July 9, 2012 - Family Email

Hello Family,

Well wow I am super stoked for my new assignment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to Jaén.  I am going to open up Jaén because it´s closed and I will also be training a new little missionary!!  So Jaén is really close to a big city called Granada kinda on the other side of the mission.  So apparently President Clegg chose me to go there and and then President Deere prayed and felt like I should go there as well.  Jaén is a really hilly place that is a little old city.  I go to the mission home tomorrow for Trainer training and then Wednesday I will go to my new area that me nor my new companion has been in.  So apparently all the new missionaries are natives so I am going to be speaking Spanish non stop for the next little while, yes!!  So the next little bit of my mission is going to be hard.  I will be training, opening up a new area and speaking only Spanish.  I was kinda wondering when my mission was going to get really hard again I have felt kinda normal for awhile.  So I am excited for the opportunity the Lord has given me.  Oh so Elder Peterson is training as well so we will get a cool photo tomorrow.  Elder Shaver will be my Zone Leader as well so we can get a Grandpa, Dad and son photo.
(So yes all of your Sunday school boys are on a mission except Tyler Young, apparently he went out but came home.  I was pretty sad hearing that.)

Kohs Family

So Hermana Koh tells me I am her favorite missionary.  She told me yesterday that she used to be a tour guide here in Sevilla because she is fluent in English so she will take us everywhere here in Sevilla.  She is super excited to get to know you she says.  She is meeting me today to go yell at the people fixing my camera because I leave tomorrow haha.  So I have been taking pictures this whole time with Elder Estrada so here is some!  Elder Estrada is from Holladay, same place and school as Elder Lignell.  I don´t have the address of my new house yet I will tell you tomorrow or I will have Elder Manning email you it.  Yeah I got the CD of Mercy River I love it!  It was the one I wanted. 

Jaquelin and her husband that is a member

Less Active Member that gave him aftershave

So this last week we worked really hard and taught a lot of lessons even though we couldn´t work for two days.  This last transfer Elder Estrada and I found 32 new investigators.  I think I have found around that same number all my transfers.  Manolo kinda dropped us and I am not sure why.  He said he is super busy this week and that is about all.  However we are seeing another miracle with a girl named Lesly.  She came to church again and she is going to get baptized soon.  I haven´t really taught her a lot and she really likes me.  (she told a member we use to go teach her with that she loves me, super scary good thing I am leaving Sevilla.)  I have seen a really big change in her and she is reading and really has found faith in God again.  It will be really good for when her kids come here to live with her.  The family from Ecuador is doing great.  We set a baptismal date with Meryan and she is excited.  They came to church yesterday, well the mom, Meryan and the little boy Juan that is 8.  Alba is good and they are talking to the parents of her to sign a form to let her go to EFY.  She is so excited and she still comes to church every Sunday.  So overall I love Sevilla it is amazing.  There is a lot of prepared people here and I am going to a place that I have been waiting for for a long time.  I am ready for a challenge and for something hard!  I know I am going to be very humbled there because it is a hard area that is why is was closed for 6 weeks.  So I will have an interesting email next week  Pray for me please.  This Friday we are doing another day of diamonds  "Día de Diamante" so pray to help me and my companion find people in Jaén.  I love you all so much.  It was a pleasure to be a Zone Leader and I had so much fun and now I am ready to pick up my mission even more and push myself to be more like the Savior. 

She has done the new blog spot here apparently, is it the same???
spainmalagamission.blogspot.com.es

Love,

Elder Cody

July 2, 2012 - Family Email

Hey what´s up?

Elder Estrada

Well I just got done with Zone Leader Training and it was awesome.  President Deere is amazing.  He is the most humble man on earth and he is going to work wonders here in the mission.  I am super excited for the work we are going to do with him.  I am in Fuengirola right now and there are three ladies sitting around me and they are like 30 to 40 years old and they are saying a lot of bad words.  I feel like they should be with their families and children but they probably don´t have any.  They are acting like they are in junior high talking about stupid and worldly things.  Ha, it´s funny to see the difference in people that live the gospel and don´t.  I feel like I am more mature than these ladies but anyway I am doing great.  We had another really good week in the field and it´s really hot here.  So this is week six here in Sevilla and I am pretty sure I am taking off this transfer because it´s my fourth here.  I have to be leaving because more than four doesn´t happen often so we will see this Saturday where I am going.  The mom LOVED the photo she says thank you so much and is very grateful.  Thank you mother!

