Hugs!

Hi everyone,
I am glad everyone is doing good, and JACE what in the devils name were you doing lighting a field on fire, that can really get you in danger with the law, and how much is the fine that you have to pay.
Well the two pictures are of me and my comp and the other is of me and a snow ball I made with the freezer frost, I am also trying to download a short video of my comp doing a funny voice.
My comps parents are Alan and Julene Robinson, in Hooper, Utah.
Here is the new direccion of the Mission...
Via 2 #104 Dep 302 y 303
Entre Samankanda y Paseo Tabasco
Col. Tabasco 2000
Villahermosa, Tabasco C.P. 86035
Okay I am excited for the new mission and I got to give Sister Hansen a hug, they came over and saw our house and at the end we all got hugs. I haven't met the new Pres. yet but he should be here soon. We are doing a lot of work with the members here, they help us out with references and we are starting to have better success then when we were working alone.
We are in the ward Villalta, the chapel is on Vasquez Gomez esg prolagnacion Lerdo. Our house is on 5 de Mayo Callejon Rubirosa, we live on the second floor of an orange house. We attend church from 10-1
Wow, Emily's engaged, cool! But Mom we aren't that young, you just won't let us grow up yet :)
For p-day we washed our clothes and also bought food, the fridge is full! I forgot to get a picture of what the fridge looks like, then afterwards we went to the chapel to play futball.
Well that is about my week that has passed, we are going to do an open house on the 17th of July so if you guys can pray that we will have success with it, it would really help us out.
Love you all,
Elder Weaver

Note from Mom, Jace lit a "flower" and tossed it just short of the street and caught his friends bushes on fire, the hose would not reach and his friends mom called the fire department, they came with a sheriff and he sited Jace because it was not with in the 3 days before/after the 4th...it burned about a 5' section of "fitzers" in the park strip of the front yard...he was pretty shaken up...but now is more nervous about the court appearance...the fine could be from $100-$500 I will keep you posted...the cop said that if it would have been next Saturday he would not have sited him-lesson learned, just because they are selling them in the grocery store doesn't mean you can light them!
Happy 4th of July!

Hola de Veracruz

Sis. Weaver:
Just wanted to send you a little note and tell you how much I LOVE your son, Elder Weaver!!! We were able to drop by his apartment this morning and give him some M&M's and a great big hug...It felt so good :) He really is a wonderful young men and I will miss seeing his smiling face, but I know that he is serving where the Lord needs hime to serve. He has some great things to do in the new mission and will be a blessing to the Castenedas. This has been a hard thing for me to say good-bye to my 73 Elders who are in the South, but I am really excited to hear about all of the success that the mission will be having. We are sending some fabulous missionaries and I can testify that I have felt the Lord's hand inall of this. I feel like our missionaries are ready to go forward with renewed excitement!
Thank you again for sending your son to serve the Lord with us in Veracruz. It has been a joy to work side by side with him in this marvelous work!
Con amor,
Hna H
PS It seems like only yesterday that he was running around Lerdo with Elder Gil and barely speaking Spanish! Time sure flies!

I have never met her, I would love to someday, to thank her in person for the wonderful mission Mom that she has been to Jordan and also to us at home...she is so personable and I will miss her little notes dearly...Thank heaven Jordan has had the Hansens for so much of his mission...they have spoiled us! We are excited that he is going to serve with the Castenedas and look forward to getting to know more about them...all of the feelings of a new missionary have surfaced all over again...so many emotions, we know that he is going where he needs to be!
Can't believe we are down to 8 months left...
Time does fly-I promise, Grandma Pat, and the Crezee's :)!

Happy Father's Day!

Wow, it's summer back home, cool. It always feel like summer here, it gets so hot we wake to 85 degrees and have lunch at 120-125 degrees in the shade, but it's a lot of fun, I am sending a picture of a moth we had in the house, it's just as big as my name tag, cool, huh!
It's a lot of fun with my new comp, I am teaching him Spanish and also he is helping me learn the area. Our talks went well yesterday we received three references from the ward members and are going to visit them during the week. No I haven't received the letter yet, and I don't have the address of the mission office to let you guys know, so hold on with everything for a while till I tell ya word.
Ya the rain has started and it is really cool the lightning storms we can get down here.
We don't have any baptisms for this week but we are praying for one next week.
No we haven't heard anything from the new mission president yet.
I am staying healthy and the food is the same nothing weird here, and the family we live above always have a bunch of puppys because they buy them from ranchers and sell them here in the city. It's a good area like Ogden, that's what I would compare it to.
Life is the same, we get up at 6:30, we shower, shave, eat breakfast study, work, have lunch, work, go home plan what we are going to do the next day, write in our journals and sleep. Yesterday we had dinner with the bishop and that's when I found out it was Father's Day, so HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD.
Well that's it for this week, love you guys,
Elder Weaver

New Mission Papers...

