Baptism!!!! what a week

Well can i just tell you all that i`ve had a week!

Some great things happened. and at the same time we had some really sad, and lame things happen.

So sunday morning we had the baptism of Griselda. she`s an aweosme lady who definately is going to do well in the church, her mom and kids are all active members in Texas, but she got deported and we baptized her here. She has a pretty sweet testimony and we are hoping that the ward with accept her in well and work with her. i`ll send photos next week. We also had a couple come to church that we`v e been working with for like amonth. The wife came like 3 weeks ago. But the husband, who just finished reading 2nd nefi! came and seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. So they are right on track for baptism in this month of March! woot!

Sadly the family that we`re working with Veronica, Raul, Tamara, and Michelle, fell. We had their interviews this week of all except raul, and they are were super ready and excited, but sadly satan always has to put his little hand in the middle of what we do, and turned the dad against us. He probably heard soemthing about the church and didn`t want it, but he won`t talk to us, and as of saturday, which was when they were oging to get baptized, has prohibited them from talking to us. So it was sad, they are so ready and want to so bad. But the Hard hearted, and proud always seem to put the rest down. But we still have faith taht we can do it. We`re going to try to talk to him and get all of his doubts and everything so he gives permission to his family to at least assist or listen again. So please include them in your prayers.

Crazy story. last sunday night our church got robbed, they took an entire air conditionight unit, and cut the tubes of all the other 5. so sadly this sunday we had to sit through all three hours without air, and without window, cause our church doesn`t have any. it was hot. They also stole some keys to a shed that we needed to open to drain the baptismal font and to clean it. But we couldn`t get in, so we had to drain it with buckets. Does anyone know how long that takes? LONG!! We only drained less then half in like 4 hours they said we`ll just clean in and refill it and put in bleach, and it turned out nice and pretty for the baptism. We sang a song with Guitar, my companion is teaching me how to play a little. So yes, after lots of trails from the adversary, we were able to have a good baptismal service. haha

Well thats about it for this week. Love you all and hope your having a fantastic time at home or whereever you may be.

Love

Elder Summers

Well hey everyone!

Well how are you all!!

This week actually turned out pretty great. We were super excited for the baptism of this family on saturday, but sadly, do to family problems, they couldn`t. But we talked to the mom and daughters and got them excited again and the 3 came to church again yesterday!! woot!! Also we had the interview and everything with Griselda! She`s all ready and set for her baptisms this weekend. We`re really excited. She needs it. haha The work is going well right now, we`ve been really busy and finding new ways to work and find people, I feel pretty good here in Acapulco now. It`s not super hot anymore, though that just means that in the coming months it`s going to start to get hot again. But really REALLY hot. But oh well. Our house that we live in now has a AC unit, so that makes me happy.

Exciting note! Today i bought a hammock. It`s blue, and really big. I like it. a lot! so when i come home we`ll have to find a place to hang it up. And maybe i`ll let you all try it... maybe.. mwahaha jk yeah you can try. But yeah. i`m excited to have a hammock to rest in. I won`t use it a ton. But i`ll use it. and it`ll be nice. It can hold like 3 people.

Soccer is no longer banned in my mission anymore!! woohoo! due to a bunch of injuries, president banned soccer a few months back, but today we played freely without bans. it was fun.

Also New announcement. The new Mission president for the Mission, Mexico, Cuernavaca, has been announced.

Bruce C. and Alynda K. Kusch

Bruce or Presidente Kusch, Associate academic vice president for curriculum, Brigham Young University-Idaho. Born in Lynwood, Calif.,

Yeah, we`re pretty excited here. Except i`m pretty sad that i won`t end with President Spannaus. he`s the best. He finishes, July 1st. I finish July 21st. The first Generation to die with the new president. But oh well.

So yes, we`re exctied to Baptize this week and we`re seeing lots of good things happened here in Jardin Acapulco!

Love you all tons and hope you have a fantastic Week!

Love

Elder Summers

The mission. Sometimes it`s hard.

So my first week with my new companion.

Things have really been doing well! We get along super well and things have been going great!

Things are still going good with the family and other people that are going to get baptized. Raul, Veronica, and their daughters have progressed a lot! They all accepted a batismal date for this saturday! We were super pumped for them. We also have been working a lot with Griselda, she went to church alot in the US, but until now couldn`t get baptized. She really wants to but keeps having things come us and couldn`t come to church on sunday or make it to her baptismal interview, so we`ll see how things go. Sadly also Raul, and his family couldn`t make it to church either, Raul had to work and Veronica`s Aunt is now sick and has to go be with her EVERY evening to help her. So I don`t think they`ll be getting baptized this week.... That is sad. But they are really a special family and will get baptized soon, so i just need to have a little bit more patience. haha. But other than that things are looking pretty great hear. Little by little the ward is reaching out and helping us more. So that is great!

