02-24-2014--Working on the Members

well im an old fart now

the big 19 right??? its cool like im wayyyy old now..

i have to shave more often and that sucks

and more hairs are starting to come in hot on my chest... THATS NASTY

ill be looking like biggins (my dad) before you know it

wellllll freaking freak thank you all so much for the letters!

you guys are some meggggga awummmm people and i promise you the lord will shed some sweet blessings on you for wishing his curly headed servant a happy birthday! 

well ill tell you how my birthday went

then i opened a package from mis padres biggy and gobbles (dad and mom)

i got hooked up phat in the package with some nice treats to slam down my throat and an awesome make my own birthday party kit

so lets just say that my members in my ward are garrrrrbage!

nah just kidding.... but for realzzzz they didnt even throw me a suprise birthday party??? MESSED UP 

all ive wanted my whole life was a surpise birthday party slam and nobody will ever give it to me! 

i dont get it??? i told the ward like 50 million times that my birthday was coming in hawt! anddddd nothing

so i made my own fun..... when we did our working and tracting on my birthday i carried my slumber birthday party hats with me everywhere

i had to tell people it was my birthday and they scrambled up some garbage treats and we took a picture... i even had to carry my own candles around too! 

messed up right?? nah just playing i had a sweeeeet birthday!

haha ill give some stories here

sister leonord fidalgo

shes inactive for a long time

she was the person who said she had demons in her house..... we casted those demons right out of there... slam dunk right on satans face!

anyway shes awsummm... she has schizophrenia or however you spell it

she has been smoking for 30 years and because of her schizo disease its pretty hard to overcome

anywhooosle we made an awesome plan for her to quit smoking. and shes doing it! she has reduced her cigggys and not smoking the puff puff so much anymore!

man shes crazy but so sweet... 

anyways i went to her house on my b day and we sang her some hymns

turns out my voice still sucks.... but she says its good :)

anywhoosles she felt like she needed to give me a present for my b day! 

soooo what do you know she goes and finds a book and giftd that to me!

mega sweet old timers book... probs like 100 years old 

we got her to churh the other way by the way and were getting there! 

ummm man so many things id like to say but i dont know how my time is looking her on email!

rosio

shes 19 and im still trying to figure if shes a little cooky in the nogging

she has assisted the church for 6 months but has a problem with baptism

yet she wants to go on a mission??? not sure how that works but we have a baptism date this saturday!

she has passed baptism dates all the time because she says no

but we had some super spiritual experiences with her this past week

haha classic.... WE MADE HER CRY BECAUSE THE SPIRIT WAS STABBING HER RIGHT IN THE INSIDES! 

she was almost scared in one lesson because she had never felt the spirit like that

she wouldnt talk and kept saying "i hate you guys" "you make me feel bad"

little did she know the feeling what she had was her gaining a testimony

she has completely changed within this past week.

honestly its been a complete miracle to see the difference within her

she always says there is something different about the lessons that we have with her

she has had billions of lessons with a bunch of missionaries

yet this time its different

i thank the lord for that

ramon and angela

ramon is the guy that we were able to get back to church

he was baptized about 7 months ago and never fully gave up drinking

it lead him into saying he was done with the church

we worked on teaching him for weeks and he said he wasnt coming back

it literally broke my heart seeing how much pain that put his wife in because she is completely active and the gospel has changed her life

she said if he didnt come back to church and stop drinking she would leave him

one lesson we had with him was really special

he said he was done with the church

in this lesson i had no idea what the heck to say

i prayed and prayed in this time to feel something... some sort of words that could help him out... to get him back on the right path

i bore my testimony and started crying pretty much beggin him not to throw his life away... i have seen what drugs and alcohol to do people and i begged for him not to make that desicion and see his life be wasted off of drinking... after i bore my testimony i didnt know if it did anything

well he has been to church 3 weeks in a row since then

hes a new person... and has such a strong testimony

he still drinks a little bit here and there but hes getting there

yesderday we were at there house and he looked at me and said "you changed my life with your testimony, im not throwing my life away with alcohol, thank you for being the angel in my life"

in this moment i thought... wow thats pretty cool... my testimony really helped him out... MY words helped him out

then 10 seconds later i thought.. "wow cole you are a really big dumby arent ya"

i remembered that i had no idea what to tell ramon... i begged to the lord that he would help me out... he would help me say something to ramon that would make a difference... and it did.

i didnt do that at all... pure guidance from the lord

well i gotta get going here!

man i love you guys! slam dunk of a family and friends

you best believe i broke out some sweet dance moves when people were singing me happy birthday! #slamdunk #ooooyeahbabygirl #sweetdanceslams

in a bit

smell ya later

love,

Elder Myers 

03-03-2014

another week in the bag! man these weeks really just fly by and you have know idea what the heck you did!

and once again i was lazy and forgot to write out what i did this past week so this letter might be all over the place!

