1/14/2017
This week was good, I did have some work to do in the offices but it was a normal week.
We are excited to be here in Tumbencuxtal and we are finding more and more investigators and we are very grateful for the blessing of that.
I don`t have to much to say about the week, but everything is very good here. Thanks for the love and support
Elder Stabenow
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| Elder DeLa Rosa and Elder Stabenow |
(Landon sends us an occasional voice recording and I was able to get it transcribed)
First voice message from
Cancun Jan 7, 17
Hello at home I hope everyone is doing great. I decided to
send a voice message this week and I know a little bit different because now
you cant hear the chickens or dogs or other or all the other things that happen
in Ucum.
But I'm here now in and cancún my area is called Tumbencuxtal I do not know what it means and
it's hard to learn. But the area is huge. It’s a little bit different now.
Being a secretary in the morning and we get to the offices at 10:00 in the
morning and we stay there until 2:00 in the afternoon. After that we go and eat
with the members. I've heard sometimes that the sectaries have to stay a little
bit longer to get get things started. But if there is anything special. So
sometimes it's all day.
But I haven't had that yet.
I don't know when we'll have that but it's a really cool
experience to be in office as I really like it already. It's fun. I'm working
with great people there and I'm working close to the President and assistants,
other secretaries, it's really fun.
Today we had another house that we lived in, this week but
we were super far away from the offices so we. So we changed houses today with
some other missionaries. So we're about 15 minutes away from walking from the
offices.
So we'll see how that goes for us and we hope it's a good
change. Here in the area, Tumbencuxtal were kind of starting off.
We're starting off with a fresh plate we don't have that
many people to be teaching right now but we do have people who are preparing
for baptism.
The investigators that the sister missionaries left are
really good. They have a lot of potential and it's been really great to see
them and I've liked what I've seen here
in this area. We've met some less
active. They're really really good actually. And that might change a little
bit. And I'm hoping that that can change for them. I was thinking I would be a
little bit sad to leave Ucum, I am a little bit. But I really know that. I was
meant to be sent to this area and to Tumbencuxtal.
I think it will be a good time here. I
don't know how long I'll stay here at least I have heard that the secretary
Secretarys stay for atleast three transfers so maybe four months here maybe
longer I hope. But. Everything is really good here. We're starting off on a new
foot. but it's really good.
My companion is Elder de la Rosa. He's from the Dominican
Republic and he's really cool.
He's a funny guy. He's a skinny guy
like me but he's really fun. His attitude. He has one of those personalities
from from that part of the area. It's just fun. It's just fun to be with him.
It's really funny because all of us in offices what we consider as the offices
where it's the secretaries and the assistants also President Reynoso. and
there's only one who is a Mexican and all the rest. There's two Americans one
from the Dominican Republic My companion and one from Guatemala. And then the
other assistant is another American. So there's not really that many Mexicans
there in the offices but it's really fun to be there and talk with them.
It's very different. But I really like it and it's fun. Well I'm
doing great here. I'm really loving it.
And Cancun is very different than my
other areas. I've been, in Chetumal and Ucum and there's a lot of things that
are happening here and there is huge. But I'm doing good here. I love it. And.
It's as fun to work and have it's fun. It's really satisfying and I'm loving
being here and this in this time to preach the Gospel and to Also assist other
missionaries with what they need. I do get a lot more calls now.
in the office I work with my own computer I'm kind of
working on my own stuff. The secretaries are doing their own things. I don't
know what they do exactly, but as for my
assignment I work with all of them and materials I manage the packages all.
Pamphlets, the books of Mormon. We're going to give. I prepare for stuff like
that, getting ready for Conferences for president and everything. I do a lot of
work, I also order name tags for the missionaries. I do a lot of stuff but I'm
still learning, I'm not sure how to do everything but. Little by little I'm
learning and it's all good and it's really fun and it's fun to be there in the
system.
Thank you for all the things, You guys have done for me. I
know that you guys are praying for me and that's helping me out a lot. I LOVE
YOU GUYS SO MUCH AND. I thank you for all that you have done for me. We are going to have we're going to have
success here in Tumbencuxtal. I feel that, I am
pretty sure we're going to have a lot of success here. I think we're going to
help this world out a lot. I love you guys so much.
Thank you for
everything.
Elder Stabenow
