Well hello everyone!!!

Chilpancingo.

I¨m workin hard. haha. My companion, Elder Munden, is super awesome and funny. We work hard, and we´re about to put outselves to work until we die in this month. We have 2 families that are pretty cool. one of 5 and the other of 4 and a bunch of other people and with any luck we´ll see some baptisms soon. We had a really good week, except that not even 1 investigator came to church... A little discouraging, but thats what we need to concentrate on this week. But everything is going great. Sorry i don´t ahve pictures for you guys yet. I left my camera in the house and always forget to bring it to the internet place where we go.

There was a cool member that we met this week, Juan José, he got here from Michoacan (another state of Mexico) about 2 months ago and was looking for the elders by his house. He found us tuesday and thursday and friday he went out with us all day long. It was awesome. It´s super cool when the members start to work. I have a feeling this ward is going to be working really hard pretty soon. The ward here has very low activity rate. Theres about 430 members on the list. and usually about 40 or 50sih actives. This week we were almost 70. So we have a lot to work on the with the inactives to reactive them and the ward to help. But thats pretty normal.

So I guess I would say that life is pretty normal here in Guerrero Mexico. I haven´t heard of too many people getting killed. So everythings good. haha

OH Next saturday, Elder Ballard is coming the talk to all the missionaries!!!!!! WWWWOOOOOHHHH!!!!! The mission is super pumped to finally get an apostle. This is the first time an apostle has visited the mission in over 2 years. A few months ago we had President Rasband, The President of the Presidency of the 70s. That was awesome... but i´m super pumped. WE´re having Another mission conference!! I´m super excited. I¨m sure you can all tell

So Thats about it. We just played soccer for a few hours. Theres a new elder here, he was actually companions with my current companion in the MTC, His name is Elder Achziger. He´s half black. haha and he was a proffesional Ballet Dancer before the mission. haha he´s super cool. I wouldn´t mind being companions with the two only black missionaries int eh mission. But we´ll see what happens.

Well Today will be my frist District meeting as district Leader here in Chilpancingo. WE´ll see how it goes. I´m super exctied. Our zone has a goal of About 65 baptisms for this months...... a lot. But we´re going to work our tushes off. haha yeah.

thanks you all for you prayers and please pray for our investigators.

I Love you all a ton!!

Love

Elder Summers

HOLA from CHILPANCINGO GUERRERO!!!

Well hello everyone!!

Guess what? today i´m writing you from the state of Guerrero. Why? because today is changes!!! what? Elder Summers Got changed? yup. haha it was a sad moment leaving Coahuixtla. But it was a fun time that I had there so ít´s all ok. Yesterday I went by with all of the families and my converts and said goodbye. it was sad.

But saturday we had the most miracle of all!! 2 baptisms!! The couple that we married 2 weeks ago finally decided to get baptized, and since we already baptized their kids thats the whole family!! They´re just a great family. Super special, it was sad to say goodbye the them but I did. haha I´ll be sending pictures of their baptism next week.

Well my new area. I´m now in the STate of Guerrero, the City of Chilpancingo, area of Obrera. It´s pretty sweet, my companion is Elder Munden, he´s super funny and awesome, he´s new but speaks spanish very well. He´s from Arizona. I´ve still only had 1 mexican companion. haha, but thats how it goes sometimes.

Another sad moment was saying goobye to Elder White, my only Black companion... haha he was a great guy and we had a good 2 changes together, I enjoyed out time. I´m also District Leader here. It´s pretty exciting and really great. I enjoy opportunites to serve and I hope I do a good job here. My first zone in Cuautla is only 3 baptisms away from completing the goal of 27 baptisms. The first time in the history of the mission for that zone. So I feel very happy that i was a part of that. and if we push ourselves this week Chilpancingo could do very well this month as well. This zone was the highest baptizing for like 10 months straight, but these past 2 months it wasn´t, but that is about to change again. haha

As you can tell i´m very happy about my new area and companion. I´m excited to meet the ward even though my companion told me that there are only about 35 active members...... huh. That will be fun. But i´ll whip these memebers into shape to come back. mwahaha

Well thats about all that í have to report this week. I love you all and hope that you are all fantastically good!!

Love

Elder Summers

Hola Todos!!!

Well hello family!!
This week was pretty crazy. So we started out the week pretty normal. But Wednesday we took a ROAD TRIP!! to where you might ask? to Guerrero, the other state in my mission. A city called Taxco! Why? To marry a couple! I^ve mentioned before that it`s really difficult to marry people in the State of Morelos, and they couldn`t get married here. it was lame, so we took them to Taxco and did it in someones kitchen!!! haha. easy! so that was fun. Someone told me it was only like an hour and a half to get there. lie. 3 hours... haha it was a little long. But super fun. So now the couple is ready to be baptized!!! yay!! but..... they told us that they want to wait till the 22nd of September............. lame. But it`s the birthday of their oldest son that died 3 years ago. so I understand. But I just don`t want to wait anymore time. Waiting for ready people is the worst. But oh well.
Sadly next week are changes, so i`ll find out whats happening saturday. It`s very possible that i`ll be leaving. But also that i`ll be staying. so i`m really not sure whats going to happen. I kind of want to stay to baptize this family and others, but at the same time, I wouldn`t mind a change. So whatever happens, i`ll be happy! haha
Today we went to Tepotzlan again! it was pretty fun. WE climed the mo untain again. it`s hard. But not as bad as I remember it. haha, we got up relatively fast. and this time there were a lot of Tejones. remember what those are? they`re like mexican badgers. But their really friendly. WE brought up food this time and like 20 came out. it was entertaining. if you had food in your hand, they would climb up you to get it. haha. We ended up throwing a couple.... by their tails.... haha entertaining. because it doesn`t do anything to them. But thats how my day went. It was fun.
Sadly the Baptism of Diego didn`t happen this week. He called us friday and said that he wasn`t going to be able to do it this week. It was kind of weird. I figured he was leaving or something, cause he just got married to a member, but he didn`t. he was just in his house. it was weird. So we`re going with him tomorrow to check out whats up.
Well yeah thats about all. if everything goes extremely well we`ll have a few baptisms this week and we`ll see what happens with the changes next week!!
Love you all tonss!!!!
Love
Elder Summers

