March 23, 2015

Well things are going pretty well here in the area, we still have a good handful of people who are progressing. Today we went on a little hike up to the top of the little mountain that we live on so that was something new to do. 

 Then we went and played soccer for a while with some other missionaries and some young men. But this week we were walking to go and talk with a lady that we had contacted a couple of weeks ago, and we passed by some guy sitting outside of his house and we walk by and I tell my comp he we need to contact this guy, so he says alright and we way hey how are you. and he says I am good come on in I dont have places to sit but please come in, and we start talking a little bit and he says do you guys think you could come by like everyday? This is Vicente he is a pretty cool guy. Then we go to get him on sunday morning to go to church and he had just got home from double time and he had to work the night shift as well  but he says I will go with you guys for a while so that was awesome! The same thing happened with Manuel, I think that I talked about him a little, someone offered him a job on Saturday night to watch a junky all night and he had also just got back from work but still went to church! 

  Then Saturday night we were visiting a member and she says that she has a friend that she gave a Book of Momon to, so she goes and gets her  and we talk to her for a little bit, and she explains to us how she no longer feels the desire to live. and how she is in really deep depression, but we talked about the love of God and she accepted to listen to us, I am really excited to see how she does, her name is Irma. 
We also found some Christian people this week and I really like an experience that this guy shared with us, he said. I never knew my father but I wanted to get to know who he was, I had searched for him a couple other times in my life but I never found him, so I decided to search again, but with a week of searching no luck so he was sad and confused, and as he slept that night asking God why he could not find his dad, a voice came to his mind and said, Am not I your Father?  I know that God lives that he is our Father and that He Loves each and every one of us. 
Love you guys!
 Love,
 Elder Zundel

March 16, 2015

HELLO well fiRst off I really enjoyed the pictures that you sent me, it is really good to see the ol Zundel side of the family! Please make a special hello for my grandparents on both sides!! There are a lot of lasts that are happening here but there are also a lot still left to run. We got some really cool news this week, that the Temple Open House will be November 13 to 28 and the dedication will be on the 13 of Dec by PRESIDENT Monson! so I will be having a little road trip to Tijuana! 

  That's good that you could do a little bit of the family history! have we gotten back to Adam and Eve in any of our lines yet? 

I have not done anyting with the  debit card and I do not plan on doing anything with it until I get home. That is so crazy that so many men are coming home! the time is going by really really fast now... I have a pretty great mom don't I! and she may have reason on telling you how to drive because I would imagine that it has not gotten any better with your old age. 

   So we are still working with the same people and they are still pregressing well! and we found a guy this week who is really cool! His family sells the slush stuff that grandma makes but it is mexican style and really good this morning we went and made it with him so that was cool. he is going to progress, but is and ex drug addict so we will have to work with that. 

 I love you guys so very much!

Ps. I was wondering if when it gets a little closer to August if you could ask a round a little and see if there are some quick jobs I could do, like haul hay for a day and make some good quick money so I can have a little pocket change. 

  I was talking to Elder Watts and he told me maybe about living with his family for the first semester then getting a house, I told him that I am good for whatever. 

  Love Elder Zundel

say hello to mis carnales for me!

Chowin' on shrimp

My comp's gangster face, what's up?

March 9, 2015

HOLA ZUNDELS! Yes here they do do daylight saving, and I also like it, it makes it a lot easier to work because it is hard to contact during the dark. About school don't worry all to much, everything will workout good, I just got to work hard and everything will be good. That is cool that Casey and Bridge are going to move into a house, I bet they are pretty excited about that! Shoot ditch digging won't even be a problem when I get back, we can just hook up a plow to my back and I will have it all done in an hour or so. But yes that will be after a couple of months when my not so six pack turns back into an 8 pack haha. MARCH MADNESS that is fun! oh you got to be careful with the little chickens because it can traumatize young peoples lives, I would know. I like telling people that I have nephews and nieces that are 3 and that they know how to pray, it shows what the gospel does in the home. 

