February 1, 2010 - Transferring to Independencia

I started out with one of my favorite lines too, from how firm a foundation. I´m downloading the General Conferences music from this last session onto those USB drives you sent me. I´m upset again. I woke up, eh-eh, but then, cheered up as ELder Nichols and I went to go write at the ciber. We were there for ... 1 and something and the computer froze on me twice, I got really upset after all that. The good thing is that it didn´t erase all my photos, I was uploading photos and it could have formatted the memory but in the end it didn´t happen. Then I had already written you a great letter, when the computer froze. I´m doing alot at once right now too... uploading photos, downloading music and writing. I have eight windows open right now, lol. I don´t remember what I wrote then, I was really happy too.. We got our changes yesterday. I´m going back to Guadalajara. It´s an interesting story. The assistents called and informed that I would be returning to Bellenes, with Elder Oakes. Same zone, same area, same campanion. I was devastated. I didn´t know how I was going to do it. A few hours later the assistants called back and informed me that I had changes and that I was going to Independencia. It´s all good. I´m sattisfied with Independencia, I don´t have any reason to not want to be there, so I´m content. It´s really close to several converts I have there too, but I´ll have to see if Presidente Saucedo gives me permission to go in to the old mission boundaries. My old area Jardines got moved to the other mission, so it´s now out of boundaries. Today we got back to the house I read a little bit in the BOok of Mormon and then we headed to the branch ´camp day´ we went to a little grove of trees on the outskirts of the city and played games had some snacks, football(soccer). It was entertaining but we were there for a little while. It´s now 3:42... whole day gone already. Anyway, here´s the good news. This week was really hard. But we have our fruits. We baptized Irma Bernal. She´s a sweet little woman. She really is tiny, that´s why I said little. Lol. SHe´s 26 ...and single... lol and has a testimony. Elder Perez actually went to a little pueblo that day and couldn´t come to the baptism. I manned up on the details. I´m so sick of, but used to, doing whatever Elder Perez says, so it´s awkward for me to make decisions again, especially when I don´t know what´s planned or in store, but I got the job done, and it´s the first baptism that you could really feel the Spirit of God in the room. That was our ward mission leader's sister. Now our ward mission leaders wife is going to have her entire family over for a family home evening tonight, so we should hvae some fun there! Well they´ll have the rewards right. Oh, yeah... guess who THEY will be. Elder Perez stays here and gets elder Harding! HAHA! but that´s ok, i know I have a loving famiyl and great friends waiting for me at home and great converts and families here that I´m looking forward to visit again with Daniel when I come back. .I look forward to the blessings of home and family and friends and a new changes and atmosphere for now. ELder Huerta will be my new campanion, I know the kid...he´s not bad, I´m not to familiarized with him, but that´s ok. I´m just ready to leave. I´m going to go pack right now...See´s candy eh?? THANKS! Lol, it wasn´t easy to pass them out, but fater what they had done for me, it was worth it. Boots, chocolate bars, food skarf. They´ve been a real blessing. We´re going to eat with them tomorrow, right before I leave! YEAHH!!!! He´s inactive now though, I´m sad... he´s got 4 weeks without going to church and I don´t know why. I want to love more people in a more loving way. That´s my desire, now i have to make it a goal...see how that goes. Pray that Elder Huerta will strive to get along with me, that he´ll be humble and allow me to take part and that we will thrive as companions, that´s my plee for you all. Packages are cool, but don´t worry so much, i¨m good for now! In this flippin´ zone we just spend a lot of money, that´s been my problem, that and I´m VERY generous when I share...lol. I end up loosing alot of money really fast. Lol. Tomorrow we´re going to baptize Lorena just before i go! I´m so excited! AND I GET TO BAPTIZE HER!!! OH MAN I¨M SOOOOOOOO HAPPY TO THINK ABOUT THAT! I´m going to start planning that baptism right now! I need to go pray about the little details, so that the Lord will help me with those things...alright well I¨m out of here, and I can´t wait to see those pictures! Say hi to the guys for me, a special shout out to Ben if you could, it´s been a while since I heard from him. Love, Jake