well thanks to all that wrote me.... if i could personally give you a high five and show you some sweeeeet dance moves.... THEN I WOULD :)

speaking of sweet dance moves we had a ward activity and the members were soaking up my eagle hawk noice,,,, my sweet dance moves,,,, and the various things i can do with me face... ya know like wiggle my ears and stuff like that!

sooo yeah thats awesome!

this week we had some really cool experiences with some people on the streets

its so amazing how sharing the gospel can bring so much joy in your life

it really makes you realize how blessed you are for having the gospel when other people literally have no idea about the comforting things we know that come from the church

so we went hitting up the villa one of the days

a villa is a place where its all dirt roads there arent any street signs and considered more of the ghetto dangerous parts... and thats where you find your best stories as well

anywhoosle this little kid like 4 years old comes out of his house and tells us.... hey my dad is home

so im thinking.... well sweet little bruski thanks for telling me do you want to go get him....

and before you know it we taught a lesson to the whole family. 

the mom and dad are like 32 years old with 3 little kids.... it was so awesome to think that they had never heard the gospel in their life and after the lesson we taught they now had some sort of knowledge to raise a happy family!

there were a lot of things that i thought about this week.

ive learned that baptisms do not come easy whatsoever here.... and some missionaries dwell upon that... but then i started thinking about all the good things that we do even if we dont have baptisms.

the simple idea of that we have taught so many people how to truly pray

how to truly have a communication with god. they can talk to him and he will respond back. and before these people really didnt have an idea that was possible.

we are able to help people overcome addictions. or at least find comfort in difficult times that they are facing.

its true that i dont have very many baptisms on my mission. but honestly ive seen so many miracles and so many lives changed through the gospel that doesnt really matter a whole lot to me. 

on the exchange that i did with another missionary we went to a recent converts house. he was baptized about a month ago and one of the best conversions ive seen in a person on my mission

he bore his testimony to me about how true the church is. how it completely changed his life. how 2 elders with 20 years of age came to his house and brought him the truth. he said he will be forever grateful for that

he looked at me and started crying and said "why couldnt i have known the gospel earlier in my life to help me out with the trials that ive gone through" 

i realized how blessed i truly am to have had this knowledge for my entire life. something i really never had to go looking for. 

but then this man finished saying i may wish that i could have this knowledge of the gospel earlier in my life but that doesnt really matter. BECAUSE I HAVE IT NOW. I HAVE THE TRUTH.

That was a really spiritual experience for me. i hope that all of you can look at the blessings in your life and realize how much you really do have. 

to think about what your life would be like without the gospel. 

what would your families be like?

and what would your trials be like without the comforting knowledge that youre heavenly father loves you and jesus christ payed for that trial?

to whoever reads this letter i hope you know that i love my savior jesus christ

i love what he did for me

the scriptures talk a lot about coming unto christ like a child

we should all think about the attributes that children have. they are young, innocent, always ready to learn, and most of the time always ready to be instructed on how to do the right thing.

but to me the most important thing is that a child is willing to accept love

we have our savior jesus christ who is our savior... he is the only person that can truly save us.

he came to this earth and payed for every single one of our sins. he suffered through our trials and our pains. and i believe when he was suffering he thought of my name and my face. 

christ knows us perfectly and he understands us for what he went through

because of that he is the only person who can TRULY love us for who we are.

i know that if i truly come unto my savior as a CHILD i can accept his love and feel so much more joy in my life. 

i hope you can all think about what that means to you personally of coming unto christ like a child

i love you all and ill smell ya later :)

love,

Elder Myers

02-24-2014

whats good in the hood

soooo i just got to the cyber which means computer place

and let me tell ya.... im sweating buckets out here! haha o baby girl my back is all wet and just about all of my clothes are drenched in sweat

but ya know... dont matter right??? 

my p day was snatched right from me! haha we werent able to do anything! we had some guys come over to fix some things in our apartment!

but goooood news we got our hot water back!

weeeee yaaa baby girl blessings from the heavens! hott water! hmmmm delicious

o by the way i got another haircut today.... and guess what? i put the confidence in one of the elders in my pension to cut it! i let somebody else cut the jew hair!?!?!?! who would have ever thought that would happen right! 

yeah im becoming a big boy out here... dont even care about my hair anymore.. thats a first.

i guess i stopped caring about it 2 months ago when that lady did a hackjob and a half on my head. 

anywhoooosle a ton of things happened this week and honestly i cant remember any of them!

but guess what!?!?!?!?! 

we had a baptism!

we baptized rosio... shes the girl thats been an investigator for 6 months but was always a little gun shy to pull the ol trigger and get baptized!

but we were able to have some real spiritual experiences with her and she decided she had gained a testimony and wanted to be baptized!

mannnn it was awesome seeing the change within her.

we saw somebody who knew all the doctrine of the church was true and said the church was true and she changed into somebody that felt the church was true... that really feels like her heavenly father loves her

thats such a good feeling to see that change in someone and i feel so blessed to have been apart of it

right now we have about 1 or 2 other investigators that are somewhat legitiment. haha i thought argentina would be a baptisms baptisms baptisms! haha boy did i think wrong!

