Helllllo my lovely family!!
Happppppppppy 4th of JULY!!!
God bless america!!!
I am ticked I don´t have any Fireworks to shoot of or anything like that! Its weird being gone for a holiday that´s for sure! I hope you all have such a great American day! When I am back I will teach you all how to make a real BBQ! Argentina style. Se llama Asado! Its amazing! hahahah Mother do you mean TRC? I have no Idea what CRT is in the MTC. But what is it? Thats awesome, you really will feel so good in the MTC so much peace! How is the Temple? I miss it so much, I remember that day when we went through! Such an amazing one! President Reichman tell him hello and thank him so much for me! shoot Real Salt Lake Game hu? picture me out there playing ok! haha that´s going to be so fun! I miss you all dearly!
Here is my week!
So pretty much every monday we go bowling with our investigators! it´s so fun, but the bowling alleys here are awful they have strings hooked on to the top of the pins so they don´t fall down. hahah it´s still fun. The week went by really really slow, hahah but it was still a good one! It was transfer week so it was tough to focus on things! It has been a good week though, visited a lot of members and helped that out with some things. hahah we had service this week, we had to help this lady move her stuff from one house to another. we were walking in the middle of the street with one of those things that carries furniture. with chairs and cupboards and everything. We had a baptism planned for saturday but it go changed to this saturday so in 5 days which is going to be so awesome, really have been blessed in this area with 6 baptisms! its awesome! This month of July we are planning on having a few more, so I am excited. I have a new Companion. I still haven´t met him. His name is Elder Adencivia from Rosario Argentina. hahah so all spanish now! I am looking forward to it! supposively he has a way cool accent so I will have to learn to speak like him! Yesterday we were at a members house saying bye for Elder nitta, and this memeber callled this other Elder to say bye. And it was the coolest thing I have ever seen. This member was going to commit suicide when this Elder knocked the door. and this member last night was balling and was saying thank you so much! it was so powerful. hahah of course I was crying becasue I always do. The miracles of this work is absolutely incredible! I hope you all have such an amazing week! The best way to feel the spirit is by bearing your testimony! we are all instruments in Gods hands which is such a gift for all of us! Thanks you for all the support every week fam. I love you all.
Elder Payton.
Frit.
Friday, July 8, 2011
HELLLLLOOO!!!
Another week went by so fast! I am doing really really well. Lots to tell you so get ready!
So this week we started and we had a meeting with our Obispado our bishop and counselors about the progress in the ward. We talked about our baptisms and the one we had scheduled for saturday the 25. It was awesome becuase it was planned and everything and it was good to go, they supported us on it and everything. So you guys remember cecilia the girl that two months ago didn´t believe in God and then started to pray and everything? AAAAAHHHHHH she got baptized!!!!!!! it was the coolest thing ever. So the baptism we had planned for saturday with magali was set, but we no only had that one we had two together! it was so awesome. So the story with cecilia we callled her up and were like we are going to baptize you tomorrow this saturday! she said me. and we were like yes you! she then said I need to talk really well with you guys. So we met up in the church and finished teaching her and then she had her baptismal interview! She passed! It was such a blessing! So saturday comes around, ahhhh probably the best day of the mission so far! my first baptism! I was so nervous, I had to memorize the saying in spanish and all of it and I didn´t want to forget it. So I had my compy give me a blessing to help me in it. It helped me so much! My comp baptized Cecilia first! I was standing at the door of the fount and when she came out of the water it was so powerful, she put her hands over her face and was starting to cry, the happiness in her was finally all there! I had never seen it before, it was awesome. Then It was my turn to baptize Selene Magali Rodriquez. I escorted her down into the water, and explained what to do as best I could. then did the baptism. I was nervous but I said everything right and I DID it! ahhhhhhh I was so happy after! I loved every second of it! no doubt one of the best experiences ever! two baptisms in one day! It was such a blessing to see! the next day the confirmations went really well! everything worked out well! There were scares at times, we had to go find Magali becuase she didn´t have a ride to the church sunday morning! Woooo! loved this past week.
Today we all got together as a zone and played futbol and did Christmas in July! with white elephant gifts and such it was fun! The last week before the new transfer! it went by so fast! I will probably be getting anew companion and maybe a new area!