Capoera, EFY, and BAPTISMS!!

HEY EVERYONE!!
This week was really great. We started out working a lot, but all of the Young men and women in your ward went to EFY in Mexico City for the whole week... one of my converts went too!! Aldair! IT was super cool, but that meant that we didn`t have anyone to help up with lessons with members, cause we almost always take young men with us. So that was cool for them, but not so cool for us.
We also had an awesome experience. Roberto, whom we`ve been teaching for over 3 months finally got baptized!!! he said that he wanted to do it on his birthday, the 7th of August so we said ok! He was super ready, I believe he`s already in like Alma in the book of mormon... it`s awesome. He asked me if I would baptize him and I gladly accepted, it was super awesome.
We also had another Kid named Daniel that got baptized! He is awesome. We met him 2 weeks ago. He is the neighbor of some of my converts and they said that he wanted us to pass by with him one day, so we did and he was super excited. He really changed a lot and is one of the happiest teenagers i`ve ever seen.
Another guy in our ward, Reniel, helped us teach him and they got along super well and he asked if Reniel could baptize him. It was really spiritual and awesome. the only bad part was that the Church ran out of Gas for the Boiler, so the water was cold.... yes here in mexico gas runs out.... you have to buy big tanks of it for your house, for your boiler and stove and stuff and when it runs out, theres a gas truck that drives around all the time with it`s sirens super loud and annoying that sells you a new tank... the most in eficient way in the world? quite posibly. But thats how it is.
Then it started raining.... but RAINING. The Church almost flooded, but it stopped before the whole church became a pool. It was really a fantastic experience though. Pictures will come!! haha
Today we woke up and went to a karate gym, the owner is an investigator of the elders of the other ward. He`s super super cool. We did a ton of workouts and started some Capoera. It`s like a Brazilian Ju dit su or something like that. But it`s cool. I`ve always loved it. then we went back to the Hacienda here in Coahuixtla and saw the rest of it. It was cool, we chased sheep for a while and I caught a lamb and got a cool picture with it... haha but it was a really cool day, i`m just super burned and sore... but that will go away. haha
Well this next wednesday i`m going to Taxco, a city in Guerrero. the other state in my mission, to marry a couple. Here in Morelos, the marriage laws are crazy and it`s hard to marry people, but in Guerrero there pretty much aren`t laws. haha so we`re takin a cool road trip wednesday! HOORAY FOR RICH MEMBERS! hahah but seriously, it`s great when members can help you out with things like 4 hour marriage trips. a big blessing.
If everything goes well we`ll be baptizing that couple this week after their married. We`ve been teaching them my whole time here and They are ready. WE already baptized their 3 kids and now we just need the parents to make the whole family! haha
We also have another awesome guy thats getting baptized, his name is Diego. He`s the boyfriend of a member and they are either planning on getting married soon... or just got married. I forgot to ask them if they`ve done it yet... haha they also are going to go to Taxco to get married, because it`s so easy. But they are super cool and he is a super awesome spiritual guy, I enjoy every time that I talk to him. haha
Well thats about it for this week, I hope that you are all happy and well and that you have a great week!
I love you all A TON!! but even more and i`m glad for your support that you all give me
Love
Elder Summers

Este semana

Hola!
How is everyone? Good I hope. Well this week went pretty well. We had a hard time getting a hold of our investigator Apollo and he dissapeared for a few days, so we still haven´t been able to get everything ready for his baptism. But the next week we have the baptisms of Daniel and Roberto!!! I´m very very excited for that! We have been getting a lot more help from the ward lately and have received a few great references and lots of help from the youth! So thats great! Speaking of the youth. They all left to EFY today in the City of Mexico. There´s a high school owned by the church called The Benimerito de las Americas. it´s big and awesome, and they´pre having efy with like 5 or 6 thousand youth! one of my converts went!!! another was going to go but her dad said no... :( lame. But thats life. So i´m excited for the youth of Coahuixtla!! 16 youth went. Thats A TON!!! The other ward that shares a church building with us only had 2 go. hahahaha
So there really weren´t many things super exciting that happened this week. We got permission to have another week on bikes. That was fun, and we´ll see how this week goes if we get them or not. Well Thats about all that I have.
I love you all tons and hope that your all good!
Love
Elder Summers