Conference Question...

baptism day!

One of my handsome sons, love the tan line on his neck...notice no light bulb in the back, I wonder if this is a stair well to his appartment?

Tiny bike for a tall gringo :) He may look Spanish, but he is a gringo at heart!

Favorite still...hugh...has someone been trying to replace me over there but they aren't as goodlooking as me that's why I am still the favorite. jk.

Okay the pictures are of a couple we baptized this past Friday, and well Pres. Casteneda is the one who contacted them for us and he came to the baptism and did a special number.

President then called us after the baptism and told us that he wants me and my companion to prepare the branch to go to the Temple on the 28 of October, and he said the we can go with them to do work for the dead, so we are really excited about being able to go to the Temple.

My skin infection isn't really a skin infection ants just seem to eat us alive at night so its ant bite nothing more.

The stake fast went fine it was cool because some of our investigators were fasting during it too so we could really feel the spirit. The people we baptized last week live below us and are related to our landlord who is a inactive member...we had never thought about teaching them until one day president Casteneda and the assistants came to visit us, and that's when we started teaching them.

We are going to baptize two more people this weekend, and they are really excited to be able to go to the Temple also.

The other two pictures are of me and of me on the bike

The river hasn't done anything yet and we are still staying nice and dry.

I title this letter because I want to we how well we can agree on revelation, I am going to go to General Conference with a specific question on what I should do after the mission and you guys do the same, then we will compare answers on Monday to see what's in for my future :)

This week I am going to VillaHermosa again for another three days with President Casteneda.

Well that's it for this week, love you guys,

Elder Jordan Ross Weaver

It's amazing to me to look at how grown up my little Jordan has become, where did the days go...I love how white his clothes are, maybe I should do laundry in a bucket :), I think that we will go to the temple on October 28th with Jordan's branch, what a great opportunity! The boys are amazed at how small the bike is, no wonder they went to horses-jk! As far as the "conference question" we have lots of ideas of what we think he should do, so maybe this will narrow things down a little, I just think it's fun how this is the second time his whole mission he has talked about what to do when he gets home...yes I am counting the days-I am a Mom! Love you Jordan, you look super, God speed my little man!

Smiles!

Electric water heater....looks like a lot of wires close to water to me...maybe it's the electric shock that will kill the skin infection....

Hello my favorite family,

I am doing good this week, Last Thursday was a lot of fun, we went to the stake center and saw the dances and also the food was pretty good too. And no I am not getting "trunky". I am still having a lot of fun.

Today we installed an electric water heater in the house so we can shower with warm water and kill the skin infection that me and my companion both have.

I am not sure where we are going to watch General Conference, but I just want to see it in Inglish and not Spanish.

We have a really big river by us and it's been going up but the whole stake is going to do a special fast this weekend so that nothing happens and that all the people who are homeless right now are going to be able to find another place to live or that area will be drained. We haven't been told to prepare anything like a 72 hour supply, and yes I am still dry. To tell you the truth I am not sure when the rainy season will end.

The Sister missionaries are native and I get along fine with them. They have the same job as I do but they don't baptize people, someone from their ward does it for them.

I can't really tell you what the young women do here Mom, there are not a lot here and also we don't associate a lot with young ladies :)
I feel fin and the only thing I need to buy are some boots for the rain, but I am not sure how much I have in the account because they charge me here to check. I have been getting along fine with my companion, I get along better with the other foreign people then with the natives, I don't know why.

This week we are going to have two baptisms and next week we are planning on having two more, there are a lot of people we are teaching and the Lord has been helping us find his elect children who are going to progress and be baptized.

Well, that's it for this week, love you guys,

con amor

Elder Jordan Ross Weaver

Wow, great letter! The event he spoke of last Thursday was the Bicentenial Celebration for Mexico's Independance day, it is September 16, not May 5....

Sounds like the work is moving on rain, sleet, wind, Hurricanes!

Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Veracruz, if you watch the news some of his old areas were hit very hard and we have gotten letters saying that Elders in that area were told to get 72 hour kits, and that they had safe houses if it got to that point...God bless you and keep you safe!

same ol-same ol

Hi my favorite family,
My week has been fun so far, we found out that in two weeks we are going to have the stake conference and then the week after is General Conference so we are looking forward to those and also this Thursday is the Mexican night party for the stake we are going to see if we can go like last year. I really hope so because it was a lot of fun. We haven't really done anything different this week then what I have been doing since March 4, 2009.
It's starting to rain again but thank goodness that the river is not flooding. I went and got my haircut today, an investigator that we have did it for us, I think that Jacer should wait until I get home then we can talk about who should get a new car :)
Here is President Castenedas email so that you can write him mom.
ncastanedaruiz@ldschurch.org
So how is dad feeling now does he still hurt pretty bad or does he feel better now that he got LOTOJA out of the way?
I now have sister missionaries in my district so I am in charge of two sisters as well as myself and my companion. It's really different because I have never had a sister in my district, ever since I started the mission.
Well that's all I have for this week, sorry will try to have more infor next week,
con amor
Elder Jordan Ross Weaver

Sounds kinda "trunky", 5 1/2 more months, hang in there buddy!

Giant Pina (Pineapple)

Hello everyone,

I am doing good and dry. Villa has been flooding but we are still good in not having any problems, thank goodness.

Okay the first pictures is of the baptsim we had last week. Her name is Anna and she is living with another sister from the branch and she went to church with us and really liked it, and the next picture is of the three baptisms we had this week their names are Carolin, her son Juan and Julieta, Caroline we contacted her in the street and her son completed 8 years old on last Monday and Julietas Dad is a recent convert and he got to baptize her. And then the last picture is of me with a gian pineapple.

It doesn't matter how much it rains here it's still hotter then heck and I love it, sweating is a great way to lose weight, all I need to do is start doing crunches and I could come home with a six pack.

The visit we had from Elder Johnson was alot of fun we learned alot about the atonment of Christ and how we as missionaries are inviting people to partake of the atoning sacrifice that he gave for us.

We have stopped with the bikes because we only needed them to go to a ranch 20 minutes from town but they don't want anything with the church so we haven't used them for a while. Walking is a lot better. All the little things that I sent home was stuff that members have been giving me and I didn't have the money to send the hammock home so I am going to keep it...I just need to buy some rope and I can use it in the house.

Mom I love you but I am going to correct you on your Spanish, in the place of putting (con muy amor), lets put (con mucho amor)
We are planning on building a baptismal font here in our area because it would be better here then having to have to travel to the stake center half an hour away.

Well that's allo I have for you guys this week because we went to some pyramids today and come home an hour ago, I still need to buy groceries and wash my clothing, infact I am going to send a picture of what I was going to have for lunch..

Con mucho amor

Elder Jordan Ross Weaver

Thank heaven's he is dry, prayers have been answered, and I love that he is correcting my little spanish that I pretend to know :)

He looks so skinny to me, look at his belt, it almost goes around a half a time again...