It was such a blessing this week, and I know that those decisions by those two girls to be baptized was a miracle!
I love you all so much! Miss you.
Elder Payton!
Another week went by so fast! I am doing really really well. Lots to tell you so get ready!
So this week we started and we had a meeting with our Obispado our bishop and counselors about the progress in the ward. We talked about our baptisms and the one we had scheduled for saturday the 25. It was awesome becuase it was planned and everything and it was good to go, they supported us on it and everything. So you guys remember cecilia the girl that two months ago didn´t believe in God and then started to pray and everything? AAAAAHHHHHH she got baptized!!!!!!! it was the coolest thing ever. So the baptism we had planned for saturday with magali was set, but we no only had that one we had two together! it was so awesome. So the story with cecilia we callled her up and were like we are going to baptize you tomorrow this saturday! she said me. and we were like yes you! she then said I need to talk really well with you guys. So we met up in the church and finished teaching her and then she had her baptismal interview! She passed! It was such a blessing! So saturday comes around, ahhhh probably the best day of the mission so far! my first baptism! I was so nervous, I had to memorize the saying in spanish and all of it and I didn´t want to forget it. So I had my compy give me a blessing to help me in it. It helped me so much! My comp baptized Cecilia first! I was standing at the door of the fount and when she came out of the water it was so powerful, she put her hands over her face and was starting to cry, the happiness in her was finally all there! I had never seen it before, it was awesome. Then It was my turn to baptize Selene Magali Rodriquez. I escorted her down into the water, and explained what to do as best I could. then did the baptism. I was nervous but I said everything right and I DID it! ahhhhhhh I was so happy after! I loved every second of it! no doubt one of the best experiences ever! two baptisms in one day! It was such a blessing to see! the next day the confirmations went really well! everything worked out well! There were scares at times, we had to go find Magali becuase she didn´t have a ride to the church sunday morning! Woooo! loved this past week.
Today we all got together as a zone and played futbol and did Christmas in July! with white elephant gifts and such it was fun! The last week before the new transfer! it went by so fast! I will probably be getting anew companion and maybe a new area!
It was such a blessing this week, and I know that those decisions by those two girls to be baptized was a miracle!
I love you all so much! Miss you.
Elder Payton!
Helllo Fam!
Your brother, and son! What´s up? Shooooot no way Scott is going pro in golf? That is so sick, I have a famous cousin! haha now its my turn after the mission to go pro! haha we will see! When you talk to him tell him congrats from me and I am so proud that´s so cool he is living his dream! I got the package Mom! it was the one with the weird calendar hahah jk I love it thank you so much! OOOH congratuations on your 5 year anniversary! wooo you and peter are just darling hu? Tooties dearest sister! I´m so so sorry your finger is hurting! I´m glad it is slowly getting better! hang in there! your finger will always have memories of being slammed in the door! haha love me. Happpppppy Birthday this week sue! have a great one!!! old? 23! David Beckham number! My finger is a lot better it was infected with an ingrown nail! I need to learn how to cut my nails better! but today I ripped the nail out so it´s good, I was almost in tears it hurt so bad! yes I play soccer every Thursday with the members and investigators! I love it, every thursday night in bed I always have dreams of my past soccer goals! it´s always a good dream! I love it and i miss it a lot though! but it´s all good!
Anyway family this week was soooooo sick! Definitley blessed like crazy from heavenly father! We put 6 baptism dates! it was so awesome every single time it was so powerful to see them respond! My compy and I went through a little spunk the weeks before and didn´t put many dates for baptism. Honestly I think it was a test/trial for us, and it helped us so much this week! for sure a baptism this saturday!!!!! ahhhh I am so excited! So we went over there yesterday to have the baptism inverview with the Zone Leaders! I played with the 9 year old Magali( who is getting baptized) milly 5 and David who is 4 the whole time hahah I loved it! Magali asked me to baptize her!!!!!!!! I think i understood right! But I am going to get my first baptism in white! ahhhh I am so excited it will be this saturday if everything goes right! I wlll make sure to take pictures to send to you! I am doing amazing the weeks are going by so fast, almost done with the second transfer! I don´t know if I will be staying in the same area or not but we will see soon! My shoes have a hole in them hahaha they are done for, but I am still wearing them til I can´t anymore. I think I step in poop atleast 5 times a day! it´s great! I miss you all so very much! Have a splendid week! Love you!!!