Having some good eats

It's Party Time!

So I got your package and it did make more than one person happy.  I got the letter and pictures from Heather and the note from you mom.  That was my favorite part; the part when I get to read stuff!  The picture of Donny Osmond was great.  We ate over at The Kohs house this Sunday, and we did a Family Home Evening with a less active family that we are working with.  So this less active family has an 11 year old and  an 8 that aren´t baptized yet.  We took the two kids to an activity with the Stake this last week and they loved it.  They are progressing a lot and the parents want them to get baptized.  So we took the parents and the two kids to The Kohs house and we had lunch and a lesson.  It was really good and opened up the eyes of the family a lot.  The 11 year is named Meryan. She is the most beautiful 11 year old that I have seen in Spain and just a sweet girl.  This family is from Ecuador and they have been sealed in the temple and the father was a High Priest.  They dropped the church like 9 years ago and it breaks my heart because they have 3 older sons that are now atheist that hate the missionaries. 

Just trying to keep it real?!

So a cool little story for ya´ll.  I think it was Thursday afternoon and we got completely failed lesson after lesson so we contacted in the street while passing by our back up plans.  We were about to ring the door of a person that was less active and a Spanish man  stops us and tells us that he had just tried to get into the church because he wants to know more about it.  We talked to him for like 10 minutes and he was just asking us tons of questions and wanted to be a member of the church.  So I get his number and invite him to the baptism that was going to be held on Friday afternoon.  So Friday comes a long and I call him to remind him and tell him to come a little early because we wanted to talk to him about the church.  So he shows up a little early and we show him the church and he loved it.  Sorry I forgot to mention this man is named Manolo and he is in his late 50´s.  He is super smart and is so prepared and open to accept everything.  He loved the baptism and loved that we baptize by immersion and felt really good there in the church.  After we went and taught him a lesson 0 which introduces the Book of Mormon and explains what we do as missionaries.  So he loved it and then stayed for the activity we had there in the Stake Center and we had 4 investigators go and watch it.  The activity was a talent show and in the middle Manolo wanted to go and read the Book of Mormon instead, so I said of course.  After the activity there was a lot of food and drinks and he was out there like handing out drinks and food to people it was hilarious.  The next day we taught him and and it was a great lesson because  we brought a member and they were friendly with each other.  So he is off on the right foot step.  Then Sunday he came to church he loved it.  

So the other investigators are doing well.  Alba has to bring her parents to the church to sign the permission for her to go to EFY and we are just praying for a miracle that her parents let her get baptized.  We are still teaching her and it is going well.  Jaquelin is doing well but she was sick and didn´t come to church.  We taught her Sunday and we had a really amazing lesson on the Spirit World.  The spirit was way strong and she had the question about people dying with out knowing the gospel or Christ.  So we taught a good lesson about temples and the Spirit World.  Alfredo is still traveling so when he is in town he lets us know and we call him.  The family with the DVD´s we practically dropped because the mom acts like her life is too busy and her daughter has to take care of her baby.  

So that was about it this week and we have Zone Conference tomorrow with President Deere and his family.  His family is amazing the kids are great.  The daughter is really cute but super shy so I didn´t talk to her.  The older son is a champ and the little one is super funny.  Haha we all slept in the same room with the sons last night.

Thanks Family love you!!!!!!!!

June 25th, 2012 - Family Email

Hey family,

This was a lot better work wise.  We had really good numbers and we worked our hardest.  Sorry but no special or secret baptisms happened.  Loana has continued to not want anything and we don´t even talk to her anymore.  This week we approached the work here a little different and it was super successful and I will tell you about it a little later.  So I am excited to see all of the pictures of the wedding and all.  Yes I received your package it was awesome I loved it! Thank you so much!!  That is all I wanted to see was those wedding announcements.  Haha it was super good to see Devin and Brooke, I can´t believe I set those two up.  I need to email Devin and see how he is doing.  