but there is a lot of work to do to show the words how to function and active non active members and other bullpucky like that! sooo no matter where you are at you can always be effective as a missionary and do what the lord expects you to do! 

ramon and angela are active active! ramon was the one with alcohol problems that we were able to get active again!

mannnn o mannn i love them! we eat lunch with them every thursday...

time after time i have to tell them to give me less food..... freaking people are trying to get me reall nice and chunky.... i dont like it

but no worries i havent gained much :) 

anyways ramon is preparing himself to receive the priesthood... we just need to get him to completely stop drinking.... so get on your knees and give him a shoutout in your prayers! 

ahhh im sooo mad i had some funny stories to tell you all but i cant think of any today and i didnt prepare anything to remind me of what happened this week.

so im kinda just being a dumby right now writing on the computer trying to think!

but the biggest things i have learned is accepting the will of the lord 

many times in this life we have no idea why certain things happen

we may be mad or have hatred feelings towards something and just ask why would something like this happen??

but really it doesnt matter what we think. thats where true faith comes into play

true faith that the lord knows. and he knows whats best

our challenge is if we can really accept that or not

The lords time is his time and not ours.

we need to be patience and willingly accept his will

be willing enough to learn what he is trying to teach us

at times we dont know how we can do it

but real faith is just doing it even if you dont know how

i pray that i can continue to learn this lesson as well as all of you can apply what im trying to learn into your lives... because we all need to learn it

we will be such happier people when we can accept the will of the lord and simply do what he asks. 

that i can promise you 

well im doing good! 

sweating

preaching

smiling

being a jew boiii without jew hair

and slam dunking satan right in the face

love you all

Elder Myers 

02-17-2014--Temple & Happy Bday Pics

02/17/2014--7 Months

my fam and all who cares to here from a jew boi out here in argentina

thanks to everybody who felt bad for me "el Pobre" out here and hittin me up with some birthday shoutouts! my birthday is coming in hot on saturday i guess and gonna be an old fart at 19 years old

dont you worry ive let my whole ward know its my birthday...

for the love i hope they dont make me eat dinners at every house because they just give food non stop... ive learned how to say no without offending them though sooooo its all good now :)

i just finished this transfer and slam dunked 6 months in argentina... 

6 months of cheeto chopping satan right in the face

its reyyyyy loco or way crayyy in others words to think ive been here 6 months... time goes by suppper fast and other times it feels like eternity since i used to take naps with my best pooch lenny at home or rubbb my dads way nice belly, or go out to lunch or dinner with my mommy

but its been 6 months of LEARNING! 

man have i learned so much.... so many things that have made me into such a better son to my heavenly father

and so many things ive learned of how i need to be so much better than i am right now.

ive learned that life is what we make of it. the mission is what you make of it

ive learned that every day we have opportunities.

opportunities to grow stay the same or decrease

we have the blessing of making our own desicions to take advantage of what life throws at us....

when it comes down to it.. are our decisions bringing us closer to our relationship with out heavenly father or not? 

are we following the example of jesus christ?

umm just to let you know what my ward is like...

we probably have a list of 400 members and about 50 are in the sacrament meeting.

if it rains... nobody comes to church... or at least a few do :) 

the members are so awesome and they love their missionaries

sometimes i just wish they would give me less food and more references to teach people! then they could kick satan in the shins along with all of the other missionaries... the lords work isnt just for missionaries.. its for members at home who work with the missionaries! 

ive learned so much this week about how much our heavenly father loves us

he gave us this gospel for the pure fact of that he loves us

he gave us family because he loves us

this gospel makes families strong! 

i have seen so many things this week of family having so many problems and honestly the gospel is the only thing that is keeping these families together right now! 

me and elder peterson are staying together for another transfer!! yehadfjasdñfjdsf wooooo  its soo cool right??

mega dance move when i heard we would be together for another transfer

i slammed a sweeet move down on the streets when we got the call

ooo yeah parker you are my brother and i havent gotten a letter from you for like 5 months soooo dont be a homo and write me

elena..... im calling you out... write me because i want to here how fifi is and i want to here how spencers big ol biceps are doing!

man o man baby girl do i love my family!! one of the greatest lessons you learn on a mission! i hope all is well at home and wellll yeah....

no kissing on valentines because thats cukkkkka

in a bit.

i love you

i love this gospel

-Elder Myers 

02-10-14--Pics of Missionaries in our Pension

02-10-14--Life is What We Make of It

02/10/14

my fam and all who cares to hear from a jew boi out here in argentina

thanks to everybody who felt bad for me "el Pobre" out here and hittin me up with some birthday shoutouts! my birthday is coming in hot on saturday. i guess im gonna be an old fart at 19 years old

dont you worry ive let my whole ward know its my birthday...

for the love i hope they dont make me eat dinners at every house because they just give food non stop... ive learned how to say no without offending them though sooooo its all good now :)

i just finished this transfer and slam dunked 6 months in argentina... 

