July 11, 2016
Hi everyone, Elder Passey here. Really I would like to make these as entertaining as possible but im drawing a blank here. This week was pretty sweet nothing to complain about and nothing super amazing. The struggle here is the commitment that people have to attend church which is very little for most. The big downers are when your recent converts dont attend church like what is that all about right! ahh the struggle of the mission really. The canicula is going to start the 14 or 15 of this month, really not ready for that type of heat. The sad thing is that it never cools down here, its like 11 o clock and its 95 degrees outside hahaha its hilarious sometimes how hot it is but mostly just sad. We ran into a drunk guy again and was talking about the bible and asking us how to change his life, then the best part was when he shook?? is that how to spell that word? no idea spanish has ruined my spelling. but anyway when he shook my hand he looked at my companion and said "He is new to the word of god" and my companion responded "How do you know that?" and the drunken man said "By his hands" hahahaha it was really strange and hilarious because im new in the mission but not exactly to the word as he said ahah. I started reading Jesus The Christ and it is pretty much amazing i would encourage really anyone to read it i love it and am only on page 24. Thats about it that i can remember love you all!
Monday, August 15, 2016
July 4, 2016
Im done with my training everyone i know spanish perfectly and understand everything its amazing what training can do for you. If you believe i speak spanish and understand everything then you havent been reading my emails. This week has been pretty solid except for on sunday when investigators dont show up to church. Me and Elder Sanders matched on sunday because he has the same suit as i do and then we both were black skinny ties and it was hilarious! Transfers are here and Elder sanders is leaving the area which is sad because we are great fans but im sure i will see him later on in the mission! One pretty cool thing here in Mexico is that it is pretty much a requirement to own a huge speaker system because everyone is blasting music all the time. English music almost as much as spanish, I still dont like the spanish music but maybe one day, hopefully not though.
Im done with my training everyone i know spanish perfectly and understand everything its amazing what training can do for you. If you believe i speak spanish and understand everything then you havent been reading my emails. This week has been pretty solid except for on sunday when investigators dont show up to church. Me and Elder Sanders matched on sunday because he has the same suit as i do and then we both were black skinny ties and it was hilarious! Transfers are here and Elder sanders is leaving the area which is sad because we are great fans but im sure i will see him later on in the mission! One pretty cool thing here in Mexico is that it is pretty much a requirement to own a huge speaker system because everyone is blasting music all the time. English music almost as much as spanish, I still dont like the spanish music but maybe one day, hopefully not though.
One really important thing i learned is that i am in Mexico.... nah not that im just in Mexico but im the happiest or close to it ive ever been here sharing the gospel and living it. Really its amazing even though i dont know whats going on all the time but sharing your testimony and helping people every day brings such great joy. The gospel of Jesus Christ is joy and happiness and i encourage all to participate fully in this happiness that im experiencing here in mexico.
I apologize for my grammar and spelling because spanish has ruined that part of me. Miss you all and cant wait to see you all again and share my experiences with you all but for now i will focus here. Love you all!
Elder Passey
June 27, 2016
HEY so im almost done with 12 semanas! which is pretty cool and pretty crazy! This week was nothing short of amazing! We were at a ladies house knockig on her door because we had an appointment with her and while we were trying to get in and have the lesson this lady walks up to us and says "elders elders!" and then she continues to tell us we need to teach her son who is very interested and how she thought other people were from our church but then she remembered we are church of the latter day SAINTS and she really emphazised saints! Really a strange lady but then after we found out she is sick in the mind so then it all made sense. We taught her family which was interesting she has two sons and one of them is older and is really interested but he is just confused on some things. Hopefully we can clear everything up with them and baptize her sons because she is already a member. SOOO if you remember the story of the sleeping drunk man then you will laugh at this. HE CAME BACK TO THE CHURCH! just blasted out of his mind but we were playing soccer in the morning and he walks through the gate and up the stairs and we were getting water and saw him and just laughed. We led him out and then closed the gate but he did recognize us which was pretty funny. Especially me and elder sanders.
