Happy Easter everyone! It’s been an interesting week… One time I ate lunch and in less than an hour I saw it again… it was still identifiable …Now the real strange thing is about a half hour later I saw the cucumber…. the one I ate about a half hour before lunch!  You guys can try to figure that one out. So yeah, I was sick with the Mexican curse, however I’ve felt better today.

Yesterday [Sunday] we had to help with several baptisms… which involved showering at 4 am and going to the chapel to turn on the boiler and fill up the font…then take a quick nap and then conduct a baptismal interview at 6:45 and participate in the service at 7 am. When that was all over, we left to get our investigators and return to the church.

Later the missionaries from our district came to explain that their scheduled baptisms fell through because they were the children of a Catholic father and a mother who is a member. And the father decided that the children weren’t going to be baptized…So I went with one of the other Elders to the family’s house and we taught the whole family about the restoration and set a baptismal date for the father as well. We had several prayers…and then the whole family came with us to the church for their children’s baptisms. It wasn’t quite as easy as that! To say the least, we had lots of help!!! …Especially considering the father has never even been near our church building. However as mom says, “all is well that ends well”.

Other things that have been going on are… I don’t think that the zone leaders are greatly pleased with my district’s performance, and am feeling like we need to go on divisions [splits] with them soon. Oh well.
My “son”…Elder Nuñez (the missionary I trained) is in the district of Elder Reed (my cousin). Wow that’s a kind of Spanglish way to say that… I’ve really forgotten how to use the possessive “S”.

We had Zone conference with our mission President and he is the MAN. We reviewed what we’ve learned in our 90 day study of the Book of Mormon and he has tapped into another dimension of this book! The Book of Mormon is incredible, especially when you are looking for specific things!

Well until next week…

I love you all!!! And hope you are all very happy!

Bryce

Muy buenas tardes! [a very good afternoon]

Esta semana fue bien rápido por las conferencias. [This week has gone very fast because of the conference.] We had another baptism of a teenager who still has some challenges, however he is improving and we will still be working with him a lot. General conference was great, I got to watch the most part and in English. I liked much of what was said especial Elder Uchtdorf in the introduction of the last session, the guy from Portugal on decisions and the Holy Ghost, and Elder Eyring in the priesthood session. And of course what was said about members finding and missionaries teaching. You should all accept the challenge to find or invite 3 people you know or meet to take the missionary discussions and accept this invitation. This really means you will probably have to invite many to have three that accept this invitation. You will be very blessed if you do this! … and so will they!

I can’t remember of anything crazy of funny that happened this week although I am sure it happened. We started a 90 day program to read the Book of Mormon and mark specific things; it has been really neat. We are going to give a talk about it on Thursday… my companion in English

I love you all and am praying that you all receive the best.

Bryce

P.S. I was telling some missionaries the other day that when the Angel Moroni came to the three witnesses he also came with various things not just the plates… this included a table! None of them believe me, oh well not that important… however I would appreciate  it if one of you (Kerry or Dad?) could look up where it says it in Church History or some where…there is also a drawing and if you could send me the drawing, the account and where you found the info. It will make things fun for me! Thanks

[Tanda] Much of this letter was response to questions I had ask him in my letter so that is why it sounds a little like a one-sided conversation.

¿que tal Familia?

¡gracias por sus cartas! [thank you for your letters] I haven’t had time to read them (except mom’s and Heather’s) so I am printing them off and reading them later. So this week I had my first companionship exchanges with my District Leader Elder Morales. It was for  24 hours. and went well, half of our day was spent in interviews for baptisms. The work has been interesting.

Pachuca, as my companion describes it is a big hotel. The people here have another house or visit family and are gone allot. Its kind of strange, and difficult to meet with investigators regularly. My spanish is improving. People have been telling me recently that when I first came here I didn’t understand but now I am talking allot more and that they understand me. I still need to work allot on conjugating correctly though.

Allot of our time the past two weeks has been meeting with and searching for members to update the church records… allot of the dates, addresses,etc. are missing or incorrect. Usually it is hot during the day and cool in the mornings and nights and it rains allot. We are working allot and looking for ways to strengthen our little ward, which is fairly new. One thing we’ve been doing is choosing a family each week to give a copy of The Book of Mormon to at the end of Sacrament Meeting, then in the following week they tell about there experiences. It has been going well so far. Oh mom …my knee is fine, I am healthy as ever.

My Mission President sent a great quote with his letter this week… “Confidence is contagious, so is lack of confidence.”  Vince Lombardi

…I am going to check right now about the cost to copy my pictures to CDs.

Sending a package through the mail isn’t a problem, but I thinks its better to use DHL or another carrier…. by the way I really don’t need anything right now so unless you really feel the need, a package isn’t necessary. However pictures would be nice, especially of Isabella, I don’t know if I can receive them through the email, but try.

Well it is about time. I love you all very much!

Bryce