6 months of cheeto chopping satan right in the face

its reyyyyy loco or way crayyy in others words to think ive been here 6 months... time goes by suppper fast and other times it feels like eternity since i used to take naps with my best pooch lenny at home or rubbb my dads way nice belly, or go out to lunch or dinner with my mommy

but its been 6 months of LEARNING! 

man have i learned so much.... so many things that have made me into such a better son to my heavenly father

and so many things ive learned of how i need to be so much better than i am right now.

ive learned that life is what we make of it. the mission is what you make of it

ive learned that every day we have opportunities.

opportunities to grow, stay the same or decrease

we have the blessing of making our own decisions, to take advantage of what life throws at us....

when it comes down to it.. are our decisions bringing us closer to our relationship with our heavenly father or not? 

are we following the example of jesus christ?

umm just to let you know what my ward is like...

we probably have a list of 400 members and about 50 are in the sacrament meeting.

if it rains... nobody comes to church... or at least a few do :) 

the members are so awesome and they love their missionaries

sometimes i just wish they would give me less food and more references to teach people! then they could kick satan in the shins along with all of the other missionaries... the lords work isnt just for missionaries.. its for members at home who work with the missionaries! 

ive learned so much this week about how much our heavenly father loves us

he gave us this gospel for the pure fact of that he loves us

he gave us family because he loves us

this gospel makes families strong! 

i have seen so many things this week of family having so many problems and honestly the gospel is the only thing that is keeping these families together right now! 

me and elder peterson are staying together for another transfer!! yehadfjasdñfjdsf wooooo, its soo cool right??

mega dance move when i heard we would be together for another transfer

i slammed a sweeet move down on the streets when we got the call

ooo yeah parker you are my brother and i havent gotten a letter from you for like 5 months soooo dont be a homo and write me

elena..... im calling you out... write me because i want to hear how fifi is and i want to hear how spencers big ol biceps are doing!

man o man baby girl do i love my family!! one of the greatest lessons you learn on a mission! i hope all is well at home

no kissing on valentines because thats cukkkkka

in a bit.

i love you

i love this gospel

-Elder Myers 

Note from Julie:  I heard from one of the missionary mom’s in Cole’s group that last week the missionaries put together a big ward party.  I had sent Cole the movie, “Ephraim’s Rescue” for his b-day, hoping at some point he would be able to show it to the members.  Wham, it sounds like he did.  They invited everyone and put up a makeshift movie screen and popped popcorn and watched the movie.  That’s my boyJ

02-05-15--Pics

2-05-14--We went to the Temple Today

2/5/14

hola hola meow meow

man i have zero time to write here

the most busy day of my life. we woke up at 4:30 in the morning to go to the temple which was realllll far away

man baby girl sweet moses i was so excited going to the temple today

yet im as tired as an old billy goat

wow i cant tell you how amazing the temple is.

go there. do whatever you can this week to make time in your schedule to visit the house of the lord and receive the blessings that are waiting you 

i promise you will have a spiritual experience

the spirit of the lord is like nothing else

go find it

dont wait for a spiritual experience to come to you

GO GET IT! 

GO GET YOUR BLESSINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE

some quick fun facts

i have more than 35 mesquito bites on my body,,, delicious right??

the pictures i sent home of the country side isnt our normal area... we call that place narnia and its the first time we have been there because there arent any members and barely any people out there.. haha so dont think my whole area is like that

we havent had hot water for 2 weeks.... 

i realized after a week that i can boil hot water and mix it with cold water :)

haha so for the past week ive been showering with a bucket so yeah... like way awesome! haha its really not even bad.

better than freezing my bunnnns off

ummm i have no more time....

i wish i could write more but our time got cut short today

love you all,,,,, you guyyyss are awsummm for writing me. my family and friends are like kobe byrant the slam dunk giant.... so awsummm

in a bit,,, 

love, 

Elder Myers 

1-27-14--Pics

1-27-14 -- Love me some peruvians

1/27/14

this week flew by!!

these past 3 weeks have felt like 1 week and i love that feeling... it feels sooooo mega fast right now so im loving it

first off i want to give a shoutout to Savs parents for sending me a package! oooo man i loved it! the ties are classic... ill be repping some of those on phat tie friday for sure... you best believe that tradition is still going on.

I LOVE ME SOME PHAT TIE FRIDAY! 

thank you so much Savs parents! 

thank you all for the letters! im sorry if i write small responses back to you... im a mad man on the computer on p day because there is soooo much to write..

