I've lost abou 10 lbs this last week. . . . .9/6/10

lots of stress and worry have been getting to me and i think ive let the adversary bother me too much but saturday was more than enough spiritual strengthening that yesterday and today have already been so much different due to the necessary changes ive made in my mission life. other than my companion being someone who doesnt apply what he learns and letting all the strong things the Spirit told us in our meeting with Elder Christofferson go out the other ear, we are doing good and were able to receive revelation for our investigator Paul, who we were able to help with his doubts about the Book of Mormon, and all is clear for him, realized that he isnt reading his assignments that we leave him although he tells us he did. Elder Christofferson said that if a person is praying and reading the Book of Mormon, they are almost 100% converted just for those small acts. i know that the same goes for us as members of the Church, which is why the 3 basic answers in all classes are read the scriptures, pray, and go to church. i have to send a bunch of pictures to my zone leaders which is taking forever and i only have 20 more minutes so im gonna start trying to send some to you all!

So, feeling different this week!!! August 20, 2010

happy to be able to receive inspiration this coming saturday by the mouth of a living Apostle of the Lord. Last Friday morning hermano Máximo (which means "the best") got baptized. he asked that i realize the ordinance and was glad to, and when he came out of the water, even though it was ice cold, said he felt warm like he was covered in clothes ha. he also shared with me as we were changing behind some bushes that he is so happy that after 2 years he was able to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized in the same and correct way. also shared how he used to be hard hearted and didnt think it was necessary to become closer to God and obey the commandments and how it is so much better and happier doing the Lord´s will and what He asks of us. pretty much his name explains him. going to be a great leader in the church.

sorry i didnt write a whole lot. it has taken forever to download the pictures

.....ridiuculous amount of iniquity! 8/16/10

this month is the festival of the virgen here in huamachuco and people from
all over south america come and friday, saturday, and sunday were the
central days with concerts and 40 firework castles in the plaza which was
the root of literally tens of thousands of drunks, and its horrible to see
how an entire city can become a place where Satan is present. i really felt
like i didnt want to be here those days. last week i had to go to trujillo
thursday night for a meeting friday morning where i got to start the
training and teach the Doctrine of Jesus Christ, i felt the Spirit very
strongly and was able to learn a lot. then after we went to the
dermatologist for my companion, and a miracle, last thursday the branch
president and mission leader from Otuzco, my first area in the mission, came
to Huamachuco to repart materials and fill out the inscriptions for seminary
and institute.......i dont know for sure, but i think that its a 1/1000000
chance that a family group has the church educational program in such little
time. the members are so excited, and our pensionist who served his mission
in chile, is going to teach institute, and a convert sister will teach
seminary. im pretty stoked to see the testimonies and faith of the members
strengthened! tonight the assistant to president with another elder are
gonna come visit us which will be sweet. they havent come for like 5 months
since president mora made his last visit here. not much else in news right
now cuz my brain is frozen i cant remember anything right now, maybe cuz the
cold. but ill attach some pictures!!! love and miss you all, and hope all is
well back home in your family lands as they say here in peru. i sent a box
of beanies for mom, my 4 sisters, peter, for their birthdays, dont worry
tyler will come! and audrey, lucy, and elyse for being the older neices, my
neighbor only makes small enough for them. ha.

