goood goood times!! remember when i was 18 hours away from my home by plane?? that THATS CRAYYYYY

hahah well anyway another week in the books! 

lets see what i can say here.... WE DONT REALLY HAVE MUCH GOING ON FOR US SO THAT SUCKS... haha but were working! 

the members are soooo awesome here though! im getting to the point with my spanish where i can talk to them a little bit more which oooo baby girl do i love that!! haa i hate being mute!! 

so my comp was sick on sunday so i took the phone and was answer calls..... it hit me that i had a whole conversation with this lady in our ward.... after the call i just about crapped my pants because i realized i just got my whole message across and everything in spanish!! hahaha freaking cray!! 

ive got a lot more to go but hey im learning! crazzzy!!! 

ummm i forgot to tell you guys this but two weeks ago we had a meggga awesome activity! sooo they set up a visitors center in our church... like the visitors center in salt lake! 

ooo it was sooo sweet! so i got all dressed up in my whites and me and another talked in the baptismal font...

this activity was for members and investigators of a couple different areas of the mission... 

its soo cool for me to see the members out here.. the strong members are sooo strong and such a great example to me in that sense. it really helps me realize the significance of the gospel in our lives.. so many people dont really have very much out here but they have the knowledge of the gospel and thats whats really important to them. ive loved seeing that.

haha so like i said my spanish is getting better... you kinda hit points where you see progression... and then other points where you realize how much more you need to learn!! but i am so thankful for how much i have freaking learned!! it goes to show that even a dumby like me can learn a language with the help of the lord!! the lord is a real good guy... hes helped me out quite a bit!  

so in our ward all of the children know me as the one who makes funny faces our funny sounds... in the middle of the prayer the other day a little kid came up to me and was yelling at me to make my hawk noise for him! haha classic! i love these little kids out here... 

the little kids are the only ones who accept that i cant speak much spanish! they´re just entertained by my face expressions which is always nice!! 

welllllll i continue to learn things out here... im so grateful for the opportunities that i have ever single day... hahah to say its easy would be a lie... ive definitely had some difficult times out here.. but there is something to always be learned

there have been fun days and there have been miserable days... but hey thats part of a mission right! but its pretty sweet!

haha my thoughts here are soooo scrambled and this letter probably suckkked but i dont have much time and im typing as fast as i can!!  

rely on the lord because he can get you through anything 

one love, stay sweet, if you want some new sweats just pee your pants and youll get them! 

 
love 
elder myers 

 

10/21/2013 - Don't Take the Gospel for Granted

10/21/2013--

welll freaking freak ive been in the country of argentina for 2 whoooole months! man does time flyyyy by and man does time go by soooooo slow!!! haha its weird how it works out both ways on a mission!

well i wish i could tell you stories about people we were teaching or great spiritual experiences with converts or baptisms but sadly i dont really have any because we dont really have much right now.... haha so sorry about that!

so this week the heat started to come on.... o baby girl i do not like the heat here!! BECAUSE ITS SO FREAKING HUMID! haha it wasnt even that hot but i was sweatin like a pig!

and heres one thing that isnt good about heat.... so on my mission im saying to myself ´´dont get fat... workout every morning so you can have a rocking bod like your dad biggie´´ haha so i workout every morning and do my legs workouts realllll nice and deeplike.

and because of that my legs have gotten a lot bigger... not saying im like big or anything but my legs have put on a little big more muscle... soooo therefore (i cant remember how to spell that word, thats what spanish will do to ya) my pants are just a little bit tighter!

soooo because my pants are tighter and the heat has come on that means that i sweat just a little bit more... which then means that my legs rub together just a little bit more... which then means I AM FREAKING CHAFING!!! ooooo judiest its not good!! haha no worries i have figured out some solutions and im doing just fine!

hahahah classic story... so my comp is a little bit different than me to say the least... things that i think are hilarious arent as funny to him..

for example. we were talking to this lady and sitting on some chairs in her house... and all of a sudden her 6 year old little boy with down syndrom comes running around the corner buttttt naked and is soaking wett!!!! ooooo man i was DYING OF LAUGHTER!! my companion on the other hand.... WAS NOT LAUGHING AT ALL.... i literally thought he saw a ghost and pooped his pants he didnt know what to do... haha classic.