The other two missionaries that will be in the ward haven`t gotten here yet, so we`re still just 2 missionaries in the ward. There is going to come a Mexican to train an American straight from the MTC, But he hasn`t gotten to Mexico yet. So yeah. But yeah things are going pretty good. We now have AC in our house. LOVE IT! seriously, I don`t know how it`s possible to live here in Acapulco without AC, but like 90% of the people do. So yeah, obviously it`s possible.

Well yes. This week we have a lot of work ahead of us, but i`m excited. Things should start picking up here and we`ll be having some great baptisms soon.

Well sometimes the mission is hard too. But thats when you learn the most.

Love you all tons and am very greatful for your prayers and love.

Love

Elder Summers

HOLA, Cambios!!

WEll hello everyone!

Today is the day of Changes!

Well they called us friday night to tell us changes a little bit early so that we could get our tickets and everything. And My companion, Elder Payne, is going. To Cuautla as a zone leader. It`skind of sad that he won`t be here anymore... But oh well, we thought he was going to leave this change so we were all super ready. They told me that my new companion is Elder Gonzalez. a mexican! but... the problem is, is that there are like 4 elders Gonzalez in the mission. One, I would NOT like to have as my companion, to be honest. Dead. haha but he was already here, so i figured it wasn`t him. But i was so worried about who it was that night that i even dreamed about it. I was worried in my dreams. haha But it wasn`t him. My companion is super cool. he`s from Guanajuato, Were Robert Served his mission! I`m pretty pumped, he seems really laid back, and a good people person. I feel like we`re going to get along really well.

So this week was pretty good! Our AWESOME family that we`re teaching came to church. It was sweet. I was super pumped to see them there and they liked it a lot. Even the husband came this week. The wife and daughters are pretty pumped to get baptized, they haven`t accepted a date yet, but we`re workin on that. And i think that dad is also getting pretty excited. WE taught Griselda all week and she is super excited, but strangely didn`t come to Church on Sunday, we were late for an appointment on saturday and she was cooking so we said that we`ll talk on sunday and she seemed ok with that. But for some reason didn`t come. It was weird. So tomorrow we`re gonna go see whats up with her. But i still think she could get baptized this week for sure.

yes, so here i am here in The Garden of Acapulco with Elder Gonzalez, I don`t speek english anymore. It`s fun. haha it`s been like 8 months since i`ve been with a mexican companion, Elder Lara whos now my Zone Leader, and it feels good! haha

Well love you all tons and hope that everything is going great and that you all get lots and lots of snow to start out February!

Love

Elder Summers

Well hhheeelllooo!!

How are ya`ll this week!

Well this week was really awesome actually. We worked pretty darn hard, and we found an awesome miracle. her name is Griselda. She got here about 6 months ago from Texas. Her mother and all of her kids are members there in texas. But sadly as happens to some mexicans. She got deported to here, so she can`t see them much for a bit. But she has known the church for a long time and has worked with lots of missionaries, but said that she never really took them seriously. She almost got baptized, but wasn`t married to her husband so couldn`t. But now she`s here, alone. And really wants to change. ITS AWESOME!! We had an awesome first lesson with us and she told us she`s gonna do everything. We passed by to get her sunday and she was all ready and super duper excited to go to church again, because she went a lot in the US, and on the way there announced that she`s going to get baptized, but she wants us to prepare her good!!

Blessings come from God I know. She needed us in the moment we found her. Actually, we were looking for some inactive members that live in a part of our area that we never go, and we asked her cousin if she knew where they lived and she said behind her house, so as we were leaving, griselda caught up to us and started talking to us in perfect english. haha, slight accent, but still. much much better than most people. p.s. the inactive member came to church too!! he seems pretty exctied to reactivate after like 6 years of inactivity. haha

But yes. Church was awesome for that. But sadly our awesome family that came to church last week didn`t come this week. We don`t know why. We had an awesome lesson with them on friday and taught the dad for the first time. they all seemed really excited to come to church again, and the daughters went to mutual on saturday. After church we passed by and the youngest daughter said that her mom was sleeping and that something had happened. But yeah. We`re not sure, we`re going back tomorrow for an appointment so we`ll see what happens.