Miracle after Miracle August 23, 2010

irst things first, thank you so much dad for being worthy of inspiration and revelation for me, i know and testify that the Lord works in the strangest and most unexpected ways, but a great part of the Lord's work that i am doing has been moved by you so thank you. Hermano Máximo, who is the most humble, nice, faithful, and righteous man, has worked here in a mine for 3 years, and the last 2 has come to church, but his struggle was that his wife lives 15 hours away and they werent married, so my companion and i visited him about a month and a half ago for 2 weeks and got him animated to go to Piura and get married, so like a great man, he did all that was possible to animate his wife and plead her to prepare everything, so she did, had all the documents ready, and miraculously came here to Huamachuco, something she said she would never do. sadly, when she came a member that works with him who is also from piura, disanimated him and his wife saying that it would be better for them and their family to get married there and that there is a strong ward that would be happy to baptize him. (the brother that said all this also teaches apostasy at church, which is a struggle for us) anyways, as the Lord had planned, hermano Máximo went to Piura and got married, and came back here, and i randomly was talking to him about another baptism that we are going to have this friday for hermano Paul, and he mentioned very calmly and privately that he wanted to know if he could program his baptism for this week so that he could go home saturday with the news that he got baptized. like any missionary, especially one who knows how great and powerful potential this man has in the church and his future, i laughed/screamed/cried and called my companion over and some brethren and we planned it all for friday! also, paul, who is someone who has listened to the missionaries for over a year, came here about a month ago to live with his sister pamela, our old pensionist, and last week, even though he knows all the lessons by memory and said all the missionaries wanted to baptize him, i knew there was a reason he came to live here and be in a much greater environment, last thursday i taught him something very simple, prayer, and although he said he had prayed and never received an answer, i felt like i should share Moroni 10 and to my surprise, none of the missionaries had ever shared it, so he was so impressed that he prayed that night and friday had a testimony of the BoM and Joseph Smith, and passed his baptismal interview friday, (the first interview ive seen longer than an hour and a half) but after a call to President Turk, he was able to feel the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and is now ready for this Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cant express how happy i am in these moments, and how thankful i am to all of my brothers and sisters including in-laws for your kind and strengthening words always that give more power to your examples. also for my parents and grandparents for the love and support you all give me. last great news, september 4th i will be in the presence of an apostle of the Lord! we have a conference with Elder D. Todd Christofferson and it will be more than uplifting and motivating!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will send pictures following right now as you all read! love and miss you all. tell christian he is obcviously and definitely going to receive his beanie and if he would like he can tell me colors, a name he wants on it, a number, etc. maybe one for his club team that matches? i can make him one for that and another to add to his flavorful style ha. anyone can make pleads if they would like! oh yeah cant forget....garrett holsenbake sent me a letter that made my whole mission worth it to be honest, he amazed me, and hopefully brandon as bishop(congrats! haha) can help him and all of you as well in meeting his goals!!! mom call him and tell him i love and miss him and am responding to his letter! did you give him the last one i sent?

So I got to meet my New Mission President this week!

so the Lord has blessed ME, HIS WORK, THE FAMILY GROUP, AND MY DISTRICT! so last sunday we met with the members and made so plans and training and the normal assistance of 43-50 people in church boosted after a week to 67 yesterday! im so pleased and happy to be able to rely on the Lord and love Him for all He does in my life to make it easier! lots of crazy stories from this week but all will have to wait until you read my journal ha. our president is awesome and his wife is a crack up she seriously is like a mix of aunt linda, stephanie, and dana faulkner plus a very spiritual additive! theyre from mesa where he just ended a 10 year calling as stake president. he studied at penn state, byu, and arizona state, is a banker, and owns a few businesses, one being many chains of JAMBA JUICE!!!!!!!!!!!! ha. but yeah, we dont have much time today because we got back from our little adventure late because it was raining, thundering, hailing, and lightening so bad that we got stuck on the mountain waiting for the taxi to come get us. ha fun times. few pictures will be attached! we went to markahuamachuco, which is like machupicchu but pre-inkan and a little more deteriorated, but look it up its awesome!
fotos

