HOLA FAMILIA! Y AMIGOS!
Hey so this week was a pretty crazy week. We had four guys leave to the DR yesterday so our district became the smallest in our zone. Wednesday Another elder in our district was feeling sick so we took him to the doctor and they looked over him and came to the diagnosis that he has SWINE FLU!! He has had it for a week. We all got prescribed pills to take for the next ten days every single day. It was a little sketchy.
On Wednesday I looked all over for Kyle and I even sat on the hill walking up and down it hoping to see the family or him. But I never even saw him at all on Wednesday. I saw him last night though and he was feeling nauseous and homesick. He told me that right after he saw me he Started to feel better. I guess you broke the rules and sent a package in with him. That’s straight thug appeal. I will be going to his residence hall today to pick it up from him. I hope my contacts and winter coat are in there its cold walking to class at 6:50 everyday and 9:30 every night and 6 am to the Temple on Fridays. Ha ha
Everything is going well, but it’s no surprise that my study habits are lacking. I think that’s why my Spanish is not quite where I would want it to be. I need that to improve first off. Sometime next week I will have a day where I can only speak Spanish no English.... oh boy! And in two weeks I will start to only be able to teach in Spanish no more English. I hope I will be able to do it. I cannot print off emails here as far as I know. I am glad the correct paper has been used in my letters from you though, so I could put them in my book without tearing holes in them. And I bet none of you can tell me who spoke in sacrament. Ha ha, just playing.
I write letters as much as I can outside of the classroom. But yes, keep forwarding my emails to my friends. I think your taking the wrong approach to what I have said. I would love for them to write me, and send me pictures especially if they said they would. But if they don't, it’s not the end of the world. It would be if I didn’t hear from my family though! That’s what I care about most. (But if your my friend and your getting this, you still have yet to write or send a picture... you still can make it good). I always write back the same or following day of getting it. I do still want to hear from all of you, if you want to write me.) And that goes for everyone!!
For packages, my favorite candy is anything really, such as Fastbreaks, Reeses, Snickers, Three Musketeers, Starburst, Skittles, anything! Home baked goodies are a definite plus!!! Little toys maybe to play with, stamps, pictures, anything is good. A package no matter what’s in it is the best. The Shurtz have sent me a few amazing things I love it! And they need not worry; Kyle is doing so well now. He says hi. He looks like a missionary and already just giving him a hug, I can feel the spirit with him. Its super cool! I have felt the spirit a lot this week and have loved it doing commitments and stuff. So dad Lisa, I commit you to go to the Manti temple! Go with the Shurtz or something its AWESOME! And everyone else go to the temple! Pray sincerly. I love you all a lot! Pray and read.
Love Elder Bigelow!
P.S. dad how was hunting? Is it the deer hunt this weekend? Sean listen to
Mom and dad. And good luck with the girl.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Zacks latest letter
October 9th, 2009
Hello hello!
Well this week was a good week! Went by pretty fast. Dallin left this week that was weird. And our zone leaders left so we now have new ones. They are pretty cool but really picky and stuff. It’s kind of annoying but I know they are just doing their job. Conference was great! I loved all the talks. A pretty central message of love, and that was good to hear. They did talk to the missionaries really well.
We have four elders leaving to the Dominican MTC next week so that will be kind of weird having them leave. The spirit is so strong in here I love it. Sometimes you become so immune to it you don't know your feeling it until its gone, and you need to ask for it to come back. I met another Elder Bigelow the other day. He is going to Brazil but had to come here cuz his Visa was not yet in and was waiting for it to show up. That was weird. And in the RC I met another kid who is from Arizona who knows a ton of Bigelows. Nobody that I new but small world I guess. I thought our last name was more rare then that.
Thanks for sending my recommend and temple pants. I got them last night. We went to the temple today and that was a great time! The Spirit was really strong and I could tell that it was with me watching over me and comforting me. The mornings this past week have been cold, and we walk everywhere. Our residence hall is on opposite sides from where our class is, so that sucks walking in the cold, but I will live a little bit longer without it I guess.
I am so excited to get out and teach in Argentina. I just need to get the language a lot better. Ha ha. This week was our last week to teach the first lesson (restoration) in English. The next couple of weeks are the second lesson in English then its straight Spanish from there on out. Pray that my study habits increase and I break my old ones, and that I retain the stuff that I am learning.
So next week Kyle comes in to the MTC. That will be super cool, and I can’t wait to see him. A kid in my zone went home yesterday he has been here for 15 weeks cuz he had surgery on his hip and he got sent home because he needed to have another one. He will be home for three months at least. That would be horrible, but if he keeps up on his Spanish then he can go straight to his mission. Did you hear a new temple is getting built in Fortaleza, Austin’s mish? That’s way cool. I wish Mendoza were getting one so I could go. I felt so sad in the temple when I thought that I have six maybe seven more times to go to the temple for two years. That will be hard, but so worth it. I just talked to a sister from right outside Mendoza and she was telling all of us how beautiful it is and how the people are so great. I am way excited to get down there. The days go by slow but the weeks go by fast if that makes sense. So it will be here soon, I think hopefully.