Elder Payton.
Your brother, and son! What´s up? Shooooot no way Scott is going pro in golf? That is so sick, I have a famous cousin! haha now its my turn after the mission to go pro! haha we will see! When you talk to him tell him congrats from me and I am so proud that´s so cool he is living his dream! I got the package Mom! it was the one with the weird calendar hahah jk I love it thank you so much! OOOH congratuations on your 5 year anniversary! wooo you and peter are just darling hu? Tooties dearest sister! I´m so so sorry your finger is hurting! I´m glad it is slowly getting better! hang in there! your finger will always have memories of being slammed in the door! haha love me. Happpppppy Birthday this week sue! have a great one!!! old? 23! David Beckham number! My finger is a lot better it was infected with an ingrown nail! I need to learn how to cut my nails better! but today I ripped the nail out so it´s good, I was almost in tears it hurt so bad! yes I play soccer every Thursday with the members and investigators! I love it, every thursday night in bed I always have dreams of my past soccer goals! it´s always a good dream! I love it and i miss it a lot though! but it´s all good!
Anyway family this week was soooooo sick! Definitley blessed like crazy from heavenly father! We put 6 baptism dates! it was so awesome every single time it was so powerful to see them respond! My compy and I went through a little spunk the weeks before and didn´t put many dates for baptism. Honestly I think it was a test/trial for us, and it helped us so much this week! for sure a baptism this saturday!!!!! ahhhh I am so excited! So we went over there yesterday to have the baptism inverview with the Zone Leaders! I played with the 9 year old Magali( who is getting baptized) milly 5 and David who is 4 the whole time hahah I loved it! Magali asked me to baptize her!!!!!!!! I think i understood right! But I am going to get my first baptism in white! ahhhh I am so excited it will be this saturday if everything goes right! I wlll make sure to take pictures to send to you! I am doing amazing the weeks are going by so fast, almost done with the second transfer! I don´t know if I will be staying in the same area or not but we will see soon! My shoes have a hole in them hahaha they are done for, but I am still wearing them til I can´t anymore. I think I step in poop atleast 5 times a day! it´s great! I miss you all so very much! Have a splendid week! Love you!!!
Elder Payton.
Helllllloooo Wonderful Family!!
This week was a goooood week I love it here, still in the same place doing the same thing but there are so many miracles each day, which is so cool to see! Can you believe it already 4 months!
This past week we had a Zone meeting with all of our zone, which is always way fun to meet all the new Elders. We played soccer, and went bowling it was so fun, they had american music playing which was a little bit tempting to start dancing and singing. You know me. haha. ´We are teaching this little girl named Magali, haha the first thing she said to me is why are you so timid? haha which means shy! I thought I was outgoing but she didn´t think so. She is awesome though she wants to get baptized very badly she goes to church with her grandma. Her parents are members but they don´t go to church, so she goes alone sometimes. She has been going for the past 3 years. We put a baptismal date for next weekend! She prays and everything, her prays are so simple but she is so sincere with them and is always willing to talk about Jesus and pray. I bought two alfajors for her and she was so excited! We are expecting a baptism this weekend! We are praying for it, we are going by the girl three times this week to prepare her for her baptism. The week of baptisms are always hard because the advesary, But we hope she can keep her faith and move forward and perform this baptism because we know that it will change her life! and the life of her family!
Ahh yesteday we had Stake Conference which was so dope it was a live broadcast from Salt Lake. Elder ziviv spoke, Elder Neil L. Anderson, President Boyd K Packer, and Hermana Wixom spoke. it was so powerful! The wards here are so different from The states not a lot of people go to the Conference but those that went definitley experienced something amazing. President Packer, spoke on the Holy Ghost and how we are the only people in the world that have the Holy Ghost in our lives, and that is what makes our church different! We have such a blessing to have that guide in out lives every single day!
Oh mother and Pete, do you remember what was said in my setting apart blessing? if so could you help me remember and write me a little of it? Love you.
I love you all!