satan is good and won't ever get tired of doing his job -

o everything here is getting better. we had a planning meeting with the members and we are going to go out on visits with them to visit inactives. we have 3 families that are gonna get married the 23rd of this month and baptized saturday the 24th. familia cruz is doing awesome. theyve brought us twice now things to eat at night after we get home at 9 or so. my companion has progressed so well and im so proud of him. the other companionship in our district is doing better as well, the older companion started to take down the other but sunday after church meetings we got together and had a companionship inventory as a district and fixed everything. not gonna lie, i cried and its second time ive cried, first when i left my first area, and the Spirit was so strong that we all hugged after and were all animated to work. yesterday we were in trujillo to go to the doctor with my companion and get some paperwork for a couple thats gonna get married and also recoger una DNI, like ID. we went to eat hamburgers for lunch! and then mexican food for dinner before we left again at 11 last night to get here this morning. just finished our district meeting and our focus this week is to obtain the Spirit of truth(STUDY), teach by the Spirit of truth(NOT RELY ON OUR OWN KNOWLEDGE), and then invite by the Spirit of truth(CHALLENGE TO BAPTISM). love and miss you all. pray for Hermano Humberto Aguirre, his wife wants to go to the river this instant and be baptized, but theyre not married and he doesnt know if God is the Christ´s father or Allah, so today we´re going to visit him and hope that he can soften his heart for the benefit of his family. also Familia Cruz is doing well, just need prayers to help them feel and recognize the truth as the understand what we teach them. and lastly, pray for Roman Asto so we can teach him, he´s AWESOME and married, just is never home cuz he is a busy man that works as a teacher at night and in the day as some kind of director in the city council. oh yeah, speaking of the which, he invited us monday night to a welcome meeting for a group of students and 2 professors from michigan state. theyre here for 6 weeks...a change! haha, its wierd cuz they each have different tasks in social works that theyre helping with around the area so i see them a lot and it makes me miss home ha. thats all for this week, but i love and miss you all, and am doing the best i can to make you proud, so dont worry for me, just keep me in your prayers because Satan is good at what he does and won´t ever get tired of doing his job.

A Long Week - working, working. workiing 6/28/2010

so this last week has been extremely tough. my companion and one the elders in the other companionship have been acting inmature in lots of ways and they havent been representing Jesus Christ as they should be and the work has reflected that so although we are seeing miracles and working well the fruits are not showing well and i got so stressed that i was so sick friday saturday and yesterday that i could only drink water and so i came out nice and thin but im working with them, its just tough because as young adults they obviously dont like someone who is straight forward with them and is telling them they need to do things different, but im figuring out better ways to help them and am praying to the Lord a lot so can only ask that you all do the same for me at home. We had 5 investigators in the "center of meetings" as its called yesterday and Familia Cruz is doing great, now have there own gospel principles book and their second sunday in church he husband Santos insisted to pay tithing for the work and blessings he is receiving! the family is just having trouble with receiving an answer and as much as we have explained and helped them with that, they still dont have a testimony that the gospel is true. they can be baptized this saturday a family of 5!!! also hna. Flor, the doctors wife, had a dream and wants to get baptized, but they arent married so its a little tough here! church is running smoothly and we are seeing growth in the members and we are doing some cool training with them about financial preparedness and food storage next week and they all love it. yesterday we talked about the role a father plays in the family. well times up but the pictures are from a lake we went to today and president turk comes wednesday! love you all

Thanks to the Lord's hand in His work! June 14 2010

so key indicators this week have shot up thanks to the Lord´s hand in His work and the efforts we have been putting in gaining trust and becoming friends with the members AND the investigators! we had an investigator family of 5 in the make shift chapel which we call meeting center Sunday and have accepted to get baptized!!! as a group we did a little fathers day activity on friday night and we had 3 families come we were so stoked! Familia Cruz is so humble and the young ones are really smart and grasping well to what we teach. reading their BoM´s and everything! the dad makes wood coffins and other little carpintery things carved by hand that are way legit, but at first he wasnt to interested and we were struggling all this week but we kept working with them making sure to visit them everyday and what do ya know...the Lord blessed us for our diligence. well anyway i gotta go times up here, but know that i love and miss you all and am in the process of writing letters, its just so hard to find time honestly. i spoke and taught gospel principles sunday and it was very fun. keep praying for me. we walked 3 hours and 3 back to the place where those little llama things were called vicuña. ciao

