Monday, December 16, 2013
12/16/13-Baptisms of Aida's family
12/16/13
welllll hello family and friends!
id like to start off saying that mom and dad your christmas
package is primetime!! man im loving it! every morning i wake up and im so
pumped to see what the 12 days of christmas has to bring me!
the letters i have opened from my christmas package have
been soo sweet! they make every single one of my days...
Grandpa, Gammy, Steve Halturdman, Savannah, Brucey, and
Danielle Emery! thank you sooo much for your letters! you have no idea the
smile that was on my face when i was reading them!
special shoutout to Danielle... DDDD!! for realz???? you
sent me stance socks!! you knew exactly what was on my christmas list! i nearly died when i saw sweet socks in the package! thank you! you are
awe-summmmmm
while you are all freezing im sweating like you wouldnt
believe.... i have never sweat more in my life! haha ill be the first one to
tell you im not a fan of humidity.... ITS COOKING OUT HERE! the actual weather
isnt that hot but im gonna die! haha ive never spent a christmas time sweating
in my bed while im sleeping!
anyways! this week was mega freaking fast! FLEW BY!
let me tell some quick stories here
So ive told you about my homegirl Mercelina... shes the 91
year old lady that we walk to church every week.
So shes 91 years old right... she walks like a CHAMP, doesnt
even need glasses to read, and is MEGA MEGA AWESOME!
Shes like 3 feet tall and missing a good portion of her
teeth but that dont matter because shes as sweet as they come
anyways the other day shes trying to get me to eat this way
crayyyy fruit.. it was watermelon... way crayy right?
i wasnt in the mood to start gagging so i kept making up
excuses as to why i didnt want to eat it
marcelina was not giving in.
haha i was thinking come on gammy i just dont want to eat
it!
so finally i told her i had a serious fobia of foods and ive
got phsychological issues (i dont know how to spell that word)
she died laughing and instantly starting making fun of me.
after a good 5 minutes of being laughed at by someone 4
times my age i wasnt taking it anymore! haha!!
so i said "ok Marcelina if you dont stop making fun of
me im not going to walk you to church tomorrow!"
you best believe that she stopped laughing at me and i
walked her to church the next day.
Watermelon got the best of me that day.
Ive got issues!
ummm this week we had a sweet activity with our elders quorum.
we were able to bring some inactive members which was really
good
we played futbol.... or SOCCER
haha oooo baby girl do i suck at soccer! i looked like a
tard out there!
all these argentines schooled me
just when i thought i was an athletic person... WRONG
haha but dont matter i was running around, screaming and
being a dumby.... being myself... i got some good laughs in and so did they
I had my 1st baptisms the other week!!!! oooo baby girl
soooo awesome
the family consists of a single mom named Aida with 4
children
the father died 4 years ago
1 of the daughters is 15 years old and was baptized 2 months
ago.
we baptized the mom and her two other kids who are 9 years
old and 8 years old.
i cant tell you how much joy this day brought me
Ill share a quick story about the baptism.
so i was baptizing Mikaela the 9 year old girl.
When i got in the font i instantly forgot the baptism prayer
in spanish!
anyway somebody told me the prayer, i figured it out, and it
was all good in the hood
after the baptisms i cant tell you how happy i was.
the 4 months ive been in argentina have been so hard but
seeing the joy on the single mothers face after her baptisms made every single
one of those hard days worth it.
looking at Aida after her baptism i saw a completely new
person.
looking into the eyes of a single mother who is trying to
take care of her kids all by herself i felt a sense of peace and warmth within her that i cant describe.
i couldnt help but just look at her as tears gathered in my eyes.
i knew that she had found the one and only true plan that
her Father in Heaven has for her.
i knew that she had found christ.
she had found his true love.
looking at this single mother who had just made one of the
biggest eternal steps to be able to return home to her heavenly father not only did i feel the truthfulness of this gospel, i visually saw it.
i saw pure joy and happiness
i saw the pure love of jesus christ overwhelm her
looking at her i realized that this is what the true gospel
of Jesus Christ looks like.
MEGA MEGA SWEET DAY! I was crying like a little girl!
sometimes i reallllly wish i wasnt such a cry baby!
well its Christ-mas! haha man christmas is so different over
here! i think mainly because of the temp... im used to a white christmas not a
sweaty christmas... but its all good!
As its Christ-mas time we should always be thinking about
what we are truly celebrating.
And that is the birth of our savior as well as the
life he lived for us.