HEY so im almost done with 12 semanas! which is pretty cool and pretty crazy! This week was nothing short of amazing! We were at a ladies house knockig on her door because we had an appointment with her and while we were trying to get in and have the lesson this lady walks up to us and says "elders elders!" and then she continues to tell us we need to teach her son who is very interested and how she thought other people were from our church but then she remembered we are church of the latter day SAINTS and she really emphazised saints! Really a strange lady but then after we found out she is sick in the mind so then it all made sense. We taught her family which was interesting she has two sons and one of them is older and is really interested but he is just confused on some things. Hopefully we can clear everything up with them and baptize her sons because she is already a member. SOOO if you remember the story of the sleeping drunk man then you will laugh at this. HE CAME BACK TO THE CHURCH! just blasted out of his mind but we were playing soccer in the morning and he walks through the gate and up the stairs and we were getting water and saw him and just laughed. We led him out and then closed the gate but he did recognize us which was pretty funny. Especially me and elder sanders.
I said my first bad offensive word in spanish the other day (No im not telling you all what i said) one of the investigators had a doritoes chips bag and the bad word was printed on the front of the bag and so i said it out loud in a question kind of way because its two normal words that i know but putting them together is very bad... I apparently said it pretty loud because everyone was laughing and pretty amuzed by the way i said it... hahah .
We have some new investigators who are looking really promising and one of the families we have only taught once we had a chance to teach them again! Really great here and still learning a ton!! Love you all!
Elder Passey
Sunday, June 26, 2016
June 20, 2016
SOOOO i dont know really, here i am in Mexico just you know, preaching the Gospel this week hasn't been a complete crazy experience. EXCEPT for when we were at a members house and she wanted us to give her a blessing so i automatically assumed my companion would do it. He did the first part and then he wanted me to give the blessing. I pretty much lost my mind and forgot all spanish and told him i dont know the right words in spanish to start it and so he pulls out his mission manual and reads the words and then closes it and puts it in his pocket. All of what he had said when in both my ears and then quickly backout. i told him i couldn't memorize that that fast so he just told me to do it in english haha. I decided i would do it in english, and so i did at first but the blessing part i went for it in spanish so the lady could understand what was going on. All in all it was a caught off guard kind of experience but hey all is well all is well.
I also gloriously found out mtn dew actually does exist is Mexico, one of elder sanders friends sent him some from guadalupe, i will have to figure how to communicate with the amigo de elder sanders and get some myself. The mission is still really awesome and my spanish is actually improving and so is my understanding i understand quite a bit now which is just really the gift of tongues. today we studied together as a zone and played soccer after. Ive been really missing Lacrosse here in Mexico and whenever i tell people thats my favorite sport they look at me like i just spoke english hahaha but seriously nobody knows what that is here in Mexico. Oh well i guess they are missing out. It also rained pretty hard today but we were at the food during the crazy rain so we aren't soaked. The streets are filled with water and sewage because of overflow and the sewers here just dont like to contain sewage which is really strange. I just wanted to let all who read this know that here in Mexico they actually speak spanish. Really strange concept to grasp i know but they actually dont speak english, mindblowing really. haha but all in all its still going great we have two more weeks and then we will be in my companions last transfer which is sad but all good im excited for him. Love you all and if you have any just really good jokes you have to tell someone im all ears. Love you all!
SOOOO i dont know really, here i am in Mexico just you know, preaching the Gospel this week hasn't been a complete crazy experience. EXCEPT for when we were at a members house and she wanted us to give her a blessing so i automatically assumed my companion would do it. He did the first part and then he wanted me to give the blessing. I pretty much lost my mind and forgot all spanish and told him i dont know the right words in spanish to start it and so he pulls out his mission manual and reads the words and then closes it and puts it in his pocket. All of what he had said when in both my ears and then quickly backout. i told him i couldn't memorize that that fast so he just told me to do it in english haha. I decided i would do it in english, and so i did at first but the blessing part i went for it in spanish so the lady could understand what was going on. All in all it was a caught off guard kind of experience but hey all is well all is well.
I also gloriously found out mtn dew actually does exist is Mexico, one of elder sanders friends sent him some from guadalupe, i will have to figure how to communicate with the amigo de elder sanders and get some myself. The mission is still really awesome and my spanish is actually improving and so is my understanding i understand quite a bit now which is just really the gift of tongues. today we studied together as a zone and played soccer after. Ive been really missing Lacrosse here in Mexico and whenever i tell people thats my favorite sport they look at me like i just spoke english hahaha but seriously nobody knows what that is here in Mexico. Oh well i guess they are missing out. It also rained pretty hard today but we were at the food during the crazy rain so we aren't soaked. The streets are filled with water and sewage because of overflow and the sewers here just dont like to contain sewage which is really strange. I just wanted to let all who read this know that here in Mexico they actually speak spanish. Really strange concept to grasp i know but they actually dont speak english, mindblowing really. haha but all in all its still going great we have two more weeks and then we will be in my companions last transfer which is sad but all good im excited for him. Love you all and if you have any just really good jokes you have to tell someone im all ears. Love you all!
