Dec 12, 2016

Dec 12, 2016 - Hey, it’s good to hear everyone is doing great glad to hear about school and other activities, I’ve been praying specifically for you guys every night.  So we left the MTC Tuesday at about 12noon. The mission president was running a bit late, but we meet met up with President Robertson and took photos at the temple; he should have emailed you guys.  The first day in the field was sweet.  My companion is Elder Udall from Gilbert AZ and he is sooooo awesome, love him already especially cause he can speak English and he’s a good man too.  He helps me out a lot and were having a ton of fun together.  My zone is the Ramos Mejia zone and our ward is the Los Pinos ward which means the pines and its funny cause there is like only one wimpy pine tree here.  My first visit was with hermana Corza and she is what we call and investegador enterno. She’s been visiting with the missionaries for ten years!!  Crazy enough I started telling her about where I’m from and she said Elder Kwazney was teaching her aswell! crazy crazy.  Anyways she is progressing and were going to try to set a date for baptism; maybe in January, soooo awesome.  This area is pretty sweet were able to keep buys the whole day with visits and such.  We got a baptismal date for this Saturday and Elder Udall said I could do the baptizing yeeeeeeee.  We also got a date for Gueillermo for Christmas Eve.  He’s also been investigating the church for a year.  The annoying thing here is a lot of people want to get baptized but everyone either smokes drinks or is living together and isn’t married and I literally mean everyone.  I can’t wait until I find someone who is actually ready to be baptized.

Sunday was cool, it was the primary presentation and the kids here are way cuter, I don’t know why they just are.  We have a lot of great members and the bishop is a nice guy, he is pretty young and has a lot of energy for missionary work.  They didn’t get me to bear my testimony but yet, but I think they will get me to do it next week.  We had a lunch appointment and I had to eat a whole blood sausage, so nasty ugh but everything else was great.  We don’t have dinner appointments here, only lunch appointments.  There lunches are soooo huge and it’s sooooo hot at that time.  I actually understand why siesta is a thing, but the people are soooo lazy it makes me mad.  I love you guys and I love the mission I’m doing great, I miss you guys but not that much ha ha ha.   This church is so true. 

Love Elder Maller