It is my promise to you that during this holiday if you put
your main focus and thoughts on Jesus Christ and not so much on the other
things that come with the holiday season then you will receive the most
precious gift and present there is
that is the true feeling of this simple sentence
Jesus Christ loves you
focus on his birth, the perfect life he lived, the sacrifice
he gave, the blood he shed, and all of the things he did.
focus on the fact THAT HE DID IT ALL FOR YOU
as we focus on the true meaning of Christ-mas we will
receive the greatest christmas present there is.
a present given to us by our savior
a present you couldnt trade for anything nor does it cost
any money
i hope that all of you can feel this gift of his love during
these holidays.
I know Jesus Christ lives
I know he is my Savior
I know that he loves me
I HOPE YOU DO TOO! :)
Merry Christ-mas
LOVE YOU ALL
PEACE OUT, SMELL YA LATER, SEE YA IN A BIT
LOVE,
Elder Myers
11/25/13-Happy Birthday Taylor
11/25/13
yoooo what the freak is going on!
so after my last letter ill write a little one of my week!
YOOOOOO GINGER TAYLOR MYERS! MY BROTHER! HAPPY FREAKING
BIRTHDAY!!!!
i hope you get a ton of cheetos for your birthday! that
would be so awesome! then you could wear dads sweet cheetoman shirt! and you
could be eating cheetos with your cheeto red hair!
THAT WOULD BE SAAWEEEET!
well this week was dope...
in this area with have 3 baptisms that are coming up in 2
weeks
soooo pumped for that!! oooo man soooo excited!!
we were able to get 2 inactive people to church this week!
that was awesome!
one of the inactive ladies was 91 years old
ooo man she was such a sweetheart!
we picked her up and she grabbed tight old to my arm while i
walked her to church
it was only 3 streets to walk and she took a good 30 minutes
i wanted to say "come on gammy!! giddy up lets go! hop
on my back and ill give you a piggy back ride!!"
that would have saved us a lot of time!
haha but its all good... she told me her life long story but
i couldnt understand a whole ton so i just kept my mouth shut and said
"si, si, si" every once in a while and we were good
o she is such a sweetheart :)
she had a little crush on me so maybe ill get the
opportunity to walk her to church next week :) ;)
ummm its hotter than hot
I HATE HUMIDITY
im sweating like a pig out here...
my whole body is soaked..
pants and all
its disgusting
dont get me wrong like i love sweating in my sleep and stuff
waking up with a sweaty forehead is awesome!!
haha ooo man december january and february will be miserable
here! i guess its not even hot right now and im dying!
ooo baby girl where is the air conditioning! sometimes i just
want to preach the gospel with my shorts and a tee shirt but i dont think that
would fly with president monson...
haha well i shared some of my more spiritual experiences in
my last letter...
my letters will be really short to you all this week because
i dont have any time at all
love you!
be thankful for your air conditioners even though it
probably real cold at home
-Elder Myers
12/2/13 - My cute 91 year old friend
12/2/13
freak im back on the computer emailing.... this week went by
meggggga fast!
ill be honest sometimes i really hate emailing because
my mind has to think so much about what to say and it stressed me out so much!
haha i always have headaches after emailing....
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LETTERS
Mom you are the best mom out there!! you are the best billy
goat i know :) the best hobby there ever was!
I GOT BOTH OF MY PACKAGES! andddddd they were soooooo
sweet...
i love me some american candy
i gobbled those twix up in 2 seconds
and i cryed like a little baby girl reading your letter
being a missionary turns you into a tender little girl
crying all the time
but then again thats how i was before my mission
ummm lets see what ive got for the week
so remember when i talked about the 91 year old grandma last
week
oooo baby girl she is the cutest little grandma...
i dont think as cute as my gammy at home but shes pretty
close
by the way give a shoutout to gammy at home! tell her to
watch out for mr jones.... gammys a gold digger always looking for older men
with money
anyways this little grandma here is soooo sweet
we are reactivating her back into church
but the only thing we needed to do was walk her to the
church every sunday
so this sweet little 91 year hold takes my arm and we take
baby steps all the way to the church
she tells me her whole life story and i repeat the things
that she says that i can understand...
haha she is soooo awesome! she calls me her grandson
we were reading scriptures with her and i asked if she could
read this verse.... the verse was kinda small and she got reallllllll flustered
with me that i asked her to read such a small verse... "but this verse is
tiny! i want a big verse"
ha shes dope... 91 years old and doesnt even need glassed to
read! shes a real champ...
i made reallll good friends with this down syndrom girl...
