Hola Familia,

Hey everybody! How has the week been? I hope everything is going fantastic there back in Benson. Things here in the mission are getting better, in the mission you will have highs and lows but for the most part, the attitude that you have affects whether you are in that high or that low.

The pics that you guys sent me are hilarious, I can't believe that you all got stuck! It must be super wet back there! But trust me! Kandy never fails!! She almost died gettin me to St. George but somehow she made it! Man I really miss driving and listening to music, but oh well, the only people who get to drive here are the secretaries and trust me, I do not want to be in the offices. Don't forget to wash Kandy good, I think Lacey would be a good volunteer to do that haha.

The work is coming along slowly. Transfers are this next Tuesday, we'll see if we are lucky haha. We are going to baptize this next Sunday but for the next we have about 6 progressing, we'll see if I'm here to see them get baptized. We didn't get to baptize Gloria, we put a date for their interviews and they didn't show up, we were just waiting and waiting. Until I called them and them daughter said her Mom was showering. I asked them if they were coming but they aren't going to baptized, you can see that they really just don't have that desire to do it. I'm sure that if we baptized them they would soon be inactives. So we are going to let them go, they didn't come to Church Sunday either. But for the most part we had success with 7 new investigatores there in Church.

This last Thursday we worked and then at 9 we went back to the house to rest. Shortly after someone knocked on our door. It was the Brother Huerta. He is a member that is super cool, we usually eat dinner and stuff with them. It is the guy that took us to the pyramids with his family. But I could tell that something was wrong. He asked to come in, and started to tell me what was up. I will never forget the words that he told me he said "Que cree Elder, tengo un buen de problemas...... mi esposa me dejó." In English is I've got a bunch of problems.... my wife left me. He told us that he got back from work and his wife and kids had taken the furniture and were gone. I didn't know what to tell him. He was crying really hard, it was so wierd to see, a family so cool that in such short time now is ruined. He has a 15 year old son that 1 month ago left the house and has really gotten into drugs and stuff. But I never thought that his other 2 kids and his wife would leave him too. It was so sad to hear his story. We can never let anything stand in the way of the family, not work, not school, not church callings, anything! The next day he and his brother found his son and took him to this rehabilitation center. But his son didn't go willingly, he put up a good fight, when brother huerta told us the story of how they did it I was pretty surprised. His story included stealing a motorcycle and driving it, which the brother huerta never has done, being chased by the police and then having his son scream that when he got out he was going to get his gang to come and kill his dad as he was being carried into the prison place. I'm pretty sure mexico is one of the craziest places in the world!

Well that was our shocker for the week. Not much else has really happened new. The brother Delgado, who we baptized a little bit ago, him and his wife now have callings in young mens and in the young womens. They are super cool, I'm almost positive they will be goin through the Temple in a year. The other two families are really cool too. Hopefully in this next cycle I can find one more family, because after this cycle I will have a year and then I won't be here when they go through the Temple and stuff. I was able to talk with Garcia, my first son, and he is really struggling with his comp. His comp doesn't want to work and is really disobedient. But Garcia is going strong.

Mom will do great in her first classes that she has to teach. I remember that my first class that I taught as District Leader was the best one. I think because I was so worried to teach other missionaries that I prepared the class really good. I've never been a good talker or teacher but when you open your mouth the Lord really does put the words in your mind.

Well I gotta run that is all for this week! I hope everything is going great back home! Read the Scripts and say your prayers! The basics are the most important!! Love you guys!

Elder Frijolezzz.

Hola Familia,

Hey everybody, what's up? Not much has changed here, Mexico is still Mexico and we continue workin hard. The weather has continued to be HOT, it is just awful if we have days when we don't have appointments. We have to contact all day, it's pretty fun haha! But they say that it is time for the rain to come, for these next few months it should be rain rain rain. That should be interesting haha, my comp doesn't have a raincoat.

The next transfers are not till the 31st, I'm really hoping to have changes. My comp really frustrates me. But if we don't have changes, oh well right? He really makes the Sisters mad here, he doesn't like any of the food so he just doesn't eat it. You can tell that the members really get mad with him. I mean come on put on your big boy diapers and eat the food!