I can't scan the letter in right now...technology...but here are the contents of it... this letter came in the mail the same day we got Jordan's "repentance" email (June 7th)...he has been preparing for this change for some time, and is still excited about it...he says "I will go where the Lord needs me!" (please note-this is not a result of his mistake)

24 May 2010
Dear Family of Elder Weaver,
This is and exciting time to be serving the Lord as a missionary in Mexico. We have witnessed the hand of the Lord as He has prepared the way for the creation of the new Mexico Villahermosa Mission. After many months of prayer and paying close attention to the promptings of the Spririt, your son, Elder Weaver has been assigned to serve as one of the very first missionaries in the Villahermosa Mission with President Castaneda and his wife. They are a wonderful family and have been called by a prophet of God to guide and direct the work in Villahermosa. We know that they will be a blessing to your missionary. We know that your son will continue to serve the Lord with all of his heart and that he will have many wonderful and unique opportunities in the new mission.
We are so grateful to our Father in Heaven for this opportunity that we have had to serve with your son in Veracruz. We love him with all of our heart and we are excited for the success that he will continue to have as he serves the Lord in Villahermosa. We will always count him as one of our own.
Thank you for your love, your support and especially for your prayers. This is the Lord's work and we bear witness that He is guiding and directing it. It is truly a marvelous work and a wonder!
Con amor,
Prs. and Hna Hansen

Miracles of Forgiveness!

Jordan and Elder Robinson,

Acayucan Veracruz,

1rst North American comp., Jordan looks like a native :)

Strawberry send off...

I have had an okay week this week. My new area is in Aayucan and it's called Villalta, my new companion is named Elder Robinbson and he is from Hooper Utah, he has 4 months in the mission and speaks little Spanich, I am his stepfather and so far we have gotten along great.

Okay, here is the full story...we went to eat breakfast with an investigator who has a taco stan, while we were eating the zone leaders called me asking to know where we were, I told them that we were in the house studying, they said okay and well they knew we weren't at home because they were at our house when we went back home and they found us, well because I was a district leader Pres. Hansen calls me and told me how upset he was with me about the example I had put forth. He told me he couldn't have a district leader who lies, so he moved me here.

The picture is of me and my comp, and the second is of a cake with chocolate covered strawberries that some members bought to say goodbye to me.

Today we went and played dodge ball as a zone and also had ice cream for lunch. The are is cool and the members are starting to help us a lot.

We have a nice house of three rooms and bigger fridge then I have ever had in the mission, this week me and my comp are going to be speaking about missionary work and I am excited for it, bu my comp is a little nervous about it. It's starting the rainy season now and I am thinking about buying some boots, I will let you guys know next week of the prices, and I am still looking for a box to send stuff home in.

Mom I am fine if you put this all on the blog, even last weeks letter, if you haven't...

You guys said that you want to know how I feel, well I feel bad that I broke Pres. Hansen's trust, I thought about not telling you guys what had happened but I knew I would have felt worse...I feel bad to because well, the Lord had trusted me with a calling and I failed.

Love you guys, thanks for not being mad, I was afraid that you would be, that's why I thought about hiding it from you,

Talk to you next week,

Elder Weaver

I feel bad that he put himself in this situation, he knows better, I hope that he will learn from his mistakes and be able to be a benefit to the people he is serving now...

Repentance

Hi everyone, how is everyone doing, I am good, this week has been fun and surprise I am going to Acayucan tommorrow, my companion will be Elder Robinson...okay I am going to be honest, I made a mistake and am being moved for that mistake, I am not going to be the district leader any more, I lied to the zone leaders about not being a breakfast, so that's why I am being moved, and dropped to a senior comp again, I am sorry I know that you guiys must be disappointed, but I feel worse, well because I failed a lot of people. I am sorry I don't feel like writing much this week.
Love you guys,
Jordan

progressing...

Fishing...

What a great picture, I believe that the Elder Jordan has his arm around was his comp in the MTC...

10 heads are better than one!

hello everyone,

okay mom i am still going to have four weeks with president hansen so i am sure that you can send me the stamps,

Veracruz was fun we left our house at 4 in the morniong got there at 9 and waited for an hour so that some professionals could take the mission picture, then we started the 6 hour confernce left at 6 and got home at 12 at night, so a long long long day we had,

the first picture is of me and my geneeration the twelve miisionarioes who all have the same time in the mission. the second is of me in front of the wall of heads at 5:30 in the morning today, and the third and last is of me fishing todfay, but becaues there arent any fishing rods here, you take a platic bottle wrap fishing line around it put the hook and wieght on and the bait, then to cast the line you do like a the sling that david used to kill goliath, but the fish werent hungry today so we caught nothing.
no new foods this week but we did see a shark the length of me arm for sail in a fish market we thought about buying it for lunch but we decided it would be better next week.
this friday we are going to start giving english classes to the members but to get in they have to bringa non-member freind, this way we get more references, we are still working with Franco, if its not this week we are going to drop him,
they came out with a Shrek 4 are you kiiding? so where is the Jerassic park 4, or Godzilla 2, whats peope are we forgeting the action films
well thats it for this week i sure love you guys, talk to ya next week,
Elder Jordan Ross Weaver