June 13, 2016
ok so the o is sticky on this keyboard so again, bear with me. Lets get all the strange expieiences and crazy things out of the way at first. First off my good friend Jared always says "Peanut butter, Finish" because i have a huge jar of peanut butter that i got from sister Bird which she got from costco. One day jared told me he ate it all so after that he would always say that, and then one daoy he was with us and we were teaching fany and jocelyn and jocelyn asked what peanut butter was so then jared said "Cream de noot" thats what it sounded like he said when he was trying to say cream de nut i just thought that was an expieience i had to share.
ok so the o is sticky on this keyboard so again, bear with me. Lets get all the strange expieiences and crazy things out of the way at first. First off my good friend Jared always says "Peanut butter, Finish" because i have a huge jar of peanut butter that i got from sister Bird which she got from costco. One day jared told me he ate it all so after that he would always say that, and then one daoy he was with us and we were teaching fany and jocelyn and jocelyn asked what peanut butter was so then jared said "Cream de noot" thats what it sounded like he said when he was trying to say cream de nut i just thought that was an expieience i had to share.
So my crazy first event that happened was after sacrament meeting was over we walked out to outside and there was this dude juist knocked out sitting down against the wall... My companion and one of the counselors of the bishopric took the initiative to wake him up. When he woke up his eyes were so yellow and you could tell he was pretty drunk. We got him up and walked him outside of the church area and asked where he lived and he didnt say much. Then he kept shaking our hands and asking us what our names are haha. He then started to cry and said he wanted to pray but he couldnt and my companion tried to offer to teach him in his home but he just wouldnt say yes or tell us where he lived. We got him walking and he only would talk to me because im white hahaha and so in his drunken english he kept asking me what my name was and why i liked life haha. We turned two corners and told him we were going to leave. he asked if i could stay with him but my companion said i had to go with him... sadly.... hahaha so we took a different way back to the church to confuse this drunken man but when we got back to the church he was sitting on the church steps. hahaha so basically the drunken man made his back drunk to the church. a miracle really. We then called for backup from sanders and diego and they came and he kept telling us and showing us his six six six tattoo and his torres tattoo because that was his name. He kept saying six six six number of the beast and then would say it again in spanish hahah. Then we decided to walk him a lot farther away and then drop him off. The whole way there he would only talk to me and elder sanders and try to talk in english. he kept telling us he respected us and then would swear at us and then tell us he respected us again which was a little strange but oh well. We dropped him off pretty far from the church and then that was it. if you have any questions let me know it was a great expieience.
We had a baptism!! Fany and Jocelyn got baptized which was great! I baptized jocelyn and my comp baptized fany! i will attach pictures. Jocelyn is the shorter one.
We had a zone conference that lasted about 7 hours with the president but it was good and i enjoyed it and we got hot dogs and COSTCO MUFFINS it was a dream come true.
I came across a scripture in Timothy chapter 4 verse 7 that i belive says "I have fought a good fight, i have finished my course, i have kept the faith" dont quote me on that because not 100 percent sure thats word for word but pretty sure haha I think its really the goal for our lives and when it comes to judgement day we should be proud to say that we have kept the faith and did what was commanded of us. I invite all to really strive to magnify your callings and magnify your lives in helping others and bringing others to the Gospel because it is the only way to true joy and happiness. Love you all and hope everyone has a great week!
also a picture with Jared and Pelon, pelon is wearing the sandals
Joselyn, Fany, Elder Passey and Elder Carceres
June 6, 2016
AYE everyone this weeks has been nothing short of well, good! We are going to have a baptism for sure on saturday for Fany and Jocelyn I will send a picture next week when it happens! They are two of my favorite investigators!
So here in Monterrey in the streets where some of the sewers are they randomly spew out sewage into the streets.... just randomly on a random day not really important if it rained or not it just happens. Literally... its disgusting.... pure sewage... alrighttt on to better things!
So my companion got his last and final wisdom tooth out but really didnt stop him from working hard though or eat normal food.... which could be bad in the wrong run because of infection and sadness but hey he isnt dead yet! We also had intercambios with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Azuara and he doesnt speak english so the day was a little long and hard to communicate but hey it was fun we had a lot of contacts and lessons on peoples front porch basically! Still working hard and its going good! The pictures are of a couple new ties i bought and a hat i got for really cheap andddd me and elder diego with a giant pizza! Love you all!