 

So this last week I got the sweetest letter from Mama Stratton.  She is an awesome lady let her know that I love her and really appreciate that letter.    How are things going?  Oh hey, tell Jaycee if Brady isn´t around to write me for heavens sake, she can!  She is my little sister and I don´t even know her hardly!  So Ryan Mullen married Elder Seely´s dentist´s daughter.  Haha when Elder Seely saw that photo he was really shocked.  So this week we finally moved out all the old crap from the piso that was awesome and now we have space and can study in two different rooms.  The person that lived in the piso before us was an old lady, we call them "Marías" because everyone here in Spain is called María because of the virgin Mary.  So this lady left thousands of decorations and all the crap was old and falling apart but it´s all good now and they are coming today to fix all of the other small stuff.  Today we are playing futból again and it should be fun if the travelling trainers show up in enough time.  Yes I did buy new shoes and I love them.  I would take a picture of stuff but my camera is in the repair shop because it won't charge for some reason.  Also another sad note, I dropped my ring and it broke.  I will be sending it to you and I almost started crying I was so sad and I felt horrible and mad.  Hopefully they can repair it.  I am sorry.
 

This Friday the Cleggs are out of here and in a week I get to go and meet the new President because we have Zone Leader training again.  I am super excited!! Today we have to write a miracle to President Clegg that happened to us here in the mission.  I think I am going to write about José Luis and Carmen. 

 

So this week was good as I said earlier.  We did work with less active families and we found like two or three kids that are 8, 8 and 11 not baptized.  I think the 8 year olds turn 9 soon so by the time the families get active and we teach them all the lessons they should be convert baptisms.  The families are awesome and one of them the parents were sealed and everything and fell away for 9 years!!!!  That literally broke my heart everything they said they did for the church and they have dropped everything and have forgotten everything.  I literally have never felt so bad in a home listening to a fallen family!  The dad is a HIGH PRIEST.  So we are working with them and they actually have the desires to come back.  They mom really wants to come back and her daughter that is 11 wants to get baptized.  So we will help with that!  We found some other people just from contacting as well.  A really good guy from Bolivia and his name is Alfredo and he is a truck driver.  So he works a lot but when he is in town he calls us to talk to him haha.  He is a really good investigator and went to our church when he was little and he loves the church here in Sevilla.  We are still working with Alba the little 13 year old girl.  Her parents won't let her get baptized and the church is going to pay for her to go to EFY and she was so excited.  She is the cutest little girl in the world.  One of the counselors is going to talk with her parents and tell them we will pay for her to go to EFY if they let her get baptized.  The girls cousins are all recent converts with in like 9 months and Alba loves church.  We have a really good Young Women's and Young Men's here in Sevilla.  We are also teaching now a wife of a member.  Her name is Jaqalin and she came to church!!!  The members know her and she is progressing well.  The missionaries haven´t worked with her in a really long time and she really likes me and Estrada so hopefully that will all go well.  So that is about all for the work week.  I will have a lot more details on the names of people we are teaching and their progress because they are all very recent and I don´t even remember all of the names.  We had a really good week and we taught 21 lessons which is pretty good!

 

I love you all so much!!

Elder Cody

June 18, 2012 - Family Email

Hello,

Pres Clegg's Last Zone Conference

Hey I just got back from playing soccer and it was great!!  I had a lot of fun.  It is really weird I always play forward because no one else scores a lot.  I almost make like every attempt at goal so that is fun.  So today we played all white Americans against all Spaniards and we wrecked them.  I have no idea how a bunch of Americans that don´t play soccer that much beats a team at their favorite sport.  So that is news for you; America is still the best country at everything we do.

So this week was really good and super busy at the same time.  Planning for Zone Conferences are always really hard work and usually take up a good chunk of time.  We spent all Monday afternoon after P-Day setting up the whole place.  So Elder Seely did a musical number that was unreal.  Have ya´ll seen the movie 17 Miracles?  It´s about the Willy Handcart company?  Well there is a song in there that this man remade of the hymn "Savior Redeemer of My Soul" and Seely sang it and it was soo good.  He got a member to play the Piano and the Flute and Pres Clegg started weeping right at the start of the song and it made it really hard for Seely to hit the high notes at the first.  So I recommend watching movie, well buying it and listen to the song.  The movie is amazing, I cried like 10 times and it really made me really appreciate the Pioneers.  When I went on the trek I didn´t know what to think or care, but now that I know that the church is really true I love them with all my heart.  Zone Conference was good I loved working with Elder Estrada everything feels good.  Estrada he is focused and we have a lot of fun together.  We taught lessons to the Zone about planning.  We used the little story about Nephi building the boat and applied it to planning.  We didn´t have a lot of time to teach it, so Pres Clegg was mad at me haha.  I can´t wait for you to meet them, you will feel like you are next to an apostle when you give him a hug.  I can´t wait for you all to hear his talk, speaking of that make Heather go with you to listen.  He is the most amazing man, you will have to tell me what he speaks on and my guess is he will talk on hearing the voice of the Lord. 

