Holy cow.
Its been a crazy week. So, we did changes, my new comp is Elder Davies, he's from Oregon. The mission that he lives in is Eugene Oregon, the same one that Uncle Kameron served in, haha. Fun little fact. He's a really good guy and we get along really well together. So, I think that this week was the hardest I've worked on my mission so far. We KILLED ourselves running from lesson to lesson, teaching better than we ever have, but unfortunately, our two baptisms fell through. So, now they're planned for this weekend and we just have to keep working hard. I know that the Lord will bless us no matter what, even if its not through baptisms.
It was an awesome week though. Its been really stressful for me getting everything in this area taken care of, because obviously Elder Davies just got here so he doesn't know yet, but we are doing really well. It has been raining like crazy here the past few days. Nonstop, haha. I have never seen so much water come from nowhere. It seriously looks like a hurricane. Our roof started leaking like crazy and got one of our rooms all wet. There were frogs and huuuuge cockroaches everywhere and the wind broke my umbrella, but its okay its still useable. Its been a crazy week. Its getting really hot here too, haha. Sooo hot and humid with the rain. But I love it! It sounds like you're all getting ready for fall over there, getting all the fruit and stuff taken care of, haha. I miss home. As much as I love the mission, I get pretty darn homesick sometimes. Well, I'm glad all is well at home, thanks so much for all the support! It helps a TON. Well, I love you all. Que pasen lindo y cuidense mucho!
Love,
Elder Griffin
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
From Elder Griffin: SUPER BUSY!
Bueno!
So, this was a really good week. SUPER BUSY!!! We were literally running to lessons and appointments and getting on buses from 33 back and forth and going crazy, haha! That's how it should be. We had a baptism on Saturday! We baptized Ruben, he's 24 years old and is super awesome. We also have another couple of baptisms planned this weekend that we're hoping go through, but if not, they'll be on the 29.
So, we got change calls, I'm staying here in Vergara! Thank goodness. Elder Rodriguez is leaving to Montevideo, and my new comp is named Elder Davies or something like that. I don't know, we haven't switched yet. Tonight we have to go to 33 so Elder Rodriguez can take the bus to Montevideo to get there by tomorrow morning, and tomorrow my new comp will get here and we'll come back to Vergara. We haven't gotten the box for awhile now, and it hasn't gone out either. I have letters that I wrote from last pday that I still haven't been able to send, and I have no idea if I've gotten any from you all, but they'll all catch up eventually. We should get the box this week.
Well, I'm glad everyone had fun on the cruise. That sounds so fun, haha. That's crazy that you saw those elders getting home, that was nice of you to buy food for them, thanks. This last week at our baptism, there was an elder from here in Uruguay that had just gotten home from serving his mission in Texas like two days before, he came up to me speaking English, haha, it was really weird. It's crazy how time flies. Six months already???
I'm sending a few pics of some random stuff. The one with us and the blue tongues is a pic of us and our branch president and his wife. They'd never eaten Laffy Taffy before obviously, so I brought some (from the package you sent) and we ate some and they thought it was soooo funny and amazing that it made their tongues blue hahaha.....so we took a picture, of course. The big dulce de leche thing is called an Alfajor. They sell them everywhere here. It is seriously the size of a whopper at Burger King. No joke. Is just full of dulce and they are so yummy! The other picture of us and the two old ladies is of one of our investigators, and her aunt who is a member, they fed us dinner and gave us a cake, bless their hearts. I love the people here so much. The picture of me and the little kid who's name is Leo, he is the son of a recent convert and he is so cute! He always gives us a big hug. He reminds me a lot of a little Latino version of Hayley's brother, Harrison. So cute! The other picture is just a random pic of my bookshelf, with some of my belongings. (Notice the pink pig...) and Zac's temple drawing......yeah, I know how to decorate. I miss everyone so much! Dang, Cooper, haha, he's so cute. So, next week I will be emailing with my new comp and hopefully a couple more baptismal pics. I love you all and miss you all! Les quiero tanto! Haz lo justo!
Love,
Elder Griffin
So, this was a really good week. SUPER BUSY!!! We were literally running to lessons and appointments and getting on buses from 33 back and forth and going crazy, haha! That's how it should be. We had a baptism on Saturday! We baptized Ruben, he's 24 years old and is super awesome. We also have another couple of baptisms planned this weekend that we're hoping go through, but if not, they'll be on the 29.