well another HUGE change that i NEVER thought would come

so i got called friday night by president mora and he asked and assigned me to head to Huamachuco!!! here it is a family group, and we are 6 hours away from anything way out here in the middle of the beautiful mountains of peru. im the family group president so i will be doing the interviews to the members as well as the district leader of us 4 missionaries. the assistance is at 40-50 a week, but WAS at like 65 almost 70. the missionaries came for the first time here the end of 2009 and the progress was great until this last change when a very inmature elder came here and after interviews would spread rumors about things he had received knowledge of in the interviews and that left two families in-active sadly and the missionaries also have just been screwing around, waking up late, doing things they´re not supposed to and now the members have lost a bit of confidence in them.so now the two older companions were pulled out, an elder with 6 months was sent up here, and then i came alone saturday night at 10 from cajamarca and came up here after church in trujillo. it was very sad to leave such an awesome place with such great investigators and new people we had just met, and the baptisms we were gonna have before church sunday, but i know the Lord has put great trust in me and im here for a reason and my only desire is to please Him by working as a true servant and helping these members see how much the gospel really blesses lives. i proselited for 2 hours last night and some awesome lessons, we will be baptizing next week in the RIVER!!! its freezing cold up here but a blessed people and land. i miss and love all of you at home! hope all is well. will be writing letters this week to some of you and garrett. attached are some photos of a waterfall that we went to today walked 2 hours to get to it. dead tired now.
Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

Good old fart Bobby, can´t tell

Grandpa Bob! Robert! Roberto! Bobby! 6/8/2010 "84"

Good old fart Bobby, can´t tell you how much time I spend thinking of you. All of my companions and those around me have heard so many good things about you from me that I am pretty sure they want to call you their grandpa as well. I appreciate the great example you have been to me Grandpa and the wonderful help and guidance you have always given to me. I remember you daily and try to put in practice all that I have learned from you so that I can become a better disciple of Christ. Fom the smallest things you always teach like having good etiquette, being friendly, smiling, joking, and respecting the women in our life, I have been able to see in you a great and worthy Priesthood holder, father, brother, friend, and most of all Grandfather. I love remembering the little trips to Boorgor(Burger) King we used to take to get our 99cent Whopper, Wendy´s for baked potatoes and chili, and the thing that was most important of all, spending time together mowing the lawn and cleaning the yard up, and becoming a guide of Bakersfield as we went on deliveries for Bakersfield Envelope. I just want you to know and remember Grandpa that you are a beaming example and strength to me always, your smile, kind heart, and loving self who always wanted to serve others, has left in my mind and heart, the kind of person I want to be. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints is the only true church on the face of the earth, and that I have come to love the Restored Gospel more and more every day for the great missionary that you were and are today. May the Lord be with you always and give you the peace and comfort to know that you are a man of God, with the ability and strength to continue onward in these struggles you are know fighting.
I love you with all of my heart,
Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

Each day brings new opportunities 6/8/2010

yesterday we went to a place called ¨Cumbemayo¨ which means weaved river. Its a stone forest that was a place of adoration for pre-Incan people. The intelligence that they showed in making the little creeks work is crazy. their canal systems are so advanced that they had water move uphill. they had altars where they sacrificed animals, and they had a portal where they passed from this life to the eternities and they inscriptions in the stone are awesome they believed in the 3 degrees of glory and the highest had 3 glories in itself which historians make things up to explain but thanks to the gospel we can understand and secure the truthfulness. leading to the portal there are 2 staircases, one thats normal sized with large steps(wide) and the other is very skinny and tons of small steps, and supposedly those who did good things in their life were on the straight and narrow and entered there, and the other was for those who didnt do the which. it was a great experience and beautiful and we got into the van to head back just as the rains started to pour.
anyway, this last week we struggled a little with the people that were planning to be baptized, who had even passed their interviews, only 1 was baptized of 4, but we ended the week all finding awesome families, and that is the recent new focus in the mission...all the companionships holding a medium of 8 families a week teaching and we are all there, and now that we have met the goal, we can see progress and that they are accepting. Especificamente, the familia Chavez Huamán are doing awesome. The dad who suffered an accident about 5 years ago is way catholic(doesnt mean much, especially after sharing the Restoration) and he lives 45 minutes away in a little pueblo watching over their terrain and comes on the weekends but sometimes just saturday afternoon til sunday morning, so its been hard to meet him. so at last we went to teach the mom Rosa who we had met a few days before and taught, with Julie and Veronica the 2 daughters who have been coming to church the last 3 weeks, and with the Lord´s hand, the dad Concepción had arrived(Friday night!). we had taught the Restoration to the mom and daughters thursday night and they understood it PERFECT and prayed and knew it was true, so we got to the dad and he tells us about how hes devout catholic and is gonna die catholic and we just started teaching away and the mom and daughters helped us teach him(it was the lesson we dream of as missionaries ha). as we progressed in the lesson he began realizing the way things really were and the thing that struck him the most was when we talked about the Priesthood and the authority of God. he was amazed and so happy telling us that in all these years he had never heard of such a thing, but that it is so important and necessary. from then, he was more interested than ever, and by the end when we asked him if he believed the Church of Jesus Christ had been restored to the earth by the prophet Joseph Smith, he gladly said yes. But as necessary, we explained to him the importance and need to pray to ask Heavenly Father if it was so, and as we explained the correct manner to pray, he was stunned(like any catholic) and was like ¨Now this is what we´ve needed to learn our whole lives...how to really communicate with Heavenly Father¨ and then continued to joke and say that Heavenly Father must be upset with him and not want to listen to him now that he´s repeated the same thing for so many years. all in all, we are seeing miracles as we focus on only finding and teaching whole families, and i am loving this work more than ever. Hermano Concepción gave me much more reason to appreciate the Priesthood and as well i have been able to realize how much the Lord loves each one of us by restoring His Church and Gospel to the earth. Now as members, if we don´t share it, we´re keeping all those who don´t have the knowledge we do from feeling that same love from Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We all know how much we benefit from the restored gospel, and i invite you all to meditate such, and analize what you are doing to show your gratitude to the Lord for those benefits.
Love, Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