haha so ive got some classic stories from the week

i hope i can tell them like they happened because i had some good laughs this week

so first off... being in argentina you get to know people from all sorts of different countries... they are from all over the place here

there is a family from peru... i love me my peruvians.. they are awesome

so this family from peru…and they have been members for about 4 years.. the rondon family... they like giving me food and i always try and tell them not so much because i dont wanna get chunky... yet they never listen to me... people dont seem to understand that you cant eat a cow in one serving nor do you want to... yet the food is yummy but i hope i dont get a phat tummy

anyway so the mom of this fam is classic.... always cracking jokes

and she has a sweet gold front tooth... she would make a sweet pirate

so like i said shes way funny

so shes making food and these houses get sooo mega freaking hot.. its like a sweet sauna and you just sweat and sweat and sweat

so rosa rondon the mom is sweating and is really hot cooking food

haha so what does she do??? lifts up her shirt as a belly shirt just chilling 

i was dying how funny it was

later on we took a picture with this family

after the picture she looks at me and lifts her shirt up like a belly shirt and starts doing a belly dance and singing asking if i can photoshop the picture to make her look skinny... HAHHAAH O MAN I WAS DYING OF LAUGHTER

it sounds inapropriate but no worries it really wasnt... just funny

o yeah  and her daughter is the one they call fat little pig she is 3 and weighs 55 pounds.. AWESOME. 

jehovas witnesses knocked on our door yesterday... i knew they were coming and was pumped to answer the door

i answer the door and the lady looks at me and pretty much had a look on her face and says "mormones" haha it was awesome

it was sweet we talked a little bit and she went

we taught a reallllll crazy lady this week

she was an evangilist and crazzzy to say the least

we tried to teach the 1st lesson and it took us 2 hours

interupted us foorrrrrrr everything and talked about who knows what

turns out she has the priesthood

has seen jesus more than once... and who knows what else

so when we start the lesson we asked if we could start with the prayer and she wanted to say it

she yelled the prayer in another language... it sounded like straight gibberish and i was scared... haha ooo man 

so when we ended the prayer i asked if i could say it

as i started the prayer she raises her right hand and start yelling a prayer of her own in some other language.... i tried not laughing with everything i had in me.... o man it was classic... yet scary...

i ate 8 FRUITS THIS WEEK!!! I ACTUALLY BOUGHT APPLES BANANAS AND ORANGES!! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN??? CRAYY RIGHT???

HAHA i hope you got a good laugh out of those stories... they were all classic

sooo we have been having some seriously draining 3 weeks...

everybody has problems that we are trying to help them out with

its been soo awesome and i love it... yet it is emotionally draining

im so thankful for these past weeks... ive learned so much about my purpose and what i can do for these people as well as what they can do for me

you spend so much time and effort with these people

you plan for lessons and try and live your life so close to the spirit so you can listen to the still small voice direct you in your lessons

saying certain things to help them out can be so crucial and you have to be so close to the spirit to know what to so and how to say it

and ive realized that things that i have said to help these people have been things that i could never come up with on my own.... pure help from god

we have 2 real investigators

sandra is from peru and lives with the rondon family

she has had a really rough past and left her whole life in peru to come here

her family, everything

shes been abused by people in so many ways 

she has been to church the past 4 weeks and is really progressing and wants to know the truth

she had a baptism date put we delayed it because she wants to make a desicion that is real.... if she gets baptized im confident she will be in the church for the rest of her life

we have had some amazing lessons with her and such spiritual moments

the other investagator is a girl who has investigated the church for 6 months but has a problem with being baptized... 

she is at church every week and knows it all

she has a date to be baptized on the 8th but we will see what happens! 

mainly we are working with reactivating people

thats where we have a lot of things going on

so many people who deal with alcohol problems and so many other things

you spend time with these people and really grow to love them

you want them to return back to the church so bad and you really will do anything for them

this week we really focused on a member who was baptized about a year ago and went back to drinking and went inactive

his wife is devastated and cries about it all the time

we try so hard with him and want him to come back to church

HE CAME BACK TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY!

his wife couldnt have been happier and she just cried to us saying the angels that we as missionaries are in her life

long story short i realized something

i realized my role and responsibility as a missionary

people really depend on you out here

the ward depends on you

the members depend on you

they think of you as angels 

ive realized that to them im such a blessing in their life

what a blessing that is for me

ive realized what a blessing they are in my life

ive realized how much better i need to be...

the closer i am to being a true disciple of christ the closer i am to these people

its a big responsibility because when people tell you that they look up to you and they expect you to be the difference in their life you really feel your purpose as a missionary....

this transfer has been really special for me

ive seen why im really here and what im supposed to do

ive seen the gospel change lifes and ive seen it restore lifes

im thankful for this opportunity and i hope im best the best i can be

i hope the lord is happy with my work because his work is a big responsibility

anyways thats what i got!

i heard a lot of my homegirls got their mission calls this week!! yahaja´gkljalskjgsakg freak yeah thats awesome!!! 

hasta luego... as dad would say hasta la taco

keep it real

-Elder Myers 

1-20-2014--Be the Best Person You Can Be

1/20/14 -- Cole.myers@myldsmail.net

meow,

wow this week was sooooo mega fast..... i swear i was sitting in this seat writing you all yesterday!

well ive got some good stories for this week.... funny stories and not the most fun stories

i had one of the most emotionally exhausting weeks of my life... so many things i learned.

i had some good laughs in for sure as well

so there is two factors about having a companion from the states... good and bad

its soooo awesome that i can bring back my sense of humor that was on the verge of being lost a little bit.... so you best believe ive been being myself

slamming down sweet dance moves

saying phrases that do not make any sense... like calling my companion malfboy or things like that... i guess youd really have to know me to get why that is funny...