So, we got change calls, I'm staying here in Vergara! Thank goodness. Elder Rodriguez is leaving to Montevideo, and my new comp is named Elder Davies or something like that. I don't know, we haven't switched yet. Tonight we have to go to 33 so Elder Rodriguez can take the bus to Montevideo to get there by tomorrow morning, and tomorrow my new comp will get here and we'll come back to Vergara. We haven't gotten the box for awhile now, and it hasn't gone out either. I have letters that I wrote from last pday that I still haven't been able to send, and I have no idea if I've gotten any from you all, but they'll all catch up eventually. We should get the box this week.
Well, I'm glad everyone had fun on the cruise. That sounds so fun, haha. That's crazy that you saw those elders getting home, that was nice of you to buy food for them, thanks. This last week at our baptism, there was an elder from here in Uruguay that had just gotten home from serving his mission in Texas like two days before, he came up to me speaking English, haha, it was really weird. It's crazy how time flies. Six months already???
I'm sending a few pics of some random stuff. The one with us and the blue tongues is a pic of us and our branch president and his wife. They'd never eaten Laffy Taffy before obviously, so I brought some (from the package you sent) and we ate some and they thought it was soooo funny and amazing that it made their tongues blue hahaha.....so we took a picture, of course. The big dulce de leche thing is called an Alfajor. They sell them everywhere here. It is seriously the size of a whopper at Burger King. No joke. Is just full of dulce and they are so yummy! The other picture of us and the two old ladies is of one of our investigators, and her aunt who is a member, they fed us dinner and gave us a cake, bless their hearts. I love the people here so much. The picture of me and the little kid who's name is Leo, he is the son of a recent convert and he is so cute! He always gives us a big hug. He reminds me a lot of a little Latino version of Hayley's brother, Harrison. So cute! The other picture is just a random pic of my bookshelf, with some of my belongings. (Notice the pink pig...) and Zac's temple drawing......yeah, I know how to decorate. I miss everyone so much! Dang, Cooper, haha, he's so cute. So, next week I will be emailing with my new comp and hopefully a couple more baptismal pics. I love you all and miss you all! Les quiero tanto! Haz lo justo!
Love,
Elder Griffin
Saturday, October 15, 2011
From Elder Griffin: Baptism Dates Are Piling Up!
Good morning everybody:)
So it's been another really good week. We've been traveling a lot lately, for interviews with the president, baptisms, and intercambios and what not. It feels like we're in other parts of Uruguay more than in Vergara. This is the last week of this change CRAZY! I can't believe another 6 weeks has already gone by. This Sunday we get the call from the offices in Montevideo, telling us whether or not we are switching areas and stuff. I reeally want to stay here in Vergara. I love it, and we've got a lot of baptisms coming up. We've got a baptism planned this Saturday for Ruben, he's awesome haha I love him. We're trying to decide if we want to take him all the way to 33 to baptize him in the font, or just do it here in the river. It is starting to get ridiculously hot here. I have never felt such humidity in my life. You wake up sweating!! Haha, when you dry off after getting out of the shower you are still wet because there is just so much water in the air. It rained a TON this last couple days too, the river overflowed and there were literally rivers in the streets. It made proselyting interesting. There were frogs everywhere. They would be floating down the gutter because the water was moving so fast they couldn't get out. When we got home we saw a frog on our window in our kitchen.... we caught it and kept it as a pet for about 20 minutes haha. I can't believe how much Heavenly Father is blessing us right now, we are finding so many people, mostly through awesome members, and the baptism dates are just piling up. I hope I get to stay here for them. The other day we were in a lesson with this super old lady, and she thought I was from Chile haha... obviously she was blind because I am by far the tallest red head here in Vergara, if not Uruguay. By the way I think I'm still growing haha. Dad, you should measure my last height line thing in the pantry and tell me what it is at so I can see if I've grown. I'm glad all is well at home! It sounds like you're all enjoying a dang Betos burrito... ugh...l would KILL for that right now. Mom sounds like she's having fun on the cruise. Josh, I cant believe you did Melleves hahaha.... you're such a stud. I almost did that but I didn't have time. I'm glad you had fun at homecoming too! Enjoy high school while you're in it haha. But be good of course. I'm glad you're prepping so well for your mission already, you can never do too much! Lauren, if you buy an Iphone before I get one that is just not fair! Haha jk do whatever, but just so you know I'm getting one too, so you'll have to keep me updated on all the good games:) And shoot, poor Blake, we'll pray for him, he's a trooper:) And Taren is in China?? Whoa haha that's crazy. She doesn't even speak Chinese haha. That's great though. I tell ya, the best way to gain an appreciation of all the blessings we have is go and serve in a foreign country for a while, sheesh. Gosh dang it Utah State, I cant believe they couldn't pull it off;) Thanks so much for sending me a letter Grandma Griffin! It was nice to hear from you. And thanks for the stamps! I'm going to write a bunch today haha. I hope all the letters are getting there and stuff. We didn't get a box this week and maybe not this next week cause of changes. But keep sending stuff anyway people, they'll get here eventually haha. Well, I'm glad that everyone is happy and doing well, same goes for us in little ol' Vergara. Seriously you should all get on google earth and type in Vergara, Uruguay haha. I'm walking those streets today so I'll wave hi;) Well, gotta go, I love you all! Chao!