this little naked down syndrom boy was acting like he was some sumo wrestler or something! oooo man it was so funny.

well here are some things that i realized this week.... the members who are strong in our branch are soooo strong.. they sacrifice so much time to be able to come to church. nobody really has cars and its a big time commitment to come to church on sundays...

i started to realize how much the church really means to these people and how much i have taken the gospel for granted in my life.... my house is a good 5 minute walk to the church and i was too lazy to even do that... i just drove my truck to church!

ive realized a lot of things this past week... and i hope you all can learn from it as well....

i realized that i took so many things for granted at home... and mainly that was cherishing the moments with the people that i love the most. i always realized that i loved my family and the other poeople that are important in my life but you can never truly know that until they are taken away from you.

i thought a lot about past trips, vacations, or other things that i have done in the past and i realized how blessed i have been... simple sunday dinners at home mean the world to me now that i dont have a sunday dinner with my family.... so i guess what im getting at is to take a look at what you really have in your life.. the blessings that the lord has given you.

there have been a lot of things i have missed while being on my mission... but the things that i miss that actually have a true meaning to me is the people that i love most in my life that i dont have right now... i dont truly miss any of the materialistic things like my electronics or car or anything like that... i miss the people that god placed in my life.

so take the time to tell the people that mean something to you that you simply love them and tell them why you are thankful for them...

im thankful for my mission. i cant express the things that i have learned out here. some things i have learned in ways that havent been the most fun but i have learned things that have made me into such a better person.

i hope all is good in the hood of 801.... by the way you have no idea what a hood is like!!  dont do drugs and go to church... BECAUSE ITS ONLY DOWN THE ROAD FROM YOUR HOUSE! haha love you all

Elder Meeeyers

oooo yeah i forgot to tell you this... we had a bbq or called an acado here today with out zone... the fire department was called on us because they thought we were burning a tree down!! hahaha no worries i had a full conversation with the fire man in spanish and got everything taken care of... haha NOT! somebody else talked to him :)

 

10/14/13 - Seventeen Miracles

10/14/2013

YOOOOO....

WHATS GOOD IN THE HOOD OF THE 801!!!!!!

well the other day i looked up at the sky and realized that i was sooooooooo far away from home! and i thought what the freak am i doing!!! haha im in another country speaking some freaking weird language in a white shirt and tie preaching the gospel!!! if thats not crayyyyyy i dont know what is!!! haha o mannnn this experience is megggga dope!


well here are some stories from this week! soooo we had this meeting with the bishop and some of the other ward leaders and the bishop walked in with this oooo soooo sweet pink tie! so i asked him:::: yoooo bishop you wanna change ties because i like yours more--*-- so right then and there he took of his tie and gave it to me!! haha he wouldnt give me my tie back either after the meeting was done--- so ive now added a sweet pink tie to my collection

we had a movie night at the church and watched seventeen miracles: (this computer wont do periods by the way or anything else so if it looks weird that is why) soo we start watching this movie and i go and sit by all the kids--- in the movie there are some wolves that might scare the weee little kids--- so when they got scared they would all jump on me and close there eyes! hahaha it was meggggga awesome!

ummmm we didnt get to finish the whole movie because we had to go! which was definitely a good thing that we didnt finish the movie because right when we left was getting to the parts in the movie where i would have started balling like a little baby---- i dont want these argentines to know im a baby and have a real sensative heart to movies or anything that tugs at my heart! so we bolted out of there right when the movie was getting emotional!! haha so that was a good thing----

ummmm i miss my other comp more than i can express:::::: not in a gay way ya know??? he was just sweet-----

ummmm ive learned a whole lot on my mission---- and this week i learned about trusting in the lord more than i ever have in my life--- im constantly taught lessons every day on my mission- we didnt really have much this past week so i cant give you any spiritual experiences or anything else--- haha sorry! i hope some of those stories were good!

love;

elder myers