Nov 3rd

Nov 3

well monday we had a super sweet family home evening with the fam bernal and also elias and elias and it was super cool becasue maryan opened up a little bit and started talking to everyone and we played sherades and it was pretty fun to see them all open up a little and laugh. and we ate pancakes. haha and we also found a new investigator and we gave a blessing in her house and helped her feel better.

tuesday.

i had interchanges with and elder from Chicago and it was super funny to see how american he is haha but we had a good day. we actually walked around all day and we contacted people and then we got to teach raul and the first counsler in the bishopric.

wednesday.

we had distircti meeting and it was super good and way fun and then we had salmon for lunch with the fam bugllioni and it was super good (the husband just got back from work in the south fishing for 20 days) it was super good! haha and then we taught liliana really quickly and the we went  to and inteview for one of the district leaders and he passed and it was super good and i was able to go out and contact with the other comp and we contacted a really good lady who will be baptized in the future. haha i know it! and then we found a family of 3 but 2 can get baptized. the husbands brother was killed 8 months ago and the husband is taking pills for depression adn the mom is super stressed but has a ton of good questions for us and so we were able to help them and they are way receptive BUT they arent married. so we will marry them and then they will get baptized.!

Thursday 

we passed the stand to 2 other missionaries and then we taught Agusto and he accepted to be interviewed this week and gladly took the interview questions to study and so he is goin to prepare for that! and then we taught the less active guy who has schitzofrenia. haha he had us look at his face because he said that he had a rambo face. my eyeballs almost popped out of my head from holding in the laughter. my comp actually laughed. it was sweet! adn then we FINALLY had mission corillation with out ward mission leader and we were able to plan some stuff and then he told us that he is leaving for the next 2 months to work. NICE!!! haha but we will find someone else haha.

Friday.

(one year ago i was in the MTC how crazy is that!) but we went and cleaned out the side of the house of agusto and the relief society pres  and we found a scorpion but i didnt have my camera (DOUUUU) and dad to answer you question i saw some huge bug thing there and i saw el rincón when we did service with a elias and elias! haha so that was super awesome! and then we contacted people and then we had to take a bus to give a blessing to our district leader Elder Corona (de Mexico) because his health was super bad and couldnt walk and  so we walked with him to the church and gave him a blessing and it was areally spiritual experience beacuse hes about to finish his mission and the promise in his setting apart was that he would have the health he needed to serve the Lord. it was kinda emotional. haha

Saturday.

we found another new investigator and he can progress also but he needs to get married also! haha but he had listen tot he missionaries befor and so we are going to baptize him! and then we found another investigator and he is going to come to church the next week with us and we have a lesson with him htis tuesday. and we also taught a crazy lady. haha she was drunk first off and then she was mad at us beacuse we didnt enter her house the last time because she was alone. that was a wierd lesson and me and my comp just kinda looked at each ther and we just like "Yupp lets go.." haha and then we had Stake conference and it was all about mission work and so lets hope the references start dropping in!!

Domingo.

went to church. agusto didnt come and we dont know why haha but we are goin to look for him this week and see what he really wants to do and so we will be able to find out if we can baptize him or not. we taught elias and elias and they both got thier temple recommends to got to the temple this saturday  and then we had a FHE with a less active lady and a active fam and it was super fun and then we taught the Bernal Fam and we went with thier visiting teacher who monica had kinda be avoiding haha and we got thier but Hna monica had left and but the visiting teacher did a lesson super good with them and connected with maryan really when because he drank smoke metal head broke all the commandments and now has been omn the high counsel for 10 years and has never been in active in 31 years in the church. haha pretty crazy to see what real conversion does to poeple!

love you guys! mom send elias and elias another invite and have then send fotos of when they all go to the temple!

love you mom!! your my hero y te precio mucho! cuide te!

Oct 27th

well another week by haha and this one went by faster than the last one!

monday.

we had a couple lessons planned but no one was thier but we did get to teach felipe and we are hoping to see him progres this week also. we then had a FHE with the bishop who we havent been able to visit in a while so that was way fun and we also are going to have a FHE with them today with the bernal family and little elias. so that is goint to be awesome!

Tuesday.

so i went on splits with an elder from oregon and we were able to do 20 contacts with people in the street and it pretty exciting because its hard for me to do that a lot. haha so i feel pretty good to be ablet ot do that. haha the elder from oregon has actually been to Bend Oregon where we went for Senior Trip and so that was fun to. and we got to teach 2 people that are going to get baptized this week and then we taught thier investigator who doesnt believe in God and so that was fun to and he is reading the book of mormon in 30 days so in 30 day we are going to have a athiest get baptized. haha

Wednesday.

well we ate beans for lunch and it was about 500 degrees outside so that was pretty NEAT! haha we found a new investigator who is a school teacher and she accepted to get baptized on the 9th of november but she didnt come to church and we werent able to find her the rest of the week. haha and we talked to a reference, finally, that we have had for almost 4 months and he accepted a baptism date in the contact  adn said we were sent from god so that was super awesome because we are hahaa! 