There`s lots more thats going on here in the Garden of Acapulco, but it would take too long to write it all. We went to the beach again today. I love it. its just kinda stinky. but thats how they are sometimes. haha

We `re coming on the last week of the change. The other two elders in my ward are going home. Elders Woolsey (my zone leader in Chilpancingo) and Elder Martinez (he was in my first district in Atoyac) 2 elders that i`ve known for quite some time. I`m gonna miss them lots. But that always has to happen. And theres a good change that my companion Elder Payne is going too. But we`ll see what happens on Saturday.

I also made some phone calls to some converts last night and talked to some of my favortite converts from Cuautla. Narciso and his family. I love them. it pumped me up a lot and really got me excited to baptize more ready people like they are.

WEll i love life, the mission, the Lord, and ALL OF YOU!!!

Love

Elder Summers

Well hello! 18 months! and BAPTISM! kinda....

Well hello everyone!

This week was a really great one!

many things important happened. one, i completed 18 months! yeah! pictures below. As a tradition with missionaries, we like to burn things on landmark months. 6 months. tie. 12 months, shirt. 18 months, pants. yes. goodbye my least favorite pair of pants. burnt. to a crisp! haha We also had the baptism of Moses. Everything went super well this week, he came to church on sunday with his wife and everything went great. But after church, i went to fill out his paper work and another brother pulled me aside and told me that he just had a good conversation with moses, in which he told him that he already got baptised 4 years ago with his family... we just sat their with our mouths open for a bit. We knew that his wife and kids got baptised. but he had failed to mention that he did. and from what we asked him, he had never been baptised. So we figured we go right ahead and do it. But after that comment we decided that we couldn`t do anything more and had to ask for the records of his wife and kids to see if we can find his. So after lots of stress and possible a little bit of apostasy. Moses was baptised. kind of..... so yeah. Thats my crazy story for the week. I may have just baptised someone that already got baptised. huh

So yeah. We also had a cool experiance. friday we were searching for a refferal in a road. We asked the neighbor if she knew which house was hers. and she said it was the one next to hers. so we contacted the neighbor too and set up an appointment to teach her and her daughters the next day. We searched for the referral, knocked, shouted, but no one answered. So the next day we checked again and she wasn`t there. So we went to the lesson with the neighbor and she and her 2 daughters were AWESOME! We invited them to come to church, and they accepted. Church started and only one investigator was there, but then 15 minutes before sacrament meeting ended, she and her 2 daughters and 4 year old son came in!! woot!! they seemed to love it! So yes. Even though the other 5 people that we were waiting on didn`t come. God gave us a tender mercy and sent us this very awesome family. It streighthened my testimony of contacting. Because here it`s not very effective.

So yes. Those were the highlights of this week. We have 2 other families that we`re working with that have been to church before. But for some reason they didn`t come yesterday. WE`re gonna stop by tomorrow and see whats up with them. But yes. it feels good to complete 18 months. now it`s all downhill really fast. but it makes me happy.

last monday we had district meeting on the beach. we took cool pictures and had an awesome spiritual meeting. I really enjoyed it. But yes. I like the beach, and one day am coming back here. So anyone that wants to come with is definately invited.

Well love you all and hope that your having a fantastic week!

Love

Elder Summers

40 year old flirts.... *shutter*

WELL HEY THERE YA`LL!!!

A little bit of country here from mexico. ok not really more coasterner. yeah...

Well this week was pretty great! We had 6 people in church yesterday! it was awesome! one of them, Moses, is getting baptized this week! WOOT!! we`re super pumped. his family are members. we think. They got baptized in Oaxaca, mexico, like 4 years ago so we`re looking for their records to make sure that they are. but he`s pretty excited. We also had 2 other families come. one, the sister is a member that got baptized like a month ago in Michoacan, she`s super cool and has an awesome testimony. we`re teaching her sister, mom, and their families. 3 of them came to church. They seemed to like it. And 2 others came. the daughter is a member. just super inactive for years. We started teaching them like 2 weeks ago. The youngest daughter is pretty interested. The middle daughter. not really at all, and the mom kinda. she`s a flirt. grosse. well. they all are. but the mom call`s us things like WOW, and HANDSOME. yeah... she`s like 40. super inappropriate. but thats life. they came to church though!! haha

Oh yeah... moses, funny guy. 6 kids. didn`t know what a condom was until like 2 weeks ago.... awkward conversation. but good that he`s not having anymore kinds. cause he`s poor. very, very very poor. but awesome!!!

Well yes. today we`re going to the beach. i can see the ocean right now from my computer. it`s calling my name. we can`t touch the water. but we can go on the beach. so i will.

Well love you all and just FYI if there is anyone that want to write me by hand. FEEL FREE TO DO IT! missionaries LOVE mail. haha

Elder Brent Summers