Singing "God Be with You Till We Meet Again" at Zone Conference

Okay so the investigators this week was a little rough.  Loana is being insane and said that she doesn´t want the church anymore.  Her mom is a member and LOVES to argue like none other.  So she always yells at her daughters and so in fighting back Loana said she wants nothing to do with the church.  So we had a member go and talk to her and she is making it all better.  The member is also going over again today to talk to her so good thing Elder Seely baptized this little 14 year old girl because she is the one helping us out.  We are also getting the house all fixed up so that has been taking up a little time as well.  We ended up dropping Lorena, Katerine and Rosa.  We think it was the best thing for them and I am super sad.  I honestly don´t know what I did wrong or what I didn´t do for them.  I gave them my whole effort and all my testimony.  They have been to church 8 times now.  I am really bummed that we had to do that.  We only talked to them for 5 minutes and took off, we didn´t really say good bye or anything so we will see.  We told them to call when they want to progress.  They really love the missionaries so we will see if they come back.  We are told to have enough faith to drop good people to be able to find more.  Grace and Isabel lie and completely dropped us.  I see them around in the street every once in a while.  They make me sad as well and I have no idea why they don´t want it.  I bet they have read the whole Book of Mormon.  The new people are doing great, well Mauricio is a little flaky but Jorge and Betty are awesome.  They have been to a baptism and to church twice.  They have felt the spirit and we tried to set a date with them and they think they need to be 100 percent prepared.  So we will just keep working with them and we still have a lot to teach.  Rosalia and Olga are not really progressing, they haven´t been to church and they are super hard to get with.  Rosalia is super weird and she doesn´t even care about learning.  So that is about all with the investigators and we got 7 new ones this week and if they are progressing more I will let you know how they are going.  So I love you all so much! 

Sending some awesome Sisters home

Father Happy FATHERS DAY AND B DAY.  I didn´t forget because Americans from Utah showed up and they reminded me it was fathers day.  So I love you and I was thinking about you.  How old are you 25?

CODY

June 11, 2012 - Family Email

Hello everyone!!

Well that was fun, I loved seeing everyone in those pictures!  I feel a lot better after seeing those!  Zac looks like a little cute kid.  He also looks like a Hafen.  So about the packages, the only time that the missionaries are coming up here to Sevilla before the end of the transfer is tomorrow for Zone Conference.  So don´t send them to the base because who knows how long it will take for them to get to me.  I could leave Sevilla at the end of this transfer because I have been here for 4 transfers.  So just send the package here to the address I already gave you.  I am sure we aren´t moving, we have already spent a lot of money and they still haven´t done a single thing to the apartment. 

Well this last week was really good, we went to Zone Leader Conference which was weird because it was the last one for the Clegg´s which is super sad.  It was really weird the first 20 minutes of Pres Clegg´s presentation or talk whatever you want to call it (we also call them TALLER which is a Spanish word and I no longer remember the English word) was about marriage.  He talked about never feeling guilty for thinking about a girl friend or a girl.  He told us to pray to know when the moment comes to propose to her.  It was really amazing.  He also focused on not waiting for a big sign from God to know to marry a girl when he was giving you signs from when you had first met her.  I really liked it.  After he stopped talking about that he was like "I am not sure why I said that" haha.  Hermana Clegg knows I have a girl friend and she thinks that Heather is gorgeous, she made me show her a picture.  Then in the middle of President Clegg´s talk about marriage he gave me crap because I had never mentioned I had a girl friend and they like to know about that.  Usually they just give Manning crap about girls haha.  Well anyway they really focused on our responsibilities as Zone Leaders and transition to the new President.  It was really good and made me excited for change even though I am going to cry when they leave.