shes a real sweetheart. haha shes not a real big fan of was she calls
"negros".... which just means darker skinned people.
so for that reason she loves me!! haha ive got some nice
white skins so were realllll good friends.. i think she might like me a little
bit more than friends... haha we chat it up and i crack jokes with her
its sweet because if i dont understand what shes saying she
just keeps on going...
she was begging for a picture of me so i made a killer deal
with her...
im going to give her a picture of me with my long hair in
trade for something she is going to sew for me and i can put it in my
scriptures.... EVERYBODY HERE LOVES MY LONG JEW HAIR!
i guess i look like some romantic argentine singer with
super long jewy hair!
ummmm its soooo fetching HOTTTTTT
I just sweat
and sweat
and sweat
im cooking
i go to sleep..... and cant sleep... i just sit in my bed
and sweat like a hot dog. haha im such a baby and cant sit still during
lessons. i have to get up and walk around for a little bit....
this humidity is the death of me
i was sleeping the other night and it was really awesome
because i woke up to something crawling up my leg.....
no big deal just a nice big cockroach.... so i smashed hit
and gobbled it up cause i was hungry!
no, not really, that cockroach scared me! i dont think i
went back to sleep for another 2 hours...
that little demon cockroach got the best of my sleep....
ive been bit a million times... ive got but bugs and they
are eating me alive...
bug bites allllll over my body...
i kinda like it though so its okay.
haha im constantly scratching my whole body because there
isnt a spot i havent been bitten!
ummmmmmm well i was in a meeting with all the missionaries
and somebody said that it was thanksgiving in the states!
i freaking forgot about thanksgiving! hahah how could i do
that???
so i hope all of you have a sweet thanksgiving and gobbled
up some delish food!
i was thinking about thanksgiving and the main purpose
behind it...
about being thankful
im so thankful for the opportunity that i have to be here....
to say its easy would not be telling the truth... its so hard but i am so
thankful for it. there are so many things that i have learned about myself that
wouldnt be possible without my mission
i am so thankful that i can take upon myself the name of jesus
christ and respresent my name as well as the name of jesus christ on my
missionary plack.
that everyday i have the opportunity to share with one
another the love that jesus christ has for them
that i can share the truth
i am grateful for my family... i have beeen blessed with the
sweetest people ever in my life... ive got a sweetheart for a mother... she may
not be able to say the word wolf but i love her anyway... shes a good billy
goat.... i dont know a more loving caring person than my momma
ive got a dad who has a way nice bod.....so give him some loving! haha but seriously
im so grateful for a father figure... somebody to look up to... somebody who
has given a perfect example to me my whole life.. someone who has taught me to
be a man and never make excuses for myself
and ive got two sweet brothers who always picked on me...
that because of them i flinch over every reaction because i always think
somebody is going to hit me! haha but seriously im so thankful for my brothers
and their examples for me... for serving missions and setting a path for me to
follow
im thankful for my puppy lenny.
hes my best friend and he has jew hair just like me :) his
breath stinks but hes my best bud... hes always taken care of me when im sick
and picked me up when im down... thanks lenny your a good pooch
im sooo thankful for the people in my life and i wish i
could write to all of you and give my thanks....
im thankful for the chance every day to increase my faith in
jesus christ
in preach my gospel it says
faith is accepting jesus christ as your savior and
redeemer
something that catches my attention there is the word accepting. the word accept can mean "to receive
willingly". to willingly receive that we have 1 true thing in this world
to save us.1 true thing to save us from our mistakes and sins. to save us of
our pains, sufferings, and sorrows. our savior Jesus
Christ is that 1 true thing. also to "willingly receive" or to
accept that he is our Redeemer.
Redeemer can be put into the words of "rescue by paying a price".
those words hit me hard. that Christ is my Rescuer.
that through christ he can rescue or set me free of all of my sins as well as
my pains and sorrows. Jesus Christ is that kind of Rescuer because he payed a price. that christ payed the all time greatest
sacrifice just so that i can be set free. so that i can be rescued by all of my
short falling in this life. that i can be rescued of all the times i feel pain
and sorrow. that i can be rescued or set free to fell that joy and happiness
that he so desires me to have. i have faith
that i do have that kind of savior. that kind of
redeemer. I HAVE
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST
thats all i got for the
week!!
some of these girls reallllly long "shonkees" or
yankees in english... another word for "gringo"
so im keeping my distance and staying on the safe side!
keep it real
smell ya later
love,
Elder Myers
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