AYE everyone this weeks has been nothing short of well, good! We are going to have a baptism for sure on saturday for Fany and Jocelyn I will send a picture next week when it happens! They are two of my favorite investigators!
So here in Monterrey in the streets where some of the sewers are they randomly spew out sewage into the streets.... just randomly on a random day not really important if it rained or not it just happens. Literally... its disgusting.... pure sewage... alrighttt on to better things!
So my companion got his last and final wisdom tooth out but really didnt stop him from working hard though or eat normal food.... which could be bad in the wrong run because of infection and sadness but hey he isnt dead yet! We also had intercambios with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Azuara and he doesnt speak english so the day was a little long and hard to communicate but hey it was fun we had a lot of contacts and lessons on peoples front porch basically! Still working hard and its going good! The pictures are of a couple new ties i bought and a hat i got for really cheap andddd me and elder diego with a giant pizza! Love you all!
May 30, 2016
alrioght so my o´s are sticky on this keyboard so bear with me. the Baptism was the best!!! This week was so great and i loved it all! A couple things that happened was we made pancakes in the morning and my companion mixed peanut butter in with them! at first i thought it was a horrible idea but when i tried it it tastes amazing so i advise it to everyone! another great tasty treat is lime juice more or less! so you get a thing full of water and then maybe 6 or seven limes and squeeze the juice into the water and then a bunch of sugar like as much as you would koolaid and then bammmmm it tastes like pure joy!! try it! The baptism went really well and i will send pictures too! there was only about 10 or 15 people that were there because katy doesnt like a lot of people to be present haha. also nobody told us that it takes three hours for the font to fill so we started about an hour before so we had to get a bunch of buckets of water and pour it in the font haha everyone was questioning what was going on i am sure of it! It was a great baptism and an awesome experience for me!
Today in the morning we went to this big mall and and i bought a shirt for 200 pesos.... so many pesos! haha thats about 20 bucks american money. Its a sweet shirt ill tell you! We will maybe hopefully have another baptism on saturday with fany and jocelyn! we set up a baptismal interview for them on thursday so hopefully it all works out and we have another one! yesterday when we visited them they were having a party for a two year old with basically every family member they know haha! this really drunk guy asked my "what are you doing in my country" with more mean words and and then he said he was joking and then asked me "where was you born" but it was so slurred he had to repeat himself three times before i could decode the english he was using haha but it was pretty funny and we got cake so hey it was alright! great week and still enjoying all the great times!
(What he said when I asked him if he was sick of eating tortillas.) im used to it i usually just have a sandwhich when i get home because i never have money for anything else really haha so it always bread and peanut butter and jelly but its amazing because its different from tortillas!
Love you all!
alrioght so my o´s are sticky on this keyboard so bear with me. the Baptism was the best!!! This week was so great and i loved it all! A couple things that happened was we made pancakes in the morning and my companion mixed peanut butter in with them! at first i thought it was a horrible idea but when i tried it it tastes amazing so i advise it to everyone! another great tasty treat is lime juice more or less! so you get a thing full of water and then maybe 6 or seven limes and squeeze the juice into the water and then a bunch of sugar like as much as you would koolaid and then bammmmm it tastes like pure joy!! try it! The baptism went really well and i will send pictures too! there was only about 10 or 15 people that were there because katy doesnt like a lot of people to be present haha. also nobody told us that it takes three hours for the font to fill so we started about an hour before so we had to get a bunch of buckets of water and pour it in the font haha everyone was questioning what was going on i am sure of it! It was a great baptism and an awesome experience for me!
Today in the morning we went to this big mall and and i bought a shirt for 200 pesos.... so many pesos! haha thats about 20 bucks american money. Its a sweet shirt ill tell you! We will maybe hopefully have another baptism on saturday with fany and jocelyn! we set up a baptismal interview for them on thursday so hopefully it all works out and we have another one! yesterday when we visited them they were having a party for a two year old with basically every family member they know haha! this really drunk guy asked my "what are you doing in my country" with more mean words and and then he said he was joking and then asked me "where was you born" but it was so slurred he had to repeat himself three times before i could decode the english he was using haha but it was pretty funny and we got cake so hey it was alright! great week and still enjoying all the great times!
(What he said when I asked him if he was sick of eating tortillas.) im used to it i usually just have a sandwhich when i get home because i never have money for anything else really haha so it always bread and peanut butter and jelly but its amazing because its different from tortillas!
Love you all!
Elder Passey
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