So this last week we had a lot of success and reached the standards of excellence.  We really worked hard and I love my comp.  Estrada and I get a long really well and he just wants to work hard and be obedient.  I love the difference and the feel of the change of companions.  He is for sure one of my favorites with Shaver, Waite and Banbury.  We did a lot of finding while teaching.  So we found three new people that showed up to church yesterday because they met a member named Diego.  We taught them last night and they are amazing.  One of the guys named Mauricio, I contacted him twice in the street and got his number twice but never really called him.  Well they were great.  Their names are Mauricio, Jorge and his wife Betty.  They are all from Ecuador.  So Lorena, Katerine and Rosa.  They are going okay, not really progressing to baptism.  They love us more than anything and would probably die if we didn´t pass by the house.  So we are going to drop them this next week if they aren´t going to get baptized at the end of the month.  We will tell them that there are other people that want to get baptized and we are going to go find them instead of wasting our time here.  They may or may not freak out a little but we have tried everything and they won't drop the coffee and commit to a baptismal date.  So Olga and Rosalia are doing well they haven´t come to church yet but they did come to see a baptism on Saturday and they loved it and thought it was so beautiful.  We had 9 investigators in church and 4 come to a baptism this last weekend.  Florencio is a new guy we are teaching from Ecuador.  He is really good and he kinda like broke down to us and told us that he has never really ever in his life been happy.  He has had a crappy life and not very sure if God exists.  He believes in him but doesn´t know how it feels because he has never been happy.  So pray for him.  Also we taught a new girl that is super cute and cool from Nicaragua.  Her name is Paula and she is 22.  She loves us and really likes our message and is reading the BOM.  She hasn´t been to church yet.  Well Loana is doing great and has read 4 chapters out of the BOM and really likes it, which is amazing.  She is coming around and really likes us now.  She has been to church 4 times and and she is still on for the 23rd.   Well the work here is doing well and we are working our butts off!  I have to give a lecture to my zone tomorrow with Estrada I am excited.  I also have to say bye to the Clegg´s for the last time tomorrow!  I am not happy about that.  Seely´s new kid is awesome, a real big sweetie I love him to death.  He is from American Fork. 

Well I love you all!
CODY

June 4, 2012 - Family Email

Yay!!!  my brother is finally married! 

Well that is cool!  I was wanting some more pictures but it´s cool.  I feel really bad that I wasn´t  there, but to be honest I didn´t even think about it this last weekend.  I actually forgot until late Saturday night that he was getting married!  So I want some pictures!!  The wedding looked great but I don´t even know what it looked like and I will try to find the video.  Okay so I watched it you look really happy mom!  Well I hope the whole wedding was really fun and good!  I wanted to see my family at the wedding!  No one took pictures???????

So this last week was really busy!  I haven´t felt so tired in a long time.  I had to wake up an hour earlier than usual two days in a row for transfers so that took a toll on me.  After moving out of apartments by your self is a lot of work and especially cleaning a house where missionaries have lived in for a year just leaving junk and a lot of missionaries that go home all left out of Sevilla.  Elder Seely and I literally did all of the work until Elder Estrada came in and he really helped a lot.  We put in a large amount of time to the point we hardly got to work, but the last two days we taught nine lesson with people and set 3 fechas (dates) of baptism.  So we got Loana for the 23rd of this month.  Loana is doing great and really progressing.  She used to not talk to the missionaries and was a really rude girl.  She is actually 14, I am not sure where you got 7 from.  She has been to church 3 times and been to a baptismal service.  She has really opened up to us and talks and jokes around.  The other two dates are for the 30th of this month and their names are Rosalia and Olga.  They are from Bolivia and really good ladies.  Olga has a lot of interest and really progressing and has read a lot of the Book of Mormon.  We brought them to the church and they loved it and Rosalia filmed parts of the church so that she could keep looking at them haha.  We have had a good week with Katerine, Rosa and Lorena.  They are doing well and better.  They keep drinking coffee but they can get rid of it.  Katerine wants to wait until her testing is all done to be baptized which is at the end of this month.  So all is looking well investigator wise.  That is all that happened this week, sorry it was so boring but transfers was really hard Elder Estrada and I were running to every side of the city all day long and then we were cleaning so that is kind of the life of a Zone Leader sometimes. 

I am doing well!  I am always good, the mission isn´t about me. I figured out that I am not here for me so maybe that´s why I don´t talk a lot about me.  I really just have forgotten me and I don´t ever have any complaints.  I am just in such a routine I don´t recognize anything anymore.  I really didn´t enjoy my time with Lignell that much.  I mean he was a funny kid but not a good example in anyway for the zone I thought.  So maybe that is why I never talked about me because I never felt good or the spirit with him.  I didn´t like teaching with him one bit.  He doesn´t care for the people or doesn´t know how to give and serve.  He was a very selfish person.  However I love my new comp he is a good kid!  He speaks perfect Spanish and really good at the work.  He is a special Elder.  He has been out for 10 months and grew up speaking Spanish in the home.  He was born in Guatemala but grew up in Utah.  His brother served the same time with Elder Waite in the Barcelona Mission so he and his brother were in Spain at the same time.  We are going to tear the city apart here in Sevilla.  I really am super happy don´t worry about me I just didn´t feel good in the other apartment with Lignell and Masterson.  Me and Elder Seely are a lot more happy and content. 