How are things at the house, and with the friends you send emails to? None of them write except Kyle and that will be stopping now. Thanks for cleaning my room and all you have done for me. I pray for all of you each and every night. I know I am being so blessed from this mission and I learn more everyday. I know all of you will be blessed. I will keep you in my prayers. How is Lindsey’s baby? Anyone else pregnant? Write me send me goodies. Love you!
Hello hello!
Well this week was a good week! Went by pretty fast. Dallin left this week that was weird. And our zone leaders left so we now have new ones. They are pretty cool but really picky and stuff. It’s kind of annoying but I know they are just doing their job. Conference was great! I loved all the talks. A pretty central message of love, and that was good to hear. They did talk to the missionaries really well.
We have four elders leaving to the Dominican MTC next week so that will be kind of weird having them leave. The spirit is so strong in here I love it. Sometimes you become so immune to it you don't know your feeling it until its gone, and you need to ask for it to come back. I met another Elder Bigelow the other day. He is going to Brazil but had to come here cuz his Visa was not yet in and was waiting for it to show up. That was weird. And in the RC I met another kid who is from Arizona who knows a ton of Bigelows. Nobody that I new but small world I guess. I thought our last name was more rare then that.
Thanks for sending my recommend and temple pants. I got them last night. We went to the temple today and that was a great time! The Spirit was really strong and I could tell that it was with me watching over me and comforting me. The mornings this past week have been cold, and we walk everywhere. Our residence hall is on opposite sides from where our class is, so that sucks walking in the cold, but I will live a little bit longer without it I guess.
I am so excited to get out and teach in Argentina. I just need to get the language a lot better. Ha ha. This week was our last week to teach the first lesson (restoration) in English. The next couple of weeks are the second lesson in English then its straight Spanish from there on out. Pray that my study habits increase and I break my old ones, and that I retain the stuff that I am learning.
So next week Kyle comes in to the MTC. That will be super cool, and I can’t wait to see him. A kid in my zone went home yesterday he has been here for 15 weeks cuz he had surgery on his hip and he got sent home because he needed to have another one. He will be home for three months at least. That would be horrible, but if he keeps up on his Spanish then he can go straight to his mission. Did you hear a new temple is getting built in Fortaleza, Austin’s mish? That’s way cool. I wish Mendoza were getting one so I could go. I felt so sad in the temple when I thought that I have six maybe seven more times to go to the temple for two years. That will be hard, but so worth it. I just talked to a sister from right outside Mendoza and she was telling all of us how beautiful it is and how the people are so great. I am way excited to get down there. The days go by slow but the weeks go by fast if that makes sense. So it will be here soon, I think hopefully.
How are things at the house, and with the friends you send emails to? None of them write except Kyle and that will be stopping now. Thanks for cleaning my room and all you have done for me. I pray for all of you each and every night. I know I am being so blessed from this mission and I learn more everyday. I know all of you will be blessed. I will keep you in my prayers. How is Lindsey’s baby? Anyone else pregnant? Write me send me goodies. Love you!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Another letter form Elder Bigelow
Dear family
Wow this week has gone by fast. Everyone says if you make it to Sunday you are good to go and it starts getting faster and surprisingly they were right. thanks for the letter and supplies dad I still need a few more things I will have in my letter home that I need sent. But this week has had so many great experiences! I know its just the MTC but we have TRC appts. where you go and teach pretend investigators the lessons.
There is this place called the RC where you go and answer phones and do online chats with people who have questions about the church or what a Book of Mormon, Bible, church DVD, etc... so in TRC me and my comps decided we needed to make every
teaching time like it was the person that we needed to change and it was the one we had to talk to. Like you told me to do dad. So we prayed for guidance and help in it, and we went in talked to the girl and gave a lesson. We bore our testimony and just really did amazing!!! The spirit was so strong in our testimonies and talking about the restoration and families and at the end she told us that she has been a member her whole life but has had some difficult times and really needed to hear some of the stuff we talked to her about. She was very thankful for that, as was I.