But anyways, this week has been kind of rough. We didn't really find anyone cool that went to Church. The only peolple that we have that we are teaching right now is a Mom named Gloria and her 3 kids. She is a single Mom. We are hoping to baptize all of them this Sunday, but we'll see what happens, the kids don't really like to go to Church. This Sunday an ex missionary from Utah came back to visit the ward. It was pretty cool to see him talkin with a few of his converts. It would be cool to come back one day too, when I don't have to go everywhere in a shirt and tie haha.

That is great to hear about Mom's calling, she is going to do great. Just remember that The Lord calls everyone to their calling and that it is what the Lord wants. He will help us every step of the way if we humble ourselves before him. (ether 12:27)

How is the ward doing? I forgot, what are the new boundaries now? Is the Ward bigger or smaller than it was before they changed everything up? It was no surprise to hear that Doyle quit coaching, who is the new coach, hopefully they can find somebody good to do it. That is crazy that Dillon will be home at the end of the month, it is going to be another year until I see him again haha! That's good that you could get the movie, I'm excited to get it, hopefully it didn't cost too much.

Well that is all for this week. I hope you guys have a great week and enjoy these last weeks of the school year before summer! Con mucho amor y paz - Elder Chambers

P.S. No sicknesses yet, and the pics are with the last fam. that we baptized, we went to this museum thing today

Hey Everyone,

Well there isn't too much to say, we talked a bunch yesterday. It was pretty nice to talk to everybody again. It is the fastest 45 minutes ever haha! Today we played soccer again and I got to see Elder Falslev once more.

Well I'm going to send a few pictures, but that is all for this week. It was great talkin to you guys! Have an awesome week! Love you guys! CTR

Elder CHambers

Hola Familia,
How is everyone doing? I can't believe another month has already blown by. The time is going really fast, before long I will have been out a year. With the pictures that you sent me I can't really tell if the calves have grown that much, Hopefully these last few months they can put on some pounds!! Is the grass out in the field starting to grow yet? I imagine that this month things will really start to heat up. Are you guys reading for summer to start?? I think that here in June and July it rains a lot, I'm not to excited for that time! It will be a lot harder to find people.

Things here in Azteca are going good, not great, but good. We are hoping to have two baptisms this coming Sunday. It all depends on if they can stop smoking for good. The guy that we have looks like he is gonna be able to stop! But I'm not sure about Alicia. We'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure that the missions here are a lot different from other parts of the World. Here if they don't get baptized in 3 weeks then we shouldn't be wasting our time with them. We always ask them to be baptized in the first lesson. That way they don't feel like it is such a short time. I think that in the States the missionaries take a little bit longer to baptize the people.

Once again this week has been a scorcher. I don't know how hot it is but I think it is into the 90's and with all the concrete and asphalt it gets really hot. This week we really need to find another family haha it's like an addiction, the families. Once you baptize a few all you want is more. But it's hard because usually the Dads here are really alcoholic and don't want anything with religion. They pray to the virgin Mary and that's good enough for them haha. But this week I feel like we are gonna find another. I dunno I'm just feelin’ it!!

Well it was interesting to hear what's going on in the World. Today in the morning I also saw that Bin Laden had been killed. It is in the newspapers here too. It's almost a blessing to not be able to read the news, I swear all that you hear are negative things. The only thing I miss is the sports section!! I can't wait to watch Football again!! haha

Not much is happenin here, it's the same ole same ole! I was talkin with a kid that we baptized who is 20 years old. And he really wants to go on a mission. I think that when he has one year in the Church he is gonna go on his mission. That would be sweet to be in my mission with one of my converts in the mission at the same time!! Today we played soccer with the Zone! So me and Kayd got to see each other again! We were on the same team haha. It's pretty cool to have a cousin here.

Ok for the call! We have our Church in the morning at 9 and we end at 12 then we are going to eat and then do the calls. I was thinking. About at 3:00 here in Mexico I could be in the house where you're gonna call. But I also think that the time is different here. I will need to talk at 3 o clock here I think that that is at 2 o clock there but you will need to check. But at 3 I will be there waiting for you guys. I'm pretty excited to talk again, I've been practicing English with my comp this week haha.

But that's all for this week have a great week and I'll talk to you guys on Sunday!!! Love ya!


Elder Chambers

P.s. I hacked onto my facebook to save a picture that i'm going to use for my District class tonight, don't worry I got permission to do so.