So it's been another really good week. We've been traveling a lot lately, for interviews with the president, baptisms, and intercambios and what not. It feels like we're in other parts of Uruguay more than in Vergara. This is the last week of this change CRAZY! I can't believe another 6 weeks has already gone by. This Sunday we get the call from the offices in Montevideo, telling us whether or not we are switching areas and stuff. I reeally want to stay here in Vergara. I love it, and we've got a lot of baptisms coming up. We've got a baptism planned this Saturday for Ruben, he's awesome haha I love him. We're trying to decide if we want to take him all the way to 33 to baptize him in the font, or just do it here in the river. It is starting to get ridiculously hot here. I have never felt such humidity in my life. You wake up sweating!! Haha, when you dry off after getting out of the shower you are still wet because there is just so much water in the air. It rained a TON this last couple days too, the river overflowed and there were literally rivers in the streets. It made proselyting interesting. There were frogs everywhere. They would be floating down the gutter because the water was moving so fast they couldn't get out. When we got home we saw a frog on our window in our kitchen.... we caught it and kept it as a pet for about 20 minutes haha. I can't believe how much Heavenly Father is blessing us right now, we are finding so many people, mostly through awesome members, and the baptism dates are just piling up. I hope I get to stay here for them. The other day we were in a lesson with this super old lady, and she thought I was from Chile haha... obviously she was blind because I am by far the tallest red head here in Vergara, if not Uruguay. By the way I think I'm still growing haha. Dad, you should measure my last height line thing in the pantry and tell me what it is at so I can see if I've grown. I'm glad all is well at home! It sounds like you're all enjoying a dang Betos burrito... ugh...l would KILL for that right now. Mom sounds like she's having fun on the cruise. Josh, I cant believe you did Melleves hahaha.... you're such a stud. I almost did that but I didn't have time. I'm glad you had fun at homecoming too! Enjoy high school while you're in it haha. But be good of course. I'm glad you're prepping so well for your mission already, you can never do too much! Lauren, if you buy an Iphone before I get one that is just not fair! Haha jk do whatever, but just so you know I'm getting one too, so you'll have to keep me updated on all the good games:) And shoot, poor Blake, we'll pray for him, he's a trooper:) And Taren is in China?? Whoa haha that's crazy. She doesn't even speak Chinese haha. That's great though. I tell ya, the best way to gain an appreciation of all the blessings we have is go and serve in a foreign country for a while, sheesh. Gosh dang it Utah State, I cant believe they couldn't pull it off;) Thanks so much for sending me a letter Grandma Griffin! It was nice to hear from you. And thanks for the stamps! I'm going to write a bunch today haha. I hope all the letters are getting there and stuff. We didn't get a box this week and maybe not this next week cause of changes. But keep sending stuff anyway people, they'll get here eventually haha. Well, I'm glad that everyone is happy and doing well, same goes for us in little ol' Vergara. Seriously you should all get on google earth and type in Vergara, Uruguay haha. I'm walking those streets today so I'll wave hi;) Well, gotta go, I love you all! Chao!
Monday, October 3, 2011
Elder Griffin: Wow, Awesome Week!