and soooo many other awesome things about having an american companion

bad thing about it is that your spanish slowly progresses... when you have a latin comp you learn it soooo much faster..

so good and bad there... mainly awesome though because im having a good time

soo ill start with some funny stories

of course my bike broke this week... these bikes are a real piece of work... SUCH NICE BIKES.... Lance Armstrong the bike rider will probably ride my bike in the next toure de france... it only weighs like 40 pounds

anyways so me and my comp are walking right??? hes telling me a really serious story... then i see some sweet sunglasses on the ground that are half smashed... OF COURSE I PICK THEM UP AND PUT THEM ON

so they have one lens and are half broken

my comp has no idea that i put the glasses on and he keeps continuing his story while im not even listening because i think im soooo funny wearing these glasses.....

haha he finally looks over at me and just couldnt even believe how childish i am... haha sorry im bad at telling stories but i thought it was classic....

ummm so we were at the bishops house eating lunch and a sister called him

she said she thinks there are some sort of demons in her house and wants the missionaries to come over

so im getting all prepped to go to her house right??? ive got my spiritual face on ready to cast some demons out of this house..

im trying not to freak out on the way to this house because i dont like the thought of demons..... so im getting my game face on.

LONG LONG STORY SHORT

the lady had some burnt spots in her grass that she thought looked like crosses..... demons my butt

anyway we blessed her house and tried to help her out at she was all sorts of scared....

this week was a fast week yet sooooo emotionally exhausting!

it was a special week for sure but it was really hard at the same time

we were trying to help 5 different people/families

ranging from marriage problems

alocohol problems

people saying they are done going to church

all sorts of stories

stories that were really hard for me to hear... people throwing their testimonies away and denying what they really know is the truth

so many stories and problems that are real life events

things that would be soooo hard to face and deal with. 

being a missionary is such an amazing opportunity.

you have the chance to REALLY help people in their life

the chance to bring them the gospel and the chance for them to experience having a personal relationship with their father in heaven

but as a missionary you constantly hear about peoples lives

mainly about their hardships, struggles, temptations, and a lot of sad stories... especially in this country

you hear all of their problems and it hurts to hear what they are going through

i try and think of anything i can possibly say to help them-to give them something that will get them to return back to their savior

but then i think. 

im 18 years old and cant relate to them at all.

ive had hardships but nothing like what they go through

who am i to say i know how to fix their problems or give them advice when i dont have the slightest clue what their trials are really like

i guess ive realized that this is real life

people are hurting with pains, addictions, family trials, health problems, etc

some turning away from christ who is the only thing that can truly heal them

all these things are happening and its my responsibility to get them back on the path that leads them to their heavenly father

to help them realize that the only way to get through trials is through finding jesus christ

i feel responsible for them

i need to be the best person i can be for them

the closer i personally am with god i can display his perfect message

these people need me. not for who i am but for what i am. and that is a representative of jesus christ. a missionary of god. so in reality they dont need me at all... they need their heavenly father and they need their savior jesus christ. but im the lucky one who has a special role in helping them find the truth

ive found this week that i really have no clue what these people go through

i cant relate to them nor do i have any of my own words that can help them

all of these things that i dont have in order to help these people i know Christ has for them

he knows exactly who they are, what they are going through, how to relate to them, and how to help them.

christ knows all these things and its my responsibility to humble myself enough to know that the only way to help these people is through him

that i myself also need to find my savior

i need to live my life in a way that is close enough to the spirit to teach a fraction of the way christ would teach

because like we know christ is the only person who can really help them

well thats about what ive got for this week!

thank you alllll for the letters... seriously it means so much that some people still like me.... even without any curls on my head.

we have a solid investigator that we are hoping to baptize on my birthday..... slam dunk if i might say so... awsummmmmmmmmmm

love you all,

-Elder Myers 

1-13-14--Humble-Ether 12:27

01-13-14

Cole.myers@myldsmail.net

yo yo yo what up what up!!!

another week fleeeeeeeewwww bye.... like mega fast..

ill try and share some quick fun stories here

so the other day im walking out of somebodies house trying to wheel my sweet wayyyyy nice bike out of there walk way right??? whammy i roll my ankle on this little pot hole... next thing you know i fall into this little gutter system... i smelled like poooo for the rest of the day... i felt like a real tard

my feetsies are getting a nice rest from not walking anymore and my legs are getting real nice and juicy from riding on my bike... i love me some bikes out here on the mission :)

i was asked more than twice by members if i was going into the military with my hackjob of a haircut... i just dont really look good anymore without curls :(

haha so i was showing this family videos of me trying to eat some stupid salad at the mtc because they didnt believe my food problems... yeah they’re laughing at me making fun...

they have a 3 year old little girl who is adorable... she is the shape of a bowling ball and has some serious loving on her.. shes reallll chunky.. the family calls her chanchy which kinda means fat little piggy

anyway she was upset because she couldnt see the camera.