THIS WEEK. . .6/1/2010 THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

was the best ive experienced in my life even though i always say that be
ast thursday President and Sister Mora came with the assistants to visit Cajamarca and have the monthly(each change) interviews with the missionaries and so amidst all the fun of going young again and doing sleep over with them in our small bunk bed, eating out at awesome restaurants, and feeling their spirit, we also did training and stuff all friday and saturday minus a few hours each day to prep our baptisms, and president also held some meetings with leaders of the which hardly anyone in the stake showed but thats the struggle and our assignment here is to strengthen the leadership and just in this last weekend we did so much awesome planning and training and were all animated. saturday there were 3 awesome baptisms with 3 FULLY CONVERTED adults and each one was held separate but all the zone attended as well as president and elder hunsaker (AP) and i sang ¨I Know That My Reedemer Lives¨ and it literally sounded amazing and the Spirit was so strong. yes im bragging. we baptized Diego who is 28 and literally ALL DAY as he sits at work is reading his Libro de Mormón or Gospel Principles studying next weeks lesson! one of the other baptisms in the zone was a little old woman, Juana Rosa who is 79 but looks quite younger...she had been waiting 3 months to get interviewed by President Mora so she could get baptized. so one of the elders who teaches her went with me to bring her to the chapel friday night and when we arrived i peeked through her front door into her room(house) and she was sitting with her hands neatly on her lap with her Libro de Mormón, gospel principles, and hymn book stacked next to her waiting for us. i knocked the door and she came to the door with a huge smile on her face telling me how happy she was because ¨today is the day i get to get my interview so i can get baptized, ive been waiting since 6¨ (it was 8:30 when we got there!) when she came out of the water at her baptism i was a witness and so i was close enough to here her say ¨how precious, im a new person, and i got baptized JUST LIKE my savior Jesus Christ¨ i cant tell you how great those words made me feel and how well she understands the Plan of Redemption that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have layed out so we can be blessed. this morning our districts had their meetings and it was the best district meeting ive ever been in because we were so on top of it not wasting time getting plans made, practicing how to help investigators keep their promises, and then making personal plans to help their investigators. sunday night we had to send an elder off due to an emergency change(his sister works here and she came to see him!) and yesterday after we saw an awesome movie with morgan freeman and matt damon that just got approved about rugby, president called our cell phone to talk to one of our elders Elder Quimi who is a convert with 2 of his sisters, and received the news that his sister died sunday so i just want to ask that you pray for him. (he is doing great seeing him this morning but obviously needs lots of strength) i love all of you and miss you a ton. sorry for the bad sloppyness of this letter but i kind of just was going with the flow of what i remembered.
im so thankful for all the news and stories from home! they make me feel closer to you all so keep me updated.
ps. finally the thieves got to me when i traveled to Trujillo last week through the night for the zone leaders meeting but i tried my best to figure out who it was and have their address here in cajamarca so right now after we leave internet were going to ask them to return the things that we know they have but all everyone tells me is that theyre just gonna deny they have it so please say a little prayer that they can humble themselves and we can also baptize them after they repent and return my things. ha ¡CIAO FAMILIA NICHOLS!
- Elder Kyle Favero Nichols
cause being a servant of the Lord just keeps getting better! .