Hola Familia,

Hey everybody! How are things going back home? Has Odis died yet, are the cows still doin good? Haha things here in Mexico are going pretty good for us too. This week we went to the transfers meeting and Kayd also had transfers. I was able to sit by him the whole meeting, it's pretty cool to have a friend that lives just down the road right here with me in Mexico. Kayd got a new hijo and was moved to another area. He moved into our zone, we would be in the same District but everything got changed up because they made a new District. I also seen Elder Castro there at the transfers meeting, he gave me a tie haha. Elder Garcia was also there too! The whole gosh darn Family!! Haha it was good to talk to everybody.

But, ya here we are again in our area already a week has passed by in this cycle. I have really loved my area here, the members and the investigators are great. I think that the missionaries before me and Garcia didn't hardly work, they baptized a few but this are was ready to explode! Three whole families in one are is a miracle. I'm so happy that I came here when I did. On Sunday in the Gospel Principles class the teacher was talking about missionary work. She asked everybody to share how they came to know the Gospel. It was one of the coolest moments of my mission. The Solis Family, The Delgado Briones Family, and The Rodriguez Family all stood up and expressed how we found them in the street and how they came to know the Gospel through us, they expressed the changes that have taken place in their lives and the happiness that they feel in the Gospel. I couldn't help it, I had tears running down my face. It is such a blessing to be here in the mission helping people changes their lives. I hope that this cycle we can find another family.

Right now we are having a little bit of a rough time. This week was the "Holy Week" here in Mexico, instead of just celebrating Easter, they celebrate the whole week. They do crazy Catholic rituals, on Friday they did this whole play thing where they actually had crosses that they carried through the streets and then in front of the Catholic Churchs they had people get up on the crosses and act like they were being crucified. There tradicions are redunculous! Then on Saturday, they always have big water fights everywhere, we got squirted with squirt guns as we were walking around trying to find people. This week the people here were really closed off to everything. And on Sunday when we went to pick of Alicia she wasn't there. We have a possibility of baptizing a guy named Julio this Sunday but he is in a process of stopping smoking, maybe it will take him until the next week.

This week not much else happened. It is really wierd now to have a cell phone in my pocket again, the first time it rang I had a little panic attack haha. I also sent some texts, that was really wierd! I'm a little bit slower but I think it is because I'm doing it in Spanish haha. I also had my first baptismal interview this week. It was with a little 9 year old kid, everything went well, the little kids are super easy to interview. Its a little bit harder when you get a lady who has had an abortion or something like that haha. Tonight I have my first District class, I'm not to worried the Zone Leaders said they were going to give my first class. We'll see how it all goes.

Well yesterday they told us that we are going to call, us gringos, on the 8th. But they told us that they would like us to do it before 6:00. Like the other time we are going to have 45 minutes again. But I'm not sure if the code to call is the same as the last time because I'm in the State of Mexico now, not Hidalgo. You guys will have to do some research. Next week I will let you guys know what time and what number to call. If there is a time that you guys would like tell me in the next letter. But that's all for now, that's great you guys got my letters, I wrote them a long time ago. But ya take care, love you guys!

Elder Chambers

P.S. Tell Whitney to score!!!!

Hola Familia,

Well how is everyone doing? I got the pictures of the St. George trip and everybody looks like they are doing good. Well it has cooled down a little bit here, the last 4 days it has rained but not all that hard. My companion said that it was the first time that he has ever seen lightning. Personally I am not liking the rain at all, there is absolutley nobody in the street when it rains, and if there is someone they don't want to stop and talk to you.

Things in the mission are continuing to go good. What looked impossible, we got done this week. The Family that we were teaching was able to get married and later be baptized yesterday. I know that we had tons of blessings from the Lord to be able to baptize the Family. Normally it takes about a week or two to marry someone but they let us in, in just two days. This is the Lords work and he is guiding every phase of it. The baptisms went great, and the Family is really happy.

Besides that not much else has happened here this past week. Tomorrow we finish the cycle, we talked with our District Leader last night and he told us that we don't have changes. So, we will be here in Azteca another 6 weeks, hopefully we can continue baptizing, this next week we don't have anyone, but the next we have a lady named Alicia. Hopefully she will decide to be baptized, she is about 60 years old. But there is one small change that we have. Well, I'm going to be District Leader, haha it really took me by surprise when they told me. But I think I'm ready for it haha. The wierdest thing will be giving the baptismal interviews. I also have to give the class every Tuesday now, I really think I'm gonna go gray by the time I get back home. President is putting alot more pressure on us now to baptize every week! I know that it is possible but we are going to need to work alot harder. I hope I can help my new District, so that all of us can be in the water every Sunday!!

