April 27, 2015

Hey mom! well I hope that you are looking good when I get home!! Work hard for these three months and get a pull up in!!!! (on an 8 week weight loss challenge)

Transfers are in 2 week but I will stay the same with my comp because I am training and that is for 2 transfers. I think that I will end my mission here in this area. 

Well mom I love you!

 love your baby boy 

  Work hard, keep the commandments, dont break the Diet!

Well today is a hot one!! Well a lot of sun more than hot I got a little burnt, Holister will not like that... Really that is pretty awesome that Jason and Taren ran a half marathon that is a longggg time to be running, I am pretty good at walking, sometimes it feels like we walk all day because all of our appointments fall... To me I think that reactivation is a lot of the time more difficult than baptism, but really brings the same amount of joy to us and to our Heavenly Father. 

I guess I will have to be looking for a couple of souvenirs, but I really don't know what to get??? 

Yeah I will be needing all of the facetime info and also for skype because I do not know if I will be able to use a apple device. 

Yeah if you could pick me out a cute girl that would be nice, and a car while you are at it I will tell you a model and make here soon. 

   Well today we had a zone activity! that was pretty cool, we played volleyball and ate some pizza it was a good time, there are not very many athletic missionaries in my zone...

Oh say can you see.......

That's my boy! (companion that he is training)

The work continues to go forward. it seams like we talk to every person in the street, we make an appointment to return and visit them and then they are not there... that is how our week went a lot of contacting and a lot of knocking on doors but not a lot of success out of it all. but we will continue to do the same and have faith that we will be able to find the people who are ready to recieve the gospel. 

 I love you paps, 

Love Elder Zundel

April 20, 2015

 Well we had a similar experience I also got my haircut today, and he took the clippers to the skull, the difference is, I came out looking like a Holister model! (referring to dad's bad hair cut!)

  I really am pretty impressed with only two trips on the combined house updates. Really must have been an uplifting experience. That is really sad that Christian had that injury poor guy, it's that he is pretty old now and all that jumping around.. Well running for that long does not sound like that much fun to me, but oh wait, Jason can run that far??? (on Jason running a half marathon)

  Well things here have been kind of rough this week, we are working hard to find people who are ready to receive the gospel. Sometimes the mish is pretty rough, we walk the whole day talking to as many people as possible and they tell us no and no and no, but it makes it all worth it when we find the one who is ready to listen to the message of the restored gospel. It is like golf, you tee off and bogey and hit it in the pits and the ponds, but once in a blue moon you shoot a birdie and it made your trip. this morning while I was reading in the BOM I read in 1 Nefi 16 and 17 and it impacts me a ton the attitude that Nefi had. I don't remember exactly the scripture but like 1 Nefi 16: and almost to the end, Ishmael had died and his daughters are complaining about all that they are suffering and that we would now have to suffer hunger. Then we look and the way Nefi looked at it in 17:1-2 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17?lang=eng) he recognized that they had to suffer a little he could see how the Lord has blessed them throughout their travel through the wilderness. The attitude that we put towards the things that we do will always make the difference. 

  We will be hoping to have a baptism this week of Manuel, he is a great guy! He has been working and working to repent and change is life in drastic matters, and you can rally see the difference in him. I love you,

 Love,

 Elder Zundel!

April 13, 2015

I got a smile on my face and I am enjoying another day here in Tijauna. It seems like there is a missionary reporting his mission every week for the last little while, pretty crazy! (in our home ward) Yeah I really do feel like there  is so much to do before that day comes when I got to pack up my bags. But there is still a good amount of time to work hard to do acomplish it all. What language do they speak on the Marshal Islands? Do you remember ohh do I remember, I think her name was Moki or something like that she was my age, well she was from the Marshal Islands. (on a new elder in our stake from the Marshall Islands) Yeah I for sure know how he feels, but he will be greatly blessed for knowing English, my comp wants to learn English but doesn't now know very much at all, so I try to help him a little with what I can. 

 Good to hear that you can still have a good time at your old age haha. Do Cooper and Payton still go to school in Portugues? Don't be letting anyone fall of the shed, Mr. safety.(at Grandpa Z's roofing project) The hernia is the same as it has been for a while now it just pokes out a little, but a lot more when I go to the bathroom. Yeah I don't, when do you think I should have the surgery on that?  Oh no looks like some TV dinners are on the menu in the Zundel house, because mom will be on spring fling!

  So this week we had the baptism of Stephanie! that was pretty cool! She gets along really well with the young women in the ward, and had good support in the baptism.

baptism of Stephanie

Manuel and Fabian are still going good, we are still working to find some more people who are ready to recieve the Gospel. Hopefully we see some miracles this week. We had the baptism on Saturday night, so me and my comp decided to start a tradicion and sleep on the roof after the baptism that we have. So we were up there and we talked for a little and while listening to the kareokee machines in every house around us we went to sleep, but we were not so prepared and it got really cold so at about 3:30 I said hey do you want to got inside, and before I could say anything else he was gathering everything up. 