Cajamarca - Land of Milk & Cheese... . .5/24/10

the Lord has blessed and trusted me to call me as a zone leader and im now deep into the beautiful mountain town of Cajamarca which is a 7 hour bus ride from 10pm til 5am!(land of milk and cheese) my area is sweet cuz we live like in the city but on the edge so we have city and country side in our area. this is a rich city because of the gold and silver mines. i have constantly thought of you dad here because its the kind of place you and i would both love to travel. it rains literally drops big enough to fill a cup(photo attached). my companion is a guatemalan and is one of my best friends in the mission and i love already the things that i am being able to do in the Lord´s work. i feel so blessed being able to sheperd my companions in this zone and help them fulfill there purpose as i too am trying to do so. the days are going by so much faster, but although we have the little administrative things to do, we feel like the Lord is helping us so much more and were moving forward meeting, teaching, challenging, and preparing families for baptism. we are teaching 7 families and i know the Lord is preparing every step we take :) President Mora this morning in our 2 hour phone conference as zone leaders talked about Alma 42/43 and i know the Lord was helping me realize why im working hard, (42)so that the Lord´s atonement can take effect in my life and (43) that the fight that im putting up against Satan and his army like the Nefites is to protect my family, myself, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It uplifted me so much that i want you to all read those chapters and apply it to your lives so that the struggles we go through have more meaning and we have more strength to overcome them.
I miss and love each and every one of you (all who read this)
May the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ bless you all in your daily struggles
Ether 12:27,37 / Alma 8:15 (Mom and Dad I LOVE YOU)
Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

May 17, 2010 was a very good week!

so its been an amazing week. ive been in a trio if you didnt know. me, elder malara, and the most recent assistent to president elder lemmon who is from texas. ive honestly have had more fun, laughed more, and felt the Spirit more in this past week than any other time in my life. in such little time ive made eternal best friends and its been a great experience. we have met and taught SO many adult men that can be future priesthood holders, re activated the ex branch president and his whole family, and 3 other priesthood holders who were inactive. the miracles that the Lord is working through us makes us so happy and feel so good about our efforts. the assistance is an average of 55-65 and sunday there were 81 present!!!!!! im so pumped. so many awesome little stories.
#1 Francisco: Little old man whos losing his sight and hears very little. elder lemmon and i were alone and our comp was doing splits, and elder lemmon felt we should contact him. we did and long story short, hes never talked to missionaries, but one day he was walking by a house and the way it sounded was a member family was having family home evening and invited him in and gave him a Book of Mormon. we started talking about it and he busts it out and told us he was in 2 Nefi 3 and explained to us the WHOLE story of Lehi and his journey, Nefi getting the plates, all in detail!!!
#2 Humberto: So we were looking for an address of a young man we had contacted last sunday and set a time to visit him saturday(2 days ago). the address he gave us was wrong and was the address of humberto. to explain humberto, he lives with his 2 brothers (all single in their 40´s and 50´s) alberto, and santos...their sister died last year and just after their mom. at first he didnt want to let us in and said he was catholic but we heeded to the example of Christ and were diligent, just askeing to be able to say a prayer and sing a hymn. we entered in, his brother alberto came in. we taught them the first parts of the plan of salvation and about the Book of Mormon. at the end of the lesson, he told us his doubts about us were all gone, and he was so glad to have us there and that he felt like he has 3 more friends that care and worry about him. in his prayer he thanked Heavenly Father for sending us to bring him his salvation and said he felt like the Lord was there.
we went back the next morning(yesterday) just to say a prayer and sing a hymn with him, he had stuff planned and couldnt come to church but it was fine and asked us to come back at 4 in the afternoon. once again elder lemmon and i were on splits so we went yesterdeay at 4 and finished teaching lesson 2 and to start he explained it ALL cuz he read his pamphlet. then we challenged him to be baptized once he knows the church is true and he told us once he knows the church is true he wont every part from it. so much more to say about him but yeah gotta go! love and miss you all