Thursday.

we ate beans again for lunch . so we found a catholic lady and we were able to teach her and she agreed to get baptized but didnt accept a bap date but we are getting there! and then we had a member who is super funny and he came with us the whole and we just laughed and laughed. haha he is in his 70s actually looks inda like grandpa ethington but he is way funny and we were able to teach Agusto and the became friends right off the bat adn that was awesome! and then we taught felipe and that was super good beacuse hno Medalla was a alchoholic and then converted to the gospel and so he was able to share his testimony about the word of wisdom. and it was kinda funny also because he use to drink with felipes dad. felipes dad also died drunk. kinda sad. and then we taught a less active.

Friday.

it was about 1000 degrees outside that day. haha and i got sunburtn on my arms face and scalp. (thats a first) we did the stand thing and found a few people for the zone to teach so hopefully they are new investigators soon and then we ate completos for lunch and then we did the stand again and then i had and interview with and investigator for one of the DL in our zone. that was cool to beacuse he has the same amount of time as Josh brough does in the mission and has only baptized 2 people so it was cool to help him baptize someone. the guy that got bpatized had killed someone as a police officer.... haha he told me the story during hte interview and it was pretty nuts and sweet.

Sabado.

so we walked around a ton in the morning and then we almost ate beans again for lunch but a return missionary in the ward saved us and had his mom cook rice instead. haha so that was awesome. and then we found a new investigator who believes in God but not Jesus so we are going to teach her quickly before she dies haha...... and then we taught a less active guy and he came to church!

Domingo.

Agusto came to church!!1 haha and so we are going to get him baptized reall soon! haha hopefully he doesnt go to work in the north!! hah and we had a FHE wiht solange and alex and helped them with there family history. and solange gave a talk in sacrament meeting and it was sweet!!!!!! haha its the coolest thing to see poeple progress in the gospel! haha the gospel is so sweet.

love you all!!!

pray for agusto and felipe and that we can find a new family of 4 to baptize!

Elder Ethington 

Oct 20th

Well this week went by fast! hahah.

Lunes 

so we walked around for a little bit and we got to teach felipe whe still cant stop drinking. haha im never touching drugs or alcohol just becuase of what i have seen it do to him and his life. haha it sucks. and then we had a family home evening with the fam bernal and we watched the testaments and it was super fun i almost fell asleep but yes it was good! haha.

Tueday.

so we went and helped elias (papa) clean out all the weeds in thier yard and we saw the most poisonous spider crawling around in thier yard haha. it is basically a black widow. haha and then we found another new investigator whos name is juan and we talked to him and he told us how his wife had just died a coulple of months ago and so we were able to enter into his house and teach him a little but it was kinda wierd becuase he kinda just interupted us and expected us to leave hah os we said a prayer and then set another time to come back and then we had a lesson with agusto. his friend had told him a lot of false stuff about the church ans so we had a lesson to just answer all his questions . haha his friend told him that if you want to get baptized you have to be baptized naked. haha ive never heard a dumber thing in my whole life but oh well haha. after the lesson he was fine and we answered all his questions.

Wednesday.

 we had interviews with presidente Kähnlein and it was super good. haha man does it feel good to just talk to someone face to face who is here to help. ( you guys are normal and i love talking to you!!! but its slightly limited the contact we have haha) it helped a ton and gave me a lot of self confidence which i feel like i have been lacking these last couple weeks. and he told me that he trusts me completely and supports me 100% in what im doing, said i was one of his best zone leaders in the mission and that he was very happy with how im progressing.  for me, those were some huge compliments from him and helped a lot with what i needed.  and then we taught jose and we finally figured out that he is agnostic and so that is why he hasnt prayed but he said that he was going to pray and ask if God exists. and then we  taught felipe again and read the book of mormon with him and then prepared the church for the zone conference that we had the next day.

Thursday. 

we had zone conference and it was super fun and there was a moment when ifelt liek all at once all the faith that we had a zone grew at like the same time. haha it was a different feeling but it was cool and i swear im not going  crazy haha!  and then we walked around that day and we also got to teach Eldia and Elias about the Plan of Salvation.

Friday.

we had interchanges. haha you guys are going to die. hahha so i was with an elder Caden Wilcox from good ole Lehi. he live 5 min from Cabelas just down the hill and the craziest thing is that his grandparents live in syracuse haha infront of the steeds house on Bluff. haha the little white house that has the tractor is thiers haha it was so wierd finding htat out haha. and he is way new to the mission to so that was just fun to see how new missionaries are. haha.nuevitos. and we found a new investigator who is MARRIED!!! and we are going to teach his whole fam this thursday.

sabado.

so we taught a less active member and we jsut read the book of mormon with him and helped him learn more about baptism and then we were able to teach Juan again and he opened up quite a bit to us and actually cried and we told him that he can live with his wife again if he will read the book of mormon and pray to know that it is true. and he then said that he was going to come to church. and then we went to a lesson with the fam bernal and we ate completos for Conys and Alexs  birthday party and the we shared a lesson with them and also thier neighbors so we are hoping to start teaching them.

Domingo.

we went to church but nobody else did! haha! none of our investigators came to church so we are in the hunt to find some good  investigators who will come to church and get bpatized! but we had a good day and we talked to some people and then we taught a less active family! 

This week went by fast!

love you all and thank you for your prayers!

Elder Ethington