Hello beautiful America!
Wow, awesome week! I'm sending a bunch of pics from last pday, when we took a bus to Charqueada. It was fun. General conference was amazing! I GOT TWO PACKAGES! Haha, let me try to organize my thoughts so I can write this email.....Okay, so general conference was dang good! We all went to 33 to watch it, and it made me miss home sooooo much! Seeing Utah faces and accents and the mountains and everything...uggggh, haha--but it was good! We watched it live here, so we didn't start priesthood session til nine at night and we were all exhausted after wards. We brought a few investigators and members from Vergara to watch it, because thy had never seen it before. The members here are so faithful! They have no idea about how big the church is or anything, but they still go to our little meeting house (literally a house) every Sunday. It was an amazing experience for them to see the conference center and the prophet and everything. They loved it!
The older lady in the red jacket is one of our investigators. She is awsome! She is actually Brazilian, and her name is Mirucha, she doesn't understand Spanish as well as Portuguese, so its kind of hard to teach her, but she has a baptismal date and is progressing really well! Her husband passed away and is the one I told you about where he died with a Book of Mormon by his side. The rest in the picture are members from Veragara. I loved conference so much, I took like a hundred pages of notes. The mission really makes you realize how valuable every word in conference is.
So guess what, we only have two weeks left in this change...can you believe it?? I can't. Time flies. Its awesome thought, haha. So I got two huge awesome perfect packages this week. Finally!! Yes, I was so happy. Thanks so much, Em, and grandma and mom! Haha, everyone at conference was so jealous. It's like Christmas when a missionary gets that kind of stuff. Thanks so much you guys are the best!:) I now have tons of stamps, so get ready for some letters! Thanks for sending all those pictures too, mom, I'm saving them so I can print them off. I'm so grateful for all the support from home. I'm not going to lie....its HARD out here some days. So hard. But it helps a lot to know that my family supports and loves me, and that I get to come home to them! So, thanks! :) Well, I hope all is well. Everything is great here in the fields of Guay, and its starting to get extremely hot, haha. Love it! Thanks again for everything! Letters coming. They take forever to get to and from but they're coming. Love you all!
Elder Griffin
Wow, awesome week! I'm sending a bunch of pics from last pday, when we took a bus to Charqueada. It was fun. General conference was amazing! I GOT TWO PACKAGES! Haha, let me try to organize my thoughts so I can write this email.....Okay, so general conference was dang good! We all went to 33 to watch it, and it made me miss home sooooo much! Seeing Utah faces and accents and the mountains and everything...uggggh, haha--but it was good! We watched it live here, so we didn't start priesthood session til nine at night and we were all exhausted after wards. We brought a few investigators and members from Vergara to watch it, because thy had never seen it before. The members here are so faithful! They have no idea about how big the church is or anything, but they still go to our little meeting house (literally a house) every Sunday. It was an amazing experience for them to see the conference center and the prophet and everything. They loved it!
The older lady in the red jacket is one of our investigators. She is awsome! She is actually Brazilian, and her name is Mirucha, she doesn't understand Spanish as well as Portuguese, so its kind of hard to teach her, but she has a baptismal date and is progressing really well! Her husband passed away and is the one I told you about where he died with a Book of Mormon by his side. The rest in the picture are members from Veragara. I loved conference so much, I took like a hundred pages of notes. The mission really makes you realize how valuable every word in conference is.
So guess what, we only have two weeks left in this change...can you believe it?? I can't. Time flies. Its awesome thought, haha. So I got two huge awesome perfect packages this week. Finally!! Yes, I was so happy. Thanks so much, Em, and grandma and mom! Haha, everyone at conference was so jealous. It's like Christmas when a missionary gets that kind of stuff. Thanks so much you guys are the best!:) I now have tons of stamps, so get ready for some letters! Thanks for sending all those pictures too, mom, I'm saving them so I can print them off. I'm so grateful for all the support from home. I'm not going to lie....its HARD out here some days. So hard. But it helps a lot to know that my family supports and loves me, and that I get to come home to them! So, thanks! :) Well, I hope all is well. Everything is great here in the fields of Guay, and its starting to get extremely hot, haha. Love it! Thanks again for everything! Letters coming. They take forever to get to and from but they're coming. Love you all!
Elder Griffin
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