3/26/12

Hello Family,
we had a pretty good week here in guaymallén.

we met our baptismal goal! the zone her in guaymallen was struggling to maintain a steady baptism rate and we are doing it. me and rios are getting a long great, and we almost didnt have a ton of time in our own area to go out and work. we have been in other areas doin baptismal interviews and making sure that people are getting baptized without delay.

oneday we showed up to do the interview and the family was like...yeah...he wont get baptized today. we want to buy him a little suit before...so it might be a couple weeks before we can buy him a suit and so we don´t know when it will be. (NO!) so i was acting all calm and i was like...yeah, like...it´s okay. he doesn´t need a suit to get baptized...(this was in another area obviously) and i had to convince her that sacred things are simple. just like the birth of jesus christ in a manger. ug...it was´nt super easy...but the kid got baptized and confirmed (: haha.

the mission is out of books of mormons! can you believe it? for some reason like, the president of argentina isn´t letting them in...or there is some big importing problem for published books or something. i can´t remember....so, it´s pretty crazy. me and my comp were thinking about making copies of the best chapters, and using that for a little bit, but that can be costy because foto copies are kinda expensive down here. anyways...a little bit of a problem. keep that in your prayers that everything can come out well and we can start getting books of mormon back into mendoza.

tomorrow i have consejo and so i have to keep my hair nice and combed and shoes shines. it should be exciting. it´s good going to consejo knowing you reached your baptismal goal. yay. peace and security. haha.

it´s the fiftieth aniversiary of the first stake in mendoza! crazy! and now there are lots. okay...like thirteen. so yeah, that´s cool. there was some big clebration thing and elder arnold of the seventy came...but we couldn´t go. and we were super close too! bummer. but, it´s all cool.

we had interviews with president avila this week. it was a little fast because he was running short on time...but yeah, he made some good comments and is happy with my work. that makes me feel good.

i got super sick this week! i had a nasty cold and even though i still left every day to work, i always had like half a roll of toilet paper with me to keep my nose clear so i could even talk. talk about frustrating.

me and my comp are doing good. we are looking super hard for people to baptize and we don´t have a lot of good people to be teaching, i think i will have to have a ton of faith this wek trusting the Lord that he will help us (: I bet you are all stoked for general conference. thanks for choosing to go without me. haha. just kidding. anyways. i am gonna check out, but have fun with all the families and send me lots of fun pictures. i miss all of you and hope that the prophet gives us good council like always. haha.

anyways, if you guys have any question just ask. i am sure enjoying all the ranch with broccoli and carrots! MMMMM.

Elder Jay Valle

3/19/26

good visiting converts in Mendoza!!! they are doing way good. they love us and just gave us a ton of gifts! won{t have time to write, but i hope you understand...it´s just crazy trying to keep up with them and write something long.

i am doing great! glad to be back with elder rios. not a lot to say, but we had a good time. my area is huge and i have lunch every day. i am visiting my convert that is going to seal himself with his family in april and now he is the young mens president. great stuff! my favorite family in mendoza.
i am diong good....hardly eat anything these days...get super full. it was rather easy to leave l apunta but, i am glad to be back in mendoza. hahaha
i hope you guys liked the photos that i sent. i love you guys. i promise to write more next week. have a great week. being zone leader is fun. me and rios held a waaaay sick zone meeting. everyone got excited to baptized. now iknow what dal is talking about...beinf ZL of disobedient missionaries. dificult. but it{s all good. abrazo a todos,
elder jay valle

3/12/12

Hello Family,

hey, got my new area, i am leaving to guaymallen (close to mendoza) to be zone leader with elder rios....my son! i trained him! and so now i will go back and be comps with on of my old comps. crazy studd right? president called me and told me about transfers and told me that i would be going up and congratulated me. (i´m not bragging...just interesting facts), but, i am the first one in whole group to go up as zone leader. not that it as anything to do with me, but i was just glad to hear that. president avila is a great guy, so i hope that i can do a good job as a zone leader.

this week was pretty good. we found a menos activo family to teach. the mom is a member and she is way sick! she speaks super good english and loves american food. get this...our second visit in the house she was like....i made a treat for you guys! and she came out with PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES. okay, so number one...peanut butter is definitly super super rare our here, and cookies just don´t exist. so, like...she told us she makes homeade peanut butter with her food proccesor and then made us cookies because she knows how much the mormon missionaries like them. hahaha, we ate all ten of them. super good stuff. her husband is not a member, but he is super sweet and came to church this week too! we were super excited. i hope he felt somewhat of the spirit there and was able to get along with the members. we had 67 at church this week! (: good numbers for la punta! we are on the brink of getting our ward and our chapel....what an exciting time to have to leave this area, but i feel like in the four and a half months that i have been here, a lot of progress has been made. even though i have only had four baptisms in la punta, all of them are very strong members and jsut this last sunday, my convert, fernando got the aaronic priesthood and is preparing to get the Melqesidec (i forgot how to spell that in english). Angelita is as active as ever and Agustin is still going to church in his shirt and tie. It feels good leaving the area, knowing they will go on with me holding their hands and being able to say goodbye to them today and tomorrow. i will get to my new area on wednesday. crazy stuff. anyways.

I will try to get pictures to you guys. our ward had a a huge empanade party after church on sunday , because we church in the house. it was so fun. me and my comp made desert empandas....everyone was scared to try them...but it was great. then they made me and my comp have a juice drinking contest. my comp one. with eight glasses of juice. i love our ward (:

Hvae a great week guys, photos to come (:

Elder Jay Valle

3/5/12

F A M I L Y ,
how is everyone? we had quite the week, so i will try to tell you everything without sounding like a missionary who tries to impress people with his stories (: haha. let´s start with news.

angelita got baptized! crazy stuff. it was a little roller coaster. on thursday we went into her house to tell her what to bring to the baptism and we asked her how she was doing....she was like..."estoy bien, pero no me voy a bautizar sabado....". (GASP)....crazy stuff. satan was making her feel all nervous. so i told my comp in english, we will just listen to her and let her tell us how she feels and be polite but let her know that she is seriously ready to get baptized. it was an intense 45 minutes, but the last thing she said before the closing prayer was, "bueno...me voy a bautizar sabado. esta bien.". MM. relief filled the room and i could already fill the font being filled with the san luis water (: hahaha. crazy stuff.

consejo was super fun. being with the zone leaders was like being with a big group of fun, obedient, happy, hard working elders. it was the funnest hours of my mission. it was good to escape the district leader that has to get on people for being disobdient. it was nice to see president and just relax and also be serious about the success of the mission while people cared. good times.

i saw elder burns and actually we went out and worked for a little bit was was pretty fun. good missionary too.

this week we went to some waterfall things for pday....i hope you guys liked the photos. it was a hard climb but worth it. i got a little water trunky...i wanted to swim way bad. 17 months...i´m a dry kid.

i got your valentines day package!! it was sick! tell thanks to the mia maid president for the letter. haha. weird. anyways, i am going to enjoy all that ranch mix soon...and i will also dig the gravy soon. hahaha. anyways, so thanks for everything. i had a happy valentines day. some of the elders i think are jealous that i get spanish valentines from dad. you guys are the best. i love bilingual relationships. good job guys.

i hope the letters made up for some of the writing. i love you guys. oh yeah, i saw the new brandon flowers "im a mormon" video on mormon.org. amazing! i thought dad would like it!

love you guys,
elder jay valle