the next thing i know she whacks me right in the goods.... i got 3 year old girls making me cry out here... whammy that hurt.. 

sorry mom thats potty talk

ive been as tired as an old goat for the last 2 weeks because the bikes just slam the energy out of you!

i made oatmeal for the first time in my life this week... wooo me. im awesome right?? 

ummm i absolutley love this area.

this ward has a mega massive amount of potential

this ward covers a really really big area and its the 1st time they have had 4 elders working here so we have a lot of work to do and can make a real big difference

we have lunch with members which i cant tell you how much i love eating with members, to actually get to know them and spend time with them... ive learned so much about the gospel through them this week... what a blessing it is in theirs lives helped me reflect the blessing it is in my life

AND THANK THE GYPSIES WE HAVE SISTERS WHO WASH OUR CLOTHES EVERY WEEK... IF THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR IT IS THAT! 

haha well im learning so much out here.

these past two weeks in this area have been so awesome

these past two weeks have been a really special time on my mission

ive struggled out here in these past 4 1/2 months just like every missionary does. but ive struggled in ways that i never thought i would...

ive finally realized what ive needed my whole entire life

 To be humbled

my mission hasnt been what i had expected it to be.

my whole life i feel like ive always been on top. ive always been a leader and been sucessful at the things ive done because i feel that my success rate has been determined by how hard i work for something.

ive always been the type of person that has never asked anybody for help because i always felt like i had all of my own answers and never needed anybodies help.

in that sense i guess ive been a prideful person.

these 4 1/2 months here have been so hard for me because im not able to be myself in the way where i can help people and handle situations like ive done my whole life. 

i finally hit the point where i realized how unhappy i was when i knew this work was supposed to be so enjoyable

i kept trying to do it on my own but it really never worked. my own answers werent fixing my problems.

i finally had to give up my own pride and ask for help... because i simply couldnt do it on my own anymore.

i needed to loose my pride and seek for a way where i could be happy and really feel like i could lose myself in the lords work.

after getting advice from some people i learned a lot of things

to me i learned one of the greatest lessons that ive needed to learn in my life. a lesson that has taken me almost 19 years to learn. and i think the only way i really could have realized it is because of my mission

ive needed to learn how to be humble. ive been humbled

to be a weak simple servant

ETHER 12:27

and if men come unto me i will show unto them their weakness. i give unto men weakness that they may be humble. and my grace is suffecient for all men that humble themselves before me. for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then i will make weak things become strong.

this scripture helps me out in so many ways.

i came on my mission anticipating to do such great things and to work so hard.

i always thought of the great things i could accomplish and the lives i could change.

but what i realize now is that all the things that i had in mind or wanted to do was based off of thinking of my own strengths and my own talents.

i never thought much of being a missionary soley based off of the strengths of the lord. to do the things of greatness based off the strength of him.

ive learned that i dont need to be something great in order to be a great missionary.

i need to be a weak simple humble servant for the lord.

if i focus on being weak, simple, and humble submissively offering and giving up my pride to the lord then he will make me into a great, powerful servant.

in my eyes im his weak simple servant

in his eyes i am powerful working miracles through him

¨"i give unto men weakness that they may be humble"

had i gone to some sort of english speaking mission i would have never been humbled in this way

spanish has been the hardest thing that ive ever faced in so many different aspects. the lord has given unto me this weakness of not being able to do things my way

learning his way

"my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me"

GRACE-unpraised divine assistance.

let me tell you that i have given up my pride and have been humbled... im learning how to be humbled every day out here.

learning this has been the best thing for me. these past 2 weeks have been incredible and some of my most spiritual experiences on my mission

all because im letting the lord work through me. doing it his way

im weak by myself yet so strong through my savior

i am strong through the atonement of jesus christ

i have felt the lords grace in this past two weeks and i promise you that there is nothing better than his grace... his atonement

let us all give up our pride and look to the lord for his assistance.

look to the lord for his grace- his unpraised divine assistance.

i know this church is true and i know this is the work of the lord

i love you all.

-Elder Myers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LETTER TO COLE

HEY EVERYONE, THIS IS COLE MYERS MOM, JULIE.  I'M WORKING ON SENDING COLE A B-DAY PRESENT.  HIS B-DAY IS FEBRUARY 15TH.  I'M TRYING TO GET A PACKAGE IN THE MAIL THIS COMING MONDAY.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GIVE HIM A SHOUT OUT WITH A QUICK LETTER, REMEMBRANCE OF SOMETHING FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR ENCOURAGEMENT, I KNOW HE WOULD LOVE IT.  PLEASE E-MAIL TO ME AT:
JULIEMYERS1@COMCAST.NET       THANKS, JULIE

1-06-14--Pics

1-06-14--Transferred to LaPlata

1-06-14

hola mi familia! todo bien???  todo tranquiiiiiiiiii????? 

well i have a bagillion mega sweet things too say in this letter and i honestly dont know how im going to fit it all in and my comp time is going to be cut short today! soooo i hope i can get some things out here because MEGA SWEET WEEK! 

first off.... i totally forgot to give a shoutout to my ginger headed brother taylor and my sweet sister in law savannah for their 1st wedding anniversary in december! 

way awesome that you two are married,,, do married things,,,, and that some day you will have cursed babies with red hair! just kidding thats mean.... naughty potty talk... jk jk jk lol sav! 

haha well anyways happy new years! fireworks in argentina are scary... i almost got my eye taken out by a neighbor with fireworks so thats awesome! better my eye than my hair right?? youve gotta protect them curls... which by the way i no longer have very much hair on my head... youll find out later in this letter why i say that! 