So the new piso we moved into is a joke!  Don´t send anything to it yet because it is super crappy.  We are most likely moving with in a week so that kinda sucks we will have to move again.  The piso leaks underneath and is ruining the house of the people that live below us.  So I will let you know about the package sending.  You could just send it to the American base the guy said I can send stuff to him still and I will get it at Zone Conference in two weeks.  Or just wait it is up to you.  Oh so I want one more CD.  It is called BEAUTIFUL DAWN by MERCY RIVER.  Thanks mom I love you!  So today I am going to buy shoes and a side bag because it is too hot with a back pack and I am dying of heat here in Sevilla, it is already a 115 degrees!  That is hot!!!

 

I love you!

Elder Cody Hafen

May 28, 2012 - Family Email

Okay how is everyone??

So this last week was a little rough!  Good news, I am not leaving SEVILLA!!!  Elder Lignell is getting transferred and I am staying here and getting Elder Estrada.  Elder Estrada is from Utah but was born in Guatemala.  I played soccer against him once because he went to Olympus High School.  I am super stoked for him to come here and be a Zone Leader with me.  He is also coming from El Puerto haha.  So I am excited for things to change around the piso and my boy Elder Seely is going to train!!!  So we will all live together and I am so ready for Elder Masterson and Lignell to get out of the piso because they are gross!!  They suck at cleaning and I am sick of making my comp´s bed every morning. 

My new address because we are moving is:

c/ LEON XIII 14, 4·C
49001, Sevilla, (Sevilla)
Spain

Elder Banbury and Hermana Letendre

So send the package here we move in on Wednesday and I am in charge of all the transfers and there is like 20 missionaries going through Sevilla.  I am going to be really busy these next couple of days with moving, cleaning, teaching and transfers!  Oh well, it will be a good experience for me.  So today we had a P-Day in the piso of the Elder´s in Utrera, that is where Elder Banbury lives.  We had a Zone bbq so there is a little photo with Elder Banbury and Hermana Letendre.  Hermana Letendre is the best missionary in the world, probably due to the fact that she is 26 and a Lawyer.  We were all wearing the same jersey so we had to take a picture! 

So we finally found out where Grace and Isabel have been.  Grace got surgery and they are completely terrified of getting baptized too fast even though they are ready.  We still haven´t talked to them because they won't answer the bloody phone.  We will get in contact with them.  We also got in contact with Rosa, Katerine and Lorena.  Katerine has really bad health problems.  She has Scoliosis back problems and when she gets nervous she goes like into shock and can´t breath and her legs go numb.  So we were trying to get her baptized this weekend and wanted to give her a blessing to feel better and she went into shock and it was really scary.  Elder Lignell was pushing it really hard just to get another baptism before he takes off.  She came to church the next day though with Rosa and then later that night Lorena and a member made a crap load of food and fed like six missionaries and we had a mini party for Elder Lignell and Masterson.  I came late because I was doing numbers in the church for the Zone.  Elder Banbury and I did a split that night so that was fun!  We did good this week finding new investigators.  We found 7 new people that hopefully will have potential.  One of the seven is Nadia´s little sister that has come to church like 3 weeks in a row.  Her name is Loana and she is good friends with one of Elder Seely´s recent converts.  So she is looking really well and has a lot of potential.  She used to not talk to any of the missionaries at all and would ignore us.  The first time we taught her she cried for some reason I hope it was that she felt the Holy Ghost which she wouldn´t really admit.  We are going to bring Elder Seely´s recent convert with us to help teach her so she feels more comfortable even though she is starting to open up to us.  So things around here are looking good!  I gotta take off I am running late today.  I love you all so very much and next week I am going to the mission home for Zone Leader Conference so hopefully I write you Monday!  

Katerine, Rosa, and Mom

I love all of you and good luck with the WEDDING!  CONGRATS BRADY AND JAYCEE I AM PRAYING FOR YA´LL!

It's party time!

The girls at the party

Love,

Elder Cody