HELP has arrived. . .MAY 10, 2010

so sorry i couldnt talk to you all yesterday but thanks to all those i DID talk to for giving me strength and brightening the days. miss and love you all dont have much to say since i just talked to you all but THANKS FOR THE PICTURES! haha our zone leader is going to be assistant to president today and the assistant who is from texas who ends his mission next change is coming today to be in a trio with us for the last week of the change to help us meet the goals!!!! im so excited he is the greatest, most loving guy. elder lemmon is his name!

Welcome Little Camille May 4, 2010

SO YOU WONT BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IM BACK IN THE VALLEY OF CASAGRANDE!!!! I LOVE ALL THE NEWS AND THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CAMILLE :) So i along with 3 other missionaries got a special assignment from the Lord through President Mora. Thursday night president called me at 10.30 and i with the 3 other elders had a little tele conference and we were explained that friday we would be traveling north to find 15 men 18 years or older to baptize or activate so that the district of Casagrande can become a stake the first week of June. its really relying on us 4 missionaries but thanks to prayer, faith, and fasting i know the Lord will fulfill His promises. we have a month to complete the Lord´s will and we are already seeing miracles. just visiting saturday in the afternoon, we found a family with two future melchezidek priesthood holders, reactivated a family with 2 melchezidek priesthood holders, reactivated a guy who got baptized about a month ago and sadly se inactivó, and Sunday morning met a little old man who just came with us! the only thing i have to say is I LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL MY HEART, MIGHT, MIND, AND STRENGTH and know that all that i have been able to see happen in these few days is all happening through Him and i am just an instrument. i know that when we are faithful and do the will of God and not ours, not only is our Heavenly Father happy, but we are happier than we could otherwise be. i lvoe this work and cant wait to talk to you all Sunday. ill pre-call you guys today later. ciao!

HAPPY BDAY April 24, 2010

well i cant express greater thanks for all the amazing emails that i receive that are very spiritually uplifting. cant thank you more MOM and DAD for your beautiful words of wisdom and care. im glad to have a mom whose words ALWAYS bring comfort and happiness and for you DAD who keep my head up and give a great shot of energy and animo(cant remember the word in english). im serving in two wards right now so our area is big but we are working more with one ward that is actively engaged in the work. of the MANY stories i could tell, i just want to share the one of a little old man we met last week. his name is juan javier and he was sitting in his doorway reading a newspaper when we passed from the other side of the street...i felt strongly the spirit tell me we should talk to him, so i told my companions and we walked over there. al final, he was blown away with the love that God shows to his children by bringing about the Book of Mormon, and he was like, "i need one if i want to know if its true" and surprised us again at the end by telling us he would be in the church sunday...WITHOUT US INVITING HIM. great little experience that strengthened my testimony that the Book of Mormon is true.
love and miss you all! my birthday was great ill attach some fotos! the ladies where we live threw me a little party ha

Short & Sweet April 24, 2010

OKAYy y y
lots of things to say but only 3 minutes
because we only have 15 minutes today.
im in a trio right now with a bolivian and a peruvian from lima in trujillo in an area called esperanza. we had a baptism sunday before church and it was awesome to be in a ward with so much apoyo en the mission work. the new mission leader just returned from his mission in mexico 2 weeks ago and is helping us a lot. were having a sweet activity friday night so ill celebrate for you stacie! love and miss you all and hope all is well at home. let me know how everything is. send me pictures so i can see how its going back home.
ciao!
Elder Nicho