Yesterday in the RC I talked to a lady from Alabama and she ordered a Lamb of God video. I talked to her about it and asked if she would like a Book of Mormon. I bore my testimony about it and she said yes. I then asked if she wanted missionaries in the area to come visit her and she DID! I also asked if i could call back next week to give her a new challenge in the book of Mormon and she thanked me because she was looking for a church to go to and had been doing research on a lot of them. She felt something different in this one so I bore testimony again of the Holy Ghost and the comfort it brings. It was great! Later last night I had another girl in a chat and she asked why God does not love her. He took her parents and she is pregnant at 14 years old. She was from Cali. I bore testimony of my mom and of the atonement and asked to have missionaries come visit but she was not ready, but tole me I could talk to her again. She gave me her number and I will be calling next week.
There was another guy who is Muslim and wanted to leave his religion, but was scared God would send him to hell if he was Muslim his whole life. He was from Kansas. I explained God loves all his children he then asked about our beliefs and was really interested. He asked to have someone come talk to him. That was cool. I also had a ton of bad ones and so did my district people trying to Bible bash and tell us we were going to Hell. But the few good ones out of the hundreds of contacts made it all a lot better.
In ten days the guys going to Dominican Republic are leaving to go down there for the rest of the MTC stay. That will be sad. I have really grown to be close to all those guys and I will miss them. We all plan on staying in touch and have district reunions when we get back. On Tuesday we had a fireside and someone from the Second Quorum of the Seventy came and after we had a district meeting to talk about what we liked and disliked. A member of the branch presidency was there and a couple missionaries bore really personal testimonies about family and difficult times they were having while being here. and he would stop them mid sentence and totally tear them apart and question them and it was so bad and we felt horrible. After he left I was the acting District Leader and took over the meeting since my comp had a leadership meeting with him. We then talked, bore testimony and all were sobbing the Spirit was AMAZING in the room. We all hugged after and just really care so much about how each one of us is doing. I love the feelings I have been having. I hope to hear back I love you guys. I will be listening for the cheers from the stadium. Keep praying for all of us. I love you!
Elder Bigelow
Wow this week has gone by fast. Everyone says if you make it to Sunday you are good to go and it starts getting faster and surprisingly they were right. thanks for the letter and supplies dad I still need a few more things I will have in my letter home that I need sent. But this week has had so many great experiences! I know its just the MTC but we have TRC appts. where you go and teach pretend investigators the lessons.
There is this place called the RC where you go and answer phones and do online chats with people who have questions about the church or what a Book of Mormon, Bible, church DVD, etc... so in TRC me and my comps decided we needed to make every
teaching time like it was the person that we needed to change and it was the one we had to talk to. Like you told me to do dad. So we prayed for guidance and help in it, and we went in talked to the girl and gave a lesson. We bore our testimony and just really did amazing!!! The spirit was so strong in our testimonies and talking about the restoration and families and at the end she told us that she has been a member her whole life but has had some difficult times and really needed to hear some of the stuff we talked to her about. She was very thankful for that, as was I.
Yesterday in the RC I talked to a lady from Alabama and she ordered a Lamb of God video. I talked to her about it and asked if she would like a Book of Mormon. I bore my testimony about it and she said yes. I then asked if she wanted missionaries in the area to come visit her and she DID! I also asked if i could call back next week to give her a new challenge in the book of Mormon and she thanked me because she was looking for a church to go to and had been doing research on a lot of them. She felt something different in this one so I bore testimony again of the Holy Ghost and the comfort it brings. It was great! Later last night I had another girl in a chat and she asked why God does not love her. He took her parents and she is pregnant at 14 years old. She was from Cali. I bore testimony of my mom and of the atonement and asked to have missionaries come visit but she was not ready, but tole me I could talk to her again. She gave me her number and I will be calling next week.
There was another guy who is Muslim and wanted to leave his religion, but was scared God would send him to hell if he was Muslim his whole life. He was from Kansas. I explained God loves all his children he then asked about our beliefs and was really interested. He asked to have someone come talk to him. That was cool. I also had a ton of bad ones and so did my district people trying to Bible bash and tell us we were going to Hell. But the few good ones out of the hundreds of contacts made it all a lot better.
In ten days the guys going to Dominican Republic are leaving to go down there for the rest of the MTC stay. That will be sad. I have really grown to be close to all those guys and I will miss them. We all plan on staying in touch and have district reunions when we get back. On Tuesday we had a fireside and someone from the Second Quorum of the Seventy came and after we had a district meeting to talk about what we liked and disliked. A member of the branch presidency was there and a couple missionaries bore really personal testimonies about family and difficult times they were having while being here. and he would stop them mid sentence and totally tear them apart and question them and it was so bad and we felt horrible. After he left I was the acting District Leader and took over the meeting since my comp had a leadership meeting with him. We then talked, bore testimony and all were sobbing the Spirit was AMAZING in the room. We all hugged after and just really care so much about how each one of us is doing. I love the feelings I have been having. I hope to hear back I love you guys. I will be listening for the cheers from the stadium. Keep praying for all of us. I love you!
Elder Bigelow
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