Sounds like everyone is just doing amazing! Proud of all you!
Love you Elder Payton.
This week was a goooood week I love it here, still in the same place doing the same thing but there are so many miracles each day, which is so cool to see! Can you believe it already 4 months!
This past week we had a Zone meeting with all of our zone, which is always way fun to meet all the new Elders. We played soccer, and went bowling it was so fun, they had american music playing which was a little bit tempting to start dancing and singing. You know me. haha. ´We are teaching this little girl named Magali, haha the first thing she said to me is why are you so timid? haha which means shy! I thought I was outgoing but she didn´t think so. She is awesome though she wants to get baptized very badly she goes to church with her grandma. Her parents are members but they don´t go to church, so she goes alone sometimes. She has been going for the past 3 years. We put a baptismal date for next weekend! She prays and everything, her prays are so simple but she is so sincere with them and is always willing to talk about Jesus and pray. I bought two alfajors for her and she was so excited! We are expecting a baptism this weekend! We are praying for it, we are going by the girl three times this week to prepare her for her baptism. The week of baptisms are always hard because the advesary, But we hope she can keep her faith and move forward and perform this baptism because we know that it will change her life! and the life of her family!
Ahh yesteday we had Stake Conference which was so dope it was a live broadcast from Salt Lake. Elder ziviv spoke, Elder Neil L. Anderson, President Boyd K Packer, and Hermana Wixom spoke. it was so powerful! The wards here are so different from The states not a lot of people go to the Conference but those that went definitley experienced something amazing. President Packer, spoke on the Holy Ghost and how we are the only people in the world that have the Holy Ghost in our lives, and that is what makes our church different! We have such a blessing to have that guide in out lives every single day!
Oh mother and Pete, do you remember what was said in my setting apart blessing? if so could you help me remember and write me a little of it? Love you.
I love you all!
Sounds like everyone is just doing amazing! Proud of all you!
Love you Elder Payton.
Helllllloooo Family!
How is my lovely family doing? This week went by so fast It feels like
yesterday I was writing you all!
Well this week was a way good week for me, a tad frustrating and sad
but still it was a way good week!
We have this investigator who´s name is Cicilia she is 16 and has had
some tough times in the past. She doesn´t believe in God. She doesn´t
know her mom, she lives with a member in my area and doesn´t have any
friends. She is living a tough life. We have been teaching her for
about a month now. It definitely has been tough teaching her, the
first times we would just tell her about God and that he lives and
that he loves her so much and wants her to be happy. We would ask her
to committ to reading and praying but she wouldn´t. We decided to just
begin teaching the lessons and started with the first lesson about
Joseph Smith. She opened up to us and this week and her mom that she
has never met in her life, called her older sister and is asking about
her. She got really quiet and was tearing up, the miracle in all of
this is she prayed for the first time in her life and we put a
baptismal date for this month! It was so cool to see the change in her
life, it´s going to take a little bit more but I hope and pray she can
trust and believe that God is with her.
Sad news, I have an infection in my finger. And I had to go to the
hospital, the have to amputate my finger. I don´t know what to do, I´m
scared. hahah jk, but no seriously it is a bad infection. I went to a
member yesterday and she works in a hospital and gave me all this
stuff to put on it and everything. It hurts so bad.
Every Thursday night we play futbol with the ward and this past week
was so kapo the ward is awesome here, haha the didn´t know americans
can play soccer. The first counselor in the ward and the stake
presidency told me on sunday that they have a plot against me this
Thursday so I don´t score anymore. haha it is funny!´
I have been studying the gift of Discernment a lot lately and it´s so
cool how awesome it really works! There is a talk by Elder Ballard
that was like how do you know if the spirit is there with you? He said
don´t worry about it! it´s so simple, if your bearing truth with all
your heart you can tell. The mission is amazing some days are hard and
some are easier. But it is all amazing! The miracles every single day
from this work is so cool to see! I am happy and loving it here! and
am so happy to know you all are doing amazing!
This week we have Stake Conference ha I hope I will be able to
understand a little bit of it! The spanish is so much better now, I
understand almost everything now and am talking all the time! it´s a
miracle haha I remember in high school with the language it was
impossible. but now its not bad! I love you all!