  Yesterday we had a Priesthood activity for the stake and all the Melchizedek  priesthood went to a ward and then from there the stake pres handed out two names and addresses and everyone split up and when and search for these less active men or those who had not advanced in the priesthood, there where about 40 members and 20 missionaries so it was a really good activity, and the next week they are coming to our ward so that should be really good for us! I will be waiting for the letter from Riley.

 Thanks for everythings. Love you,.

Love,

 Elder Zundel

family home evening

the bus

doing service

tacos de carnitas

April 6, 2015

Hello,

 Conference was great we got to watch all of the sessions, we had to go to our stake center to watch them which made it a little more dificult to take investigators but we got a couple of them there. I really enjoyed the conference and I think that they made it pretty clear that there is no waiting around to get married. haha. The Catholics just say that they go to mass on easter but they really got to the beach... I am sure that they are teaching you really good things, just ask them ¿Que diria Crist? (this was in response to Jay's friends at work)

  Well this week we had our event with the hot dogs and it went alright, a lot of members went but not as many investigators as we wanted. Well the work continues to go on. Stefani should be getting baptized this week, she is really cool and is really friendly so she fits in with the ward really well! Manuel is also going along really well he is doing his best to stay out of the things of the world, and the change that he is making in his life is huge and amazing. Fabian is progressing once again, and hopefully we will so some success from him, we now have a better relationship with him we laugh and joke around with him now, which I like! This week we found a nother young woman named Michele and she is really cool and has a lot of interest in the church. she is one of the few that really complete with the things that we ask them to do! she will progress really fast. 

  Elder Escobar is great! I really like the kid and he is a good missionary, for sure learning but a good missionary. He does not eat anything that is spicy so that is kind of rough for him here, and everyone asks him why they do not eat tortillas in Ecuador haha. But we get along well and all is going well. I am happy and yup!
I love you!
 Love,
 Elder Zundel

March 30, 2015

The guy we help

The District

It is really good to hear that all of the family is doing good! I like to hear the activities that you guys do.

Well today was transfers, time is going by really really fast! My comp left the Area and I got a new guy fresh from the MTC he is from Ecuador Elder Escobar. I don't know a whole lot about him right now but we should get a long well!

New comp!

Well this last week was just a normal week with a lot of contacting people and a lot of people saying no, but this week will be a lot different in the no part I am sure of that! This is going to be a short one, because we still have to do all of our stuff for Pday and we have not done any of it... I am going to work on the College stuff to get all of that figured out and hopefully faxed today.

Yes my camera takes videos.

I love you,

Love,

ELder Zundel

I love you mom, I didn't have a lot of time to write this week sorry my email was really weak, but I will be sure to have a lot to write about next week so just wait another week, haha! I can't wait for conference we are going to have  a big activity this Friday a devotional type of thing and I am going to talk and our mish pres is going to talk and then we are going to givce out free hot dogs to all of the people that come so I hope to have a good story about that.

Elder Covey

Tacos for pday

President Garcia Licona

Y como sabe que se va? Je je.
Le agradezco por la labor que ha hecho con el elder Covey, esta muy cambiado, y es para bien, usted es un excelente misionero y le agradezco por su entrega, como desearia que haya otros misioneros como usted, saludos!!!


and this is what Presidente wrote me also made me feel really good.

HOLA MI QUERIDO ELDER ZUNDEL 

ESPERO QUE SE ENCUENTRE MUY BIEN AQUI YO SIGO EXTRAÑANDOLE MUCHO Y CON LA ESPERANZA DE ALGUN DIA VOLVERLE A VER ESTAMOS MUY CONTENTOS EN LA IGLESIA OSVALDO Y MARIANA YA SE HAN BAUTIZADO Y SEGUIMOS TRABAJANDO DURO EN LA IGLESIA YA PRONTO IREMOS AL TEMPLO ,DANIELA Y OSVALDO YA FUERON A SAN DIEGO AL TEMPLO, Y QUE CREE??

DANIELA SALE ESTE MIERCOLES PARA UTAH!!! MUCHAS BENDICIONES HAN LLEGADO A NUESTRAS VIDAS GRACIAS A USTEDES QUE NOS AYUDARON PARA CONOCER EL EVANGELIO Y AHORA QUE ELDER MOLANO TAMBIEN SE HA IDO VALORO MUCHO TODO LO QUE USTEDES HICIERON POR NOSOTROS Y NUESTRA FAMILIA LES EXTRAÑO MUCHISISIMO! Y ESPERO PRONTO VOLVERLOS A VER

P.D NO ME OLVIDE RECUERDE QUE MAMA LILY SIEMPRE ESTARA AQUI PARA USTED LO QUIERO LE MANDO UN ABRAZO QUE UN DIA LE DARE PERSONALMENTE LO MUCHO MI AMADO HIJO 

CON TODO EL AMOR DEL MUNDO ...MAMA LILY 

This is what Lily Diaz wrote me have Casey translate it for you, but it made me feel really happy!