Well, how is everybody in the Family? Pretty soon we will be talking on the phone again, I'm not sure if it will be on Sunday or Tuesday because here in Mexico they celebrate Mothers Day always on May 10th. So we might call on Tuesday, who knows! The time is going by really fast, we've already passed the half way point of April, and this week I will hit my 9 month mark. I'm gettin close to a year eh!

Just so you know, I didn't feel the earthquake, I think it would take an earthquake pretty big to do anything here in the city. And I didn't eat the whole bowl of grasshoppers, it was only a side to put on Tacos but I did eat some haha, they were pretty nasty haha. This week the food was pretty normal.

An update on the families that we've baptized here, well yesterday all of them were there in the Church. And the Solis Family all went to do baptisms for the dead this week, so did the wife of the other Family, the husband had to work. Everything is going great with them, I hope that in a year I can see all of them go through the Temple together.

Well guys I think that, that is all for this week, sorry for such a boring letter. But I gotta run, take care! Love you guys!

Lub, Elder Chambers

Hola Familia,

Hey Everybody, how's it going?? Sounds like everything is great! Things here in the mission are coming along, the weeks are going faster and faster and I'm sure that after the year mark it will be all downhill from there. It was good to hear about your St. George Trip, That's wierd to think that I lived down there for a year haha. I'll bet it was nice to get out of the cold weather for a little bit. It has been super hot here the last few weeks, working in the street has been just awful. But its what we gotta do.

Well this week has been so so here in Azteca. We were able to have Mario's baptism on Sunday, that was quite the experience. He is kind of a bigger guy and he didn't think my companion could help him out of the water so he was trying to do everything. The first attempt he started flailing all around and he didn't go under the water all that well. I was laughing my head off hahaha. Then my comp, got all nervous and did it again but forgot to say the prayer hahaha. Then they did it again and he finally went under the water and came up good. Haha it was pretty funny, but I hope Mario was still able to feel the Spirit. We also had the Rodriguez Family there in Church. It is a family of 4, the parents and the two kids, who are 15 and 12 years old. Everything is looking really good with them. But there is one problem, the Mom and Dad aren't married. But we are planning on marrying them this week and then they can be baptized this Sunday! I hope that everything goes well with them and that they don't get scared off by the crazy baptism of Mario (they stayed to watch the baptism). Other than that we didn't have anybody new there at Church. The other family we are teaching pretty much told us they aren't interested anymore so we are down to this one family. I hope that we can find alot of people new this week so that after this family we can keep baptizing.

Sometimes I get a little frustrated with my comp, because he isn't that hard of a worker, he gets tired really fast. He already knows alot about the Gospel, he has been a member all his life, so he knows a little bit about teaching. But, we aren't gonna find anyone to teach if we go back to the house and sleep. Almost everyday he asks when we are going to go and have a nap, and I have to tell him that we ain't going back to the stinkin house! It gets a little annoying. But there are a lot of good things about him too. I hope that this week he can get adjusted a little more to the missionary life and quit complaining so much.

I used the teeth strips but they didn't seem to help much. I think I'll just have to wait until I get home to worry about my teeth. I didn't know that the cake box had cologne in it I'm going to check it when we get back to the house. I still havent made my cake haha. We don't have an oven. I think that I'm starting to get fat hahah maybe you can tell in the picture but I can't tell anymore. Some other Elders told me that I've gotten bigger since I got here. The food is just too good haha.

The Solis and Delgado Families are still going really strong, they have had a lot of support from the ward and are really excited about the Gospel. It would be awesome to see them go to the Temple in a year. I already made them promise me that in a year they would go to the Temple! The Solis Family is going to the Temple this Friday to do Baptisms for the dead. I hope that they get a taste of the Temple and be more excited to go in a year. Everything is going good with them.

Well I think that is all for this week, hope you guys can get everything that you need to do done. I felt sad when I thought about my motorcycle sitting there all alone in the shed while I'll the others were there in St. George haha. The cows are looking good!! I hope they can grow a little more and get cleaned up in the next few months. But yep thats all for this week. Love you guys.

Elder Chambers

P.S. I thought it was pretty funny that Whitney is now trying to keep up with Dad out there on the trail haha. Good job Whit!