Jonny - going to Los Tuxtlas, Catemaco in the Mirador Branch to train a new zone leader

     

     I´ve got some pretty crazy news, i just got a call from the mission president about an hour ago telling me that I´ve got transfers, right now in the mission we have 9 zones, Mocambo, Reforma, Villa Rica, Veracruz Mexico, Orizaba, Cordoba, Tierra Blanca, Tuxtepec, and Los Tuxtlas (it's pretty much a zone for every stake) but now we are getting so many new missionaries that it's hard to contain over 220 missionaries in just 9 zones, so they are as of this week splitting the zone of Los Tuxtlas, and they are sending me down there to be the new Zone leader with a brand new zone leader named Elder Conklin to train him.

     Im pretty excited :) honestly I didnt really want to leave, I wanted to end my mission here, but Los Tuxtlas was really fun when I was there before (in Catemaco) its so green there, it's like the jungle zone, so I'm happy to be going back, my new branch I'm going to be at is called Mirador.

     Well I dont have that much time to write this week, its a 3 and a half hour bus ride from here andI've  gotta start packing, I leave tomorrow morning early, but just so you know we are all ok down here, the hurricanes didn't even touch us, it just rained alot haha

      Elder Snow

(oh . . . I hope you like the picture, Elder Smith talked me into doing it high school musical style haha)

¡¡¡¡VIVA MÉXICO!!!!

     Today is a very special day for Mexico, its independence day! September 16th (everyone in the US thinks that its 5 de Mayo but its not) its like the 4th of July in the US but mexican style. We had a pretty fun activity with the ward on saturday watching some native dances and eating a lot a different types of food, the activities purpose was to get investigators and inactives to come see that us mormons are normal people, we had a great success.

       Well tomorrow we have transfers, my last transfer of my mission, BUT IM NOT GETTING CHANGED!!! :) i told the mission president in an interview i had with him a few weeks ago that i wanted to stay here in Magisterio until the end of my mission, so he let me stay! If we dont have any special changes in these next 6 weeks, i will finish my mission with 5 areas and 13 companions, im happy with that. 

       Elder Chamberlain right now is in the stake of Orizaba, he´s not getting changed either this transfer but his new companions name is Elder Merril from Texas who was one of our district leaders here in stake Reforma. Me and Elder Chamberlain were companions for a month and a half in Piedras Negras, i had some awesome experiences with him, thats awesome you saw his dad the other day! 

       Alright well i gotta get going, i will write you next week, thanks for the birthday present, i am going to love that mexican hammock i wanted! haha thanks for everything i´ll see you soon, i love you and miss you all a ton!

      Elder Snow

When she was getting out of the water, there is no better feeling than that

Hey mom,

     Hey sorry I didn't write you last week, don't call the offices haha I'm fine I promise :) Last week for us went well, we all had interviews with President Treviño, he told me that its for sure, I will be coming home on October 31, 2013, just in time to go trick or treating ;)  

     We had a great week, super busy, but a very good week, Sister Alejandra Ramos Perez is the newest member of the church here in Magisterio. her baptism was awesome. Working with her and her husband has been really fun, her husband Urbano still has to stop smoking 100% before his baptism, so we are still working with him on that. Getting those two married was hard, it's easy to get someone married here if you have their birth certificate, but if you don't have it its really hard to get it to register them again because the way they have things here in Mexico, but we got it!! I don't think I have ever worked so hard to get somebody baptized before, it took us almost a month and a half, but when it was all finished and when she was getting out of the water, there is no better feeling than that. 

     

    I hope you can congratulate Stefie for me, my goal was to get back and get married before her, but I guess I just lost the race (don't tell her I said that) Tell her I love her and congrats!

                                           

   Sorry I didn't write you this week, I wrote Chase a letter last week, but here are some pictures from last week

Last week we helped a couple get married so that our investigator Alejandra could get baptized, it took a while to get all the paper work done and everything because her husband didn't have his birth certificate, but after we registered him again they got married.

 Last week we helped a couple get married so that our investigator Alejandra could get baptized, it took a while to get all the paper work done and everything because her husband didn't have his birth certificate, but after we registered him again they got married.