I GOT TRANSFERRED! I GOT AN EMERGENCY TRANSFER ON THURSDAY! 

o yeah and my english is quickly turning into garbage and i cant spell anything...

anyways i got transferred to the city of La Plata which is a big city in the state of buenos aires!

man o man o man baby girl do i love my new area!

wanna know why??? BECAUSE ITS CAMPO! Which means more of country and not city!

so things are chill out here and im doing my thing

so anyways i got a new area and a new companion AGAIN.. im getting bounced around like a beach ball at a nickleback concert (jesse emerys joke)

my new companion is elder peterson... hes SWEET

he has the exact same amount of time on the mission as i do. we actually sat next to each other on the plane to buenos aires and talked the whole time!! soooo thats awesummmmmmmm

the diffference between him and me is.... HES FLUENT im not! which is all good because he has so much to teach me! he was into singing and stuff in high school…he has lived in Mexico, Chili and Uruguay for 3 years..his parents were the mission president in Urugay…he knows Spanish really well and we work hard and he’s a good guy..super excited.

so we are in la plata area villa montoro... they put 2 brand new elders in the ward to make 4 elders in the ward.

so me and him dont know the area and we are figuring it out as we go! 

AND ITS AWESOME! CONFUSING BUT AWESOME!

HAHAH so i have one of the most classic stories ever

so we are getting to know the area right??? cause were dumby americans just trying to get by out here... my jew hair is looking pretty long and we see a paper in the apartment that says an inactive member cuts hair!

ONLY 6 PESOS OR JUST OVER A DOLLAR FOR A HAIRCUT! 

so im thinking... okay... thats just for a haircut and shes inactive so lets do it!

so we take off on our bikes and head to tim buck 2 towards her house which is over 60 streets away! trying to kill 2 birds with one stone..... haircut and visit an inactive member

so we take off on the bikes and im like ance larmstrong biking to her house.... 3 streets away my piece of bullpucky bike breaks... the chain.... GONZO... 

so we get to the ladies house and ask for a haircut. i let my comp go first

she breaks up the shaver and starts going to town! 

AT THAT MOMENT I REALIZED I WAS IN TROUBLE

im thinking WHAMMY this is bad.... its all over... bye bye jew hair... bye bye curls

the 18 years i have taken care of my hair i realized would come to an end at this day...

she did a complete hack job of a haircut on my comp... and i realize im next.. bye bye jew hair! 

anyways she finished cutting his hair i sit down in the seat to get my haircut... and its all over from there! 

40 minutes later and half of my head buzzed she finally finished.

i realized why she only charged 6 pesos.

she wouldnt let us share a scripture with her so i guess i didnt kill any birds with any stones... the only thing that was killed was my hair and my piece of garbage bike :)

haha no worries it was awesome and hilarious!! 

but we had two things to do... 

1. fix the bike

2. fix our hair... no way in heck could we go to church the next day and meet all the members looking the way we looked with our hair... it was some bullpucky fooo shoooo

so my bikes broke right??? and no bus will pick us up with bikes... we dont know where we are... so we just start walking hoping to find a bike shop

20 streets later of walking in the middle of no where

what do you know we come upon a bike shop and thank the gypsies right next to the bike shop was a hair salon!! 

so we get the bike fixed and i walk into the hair salon and ask the lady "hey can you do miracles"???? she looks at my hair and just starts laughing!

she says the first miracle of 2014 will be done today! 

long long story short she fixed my hair... somewhat...

i no longer have curls and it looks like ill be enlisting in the argentine army sometime shortly...

haha im sorry that story was all over the place but thats what i got

anyways so much has happened this week its crazy..... we were able to teach some really amazing lessons and we have a baptism date!

AND THE DATE IS ON MY BIRTHDAY! 

soooo if it comes through that will be the best birthday present i could ever get :)))) and if you all send me packages.. nah just playing

next week i will be writing a pretty special letter for me...

let me tell you the truthfullness of the atonement

i have truly been humbled on my mission and there are things that i learn about myself every single day...

to me the biggest thing the lord has been trying to teach me is to be a weak, simple, humble servant for him... thats what i have finally realized and thats what i am trying to do.

im sorry this letter was all over the place and not a ton of spiritual things were shared but youll have to wait for those next week.

i love this area

i love a new start and a new outlook on my mission

i love you all

smell ya later

elder myers