  Well I am finally getting to know the curvy streets here in Tijuana, and I can walk around without getting lost. So that is nice, and makes it a lot easier to work. So right now we have two people who are progressing very well and they are a man named Fabian and a girl named Stefani. Fabian is like 35 married with a young girl and he is really cool, he works all week graveyard so we only get to teach him on wednesday, but he gets done with work on sunday morning and heads to church with us at 830 so he is pretty awesome! We found Stefani this week she is 16 and really cool, she asked us during the lesson, if we are God's children, then who is the father of God?¨ and she went to church and is really cool! Last night we knocked on a door and some guy invited us in and we talked for a while and he has family who are members of the church, he is not all tha interested right now, but he did invite us over to eat aguachiles today so that is really cool!! that is shrimp with salsa it is really good. Well we have a lot of hopes to find some really good new investigatores this week so pray for us in that effort to find the people who are ready to recieve the gospel. 

 Love Elder Zundel

March 2, 2015

Well my comp continues to be a really good guy, doesn't have much of a personality but a good guy, I try to make him laugh. We seem to get along for the most part. Our area is probably one of the most dangerous in the mission, don't tell mom. But really it is not that bad as long as you take care of yourself, and we are in the house at 9 at night so we are okay. I have not felt threatened at all so far so all is well. 

Well it has been really cold here and rainy for the last couple of days, and that is not good for the mission work here... rain means nobody is going to church....but hopefully we get some better weather here this week and we send the rain up there to Utah. 

lots of rain

  

We found some good people this week and we have some plans to find some new this week so I think it will be a good one, but we will see how it goes. 

I love you Paps! 

....so we make roofs

mixing cement for 4 hours was pretty fun for a contact, then none of them wanted to hear about the gospel...

February 23, 2015

That is really cool that Caleb could get some time in, what grade is he in? (Caleb Jensen playing basketball) Good to hear that Dust feels good about the interview I will continue to pray for him! Could you get me in for the hunt that is just a little futher south, where is Jason going to put in for?  
Good to hear that Hundley has an eye for gold! He is a funny guy, I can't wait to talk to him!. Oh that is really nice of grandma, should I take it out? ($50) I still have not recieved a package with the card in it. 

  Okay so last week I kind of messed up I am in Matamoros Tijauna so you can look that one up on the internet paps. Well we can say that I miss my bike and flat ground, back to walking up mountains all day... there are a lot more people here in TJ than in San Luis and a lot more people yell at us in English it is pretty funny, really the only ones that know English are the druggies because they got kicked out of the states. I do miss my old area because we really had things going there this week they had 13 people in church, and I come here and we had 5 or so,  it is time to get some work done here and help people come unto Christ! 

So we kind of have to take care of some member that is in a wheelchair, he has very little movement in his arms and legs but is fine mentally. We take him food and dump his waste bucket in the toilet, and this Saturday gave him a bath. I just tell myself for everytime we change the poo bucket that my wife will be that much more beautiful for the service.  

Then we contacted a lady and were talking to her and she has two little boys who are not all the way there and she went to get one of them and the other peed on me, so that was another great moment. But we are cantacting a ton of people and trying to find the chosen people, we found people last week but they are not the kind of people who progress so we have to keep searching. 

Love you paps.

 Love your baby boy, 

Elder Zundel

Elder Hadley, Jared Whitworth's friend 

February 16, 2015

I am back in Tijuana! in a ward called Matemodos, in an area called Florido it has a lot of hills and yup looks like Tijuana. 
We usually do not recieve travel stuff until the last or almost the last transfer. Well hopefully all of the stuff with UVU works out but if not I guess God didn't want it to. We do not have American banking here so I am not sure how all of that will work about the card I guess I will have to wait and see. 