Have an amazing week Family!
Elder Payton!
or what everyone calls me here Elder Paytaton!
hahaha funny story real quick! Every time We call our mission leader
he says my name in the funniest Accent! Elder PAAAAAAYTOOON. Love you
all! Ciao Ciao! I´m Italian! :)
How is my lovely family doing? This week went by so fast It feels like
yesterday I was writing you all!
Well this week was a way good week for me, a tad frustrating and sad
but still it was a way good week!
We have this investigator who´s name is Cicilia she is 16 and has had
some tough times in the past. She doesn´t believe in God. She doesn´t
know her mom, she lives with a member in my area and doesn´t have any
friends. She is living a tough life. We have been teaching her for
about a month now. It definitely has been tough teaching her, the
first times we would just tell her about God and that he lives and
that he loves her so much and wants her to be happy. We would ask her
to committ to reading and praying but she wouldn´t. We decided to just
begin teaching the lessons and started with the first lesson about
Joseph Smith. She opened up to us and this week and her mom that she
has never met in her life, called her older sister and is asking about
her. She got really quiet and was tearing up, the miracle in all of
this is she prayed for the first time in her life and we put a
baptismal date for this month! It was so cool to see the change in her
life, it´s going to take a little bit more but I hope and pray she can
trust and believe that God is with her.
Sad news, I have an infection in my finger. And I had to go to the
hospital, the have to amputate my finger. I don´t know what to do, I´m
scared. hahah jk, but no seriously it is a bad infection. I went to a
member yesterday and she works in a hospital and gave me all this
stuff to put on it and everything. It hurts so bad.
Every Thursday night we play futbol with the ward and this past week
was so kapo the ward is awesome here, haha the didn´t know americans
can play soccer. The first counselor in the ward and the stake
presidency told me on sunday that they have a plot against me this
Thursday so I don´t score anymore. haha it is funny!´
I have been studying the gift of Discernment a lot lately and it´s so
cool how awesome it really works! There is a talk by Elder Ballard
that was like how do you know if the spirit is there with you? He said
don´t worry about it! it´s so simple, if your bearing truth with all
your heart you can tell. The mission is amazing some days are hard and
some are easier. But it is all amazing! The miracles every single day
from this work is so cool to see! I am happy and loving it here! and
am so happy to know you all are doing amazing!
This week we have Stake Conference ha I hope I will be able to
understand a little bit of it! The spanish is so much better now, I
understand almost everything now and am talking all the time! it´s a
miracle haha I remember in high school with the language it was
impossible. but now its not bad! I love you all!
Have an amazing week Family!
Elder Payton!
or what everyone calls me here Elder Paytaton!
hahaha funny story real quick! Every time We call our mission leader
he says my name in the funniest Accent! Elder PAAAAAAYTOOON. Love you
all! Ciao Ciao! I´m Italian! :)
Hellllllllllloooo!
I am so glad to hear about your guy´s week! It makes me so happy knowing that you all are doing just dandy! I miss you all so much, and am glad you all got to be together this week!
This week for me was probably the most spiritual I have had so far in my mission!
Shoot alright I´ll tell the story right now, ahh its so dope. Okay so we had to travel up to Alma Fuerte for a District Meeting which is about two hours away. We had our district meeting and after My companion and I stayed in Alma Fuerte instead of coming back to Rio Cuarto, to help the Hermanas in our district in their area. That was the best decision we could of made. We were blessed so much. So hear is the story now. Her name is Edith. or something like that. ha. So we walk up to the door, and the odor is really strong of pure smoke. So of course we are like ah shoot. So we knock, the first time nothing. Knock again. I look in the window and there is a woman looking at us. So she opens the window, which is kinda a sign of I don´t really want to talk, so in my mind I was a little bummed. We introduced ourselves, said we are missionaries and had a little questionaire we wanted to share about faith and relgion. We started asking questions like, Do you think it is important to follow the example of JesusChrist in all things? Do you think Jesus Visited the Americas? and this is the question that hit her hard, If Jesus was standing in front of you right now what would you say? she said perdon, and salud, which is forgive me and health. We told her after she said that, that she can have that and that is exactly what our message can bring to her life, we bore testimony on her front porch and she starting to cry. "she said, this mensaje es para mi" ahhhhhh. so dope. We then asked if we could come in and teach her a little bit more, we got in! We started talking for a bit and then asked her about Baptism. We showed her a lamanite of how Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptice. She looked at it for 1 minute and then said Explicame. Explain. We explained it and she was balling the whole time, we bore testimony and it felt like everything we were saying was straight from the spirit. She said where is the water!! haha. We put a fecha for June. Before we left she said in a prayer or to us, I made a promise to my house that I wouldn´t let anyone in my house who isn´t Catholic! she then said gracias a Dios por Los Elderes! It was so powerful!
