May 21, 2018

This week was super great, we had a bunch of funny stuff happen to us, I cant even remember it all. We have been super busy too but its been a lot of fun. Saturday we had a baptism. Elder Ruiz and I are still going strong. Yesterday President Resek called a random leadership council, so right after church we went over to Ramos to talk about a bunch of mission stuff.  Then after we got to do Elder Ruiz’s skype call and his family is great! This week we’ll probably be just as crazy and I will probably forget all of it this time next week haha. I really cant remember anything but life is good I hope you guys are pumped for summer break, finish strong on all your tests though! it ain’t over yet! I love you all a ton!

Elder Maller

May 7, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

I hope the birthday was great. I was scared that I was gonna forget so I wrote it down in my agenda! This week nothing to crazy happened; like the tornado last week. We had zone conference, everyone in the pench got sick from eating this chicken except me.  We had some really good divisions and the coolest thing is these super cool kids that we found last eek are getting baptised this Saturday!! It was a pretty cool miracle, I just know now that any reference from a member could mean a new member! The work is on fire right now in the mission. I don’t think I mentioned but last month we baptized 104 investigators! Because of that President Resek wanted to throw another celebration in Ramos Mejia this pday! I’ll be sure to send photos. There also has been rumors that Elder Holland will be coming to talk to the mission sometime soon!! In about a week or so he will be down here to talk to the YSA people so we could be hearing from him as well pretty soon!  That’s pretty much it for this week I can’t believe that I skype next week so ill see you then!

Elder Maller

April 30, 2018

The week whirled by as we had a small tornado touch down not that far from us on Saturday night! At church yesterday all the power was out and it was still raining a ton so we just took the sacrament and we left to go help out the ward. There was a ton of houses that lost their roofs and some even just got picked up and tossed. A lot of people got flooded too. It’s crazy cause there is so much garbage ever where too right now! It’s awesome though cause we get to do a bunch of service now! The night of the tornado was pretty freaky though cause the roof leaked a ton but its all chill now. We actually found a ton of new investigator on Sunday because of the chance we had to serve. We also had a baptism on Saturday. If you remember I think a few emails back I talked about us teaching Viviana. She speaks English cause she lived in New York for 20 years but she hasn’t missed a day of church yet (including yesterday) so she is super awesome and super converted. The very day we told her that she can’t drink coffee she stopped the same day!! and she would drink a coffee every morning!!! she is super cool. thanks for all the prayers love ya a ton!  

Elder Maller

April 23, 2018

To start off I’m staying in Arco Iris with Elder Ruiz!! We are super pumped because of it too, we had a ton of fun this transfer and this next one will be sick because Elder Sultan is coming back to the zone!! He will finish his mission in Ferrari where I just was! Will be hanging out for sure. This week was super crazy though because on Thursday night we took a three hour train down to Lobos and we spent our days there until Saturday contacting and inviting people to a family history workshop that the ward was going to have. The only thing was is that it rained non stop down there and it was pretty tough. President Resek also came down on Friday to do interviews with us and like always I learned a ton of stuff from him for the mission but also a few tips for back home. Today we also had to say goodbye to Elder Lopez as he just finished his mission. He served really well and we all had a great time together in the pench and doing divisions together. Elder Jackson will be staying with us for a bit longer though as he will receive Elder Chamberlain from Colorado. he is a cool guy he is big into skiing so I can already tell this transfer will go by super fast. hope it all goes well this week for everyone! 

April 16, 2018

This week I taught my very first lesson in English! we got a refence for the states! her name is Viviana and she was living in New York for 25 years and recently she moved back here. She was always interested by the temple in New York so she came to church yesterday and she loved it! We set a baptismal date with her as well and she is so pumped for it! She said yesterday that today would be her very last cup of coffee!! She is super awesome and really prepared, but teaching in English was super weird. It made me a little worried for how my home coming talk would be. Elder Ruiz even got to practice a bit of his English. It’s crazy how much he has learned in the mission. If we stay together for the next transfer maybe you’ll get to talk with him on mothers day! The work is still going great especially because we got to do a ton of divisions this week in our area! This week on Saturday we find out what the transfers are, so we will see if I stay or go but, I’m really hoping to stay! I hope you guys have a great week! love ya

Elder Maller

April 9, 2018

How’s everyone doing? This week was the best week so far! We started off the week with some zone conferences which was super crazy, it was now the craziest zone conference I have ever been to. We were taught to refer to ourselfs as bautizadores or baptizers! the mission is going great people are baptizing more than ever. This month in April we are expected to get about 150 this month!! After we went over to Carmens and we ate a great lunch at Carmens with all the boys. I got to talk with Elder Afleck and he is in Los Pinos right now, which is were I started and from what he said it seems like that area has changed a ton ever since I have been there. When I was there, there was not a lot of baptisms, but now its one of the best area in Ramos Mejia! the zone here is doing great, we got to do a little bit more traveling this week and I think even in this next week because Elder Ruiz and I got a special assignment as assistants bautizadores or assistant baptizers or something like that. Elder Ruiz and I still don’t really now what it’s all about but I think it means that we are going to be doing a lot more divisions with a lot other random areas in the mission. It should be a great time. Elder Ruiz and I are doing great, we have transfers in like two weeks and we both are gonna be bagging prez to keep us together. we have just had a lot of fun together. I hope you guys have a great week love yall!

Elder Maller

Apr 2, 2018

General Conference week was a great one as usual! About half the zone got together and we watched it in English. If I had to pick my favorite talks it would have to be the one either by Elder Eyring or form Elder de Feo, but there was a ton of others that I also really liked. Elder Durrant gave a trunky talk lol. During Elder Zivics talk I don’t remember much of what he said but I remember feeling the spirit really strong. When President Nelson announced the new temple in Salta everyone was super excited about that!  Its in a really great location too.  Many members from northern Chile, Bolivia and Brazil will also have a new temple really close by them. The days leading up to General Conference were great too. On Friday President called us and asked us to organize a tormenta blanca in Marcos Paz 2. Tormenta blanca means “white storm” and it’s when everyone in the zone goes to one area to work. We had to do it that very same day so by some miracle we got everyone together, even the elders from Lobos! We all blew that area up! In about 4 hours we invited over one hundred people to get baptized and eleven of them accepted the invitation. At the end of the tormenta blanca we were able to give 40 references to the hermanas!!!! It was a huge success, everyone really worked hard. This coming week we have some divisions to do with the zone and we got zone conference on Wednesday!! It should be a good one and I’m excited to tell y’all about it next week! Love you

Elder Maller