  Okay so the leadership work is all by asignments none of them are callings, we all have the same authourity and there are no keys other than president. the AP's work with pres and are over the zone leaders the zone leaders are over the district leaders and they usually have 2 or 3 districts in a zone, then the district leads or over the missionaries. you are given the responsability from pres and it comes at transfers.

 That is cool that they could take region that has not happened for a while. hopefully they make a good run at state! The hurnia is alright sometimes it is sore but nothing terrible it bulges just a little but has not seemed to get worse for a long time. I am pretty healthy and pretty dang tired! especially with transfers... but I will be back in the rythm quickly. Alright that is okay with the hunt what ever you think is best will be fine. There is lots of things to think about in the future but for now there is work to do!! I love you paps, 

Love,

 Elder Zundel

 I will let you know more aobut the ward next week.

Okay I will have my eyes out for the package. YEAH I got the package and I loved it! I love getting the little letters from everyone that was for sure my favorite part.

 I got transfered and I am with Elder Covey he is from Pocatello, Idaho he has a little less time than me in the mish a good kid as I can see we will see how the transfer goes. I am back in tijuana so that is pretty cool back to walking up and down hills all day! should be fun! I love you mom.

 Love,

 Elder Zundel

February 9, 2015

Well here it has hit high 80's That is REALLY hot for February!!! My mom is looking great! (pictures from dad and mom hiking) I sure do miss going camping, the buds that I have made here are the camping type of people so that will be cool, maybe some summer we will camp like Casey did ha. Speaking of pine trees and walking through deep brush, Jason wrote me about the Deer Tag, what do you say you put me in for that one! I don't know I think it would be a lot of fun to go up with the crew on the Muzz! but I believe I would do a lot more brushing than rack riding! But talk to Jason a little and see what he thinks about rifle or muzzle loader. Hey if that is easy to do, taking and sending picutes on your phone you should do it a lot more! they get here fine and I can open them up big and everything. So like when you have the get togethers just take a couple of picutes to send to me!! por favor. I will keep dust in my prayers!! 

    Well this week was a good one!! we had the baptism of Omar and Heidi!!

baptism of Omar and Heidi

so that was really awesome, and the other Elders had the baptism of the son in law of Lily, her husband is Efrain he was less active for 25 years or so and he has a couple different kids who are not members, his brother is a mission President in Ojo de Agua, I think, and in the baptism of his son they had him on skype so that was pretty cool! also his brothers are bishops here in San Luis and members of the presidencia of the stake, and I believe that they all like me a lot! because I helped him get back, that is an awesome feeling!!! 

Son of Efrain

  So this Thursday in the night I went on splits with Elder Hadley which was really nice just to be able to talk,  he is really down to earth and has a lot of cool stories ha.

Elder Hadley and I

Anyways we were at his house planning for the next day and we get a call saying that we had to switch the sisters houses for the night. Going back in time to that morning, we went to their house to give a blessing to one of the sisters to cast out a demon type of blessing. So now back to the story, so one of the sisters hermana #1 had been having wierd things happening to her, and another hermana, hermana # 2 had been seeing weird things happening to hna 1 and hna 2 was just acting really wierd, and continues to act a little different. so we slept in the house of the sisters where we used to live, and one of the comps slept in Hadleys house and the other comp in the house of a member. so that was quite the adventure!  

  The Zone is starting to do a lot better which is really good and makes me happy, but i believe that this will be my last week here in San Luis and I will be heading out of here. So we will see where I write you from next week!

 I love you paps, 

Love,

 your baby boy!

HOLA mommy! Everything is going well here in Mexico! We had a pretty busy week this week which is always good! I will get more details on dads email. umm That sounds like a good Idea to head down there to the bear river haha! I love the story of Coop and his prayer that is awesome! 

 In your talk you could talk about the glory of God to bring to pass the inmortality and eternal life of man. or in other words our salvation and Exaltation. Exaltation comes within the family, but that is only half of the work of God the other half is salvation and that is where the callings and visiting teaching, and missionary work come in. 

(number for Watts mom, sunny watts 8017358698)