I loved it and love how everyone who feels this spirit knows how powerful it is.
I gave my first talk in spanish in Argentina yesterday hahahah I was so nervous. I prepared a talk, but for some reason I didn´t even open my notebook to look at it. I know dumb. hahah so I just bore my testimony and talked as best I could about the missionary work in our ward. Everyone said I did a really good job! The language is getting better each day the more I speak.
I had lunch with the Verges family on saturday and their grandma and cousin were there from oregon so they speak english which was so nice, America. haha. But I gave a spiritual thought to the family before we left. Jacob 5:72. And it was awesome, I was crying, the kids, the grandma, it was so spiritual. May flew by hu?? goodness!
It´s starting to get frigid here haha it rains a lot! But I am loving it so much!
I miss you all, and love you!
have such a fresh week!
Love Elder Payton.
I am so glad to hear about your guy´s week! It makes me so happy knowing that you all are doing just dandy! I miss you all so much, and am glad you all got to be together this week!
This week for me was probably the most spiritual I have had so far in my mission!
Shoot alright I´ll tell the story right now, ahh its so dope. Okay so we had to travel up to Alma Fuerte for a District Meeting which is about two hours away. We had our district meeting and after My companion and I stayed in Alma Fuerte instead of coming back to Rio Cuarto, to help the Hermanas in our district in their area. That was the best decision we could of made. We were blessed so much. So hear is the story now. Her name is Edith. or something like that. ha. So we walk up to the door, and the odor is really strong of pure smoke. So of course we are like ah shoot. So we knock, the first time nothing. Knock again. I look in the window and there is a woman looking at us. So she opens the window, which is kinda a sign of I don´t really want to talk, so in my mind I was a little bummed. We introduced ourselves, said we are missionaries and had a little questionaire we wanted to share about faith and relgion. We started asking questions like, Do you think it is important to follow the example of JesusChrist in all things? Do you think Jesus Visited the Americas? and this is the question that hit her hard, If Jesus was standing in front of you right now what would you say? she said perdon, and salud, which is forgive me and health. We told her after she said that, that she can have that and that is exactly what our message can bring to her life, we bore testimony on her front porch and she starting to cry. "she said, this mensaje es para mi" ahhhhhh. so dope. We then asked if we could come in and teach her a little bit more, we got in! We started talking for a bit and then asked her about Baptism. We showed her a lamanite of how Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptice. She looked at it for 1 minute and then said Explicame. Explain. We explained it and she was balling the whole time, we bore testimony and it felt like everything we were saying was straight from the spirit. She said where is the water!! haha. We put a fecha for June. Before we left she said in a prayer or to us, I made a promise to my house that I wouldn´t let anyone in my house who isn´t Catholic! she then said gracias a Dios por Los Elderes! It was so powerful!
I loved it and love how everyone who feels this spirit knows how powerful it is.
I gave my first talk in spanish in Argentina yesterday hahahah I was so nervous. I prepared a talk, but for some reason I didn´t even open my notebook to look at it. I know dumb. hahah so I just bore my testimony and talked as best I could about the missionary work in our ward. Everyone said I did a really good job! The language is getting better each day the more I speak.
I had lunch with the Verges family on saturday and their grandma and cousin were there from oregon so they speak english which was so nice, America. haha. But I gave a spiritual thought to the family before we left. Jacob 5:72. And it was awesome, I was crying, the kids, the grandma, it was so spiritual. May flew by hu?? goodness!
It´s starting to get frigid here haha it rains a lot! But I am loving it so much!
I miss you all, and love you!
have such a fresh week!
Love Elder Payton.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
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